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This is the perfume area of a department store, which were often located near one of the major entrances.
Walking through it is usually a bombardment of different smells, and it can be a lot.
The joke is that you have to go through the horrible perfume tunnel to get to where you want to go inside the store (or the mall, if connected). It can be especially bad around the winter holidays and when it’s cold out, which is why everyone has long sleeves in the photo.
A lot of places you could go around, it was just a longer walk.
This is also a screenshot from a spongebob episode, a really trippy one where they were trying to escape from a ghost ship, and they go through different dimensions only to wind up back on the ship. This was one of those dimensions.
I didn’t realize this was literally from the episode! You can see a border. Thanks for pointing that out!
As a fun(?) aside, according to the fandom wiki one of the writers has a fear of department store perfume sections, hence that part of the episode.
Perfume section stinky, many scary people try to sell you things, can’t get to toys without going through them :(
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For whatever reason, on every mall I've been to, you have to go through the perfume section to get between the escalator, interior doors, and exterior doors to leave the department store.
I have a very sensitive nose, and so this was torture for me. Even as an adult I would hold me breath the whole time.
Are you no longer an adult now that you are a pirate?
Like the rest of us, they just no longer visit department stores, or the mall.
Then what does being an adult have to do with it?
I was also an adult the last time I visitted the mall, years-ago. Were you an adult the last time you went to a mall? Has that changed in the manner of "was an adult but now am not"? Is you a pirate now, or a Benjamin Button?
Would there be a difference had they been a child?
Yes. Children are often more sensitive to senses due to less exposure to block them out.
Interesting. I've found that I become increasingly sensitive as I continue to age.
I do not understand.
The past tense "was" implies that you are no longer an adult.
Yarr, be ye holding yer breath, matey?
Combining these two pieces of information, I can infer that you have transformed from an adult ino a pirate. Congratulations.
It really doesn't though. Linguistic conventions don't override reality, and reality doesn't follow linguistic conventions. The reverse, however...
The law of humor supersedes all of these.
Specifically, this still is from an episode of SpongeBob called Shanghaied, also known as the You Wish Special because when it originally aired you could call in to vote on the ending.
Oh man, if not someone else would've also mentioned Spongebob, I would've been really on the fence whether you're just making a elaborate joke or not...
spongebob reference. I assume you arent 22-30.
I saw that episode live, I’m in my mid 30s.
Yea, but everyone of a certain age has the first three seasons of spongebob seared into their brains in a way that younger and older people don't.
People who are 30 were three when the first episode of SpongeBob aired. You are correct but still off by about 5 to 10 years in your age range.
Quit calling me old.
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