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What is the most awful smell you have ever experienced that's burned
into your nostrils still today?
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|u/herglegurgle - 1 month
|
|June 23, 2007, I discovered my mother's body. The stench was unlike
|anything I have ever smelled in my life. I heard it said that scent is
|the strongest sense tied to memory, and I believe it. Whenever I drive
|by that place, I can still smell that smell to this day. Edit: Thank
|you to everybody who has given me their condolences. I do appreciate
|it...
|u/No-Instruction-2922 - 1 month
|
|That sounds very awful and hard to deal with. I am sorry for your
|loss and wish you the best. I also smelt a corpse but never saw the
|body.
|u/Readylamefire - 1 month
|
|Same. Step Gma died and her children decided to not honor her
|wishes to be placed with my dad's dad. Instead they put her with
|their dad in the moseleum. Cracked the stone and instantly hit with
|that terrible sweet smell. Suck it Betty, you were a miserable
|bitch who destroyed my dad's relationship with his father. Thanks
|for the generational trauma, asshole. Hope you enjoy spending
|eternity with a man you divorced.
|u/texaschair - 1 month
|
|Revenge is a dish best served cold.
|u/Reggie_Bol - 1 month
|
|And with side of relish.
|u/asmallangrypotato - 1 month
|
|Holy shit are you ok? But also, I CACKLED at suck it Betty.
|u/kobewankanobi - 1 month
|
|I had to go into one of those 2 person niches once to set up
|rollers so the second person's casket could slide in. When we
|opened that stone, embalming fluid and rot was all you could
|smell. I tried so hard to hold my breath while in there but to no
|avail. Gagged the rest of the day. Felt so bad too because
|there was a family visiting a different niche about 20 ft away
|and I'm crawling out of this thing gagging and wretching.
|There's no real way to describe that smell but it gives you a
|sense of impending doom whenever it's smelled. Probably because
|we're all gonna be there one day.
|u/FN-1701AgentGodzilla - 1 month
|
|It still smelled after how long? 😭
|u/tuckerx78 - 1 month
|
|Death triggers something primal in us. Deeper than monkey brain, down
|into lizard brain. My friend cut her ponytail off and lit it on fire
|like a viking funeral. For some reason, the smell of burning hair
|made me panic and bolt. Like my instincts told me something was wrong
|and I was going to be the next thing burnt.
|u/anu26 - 1 month
|
|I am so sorry for your loss and what you had to go through. Sending
|you love.
|u/Inner-Light-75 - 1 month
|
|They say humans smell the worst of any animal when they decompose....
|My condolences on your loss.
|u/ragiwutz - 1 month
|
|Maybe just for us humans, because it could mean danger. Maybe a cat
|thinks a dead cat is the worst smell ever. My condolences for the
|original commenter, too.
|u/Powellballs - 1 month
|
|I can still smell my dad! Memory smells are burned into the brain
|u/where_is_the_cheese - 1 month
|
|A chest freezer that was padlocked shut and had been unplugged for
|years. No one knows for sure how old it is because there was no one
|still around from it's time. We didn't know if it was empty or had
|stuff in it. Finally decided to get rid of it. As soon as we cut the
|padlock we heard a hissing sound and we all started retching. It coated
|our tongues. It violated us. We retreated and regrouped. When someone
|worked up the courage to actually open it, we found a whole world
|growing in that freezer. The only thing we could recognize was the
|plastic weave of a potato bag. Everything else was just goop. Edit: To
|those asking why we opened it. It was Pandora's fucking box. We
|couldn't not open it. Also you're required to remove the door or the
|city won't take it.
|u/derezo - 1 month
|
|Rotten potatoes was the worst for me -- they can also be deadly.
|There's a story from a few years ago of a young girl who lost her
|whole family to rotten potatoes. The father went to the root cellar
|and never returned, the mother went to check on him, then one of
|their sons, and while waiting for the emergency response the
|grandmother couldn't wait and went down as well.
|u/dunaan - 1 month
|
|They say no one ever returns from Mr. Potato Head’s lair
|u/my_4_cents - 1 month
|
|It rubs the potato on its skin Or else it never leaves the
|cellar again
|u/throwaway74329857 - 1 month
|
|CEASE.
|u/PrincessPunkinPie - 1 month
|
|Fuck you lmao
|u/RatSlacks - 1 month
|
|No one escapes the pomme de TERROR!
|u/texaspretzel - 1 month
|
|Got my first whiff of rotting potatoes the other day, smells like
|broken/decomposing teeth. And that’s the smell I thought of when I
|read the post.
|u/cytherian - 1 month
|
|Yeah like a really toxic case of halitosis (bad breath). At my
|mother's house, she had a bunch of vases with live flowers in
|them. One of them had very murky water and the thick flower
|stalks weren't looking good. I went to change out the water and
|when dumping it I got a heady whiff... and it was awful. I nearly
|wretched. Putrid stank. Like the worst bad breath you could
|imagine.
|u/Helpful-Assistance-4 - 1 month
|
|How do you know what they smell like (the teeth)
|u/texaspretzel - 1 month
|
|I worked at a vet office for my first job. Dental days were
|smelly.
|u/Alltheprettydresses - 1 month
|
|I found a bag of rotten potatoes on top of my fridge. Fishy sickly
|smelling and crawling with maggots. I picked up the bag to toss it,
|and a parade of maggots crawled down my arm. I couldn't soak my
|arm fast enough. Maggots equal dead and rot for me, and the one
|summer I worked for the local parks department cleaning up trash,
|dog poop, and occasional road kill, I gave up rice. Dang disco
|rice. 😖🤢
|u/sanderslabus - 1 month
|
|"Disco rice"... here's my upvote for I'm keeping that expression
|u/cassienebula - 1 month
|
|thats enough reddit for today lol
|u/godlyfrog - 1 month
|
|[This
|one?](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/14/girl-8-orphaned-
|after-gas-from-rotting-potatoes-killed-her-entire-
|family_n_7360976.html)
|u/Dr_Eugene_Porter - 1 month
|
|I like how you phrase it as a question, as if there's possibly
|another, different story about a father dying of poisonous potato
|gas followed by the mother, son, and grandmother in that order.
|u/the-realTfiz - 1 month
|
|Of course it’s Russia
|u/wow_plants - 1 month
|
|Oof, yup. I worked at a supermarket for a few years and there were
|a few weeks where we had a bad batch of potatoes come through. Just
|bag after bag of fishy, sweet, rot. We learned after the second
|one to just dump any of them that came through without even
|bothering to open it to check.
|u/KleineFjord - 1 month
|
|I once found a cooler full of human diarrhea that had been sitting
|for months in a storage unit over the summer and rotten potatoes is
|*still* the worst smell i have ever encountered. I'm only a little
|surprised it could be lethal. 
|u/No-Philosophy5461 - 1 month
|
|In the future if anything that was meant to refrigerate or contain
|something and it's sealed shut and unplugged... probably best to just
|leave it be.
|u/cpd222 - 1 month
|
|>What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a
|warning about danger. >The danger is unleashed only if you
|substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best
|shunned and left uninhabited.
|u/DouchecraftCarrier - 1 month
|
|For anyone wondering, this is a message that is placed on
|radioactive waste sites in various languages and pictograms to
|ward people off for eons to come. The idea being if anyone
|stumbles across it in 4000 years they won't accidentally open a
|bunch of radioactive trash and hurt anyone. Which makes OPs
|quoting of it here all the more hilarious.
|u/randynumbergenerator - 1 month
|
|Is this the one where they first tried to come up with non-
|language ways of communicating the danger, since the site would
|be radioactive for millennia and they wanted to ensure
|comprehension of the danger even if all our major languages
|were no longer spoken? That was an interesting one. They
|thought about making the site itself scary-looking with
|intimidating architecture, but realized that might just make
|people more interested in exploring it.
|u/CrayonEyes - 1 month
|
|The designers of [Onkalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkal
|o_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository) spent nuclear fuel
|repository in Finland ultimately decided that there will be
|no language or other symbols to indicate the dangers deep
|underground. When it is filled they plan to seal it up,
|destroy all above ground structures, cover the remnants with
|spoil from the excavation, and let the whole site become wild
|and forgotten to history.
|u/zobbyblob - 1 month
|
|But if you found it a nice pictogram surely would help
|before you open nuclear waste.
|u/Schonke - 1 month
|
|Problem is, how do you guarantee it will be understood
|the way we meant it? How do you even know living beings
|in 4000 years will comprehend pictograms even similarly
|to us? Even today there's sometimes blunders made such
|as making advertisements which are supposed to read left
|to right for a place with right to left reading order.
|If you've got a pictogram showing someone opening the
|disposal site, getting sick and dieing, what happens if
|the people opening it read the opposite direction? Or
|maybe not linear at all. You risk making it much more
|enticing to future excavators; it's not like we heeded
|Egyptian warnings about pharaoh's curse on their old
|tombs.
|u/Krasmaniandevil - 1 month
|
|They also thought about breeding cats that glow in the
|presence of radiation and spreading myths about that being a
|sign of danger. Not even joking.
|u/Montanamomad_pdx - 1 month
|
|What??? Yes
|u/throwaway74329857 - 1 month
|
|This has got to be some post-WWII or Cold War shit. It's on
|the same line of thought as MK Ultra
|u/SIR_VELOCIRAPTOR - 1 month
|
|Correct! There are also some 'out there' ideas, such as a
|"nuclear priesthood" or bio-engineering glow-in-the-dark cats
|and creating a culture or mythos around them.
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEqzt36JEM
|https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/
|u/javerthugo - 1 month
|
|The irony is if I know human nature the first thought they’ll
|have is “damn! There must be something really valuable here for
|them to protect it like this! These warning signs are clearly
|just lies to make us turn back!
|u/xTwin101 - 1 month
|
|Funny enough this is the premise to One Piece
|u/-CuriousityBot- - 1 month
|
|I know it's not intended to be a poem but if anyone sees this,
|the full quote is my favourite piece of short, poem-like
|writing and I highly recommend it if you want to feel a shiver
|up your spine.
|u/russau - 1 month
|
|That was a great read! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-
|term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
|u/BrassWhale - 1 month
|
|One of their other ideas was to breed cats that changed colors
|on the presence of radiation, and then write a bunch of
|myths/stories/songs about how the color changing cats could
|sense danger and were friends to humans, to try to get that
|enshrined in culture.
|u/pinkthreadedwrist - 1 month
|
|What could have EVER been in there that could possibly convince you
|that you needed to open it??? Shit like that should never, ever be
|opened again unless there is hard evidence of something REALLY
|important or expensive or something.
|u/mason_savoy71 - 1 month
|
|I had the joy of experiencing a chest freezer with a gorilla carcass
|for a primate anatomy lab (gorilla died of natural causes FWIW). The
|freezer had an alarm on it l, but it failed late Friday evening
|before a 3 day weekend. By Tuesday morning, it was...well imagine
|what a rotting gorilla smells like and then realize that you can't
|actually imagine something that wretched.
|u/ZJims09 - 1 month
|
|Saw a video of a small grocery store that shut down suddenly. The
|power went out and after a while the town demanded it be cleaned up.
|The smell of hundreds of pounds of rotting meat and vegetables was so
|bad. Everyone needed hazmat suits to go inside.
|u/zorggalacticus - 1 month
|
|We looted an abandoned grocery store when I was a teenager. We knew
|the people who ran it. The old man and his wife had both died in a
|car accident. 6 months later, everything was still in there. No
|family came to claim it. They were gonna bulldoze the old store.
|Had it taped off and everything. Well the window wasn't locked and
|we climbed in there and made off with I don't know how many cases
|of beer, cigarettes, liquor bottles. Dry goods like chips and
|canned food. Candy, sodas, you name it. My friend's dad had an old
|barn with a loft he let him use as a clubhouse and we had that loft
|STOCKED. There were chest freezers where they kept the ice cream. I
|knew better than to mess with those. One friend wasn't so smart. He
|opened the chest freezer and the smell was horrendous. They tore
|that building down without ever going inside to check out the
|smell. Nobody ever found out we had taken the stuff, or even cared
|for that matter. We lived like kings that summer, but that smell is
|burned into my brain forever.
|u/mtv2002 - 1 month
|
|I remember reading about the "Katrina fridges" they were so bad that
|they were just sealed shut and hauled to the curbs. I can't imagine
|that smell...
|u/Maezymable - 1 month
|
|This happened to me but with frozen food and cheese. My husband and
|I were in our first place together and it was a remodeled room
|attached to the garage in a shared house. The garage had the freezer.
|I got out of the shower one day and my husband looked at me and said
|“is that you?” And I said “what?” And then I started to smell what
|was the most horrendous mix of trash, death, and mold all at once
|coming through our vents. Someone had opened it and my husband and I
|literally came out gagging… me still in a towel. To this day I’m
|like “remember that one time you asked if the worst smell you’d ever
|experienced in your life was me getting out of the shower?” and he
|always says “I just couldn’t make sense of what was happening!”😂
|u/grungebob_scarepants - 1 month
|
|Mine’s similar. Back in high school, I was helping my then-boyfriend
|clean out his grandpa’s house. His grandpa had dementia and was
|starting to really decline. He had this freezer in his garage that
|had evidently been unplugged for a very long time. We thought it was
|empty, but when we went to open it, we were hit with a wave of the
|most rancid rotten meat smell you could possibly imagine. My
|boyfriend (who’d been the one to open it) leaped off to the side and
|immediately started retching. A bunch of meat had been sitting in
|that unplugged freezer for god knows how long. I’m so glad I only
|caught a brief whiff before my boyfriend slammed the door shut again.
|u/yeetintong - 1 month
|
|When I went to use my toaster and quickly realized my cat peed in it.
|Hands down, 45 years later I have never smelled anything worse than
|burnt cat pee. And, yes, the toaster was never used again.
|u/Resident_Home - 1 month
|
|…omfg
|u/Dedj_McDedjson - 1 month
|
|"Blessed are the pee-makers, for they shall be called
|Yaargeroffoutofityarbastard" - old Cat proverb.
|u/LeonardaOfQuirm - 1 month
|
|GNU Terry Pratchett!
|u/robotfarmer71 - 1 month
|
|The number of times that I was so angry at my cat for pissing
|somewhere that I was going to throw her against the wall until
|she was dead dead dead (I never once did though). And then the
|day I actually did have to kill her (kidney failure, put to
|rest at the vets) I cried like a little girl. My son had to
|drive me home while I held her in her favourite blanket close
|to my chest. Right now I’m in my Man Cave and she’s buried just
|outside the side door. I should go visit her. 🙁 And yes….my
|Man Shack still smells a little like cat piss. Gawd that stuff
|is awful. 🤢
|u/texaschair - 1 month
|
|It's buried in it's own concrete vault at Hanford. The NRC didn't
|want it contaminating the radioactive waste.
|u/_koalaparade - 1 month
|
|My (at the time) 4 year old was sleep walking once and used the
|bathroom in our gas fireplace, and I was woken up at 2am by the smoke
|alarm and the most horrendous smell I’ve ever experienced, like
|unreal. I literally can’t imagine how bad cat urine must have been,
|seeing as it’s awful just in its normal form
|u/Kent_Doggy_Geezer - 1 month
|
|I can’t imagine how big your gas fireplace is if it’s got its own
|bathroom, our fireplace had a little shelf above and a little bit
|of wooden trim below. Yours is huge!
|u/Hot-Ability7086 - 1 month
|
|My older brother is an asshole. He would urinate in the vents of
|our house. The smell when the heat was turned on was UNREAL. He
|also pissed in the houseplants.
|u/True-Fig7135 - 1 month
|
|Holy shit, I had a classmate that told me that her now ex
|couldn’t hop off of the game to use the bathroom and started
|pissin in the vents so he can stay in the game.. then once
|winter came around they had to remove SO MUCH because the piss
|just marinated into the system.. he was not 5 but 20 years old
|u/NickGavis - 1 month
|
|Whatttt the fuck is wrong with people Jesus Christ Imao.
