TAR SMELL IS BASICALLY DISGUSTING

You know that smell that hot tar makes? You know how it's completely awful? Why is it that this smell has the capability to hang in the air over great distances and linger for so damn long, while just about any other, nicer smell can't? A partial list of things I think I would rather be smelling than the hot tar odor billowing from the construction site next to my office follows:

- Baking bread
- My toothpaste
- Strawberry esters
- Roasting chestnuts
- A giant psychedelic candy factory