Do you LOVE or HATE the smell of tar?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Lots of people have old memories brought back when they smell tar for some reason (more than other smells). They usually love or hate the smell depending on what the memory is.

I love it. It reminds me of visiting the beach as a kid.

[ahem]

1. It gives me a terrible headache.

So I guess that puts me in the hate category.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. I hate it with a passion.

They were tarring the roads in my neighborhood a few years ago during the summer, and my apartment was an old one with a swamp cooler rather than central air. I was physically ill and couldn't sleep worth a damn after 5am for over a week while that was going on.

[flamingyouth]

3. Yuck

x(

[henslee]

4. I do love the smell of pier pilings dipped in creosote.

[Igel]

5. I hate the smell of tar.

The smell of gasoline, benzene, toluene, ammonia ... those I really like.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

8. not a huge fan of ammonia

but the other ones.....mmmmmmmm

[true_notes]

6. I Love Tar in the "Hotmix" they stick on the roads

It's semi sexual to me....strange

[Iris]

7. God, no! It feels like chemical sludge seeping into my sinuses!

[progmom]

9. progdad loves it.

i hate it. :shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. GUCK!

It reminds me of my freshman year of high school (Lanier in Austin, TX).

They were retarring the entire roof surface that year, and the school has an unusual atrium design. We had to walk outside to get anywhere, and that smell was CONSTANT.

Yuck yuck yuck.
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