|Every time I have some shit going on in my life or am having
|a bad day I just open Reddit and within 10 seconds I’m
|instantly reminded of how much better my life is than most of
|these people lol. It blows my mind that a 20 year old does
|that
|u/pgabrielfreak - 1 month
|
| I'd had to have gone to jail for this one.
|u/Unusual-Caregiver-30 - 1 month
|
|He could have taken an empty milk carton or something. What
|a lunkhead.
|u/ThumbsUp2323 - 1 month
|
|Thank you.
|u/junk-trunk - 1 month
|
|shit. I picked a really drunk friend up ine nighyt (, I mean
|REALLY DRUNK friend up) brought her home and put her in the spare
|room heard a noise about a half hour later in the kitchen. this
|bissshhh was pissing in the stove!! had the door open bent over
|with her piss cannon pointing into the oven, straight peeing IN the
|stove. almost choked her out. pushed her in the bathroom and put
|her back in bed after she was done. cleaned up the oven and went
|back to bed lmaoo
|u/Failgan - 1 month
|
|Oh fuck, you just reminded me of the time my friend peed on the
|heated exhaust of our work truck. We'd driven about 2-3 hours out to
|cut grass at an industrial property. His brother would sprinkle it to
|be silly, a little hiss sound pop and I'd groan, but the bad smell
|would evaporate after a couple minutes. Nah. This MFer doused it in
|urine as soon as we rolled up on site. I'm assuming he emptied his
|entire bladder on the damn thing. Our truck smelled like his burnt
|piss the whole drive back. He would laugh and gag while I just
|stewed. Bastard.
|u/nullhed - 1 month
|
|I worked with a driver that would fart in the truck and laugh about
|it. It got old fast. I ended up getting a squirt gun, I'd hit him
|in the face with it and correct him like a cat. It worked.
|u/misterfuss - 1 month
|
|My brother would fart when he was driving and before I smelled
|it, he would ask “do you smell something electrical burning?” I
|would sniff deeply until I realized he had ripped one. He was
|even more evil because he would engage the child lock on the
|passenger window so I couldn’t get fresh air.
|u/Late_Breath_2227 - 1 month
|
|My ex would do that, but he would say, "i smell popcorn".
|Which of course, would make my nose curious and id inhale big
|what just came out of his ass. Disgusting.
|u/NickGavis - 1 month
|
|Lol how many times did he get you with that until you wised
|up? It couldn’t have been more than once or twice hahaha
|u/9volts - 1 month
|
|I'm going to use this to deescalate conflicts in the workplace
|from now on. Thank you.
|u/Hot-Ability7086 - 1 month
|
|I used a spray bottle on my kids as teenagers. It was very
|effective
|u/GaryWestSide - 1 month
|
|I will never start stuff like this with even my best friends, once
|someone does that to me they sure as hell getting something 10x
|worse back and the cycle will continue.
|u/SirWEM - 1 month
|
|This cycle is how my history teacher found every thing on his
|desk superglued down. He had previously superglued another
|teachers coffee cup down as a prank. Then things escalated. Lol
|u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo - 1 month
|
|That was our favorite pastime in one of my H.S. classes. My
|buddies and I would super glue quarters to the floor in the
|hallway. We would sit in class and watch all the kids walk past
|and try to pick them up. It honestly was the highlight of my
|day.
|u/Sword1781 - 1 month
|
|Cat peed on the stove top when I was a teenager. Worst smell ever.
|Can't even describe it. Would rather wear an angry skunk as a hat
|than smell that again.
|u/boomgoesthevegemite - 1 month
|
|Had a cat do that too. It ran underneath the stovetop and no one
|noticed. It was a terrible smell and we couldn’t figure out why
|until we caught her doing it again.
|u/LycheeEyeballs - 1 month
|
|Ugh, my childhood cat peed in our stove element when we forgot to put
|him outside to go out to dinner. We were gone for 3 hours tops the
|overdramatic asshole. You couldn't use the stove/oven at all after
|that and nothing would clean the smell out. Any part of it heating up
|would make that hot, burnt cat piss smell. Ended up having the
|replace the entire thing ultimately.
|u/LovelyBones17 - 1 month
|
|I have a similar toaster story but it was a still alive mouse .. 🤢
|u/jim653 - 1 month
|
|A friend of mine found a dead mouse in the bottom of their toaster.
|He didn't know how long it had been there for, but they'd
|definitely been toasting bread over its body for days at least.
|u/wavelengthsandshit - 1 month
|
|Same here but it was in the kitchenette in our school offices.
|Coworker went to make toast and we ended up evacuating the school.
|u/mightgrey - 1 month
|
|Aww poor guy :(
|u/felixthecat_nyc - 1 month
|
|Had one of those — well, formerly. I couldn't find where the smell
|of rotting mouse was coming from during summertime. Turns out it
|was under the kitchen door. Wadded up paper towel and threw it
|out in the kitchen garbage. Made the serious error (especially
|considering a hot, humid summer, of neglecting to immediately throw
|out the garbage. Not for a few days. Dead things smell bad!
|u/uber765 - 1 month
|
|That reminds me of when I threw a raw chicken breast in the trash
|after it landed on the floor. Then we went on vacation for a
|week. Came back to the worst rotting meat smell I have ever had
|the displeasure of smelling.
|u/Carpetkillerrr - 1 month
|
|I have had to seam carpet with cat urine and holy shit the smell of
|cat piss steam is awful
|u/Allfunandgaymes - 1 month
|
|Eww, cat pee smell is bad enough! It's probably cause cat pee is very
|high in ammonia (or produces a lot as it degrades) and combusting
|ammonia produces a lot of noxious gases that likely don't smell good.
|u/Spud788 - 1 month
|
|I once cut through some floorboards inside of a built in wardrobe
|during a renovation job and it produced a weird amount of creamy
|smoke that smelt so bad we all had to leave the property because
|everyone was gagging. It turns out the previous owners cats had been
|pissing inside of the wardrobe and the floorboards had soaked up god
|knows how many years of rotten cat piss.
|u/Bushtuckapenguin - 1 month
|
|We had a client who owned a labrador. We had last seen it a month
|before for an open wound/cancer mass that she wasn't taking care of
|because of budget issues. It was raging summer, it died Saturday
|morning and she 'couldnt say goodbye.' We were closed on Sunday, on
|Tuesday afternoon she brought this rotting dog that spent four summer
|days dead on her couch in an apartment building. She towed it through
|the front door in one of those red kids wagons on a busy afternoon
|with other clients gagging and rushing out. She asked for paw and
|nose prints. Oh god. Oh god. A week later bought in three puppies
|she couldn't afford. A month later they were dumped at her elderly
|mother's house. Good times.
|u/Ry113 - 1 month
|
|Man I went over to this girl's house one time and her dog was
|sleeping on the couch like usual. I sat next to her to pet her (the
|dog) and found out she was cold and not breathing. I asked my
|friend if her dog was alright, and she said she had passed away the
|day before and she wasn't ready to part yet. I was sad as well but
|that was the last time I went over there
|u/shpecialkay - 1 month
|
|The fact that she still invited you over knowing her dog was dead
|on the couch is so crazy.
|u/Ry113 - 1 month
|
|Couldn't do the nasty on that couch ever again
|u/licensed2creep - 1 month
|
|I beg your finest fucking pardon…wtf‽ My dog is like a living
|breathing piece of my soul, I adore her, but I cannot imagine her
|dying and just letting her cold body hang out in the house, on
|the couch. And especially not with a guest coming over.
|u/prettypeonie13 - 1 month
|
|My cat died in my arms and I was absolutely a sobbing wreck. I
|did spend some time with him bc I was upset, but I had been
|saying goodbye to him for awhile. My ex came home from work and
|drove us to the vet so I could take care of his body. I wrapped
|him up in a pretty scarf to take him to the vet, and
|surrendering him to the vet was very emotional. I'm getting
|emotional typing this out. Leaving him on the couch? And
|having friends over? Are you kidding me? That's inSANE
|u/9volts - 1 month
|
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|u/bettyknockers786 - 1 month
|
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|u/cytherian - 1 month
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|Dangers of wandering around Reddit subs!
|u/JulietKiloNovember - 1 month
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|The sad truth is too many stupid pet owners shouldn’t be allowed to
|have pets, much less drive or procreate.
|u/WompWompIt - 1 month
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|I worked at a vets office .. dead of summer, Virginia Beach, VA. A
|woman comes in with a puppy and her 10 year old son. The puppy is
|dead. There are maggots coming out of his mouth and ears and eyes.
|She tells me that they went on vacation and he must have knocked
|over his water bowl. She wants the vet to tell her kid that the
|dog is dead. *She wants the vet to do it for free.*
|u/tat_got - 1 month
|
|Definitely not as bad as this, but my first shift working reception
|at an animal hospital there was a DOA. Obese bulldog DOA from heat
|related issues. Was a 100+ humid Texas day and the dog had been
|left outside. After the owner had made decisions on after care she
|notified us that her dad and husband were coming to say goodbye. We
|made the mistake of assuming that meant they were actually coming
|on their way. No. One showed up an hour later and one showed up
|three hours later. Then they spent an hour saying goodbye. This
|dog stank up the whole entire hospital and waiting area. It
|defecated on itself as everything started to relax. It released so
|much gas. And the woman wanted to stay in the room with him the
|whole entire time! You could still smell him the next morning.
|u/sunshinenorcas - 1 month
|
|I was covering intake at a shelter once and we had a guy with a box
|come in, looking for cremation services. Normally we tell people to
|leave the animal in the car and we'll handle it, but he had slipped
|past the front door. So we do the paperwork, I'm telling them how
|sorry I am, and I come over to take the box with the dog. And like,
|I had done the paperwork, I *knew* this was a 60lb dog but I kept
|seeing the box and being like, nah, that's not that bad I can get
|that. So I pick it up, it's much heavier then I thought so I'm
|struggling to readjust it while also dropping it in front of these
|grieving clients. And as I'm readjusting my grip, I'm close enough
|to realize that this dog has been gone *awhile* and I got a faceful
|of the smell. So yeah, I'm trying to not drop the box, not retch,
|and not let my facial features betray 'oh fuck that's heavy' and
|'oh fuck he's stinky' and be like, professional and shit. I waited
|til they were gone and then I went and found a fucking cart for
|that guy
|u/raspberriijam - 1 month
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|Anal gland juices already smell way too bad for me. I’ve got a good
|stomach, but when someone’s dog gets off my lap and my clothes/the
|blanket/whatever surface smells like fish… I will throw tf up. I
|cannot FATHOM an infection smell added into it.
|u/killing-me-softly - 1 month
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|I scared my dog once, long story short, I had to throw away my rug
|u/cpd222 - 1 month
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|I initially read that as "had to throw away my dog"
|u/oh2Shea - 1 month
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|When I read it, I thought the guy shit the rug, and it was so
|awful, he terrified the dog.
|u/michymcmouse - 1 month
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|It's better than what I read. I first saw "I screwed my dog
|once"
|u/Vapingrandma8465 - 1 month
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|My husband recently scared our dog and I threw up cleaning it off
|the wall.
|u/Mekare13 - 1 month
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|Damn, your husband should have cleaned it since he caused it!!
|Lol!
|u/Vapingrandma8465 - 1 month
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|Normally agreed, but he also got sprayed and hopped in the
|shower, and we have little ones I was worried might bump into
|it or touch it.
|u/Mekare13 - 1 month
|
|Oh I get that, I have a kid too and have def cleaned up my
|fair share of messes! I’m just glad you got it out of your
|house, good lord that sounds horrendous.
|u/Vapingrandma8465 - 1 month
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|Thank you! It took A LOT of scrubbing, but smell is gone.
|Truly horrendous!
|u/cheerfulsarcasm - 1 month
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|If you even get a single pin-sized drop of that nasty anal fish
|juice on your clothes you will smell it all day. My brother’s tiny
|pug used to do it now and then and it was the most foul thing in
|the entire world
|u/Winkfield - 1 month
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|Exactly why I pay to have it done! Just even when it gets close to
|time and she starts with a stink, I almost puke!
|u/Shyanne_wyoming_ - 1 month
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|One of my dogs will let her ass leak at random (it’s like twice a
|year) and we’ve had to throw away dog beds because of it💀 the smell
|literally gives me an instant headache and I want to throw up
|u/thisisntinstagram - 1 month
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|Our dog has chronic anal gland problems… I love him so much, but
|I’d rather walk into traffic than deal with the smell ever again.
|u/Lou_Scannon - 1 month
|
|Who's got a link to that famous Reddit story about the surgeons who
|had to clean a heroin addicts anus? Edit: me, I have it. [here is
|the famous story of the Swamps of
|Dagobah](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/ntUnlKgzcc)
|u/Major_T_Pain - 1 month
|
|*TWELVE YEARS AGO!?* Holy shit I'm old.
|u/aldodoeswork - 1 month
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|I totally forgot about that one.. it’s up there with poop knife
|u/RebbyXP - 1 month
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|Don't forget the coconut fucker
|u/ResponsibleRatio - 1 month
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|And the guy with two broken arms.
|u/Loving6thGear - 1 month
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|And That guy's wife.
|u/Jehoel_DK - 1 month
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|And the Jolly Rancher
|u/RottenWon - 1 month
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|Damn, that was a good read. So gross. 🤢
|u/BiasedLibrary - 1 month
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|That had my rapt attention while reading. I'm glad the worst smell
|I've ever smelled was a rotting pike that had washed up on the
|shore, because the stench in that OR would haunt me.
|u/Sexy_gastric_husband - 1 month
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|The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread.
|u/the_real_eel - 1 month
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|Nothing I read on the remainder of this thread will compare, in my
|mind, to what that scene must have smelled like.
|u/Jehoel_DK - 1 month
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|One of my favorite stories. That woman has a way with words.
|u/mlkrygs - 1 month
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|Whenever that comment gets linked I re-read it. Never gets old or
|less traumatic.
|u/Bighawklittlehawk - 1 month
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|One time I picked up my dog when I answered the door when someone
|knocked. It wasn’t until after I closed the door and set her down
|that I realized her anal glands has squirted putrid green fluid all
|over my shirt and the lady at the door most definitely saw it and
|said nothing. Nothing, NOTHING compares to that smell. I couldn’t get
|off my hands, my stomach, my nose. Oh god, the humanity
|u/VanGoghPro - 1 month
|
|Why does my 70lb lab not take care of hers herself?? We have to have
|the vet do it. It’s literally a puddle every time with nail trims.
|The vet tried to teach me how to do it but the dog and I were equally
|horrified. I cannot and I don’t know how you do. Did I mention I’m a
|nurse? And still hard no.
|u/Sliffy - 1 month
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|Every time I’ve had a vet offer to show me how to do it, I’ve just
|laughed and said it’s one thing I’m happy to pay for.
|u/VanGoghPro - 1 month
|
|I’ll never forget the look my dog gave me while I was grasping
|her booty hole. I give all the credit where credit is due to vets
|and all the staff included in this process.
|u/queenlagherta - 1 month
|
|When I was a teenager I decided I wanted to help dogs at the
|shelter. They immediately put me on give the dogs bath duty. The
|vet showed me how to do it. That was my first and last day. Fuck
|that.
|u/TelephoneBusy9594 - 1 month
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|Do it from outside and squeeze upward and out.
|u/Szwejkowski - 1 month
|
|My vet had to express my ferret's anal glands once. He did it super
|quick, reversed his glove over the cotton, reversed his other glove
|over that, knotted and binned super fast. Did not help. Stank out
|the whole surgury. When I got home I had to put all my clothes in the
|wash and take a shower to try to get the stank out of my hair. Holy
|hell the anus is an angry, vengeful place.
