Moth her !!!

In order to produce the photo book of "The most beautiful people in the world" a house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, had to be temporarily rented.
One was found very near the center.
From a colleague photographer who is spending time in Bali these days.
A large space with on one side a sitting room and the other side the dining room.


A kitchen, bathroom, toilet and a large bedroom.
There is a garden too.


And in this garden is a building in which a large office space and a daylight photo studio.



It is an ideal lodging costing € 900 / $ 1,165 for 5 weeks.
That includes all costs.

It is an excellent place to work.
But it has one major disadvantage.
The colleague, the woman who actually lives in this place, before going to Bali, has put all over the house mothballs.
This to protect her many clothes and the Persian rugs on the bedroom floor.



Mothballs have a very strong smell.
They contain naphtalene and dichlorobenzene: chemicals that have a strong and pungent odor.
Their vapor is so powerful it kills the moths.

They affect people too.
If a large quantity of mothballs is in a living area, people will suffer of serious respiratory problems.

Entering the house, the strong odor of the mothballs immediately made breathing difficult.
And it was a surprise: when the house was visited when the colleague was still there, to arrange the deal, no smell of mothballs was in the house.
Obviously, just before the owner took off to Bali, she placed the mothballs all around in the house.
Even underneath the Persian carpets.

It was simply impossible to be in the spaces with this naphtalene and dichlorobenzene vapors around.
Immediately all windows had to be opened.
And a hunt for the mothballs to find them to put them in a plastic bag dumped in the garbage container.

But even today, three weeks in this house, the smell of the mothballs is still there.
And the question is what the naphtalene and dichlorobenzene is doing to the health.

A friend who heard this story was indignant.
He was amazed that a person rents out for good money an apartment and then gases it with mothballs just before leaving.
The friend recommended to do the same.
To put fresh, new mothballs all over the place just before leaving.
To give the owner a taste of being a moth.



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