# The smell of gasoline: love it or hate it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 19, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115 "2007-08-19T04:16:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115/41 "2007-08-21T03:45:02Z")
Yeah, it’s not so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115/42 "2007-08-21T17:17:38Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I have found my soulmate. [/QUOTE] Excellent - have I got an idea for a date!!! I can just see it now, us lying around in a pool of purple mimeograph sheets and leaded gas, nostrils ringed with black from sniffing the Jiffy markers… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115/43 "2007-08-21T18:32:49Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] purple mimeograph sheets [/QUOTE] I used to love the smell of the mimeograph copies when I was in school. There was almost nothing better than a warm copy with that fresh smell… mmmmm… takes me back! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115/44 "2007-08-21T22:46:07Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] Excellent - have I got an idea for a date!!! I can just see it now, us lying around in a pool of purple mimeograph sheets and leaded gas, nostrils ringed with black from sniffing the Jiffy markers… 😃 [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115/45 "2007-08-22T14:52:31Z")
Regular gas stinks, but racing fuel, especially castor blends, smell lovely. They smell even better as exhaust. It’s the smell of speed! ---
**Author:** ![Wonderwall6129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Wonderwall6129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonderwall6129)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115/46 "2007-08-22T15:05:37Z")
I love to write, and one of my favorite things to do is buy a new notebook, open said notebook, stick nose in binding, and inhale deeply. Then repeat, but instead of sticking nose in binding, flip pages and smell the paper-scented wind emanating from them. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115/47 "2007-08-22T16:31:51Z")
Hate it to the point of puking. If I have to, I will put gas in my car, but not without gagging on the fumes. Mostly **Suburan Plankton** puts gas in my car for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-gasoline-love-it-or-hate-it/416115.md?page=2)