Smelly Smell That Smells Smelly

There's something you need to get used to if you ever plan on moving to Cape Cod. That particular thing, which you have to get used to, is the smell.

An apology, then, goes out to everyone who lives on Cape Cod. I think your place smells, and you'll know this too if you ever leave for about ten minutes, but since you all live here, you don't get it and you don't know what I'm talking about, so I'll just get on with this at any rate.

Cape Cod smells. I said it.

There is something in the air. Actually, there are somethings in the water, but those somethings in the water actually move up to the air and it becomes something in the air, and it stinks. Perhaps it doesn't exactly stink, but it actually causes a smell and you smell it.

I don't even know if I'm making this clear. I should be blunt:
CAPE COD SMELLS VERY MUCH OF FISH.

Every tree, every road, every house, every person who stops through. You all smell of fish, and I don't mind pointing this out to you as it will likely happen to me within a month or so. Perhaps I even smell of it right now, just don't even notice it. That would be tragic.

Maybe it is that big ocean-thing. Full of fish, right? And there's a lot of ocean around Cape Cod, so there are a lot of fish. Take a look at the place, you'll see that there is nothing worse than an ocean that smells of fish. Well, an ocean that smells of seaweed, but let us not be particular.

However - the ocean DOES smell of fish. So, get used to it.

I love Cape Cod, I really do. I love the place. I love my internship, I love my apartment. But the fish smell is something that we're drawing lines in the sand over. Sorry, Cape Cod.

And now that you mention it . . . I smell a bit strange myself now. Like . . . flouder.