The horror...

[LordGarmadon]

I was digging into the "clean-non-iron-to-be-put-away" washing basket this morning in an unsuccessful attempt to find a matching welly sock for my DD...

As I ploughed through the shamefully large pile of washing that we've neglected to sort and put away it stated to smell a bit odd...

I began carefully picking out clothes to sniff as I pondered what the smell could possibly be...

I pulled out one of my pyjama tops and gave it the standard clothing-flick and a shower of maggots rained down on the landing!!!

A half rotten rodent had congealed onto my pyjama top and there were maggots in the clean laundry.

I still feel sick.

I feel like I've survived a horror film.

[LordGarmadon]

Thanks for sharing your horrific hilarious maggot stories. I'm relieved I'm not the only maggot victim ... the flashbacks are still vivid though!

The pj top is in the Rayburn!

[Sunnysidegold]

These are gross, but yet I continued reading. One summer, when the brown compost bin still goes out every fortnight, we had been away and missed putting it out. So there was maybe a month's worth of rotting food and grass cuttings inside. Opened it up and maggots fell out onto the patio. I was disgusted. My three year old laughed and said they were cute. They're just little white worms mummy. I did not think they were cute.

I honestly don't know what I'd have done in any of those situations mentioned.

[justanotherneighinparadise]

@LordGarmadon

I don't think leaving washing in a basket directly correlates to rodents using it as a death bed but I'm definitely traumatised enough to make more of an effort to put clothes away!

[justanotherneighinparadise]

@LouiseMastny

On the motorway to my Grandmothers funeral, one of my brothers found a tub under his seat. It had been full of maggots for fishing, but was now full of bluebottles. He insisted that they were dead, no buzzing, no movement. He opened it. They were very much alive. They filled the car, so Dad drove as fast as he could with all the windows down, but he refused to stop until we got to the church, where we leapt out of the car in a cloud of flies. My relatives were not impressed.

🤣🤣

[justanotherneighinparadise]

I did make the mistake of putting a badly wrapped chicken carcass into the black wheelie bin last summer. Opened the lid sometime later in the week and it was writhing with maggots. Spilling out onto the drive, it’s quite shocking to see! The kids thought it was great. I just left them for the birds to eat.

[Ashdownstar]

Lol you poor thing OP! On the strength of this thread I'm putting the contents of my washing basket away Right Now!

[LordGarmadon]

Go steady as you empty that basket, @Ashdownstar.
Stay alert... control the maggots... save the washing.

[BogRollBOGOF]

I moved in to a student house already inhabited by males. It was very much like living in theYoung Ones...

A couple of days after moving in, one lad was rummaging in washing up mountain (a simple arrangement. One work top to be kept clear. Everything else transferred to the mountain if left around) and found a bag of maggots... a week or so earlier another lad put out a bag of prawns to defrost and forgot about it to be rapidly consumed by the washing up.

We were masters of kitchen bin Jenga.
When your item could no longer perch, it was your turn to put the bin out.

What we lacked in hygiene, we made up for in camaradarie and lack of domestic bickering

[spiderlight]

Many years ago I was having a meeting at home with a potential new business colleague, who was also a friend but was taking it all very very seriously and was very much in Work Mode. One of my dogs came in and presented me with a ancient Kong food toy that she'd found in the garden. It had a biscuit jammed in the top, which I absent-mindedly wiggled out, releasing a flood of live maggots onto my lap.

[Rememberallball]

I used to live alone in a 2nd floor flat. Went away for 2 weeks not realising the kitchen window was still open a small way (it had one of those minimal opening latches on it and the bottom opened outwards so could be open without obviously looking open) and came home to the flat full of bluebottles.

Spoke to one of the neighbours after spending the weekend trying to eradicate the flat of living and dead flies; apparently someone had put a badly closed bag of rotting food from a defective fridge freezer in the communal bin, which was at the side of the building, about 1/2 hour after the bin men had emptied it and it was really hot weather meaning the bin was writhing with maggots within 2-3 days and, by the time I came home the maggots had become flies and found their way into my flat through the kitchen window 🤮😱

I spent the following weeks finding dead flies in all sorts of nooks and crannys of the flat - and made sure that window was always firmly closed after that!!

[TooGood2BeFalse]

Fuck me I would have cried(but I'm oddball)

[Deathraystare]

How much of a bastard am I that some one else's misfortune has cheered me right up? I was in a bastard of a mood yesterday and it was still lingering until now (sorry!).

[hellsbellsmelons]

directly correlates to rodents using it as a death bed
This made me chuckle!

[LordGarmadon]

I'm glad to be of service ... bringing cheer and motivation to empty washing baskets.

I think maggots on a lap is hands down the worst story!