Zoe Bridgewater, 32, has been shocked to discover that a diet of garlic, stilton and chewing tobacco is not conducive to floral breath. Gagging on her own gag, Zoe has found that mask wearing is the equivalent of inhaling your own farts.
While her mask has protected her from the spread of Covid, it has also protected others from her halitosis. Zoe now has the unhappy task of living with her own stink or wearing scuba gear to work.
Surprisingly her daily twenty-eight cups of coffee have not muted the whiff or turned her teeth white. A significant casualty of coronavirus has been her self-esteem , with friends describing her breath as a cross between fermented tofu, Surströmming and smell of an old gym sock. Zoe remarked: 'Ironically everyone social distanced before I wore a mask'.
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