|u/MrsBooteh - 1 month
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|I accidentally pressed one while washing my dog and it splashed in my
|face - it is def one of the worst things I’ve smelled
|u/thisisntinstagram - 1 month
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|How do you accidentally press an anal gland? I’ve tried to express
|our dog’s glands on purpose and it’s no easy feat…
|u/scribblinkitten - 1 month
|
|A veterinarian I once worked with emptied my cat’s anal glands and
|managed to shoot the fluid into her own eye. She had to go to urgent
|treatment for that. Her eye was a mess for at least a week. My cat
|had a reputation the rest of her life of having an ass that could put
|your eyes out.
|u/livelikealesbian - 1 month
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|Similarly, I had a patient with an anal fistula so stool was leaking
|into their tissues and became infected. We got like a liter of pus
|and stool out. The surgery resident almost threw up.
|u/Peaches_En_Regalia_ - 1 month
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|We would say, “Zooey (dog), did you just bust an ass capsule”???
|Usually would happen in the bed spread. I miss that dog.
|u/Wendy-Windbag - 1 month
|
|Working as a vet tech, one Friday morning we had a client that had
|scheduled a euthanasia for her senior dog. On the way out of the
|clinic, she swung by the front desk and mentioned to us that her
|other senior dog happened to have passed away at home that morning,
|and wanted to know if she could bring it in to utilize our cremation
|services. I assured her that, yes we could help her, and to come back
|by that day and we'd take care of it. During our few hours in the
|afternoon where we had lunch breaks and scheduled surgery time, she
|came back to the office and explained to me that her dog had been
|about 50-60lbs and she needed help getting him from the car. I was
|covering the front while our doc and another tech were in surgery,
|and everyone else had gone out to lunch, so I was on my own. I walked
|with her through the parking lot, and as I started to approach the
|back doors of her sedan, the lady told me he was in the trunk. I
|braced myself for the smell of old dog as she popped the hatch, but
|nothing could have prepared me for what the reality was... This was
|JULY, in FLORIDA, and when the trunk opened I was blasted with a bomb
|of decay, old dog, and FLIES. There are hundreds of giant maggots
|crawling everywhere on the corpse, and large flies just buzzing
|about. I was too in shock to vomit, and wanted to put on a polite and
|professional face for this old lady that lost her dog. Obviously DAYS
|ago. I explained that I would need some help with this and ran back
|into the clinic, unsure if I could get this out of her trunk in one
|piece. Still no one available. I have a quick breathless run down to
|our vet, and he laughed at me and said "Good luck!" (You have to have
|a dark sense of humor for this work.) The assisting tech in surgery
|recommended using our stretcher which never got utilized much, so I
|went and grabbed that and some sheets. Back at the vehicle I had to
|apologize to the lady explaining that I'd be covering up the dog to
|transport it, and I quickly trying to roll it up to get it out in one
|piece and onto the flat board. Even with the extra towels and sheets,
|the fluids and goo were still seeping through and dripping through
|the mesh of the stretcher. Honestly she didn't seem distraught nor
|disturbed by this whole thing. She knew the situation. Grief,
|finances, physical limitations can be a bitch to have to navigate,
|and having to perform such a service for a senior is sometimes
|necessary, but her lies and careless demeanor after leaving it in the
|trunk in the hot summer heat... it was almost enough disgust to
|overcome my physical discomfort and revoltion.
|u/Lame_usernames_left - 1 month
|
|I worked in a PetSmart grooming salon as a bather when I was in
|college. Never even had to deal with pus, but can confirm anal glands
|(among some other animal scents) only warrant yeeting the clothes.
|The day I quit, I threw everything away down to the work sneakers lol
|u/paulabear203 - 1 month
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|I had dachshunds and would express their glands in the bathtub at
|home. I have never smelled anything so bad in my life.
|u/GoAwayIDontLoveU - 1 month
|
|I used to work at a vet clinic and the vet was expressing anal glands
|while chitchatting with the staff and a bit of anal gland juice
|squirted past his hand, past the towel, and right into his open
|mouth. The look of horror on his face when he realized what happened
|is ingrained in my mind.
|u/afuckincannoli - 1 month
|
|As a dog groomer people would ask me to express the glands too and it
|really is a smell that permeates anything it touches :-) absolutely
|foul :-)
|u/ViagraAndSweatpants - 1 month
|
|Ugh yeah, I was a vet assistant in high school. Anal glands are god
|awful. But once the vet was cauterizing an ear tumor and that shit
|was also hideous.
|u/DudeHeadAwesome - 1 month
|
|Oh God, my old senior dog had anal gland issues. Never in my life
|have I smelt something worse, it's was like this thick viscous odor,
|I swear you could feel it in your mouth and nose. If it got on a
|blanket or shirt straight to the washer immediately!!!!!
|u/HeyItsJuls - 1 month
|
|It’s my dog. Hi. We’re the problem. It’s us. To be fair, our dog has
|never had hers get infected. But she doesn’t properly expel them the
|way a normal dog would when she poops. We even have her on a special
|vet-recommended high fiber food, which really helps. But we still
|have to get them expelled when she gets groomed. Otherwise she will
|try to do it herself. That is a stink like no other. I can smell it
|just thinking about it. This awful metallic smell that’s so bad you
|can taste it. We use nature’s miracle to get it out of everything -
|the carpet, clothes, blankets. It works so well. But honestly her
|poopin food and regular expulsions are the real hero.
|u/Wetworkzhill - 1 month
|
|So when I was deployed to Iraq in ‘03 I got a cyst near where my
|throat and collarbone meet. The Dr. had to squeeze the pus out and
|when it popped it sprayed all over his glasses. Dr. was an ass so I
|was glad he got a little sent his way. Stunk so bad.
|u/fraksen - 1 month
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|I have smelled this and my dog rolled in it. For two weeks every
|chance she could get she would run straight to it and roll in it.
|u/TilmanR - 1 month
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|Death penalty right there.
|u/Send-Gnomes - 1 month
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|Infected sacral ulcer.
|u/Electrical-Hall5437 - 1 month
|
|I think I fought one of those in Elden Ring
|u/Send-Gnomes - 1 month
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|I'd believe it.
|u/toasty-toes - 1 month
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|Crazy, thats exactly what i thought when i read it.
|u/TwinsiesBlue - 1 month
|
|For the uninitiated here is a link to some Reddit lore [The Swamps of
|Dagobah](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/IJyspmSEeQ) a classic
|u/szabiy - 1 month
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|The War And Peace of healthcare anecdotes.
|u/no-stray-damas - 1 month
|
|I had just about forgotten… I was interning in the VA in Houston and
|was lucky enough to be on rounds for a cleaning of a new patient
|brought in from a nursing home. The infection was halfway up this
|poor man’s back The resident massaged about 2 cups of pus out
|of the open ulcer.
|u/_perl_ - 1 month
|
|In nursing school, I was assigned to take care of a patient who had
|one of these that was the size of a basketball. It was the only time
|I called in "sick" to clinicals. Poor dude. I ultimately became a
|psych NP. "How does that giant infected decubitus ulcer make you
|*feel?* Cause I ain't touching it. Someone please call an actual
|nurse."
|u/hailthenecrowizard - 1 month
|
|Sounds like a sick goregrind song 🤘
|u/saintvermin - 1 month
|
|Was about to comment on how it sounded like an early carcass song 😂
|u/Time-Post85 - 1 month
|
|Pilonidal cysts have been the most painful thing I've ever felt, the
|most relieving when they burst but by anything you want to swear on
|the bloody puss that runs down your leg smells worse than death. I've
|worked in care homes, looked after ulcers, dealt with gangrene but a
|pilonidal cyst is the most offensive smell I've experienced. I've had
|two personally and would never with it on anyone!
|u/trwwyco - 1 month
|
|Yep. Got the tiniest bit of it on my pants at the urgent care and
|had to throw the pants away. Only worse pain so far is kidney
|stones.
|u/Time-Post85 - 1 month
|
|I was lucky, both times I just went on all fours in the bath. as
|it exploded I felt sick relief I'm sure my partner thought I
|came. Small and feels awfulbut the relief of pain and swelling
|was the best feeling. I was surprised it was just puss and
|bloodx I thought it may have had a wiggling demon flop out.
|Luckily I didn't get the sliced ass looking scared, just a dimple
|for me, both times
|u/zorggalacticus - 1 month
|
|I had one, and it burst in the waiting room at our local express
|care. Instant relief, followed by the most godawful smell. Suddenly
|all those people in the waiting room decided their issues could
|wait and cleared out. The secretary looked like she was going to
|pass out. They cleaned it out and packed it with gauze. Couldn't
|wait to get home and change my clothes. Lol
|u/St382 - 1 month
|
|Death, especially when you notice the smell from some 4 houses away.
|Very unpleasant and a smell that you never forget, despite my best
|efforts
|u/mtrukproton - 1 month
|
|Decomposing horse while high on acid Flies had trails behind them
|like bullets from the matrix I ran away screaming Smell like the
|spirit of the grim reaper was there He hooked me by the nostrils
|(Seriously this was one of the most horrific moments of my life
|hahaha, what’s with the artsy poem crowd)
|u/CatherineConstance - 1 month
|
|I wasn't high on anything, but I live in Alaska so we occasionally
|get dead whales washed up on the beach. A couple summers ago, there
|was a HUGE one on a little beach outside of town and we went to
|look at it (as did many others). It was wild because upwind of the
|whale, you couldn't smell a thing. Downwind it was like Satan
|shitting into your mouth and nose.
|u/Dio_naea - 1 month
|
|SATAN SHITTING INTO YOUR MOUTH caught me off guard
|u/NiteGard - 1 month
|
|Came here to hear about smells only to discover a hidden cabal of
|poets. 🫡
|u/SVN7_C4YOURSELF - 1 month
|
|Crazy poetry
|u/mtrukproton - 1 month
|
|Sir I write the truth only
|u/Dio_naea - 1 month
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|You make the truth horrifyingly beautiful
|u/mtrukproton - 1 month
|
|Thank you That’s very kind
|u/evo-1999 - 1 month
|
|Was out on my family’s farm with my buddy - we were in high school
|- maybe 11 or 12th grade. It was late fall and we were scouting
|spots to deer hunt later on in the season. It was still relatively
|hot out still. We caught a whiff of something walking through one
|of the pastures. A horrid sweet but rotten smell and decided to
|investigate. There was a small outcropping of trees up on the top
|of the hill from where we were and it seemed as though that’s where
|the smell was coming from. As we got to the edge of the wood line
|the smell got really bad. There was a small ravine down about 10
|feet and there were two very large dead cows down there. The smell
|was horrible. I stepped in to the woods to get a better view and
|lost my footing. I slid down the embankment and into one of the
|cows. It was almost liquid and full of maggots. I basically just
|went through it. It was bad.. I puked, stripped off my clothes
|and rinsed off in the pond… when I told my parents what happened
|they sent me to the Dr. and put me on preventative antibiotics. By
|far the worst experience and smell.. Second was a dead whale on
|the beach, but that’s a distant second…
|u/Terrible_Choice4151 - 1 month
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|That would give me mf ptsd... holy crap.
|u/mtrukproton - 1 month
|
|Had it for about a month Anytime any meat was cooking in the
|oven I could smell that smell The smelly smell Was turned
|temporarily vegetarian lol
|u/Denmoe2024 - 1 month
|
|While we were hiking my dog found a dead horse and thought it would
|be a good idea to climb inside and roll around in the rotting guts.
|She slept outside for a month getting baths every other day.
|u/wholesomechaos111 - 1 month
|
|Cleaned out the room of a suicide victim (I do junk removal and it
|can be dark sometimes) and the stained bed where he shot himself was
|haunting in stench.
|u/CatherineConstance - 1 month
|
|Thank you for the work you do. One of my best friends' BIL recently
|shot and killed himself in a car, and her (my best friend's)
|husband, the guy's brother, had to clean out the car. I cannot
|imagine having to do that as a family member and I'm so glad you do
|it for others.
|u/wholesomechaos111 - 1 month
|
|I fucking hate doing it please don't kill yourself but I will
|definitely do it if paid enough 😎👉👉
|u/PVDeviant- - 1 month
|
|There's sooooooo many little (and big) ways suicide sends
|shockwaves of hurt and pain through everyone the person knew.
|u/CatherineConstance - 1 month
|
|Right 💔 I’ve heard that in Japan, if you commit suicide by
|jumping in front of a train, your family has to pay a fine
|because not only does it delay hundreds to thousands of people
|from the train having to shut down, but it traumatizes everyone
|present too. It sucks for the families for sure, but it has
|proven effective in discouraging people from killing themselves
|in that specific way, at least.
|u/bicyclegasoline - 1 month
|
|Yes. I had to give birth a week after my baby had died, and the smell
|was something else.
|u/St382 - 1 month
|
|My sincere condolences to you
|u/bicyclegasoline - 1 month
|
|Thank you. It was a while ago now, but it was hard wanting to
|hold him but being unable to stomach the smell.
|u/Butterflyhomicide - 1 month
|
|I am so sorry for your loss. My mom lost my brother when she
|was 8.5 months along with him. I don’t think she remembers a
|smell but she gave birth to him ten days after he passed in
|utero. She said it was pure hell giving birth and not hearing
|those first cries every parent wants to hear their baby make.
|She had Polaroids of him and he looked so peaceful. Last month
|marked 35 years since it happened and it still hurts my whole
|family to this day. The loss of a child is something I’d never
|wish on anyone.
|u/EVILtheCATT - 1 month
|
|I am so sorry for your loss and the heartbreak of having to deliver
|a stillborn child. Why on earth would they make you wait a week?
|(Please forgive me if I’m prying into your business. Feel free to
|ignore my impertinence:/)
|u/throwaway74329857 - 1 month
|
|The pregnant person probably doesn't know the baby has passed the
|minute it happens, and then you have to actually schedule the
|procedure to remove the baby.
|u/Butterflyhomicide - 1 month
|
|My mom didn’t give birth to my late brother until ten days after
|he died from accidental umbilical cord asphyxiation. 😭
|u/bicyclegasoline - 1 month
|
|Not at all, I'm very open about the experience. Without turning
|it into a full essay, I found out my son had died within hours of
|it happening, on the Thursday. They sent me home to rest up, and
|we agreed that if I didn't pass him naturally, I would come back
|on the Saturday to be induced. That induction didn't work, so
|they had to give my body a 12 hour break, and try again the next
|day. That didn't work either, so there was a third attempt. That
|didn't work, and the doctor sent me home because he wanted my
|body to have a rest before we tried again. Finally on the
|Wednesday I was given a different stronger induction, and it sort
|of worked, meaning my baby was born on the Thursday morning, 3
|days before Christmas :( There is more to it, if anyone knows an
|appropriate sub to share the whole story I would be open to
|trying.
|u/lydiav59-2 - 1 month
|
|Ohhh, man, my heart truly breaks for you. I hope you had, and have
|a supportive network around you. <3
|u/Far-Possession-3328 - 1 month
|
|Worked in a nursing home for 9 years, sometimes you know before you
|open the door.
|u/afuckincannoli - 1 month
|
|Am I crazy or can you sometimes smell it before the person is even
|dead?
|u/Superb_Owl07 - 1 month
|
|It's true. My dad smelled like death days before he died. I will
|never get that smell out of my brain. I can smell it just by
|thinking about it. It haunts me...
|u/Celebrindae - 1 month
|
|There's a theory that, in non-traumatic cases, the body doesn't
|die all at once, but starts shutting down sections in the days
|preceding death. It's kind of hard to prove, but there's a lot of
|scent-based anecdotal evidence.
|u/casket_fresh - 1 month
|
|Yes. Cats can smell when someone is about to die. Theres even
|been some stories about cats in nursing homes who will go sit and
|cuddle with someone who then dies within hours
|u/foladodo - 1 month
|
|Is this really a thing? I heard doctors say it has a "smell"
|u/Safe-Comfort-29 - 1 month
|
| Vicks vapo rub to the rescue. Just a rub on your septum.
