Recently I was standing at the whiteboard in a small airless meeting room (meaning we were all losing braincells while trying to resolve business issues) when the discussion veered to the whiteboard markers instead of the database being diagrammed. Namely that the standard smell of whiteboard marker (high acetone) is boring, redundant and wasn’t helping the creativity of anyone involved.

The problem is that while scented whiteboard markers exist, namely these Expo ones (it’s an affiliate link because you might have been hunting for these for years and want nothing more than an apple-scented dry erase marker…) they’re the same scents as every other scented thing made for kids from scratch stickers to chap stick. I didn’t like them when I was eight and I don’t like them now. Unless grape scent can grow up to be Bordeaux I’m not interested.

Clearly what we need is bacon-scented dry erase markers. The smell alone would motivate productive thought. People would vie with each other to stand at the whiteboard and contribute.  Why can’t someone invent these now? There’s bacon-scented everything else out there.