{"id":47923,"date":"2026-05-08T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2026\/05\/08\/back-to-old-spice.html"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:39:55","slug":"back-to-old-spice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2026\/05\/08\/back-to-old-spice.html","title":{"rendered":"Back to Old Spice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t think Old Spice has been in my life since college. But on account of the once-beloved MITCH Heavy Hitter 2-in-1 Shampoo and Condition no longer being a viable option I had to find an alternative, and it seems Old Spice is worth a go. I had to give up on MITCH because I am not able to open the bottle. I sent a perfectly polite and pleasant letter to the makers of Mitch. The letter included the most recent pump from the last bottle I bought. In the letter I asked them to either open the pump for me and send it back, or send me another pump that is not impossible to open. I found many comments online about this issue so it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;ve become a wizened weakling. I could not even open that bottle with a wrench. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to keep the last pump I was able to open and use. But now I&#8217;ve been using it for probably 3 or more years and it&#8217;s wearing out. If the makers of MITCH can&#8217;t help me on this then it&#8217;s time to move on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the funny story I had about Old Spice comes from when I was in the 6th or 7th grade. Before the subdivision we lived in in Tampa was fully developed there was an enormous garbage dump about a half mile from the house. I used to go play in the dump, it was fun, and I would come home with random objects that probably all got thrown out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One time I came back a bottle of Old Spice after shave. I thought my dad would want to use it and, it being Father&#8217;s Day, I would present it to him as a gift. He asked where I got it and I can still hear my pre-pubescent voice proudly squeal &#8220;I GOT IT AT THE GARBAGE DUMP!&#8221; Everybody laughed and dad promptly renamed the after shave &#8220;OLD MICE.&#8221; I still laugh at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think Old Spice has been in my life since college. But on account of the once-beloved MITCH Heavy Hitter 2-in-1 Shampoo and Condition no longer being a viable option I had to find an alternative, and it seems Old Spice is worth a go. I had to give up on MITCH because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-csX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}