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Most grim 'yuck' thing that's happened to you

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Coldemort · 05/09/2020 16:52

Inspired by a response in another thread...

I live in a block of flats next to a canal. One warm, dusky, summer evening I took my rubbish to the bin store and..... stood on a decomposing rat. It was a monster, I was wearing fabric ballet flats and it went with an almighty pop. I was stood on decomposing rat guts up to my (bare) ankles. I couldnt even take my shoes off as there was broken glass on the floor so had to shuffle back home with rat gut shoes

Anyone care to beat that?

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colouringindoors · 05/09/2020 19:44

I'd take the rat one...

Recently horrendous bowel infection. Hours on the loo. Finally fell asleep in bed. Woke up to a sensation of warm and wet.... Yep. s*t in my bed. Me, nightshirt, bedclothes, covered. Oh and a slipped disc at the time too. I deserve a f*king medal for getting everything inc me cleaned! OMG. I really hope that's my life's low point! Grin

bornninthe80s · 05/09/2020 19:51

At a baby swim class where one baby was with her dad only - who had failed to realise you need an actual swim nappy under the swimsuit. 5 mins into class one mum noticed (in the TINY pool) a few bits floating around. Yup, aforementioned little girl had blown up in her swimsuit only. Shortest class ever 🤢

EugenesAxe · 05/09/2020 19:52

OMG so many of these are awful. I hardly ever exclaim reading MN posts but I have with loads these 🤢 The mucus jar one would have really affected me; that stuff reeks.

I don’t think I’ve experienced anything anywhere near most of these... I trod barefoot on a big house spider once, that crunched? Our aged and (the vet said, basically dying) cat got fly strike but I didn’t see as much as my sisters did of the maggots eating her rectum 😭.

bornninthe80s · 05/09/2020 19:53

A bit more mild but I've stood in dog shit twice this week while out waking with my toddler - she's stood in it once. One pair of trainers in the bin and two still outside soaking in bleach. Vile.

bornninthe80s · 05/09/2020 19:54

A friend of mine had a guy (he was gay so not in a sexual way) stay in her bed once after a big night out and woke up to him spewing in her hair and down her back.

GabsAlot · 05/09/2020 19:54

i take my hat off to all carers nhs workers you must love the job to warrant getting shit in your mouth

bornninthe80s · 05/09/2020 19:55

Omg I'm thinking of loads. When I was 16 I was popping my bf's spot (yes I know 🤮) and one went right in my eye. Think that was the last time I did it.

Spied · 05/09/2020 19:55

As a poor student out clubbing many years ago I saw a full pint of cider and black left on the side where I was dancing.
I took a big gulp- it was full of vomit.

30under · 05/09/2020 20:00

Soupy Faecal vomit, over my uniform, shortly before I had to (attempt to) resuscitate the man. Shoes never recovered from their bleach bath.

MellowBird85 · 05/09/2020 20:02

Went on hol to Cancun with my old boyfriend when I was 21. Got talking to a lovely Canadian family with their two teenage kids in a bar. As the dad was talking to me, a droplet of greb flew out of his mouth on to my bottom lip and before I could fathom what had happened I instinctively licked it off. He noticed this. I have never been so mortified and disgusted at the same in my life. Made a sharp exit and still cringe when I think about it.

RainbowBrite1 · 05/09/2020 20:13

Penguin81 I'm so sorry but I'm absolutely dying laughing here.

Lairymary · 05/09/2020 20:14

I worked in a small office of about 25 people. There were two toilets. One male and one female, unfortunately due to there being more men than women, the men's was constantly engaged so some of the guys would use the womens. One day I went to use the ladies loo and was confronted with blobs of semen all over the seat, I had no other choice than wipe it up myself! Fortunately I was used to scanning the area before using the facilities (due to a previous encounter where there was SHIT on the seat) so I luckily didn't sit on it. On the shit encounter, I marched over to the operations director in disgust and he cleaned it up!!!

VictoriaBun · 05/09/2020 20:18

Not so much me but , was doing a Saturday job in a shop and cut myself using a Stanley knife type of thing opening a box ( not badly, bleeding a little bit ) Was going to get a plaster and the manager saw me and wanted to see.
He got a tiny bit of my blood on his hand, and he licked it off !

catsmother · 05/09/2020 20:20

I've stood in blood and guts more times than I care to remember thanks to having cats who are prolific hunters. I used to get up early for work and creep downstairs without putting the lights on so as not to disturb anyone else but it was getting ridiculously frequent and I got fed up with the foul 'pop' and stench when something's innards explode beneath your bare feet so it's lights all the way now. The piece de resistance was somehow putting my foot inside a still warm pigeon whose breast had been eaten leaving a cavity.

