Rotting corpse, moaning children and yoga

[BigBaublesGalore]

I woke up today and decided I would start a new positive routine, healthy eating and yoga (as I'm overweight and my health is suffering) I got up early with ds, sat down in the lounge with my morning coffee and could smell something REALLY FUNKY!

I kept getting whiffs of it but I couldn't put my finger on what it was. Anyway... got the yoga mat out from the back of the sofa, Sat on it and again I could smell this funky smell... now I'm thinking it might be me as I'm in a different room...

Anyway as soon as I start the yoga the kids decide to start a bickering session about whose going to eat all the Pringles later... (because I told them they're not having them for breakfast)

So 3:15 seconds into the yoga I just gave up because I couldn't even hear adrienne telling me to breath calming deep breaths over the children bickering and even when I could the stench of that smell was horrible...

I sniffed the mat some more and yep I finally remember... it's the smell of death! I've experienced that smell before when the cats bought in a mouse and hid it behind my washing basket... Ive traced the smell to the back of the sofa where the mats are stored... the ends of the mat that touch the carpet smell rancid...

I pulled the whole front room out, Xmas tree and all, lifted all the sofas (at least I got a workout) but fuck me there's not a single corpse down there but it stinks!

Not even fabreeze is covering it up

What could it be?

Aibu to eat the whole tub of Pringles in spite

@Nothing7
Yes! I don’t want to read any more gross stuff...but it’s like a train wreck, it’s hard to resist looking...!

my skin has been crawling - the mummified rat 🤮🤢

I did semi-seriously consider putting the mummified rat on ebay. (After all the little sod had destroyed some of my stock by leaking on it - he did owe me!).
The p+p considerations put me off though.

Oh dear, you need some good cleaner go to hardware store, once floorboards clean. Scrub carpet change the underlay just the bit that stinks. Probably something the cat brought in, then ate. Could be damp too but let's deal with that after Christmas.

Sorry just seen rat, should have read whole thread. Still cleaning bit may help

Back in the 80's two large opossums who were rabid died under our back porch in the middle of a blazing hot,humid South Carolina summer-the stench was god awful

What about a mouse looking at you while you sleep in the middle of the night from between the window blinds

@Greenmandm that picture is amazing!

@StanfordPines

We had many cats when I was growing up and living in the sticks they brought in all sorts of animals. One time we had ‘the smell’ and realised it was only around when we opened the fridge. The fridge was emptied and cleaned but the smell continued. Eventually the fridge was moved and it was discovered that there was a rat that had got under the fridge and chewed through the cable that goes to the light. It had electrocuted itself but still completed the circuit. Every time the door opened the light came on and electricity passed through the rat warming it gently.

I am howling at this 😂😂😂

Fuck me, OP. I think you need to construct some sort of garden of remembrance in your sub floor for all the poor lost souls down there. May they rest in peace 🪦

@SpornStar

Fuck me, OP. I think you need to construct some sort of garden of remembrance in your sub floor for all the poor lost souls down there. May they rest in peace 🪦

Eww I know... the worst part is that was all we could reach with one arms length from one raised plank in the corner... dread to think what's under the rest of it 😱

You just need a Newt and you all the ingredients for a potion I think?

rats?

In our city the voting polls are held in private residential garages...the homeowner is paid for the use of their garage..I always volunteered ours because I would have to straighten up my garage so all the voters could get in to vote. One time after spending a week cleaning out I smelled something dead in the garage...of course it had to be on the day before the election. I had to act quickly because I didn't want all the people to be vomiting whilst trying to vote. I started sniffing around and worked out that the smell was coming from behind the wall in a cabinet🤮🤮🤮. I got a saw and ripped a hole in the wall and sure enough it was a dead mouse stinking up the place. Held my nose with one hand and got a long pincher thing and disposed of him....the voters were none the wiser. Once you've smelled rotting death, there is never a chance of mistaking that smell again. Yuck!