Seals are scarce

So I have this pair of boots that I really like. They are ankle height, brown leather and nicely scuffed. They need a little bit of polishing and today I realized that I had three tubes of lip balm and some scuffed shoes. As the lip balm is basically wax, I decided to polish my shoes with the lip balm. My labmate gave me a funny look, but basically ignored me. Then my boss walked in and gave a me a really funny look and then dismissed it as a “western Canada thing” and my labmate then asked if it really was lipbalm. I said it was, but only because I couldn’t find any seal blubber.

My shoes kinda smell like lemon now.