Memories of Korea: What's that smell?

This is a story about Korea that is not about Korea at all.

My boyfriend in Korea and I once watched the movie, The Ref, starring Dennis O’Leary as a catburgler named Gus. Great movie. Near the beginning of the film, Gus’ attempt to rob a safe is foiled by a couple of ingenious security measures, one of which is that Gus is sprayed with a liquid from within the safe, and he soon angrily identifies it by its odour as “cat piss”. Gus runs out of the house, evading police, but throughout the rest of the movie, as new characters enter the story and encounter Gus, inevitably they stop, sniff the air loudly, and ask, “What’s that smell? Is that cat piss???” It’s a hilarious running gag.

This boyfriend of mine had a male cat named O’Ginny (short for Miss O’Ginny, which should have been a flashing warning sign right there), whom he (VERY reluctantly) took in to the animal hospital to have neutered. Well, O’Ginny must have known that something was amiss, because on the way there he must have had a bad case of nerves and – um, soiled himself. Unfortunately for the BF, when O’Ginny got out of his carrier at the animal hospital, he immediately scrambled atop the BF’s shoulders for safety. Apparently the experience was a little messy.

A week or so after this happened, we were at work and I thought I would tease the BF a little, as I knew he was pretty vain. I stopped, sniffed the air loudly, and asked, “What’s that SMELL???”

“I do NOT!!!!”

Heh. :)