|u/FinanciallySecure9 - 1 month
|
|Yes. I’m a notary and was called to notarize for a very kind man, for
|a third time. I had to stand next to him, and I breathed in through
|my mouth. I almost puked. I help back gagging. I smelled death for
|days. He was still alive and chatty when I met with him. I can’t
|imagine he lasted much longer.
|u/MrsCDM - 1 month
|
|This is something that I don't think gets discussed enough - the
|smell of death on a person who is in the active dying phase.
|Usually when they have just days left, the smell starts, and it is
|absolutely horrible. I cared for an elderly relative for the week
|in the lead up to her death and the smell started about 3 days
|before she actually died. It's such a difficult smell to describe
|and so distinctive. The smell stuck in my nose the whole time and
|when I would go home, my husband could smell it on me, it stuck to
|my hair and clothes like cigarette smoke.
|u/AmadMuxi - 1 month
|
|I watched my great aunt die in hospice care when I was about six
|or seven years old, I’m thirty now and I can still smell it clear
|as day when I recall the memory. I smelled it again on my great
|grandmother on Christmas Day of 2018, she died in the morning on
|January 1st, 2019. It was the biggest Christmas get together that
|side of the family had in my entire adult life so far, she waited
|long enough to say “see you later” one last time to the family
|and ring in a new year.
|u/Sparrowbuck - 1 month
|
|Acetone and vomit. Sweet vomit.
|u/lcngbln - 1 month
|
|It’s a smell that you can taste at the same time. You know somethings
|wrong when you smell it. Your brain will tell you to leave the area
|you‘re currently in…
|u/Wrengull - 1 month
|
|>Your brain will tell you to leave the area you‘re currently in…
|This feeling is also something you never forget. You feel it with
|every fibre of your body. Its a primal feeling
|u/Future-Reserve-7667 - 1 month
|
|This. It's a stench you cannot get rid of. I've also experienced
|the unpleasant sound of someone jumping off a highrise building,
|landing on concrete floor. The color of the body is not something one
|can easily describe.
|u/CatherineConstance - 1 month
|
|Omg when I was little, maybe 6 or 7, my mom and I were at one of
|our local malls. This mall has an open floor plan where each floor
|is a circle around a big empty middle space. There are 5 floors,
|with the bottom one being a basement shoe store and the top one
|being the food court. If you look over the railing of the food
|court, you can look down and see the other levels, and the shoe
|store at the very bottom. On this day, my mom and I were doing
|some Christmas shopping and were having lunch in the food court. My
|mom heard what she thought were gunshots and yanked me down under
|the table. Some other people also thought the sound was gunshots
|and did the same thing, but we quickly realized it wasn't gunshots,
|it was the sound of a bunch of people hopping up out of their
|chairs at once. And then we saw the reason for that, which was that
|a woman had climbed up onto the railing and was straddling it. As
|soon as the commotion started, she swung her other leg over and
|jumped, falling five stories down to the concrete floor of the shoe
|store. She didn't scream or anything. Then, as if that wasn't
|traumatic enough for everyone, as we were all trying to leave the
|mall, the escalators all circle the open space too so we could hear
|and see what was happening, and the elevator is glass so the people
|in there could too. Just an insane thing to experience, and yeah I
|remember it like it was last week...
|u/Suitable-Career_Not - 1 month
|
|Are you describing the 5th. Ave mall in Anchorage, AK?
|u/CatherineConstance - 1 month
|
|Yep! Were you there when that happened too?
|u/CallMeTeff - 1 month
|
|Remind me of when they found my downstairs neighbor's body. I would
|describe the smell as trash bags left outside for days, but 10 times
|worst. Honestly, my husband and I actually thought it was someone who
|left their trash bags in the hallway again at first. I still feel bad
|for the dude though, because he died all alone.
|u/coolwhipisgas - 1 month
|
|yea that’s how i explained it too, when our neighbor in an
|apartment had been shot outside but bled out and was left rotting
|in his apartment for 2 weeks . i thought someone just wasn’t taking
|out their trash because it got worse everyday. it smelled kind of
|like this really old stray chihuahua my friend used to have , mixed
|with trash bags rotting in the sun. like old dog breath and rotten
|trash
|u/Fingerblastfromdpast - 1 month
|
|I can't wait to die alone and I hope I'm not discovered for awhile.
|Because I hate my upstairs neighbors.
|u/smolgods - 1 month
|
|I just choked on my drink trying not to laugh loudly and wake my
|partner omg
|u/f4ttyKathy - 1 month
|
|One of my brothers is a super-smeller (he's honestly like a dog,
|it's wild) and we were roommates for a year or so. He kept telling
|me there was a TERRIBLE smell outside, and it was driving him
|crazy. This went on for like 2 weeks in the Midwestern summer ...
|And then they found our neighbor's body a couple blocks away. I
|felt bad for not believing him, tbh :(
|u/EvilFlyingSquirrel - 1 month
|
|Never saw the body, but I smelt what remained of a diver who was
|discovered in a lake like 10 years after they went missing. The body
|was removed from the morgue a few weeks prior to that as well.
|u/ZealousidealGrass9 - 1 month
|
|Not just the smell of death that has already happened, but death that
|is soon to happen. Went through this with my mother recently. The
|last couple days of her life, when I would see her in hospice, there
|was a light scent of death that I noticed when I would enter the
|room.
|u/OldDrunkPotHead - 1 month
|
|Something dead under a bridge in Tasmania. It gave me the fears. That
|and rotten mink carcass in a crab bait cup.
|u/bumjiggy - 1 month
|
|I did body removal/transport for about a year a while back. I've
|seen, and smelled some things
|u/Basic_Passenger_7113 - 1 month
|
|Can you describe the smell? I always hear how awful a dead body
|smells but I have never heard a description. I’ve smelt dead possums
|and rodents around my house and they have a sweet type of smell
|u/dvuk99 - 1 month
|
|I don't think there is a smell that can be compared to. Here in
|Balkans there is a tradition/circumstance where when a person dies
|(especially in villages), there are things to prepare (dig a hole,
|buy a coffin, call family, wash the corpse and clothe it, call tent
|owner to prepare place for eating after burrial so you don't know
|if its a wedding or funeral from the distance) and all this usually
|takes more than 24 hours. During this time dead body is in the
|coffin, and family is there crying around. Someone is on the guard
|all the time next to it, and usually mirrors are removed from the
|room, no idea why. That's when i smell dead body rotting,
|especially if person dies in summer. Flies start coming lol. Very
|specific, and i can't even imagine bodies that are being found
|after weeks spent in the water when it gets pumped like a balloon
|and gets dark color. Very fucked up.
|u/crunchy_nut_butter - 1 month
|
|In some cultures the mirrors are removed so the soul doesn’t get
|trapped from memory. I wonder if that’s the same for you?
|u/got_knee_gas_enit - 1 month
|
|Sounds like what we'd smell from Wayne Soap rendering plant, it
|would gag a maggot. And we were working in the Sewage plant
|across from Zug Island in Detroit.
|u/Dogmycat16 - 1 month
|
|My dad described it as kind of a sweet smell too. Said once you
|smell it you never forget.
|u/heaintheavy - 1 month
|
|This may sound crazy, but it smells “electric.” It fires off so
|many parts of your brain. Think skunk, but multiplied by millions
|of years of human evolution designed to tell your reptile brain
|something is seriously wrong here.
|u/razor4432 - 1 month
|
|Does it not smell like rotting deer?
|u/Curious-Document2002 - 1 month
|
|Once upon a time I came across the corpse of a homeless man in a
|parking garage in Palm Desert. It was a 100+ degree day and he was…
|not fresh. Nowadays I can’t eat bananas, it reminds me of that
|sickly sweet smell. The other day my temp job placed me in a
|convenience store cooler stocking drinks but there was a box of
|bananas for banana bread in that cooler and I literally kept
|gagging and retching. All I can smell when I smell a ripe banana is
|dead bodies.
|u/battlerazzle01 - 1 month
|
|Metallic almost. Think the taste of blood, but in smell form. But
|also heavy decomposition. Stale but pungent? It’s unlike any smell
|that could be described accurately without you having also smelled
|it yourself. As another user said, it’s a smell that fires into the
|primal part of the brain. And it STAYS there. Just typing this, I
|can recall the smell.
|u/No-Instruction-2922 - 1 month
|
|I don’t know. It’s not comparable to anything. My neighbor died
|like 8 years ago or so. The whole staircase smelt for a long time
|when the police opened her apartment after 2 weeks of not seeing
|her outside. She laid there. For two weeks.
|u/Dio_naea - 1 month
|
|For all the people here trying to understand and explain the smell, I
|guess it's different for each person? Like, they will all smell _bad_
|but the factors involved in the body smell are many, like what the
|person used to eat, how they died, whatever they used on their skin,
|if they were diabetic or had higher blood pressure, the place where
|they died, if there was a closed room or in an open space, if they
|received sun while dead, or snow, etc. It's not exactly a pattern.
|But there is something similar, I guess?? But think like smelling a
|fart or poop, or even pee, it will be always different.
|u/AudibleNod - 1 month
|
|[Black liquor.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_liquor) It's not
|booze. It's extracted during the paper making process. It smells like
|burnt A1 steak sauce mixed with manure mixed with burnt hair mixed with
|a hundred thousand souls screaming for oblivion.
|u/samhain-kelly - 1 month
|
|A town near where I grew up had a paper mill. The stench was
|suffocating. Thanks for finally giving a name to the horror.
|u/firstnamerachel13 - 1 month
|
|God that is the absolute most awful smell ever. One of many reasons
|I'm glad I moved out of Georgia
|u/Goober-for2028 - 1 month
|
|Yes absolutely. I was working in a pulp mill doing a shut down. The
|route to the parking lot passed through this alleyway the REEKED of
|it. I had to hold my breath every time I passed through. Especially
|in the afternoon when it got hot out.
|u/WhatsYourGameTuna - 1 month
|
|There’s a paper mill in SE Washington that’s across the highway from
|a beef processing plant. We’d occasionally pass by there when I was a
|kid and the competing smells were always the low point in the trip.
|u/sideshowmario - 1 month
|
|I've had to visit Lewiston/Clarkston for work a few times. It's
|pretty bad.
|u/Danny_G_93 - 1 month
|
|West Point, Va smells like this growing up
|u/thrax_mador - 1 month
|
|I was just about to comment about this place. Worst smell ever. 
|u/nakedjig - 1 month
|
|Tacoma, WA used to be like this because of the paper mills.
|Locals called it, "The Aroma of Tacoma."
|u/foaterr - 1 month
|
|Having my nose cauterized on two separate occasions. Both were bad,
|first was worse. Doctor got a needle red hot and seared the inside of
|my nose to stop bleeding. Burnt flesh and blood don't smell great, and
|I couldn't escape it because it was inside my nose. Two to three weeks
|of smelling it every hour of every day.
|u/shiftymicrobe - 1 month
|
|There are some really fucking gross stories in this thread, but the
|sheer inescapability of your prior situation is probably the one I
|have the most sympathy for.
|u/MaulPillsap - 1 month
|
|It’s like a clockwork orange eye scene but with nostrils
|u/pschlick - 1 month
|
|When I had corrective eye surgery done I could smell them burning my
|eyes and it also was a sickly sweet burning smell. I haven’t thought
|about that smell in awhile but I guess it would be up on my list for
|one of the worst
|u/Galerider - 1 month
|
|Thank fuck that they do this with chemicals now instead of heat. That
|sounds like absolute torture.
|u/kutuup1989 - 1 month
|
|When I was about 16 or 17, I had a girlfriend who got a tampon lost in
|her by putting another one in without taking the old one out. Long
|story short, she was too embarrassed to ask her parents or a doctor
|about the smell she was experiencing, so she asked me to check what was
|going on. I sure as hell found out when I pulled out a 2 month old
|tampon that was caked in grey lord-knows-what at this point. I'm 35
|now, and to this day I have never experienced a smell as god-forsaken
|as that thing. I'm pretty sure that thing could have stripped the
|fresco off the Sistine Chapel. It physically \*burned\* to smell. Eyes,
|nose, everything. Our existence in that moment was just an inferno of
|pestilence that would have made Satan's own ballsack after months of
|whipping the damned without a shower smell like roses. Thankfully, she
|didn't suffer any lasting effects, because that could have gotten SO
|MUCH worse if we hadn't found it when we did :S
|u/Paratwa - 1 month
|
|Was somehow expecting a “ and we’ve been married for 20 years” at the
|end. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
|u/kutuup1989 - 1 month
|
|Haha nope, we broke up about a year later. Haven't heard from her
|since XD
|u/Hephf - 1 month
|
|Same here. 🤣
|u/bettamomma_zero - 1 month
|
|Same
|u/creaturefeature16 - 1 month
|
|"And that kids, was how I met your mother"
|u/Former-Finish4653 - 1 month
|
|That’s honestly really lucky. Not for you of course. But that could
|have killed her.
|u/Pain-Born - 1 month
|
|you’re an angel because this. could. kill. someone. and could have
|gotten A LOT worse omg.
|u/ng300 - 1 month
|
|I assumed toxic shock happened within days!? ALWAYS? I didn’t know
|it was random!?
|u/Pain-Born - 1 month
|
|she is very lucky. a tampon in for 2 months is crazyyy…
|u/kutuup1989 - 1 month
|
|Well, 2 months is an estimate, she just said the smell started
|after her last period, and she was back on her period by the
|time she asked me for help, so it had been there for between 1
|and 2 months. We were pretty much kids, so we could only hang
|out at our parent's places once a week or so, so limited
|privacy and thus quite infrequent sexual activity. One of the
|few situations where it might have been beneficial for two kids
|that age to be banging like rabbits as we'd have realised what
|was up a lot sooner XD
|u/Adryen - 1 month
|
|You should be glad she trusted you enough to ask you where she didn't
|feel comfortable asking anyone else. That type of issue kept quite
|can cause septic shock and death.
|u/LandoCatrissian_ - 1 month
|
|Holy shit, how did she not suffer toxic shock syndrome?!
|u/GeorginaaSara - 1 month
|
|Kinda makes you realise how rare it is huh? I remember when I
|accidentally left a tampon in for like 15-18 hours and I went
|straight to the hospital freaking tf out thinking I was going to
|die 💀 they literally checked my temp and told me I was fine, but
|that it would be a diff story if I had left it in for a week or
|two. This kinda shit happens all the time (tampons are so easy to
|forget for ppl who was busy and have lighter periods) but bc TSS is
|such a horrid infection, we give it more plausibility than it
|deserves. Idk how this woman didn’t get it, though. That’s an
|INSANE amount of time that could have killed her easy enough
|u/bean-jee - 1 month
|
|there are other factors other than time that contribute to TSS!
|1) do you have any open wounds? this could just be a small tear,
|like when you bleed during sex, or the tear could've been created
|if you inserted the tampon while you were dry, like there wasn't
|enough blood to lubricate it and the resistance caused the tear.
|2) was the tampon clean? did it get dropped on the floor? was it
|completely sterilized in the first place, out of the package? did
|you wash your hands before inserting it? 3) vaginal microbiome;
|are you healthy? what kind of bacteria is up there? are you
|immunocompromised? 5) activities; did you go swimming in a public
|pool with it in? was bad bacteria introduced that way? were you
|active and sweating and creating a warm, moist environment to
|encourage bacterial growth? and finally, 4) length of time that
|it's up there. how long has it been stewing? the recommended 8
|hours max, or has it been 24 hours? you can get TSS after only
|having one in for 4-6 hours, if the above factors align
|appropriately. for instance, if you had a small tear, inserted
|the tampon, went swimming in a pond or ocean where there are A
|LOT of little nasty bacteria, and then left that tampon in for
|4-6 hours afterwards.... you could get TSS.
|u/Truecrimejunkie687 - 1 month
|
|2 months?!? I don’t know how she dealt with that smell for that long,
|oof.
