That's reasonable too. But sometimes people find themselves in positions that we can't easily think ourselves out of for whatever reason. People do dumb things every now and again.

I'm not sure what everyone keeps imagining here. Is it like someone picking it up and pressing their nose into it and taking a long, enthusiastic sniff? Cause that's not how smelling things has to work.

Finding out whether or not it's already been used is literally the point.

A reminder that we have a sense of smell seemed like a reasonable thing to do in this circumstance.

I'm sorry. This is horrible. I guess you should get into the habit of smelling things just to be sure.

Then ask to go. Just cause she's unlikely to offer doesn't mean she won't take you if you ask to go.