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to want to quit my job NOW and never, ever, ever, ever go back, and cross the street if I see anyone coming who has ever seen me there?

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IncontinentiaBotox · 14/01/2010 16:44

I have far and away the most humiliating and revolting experience ever to share with you. I swear every word is completely factual.

A few days ago I discovered to my horror that I have threadworms. Not having any vile chemical preparations in the house, I decided to go the natural route and googled to find out what to do. I used various things but the relevant one is garlic. I ate three chopped up cloves of garlic each evening and shoved a scored clove up my arse before bed, to kill the ones which come bown to breed.

I went to work today and had horrific flatulence; this may be linked to the dinner of lentils and brussels sprouts I had last night. The stench was truly disgusting and there was just far too much wind to be able to hold it in, so I had to let it out in stages and hope for the best.

I work in a nursery and naturally everybody assumed it was the children. I ended up changin three children who hadn't pooed themselves just to avert suspicion from myself.

It got to the point where I felt a large and insistent turd descending and needed to go and let it out. So I slipped into the adult loo (there is only one) and sat down on the toilet to be greeted by a sort of "pop" as the clove of garlic popped out, then a long stage-whisper of impacted fart, then a massive turd. The smell was so strong I could almost taste it, and to my utter horror the air-freshener was all gone and the window jammed. I stayed in there for as laong as I could get away with but after about ten minutes somebody started trying the door, so I had to come out. Three consecutive colleagues then used the toilet - the smell of rotting shit-and-garlic pervaded the entire nursery and people were actually considering going home early because they felt sick.

Naturally everybody is pretending they don't know it was me - but everyone knows. It still stank in there when I left.

So AIBU to never, ever darken their doorstep again?

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cathcat · 15/01/2010 19:59

Stop with all the talk of tapeworms and mouths!!

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 19:13

apparently there was some Victorian trickster who used to horrify crowds by tempting out his wife's tapeworm with a spoonful of sugar held to her mouth

I'd rather have tapeworm on balance, at least there's only one and it doesn't go crawling all over your undercarriage when you're asleep

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JodieO · 15/01/2010 18:18

Hilarious

lucyellensmumagain · 15/01/2010 18:11

Solidgoldbrass - lovely Some people actually swallow those things ON PURPOSE!!!

Miggsie · 15/01/2010 18:04

I think shoving a clove of garlic up your bum and then going to work WITH IT STILL IN, gassing a nursery and THEN posting about it online is SO brave.

And it beats my friends explaining to their visitor's dog poo covered toddler why a dog being incontinent is not a valid reason to have it put to sleep in the "surreal conversation award".

I would also add that the pile of pooh that came out of my cat after his enema was smelly, and so high there was snow on the peak and smelt of cat food...but no garlic. Now THAT's class.

SolidGoldBrass · 15/01/2010 17:53

At least it wasn't a tapeworm. Apparently the way to get rid of those is with a bowl of warm milk and a pencil.
You hold the pencil, and sit with the bowl of milk in front of you and your mouth open... the worm will smell the milk and put its head out of your mouth, at which point you wind it round the pencil and pull...

MadameOvary · 15/01/2010 17:53

Oh God OP,
That is priceless
You poor thing.
This thread will never be forgotten, so its a good thing you namechanged

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 17:49

I keep thinking

"there's a party in my mouth and you're all invited"

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SkipToMyLou · 15/01/2010 17:39

EWWWWW lucyellensmumagain that is foul. Time for some brain bleach!

piprabbit · 15/01/2010 17:39

It's Friday night so it must be bumsex night. A little before the watershed though?

MummyDoIt · 15/01/2010 17:38

Suddenly the vermicelli noodles I was planning to have for dinner do not seem so appealing. Though at least I wasn't having garlic with them.

lucyellensmumagain · 15/01/2010 17:31

i dread to think!! im glad DP isnt in contact with this guy anymore - its not an image i fancy sharing over drinks!

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 17:29

fiddled with it?!? He's lucky he didn't get one stuck between his teeth

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lucyellensmumagain · 15/01/2010 17:23

uggh, this reminds me of my DPs friend. Not long after we got together i had a case of threadworm - of course i was mortified as DP had to be treated too He tried to make me feel better by telling me about his friend, who, apparently, was indulging in a spot of rimming with his GF and once crawled out of her bum - apparently, he fiddled with it Thanks for reviving that memory for me

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 16:57

come to think of it, there must be someone somewhere who has a fetish for women with threadworms too

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Veedol · 15/01/2010 16:55

My XH probably, he had some absolutely disgusting habits. Has anyone played 'submarines'? then you'll know what I mean by disgusting habits.

Vee.

SolidGoldBrass · 15/01/2010 16:52

You Do know that someone, somewhere, has a real fetish for garlicky farts, don't you? You could always get a new career making, er, specialist videos. Of the scratch-and-sniff variety, maybe..?

TheBossofMe · 15/01/2010 16:51

I am crying laughing at this thread - my team must think I am absolutely mad.

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 16:47

where would I emigrate to though? Transylvania?

I suppose I could go to France, buy a stripey top and a bicycle and make a new life as an onion-seller

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caramelwaffle · 15/01/2010 16:45

No. Never. Emigrate.

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 16:44

veedol, perhaps I'll put an anonymous types note in my boss's pigeonhole a la "there has been a case of threadworms on your staff, please inform parents" on Monday

now off you sod with yer commonsense advice

seriously, am I ever going to stop farting? And will they ever stop honking of garlic?

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caramelwaffle · 15/01/2010 16:42

Yes. Yes of course. She has a duty of care to inform the nursery of her condition and us when she next practices natural cures

lucyellensmumagain · 15/01/2010 16:38

oh, um, cough, yes, of course - yes, most unprofessional

Don't ALL children harbour thread worms and nits anyway?

Veedol · 15/01/2010 16:34

It's maybe amusing, this saga, but surely the most important part is not IncontinentiaBotox's feelings of embarrassment but that probably some poor unfortunate child is harbouring thread worms. She should bite the bullet, go into work and explain to her colleagues what has happened and find out if this is an isolated case or if it has spread to others.
In future perhaps she should stick to more orthodox methods when it comes to treating thread worms.

Sorry, Vee.

Mallenstreak · 15/01/2010 16:33

Sorry cross-posted. Thanks for really making me pmsl - I needed to after the week I've had. I've made a mental note to put a Tena Lady in my pants before I next go on MN.