Just say the reason you were sniffing them.

Um, I wouldn’t. I would quit and move to another country.

“Does this smell like burnt toast to you? Oh, it doesn’t? Maybe I should go to the doctor…”

by getting it surgically altered. I could never show the old face ever again.

also, moving and changing my name.

yikes

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I don’t think I’d have to worry as much since my sense of smell is basically gone.

I’m sure the people I’m working with would know that, so I’d be forced to save face for having my face too close to their seats, in which I got no clue how to save face from that.