Scented Markers

Did a child invent scented markers? Surely, right?? When I was a kid, I used to secretly sniff things I wasn’t supposed to… Although I never snorted a pixie stick, I loved the smell of gasoline, paint….and SHARPIES! I would secretly steal sniffs when my teacher wasn’t looking. They smelled sooo good.

I remember getting caught one time.. I wasn’t mid-sniff… I had marked all over the tip of my nose.

So there is little to no chance for a kid like me when you made me color my artwork with SCENTED MARKERS! I did more sniffing and less scribbling. And I loved it.

If you don’t want kids to ‘smell’ their markers, don’t scent them to delicious flavors, for crying out loud!

In class the other day, we were all handed scented markers. I felt the ‘smelling’ urge coming back to me from the old days. It was like putting a stiff drink in front of a recovering alcoholic. Mine was supposed to smell like oranges.

I couldn’t resist. I acknowledge that I was in a professional setting. I acknowledge that the others in the class were not smelling (or even seemingly resisting an urge to smell) their scented marker.

The marker did smell like sweet baby oranges. With a hint of toxins. And I think my newly marked orange tipped nose went nicely with my black heels that day.