text: Back when my heart was a bit blacker we had "smelling salts" in the first aid cabinet at a place I used to work. It was a liquid chemical in a small glass tube wrapped in fiber. Whenever they hired someone new I would grab one and start sniffing it (unbroken) and then ask the new guy if it smelled funny and crush the vial as I handed it to them. Explosive reaction everytime! Mean but funny.