|u/ItzBreezeyBaby - 1 month
|
|This just happened to me a few months ago. But it wasn’t that long,
|maybe a few weeks. It’s crazy because you really don’t feel it, &
|TMI, but I was taking a dump when I discovered mine. Popped right out
|& I stared at it in shock for about 5 minutes lol. I’m surprised she
|didn’t end up in the hospital
|u/slaytician - 1 month
|
|I dated a doctor and asked him what was the worst odor he’d
|encountered. It was the same; a lost tampon.
|u/FriscoHusky - 1 month
|
|Excellent word, muliebria.
|u/Miserable-Loss-6506 - 1 month
|
|Happened to me! But I was in my 20s and KNEW something was wrong it
|took three ER visits to different places, literally a different
|state, just to get anyone to even CHECK and not just say it’s cramps
|and prescribe pain meds. I actually have forgotten like a little
|ptsd there but the nurse, Dr, husband at the time and I ended up
|laughing because the Dr goes “why didn’t anyone tell me there were
|crackers in my beard?!” Guess you had to be there but it was just
|such an awkward gross out for all of us! But I was so glad it was
|over… I literally could have died! It was BLACK. The stench dude. So
|glad it was over. I had been having discharge a whole month and made
|myself sick I was so upset! Now I still wear them but I’m paranoid of
|forgetting, which I apparently did while drunk.
|u/vc-10 - 1 month
|
|My story is kind of "Swaps of Dagobah". I'm sure you've read the story,
|if not, [here you go. Please note- risky click, and the writer is much
|better at this than me.
|](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/ms0vbtTX1k) I'm a doctor. Here
|in the UK, after we graduate med school, we do two years of the
|'Foundation Program'. During this, we do rotations, each lasting 4
|months, in different areas of healthcare. My second year of this
|involved 4 months in Vascular Surgery. I did my foundation in a
|hospital which, for a tertiary service like Vascular, covered some of
|the most deprived parts of the country, with high rates of IV drug use.
|This story concerns a patient who was a homeless IV drug user. The
|patient had been injecting his drugs into his groin, because he had run
|out of other places to inject. This had result in significant infection
|around the femoral vein. This didn't initially look *too* bad, but when
|the Registrar ("Reg", a senior doctor, but not yet consultant) put
|knife to skin, everything changed. She had made an incision maybe 2cm
|long, and the smell hit us like a freight train had jumped off the West
|Coast Mainline and blasted its way through the building. The stench was
|horrific. And it kept coming. The Reg and I both stepped back, and
|gagged. And the ooze kept coming. And you know what the worst thing
|was? This was all being done under a spinal block. The patient was not
|asleep. He was completely aware of the smell too. And unlike us, he
|couldn't step away from it. It was literally oozing out of his groin.
|He had various other co-morbidities and so the Anaesthetics team had
|chosen the block rather than a general anaesthetic for safety reasons.
|Once the Reg and I had composed ourselves, which took quite a while, we
|then had to investigate this ooze. It turns out the infection was much,
|much, worse than we thought. There was around 3-400 mls of pus, which
|was encasing his femoral artery, vein, and nerve. Amazingly, the Reg
|managed remove the pus, and without too much damage to the vasculature.
|He kept the leg... During that admission. About a month later, he was
|back in the hospital. Despite all her work, he had gone back to
|injecting in that area, and had damaged the vasculature enough that he
|lost the leg. Please, don't go injecting drugs. There is help out
|there.
|u/Roborobob - 1 month
|
|Damn I never get tired of reading the swamps of dagobah. You aren't a
|bad writer at all!
|u/vc-10 - 1 month
|
|Thank you! But I'm not a patch on the descriptive prowess of
|u/banzaipanda
|u/PuttingTheBaeInBacon - 1 month
|
|I always read it also. This anecdote is pretty visceral to read
|also though
|u/ThoughtCenter87 - 1 month
|
|It's insane to me that he had what must have been a terribly painful
|infection due to injections, had to undergo surgery while awake, had
|to endure the stench of the infection, and narrowly lost his leg due
|to said infection caused by injecting into his leg... and decided to
|continue injecting into that very same leg after being discharged.
|Which led to him losing the leg. How fucking physically addictive are
|these drugs that such an experience was not enough for the man to
|want to change his habits? I understand that quitting drug use is not
|an easy process, and I'm not judging there; but it's insane to me
|that continuing to use, *especially into that same leg,* was worth
|more to him than having to undergo the same horrific experience a
|second time. Edit: somebody else brought this up, and I realize how
|terribly I screwed up this comment. It seems like I implied that he
|should be motivated to get clean after being discharged. I don't know
|why I typed this. I think I was just in shock when I wrote my comment
|initially because of how impactful the story was, but I know that's
|not how addiction works. His action of continuing to inject into the
|same leg after being discharged is still insane to me, I don't know
|why he didn't inject into the other leg. That being said, addicts go
|through hell. This man was homeless, he probably had no other outlet
|but to use. The thought of quiting in spite of his health scare
|didn't occur to him, and *that's* scary. I mainly wanted to
|highlight in my comment the shock of his extreme action in relation
|to addiction, that addiction to a substance can be so strong so as to
|cause somebody to do something so terrifyingly damaging to
|themselves. I believe we should have empathy for this man because of
|that. I am not judging the man for his addiction, but I do think an
|addiction so strong so as to cause a man to do this is worrying in
|general, and could give more awareness on how pulling addiction can
|be.
|u/def-jam - 1 month
|
|I can’t speak to this individual or drug users in general. I,
|myself, do not partake of the white or brown powders. What I can
|say is that I do not heed my doctors advise because, deep down, I
|hate myself. I am not worthy. I don’t deserve to be well, have
|happiness or enjoy things. I know and understand it is depression
|and I’m working on that but still it’s tough to shift the mind. I
|assume a lot of drug users, through trauma experienced, or even the
|uncontrollable drug use itself continue through such situations
|cause they feel the same way. And because they don’t like
|themselves they continue the behaviour. Fuxking tragic.
|u/Abbadon0666 - 1 month
|
|Hey, def-jam, my man You matter and you are worthy of the same
|things everyone else is, if not more From one depressed fucked-
|up person to another
|u/MiniRipperton - 1 month
|
|Yeah, self harm can present in a lot of different ways. I’m glad
|you’re still here, and working on it, and I hope you can get
|there one day. I believe in you so much 💜
|u/Abbadon0666 - 1 month
|
|Addiction is often just the consequence of something bigger,
|usually psychological. You can treat it, but it's no use if you
|don't remove/treat what caused it. This dude probably had a life
|that was so shitty the only relief he had was by injecting. Those
|people usually prefer death, bcs they see it as the only
|alternative to drugs or the life they hate
|u/brownguy05 - 1 month
|
|Cat puked up a dead, partially digested bird. It's the only thing to
|this day that absolutely floored me by its smell. It didn't even feel
|like a smell. It hurt so bad when I breathed it in that my whole body
|felt pain and discomfort and I swear I nearly passed out. I don't even
|know how to describe it.
|u/Shyanne_wyoming_ - 1 month
|
|My dogs got into a deer carcass that had been field dressed. So all
|that was left was the gut pile and miscellaneous meat chunks. Between
|the two of them I’m sure they ate the entire thing. The only reason I
|know that is because one vomited the gut pile back up (specifically
|on my carpet, not ever on the hard floor) over the course of a couple
|days and the other way sprayed deer gut diarrhea all over my basement
|for the same amount of time. Oh yeah, this was also 2 days before my
|husbands entire family was coming to stay with us for thanksgiving.
|But the smell. The smell made me want to burn the house down. Even
|the smell of field dressing a deer makes me nauseous, but the
|contents of deer guts being consumed and thrown up by my dog was next
|level. The shit was somehow worse. Or the time my dog ate horse
|shit and pine needles and drank swamp water then threw that
|diabolical soup up in my house. I think I hate owning dogs💀
|u/poop-buttass - 1 month
|
|"diabolical soup" is fuckin killing me, I can't even handle normal
|dog vomit so I empathize lmfao
|u/Shyanne_wyoming_ - 1 month
|
|I still can’t wrap my head around why she would eat that
|concoction. Especially considering she had to go to three
|separate locations on my property to consume it all. I get upset
|thinking about it. My dog turned into that scene from the
|exorcist. But worse.
|u/poop-buttass - 1 month
|
|Dogs love stinky shit (literally and figuratively) and they
|will just eat it lmao, I had a big ole lab that used to love
|cat box turds. So fucking disgusting lol
|u/BobsleddingToMyGrave - 1 month
|
|2018 Break room Microwave popcorn fire. It melted the microwave into a
|black puddle, embedded into the counter. The smell stuck to
|everything. All the employees' coats and bags were ruined. They
|stripped the room down to the metal studs and bare floor. Even after
|the rebuild, it still smells today. New employees, upon first entering
|the breakroom, will comment, " Oh, someone burned some popcorn." 1.
|Who out there trusts the " popcorn" button on the microwave?
|Apparently, Suzanne. 2. Who walks away from the microwave when making
|popcorn? That would be Suzanne. 3. Who throws water on a totally
|flame engulfed microwave containing microwave popcorn? If you
|guessed Suzanne, you would be correct. 4. After the fire was put out,
|who thought spraying the whole store with Lysol would get rid of the
|smell ? That would be Lisa, but she would cook fish in the
|microwave, so we all hated her before that. Don't be like Suzanne.
|u/CJpro123 - 1 month
|
|SUZANNE STARTED THE FIRE!!!
|u/Brodellsky - 1 month
|
|IT WASN'T BURNING, 'TIL (the) TABLE WAS TURNING
|u/Sexy_gastric_husband - 1 month
|
|Ffs how long do you need to put popcorn in the microwave for it to
|burst into flame? A bag of popcorn needs like, 2 minutes tops.
|u/Shyanne_wyoming_ - 1 month
|
|One time my niece (12 at the time) was making popcorn and something
|malfunctioned because after 30 seconds the bag exploded and caught
|fire lmfao
|u/BobsleddingToMyGrave - 1 month
|
|3:18 for my microwave
|u/HandToDikCombat - 1 month
|
|Suzanne is a run-of-the-mill idiot, but fuck Lisa for microwaving
|fish, people like that deserve to be slapped with a claw hammer.
|u/Gullible-Bluejay9737 - 1 month
|
|Old Protein Shaker Cups hands down.
|u/TraynReck - 1 month
|
|I don't know why this struck me like this but I am having a
|hysterical laughing fit. I had forgotten all about that particular
|smell, it's been decades. Thanks for the memories.
|u/Shyanne_wyoming_ - 1 month
|
|I forgot one in my car one time for a couple days but I knew I’d hate
|myself if I opened it so I just threw it away. Same when I found a
|bottle half full of breast milk that my daughter had chucked under my
|bed and I didn’t find for a few weeks at least. Straight to the
|trash, there’s no salvaging that.
|u/RRoadRollerDaa - 1 month
|
|That thing stink even after 1 day lol, smell like vomit 🤮
|u/Chronic_Sharter - 1 month
|
|Tough to say the most awful… but a few that were pretty bad and at top
|of list: 1) burnt human flesh 2) GI bleed 3) Cdif 4) gangrene 5)
|infected wounds in general 6) my wife’s farts
|u/Big_Seaworthiness440 - 1 month
|
|Chronic Sharter putting his wife on blast pretty rich.
|u/UnifiedQuantumField - 1 month
|
|>Chronic Sharter For a sec, I thought it said chronic shatter...
|and I was like "That doesn't smell bad"
|u/ChowFunn - 1 month
|
|interesting and physics-y username sir!
|u/aetuf - 1 month
|
|Listing medical odors and not putting head and neck squamous cell
|cancer at #1 is a mistake. I'll tend to a burn patient for an hour
|and crave barbecue. But H/N SCC is a putrid stank that cannot be
|forgotten.
|u/Financial_Neck832 - 1 month
|
|I was looking for this. My FIL passed away from squamous cell
|head/neck cancer. The right side of his face and neck began rotting
|away until he died. Whenever he breathed, it pushed the rotting
|flesh odor out of his mouth/face. Controlling my gag reflex while
|keeping a smile on my face around him was incredibly difficult.
|No amount of candles or room spray will disguise the smell. In
|fact, I can't stand the smell of glade candles anymore. As soon as
|I smell them, it triggers a gag reflex. I'm hoping in time that
|will stop. Sad, sad, sad way to go.
|u/One-Combination6816 - 1 month
|
|Yeah, one of the worst smells was my poor cat when he developed
|cancer in his mouth and jaw. He actually lived for several months
|after that diagnosis. He did okay in spite of things, up until his
|last few days... RIP, Buster BadCat...
|u/Outrageous_Picture39 - 1 month
|
|*Raises a glass to Buster*
|u/Girlinawomansbody - 1 month
|
|Why specifically head and neck squamous cells? 🤔 my sister had
|cervical cancer and said she hated the way she smelt before being
|diagnosed. Trachelectomy later and she’s never smelt it again. Must
|have been the cancer smell…
|u/tader314 - 1 month
|
|Probably fits into your #5 but the smell of bed sores make me gag,
|more so than a decomposed body (I work at a funeral home)
|u/Wenuwayker - 1 month
|
|Combine 2-5 and you've got the description for Yankee Candle's newest
|scent, SNF Lobby Sunrise.
|u/manchlad1 - 1 month
|
|I also choose this guys wife's farts
|u/oblivious_tabby - 1 month
|
|Gangrene is awful. A historic site near me was used as a hospital
|during the Civil War. They had old surgical instruments and all that
|jazz. But to really make it “immersive” they also had a scent
|machines that could pump in the smell of gangrene. So. Gross. 🤢 You
|know how fancy hotel lobbies smell like jasmine and white tea? Well,
|this was same idea but opposite.
|u/Natashaxxiii - 1 month
|
|C.diff is accurate!
|u/ConcertFar7057 - 1 month
|
|Pretty sure my boyfriend would rate my farts as #1. It’s not my
|fault that I love dairy but it doesn’t love me back .
|u/Island_Maximum - 1 month
|
|This front desk guy at work.  He dressed fine, but smelt of rotting
|canola. If you've ever smelled rotting canola you'd know it.  It was
|so bad that it was like an oily film that clung to everything. I once
|made the mistake of sitting in his chair and it got on my clothes. It
|was like "the beast" from Seinfeld. Had to wash my clothes repeatedly.
| Thankfully he got fired for stealing. We threw out the chair.
|u/battlerazzle01 - 1 month
|
|Worked at an auto parts store for near a decade. We had one driver
|who, he himself didn’t smell bad, but the company vehicle assigned to
|him was disgusting. The cars were detailed, his was the only one to
|get a “deep clean” and it still never got rid of the smell. A year
|dyer leaving the job, I’m working at a salvage yard. Get sent out to
|pull seats from a car. I opened the door and immediately realized
|where the car came from. Had to make the boss come out to the yard
|and explain that there is no amount of detailing and air freshener
|that will fix these seats. He opened the door and went “holy fuck”
|and shut the door immediately.
|u/Midnight1899 - 1 month
|
|What did he find?
|u/battlerazzle01 - 1 month
|
|Just the odor. He still had me pull the seat to “try” to clean
|it. 5 hours on one seat. Nothing would get rid of the smell.
|u/DJ_Osama_Spin_Laden - 1 month
|
|I've had the exact same experience, word for word, even down to the
|shit story. He smelled like he rubbed raw onions and concentrated
|ball sweat over his skin every morning. And the "heat" thing... I
|know exactly what you mean. I'd involuntarily exhale all the air in
|my lungs if I walked into a room he'd just been in, like a reverse
|gasp. And the shits were just... indescribable. I described his
|stench as a violent amount of body odor, plus feces coated in
|sweat.
|u/TailwindsFoxy - 1 month
|
|Oh man we have a girl at my work like this. She very clearly does
|not bathe and she will wear the same clothes for a week straight.
|This Monday she came in wearing shorts with clear poo stains in the
|crack of the butt. We aren’t allowed to say anything even to HR or
|management because the company considers complaining about
|someone’s smell to be harassment and bullying and we will get a
|write up for it. My coworkers have all been trying to find ways to
|work around it but we are stuck on a production line and are very
|limited on options.
