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to want to quit my job NOW and never, ever, ever, ever go back, and cross the street if I see anyone coming who has ever seen me there?

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IncontinentiaBotox · 14/01/2010 16:44

I have far and away the most humiliating and revolting experience ever to share with you. I swear every word is completely factual.

A few days ago I discovered to my horror that I have threadworms. Not having any vile chemical preparations in the house, I decided to go the natural route and googled to find out what to do. I used various things but the relevant one is garlic. I ate three chopped up cloves of garlic each evening and shoved a scored clove up my arse before bed, to kill the ones which come bown to breed.

I went to work today and had horrific flatulence; this may be linked to the dinner of lentils and brussels sprouts I had last night. The stench was truly disgusting and there was just far too much wind to be able to hold it in, so I had to let it out in stages and hope for the best.

I work in a nursery and naturally everybody assumed it was the children. I ended up changin three children who hadn't pooed themselves just to avert suspicion from myself.

It got to the point where I felt a large and insistent turd descending and needed to go and let it out. So I slipped into the adult loo (there is only one) and sat down on the toilet to be greeted by a sort of "pop" as the clove of garlic popped out, then a long stage-whisper of impacted fart, then a massive turd. The smell was so strong I could almost taste it, and to my utter horror the air-freshener was all gone and the window jammed. I stayed in there for as laong as I could get away with but after about ten minutes somebody started trying the door, so I had to come out. Three consecutive colleagues then used the toilet - the smell of rotting shit-and-garlic pervaded the entire nursery and people were actually considering going home early because they felt sick.

Naturally everybody is pretending they don't know it was me - but everyone knows. It still stank in there when I left.

So AIBU to never, ever darken their doorstep again?

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SpeckledHen · 15/01/2010 14:22

SPB I guess it is awful. I had never thought about it like that. I certainly wouldn't want that to happen to one of my dds. At the time I didn't know how to fend him off. I was relieved by the interruption but did not feel violated just felt afterwards it was funny.

GetOrfMoiLand · 15/01/2010 14:24

Oh yes I forgot about Reality's spreadsheet.

Come on OP - confess who you are!

StealthPolarBear · 15/01/2010 14:44

glad thats how you felt but horrible you didnt want to come out vto use the loo

HeadlessLadyH · 15/01/2010 15:03

OP, I need to know if you went to work today and what the fallout of your arse has been.

HeadlessLadyH · 15/01/2010 15:06

ofyourarse

Jux · 15/01/2010 15:22

OP you have my never-ending admiration; not only do you do that to yourself, but then you tell us about it! I am in awe. Hail to you Oh Goddess of the GarlicArse

Thank you

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 16:22

OK so I went to work

a few horrid little smiles and a bit of an atmosphere - but nothing too terrible, I managed to keep my head down and avoid being too noticeable for most of the day

until five minutes before the end, during circle time, when I leaned forward to restrain an escaping 3yo and snapped off a brief but horrifyingly loud cabbagey guff right into the face of the snooty trainee teacher sitting behind me

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piprabbit · 15/01/2010 16:25

Go and buy some carbon tablets - tonight ideally, won't get rid of the sound effects but may help moderate the stench.

Well done for putting a brave arse face on it.

caramelwaffle · 15/01/2010 16:28

Hahahahahahahahha

It does'nt get better does it?

Mallenstreak · 15/01/2010 16:30

OP - please update us asap. Has everyone at work got a cats bum face today?
By the way I hope your 'threads' are not as long as this one!

Northernlurker · 15/01/2010 16:30

Never mind - worst things happen at sea.

(Thats assuming persons at sea adopt the garlic cure, not otherwise )

lucyellensmumagain · 15/01/2010 16:32

lolol at trainee teacher - did she say anything or did she just sit there like this

caramelwaffle · 15/01/2010 16:33

Oh and I'm loving your "..bit of an atmosphere.."

I should say so

Whiff a woooooooooooo

Mallenstreak · 15/01/2010 16:33

Sorry cross-posted. Thanks for really making me pmsl - I needed to after the week I've had. I've made a mental note to put a Tena Lady in my pants before I next go on MN.

Veedol · 15/01/2010 16:34

It's maybe amusing, this saga, but surely the most important part is not IncontinentiaBotox's feelings of embarrassment but that probably some poor unfortunate child is harbouring thread worms. She should bite the bullet, go into work and explain to her colleagues what has happened and find out if this is an isolated case or if it has spread to others.
In future perhaps she should stick to more orthodox methods when it comes to treating thread worms.

Sorry, Vee.

lucyellensmumagain · 15/01/2010 16:38

oh, um, cough, yes, of course - yes, most unprofessional

Don't ALL children harbour thread worms and nits anyway?

caramelwaffle · 15/01/2010 16:42

Yes. Yes of course. She has a duty of care to inform the nursery of her condition and us when she next practices natural cures

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 16:44

veedol, perhaps I'll put an anonymous types note in my boss's pigeonhole a la "there has been a case of threadworms on your staff, please inform parents" on Monday

now off you sod with yer commonsense advice

seriously, am I ever going to stop farting? And will they ever stop honking of garlic?

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caramelwaffle · 15/01/2010 16:45

No. Never. Emigrate.

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 16:47

where would I emigrate to though? Transylvania?

I suppose I could go to France, buy a stripey top and a bicycle and make a new life as an onion-seller

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TheBossofMe · 15/01/2010 16:51

I am crying laughing at this thread - my team must think I am absolutely mad.

SolidGoldBrass · 15/01/2010 16:52

You Do know that someone, somewhere, has a real fetish for garlicky farts, don't you? You could always get a new career making, er, specialist videos. Of the scratch-and-sniff variety, maybe..?

Veedol · 15/01/2010 16:55

My XH probably, he had some absolutely disgusting habits. Has anyone played 'submarines'? then you'll know what I mean by disgusting habits.

Vee.

IncontinentiaBotox · 15/01/2010 16:57

come to think of it, there must be someone somewhere who has a fetish for women with threadworms too

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lucyellensmumagain · 15/01/2010 17:23

uggh, this reminds me of my DPs friend. Not long after we got together i had a case of threadworm - of course i was mortified as DP had to be treated too He tried to make me feel better by telling me about his friend, who, apparently, was indulging in a spot of rimming with his GF and once crawled out of her bum - apparently, he fiddled with it Thanks for reviving that memory for me

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