My husband has always been a guy who likes to smell things. Really, it’s kind of weird. One of the first things I learned about him was that he was big into smelling. At first, it was endearing. He’d put the book to his face and inhale deeply and I thought, “now there’s a guy that loves books…awesome!” I later found out that it wasn’t just books – he would smell everything. I accepted this a just a little quirk of his and it never really bothered me.
You know what does bother me, though? The fact that even with all this smelling that he does he now seems to be immune to the smell of a dirty diaper. How is this possible? How can the guy who can tell when I’m eating a banana from 3 rooms away be holding the baby and yet not seem to be aware of the horrible stench coming from her diaper? This is how it usually goes:
Me: What’s that smell?
Husband [with baby in his arms, her diaper mere inches away from his nose]: What smell? I don’t smell anything.
Me: I think the baby has a poopy diaper.
Husband [handing the baby over to me]: Huh. Really? I don’t smell anything.
Yeah, that’s annoying. But what’s even worse is what usually happens next: I take the baby and open up her diaper and sure enough, it’s a poopsplosion. And then my husband, who for some reason was standing behind me, backs away and says, “Whoa! That smells terrible!”
Wife,
Poopsplosion! My new FAVORITE WORD EVER! But no, oddly enough I didn’t smell anything. Good luck on the diaper change!
Love,
Husband (Annoying)
Is that like selective hearing? I think my husband could hear me open anything in the kitchen 2 miles down the road, but at 6 a.m. he can’t hear the dogs whining to go out!
That’s just really brilliant parenting on his part.
I agree with the brilliant parenting comment. Not smelling the poop means he doesn’t have to change the diaper!
Which just goes to prove the “Annoying” part. 8D
Hahaha! My hubs is a proclaimed ‘smeller’ too. He smells everything, while I smell nothing. I am sure that will change once a baby arrives.
Ah, this takes me back (and, in truth, renders me a little misty). I remember when my kids whipped up their personal interpretations of “What Dad imagines Hell smells like.” In response, Dad would don his favorite diaper-changing costume, and change identities from “Just Dad” to “SuperDad with a Thick Sweatshirt Wrapped Around His Face Like a Mask.” Countless hours of mirth.
ever think he’s doing it on purpose so that he doesn’t have change diapers?
I definitely wouldn’t put it past him!
He is so having you on. You need to learn to say “well there is stench” hand her BACK and get him to change her. Men enjoy being useless. It’s a battle.
I get the whiff of some selective smelling…
Alison
He he he… that is too funny – the smelling part that is. My husband does the same thing – smells EVERYTHING. And now he has passed that on to our 3-year old daughter who has to smell EVERYTHING as well. Even her grandpa commented on how she is just like her daddy… As far as the changing the diaper goes, our 4 month old is the messiest kid – it comes out of both ends and I always get the call from the other room when there is an odor coming from her… Although I do the majority of it, he has also gotten a little share of the surprise “time to give her a bath”.
my boyfriend is a smeller too. but his favorite things to smell are my armpits. the crazy part is he doesn’t like to smell them after i shower, but rather, he smells them after i’ve had a long day. he’ll come up to me and start smelling my hair, and then he’ll pry my arms up and take a deep breath and say “ummmm…stinks so good”. i really hate it.
This has to be a medical condition. Sadly, I suffer from the same disease. -A selective smelling father