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What's the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to you?

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OverlyFragrant · 16/05/2026 13:27

Let me go first because it happened just now.

My dog, leaning over me as I laid on my side, vomited right over me straight into my ear canal, down my neck and in my hair.

Brand new bedsheets and all.

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PhiladelphiaRose · 16/05/2026 21:25

My sister was lambing and took us to see the orphan baby lambs that were being hand reared. She handed me one for a cuddle and I took it and somehow managed to stick my finger in its bum. Accidentally!!

(really nothing though compared to come stories on here.. :( )

ThePoetsWife · 16/05/2026 21:34

Bunnybigears · 16/05/2026 17:48

Long story short I was on a tiny island more of a large rock with about 30 strangers having got there in kayaks. Nothing on the island apart from vegetation and trees. A questionable BBQ the night before meant several of us needed a number 2. I found a nice secluded spot with a perfect looking large leaf for wiping. Picked up leaf whilst in precarious squatting position, someone had already used the leaf for the same purpose! Screamed, toppled backwards into my own pile. I had someone else's shit on my hand and my own shit all over my back! Everyone was very confused when I ran out of the trees into the sea fully clothes but its the only thing I could think of to resolves the situation.

You win!!🏆

Stardancerintheskye · 16/05/2026 21:35

28 years ago,I put then year old dd in her cot,wearing just a nappy as it was in a heatwave

I was 8 months pregnant at the time and as with all my pregnancies,I suffered with sickness all the way through

I took the hour or so to get some rest,when I heard dd stirring upstairs

I took a few minutes to get upstairs and opened the door

Dd sat there,grinning at me

She was covered in her own shit-head to toe

Her cot,the wall,the carpet and the curtains had been sprayed with poo

I threw up before starting to clean the mess up-which was made worse by the fact it was boiling hot and making the smell worse (plus I was a single mum so was on my own)

She never went to bed again just wearing a nappy-even if it was just a vest,she wore something she couldn't undo

NotAWurstToIt · 16/05/2026 21:38

Two spring to mind. Many years ago I worked with adults with disabilities and then at weekends in an old people’s home as well, so I’m completely fine with all bodily functions, but I’m not great with saliva. I was helping an elderly lady and she said (straight after breakfast) that she’d like her false teeth cleaned. As I reached into my pocket to grab a glove she grabbed my bare hand and spat her warm teeth into it. I was heaving into the sink while trying to clean her teeth . .

The other one was my cat (no longer with us), as a kitten used to sleep in my hair at night. I woke up in the middle of the night to feel him soft and warm in my hair, but I could also feel him on my feet. I quickly realised that he’d brought in a beheaded still warn rabbit and dumped it in my hair. Amongst the screaming and me trying to clean it up while sobbing, trod on its leg that he’d chewed off.

ThePoetsWife · 16/05/2026 21:40

ThePoetsWife · 16/05/2026 21:34

You win!!🏆

Just read the rape stories - so sorry 😔

shockthemonkey · 16/05/2026 21:44

I had six or seven tropical larvae emerge from under the skin of my back. Nurse was gagging as she tweezered them out for me.

Gettingbysomehow · 16/05/2026 21:45

When I was a new NHS podiatrist and had a foot explode all over my face. Thank god I wear glasses.
It looked like a tiny blister but it wasnt and the force behind that blister when I punctured it was epic. Im much more careful with abcesses these days and wear a full face shield as we get a lot of them.
There wasnt an awful lot of that foot left afterwards.

Siriusmuggle · 16/05/2026 21:46

This was my H, not me. He was in the car with our son who was 11 or 12. Son was in passenger seat. They were doing 70 on a dual carriage way, son announced he was going to be sick. For some unfathomable reason H told him to open the window and aim outside. Obviously the drag factor/wind/physics blew the vomit straight back in the window and spray painted the pair of them and my car with vomit.
I sold the car not long after as I couldn’t fully get the smell out.

JudgeJ · 16/05/2026 21:50

1in3willgetcancer · 16/05/2026 17:47

I have done #3 and it did come to mind when pondering the question.

