Would you want to?

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Would you want to smell the corpse flower? It was on display downtown at the botanical gardens, and I was intrigued. Apparently, it only blooms every seven or so years, and bloomed for only up to 36 hours. I like weird things so this was right up my alley. But no, I'm not driving downtown to look for a parking space that won't charge me twenty dollars, followed by paying to get into a place that only holds my interest for as long as it takes to smell a corpse flower. Our local news station had a "corpse flower cam" set up to catch it blooming, and it was hilarious when they'd cut live to the camera. People would come up to the flower to take a picture with it, lean into it to catch a sniff, then recoil when the odor hit their nostrils. Would you make a special trip to go see and smell a flower that casts the aroma of rotting flesh?