I fell through my floor this evening

[Justaboutawake]

As the title suggests, so now I’m comfort eating my way through a pizza.

Hallway floor has been damp since we had a very leaky radiator a few weeks ago. Been trying to dry it out and have avoided treading on the affected part etc etc

However, got home tonight and needed to collect a parcel from next door (that was in a ridiculously oversized box- thanks amazon!) whilst dealing with bouncing, yappy DDog so couldn’t see where I was going. I got the shock of my life when all of a sudden I fell through the floor all the way up to mid-calf level and am now imagining all the horrid invisible creepy crawlies that must now be roaming all over my leg!!

Please cheer me up with your disasters of the day to distract me from showering yet again this evening

You know the sort of dodgy student accommodation that occasionally slugs find their way in? You know how you should never dash downstairs in the dark in bare feet? I really think I don't need to say any more. Urgh.

Once when carrying a black sack of rubbish through the house from the back garden to the bin at the front a rat fell out and landed on my foot then tore down the hall into the kitchen and vanished under the cupboards. We had to get pest control chap in to deal with it and they asked me if I knew how the rat had got in - when I told him I'd carried it in his face was a picture

This thread is actually making me sick. My dog once ate a decaying carcass almost whole, that it then vomited up in the back footwell of my car, next to my gorgeous little baby. The smell stuck to my nostrils for days. And I had to slip it out afterwards. Boak!!!

Why is there never a pool of blood at a mouse murder crime scene?

We had this. Very early in the morning, DH went downstairs to go to work. Could hear him pottering about more than usual but thought no more of it.

He later WhatsApped me a lovely photo of half a mouse on the kitchen floor, which did indeed have a pool of blood where its head end had been. The pottering noises were the sounds of him clearing it up so I didn't have to deal with it when I got down. Very kind, but sending me a photo? Thanks, DH, I would have preferred to miss out on that.

We never did find the other mouse half either. Possibly cat had eaten it. gip

All these stories remind me of the time Victor Meldrew put his foot into a rotting hedgehog.
My uncle once fell through a loft not into his own bedroom, but into the neighbours! There were 4 old houses along in a row and it was just one long attic.

I fell in a cesspit as a child. Could have drowned in piss and shit. Someone pulled me out in time, and I was covered head to toe in stinging nettle stings. A friend's dad hadn't put the manhole cover back properly

I also stood barefoot on a dead rat in the garden at my dodgy student house

I once slid along the platform at Kings Cross where some dirty swine had gobbed. Worst bit was it went up the back of my leg and came away in strings as I tried to clean it off. 🤮

A couple of months ago I sat on a massive spider that had made itself comfy on my office chair. I must have been squishing my bum around a bit because when I got up to make a cup of tea I'd somehow managed to detach all its legs from its body using only my derrière

My brother noticed our dog had a string in his mouth so pulled hard on the string until it was out. Only it wasn't string it was a mouse tail. The mouse came out next.

Another one who has trodden barefoot in the cold sick dead mouse offerings from ungrateful cats.

As a kid I stepped in a cow pat wearing Jesus sandals. It was crusty on top and sloppy underneath the crust. Then we all trooped back to the boiling hot car and drove somewhere else.

I had to throw up and the only vomit receptacle that was left was a cardboard box on my lap.
I don't remember anything else about that holiday.

several: grew up in Aus (nb all ways check shoes when putting them on) put shoes on & crunch shudder squashed cockroach! sitting on ground side of house (houses there were often on low pillars for air circulation) weeding garden & spotted a red backed spider running beside leg (poisonous) did high jump! sitting in front seat of car dc3 sitting in middle of back "I feel sick" all over me - we couldn't stop we were on motorway -

Currently listening to water dripping out of my boiler into the bucket now below it and my lovely heating engineer is currently injured and off work. Floorboards saturated and have had to empty all soggy stuff out of cupboard below in kitchen - on bright side while doing this did manage to avoid standing on the slugs currently zipping about on kitchen floor 😏

When ds1 was barely 2 years old he was playing in our back yard while I was making tea, popping in and out every few seconds to make sure he wasn't hurting himself (pfb so quite literally every few seconds and not making much progress with the food). I had also noticed a slug on the drain cover at the back door so was trying to make sure he didn't step on it. One time I looked at him he was putting something in his mouth, I fished it out and found half the slug, the other half had been swiftly swallowed. Not a pleasant feeling to have half a slug spread all over your hand. (He's nearly 18 now and I can still feel it when I think about it.)

The same house had concrete floors downstairs in the kitchen/diner and said slugs loved coming in because of it. Managed to step on one barefoot in the dark, on laminate flooring so very slimy as no carpet to absorb some of the goo.

Nowadays next doors cat likes bringing us gifts in the evenings. One night she brought a dead mouse into the kitchen and proceeded to eat it. Crunch, crunch, it was decapitated. Head left on kitchen floor. Crunch, crunch, she ate the first half of the body. She then left it under the clothes horse where she'd been eating it and went away for a few minutes to clean herself, then came back and... crunch, crunch, ate most of the rest of the body. Left the head, rump and tail on the kitchen floor, probably for us to share! (Ds4 (8) has some plants he chose in the garden so we put their carcasses out there to rot down and feed the flowers, his way of dealing with cute, furry things being mauled by cat. Unfortunately it means trying to get the bodies out there, rather than just flicking them out the door into the wilderness we have to somehow get them onto a dustpan and stuck under his flowers.)

I took a big swig on tea whilst chatting on the phone.
Was swallowing when I felt something un-tea like in my mouth
I ran to the sink to spit whatever it was out..
It was a big spider!

I’ve also stood, barefoot on dog poo, a mouse and last week dd asked what was wrong with her broccoli. The broccoli was fine. The steamed caterpillar however was not doing so well

I've had many of the experiences mentioned, but the worst one for me was taking a bite of salad and realising there was a slug in the mouthful. I couldn't eat salad again for a long time, and I'm disturbed having to recall it now 4 years later!