|u/lost_creole - 1 month
|
|And imposing a horrid body odor on others wouldn't be harassment
|too ? I get it's her body, her choice but that stops when it
|reaches others' bodies/choices, as in this case, others' noses.
|u/gayashyuck - 1 month
|
|Man that's like so far gone she's basically self harming.
|Depression is a beast, I know, but on god I would outright kill
|myself before I would even contemplate wearing unwashed clothes
|caked in literal shit, never mind leaving the house and
|attending work in that state!
|u/snoopervisor - 1 month
|
|> We aren’t allowed to say anything even to HR or management
|because the company considers complaining about someone’s smell
|to be harassment and bullying and we will get a write up for it.
|We had a guy, working for a contractor, who worked in the same
|area of the premises, we did. He smelled like shit. I heard
|coworkers complaining they had to hold their breath when walking
|past him. I went to the manager and they got rid of the guy
|(after a talk to his supervisor). We know people stink. But that
|guy was just dirty. We had a social room with common food etc.
|Anyone could contract salmonella from that guy, or hepatitis, or
|something else. Also, his work required visiting the same areas
|as our customers. Very bad for our image.
|u/DJ_Osama_Spin_Laden - 1 month
|
|I've never heard the description of "rotten canola smell," but I know
|exactly what you're talking about. I always described the smell like
|someone had spilled old frying oil on themselves. I think it happens
|when someone fries a lot of food (with old oil) indoors and doesn't
|vent their home properly, combined with inadequate bathing and
|laundry detergent use. The smell sticks to skin and fabric like
|cigarette smoke, and it gets to a point where it's pretty much
|impossible to get rid of. I once tutored a kid whose whole family
|smelled this way, plus some other occasionally weird smells. Their
|stench would linger in the room for the rest of the day.
|u/Perchance_to_Scheme - 1 month
|
|The smell of old, rank BO, dirty hair/unwashed dreads, weed smell
|(fresh and stale) and patchouli oil is a smell I encountered
|regularly in Portland and Seattle. I don't care if you smoke weed in
|your free time, but Jesus Christ don't inflict that awful skunk smell
|on your barber. And take a fucking shower, patchouli oil is not a
|substitute for a shower or deodorant.
|u/Alltheprettydresses - 1 month
|
|1. My friend married a woman whose hygiene practices are... not good.
|Always beautifully dressed, but she smells like onion and burnt oil.
|She's a hugger and has soaked my clothes with BO. I have no idea how
|to tell her... 2. I was behind severely obese family at the zoo.
|It was summer, and they were beet red, sweaty, and struggling to
|walk. The super sweet and yeasty haze that came off of them made me
|wretch.
|u/malkaviantrash - 1 month
|
|We have a sanitation worker at my job, very nice older woman who is
|chatty and likes to hear about your day. But for the life of me,
|there are some days I cannot stand the smell emanating from her. It's
|like a mix of "toe cheese" meets piss meets rotten fruit. I feel so
|bad since she's so nice, but sometimes I have to walk away from the
|area that she's cleaning in just so I don't gag. I asked our other
|regular sanitation worker if it's coming from part of her job, but
|nope, she apparently shows up just smelling that terrible.
|u/catbritches - 1 month
|
|There was a manager at my first job that smelled like vomit. Human
|vomit, all the time, every day. It was eye watering and unbearable. I
|still wonder what was going on with that guy.
|u/MontStuart - 1 month
|
|Burning rat piss. It’s not even close
|u/cheems_samurai - 1 month
|
|I have so many questions
|u/SadWatercress7219 - 1 month
|
|Rat pee is disgusting. The only worse pee I have smelled is horse
|pee, there is just so much of it and it is so concentrated
|u/Saint-Caligula - 1 month
|
|Architect here with a very keen sense of smell. I designed a few crime
|labs and Coroner's office. I was doing my first one in New Orleans and
|was taking a tour of a neighboring cities facilities. Being surrounded
|by water, New Orleans has a lot of "floaters" (body in the water that
|rises to the surface due to the gas buildup in the corpse. Which is why
|if you want a body to stay down you need to wrap it in chicken wire. As
|the body expands the chicken. Wire will cut into the skin and release
|the gas, keeping the body at the bottom of the lake or bayou of your
|choosing) that will pop up after a a few days to a week. As you can
|imagine a body in a Louisiana swamp in the summer for a few days
|doesn't smell to good . To combat the terrible smell we will design a
|building within a building that has a separate hvac system etc. This
|particular facility had a "floater" room with walls that were concrete
|12" thick . They informed me the found someone that had been in the
|water for at least 3 weeks that was really bad so we wouldn't be going
|in that room. As we were walking by it and someone came out of that
|room just as I was near it . The smell that came out of that room
|knocked me onto the floor literally. I've smelled death before and it's
|never pleasant but this was straight out of the devils anus. I started
|retching uncontrollably as I was now on the ground and completely
|disoriented. Covered in vomitous bile I was able to remove myself from
|the hallway. To this day the smell will come back to me and will make
|me gag at random times and this was 12 years ago.
|u/Tattycakes - 1 month
|
|Thanks for the body disposal tips yo
|u/PhilnotPete - 1 month
|
|Right? I was reading along and went oh OK, good to know LOL.
|u/scarytesla - 1 month
|
|I’ve looked into a burial at sea rather than traditional
|funeral/cremation, and the chicken wire thing is exactly what is
|done with the body. So OP’s knowledge is probably from that (I’m
|also an architect and chances are pretty low that there’s TWO
|serial killer architects in this thread)
|u/Glass-Fan111 - 1 month
|
|Amazing story with that particular horrendous smell. Tips for serial
|killers included.
|u/Inside-Departure4238 - 1 month
|
|As a hobbyist creative fiction writer I'd like to thank you for this
|highly specific information that I would probably never find anywhere
|else
|u/Wolf_instincts - 1 month
|
|I'd also like to thank you for this highly specific but important
|information. No I am not a creative fiction writer, why do you ask?
|u/Dragon_0562 - 1 month
|
|There's a reason all ME's offices have a bottle of Peppermint Oil
|somewhere in there. it's the only smell that will cut decomp.
|u/Norm_L_HughMan - 1 month
|
|I did biohazard waste removal at a hospital, it all smelled like dead
|bodies (some of it was body parts) but the worst one, the one that
|still lingers in the nose when i remember it, was the placenta bin. On
|the maternity ward, all placenta go in one bin. It only takes a day or
|2 for the placenta bin to stink to high heaven!
|u/smitteh - 1 month
|
|Work in hospital laundry, wait until u get that placenta smell mixed
|with all different kinds of diarrhea shit smells with puke blood piss
|all combined together in the cart that collects the dirty laundry at
|the bottom of the soiled linen chute
|u/spleenliverbladder - 1 month
|
|What would warrant disposing of any sort of hospital linens or
|gowns? If somebody dies in a gown do you just wash it and keep it
|in circulation?
|u/smitteh - 1 month
|
|Yup it all gets washed and used over and over. For example a
|washcloth, which is primarily used to clean out someone's poopy
|butthole lasts a lifecycle of 4 turns in the wash before it's
|tossed and replaced with new. Each item lasts different lengths
|of times. Anything stained that the wash can't remove the stain
|gets tossed right away tho
|u/texaschair - 1 month
|
|My sister gave birth to her youngest at a hospital in Busan,
|ROK. The gown they gave her looked like someone had been
|machine-gunned in it. Old bloodstains and holes everywhere. My
|mom was there to help out, and they both busted up in
|hysterical laughter and couldn't stop for 10 minutes. The staff
|couldn't figure out what was so funny, since none of them spoke
|English. To my sister it was just another day of South Korea
|clusterfucks.
|u/viciousxvee - 1 month
|
|I'm a nurse and I don't even know the answer. ETA: I don't think
|I wana know the answer either.
|u/zorggalacticus - 1 month
|
|I worked in a linen service as a sorter. I had to sort that laundry
|after it sat in a hot truck for several days. You get used to the
|smell after a while, but it sticks to you. I'd go to cash my check
|at the bank on Friday and there'd be a large gap between me and
|those next in line. Lol
|u/No-Illustrator799 - 1 month
|
|tonsil stones 😵‍💫🤢
|u/Dinklemania - 1 month
|
|They leave a bad taste in your mouth too...not that I'm eating them -
|I'm prone to getting tonsil stones and I know I'm about to cough one
|up when I get this rotten metallic taste in my mouth.
|u/ChampionshipSea3733 - 1 month
|
|I have a tonsil stone removal kit to clean my tonsils out. It's
|pretty gross but once I knew they were there I couldn't stand the
|idea of leaving them and waiting to choke them up
|u/Baystaz - 1 month
|
|Genuinely curious how this works. I can never see mine and always
|caught off guard when I hack them up. Its rare for me to get
|them, but I can tell when they’re forming, just can’t see them.
|u/ChampionshipSea3733 - 1 month
|
|Your tonsils have little pockets or holes in them. Food
|collects in there. If you squeeze your tonsils with two q tips
|they'll just start popping out. Or just put pressure on it with
|a single q tip. Whichever works.
|u/Jazzlike-View7789 - 1 month
|
|I once took a small bottle of salty Water from the Sea in Croatia.
|After 2 months I opened it and it smelled horrible, I’m still haunted
|by the smell. Anyways I just kept it to let it ripe more. When some
|wants to fuck around with me, I’ll simply put a few drops of them on
|their car or their chair
|u/Orion_824 - 1 month
|
|sir, i’m fairly sure the geneva convention defines that as a category
|1 chemical weapon, and i would like some for similar deterrence
|purposes
|u/Xelid47 - 1 month
|
|Oh shit I have water from the red sea in a sealed fanta bottle that I
|lost in my old house storage many years ago Fuck
|u/agent_x_75228 - 1 month
|
|Rotten hot fish. My wife decided to throw away an entire fish and
|thought it wouldn't smell if she just wrapped it in a bag and put it in
|the trash bin outside where it stayed in the bin for a week in 100
|degree heat. Opened the bin to an overwhelming rotten fish smell. It
|was sooooo bad. I ended up replacing the entire bin.
|u/my_cement_butthead - 1 month
|
|If something is off we put it in a bag and in the freezer u til
|rubbish night. We all know not to try and defrost anything in a bag.
|Ewww
|u/pschlick - 1 month
|
|I feel like an idiot because I never thought to just freeze it
|until garbage day..
|u/chimbybobimby - 1 month
|
|In no particular order: * GI Bleed in a C.Diff patient (IYKYK) * A
|melting week old corpse in an attic apartment in August * My dog after
|he found a dead chicken sitting on top of a clutch of rotten eggs * My
|dog after coyotes dug up the pig carcass I had buried 6 months earlier
|(he found it before I did) * The aftermath when someone with decaying
|necfasc legs shat tube feed shit and barfed tube feed barf all over
|themselves
|u/Roborobob - 1 month
|
|You sound like you have an interesting life
|u/tricky-mickey - 1 month
|
|GI bleed and c.diff is an evil combination. I am blessed with a poor
|sense of smell but my worst is dead gut. Ischemic bowel, just rotting
|away and slowly getting sloughed off with stool (and eventually added
|GI bleed to that mix). I don’t know how to describe it, it was just
|rotten.
|u/Tattycakes - 1 month
|
|Poor chicken ☹️🐔🥚
|u/Federal-Effective470 - 1 month
|
|Healthcare worker Worst smells; C.Diff is definitely up there in
|horrendous smelling, but I would go with stomach acid being worse
|Feeding a person through a peg feed can cause some issue. Once a
|patient hiccuped while we were clearing a tube and stomach bile came up
|the tube, that’s a smell I’ll never forget
|u/Brushiluskan - 1 month
|
|i've cleaned some puke and bile in my days, and i swear that i can
|smell the difference between "regular" puke and that of stomach flu.
|i don't have much a problem cleaning puke from somebody who's not
|i'll, but if i sense that flu-smell, i'll refuse it completely.
|u/littlearmadilloo - 1 month
|
|i am med lab person. im so glad that we get to work with the c diff
|poos under a ventilation hood that's blocked off from our faces and
|stuff. every now and then i will actually get a whiff of a poo we are
|processing and i want to cry
|u/imlikleymistaken - 1 month
|
|We placed a G tube for decompression on a guy that had a bowel
|obstruction caused by Cx. His stomach was distended like the worst
|case of ascites you ever saw. When we dilated to 22 French, we got a
|geyser of feces and bile. It's the worst case I ever worked in terms
|of gross factor. A nurse I was working with said, "Wait until you get
|a pt that is vomiting that same fluid up and try to have an appetite
|before next month."
|u/National_Progress417 - 1 month
|
|I was walking to work one day, back when I was around 19-20, on the
|way, there was a small patch of woods, that, if I cut through, it would
|take about 20 mins off of my walk. I was running late, so I went in.
|About halfway through, I smelled it. Death. I looked around and in the
|brush, off of the path, I saw a big black trash bag. I stepped closer
|to it, and it's definitely where the smell was coming from. I grabbed a
|stick and was about to try to open it, but then thought that if it was
|a person, especially not an adult, I would lose my mind. Knowing I had
|to walk past the police station on my way, I figured I'd stop in and
|report it. Immediately, I got a sense that they just didn't care. Told
|'em everything anyway. I didn't walk home that night, so I didn't know
|what the deal was. If anyone had gone to check it out or not. But I
|thought about it all night. The next on my way, I entered the woods
|again, and the smell was stronger. Found the bag again and decided I
|had to open it. Grabbed the same stick I had the day before and hooked
|the bag, and lifted. It tore open, and a thick liquid of mush and
|maggots poured out. WARNING! IT'S NOT PLEASANT! READ ON AT YOUR OWN
|RISK!! I puked. Almost passed out from the stench. When I
|recovered, I took a closer look. It was a bag full of kittens, and what
|I assumed was the mom cat. I didn't go to work that day. I went home
|and hung out with my 3 cats all night.
|u/samplethejams - 1 month
|
|This one's fucking bad 👎 uh uh
|u/Wiplazh - 1 month
|
|That's so fucking sad, how could someone do that
|u/TraynReck - 1 month
|
|Ouch. I just went from laughing at some posts and now crying. That
|experience would have bent my mind in half.
|u/tired_soup - 1 month
|
|there’s two for me. a dead body and during clinical hours when I was
|still in emt school there was this very obese lady that wouldn’t stop
|urinating on her self so we had to go in to change her bed sheets. the
|smell in the room was a mixture of piss, grey rotting skin, very musty
|vag and the sweaty smell of a thousand old gym bags. all crammed into a
|tiny er room. the kicker was when she had to roll on her side so we can
|pull the clean sheets down her bare ass was in my face and she let a
|very wet fart rip right on me.
|u/Sexy_gastric_husband - 1 month
|
|I'm sure there are some people who pay good money for that.
|u/Chinggis_H_Christ - 1 month
|
|That is horrendous! Hilarious story, but god I feel for you 😅
|u/Glass-Fan111 - 1 month
|
|Man, this story sound like movie Seven. Or even worse.
|u/tdasnowman - 1 month
|
|A line man working on lines near my office got electrocuted and died.
|The smell was intense ozone and bbq. It was horrible because I was
|really hungry all day. I mean wen't and got a rib plate for lunch. I
|felt so bad.
|u/Roborobob - 1 month
|
|Yeah I see people saying human flesh is a bad smell and like.... its
|really not it smells like bacon. Its just the knowledge of what it is
|that makes it awful...... Ok you can put me on a list now
|u/tdasnowman - 1 month
|
|People are called long pig for a reason. We are the other white
|meat.
|u/Ahtotheahtothenonono - 1 month
|
|My husband and I went for a walk in the neighborhood and smelled
|something strange in the air. We were like “does it smell like
|bacon?” Cue the turn of the head to the crematorium that’s just
|casually next to the boba shop. It wasn’t a bad smell but knowing
|where it came from made it that much more uncomfortable.
