lesson learned

a lesson learned...or perhaps just something really stupid i did: never store edibles with soap/shampoo products in the same closed container. for several months, i've had five shrink-wrapped cinnamon altoids in the same rubbermaid container as shampoo type stuff for school use purposes. a few days ago, i opened an altoids and ate one; it tasted like cinnamon but then the taste of soap quicky took over. i left the altoids open near a window for a few days hoping it would air out.

no luck, the months of proximity between altoid and shampoo have resulted in a breach of a weak olfactory barrier of ripped shrink-wrap and non-air-tight aluminum casing by determined molecular chemical agents.