Tanning Beds: An Urban Legend

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  A young woman was going on vacation to a beach for the summer, which was only a few months away. She wanted to have a sun-kissed complexion just in time for her trip. She wanted it done fast and easy, so she decided to go to a tanning bed.

  The woman went to the tanning bed every week for quite a few hours at a time, each month before her vacation. Eventually, she got the complexion she wanted!

  However, before she was set to go, she noticed a really horrid smell coming from somewhere. She sprayed every room in her house with air freshener, but it wouldn't go away. Then she realized that the smell was coming from her. She thought it was just the fact that she never used breath mints and started using them. But that smell still wasn't gone! She thought it would go away by the time she left for vacation.

  The morning that she was supposed to leave, her friends went over to pick her up, as they were all going to the beach together. They noticed that she was still sleeping and that there was a disgusting smell coming from her. They went over to her bed and pulled the covers off her.

She was dead. The autopsy showed that her organs were cooked, basically from all the tanning she'd done at the tanning beds. That was where that rotting smell was coming from all this time. Her friends took this as a lesson and never went to a tanning bed again.

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