Barefoot, I stepped on the biggest slug I've ever seen!

Girlwithavibe · 16/05/2026 22:08

Iamblossom · 16/05/2026 18:02

I went to the loo on a train. Reached for the toilet paper and someone had had horrific diarrhea and shoved their dirty used toilet paper back into the clean dispenser. Hand came out covered in someone else's shit and the water tap wasn't working.

🤮

DiscoDown18 · 16/05/2026 22:23

My cat was snuggled on my lap when a horrendous smell arose and it became apparent he'd sharted and the resulting diarrhoea was pooled in my dress. He jumped off looking quite shocked about it and I then had to swill the puddle off my dress and attempt to take it off whilst trying to keep the shitty fabric away from my face.

This wasn't as bad as when I opened a cat food pouch which had obviously been split at some point during transit and the food inside had gone rancid. I swear I could smell it on my hands for days afterwards.

Makingmusicinmy50s · 16/05/2026 22:37

I had previously had a day off work for a very painful and large abscess in my mouth (on the gum of a lower molar). I took antibiotics and it mostly cleared. It reappeared a few weeks later with a vengence but I didn't want to phone in sick again with the same issue. As the morning progressed the abscess got bigger and more painful and my cheek was really swollen. I popped into my colleague's room, and said 'I'm not sure if I can carry on today with this', pointing at my face. No sooner had I said that, I noticed the pain had disappeared.

The abscess had burst in my mouth. A load of tissues covered in green and yellow gunk later, I carried on like nothing had happened. Gross, but the relief!

TheFormidableMrsC · 16/05/2026 22:44

Had to work very late (London). Got on a train from Kings X and sat opposite a man who was behaving normally but I realised was very drunk. He had a briefcase on his lap. He suddenly opened the briefcase and vomited profusely into it. An awful lot of food and liquid. To be honest I was grateful it wasn’t on my feet but the smell for what felt like a gazillion stops was horrific. I often wonder if he ever opened that case again!

BumpyaDaisyevna · 16/05/2026 22:55

Think it would have to be when DH was away with work and I was alone with Dd 2.8 and Ds 6 months.

We all had norovirus. I was vomiting and diarrhoea simultaneously. Then baby ds had a poonami in his grobag and all over his sheets. I just about got it all sorted and beds changed when toddler DD threw up in her little bed.

it was such a dreadful time you just had to laugh. I was covered in vom and poo and I was really ill.

Babyboomtastic · 16/05/2026 22:55

I'm terrible with vomit, verging on emetophobe. Unfortunately, the sound/smell of vomiting sets me off retching.

I was first trimester trimester with my second, trying to get my 1yo to sleep in a wrap on my back. Lots of pregnancy nausea but no vomiting yet. She suddenly vomited, all down my back. This set me off and I started vomiting (her still attached). That made her vomit more, and set me back off, all while in trying to untie the wrap, which is also covered in vomit, whilst we both repeatedly set eachother off. I had to phone my husband to come home from his friends to help, and was like WTH has happened here as he walked into a scene of vomitty destruction.

ForeverDelayedEpiphany · 16/05/2026 22:56

SuitcaseAndSecrets · 16/05/2026 18:13

Being drugged and gang raped 40 years ago ( im 67) waking up with my sheets stained with urine .
.blood ... faeces and semen.

Goodness, that's really terrible. You poor thing, you must have been terrified. I'm so sorry 💔😪

FlamingoFloss · 16/05/2026 22:58

DH and I got off a flight in New York City and got on a bus. I suffer with travel sickness and started to feel really unwell. I realised I was about to be sick and we didn’t have a bag. We had an A4 plastic wallet with our travel docs in so DH whipped them out and gave it to me. I was violently sick (trying to be quiet as I was dreadfully embarrassed) and whilst heaving I also completely wee’d myself. Also the plastic document holder had slits in the bottom corners and so the sick dripped out all over me so I was sat there covered in piss and sick. At least it was my own I guess.

