Noxious fumes occur in realtime

Okay so I have had a scene from an episode of last season's 24 running through my head all freakin' week. Well, not ALL week, but more like several times a day every time I go up or down the stairs. Allow me to explain.

I've been working in New York this week where I spend my days in a building split between the 12th and 15th floors. Since the elevators are so damn slow, I just take the stairs each time. And seriously, I must make the trip four times every hour AT LEAST. Well these are service stairs and on the 12th floor side the stairwell passes through this little like vestibule area where they apparently keep their trash all day before emptying it at night. This room, obviously stinks to high heaven, so I have taken to holding my breath as I walk through it. I've gotten into a pattern. As I walk through the 12th floor and reach for the doorknob into the vestibule, I take a deep breath, walk through the stinky room, open the door for the stairwell and slowly let my breath out, trying not to breathe again until the door seals behind me. And then I repeat the process on my way back down.

So can the 24 fans guess which episode I'm thinking of? It's the one where they set off the VX gas cannisters in CTU and Jack and everybody else are holed up inside that glass room except for Sean Astin's character who is in another room with some nameless CTU agent. Sean has to hold his breath and run out to reset something on the computer so that the gas can vent out of the building, but that breaks the seal on their room and he and the other agent die as soon as they start breathing.

So seriously, every time, EVERY TIME I go through this vestibule, that scene plays through my head. It's like the garbage room is some kind of airlock, and I make sure to keep my breath held until the door seals behind me. If I've been moving around a lot and I'm shorter of breath, sometimes I don't make it and start breathing before the door closes, and I think, "Oops, you just breathed in the gas. You're dead now."

4 times roundtrip an hour for 9 hours times three days so far. That's nearly a two hundred times that scene has replayed in my head. That can't be healthy.

(bink-BONG...bink-BONG...bink-BONG...)