|u/xcoalminerscanaryx - 1 month
|
|Soldiers have told stories of their mouths watering while human
|bodies burned around them.
|u/texaschair - 1 month
|
|Napoleon once said that burning enemy corpses smelled good.
|I'll take his word for it.
|u/Terrible_Choice4151 - 1 month
|
|During my days as a nursing assistant, this one old lady's vagina.
|Holy friggin cow.
|u/djjerz - 1 month
|
|Infection
|u/Terrible_Choice4151 - 1 month
|
|Very well could've been. She had MS... and she was in the severe
|stages... her husband mainly took care of her, and I was only there
|like once a week while he went out to do stuff... He might not
|have been cleaning her bits properly enough... he was a very
|stinkin' sweet husband, though, and that was a lot for any partner
|to cope with... I was like 18, so I wasn't aware enough to realize
|there was probably an infection, unfortunately... I just thought
|maybe some old people had a really strong smell down there😅
|u/ComprehensivePeak943 - 1 month
|
|So he was stinkin too, guess it ran in the fam.
|u/green_dinos - 1 month
|
|My mom told me a story about her first nursing rotation. An elderly
|woman had inserted a large potato into her vagina to hold in her
|vaginal/uterine prolapse. She came in with sepsis and ultimately
|died, can’t imagine the smell.
|u/galaapplehound - 1 month
|
|I don't know that this has never happened but I've seen it written
|so many times I swear its gotta be an urban legend at this point.
|u/happycowboypillows - 1 month
|
|There are so many urban legends in nursing. Every nurse knows
|someone who has seen this situation or has seen this situation
|themselves. So it’s either an urban legend or surprisingly
|common for old ladies to stick a potato up their snatch.
|u/raspberriijam - 1 month
|
|No. I’ve always wondered if theres a bad stench at that age, but
|never wanted to know for sure. No thanks.
|u/pinkthreadedwrist - 1 month
|
|I don’t think it would smell really different as long as it's
|healthy. Infected vaginas are rank though.
|u/ejsandstrom - 1 month
|
|A rendering plant. Did you ever think about what happens to dead farm
|animals? They can’t just dig a hole. So they send them to a rendering
|plant. The animals sit in the back of a semi for days or more. Then
|they are processed into all kinds of dog food and other products. It is
|kind of neat to see them remove the hide from cows. They say that if
|a new hire returns for the 2nd day, they will stick around. Most quit
|after the first day.
|u/will2learn64 - 1 month
|
|My worst smell is getting stuck behind one of those trucks in
|90-degree heat. To make it worse, I was driving a dump truck on a 2
|lane highway, so there was no way to pass it.
|u/SageJoe - 1 month
|
|Yeah, I’ve been to farmer John co. over here in Vernon ca. The smell
|of death and bacteria filled pus was overwhelming. And don’t get me
|started on the la river that was right next to it. I’m glad to say
|that it’s no longer there but I’m not sure who took it over.
|u/Havingfun922 - 1 month
|
|The truck that picks up the meat scraps from the butcher on a hot
|summer day. It is the smell of death and pure rot.
|u/shastabh - 1 month
|
|The 9/11 recovery site. I volunteered to help after it happened. I
|can still smell it and the sound of the emergency beacons still haunts
|me. Also, fuck The United Way. Assholes showed up when the cameras
|were around and left when they weren’t.
|u/texaschair - 1 month
|
|Sounds about typical for United Way. Self-promotion above all else.
|u/shastabh - 1 month
|
|I can’t stand them. My job was basically a runner between rescue
|operations. Shuffling in water bottles, bringing i n food or ppe,
|or clothing/donations. Every site had food trucks set up and for
|the most part organizations like the Salvation Army and Red Cross
|were there 24/7. We’d know cameras were coming because the
|United way truck would roll in, cut people off and position
|themselves in front of everyone. As soon as the cameras left, they
|stopped what they were doing and race to the next spot. The
|rookies would be shocked that they either never got their food or
|never got to order while the people that had seen it before just
|refused to go to them. Pretty soon nobody went to then so they
|started bringing in their staff to fill in as customers. Fuck them
|u/javerthugo - 1 month
|
|So the Salvation Army was helpful? I donate to them sometimes
|and I want to make sure they’re actually helping
|u/shastabh - 1 month
|
|Oh yeah Salvation Army and Red Cross/crescent are awesome!
|They were in the trenches feeding our boys and girls when the
|cameras were gone.
|u/Ok_Bodybuilder_4488 - 1 month
|
|Found a body a couple summers back. Dude died in his duplex unit 2
|months prior, found him in the Middle of August, he had no AC and only
|an electric fan on him. He was partially mummified, partially
|liquefied, he literally strained through his mattress and into the
|floorboards. That smell stuck with me for about 4 months.
|u/yeuzinips - 1 month
|
|I've read at least a dozen of these so far and I can't believe they
|keep getting worse!
|u/Mister-Spook - 1 month
|
|A full-thickness (I could see his hip joint) decubitus ulcer infected
|with pseudomonas.
|u/LenaTea - 1 month
|
|Similar thing happened to my aunt who used to live with us because
|she couldn't take care of herself at all anymore. That decubitus was
|an absolute nightmare to keep clean as it was right at the tailbone,
|and shit would literally get in there all the time. Easily the worst
|smell I've ever had to deal with and you would smell it throughout
|the entire house for several weeks.
|u/CorInHell - 1 month
|
|Once had a patient with a decubitus ulcer on his coccyx. Down to the
|coccyx. He was on sedation in the icu for something different, and
|they brought him out of it for cleaning out the ulcer. He screamed
|all the way from his bed until the nurse emptied the fentanyl and
|propofol syringes. That was a wild one.
|u/Existien - 1 month
|
|I work in food whole sale logistics. On this particuliar evening there
|was an emergency and i had to drive to the logistics hub and tend to a
|loading myself. The Laury diver was from a shipping company from Berlin
|(this took place in germany). When i saw the diver from from a
|distance of 50 feet i was suddenly struck by a baseball bat on the head
|- full force. At least it felt like that... I was severely
|disorientated. The smell was indescribable. I wish - WISH - it would
|have been shit or vomit. In fact i would have loved that - compared to
|what was actually going on. I can only conclude that this Laury driver
|was dying - but He seemed ok. I did not administer first aid or
|something like that. The smell was that of a rotten corpse. I just
|signed vaguely to the pallets that he had to load and gagged
|approximatley 200 times (no joke). I can only assume that the was
|riddled with cysts and abcesses that likely were decades old on some of
|them were open or something like that. When he was done i found
|approximatley 50 maggots at the ramp He was loading... I gag thinking
|about it. The intensity Was on a poetic scale - it was literaly
|somehow about life and death.
|u/pinkthreadedwrist - 1 month
|
|A PERSON smelled like that and left maggots??? They needed an
|ambulance, wtf.
|u/Separate-Audience-68 - 1 month
|
|Bacterial vaginosis 🤮
|u/InappropriateGirl - 1 month
|
|Yeah that's bad. I had it once and for some reason it smelled like
|burning tires to me.
|u/D1RT_NASTY_ - 1 month
|
|Habitual smoker wearing the same military uniform for weeks without
|washing.
|u/waitedforg0d0t - 1 month
|
|the grease trap at the pub I worked at 20 years ago that I had to clean
|when it clogged up
|u/Complikatee - 1 month
|
|Grease traps that aren't cleaned regularly smell like actual shit.
|u/WesternOne9990 - 1 month
|
|Yeah rotting potatoes smell like the depths of hell
|u/ogmaf - 1 month
|
|Having worked in a slaughterhouse, I've had my fair share. The worst
|was probably a lamb, and when we opened the belly to remove the organs,
|it was covered in tumours. Some of them were leaking fluids and the
|smell stuck with me for weeks.
|u/AeroFX - 1 month
|
|Respect to you boys at slaughterhouses. I was fitting a telephone
|line in one years ago that slaughtered pigs and I was wretching and
|throwing up just from walking by this blue plastic container outside
|not sure what was in it but the smell was intense.
|u/ogmaf - 1 month
|
|Thanks! Left the trade behind a year ago now and would never look
|back. It's a beautiful skill to hone but a shit job and a shit pay.
|Those blue bins are one of two things; Either it's trim, bones and
|leftovers that can be reused for cheap pet food and cheap makeup or
|it's trim, bones and leftovers that have to be discarded (ie
|incinerated) because they're at risk of containing mad cow's
|disease, or in pig's cases, trichinosis. We haven't had any of
|these two in Canada for quite some time, thanks to preemptive
|measures put in place by the government, but it's a rather be safe
|than sorry type thing.
|u/BumSkeeter - 1 month
|
|We went on a tour of the Jack Daniels distillery for a bachelor party
|once. At some point in the tour they bring you into the fermentation
|room and show you all the mash tanks. You then get the option to smell
|a mash tank. The tour guide barely warned us, a random older gentleman
|in the tour group went first. He turned around with the most disgusted
|look on his I have ever seen. I, for some reason, then proceeded to
|also smell it. Its akin to when you burp up soda/sprite and your nose
|burns a tiny but. But that times infinity. I can still vividly remember
|the "smell" (moreover pain) of that experience. Best part is, even
|after every single person in the front of the line made the same
|disgusted faces, everyone else in the back of the line tried it too.
|Similar happened when I toured a salt mine in Austria and everyone was
|allow to taste the salt water they pump up to the surface.
|u/brownells2 - 1 month
|
|This comment is making me laugh - the fact that despite the person
|ahead of you being horrified, you sniffed too. I would’ve too, but
|the imagery is making me laugh so much
|u/Tattycakes - 1 month
|
|Each person assumes the one in front is just a weakling and that
|surely they can withstand the smell! That or just sheer morbid
|curiosity. we are so masochistic sometimes lol
|u/CordialTrekkie - 1 month
|
|There's this weird smell in houses in Riverside California that most of
|them seemed to have when I went to install dish network in their homes.
|It's like a smell of lasagne and blood... Which I'm also sure is a
|George R. R. Martin short story
|u/jerrythecactus - 1 month
|
|I wonder if its got something to do with the local water minerals?
|The "blood" smell can be coming from high iron content in water,
|contributing to this metallic smell to those unaccustomed to it.
|u/TheCrazyWolfy - 1 month
|
|First time feeding baby fish sticks. Later that night a diaper
|blowout occured which we could smell from across the house with his
|room shut. Any parent knows a blowout is stinky enough but imagine
|the most heavy fish smell combined with that. That was the only time
|we both threw up from a stench. I will never forget that smell for
|the rest of my life. My son is a teen now and hasn't had fish since.
|u/raspberriijam - 1 month
|
|*adds Do Not Feed Child Fish Before Potty Trained to my list of
|parent hacks* THANK U. life saver
|u/reformed_nosepicker - 1 month
|
|You could have stopped with the first sentence. My 3 girls were many
|years out of diapers before that was even a notion.
|u/jim182182 - 1 month
|
|If you've ever worked construction on large buildings, the hot tar they
|use on roofs will make you want to puke. How those guys can handle that
|putrid smell day in and day out is beyond me. Second... rotten beef
|lung. If you hunt gator like I do, you know what I'm talking about.
|u/drglitz - 1 month
|
|Someone already said it, but Death. When the funeral home gave back the
|clothes my brother in law died in, we threw them into a gym bag and
|they stayed in the trunk of my car for almost a year. That bag still
|smells the exact same way his room did when we cleaned it out. You
|never forget that smell.
|u/OfficerBarbier - 1 month
|
|Then why the hell would you keep it in your car for a year
|u/faalp - 1 month
|
|Exactly my thoughts. To be honest. I don’t know if he smelled bad
|or Good if he Left it for over a year in his trunk. Maybe there is
|some sort of twist. OR I’m just pretty high and trying to
|interpret things I shouldn’t.
|u/_miserylovescompanyy - 1 month
|
|Grief makes you do strange things.
|u/CCHTweaked - 1 month
|
|I was working in the trauma center ICU the first time I smelled it.
|Traumatic death. Not just death, but painful death. I now know that
|there are different smells from the different types of death. I don’t
|want to.
|u/InternetSleuths - 1 month
|
|Can you elaborate. Ive never hears of that and I have smelled death
|before so I'm wondering what is different
|u/InternetSleuths - 1 month
|
|I discovered my grandma after being passed away on the bathroom
|floor after 6 days. I've also worked in a retirement home and had
|numerous people pass way there
|u/Woodman1069 - 1 month
|
|All about the season and time also. You don’t wanna smell a body
|outside on a hot summer day after being there for a couple of
|days
|u/uranium236 - 1 month
|
|Pain. Pain smells different. I think it’s possible not everyone
|can smell it - just a genetic thing like tasting cilantro.
|u/AgentOmegaNM - 1 month
|
|Thinking about it (and I might be totally off base here with my
|limited medical knowledge) during a traumatic event your body is
|flooded with endorphins and other reactive chemicals in response,
|so maybe that contributes to a different smell than if someone
|passes away in their sleep.
|u/nvsbandit - 1 month
|
|I used to detail cars. I got away from doing customer cars and took on
|dealerships as customers (steady reliable income if you’re a detailer).
|They had a car that was going to auction that had been closed up for 3
|weeks in summer sun. There were two tipped over Starbucks premade
|coffees you get from the gas station just in there. The smell of
|severely spoiled milk as well as the heat hitting me when the door
|opened up made me barf. To don’t mess with old milk at all and I can
|point that smell out anywhere. Edit: it did not make me bard. It made
|me barf.
|u/moomiunu - 1 month
|
|I tried making cloudy soap by microwaving regular soap. What I didn't
|read is that it had to be a specific soap, which was processed
|unusually. So, I microwaved a random pink soap bar. I never thought of
|a burnt rotting smell as sweet until then.
|u/chunkichicken - 1 month
|
|Former EMT here. We once responded to a 911 call from one of the
|shittier nursing homes in town for a person with altered mental status
|and agitation. Immediately smell dying flesh and look at his legs. The
|right leg was three times the diameter of the left leg and seeping
|copious amounts of pus. BP was 80/50, heart rate was 120. The guy had
|probably been bacteremic for 3 days at this point. We gave him some
|“diesel medicine” (i.e. driving really fucking fast to the hospital)
|but I seriously doubt that guy survived.
|u/bigjoe980 - 1 month
|
|me personally? Mucinex pills. back when I was homeless a buddy and I
|used to get high on them (the dxm in them) and one time I tried taking
|too many at once and couldn't swallow right so they were just kinda
|stuck slowly dissolving in my throat and the scent was wafting out my
|nose while I tried to breathe. rotting things, dead/dying things, sure
|- they stink but they're supposed to. pills are not supposed to smell
|like that directly in your nose.
|u/jeanneeebeanneee - 1 month
|
|Guaifenesin, the active ingredient in Mucinex, is one of the
|smelliest drugs on the market. It comes out in your breath, sweat,
|and urine for days after you stop taking it.
|u/AnneBoleynsBarber - 1 month
|
|It's a tossup between two things. Both involve dogs. The first was
|when I took my first dog, a black-and-tan dachshund, to the beach for
|the first time. She found a half rotten starfish arm, full of rotten,
|utterly rank goo, decaying from the inside out, and promptly rolled in
|it. Satan's asshole probably smells better than a dog that rolled in
|decaying sea life on a hot summer day. We tried everything to get rid
|of the smell: shampoo. Then dish detergent. Then vinegar. Then baking
|soda. Then tomato juice. Nope - it lingered until the dog's fur grew
|completely out again. I've blocked the car ride home from my memory, it
|was so bad. Probably worse than that, though, involved my second dog.
|Also a wiener dog, red this time instead of black-and-tan, with a
|sensitive stomach. One afternoon, he let loose with a mess of loose,
|hellaciously stinky poop - it smelled like he had *C. diff.*, though a
|trip to the vet later confirmed that he didn't, his poop was just
|really rank that day. While I was running to grab some towels, he,
|um... *recycled* said poop. When I got back with the towels, he
|barfed said recycled poop back up again. I'm pretty tough when it
|comes to smells, but this was the one time in my life when it was so
|awful I gagged right and proper - if my stomach had been full at the
|time, it would have emptied (and probably improved the smell, that's
|how bad it was). I don't have words to describe the scent properly.
