On Sunday, my husband and I were strolling through the local
shopping mall, when I spotted the White Barn Candle Company. They sell
my favorite scented candles, and even better they were having a sale.
So my husband, who couldn't care less about scented candles, follows me
into the store. I proceeded to pop the tops off of various glass jars
and sniff all the different candles labeled lavendar, kitchen spice,
vanilla, etc. Every time I smelled one I liked, I would stick it under
my husband's nose and ask for his opinion. After several minutes of
this, he picked up a jar with a light green candle in it and pulled the
top off. He held it out for me to smell. It smelled okay and I asked
what scent it was supposed to be. He replied, "Wild Orc." I looked at
him in disbelief, so he held out the lid to the jar with the label on
it that indeed read "Wild Orc." I turned the lid around to the other
side and saw that the whole label actually read "Wild Orchid," but the
side of the label that caught his eye had been cut off. The ribbon
around the jar overlapped and cut off the last 3 letters of the word
orchid. This sent me into fits of laughter because I thought of all the
scented candles that could possibly exist in Middle Earth, wild orc
would definitely not be a best seller.