AmethystDeceiver · 16/05/2026 23:31

I've stepped on several slugs with bare feet in my time, they used to invade the kitchen.

My contenders are the time I walked into a mound of warm dog shit INSIDE a posh department store in NYC. It was summer and I was wearing the flimsiest flip flops. They didn't even offer to give me a new pair of flip flops, they barely apologized (although I guess it wasn't really their fault).

Worse than that was when I took then toddler DS down the lane behind our house, he was fussing not wanting to walk so I lifted him up onto my shoulders. I could smell dog shit everywhere but couldn't work out where it was - checked my shoes etc... realized DS had stepped on it and then when I lifted him over my head I spread it everywhere. It was dragged up my arm, in my hair, some how even in my watch 🤢

Oh and one time my inhaler was in my bag with an apple that was obviously past it's best and when I took it a little green worm shot out into my mouth.

ForeverDelayedEpiphany · 16/05/2026 23:55

Hamela · 16/05/2026 20:59

I once accidentally stood in a smackhead's giant shit in an alley when walking the dog (opiate users get constipated and then... They eventually shit, and shit hugely). It was absolutely grim. I bleached my boots but got rid of them because I just couldn't wear them again.

Also popped a slug with bare feet, absolutely vomitous sound and feeling.

A rotten liquidy potato hidden in a cupboard make me instantly vomit, which I'd never done before. It smelled terrible.

Ooh the liquidy potato has just reminded me of a vile, liquified squidgy potato in a cupboard in my student halls' kitchen 20 odd years ago.

It's definitely stayed with me as a result of how awful it was, and my best friend from uni and I still joke about it now 🤣🤣🤣

SinuousTendrils · 17/05/2026 00:04

Cat scent marking in my mouth
Finding a vole face under a pillow

ForeverDelayedEpiphany · 17/05/2026 00:07

Actually, I've just remembered the time when our previous cat brought in the half eaten face of a rabbit, and left just a partial nose and mouth laying on the living room carpet. I practically nearly threw up, then had to get my friend from next door to come round and remove it as I was so disgusted and wuss like !

ClairDeLaLune · 17/05/2026 00:42

Was breastfeeding 8 month old DS in the back of a parked car on a really hot day. DS had had fish for lunch. Yep you can guess what I got covered in.

Month later, DS’s christening, he’d had a Heinz jar for lunch for the sake of speed. Another hot day. Yep, covered in Heinz orange baby food sick at the Christening party. Luckily I’d bought 2 new dresses and couldn’t decide which to wear. How fortuitous I ended up wearing one after the other.

Oh yes and also - mashed up avocado. Ideal baby food yes? Not when you end up wearing it!

InTheWindow · 17/05/2026 00:49

Riding my first pony out by myself aged 12, feeling chuffed with my independence. Near the beginning of the ride he freaked out passing a dead bird, I fell off, but held on to the reins as we were on a road. He dragged me on my front through the squished crow, along a wall and through the crow again before he stopped. I was so cross with him I got back on and finished the hour long ride covered in bird.

Nerdynerdynerd · 17/05/2026 01:15

Whatineed · 16/05/2026 17:45

I was holding DS (then 3) in my arms in the sea on holiday, on an island in the Maldives. A boat came into the harbour nearby and caused some large waves. DS had his mouth open squealing and gulped a huge mouthful of seawater, that slapped against my norks into his mouth. He promptly threw up, with the remains of his lunch, right down the cleavage of my bikini.

A shoal of tiny fish swam into my bikini top and started eating the sicky mess, wriggling everywhere between us, while he cried and threw up some more.

This has horrified me beyond measure... its the fish in bikini top eating sick... new fear unlocked!

SuperBlondie28 · 17/05/2026 18:04

I got bad food poisoning twice. Both times, it started while I was asleep at night and I ended up laying in my own diarrhoea. Hubby got covered in it as well 🤮💩

As a teenager, I found a maggot ridden dead bird under my bed. Guess my cat had left it there. Not sure why I couldn't smell it.