|Think of dead starfish arm, low tide in a heat wave, a raw sewage leak,
|and the decaying entrails of some eldritch being from the depths of the
|unholiest nightmare corpse-city imaginable. It burned my eyebrows off.
|Every cell lining my entire GI tract unionized and demanded better
|working conditions, with my nasal mucosa leading the charge. To this
|day I have no memory of cleaning up the mess, though I know I did,
|somehow. Then I took a three-day-long shower. In holy water. With
|bleach. I became soap, and still wasn't clean. My dogs were great
|pups. They lived long, happy lives full of play and joy, and passed
|peacefully when it was their time. But boy, they were some disgusting
|little fuckers.
|u/Spiral_Out801 - 1 month
|
|Haha this is so well written. I can picture it all.
|u/crucifixbutterplate - 1 month
|
|the floss pick after I floss this one tooth
|u/Puzzleheaded_Town_20 - 1 month
|
|You might want to get that checked out at a dentist. That can mean
|active decay. You don’t want to lose the tooth.
|u/ThoughtCenter87 - 1 month
|
|If it's only one tooth that causes the floss pick to smell rancid, it
|could indicate that the tooth is rotting or has a cavity. I'm not
|passing judgement, I had the same thing happen to me. But please see
|a dentist
|u/ActualWhiterabbit - 1 month
|
|My 11 year old smells like a foot who learned to fart.
|u/vinhluanluu - 1 month
|
|A stereotypical fanboy that I almost literally bumped into when I was a
|wee lad. This must have been in the late 90s, I was happily perusing
|some comic cards when the stench hit my nose. My first thought was that
|it was worse than the lunch dumpster at school and somehow smelled wet
|too. I turn to see a real life stereotype: greasy long hair, duct taped
|glasses, tight shirt straining against a hairy beer belly. It was like
|seeing a cryptid for the first time, I had to pause to make sure he was
|real. Then I ran away as fast I could.
|u/Holiday_Struggle1015 - 1 month
|
|Leftover protein powder and milk inside a backpack. It leaked out of
|the bottle and he forgot about it. When he opened the backpack it was
|like hell on Earth.
|u/butteredsaltine - 1 month
|
|Had a ziplock bag that had leftover shrimp and onions in it fall under
|the carseat accidentally ( IN THE SUMMER!!!) … was there for awhile
|before discovery. What it had turned into to was brown clearish slime.
|The bag opened accidentally while throwing it out. I cant even describe
|that smell other than to say it rose from the bowels of hell and caused
|instant vomit. No human could take a whiff of that and not hurl. No
|u/JadedBrit - 1 month
|
|My liquid faeces coming out of my stomach wound.
|u/lost_creole - 1 month
|
|Wait, what happened to you ? Are you okay ?
|u/JadedBrit - 1 month
|
|I had necrotising pancreatitus, I was in icu/hdu for six months. I
|had an emergency pancreatectomy with an open wound in my abdomen
|covered by a stoma bag, the damaged pancreas also damaged my bowel
|hence the faeces. Now and again it would leak causing the smell.
|Couldn't eat, drink,talk (trachaeotomy)or move while I was in there
|and lost half my body weight. Apart from having diabetes now due to
|the pancreatectomy and needing to walk with a stick I'm OK now
|thanks.
|u/ChickenHeart824 - 1 month
|
|Opened ulcerated c diff wound on abdomen that had ate into intestine.
|Just green cottage cheese oozing out of it. I’ve never gagged in twenty
|years healthcare but that one made my eyes burn and nose run it was
|bad.
|u/DevelopmentWeird7739 - 1 month
|
|Karbala, Iraq 2003. I think it was district 11, poorest of the poor
|lived there and none of the modern amenities we take for granted worked
|there, they hadn't worked there a long time.
|u/LeRaven78 - 1 month
|
|Cat shit   About 30 years ago I worked for a company that did house
|clearances, generally always fucking disgusting filthy houses.   Boss
|offers us a Saturday overtime shift at double pay so me and two mates
|say yes   We turn up at the workshop first and the boss offers to
|take us for breakfast first. Proper sit down breakfast in a cafe. Nice,
|especially as we're getting paid. We have no idea he's buttering us up
|for what's about to come   He then gives us an address to go to. My
|boss gets in one van with one of the guys, and me and the other guy
|jump in the other van. The boss knows exactly where he's going so he
|gets there well before us. We pull up outside the house we're going to
|clear and the guy that was with the boss is bent over in the front
|garden vomiting his entire innards up.   Turns out the job we're
|going to do is a house clearance where a guy lived with his mum. The
|mum was bed bound upstairs and the guy had been breeding dozens of cats
|downstairs.  These dozens of cats had generated a literal mountain of
|cat shit in the corner of the living room. It was easily an 8 foot tall
|and equally as wide mountain of fresh and rotten cat shit.  Utterly
|fucking horrendous and we had to shovel all of it into bin bags and
|drag them out to the van. Spent most of the day vomiting in between
|loads Good times
|u/Due_Yogurtcloset_506 - 1 month
|
|I was in middle school and a kid pooped themselves in my classroom and
|the stench radiated throughout the school I couldn’t get away..
|u/Pelican_meat - 1 month
|
|In high school A&P, we went to the Harris County morgue. They cover the
|stench of death with this weird fragrance—smells like strawberry gum.
|But they also had a corpse that had died in a fiery car crash. The
|combination of burned human flesh with hints of strawberry is burned
|into my brain.
|u/lizzayyhm - 1 month
|
|If you’re in the dog grooming or vet field, definitely the dog’s anal
|glands. When someone says that it must be nice to play with dogs all
|day it most definitely is not when you have to express it IYKYK.
|u/theverdict603 - 1 month
|
|My buddy has a story where he was at a concert and a dude in front of
|him with dreads was dancing around. At one point he swung his head
|around and one of his dreads flew into my buddy's open mouth.
|u/Dragosal - 1 month
|
|Rotting flesh on a wound, it was... Something else. I learned how good
|peppermint extract is at removing other smells from your nose that day.
|u/Iron_man_wannabe - 1 month
|
|Dog ate his own shit then threw it up about 1/2 an hour later.
|u/JanuaryAndOn - 1 month
|
|Rotting meat in a fridge that had been closed and unplugged for months.
|A lot had turned to liquid.
|u/Virtual_Aerie2146 - 1 month
|
|I once had bottled ocean water that was opened two years later.
|u/lordmoldybutt0 - 1 month
|
|That one liquor you had at a party and had so much of it that you had
|to vomit. Just smelling that one liquor makes you want to puke your
|stomach out.
|u/Brushiluskan - 1 month
|
|one candidate is a guy who sat in front of me on the bus. week old
|gamer sweat + thick, greasy, dirty hair that seemed to have been tied
|up in a pony tail for days, cooking his dandruff until al dente. now,
|i've work many unglamorous jobs, cleaning both facilities and people,
|and i'm not that easily grossed out, but i literally had to change
|seats, because the worst of all was the offensively pungent, acetone-
|like odour that people give off when they have untreated diabetes.
|i didn't have the heart to ask him if he'd considered getting checked
|for diabetes, and i thought that a specific someone ought to have
|noticed it by then, because guess what - HE SAT NEXT TO HIS
|**GIRLFRIEND!** if this guy could keep a girlfriend with that stench,
|then love really is blind, and also has no sense of smell. i don't
|mind myself or others being a bit naturally smelly, but this guy
|actually smelled so bad that i was visibly offended..
|u/indiana-floridian - 1 month
|
|Retired nurse here. Sure you want to know? Cervical cancer. The
|person never had the cancer removed. She was now dying, smelled worse
|than being dead. Smelled her all over the hospital. But I was her
|nurse, and ,,,it was intense! We did twice a day dilute bleach douche.
|Still smelled her everywhere. If your doctor suggests surgery to
|remove the cancer, do it! Sometimes it's not to lengthen your life
|but to make it tolerable to live the rest of your life. I felt so bad
|for her, and treated her as best I could.
|u/Sun_Stealer - 1 month
|
|Have you ever been to a dump? It’s absolutely horrific. Driving by them
|is bad, but when you get up in it, it’s absolutely horrid. The most
|pungent smell. It feels like it’s thickened the air around you. In
|between that and slushing your way through trash/somewhat compacted
|soil has cemented itself in my nightmares. We were trying to unload
|my uncles barbed wire fence. That he didn’t cut. So the wires were
|intertwined between the posts. He didn’t bring anything to cut them
|with. We ended up getting about 1/4 of it off the trailer before he
|decided to just drive away and let it come out by itself. I still
|think about that from time to time. Idiot.
|u/WinSomeDimSum - 1 month
|
|oh dude, hydrochloric acid by a mile. Chemistry class sophomore year
|of high school my player hater chemistry teacher explicitly told us not
|to smell the beakers with HCL, but I never miss an opportunity to rage
|against the machine. Long story short, it felt like I swallowed a
|sweater made of ants & wool for like four hours after my deep,
|forbidden inhale.
|u/Avocadosoup - 1 month
|
|>I'm gonna stick it to the man by scarring my respiratory system!
|u/temptemptemp98765432 - 1 month
|
|Super bad choice? Could have burned your mucous membranes something
|fierce.
|u/alien1923 - 1 month
|
|Once got a job at a home for developmentally disabled people. The first
|room i walk into belonged to a 50+ year old man who had pissed the
|entire room down. As i walked in i could feel the reek of piss in my
|nostrils. The strench was there 3 days later where i could almost taste
|the reek even at home. I worked there for about a year. Luckily the
|first day was the worst of them. Can still remember the smell tho.
|u/Sorry_Im_Trying - 1 month
|
|It could have been because I was pregnant and had horrible food
|aversions, but a can of refried beans got left in the fridge too long,
|then put in the bin to get warm. I wanted to break my nose. I
|couldn't eat them again for seven years.
|u/Significant-Ad9334 - 1 month
|
|During one of my chem classes se worked with butanoic acid (the
|chemical that gives vomit and rotten food it’s awful smell) and someone
|left it out of the window where it was supposed to be so the smell
|wasn’t as strong, I swear the whole class smelled like if someone had
|vomited on the whole class, luckily the product we made had a fruity
|smell so after 10 min it began smelling back to normal but man that
|smell still on my soul every time I step in the classroom I get
|flashbacks to that awful smell
|u/TopBound3x5 - 1 month
|
|The smell of ketchup
|u/slvrscoobie - 1 month
|
|my kid loves it. I gag when I have to wash his mound of it off his
|plate, if I get a whiff of it..
|u/Niekertdepiekert - 1 month
|
|One time I was biking through a small piece of nature and there were
|some cows walking around. I biked past one right when it farted. The
|first thing that came to mind then and even now was: "literal bio
|weapon"
|u/mooseleg_mcgee - 1 month
|
|Bodies a few days after a firefight. The way a human smells after being
|in the Iraqi sun during decomp is nothing short of biblical
|u/moa711 - 1 month
|
|The smell of innards. I do not personally hunt, but my uncle did, and I
|was around once when they were cleaning a deer. That is a smell you
|never forget. It was a smell I smelled about 15 years ago again after a
|bear attacked my dog. You could smell his innards. Thankfully the dog
|survived.
|u/JestaMcMerv - 1 month
|
|A cat fart. Seriously is home clearing.
|u/Unuhpropriate - 1 month
|
|Aunt brought me turkey soup, like a gallon of it in a massive
|Tupperware. Ate some, was delicious. Somehow, roommate while grabbing
|something out of the fridge, placed Tupperware on top of the fridge to
|get something out, and forgot it on top. Was sealed, not clear, so I
|thought he finished it and washed it and left it there so I could
|return it. Didn’t see Aunt for 6-8 months, went to move out. Grabbed
|it, realized it was heavy, and opened it to see what was inside. WMD
|straight to the nostril. Threw up. Roommate came home 3-4 hours later.
|Smelled kitchen. Also threw up
|u/Vast_Inevitable9281 - 1 month
|
|I have a sharp nose, and I've smelled a lot of disgusting things. But
|picture this: being at an all female concert in a huge venue, a totally
|packed one at that, and it becomes evident that some women don't know
|what bacterial vaginosis smells like. Anyone who knows what I'm talking
|about knows how that odor permeates a room. Nostril assaulting x10. 💀
|u/JME_51 - 1 month
|
|Poo pond. Kandahar, Afghanistan
|u/DueLeague4668 - 1 month
|
|Gag Warning! Ok, so I have Crohn’s disease, and because of this, I’ve
|had many hospital stays, surgeries, and even an ostomy bag. Well, one
|time I was in the hospital just hours after abdominal surgery, still
|groggy from the anesthesia. My ostomy bag needed to be replaced, but I
|couldn’t do it on my own because of the surgery. After waiting for over
|30 minutes and feeling stubbornly independent, I decided I could change
|it myself—the supplies were just within reach on the table. So, I
|start going at it. Mind you, I can’t sit up or bend. I prep the new bag
|and start the replacement. I have the old bag in my hand when I realize
|I don’t have anywhere to set it. As I’m trying to figure out what to
|do, my stoma starts ejecting (literally). I have no idea why, but I
|instinctively set the bag face-up on my pillow/shoulder. Of course, it
|wouldn’t stay put, so I lifted the bag up, and as I did…boom…some of
|the stool spilled right onto my face, hitting the top of my nose,
|cheek, and down to my upper lip. Oh my god, the feeling and the smell
|were horrendous! It’s an experience that will traumatize me for the
|rest of my life. 😭 I just gagged twice while writing that sentence. 😭
|u/transglutaminase - 1 month
|
|Worked in a restaurant in the French quarter in New Orleans during
|hurricane katrina. Returned after the storm and opened the walk
|in cooler which had been without power for a month and full of seafood
|meat and produce. Truly awful.
|u/Ok-Cartographer1745 - 1 month
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|Rotten meat
|u/wrexmason - 1 month
|
|One of my college classmates who took a colossal shit while on break
|from classes. It was so bad that damn near every one who needed to use
|the restroom walked to the other men’s room on the far side of the
|building. Imagine the smell of a portapotty after a weekend long music
|festival…coming out of just ONE person.
|u/emmy_l_r - 1 month
|
|My brothers bedroom
|u/msphelps77 - 1 month
|
|A random kid’s soiled diaper. Was at a store browsing the toy section
|once and a toddler was running around obviously soiled. The smell was
|putrid. Turned my stomach. I can’t handle smells like that unless it’s
|my own kids.
|u/alexkunk - 1 month
|
|I'm a geological driller, working in NYC. There's a coca cola sign,
|located where the coca cola factory used to be. I had a misfortune to
|work under the sign, soil was very contaminated, until about 50 ft
|deep. Smell was so horrendous we had to have fans installed with an air
|freshener spraying at us every 5 seconds and that did jack shit to
|resolve the issue. I was gagging for weeks while working there, then a
|couple of weeks after just thinking about it. THE WORST
|u/Menister22 - 1 month
|
|I used to have a protein shake bottle that i would regularly use. One
|day i replaced it with a new one and assumed i washed the old one
|before i put it away. When i took it out after a year and opened i
|nearly fainted from the smell of left over protein
|u/Dedeaah - 1 month
|
|As a child at my grandma’s farm my cousin stepped on a sheep’s organ -
|which had been thrown away - that came apart under his foot (it looked
|like a bladder) and it completely soaked his sandal with this blueish
|liquid. The smell of it was terrific, the sandal never lost the smell
|even after multiple washes, we had to throw it away in a sealed bag
|u/igotacidreflux - 1 month
|
|when i was in college everyone in the wing of my dorm got salmonella
|poisoning from undercooked ground beef. the unventilated,
|unairconditioned basement hallway and shared bathroom reeked of various
|bodily fluids and general sickness for weeks
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