Here's a controversy we're not likely to have in Fort Wayne:
SAN FRANCISCO - Apparently, not everyone enjoys the smell of oven-fresh chocolate chip cookies while waiting for their bus.
Scented adhesive strips, applied to five Muni bus stops to give commuters a smell of homemade cookies as part of a “Got Milk?” ad campaign, were removed after just 36 hours following complaints from residents with health concerns and others, according to the Municipal Transportation Agency.
Representatives from the California Milk Processor Board, which was behind the ads, said complaints were from groups that are trying to ban all public scents, anti-obesity organizations, diabetes organizations and homeless advocates who argued the smell would leave them hungry and unable to purchase food.
Which is sillier -- the notion that a city has gone so far in creating a civilized ambiance that putting cookie smells in the bus stops is the only thing left to do, or that the transportation authority would de-scent the stops based on the complaints of a handful of carping busybodies? By God, if the homeless don't want to smell cookies, nobody can!
