To think there is nothing more disgusting than...

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...putting your hand in a sink of old, cold, greasy washing up water to pull the plug out. Shudder.

Closely followed by having to pull the plug out of someone else's, old, cold bath water.

Ha once when DC was about 12 months old he spewed and I instinctively caught it in my hand and against my chest so it formed a little cup between us. I was holding him sitting on the floor and had a handful of sick. I couldn't get up or put him down without sick going everywhere so I got stuck calling out for dh to help, took him quite long to hear!

Imagine you had a husband who is always filling the sink up to do washing up. Great you think! Until you realise that he never. Ever empties the sink. I must have come in to filthy cold water so so many times and our sink isn’t one that the plug is on a chain either- it’s a plug cacher one. So so gross and my absolute pet hate.

It's not the 1960s 😂

Even if you are Lucy enough to have one, some things won’t fit! We are a family of 5 and if i have cooked a meal that requires a couple of large saucepans or a very large pie dish or slow cooker pot then they won’t fit with all the other things from dinner! So some stuff always has to get washed.

Actually the only thing I can think of worse is going out in the garden in the dark to lock up the shed or get something from the line, having bare feet and stepping on a slug.
The texture and memory doesn’t leave you for quite a while

Bloody Hell, how I wish I hadn't just read that.

I leave things like porridge bowls or baked on stuff to soak before putting them in the dishwasher because despite the ads our dishwasher cant always get everything off.

But neither of those tasks I find especially gross. Anything toilet or vomit related will be 100 times worse imo

Cleaning leaves from an outside drain is worse. I plunge in my arm elbow deep into freezing cold, smelly water. One time I pulled out a partly decomposed rat.

That's the worst thing I've ever read on here. Jesus! A new spider nightmare for me. I'll just never sleep at all til I die, that'll be fine won't it?

Stepping in cold cat sick with bare feet.

Biting into a juicy apricot to find it full of maggots.

Stepping in cold cat sick with bare feet.

I've done that. It's bad.

Oh I remember one of my worst days with DD when she was about a year. She was quite grouchy one day after having some jabs the day before. We met some friends for lunch and on the way back DH decided he "needed" something in a garden centre. I stayed in the car, DD cried so took her out of her car seat and as I lifted her out she threw up in my face and all over my hair and top. DH was another 20 minutes in the bloody garden centre. He came back to find us both grumpy and covered in vomit!! 🤢🤢

I'm sorry but are washing up bowls no longer a thing?

Urgh my worst is a hedgehog which had got stuck in the rigid gridding covering our pond. It drowned the filled with gas and attempts to dislodge with rakes etc only punctured the skin and released gag inducing smells. DH eventually had to get up close with a pair of long sleeved pond gloves to yank it out by its leg. I ran off before I hurled into the bushes!

Finally someone who agrees with me! I have hated this all my life and the family laugh at me or say I’m being precious. I have no problem washing up but I use gloves and a brush on a stick.

Long haul flight. Guy opposite was noisily snorting more than sniffing flem every 10 minutes. Accompanied by gurgling sounds.
Revolting.

Pineapple on pizza 🤮

I once had to scrape thousands of maggots off of a sheep which was being eaten alive by them. That was pretty disgusting. It wasn't even my sheep.

Cleaning a toilet brush 🤢

oh, also stepping on a slug with no shoes and socks on 😬

@Tuilpmouse; nowhere did I say they were my shoes.

Yup, rancid pigeon juice in a downpipe is grim. I used to work for a county council property services department and we had an internal downpipe burst, through into a classroom and there was a fair amount of dead pigeon involved judging by the smell and the detritus... possibly one of my most gross professional moments!

Staggering out of a warm bed half asleep to go for a pee then sliding on cold cat vomit. ( barefoot of course) I’ll never forget that texture.

A bit worse, I think, is treading on a slug which has invaded your kitchen. I mean, you should be vaguely prepared for trouble if you go outside barefoot at night, but you don't expect it in the house.
Made worse yet if you pick the damn thing off your foot with your fingers while balanced on one leg - the sliminess doesn't wash off easily.

Yes ! My OH insists on doing a few dishes by hand but never empties the sink. I usually remember before bed