Swami,
What is that stinky smell at the corner of Washington Street and Route 21 in Gurnee? I got stopped at a light there the other day and I had to roll up my windows because it smelled like someone had lost their lunch on my tires.
Pepe Le Pew
Dear Pep:
When it comes to that particular stretch of Washington Street, we need to be very specific about what smell we're referencing. To do this, we'll have to be graphic.
To wit:
A) Is the stench something like what you get when your kid forgets to flush the toilet, and you then go on vacation and come back a week later and open the bathroom door?
Or ...
B) Is it something like either the regurgitation you mentioned, or cotton candy that's sat in the sun for a month?
If the answer is A), then you have picked up a whiff from the North Shore Sanitary District plant at Washington and O'Plaine Road, a facility that has undergone more odor control endeavors than Bigfoot's laundry bin, but still reminds us from time to time that it is, after all, a sewage processing plant.
If your nose says B), then you are enjoying the bouquet that is produced by the discarded food at Six Flags Great America, which has immense bins filled with gunk, hidden from sight behind the trees that line the northwest side of Washington and Route 21.
In both cases, all that stuff has to go somewhere. If you play, you pay, or sentiments to that effect.
But rest assured that both of them could be worse. And, with the dog days of summer heating up as of this writing, they most likely will be.
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