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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?

OP posts:
glotterbug · 06/09/2020 08:46

Dd1 brought home a v&d bug from school. She luckily got over it fairly quickly and cleanly. As for dd2, not so good. She had puked and I was helping her address to put her in the bath when explosive dihorrea(?) poured out o her while covered in sick. I scrubbed the carpet for days ! Thankfully she got better quickly.

NotanotherboxofFrogs · 06/09/2020 08:48

I've told this one on here before, I was having a daytime nap and was in a nice comfortable position, you know lying on my back slightly propped up with my head drooping to the side.

Hcat (rip) brought me a present of a tiny bird (I have no idea on types/breeds - not even sure of the right terminology) anyhoo I didn't display my undying gratitude for this sacrifice at her demand as I was in a lovely sleep, head still dropping to the side and mouth hanging open as I snored, my much loved (murderous) cat obviously walked up my chest and couldn't get meowing up my nose like she usually did if I was even the slightest bit late to feed, (I'm talking minutes, she wasn't starving) so she dropped a half dead bird 🐦 into my mouth at which point I promptly woke up (she was happy she got attention) and I managed to not receive any more of her oral offerings. She was a great cat.

Elderflower14 · 06/09/2020 08:55

A few years ago I was on the phone to a friend with the headset tucked unde my ear... I discovered a carrier bag and opened it to discover a ten days old left in a warm hall maggot Infested ham sandwich... 🤮 🤮 🤮
I screamed and yelled Maggots and dropped the phone... My friend swiftly rang me back to make sure I was OK...!!

DrDreReturns · 06/09/2020 09:08

I've got a cat one too. The cat was standing on my lap with his head facing away from me and his butt facing towards me (you can see where this is going.) I thought it would be a good idea to grab his legs and move them up and down like when he is walking. This must have loosened his bowels as he squirted shit all over my shirt! DW couldn't stop laughing - serves me right!

BuggerBognor · 06/09/2020 09:10

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LBisFallingDown · 06/09/2020 09:24

Got out of bed, put foot in slipper and my big toe squashed a fat spider hiding there. There were bits of spider and spider legs all over my toes. Yeuch. Still gives me shivers.

TrufflePioneer · 06/09/2020 10:16

This is the best and worst thread ever.

I've just remembered something - years ago my dog grabbed a large frog out of our pond, and brought it into the house. She had injured it carrying it by the head but it was alive and emitting a terrible high pitched squealing.

Desperate to put the poor thing out of its misery, I retrieved it from the living room rug, hurried outside and swiftly dispatched it with a sharp knock to the bonce with a trowel.

As the trowel made contact, there was a squelch and something wet flew up into my mouth.

GabsAlot · 06/09/2020 10:18

well @NeedToKnow101 i guess it was accidental!

EL8888 · 06/09/2020 10:20

@userxx luckily this was years before we met Grin

Reedwarbler · 06/09/2020 10:39

Many years ago I worked in an old people's home. I was in the utility area, where the lighting was a bit dim. I had emptied a bucket into the big old sink but the plughole was blocked. Thinking it was hair or fluff I had a good root round in the plughole through the dirty water with my bare fingers. Oh, it was a lump of something. Never mind, I'll break it up and push it through. It was very hard. It was only as the water eventually drained away that I realised it was a small (human) turd and it was now all up my fingernails.

lilfoxfur · 06/09/2020 11:09

When I was about 17 my then ddog got into the bin whilst we were out. I'd been on my period and ddog had got all my used sanitary towels out and ripped into them. It looked like a murder scene. Unbelievably embarrassing!! Same ddog ate my dsis poo right out of her potty. I'm making the dog sound awful but she was the loveliest girl aside from her penchant for disgusting things!

Had a dcat around the same time that left a dead koi carp in my bed 🤢

The time when ds had rotavirus. It was the WORST

RaisinGhost · 06/09/2020 12:22

This is nowhere near as bad as all these others but it was gross at the time. Travelling in Australia, I was in an area where there are a lot of cane toads. Driving down the road in the evening I heard a loud popping sound every 2-3 seconds. Yep it was cane toads popping under the wheels, there was hundreds of dead ones run over everywhere. As they are an invasive species it is completely acceptable, indeed encouraged, to run them over.

sausagepastapot · 06/09/2020 12:23

DC found a large egg floating in the lake. We brought it home, don't ask why.

Wooden floor in the living room....DC dropped it. Cue the worst smell I have ever smelt and can still smell to this day. Rotting chick corpse.

