mahinWhat’s a thing you miss that you’re 90% sure was objectively awful?
ExtremeDullardThe smell of leaded gasoline.
The smell of a fine cigar: I quit smoking 14 years ago but I miss that.
And I’m 200% sure they were awful.
That 5 minutes of smoking where you don’t do anything but think and enjoy a pieceful smoke… I miss that as well. I quit smoking 4 years ago.
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)You’re making me feel like I miss it but I haven’t even started yet 💀
Sitting on the porch with my morning coffee and first smoke of the day during the summer was always a wonderful experience. Doing the same in 30F in the winter, not so much.
tetris11leaded gasoline
Few memories trigger a nostalgic response in me than this. Ah, I’m in heaven
smell is the sense most strongly linked to memory
Are you sure you’re not just thinking of the smell of carburetor engines? I think I know the smell you’re thinking of and its the exhaust of a vintage carburetor engine.
Was there really a different smell for leaded gasoline?
No, it’s the smell at the pump. Nothing to do with how the engine feeds itself. Yeah, leaded gasoline smelled different. “Sweeter” or something. Maybe it wasn’t the lead, and maybe whatever replaced the lead inside modern gasoline is what smells different, but it definitely isn’t the same.
It’s not like gasoline smelled better, it’s just that I remember smelling that smell when the entire family went on summer holidays and we kids were allowed to stretch our legs while our dad gassed up the car. Good times and good memories!
this might shock you, but I have never smelled leaded gasoline. I’m too young, it got banned before I was born.
what did it smell like?