do you know how much of a letdown it was to grow up smelling the aged whiskey in my grandpa's pantry. the wine in my parents' dinner glasses. the anise liquor on summer evenings. and finally being of drinking age and finding out it all kinda just tastes like car exhaust
an experience that our grandparents or great-grandparents may have had but which has now been made forever inaccessible to us is to encounter cars as a novelty, smell their exhaust, and think "this smells just like aged whiskey tastes! what wonders the future holds"