One of my cats marked me as his territory (despite being neutered) as I was dozing on the sofa - all over my face and in my mouth as I woke up shouting.

But the very worst thing was dropping my car keys in a 'puddle' in a multi storey car park which I very soon realised was a load of absolutely vile, stale, stinking piss. There were no nearby loos to wash them off in hot water and I didn't even have a tissue for them or my hands. I couldn't go in search of anything to help as I had to collect my child from nursery and I gagged the whole way home even with the windows open. I think I scrubbed myself and the car with bleach.

Magicpaintbrush · 05/09/2020 20:22

Got into a taxi one night after going clubbing and sat straight in a warm puddle of vomit that the previous occupant had kindly left on the back seat.

MiriamMargo · 05/09/2020 20:29

When I was a child in the 70;s I had a friend who's parents were lovely but goodness they were disgusting. There was no upstairs toilet, so they used a bucket in the bathroom and only emptied it when it was full to overflowing, with poo and wee, also their cat vomitted on floor and they shouted the dog to come eat it, rather than clean it up.

RainbowBrite1 · 05/09/2020 20:35

I've not laughed so much in ages.

A couple of years ago I was driving (lucky)home from work hot day window all the way down and a sodding seagull managed to fly over and do a massive wet poo, it all came in my window on my arm car seat and kind of splashed back onto my face and hair. I couldn't get home fast enough. Now on a hot day it's AC on for me

gypsywater · 05/09/2020 20:39

I know a nurse who got a handful of spunk thrown at their face by a patient

weegiemum · 05/09/2020 20:44

The single most disgusting thing was whenI broke my ankle. I looked down and you could see the bone and my foot was pointing the wrong way.

Nice paramedic got the sick bowl and the gas & air just in time!

DinosApple · 05/09/2020 20:45

Just setting the scene: I worked in an office when I was 19, full time, professional office. Yes I was the office junior, but smart business attire was required, even on my meagre wages.

I was walking to work one morning, 8am, nice and bright, sun in my eyes, down a steep hill through the town. Outside a pub I skidded, slipped and then landed in cold night-before vomit.

One badly twisted ankle and a vomit covered trouser suit. It was closer to go to the office than go home at that point so I went in to get cleaned up.

I was very grossed out and pissed off.

DH once put his hand into decomposing mouse liquid after his cat dropped a present into a gardening glove a few weeks before. He had been wondering where the stench had been coming from.

Badabingbadabum · 05/09/2020 20:48

I once cycled through dog turd on the pavement and the wheel splattered it all up my white jeans.

This might be slightly outing but our cat tried to eat my mucus plug. It sort of catapulted out onto the floor as I wiped after a wee. The cat came in the bathroom at that very second I had to grab her as she was chomping at it on the floor.

bornninthe80s · 05/09/2020 20:49

@ArfNArf Oh my actual god SadSadSad

BearSoFair · 05/09/2020 20:50

When he first got a snake DS1 forgot to get a mouse out to defrost and thought a hairdryer would be a quick solution. Do NOT blow dry a frozen mouse. It goes pop. Snake waited an extra day for a feed.

bornninthe80s · 05/09/2020 20:52

Not my story but my husband was around 15 years of age and had a very tame budgie. It used to walk around on the floor etc. On Christmas morning there were toys/wrapping paper everywhere and one of the children received one of those balls attached to a hoop that you wear on your ankle and swing it about... My husband went to play with it... Not realising the budgie was amongst the Christmas chaos, swung the toy and took the top of the budgie's head clean off. He still tears up with shame and regret to this day when the incident is mentioned

I have no idea why I am funny crying at this!! It's just so bizarre ConfusedConfusedShock

labazsisgoingmad · 05/09/2020 20:58

Years ago when my youngest was 8 years old she complained of a bad stomach ache so got a Drs apt. Sat in waiting room suddenly dd vomited all over me. frosty faced receptionist stormed over and demanded i clean myself up. charming! no help offered had to try to do it with a load of hand towels from the loo while trying to stop my dd crying!

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