A slushy smear of a dead swan chick was all over my floor. It was like pate. Bright pink, disgusting stench, bits of creamy feather spikes within the blancmange. Splatted all over my new floor.

spiderlight · 06/09/2020 13:24

Out walking with our dog, who's a terrible scavenger, I spotted something on the path ahead, ran to get to it before he did, and discovered that it was the back end of a squirrel - abdomen, hind legs and tail. Picked it up by the tip of the tail and threw it as far into the bushes as I could. We carried on walking down the same straight path for another few minutes, during which time we passed nobody coming in either direction. Turned round to head home and the half-a-squirrel was back in the middle of the path!! Unfortunately the dog got to it before we did that time and I had to hold his mouth open while poor squeamish DH put his hand in to retrieve it. Goodness only knows how it had got back on the path!! we now refer to that walk as 'Squirrel's End'.

Soubriquet · 06/09/2020 13:30

My most embarrassing, and disgusting, was I went through a period of time where IBS like symtoms suddenly appeared.
Taking the kids to school, all good, started walking back and I felt my stomach churn. Shit, I thought to myself (pun not intended)

Sped up walking and I would have made it if it wasn’t for the fact that I had to cross a rail line and fucking barriers went down!

I desperately tried to hold it in but my stomach was in agony and the next thing I knew I filled my trousers like a toddler filling their nappy.

I had to half shuffle half walk the rest of the way home and got straight into a bath.

I don’t think anyone else noticed what had happened (thank fuck) but I was shamed for many days.

Luckily I haven’t had any more bouts of IBS like symptoms in a long while

DukeOfEarlGrey · 06/09/2020 13:35

I read the first post and can’t read anymore. OP I’m sorry that happened to you but this thread needs a (lighthearted!) warning 🤢🤢🤢

Mumoflittles · 06/09/2020 13:46

I work for the NHS on a dementia ward & a patient that was once on the ward used to offer out "malteasers" .. only they were rolled up balls of her poo.

EugenesAxe · 06/09/2020 14:01

@NeedToKnow101 I remember now that I did that to our cat once when I was a kid; it didn’t traumatise me as much as half of these - I guess my teenage coolness helped me get over it 😂

The maggoty ham sandwich has greatly affected me... what kind of friend doesn’t notice something like that?!

SimonJT · 06/09/2020 14:12

I had worms when I was abroad for work, they were strong enough and big enough to swim against the toilet flush.

A very drunk lady on a train from Leeds was sat on the same table as me, she was sick all over the table, luckily it had a very slight lip so I could escape before there was enough vomit to flow over the lip.

I had a burst appendix, which isn’t good but I had it removed and all was fine. A few days later while walking round the hospital there was a sudden hot feeling. Part of the wound had opened and puss was pouring out, the smell was awful. This also meant the wound had to be left open.

QuestionableMouse · 06/09/2020 14:28

@DukeOfEarlGrey

I read the first post and can’t read anymore. OP I’m sorry that happened to you but this thread needs a (lighthearted!) warning 🤢🤢🤢
@dukeofearlgrey

What did you expect exactly? The title is warning enough!

GameSetMatch · 06/09/2020 14:35

My dog caught a massive rat once and kept biting it slightly to make it squeak like a toy, he just wouldn’t drop it no matter how much I shouted at him. He carried it until we got back to the car, he didn’t kill it because of his soft mouth. I was horrified! I hate rats and mice.

Zippy1510 · 06/09/2020 14:43

When I was around 9 I was on brownie pack holiday. There was a little playground outside the place we were staying and one afternoon a couple of the girls found a deflated balloon that they then proceeded to take turns blowing up and letting go so it would fly around and deflate. It was a used condom.

dino33 · 06/09/2020 14:49

I was on holiday with my ex. I was walking back to the hotel room from the beach on my own, so that I could get ready for dinner.
Someone had been sick on the tiles outside. I slipped in it, was covered in sick and to make it worse was only wearing a bikini. I walked up to the room with my flip flops squelching with sick only to realise that I didn’t have the room key.
I walked back to the beach but my ex was nowhere to be found. I was not allowed into reception to ask for a spare key because I only had a bikini on.
I had to sit outside the hotel room covered in someone else’s sick for 2 hours until my ex came back to the room. It was disgusting.

Lalotai47 · 06/09/2020 14:52

Woke up in the night as dog was making vomiting sounds. She was on a raw meat diet at the time. She vomited up about 5lbs of raw meat and parts of a decomposing bird onto my white duvet cover. The meat resembled a human brain. Horrendous.

Lalotai47 · 06/09/2020 14:56

On night bus in SE Asia. Young woman in seat in front kept committing out of the window. I felt something wet land on my face. Her vomit was blowing back on to me. This was at the start of a very long journey and I had no way to clean myself up. I had chunks of her Vom in my hair, on my clothes, on my face etc.