What blasts you back, smell, sounds?

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ThomasC

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Accumulator commented on another thread that the aroma of a particular product got him going back to a different time, and when I read that I realized that this happens to me also.



So I ask all cof's, certified old farts, what sends you back:



Two things for me; a neighbor bought a new Roadrunner in '68 and for a few years he would pay me $10.00 to Simonize the car every other Saturday evening in the summer. To this day whenever I smell something even remotely like that wax I am back to those great years-sometimes in a trance like state, its wierd-real wierd. Plus the sound of that engine coming down the street in the early morning hours, classic..



How about the rest of you?
 
Every time I hear "Hey Jude", I'm 8 years old, over at a friend's house in Scottsdale (AZ) just like I was the first time I heard it.
 
Yeah, songs from various eras, especially those that were literally the background music to significant moments in my life.



I read something about how smells work on the same part of the brain that's responsible for memories. Heh heh, I sometimes think my primary appreciation of my Jag is its time-machine abilities; every time I sit in it I'm 25 again, still young and immortal with nothing but promise on the horizon.



The taste of certain things can do it for me too [insert Proust reference....].
 
Heh, I get reminiscent every time I use nXt. It was the first wax I ever used, and I think of my old blue car. (Yes I'm a youngun :P)
 
I'm not sure what it was, but this shampoo my first girl friend always used - every once in a blue moon, I smell it and I'm 16 again. Funny - she turns 50 today. I thought about calling and welcoming her to midlle age but we didn't exactly stay friends.
 
Chemical Guys Citrus clear smells to me like pineapples. It reminded me of my wife, then GF at the time shampoo.



The first time I smelled it on the MF sponge (it's not the same in the gallon container) it took me back to the good ole days when we were dating. When we didn't have a business, bills, and other things that go along with being an adult.



The feeling didn't last long. :lol



I still think about it every time I use it though.. Just not as much as the first time I tried it. LOL
 
Cars.



Anytime I see a car that's the same model and color of one that me or my buddies drove around in I remember some (mis)adventure or other.



Not that it happens often. Not a lot of yellow '74 Opel Mantas, Rosso Farina '63 Alfa Giulia Sprints or blue '70 Javelins on the road these days.



Other than that, just about anything else might do it, a sight, sound, smell or taste. Can't predict.







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Accumulator said:
Yeah, songs from various eras, especially those that were literally the background music to significant moments in my life.



I read something about how smells work on the same part of the brain that's responsible for memories. Heh heh, I sometimes think my primary appreciation of my Jag is its time-machine abilities; every time I sit in it I'm 25 again, still young and immortal with nothing but promise on the horizon.



The taste of certain things can do it for me too [insert Proust reference....].
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You must be an old fart! :nana: :wavey
 
Barry Theal said:
You must be an old fart! :nana: :wavey
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Heh heh, maybe compared to some of you young whippersnappers :chuckle:



Barry- You might appreciate this one: the smell of Cosmoline (the real, "Russian Vasoline" type mil-spec stuff) can really blast me back to my childhood.
 
Accumulator said:
Heh heh, maybe compared to some of you young whippersnappers :chuckle:



Barry- You might appreciate this one: the smell of Cosmoline (the real, "Russian Vasoline" type mil-spec stuff) can really blast me back to my childhood.
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Yea I can appreciate that one. My father retired from a choclate factory, I remember slightly, when I was a kid we would all load up in the caprice wagon and go pick him up. 20 plus years later I drive by the factory daily and you can smell the aroma and it brings me back to when I was a young kid. Amazing. Everytime I pick a claybar up it reminds me of some warfare training I had in urban assault school. LOL that was a different clay. :usa:grinno:
 
Although, I am not an old fart...just turned 35 yesterday. One scent that sends me back is the smell of freshly cut grass and pipe tobacco together. It takes me back to when I was around 10, and coming home from a Little League game/practice and my dad sitting on his riding mower cutting the grass while smoking his Borkum Riff or Captain Black pipe tobacco.
 
sophmeat said:
Heh, I get reminiscent every time I use nXt. It was the first wax I ever used, and I think of my old blue car. (Yes I'm a youngun :P)
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I have the same memory but with Zymol (the blue OTC stuff) This was the first wax I have ever used on my last truck- 98 s-10
 
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