Never noticed

Do you realise that every person in this world, every man and woman, has a nose? It is something I have never noticed before. It was there under my very nose and I did not see it. Everyone has a nose.

There are small noses, big ones, round ones, bulbous ones with pimples perhaps or small hairs on the end. There are noses with hairs coming out of them. Long pointy noses, aquiline ones, flat noses, broken noses and slightly upturned ones like Miss Piggy.

All these noses and you probably never noticed them. Next time you are with a group of people just spend some type studying their noses. Look at them carefully. Their shapes and sizes. Divide them into groups. How many are small, large, pointy and so on. Look at your nose in the mirror. What type is it? Big? Small? Pretty? Ugly?

A friend of mine has such a big nose that it enters a room a week before she comes in.

Love noses. Join the Noses Appreciation Society. Do you realise that if all noses were made upside down we would all drown when it rained? So noses are useful; not just for breathing but from keeping water out too.

We need more nose education in this world. There's so much to learn. A friend of mine is a nose doctor. A specialist in fact. He specialised in the left nostril. He knows (correct spelling) everything there is to know about the left nostril. Ask him about the right nostril and he's a complete ignorant. He told me it is another three years course at University the right nostril.

Noses are not just for breathing, you know. They can be used to smell too. Reminds me of the old joke: My dog has no nose. How does he smell? Awful!

Seriously though, noses are used for smelling too as well as breathing. Some people have trained their noses to smell round corners. In the dark too. That's the clever thing about noses. Useful for breathing and smelling.

They can identify various smells too, noses. Good smells and aromas and bad ones. Ears can't do that. For example if a chocolate cake smelled of paint your nose would tell you there's something wrong. Or if a wall smelled of hot chocolate you'd break your teeth chewing on a brick. Noses can tell the difference between a chocolate cake and a wall. Ears can't do that. Because neither example talks, you see.

Noses can also be used metaphorically. You can say things like "I smell a rat". 

I smelled a rat once. I found him dead when I tried to retrieve some cheese from the mousetrap for supper. 

Another metaphor is being nosey. Wanting to know things. I read in the papers that a dwarf was thrown out from our local nudist camp because he could not keep his nose out of peoples' private business.