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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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DontBeShelfish · 05/09/2020 21:02

@ArfNArf

Was in my kitchen keeping half an eye on my almost 2 year old son in the garden. I could see him cuddling and kissing something as he toddled back up the little path to come back in. I believed it was his teddy

He came in the back door and I looked at him to see a huge, wet, bloodied dead rat in his arms. All I recall is shrieking PUT IT DOWN PUT IT DOWN over and over again. Then stripping him off and popping him by the kitchen sink where I literally washed him down with a mild bleach solution before putting him in the bath.

Ten years later, still get flashbacks

I just shouted a horrified "Fuck!" at that one. Jesus.
OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 05/09/2020 21:05

I’d had a gold crown put in, but two weeks later I had to go back because I was in agony. Dentist drilled through it and a fountain of pus shot out, over his goggles, down my throat, everywhere. Did I mention it honked? The nurse turned And neatly threw up in the rinsing bowl. Then I threw up in there just missing her.

ImaSababa · 05/09/2020 21:08

I was sitting eating a drunken Big Mac meal at the McDonalds on Charing Cross road after a night out, occupying a window seat. A homeless fellow came up to the window outside, dropped trou, parted his arse cheeks and pushed out an absolute hose of diarrhoea onto the glass. I promptly vomited onto the inside of the window. People stopped dead and stared in horror at the hellish scene. Just vile.

Lurchermom · 05/09/2020 21:08

Not the end of the world but it felt pretty terrible at the time:
Lurcher had a terrible gastro complaint and was shitting blood every ten minutes. Vet asked for a sample so I used a spoon to scoop bloody mucus shit into a Tupperware which I then carried in my handbag (a Ralph Lauren Grin) to the vets.
Dog spent a night in the vets on a drip and I hosed down my garden.

ilovebagpuss · 05/09/2020 21:10

So many really yuk stories Grin
It’s hard to choose as I have seen some hideous things being in the care world but actually happening to me is different.
Lots of children vomit and diarrhoea tales but who hasn’t! So I’m going with Glastonbury 1992 it was hot but had rained so some of the pathways were a bit muddy. Being all hippy dippy we had taken our shoes off to squelch along. It was always a bit pongy at Glasto but we thought it seemed a bit extra stinky. We were walking along a hundred or so metres behind a lorry type thing looked down and realised it was the shit lorry and it was leaking all sorts over the track shit, nice big turds, tampons, tissue everything and we were merrily plodding through it.
God I can smell it now still.

Keepyourspiritclean · 05/09/2020 21:11

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stovetopespresso · 05/09/2020 21:14

slug. in. KETTLE.

Violetroselily · 05/09/2020 21:23

@MiriamMargo

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.
Jesus christ, I am snorting at the cat sick and the dog Grin
yearinyearout · 05/09/2020 21:24

I was on a long dog walk and carrying a bag of shit (as usual, she never does it near a bin) and I could smell it really strongly. I was convinced I'd got some on my shoe or she had rolled in some but couldn't see anything.

At the end of the walk I realised the bag had caught on something and torn a hole. My jacket and canvas bag were all smeared in dog shit.

Badabingbadabum · 05/09/2020 21:25

Keepyourspiritclean sheep beats rat!

Howzaboutye · 05/09/2020 21:26

Oh the budgie! Poor budgie
I may have been slightly hysterical at that one

alwaystired234 · 05/09/2020 21:32

Probably not the rankest but definitely the one that sticks in my head (and makes me squeem) woke up from a night out with an ex boyfriend and he had pissed the bed. I was absolutely covered In it and it was vile

Nellisterr · 05/09/2020 21:34

@bornninthe80s

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

I know! You couldn't make it up. Poor budgie lasted a few minutes after that and then passed away, apparently...
MrsDoubtfire2018 · 05/09/2020 21:35

Spontaneous d and v

Nellisterr · 05/09/2020 21:40

@Howzaboutye

Oh the budgie! Poor budgie I may have been slightly hysterical at that one
Oh I have just been informed he was 7 years of age, not 15. I'm surprised he wasn't traumatised after that! I cried laughed at the story also Grin
user127819 · 05/09/2020 21:40

One day I had buttered some bread to eat, and had it on a plate. Heard a plop and a maggot like creature had fallen from the ceiling onto my bread. It turned to be a pantry moth larvae rather than a maggot, but it was still horrible. And the moths took weeks to eradicate.

userxx · 05/09/2020 21:40

fiancé having a patient with norovirus accidentally diarrhoea in his mouth.

Hate it when this happens........... WTF 🤢🤢

villanova · 05/09/2020 21:50

Didn't happen to me, thank goodness, but a friend back in uni days was a smoker, and had that morning cough. Being a lazy sort, he used an old beer can to hawk up the phlegm into, and would use the same can on his bedside table for weeks.
One night a bunch of us went back to his for a party, another friend picked up the wrong can & took a large swig of decaying phlegm.

When I was younger, bf & I drove to a friend's, the idea being to go for a drink at their local pub, then stay the night at his. We had some food at the pub, then had some drinks & chatted. BF drank too much, got angry drunk, and had a massive argument with the friend. Despite us girls trying to smooth things out, friend wouldn't let us stay the night, so bf & I decided to sleep in the car. Just as we settled down, he vomited all over the dashboard, gear stick, himself & foot well. We had no choice but to carry on & just sleep with the vomit all around. Next day I helped him clean the car (despite being very pissed off with him!). Unfortunately, it had gone in the air vents, in the seat runners, everywhere! We kept that car for another 2 years, and it always had a faint whiff of sick.

theluckiest · 05/09/2020 21:55

@Lindy2

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at these. 🤢

Many years ago when DH was changing our newborns nappy he leaned in a bit too close just as a perfect fountain of breastfed liquid baby poo launched from her bottom. It went all over his face. 12 years on he's still slightly traumatised.

Yup. Same here.

Changing newborn DS2's nappy in the middle of the night after a feed. Lifted his legs and an almighty jet of liquid shit spewed from his bottom all over my face.

It had such force that it hit the wall behind me leaving a me-shaped outline on the wall. Thank Christ I was wearing glasses and had shut my mouth.

And even more revolting, our dog rummaged in the bathroom bin, found a wrapped up tampon and ate it. We had to pull it gently from her arse a day or so later using the string 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

userxx · 05/09/2020 22:01

@theluckiest Your dog wasn't lucky was she 🤣🤣🤣

I love this thread.

OldSpeclkledHen · 05/09/2020 22:09

@villanova I laugh at most of these, but the phlegm coke made me wanna puke 🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮

Littlefiendsusan · 05/09/2020 22:11

I stepped on a poo in the pool at the local baths a few years back.
For the microsecond my foot first made contact I thought, mmm soft mmm 😑

MissBehaviour1 · 05/09/2020 22:12

My Ex 😱

Rayn · 05/09/2020 22:13

Left my shoes outside and wore them all day to work. One shoe did not feel quite right and thought my toe nail needed cutting. Had no socks on either

When I took my shoes off I found a slug stuck to the end on my toes nail all squashed. It must have crawled in to the end of my shoe. Still makes my stomach turn!

KinkyFink · 05/09/2020 22:17

I got on a long haul flight with a very bad cold, I'd taken some ambien so I fell asleep. A while later I woke up as I was vomiting into my own lap, on my ipod and the blankets.

I'm ashamed to say I was so mortified I just wrapped all the sick up in the blanket and put it back under the seat.... (I am so sorry)