New Car Smell

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I was at the gynecologist's this morning, await my biopsy. On a tray next to the table was a bottle of what looked like canned air or maybe WD40. Had the red straw sticking out of it. I picked it up & saw it was HurriCaine, a topical anaesthetic.

Nothing too shocking there, right. I kept reading.

'Original Wild Cherry Flavor'.

Yeah, I fucking died. The doctor & his assistant came in & all I could do was gasp, "Original Wild Cherry!" while pointing at the can. The doctor picks it up, reads it & then says, "Why would it need to be wild cherry flavored if we're spraying it into your vagina?" (My gynecologist is from Africa, & has this great British accent, so he sounded so deadpan & puzzled...)

I couldn't help myself, so I tell him, "Could be worse, could be New Car Smell!"

In case anyone hasn't figured it out, it's a topical benzocaine used in dental offices. It took the doctor a couple of minutes to read the rest of the can. He's like, "Ohhh, this is dental anaesthetic!"



Then as I'm laying there w/my feet up in the stirrups, right before he spritzes me w/the stuff, he asks, innocently, "Does your husband like cherry flavor?"

OMFG!!! I was in tears. So now all day, all I can think about is Original Wild Cherry.