Attack of the flowers!

Well, one thing I forgot about before I went and tool my scheduled days off - we got the Hyacinths in before I left. Now that I'm back, they're blooming.

Don't get me wrong; hyacinths are lovely flowers, with a wonderful scent. It's just, the scent is very strong. One or two, that I can handle. But, the more plants you add, the stronger the scent gets, and the more powerful, and the less they smell all that good. So, yeah. Fifteen of the suckers? Not a good thing.

Within five minutes of getting up to the front counter to get a radio, I knew the hyacinths were blooming. And I though, "Wow, that's a nice scent." And then the full power of these plants hit me, and I started sneezing, and my eyes itched (honestly, it was only the right eye; not sure what's up with that). The next thing I knew, I had a headache. Not just any headache - the kind that feels like someone is pounding a nail through your brain, about two inches past where the pain from a sinus headache is, and it went along my entire head to the back of my neck.

It got to the point where I was actually sucking on Hall's cough drops, not because I needed it, but because with the menthol taking over my nose and mouth, I didn't smell the hyacinths as much.

The crazy thing is, I didn't react like this to them last year; not this badly, anyway. the year before that wasn't a bother, and the year prior, I don't remember reacting to them at all. So, it's like my allergy to them is getting worse and worse every year. That, or we're going to have one heckuva pollen count this year. O_o

I'm not the only one in the store that's allergic to them, either. Half of the cashiers are. Brian in hardware is, Michelle, the department head of garden, refuses to have them in any quantity in her department.

I'll be very golad when it gets warm enough outside that we can move these plants out there. One things for sure - I'm gonna see about picking up some pain medication before going to work tomorrow morning.

I wonder - if I got enough people in the store to sign a petition, do you think we could have the buying office stop having us get these plants in? :D

Yeah, probably not. :(