OT - Taxidermy projects?

Very cool! What a unique experience too.

RRP said:

No - but back in my early days of banking we had a regular customer who was a taxidermist who reeked of formaldehyde and you could smell him as soon as he hit the door. We also had a Famous Recipe Chicken shop owner whose clothes reeked of old cooking oil with a STRONG overload smell of chicken fat grease and he also could be smelled when he hit the door. And honest - this is no lie - we had a bank guard with standing orders to make sure that he detained one or the other to make sure both didn't come into our lobby at the same time! That combination of smells was HORRIBLE and would gag a person!

Heh, this reminds me of a book I was assigned to read back in Jr High, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, about an immigrant who moved to Chicago, and worked his way up down the job ladder, ending up in the worst job of his meat processing plant, stirring the final remnants of cows as they distilled into fertilizer, and having bus patrons abandon any seats near him when he went home because of the stench.  The book ended with his exuberance when the Union wave hit at that time in our history.  
A half-century later, I’m thinking I should probably read this book again; have a feeling that a lot of the socio-economic forces (diametric) are still very much in battle these days…

My first proper job was public facing and an old hand introduced me to 'own back lunches' when we'd choose something spicy at break to redress the balance against stinky customers.  

I bet you are a whiz at Thanksgiving Turducken!