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AIBU?

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To still be retching about this after an hour (warning: may make you heave).

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Megatron · 12/10/2011 16:16

I went to take my washing in about an hour ago. Had put the peg bag on top of the table outside and it had slipped down between the table and the chair so I put my hand down to get it out. I shoved my hand in something soft and squishy and after a couple of more prods I had a look. It was a dead sparrow, missing eye and now even more mangled by me. Cue me running round the garden shreiking. AIBU to vom even now? Boak.

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ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 12/10/2011 17:11

There is a name for that dance ya know, it's the dance of squeamishness and rage

Gingefringe · 12/10/2011 17:41

God that's awful.

I felt the same disgust a few years ago when I was frying some eggs, cracked one egg on the side of the frying pan and a half formed decomposing chick came out and was sizzling in the pan!!

I still shudder at the thought of it now! The supermarket were extremely apologetic and gave us a load of vouchers.

Squitch · 12/10/2011 17:50

Urgh! I used to rent a room in a house years ago and one day when I went into the living room there was an absolutely disgusting smell. I asked if anyone else could smell it and we spent about half an hour looking round for whatever it was but couldnt find anything. After about a day the smell went away so we forgot about it.

Fast forward about 6 months and the landlady decided to have a proper clean up. There was a HUGE rug in the living room that went under all the furniture so was never moved, when we lifted it there was a perfectly preserved millimetre thick mouse - which we must have walked over and over for months. Landlady was a science tech at a local high school and last i heard it was framed in the biology lab

Animol · 12/10/2011 17:54

Few days ago our garden door was a bit hard to shut - when I opened it in the morning out fell a lump of bloody intestines that turned out to be a toad that must have taken refuge in the door frame :(

hiddenhome · 12/10/2011 18:19

I had a cat who used to catch mice during the night and we'd get up in the morning to mouse organs strewn all over the dining room floor....cue dh who answered the telephone one morning.....in his bare feet

babycham42 · 12/10/2011 18:24

Social I sympathise with the welly lark.I put my wellies on with bare feet (just to dash out) to find decomposing mouse from dear puss.

These are making me chuckle

Cat sick with bare feet is also rather lovely...

Bledkr · 12/10/2011 18:31

My uncle and Aunt stayed at my cousins house whist she was away,During the week they made food including toast in the toaster.
Towards the end of the week the toaster stopped working so Uncle took it apart to fix it.Inside he found a very dead and very toasted mouse They think the cat must have brought it home and it took refuge in the toaster. Arrrrrrgh

ragged · 12/10/2011 18:35

DD used to hide dead animals in her room. Led to maggot infestation in carpet. Groping a dead sparrow is pah, nothing.

PeneloPeePitstop · 12/10/2011 18:48

ooh I feel all funny now

EsmeWeatherwax · 12/10/2011 18:55

I found a liquid mouse under the sofa once, must have been half dead when the cat chased it in. We were like...what is that smell???

Also he once threw up an entire mouse in the kitchen. Cat sick + dead animal, lovely.

NoHunIntended · 12/10/2011 19:06

hiddenhome · 12/10/2011 19:06

CointreauVersial · 12/10/2011 19:11

I trod on a fox carcass while going for an early-morning run; it was on the grass verge, and I had to run onto the grass to avoid a car.

Oh sweet jesus, the smell; it was made far worse by the fact that I was out of breath. I heaved and heaved for ages.

The damned thing was there for days, I had to change my running route to avoid the whiff in the end.

Arfurnoozingbrain · 12/10/2011 19:16

My dear cat used to regularly leave decapitted sparrows on my pillow while I slept as a love offering for me.

My worst 'eeeuuugh' moment involved mysteriously-appearing flies over a week or so, a teapot containing an inch or so of teabags and left-over tea on a warm windowsill and the evential realisation of where the flies where coming from...and a tea-pot FULL of maggots....

babycham42 · 12/10/2011 19:20

hiddenhome I should think that little girl did need to go for her bath.....!

complexnumber · 12/10/2011 19:58

Treading on a dead fox trumps everything so far. I really did lol.

I have little to add apart from my Bil staggering out his back door during a party and treading on a dead sparrow barefoot (or should that be barf-foot)

And then when I was teaching in Africa I stepped out one afternoon to find I had pinned a rat by its tail with my flip flop, it was swinging about... but I had to stamp on it. Ewwwwgh

youbethemummylion · 12/10/2011 20:46

eugh!!!!! When I was 14 I did my work experience at a pet shop. I was told to clean out the empty hamster cages and put in fresh bedding for when the new hamsters arrived. I put my hand in to scoop out a big fluffy pile of hamster bedding for my fingers to disappear into a pile of long dead hamsters writhing with maggots! I have NEVER freaked out so much in my life!

picnicbasketcase · 12/10/2011 20:49

Sweet Jebus.

Deflatedballoonbelly · 12/10/2011 20:51

That has just made me laugh. Out loud. A real LOL! Thats cheered me up, Im sulking because I flaked halfway through dinner (So I didnt have to clean up the bastard mess) and now Im starving and feeling sorry for myself. As you do...

A few months back, I was slouched on the sofa with a glass of wine watching TV. it was about 10pm and I was very relaxed and half asleep to be honest. When a sudden BANG BANG BANG! I thought it was a flipping gun or something. it wasnt. The world had just fallen out of my French Bulldogs arse. He bolted across the room, my other dog a terrier jumped up and ran through, slipped and it went everywhere! I shrieked and split wine EVERYWHERE. my OH jumped up and fell in it and poor little Frenchie sat cowering in the corner shaking at all the chaos in the space of ten seconds.

It was the Worst.Poo.I.Have.Ever.Seen.

still

rumcrumble · 12/10/2011 20:59

Yanbu. Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh.

weevilswobble · 12/10/2011 21:06

Deflated, rotfl!! You tell em well!

weevilswobble · 12/10/2011 21:07

Love these bonkers threads!
Am supposed to be reading a boring 35 page lease. MN much more entertaining!

2ticks · 12/10/2011 21:08

We had a blocked outside drain, so the water was not draining away - I thought it was just blocked with fallen leaves so I tried to unbock it by jabbing the leaves with a stick to 'unclump' them. When I thought I had jabbed enough, I put on rubber gloves to pull out the clumps of leaves. Pulled out a decomposing and rather 'jabbed at' frog....

FlamingFannyDrawers · 12/10/2011 21:12

Oh these are hilarious.

My dog once managed to get a tub of Utterly Butterly from the fridge in the middle of the night (she was constantly on the hunt for food) anyway I will never forget walking into the kitchen that morning! Greasy dihorrea (sp) EVERYWHERE! I slipped all over the place and the smell was like nothing i had ever smelt before.

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Megatron · 12/10/2011 21:16

Leaping on a dead fox makes my paltry sparrow incident seem a bit lame now. It's comforting to know I am not alone though and many of us have had similarly disgusting experiences. We should form a club.

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