The smell (Patreon)

Based on a real incident, although he recognised the smell before finding the source: my library book’s binding smelled like formic acid.

The finnish word for formic acid is ”acid from ants/acid of the ants”, and we took like 35 minutes before I could get him to accept that in english, ”ant-acid” just means ”anti-acid” and has nothing to do with ants. He still thinks that’s rather stupid.