I think I’d have to go with smell in the end — it seems the least “essential” in terms of quality of life to me. Plus, I gotta say, there would probably be times I’d be thankful to never smell a rotten fart or piss-soaked subway car again.

When I was considering this question, my trusted friend Wikipedia had some enlightening information about the senses to share:

Humans are considered to have at least five additional senses that include: nociception (pain), equilibrioception (balance), proprioception & kinaesthesia (joint motion and acceleration), sense of time, thermoception (temperature differences), with possibly an additional weak magnetoception (direction).

Not quite as easy to remember for all the first graders though, I’m afraid. Which is probably why I had never read about any of these perceptions being labeled “senses” until today, on the 79th day of my 24th year of life. Seriously, I’ve been feeling all of these things for 24 fucking years and I somehow didn’t know they were feelings? Is the American education system retarded, or am I retarded? Or perhaps, am I retarded because of the American education system? If only I had a sense that could tell me that!