a thread for times when you walked into a room, asked “what is that horrible smell?” and what the smell was
i asked “what is that horrible smell?” and it turned out my coworker had a backpack full of old canteloupes she bought for a dollar
more recently, i thought something was rotting in my desk, but it turned out that my neighbor was eating eggs
mystery smell in my apartment kitchen circa ’05 (whole thread devoted to this mystery) never properly explained.
smelled like a bunch of mice were re-enacting the 120 days of sodom behind the sink.
OMG i was gonna start a thread on this the other day!!
about once a week a smell permeates my workspace that is so revolting i almost can’t stand it. it’s a unique blend of:
burnt dog feces
close-up skunk
a container of wet clothing you have just opened up, which has been closed for months
i’ve got no idea what it is, but i am pretty sure that the wall it emanates from is the dividing wall between my workshop and a meth lab.
historically, the best example of this was when i was getting picked up for a date (in high school) and i asked him “so i guess you just finished cleaning the bathroom?” (he told me on the phone earlier that he had been cleaning the bathroom) and he said “no, it’s fahrenheit” (a notably foul-smelling cologne — do people still wear this?!)
a container of wet clothing you have just opened up, which has been closed for months
oh god this is a terrible smell
not really related but this just reminded me: i had no idea till i moved to the US that “skunk” is called that because it actually smells like a skunk... i always thought it was just because it was strong-smelling, LIKE a skunk.
;_; Fahrenheit was my cologne of choice
now I go with Moulton Brown black pepper
ew that also reminds me of meeting boys when i was younger who would always smell slightly damp bc they were fucking useless at doing laundry
there’s this female perfume/scent or something that’s supposed to smell ‘fierce’ or ‘mature’ or something but just smells awwfuuull
does anybody know what I’m talking about
sorry oh noes
it smelled like lysol
i thoroughly like good smelling people, but this was not a good smell
there are lots of scents like that dayo
OPIUM?!
ELIZABETH ARDEN’S RED DOOR?
idk it just seems like the smell that a girl wears when she doesn’t wnat to smell like flowers
just smells awful tho
*goes to smelltube.com*
there was a customer i used to deal with on the reg, who was a perfectly normal-seeming human being, but she had the WORST WORST MOST AWFUL personal smell i’ve ever encountered. sort of a bizarre mixture of mustiness and mildew.
it was so overpowering that i would have to wash the clothes she tried on bc they were too revolting to return to the rack.
all three incidents i mentioned were all times when i said out loud “what is that horrible smell?” and it was someone in the room
yeah it’s the really rich, mildew-y, damp smells that are the worst.
the kind that you can feel coating your face
again dayo there are lots of different types of perfumes other than flowers and stank — there are orientals, chypres, etc.
my wife went through a phase where she was all into Clinique everything including their perfumes/colognes and she tried to get me to start wearing Happy! For Men, which basically smelled like a citrus Renuzit air freshener cone; that was horrifying
also just recently we had so much bad food shoved way in the back of our refrigerator that waves of what could be charitably described as “period smell” used to waft through our kitchen at random times until we cleaned that bad boy out
i am talking about having to confront the source of the horrible smell face to face and be like “oh...sorry”
but a catalogue of horrible smells is ok too i guess
i prefer to catalogue good smells though
xxp That reminds me of the time that I had to clear out what was practically compost from the salad draw at the bottom of the fridge, armed only with a single rubber glove with a hole in one of the fingers. Ah, shared student houses.
the fridge thing was a total “what is that terrible smell?” situation complete with forensic investigation and dawning horror at what was in the back of our fridge, likely plotting to break free in the middle of the night and murder us
once i smelled a terrible smell, and i blamed it on my elderly neighbor for a while but it turned out to be a dead mouse beside my fridge
September/kitchen/rotten potatoes
even worse than the fridge smell is when you have a stack of dirty dishes that haven’t been done in days and days, and there is no apparent smell until... you lift one off and suddenly the trap of nastiness starts seeping into the air.
i kinda wish there were a smelltube.com but only for good smells
that would make me really happy, in fact
oh i have another one
went camping for the weekend, came home and smelled a terrible fermented fart smell. is it my dirty clothes? no, it is the water from the pot of beans and rice i rinsed, but neglected to wash
uuuuuuuuuuuuughhhh so gross
the actual worst worst is when you are by yourself in a room and you fart, and then you leave to get something, and then you walk back in and realize that an entire colony of dead mice is in your ass
Or if you fart in the car and the lock it up and later when you return to the car with another person and open the door, there it is, waiting for you.
Or so I’ve heard.
dyao another contender for the perfume of which you speak is CINNABAR by Estee Lauder. Full dIsclosure: I love that stuff and wear it occasionally but I think it smells okay on me and I know lots of people hate it.
Also maybe Clinique Aromatics Elixer.
I mean to say I know lots of people hate Cinnanar out of the bottle but like the way it smells on me. Or maybe they’re just being nice and start uncontrollably retching when I leave the room.
coworkers’ reheated leftovers
I walked into the front door of my house once and said aloud “what is that smell?” and it was my roommate, hiding behind the door to surprise me. That was awkward.
TBF he was once given the nickname “old pizza” (he kind of smells like that)
September/kitchen/rotten potatoes
― William (C), Friday, December 2, 2011 2:33 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
This has happened to me twice. The second time it smelled enough like vomit to cause me to bring up my lunch.
hmm next time I smell this perfume I will try to capture it in a bottle and give it to you guys irl, to confirm.
you know what’s a great horrible smell? fish sauce
a variation of this:
I was talking to a college roommate one night, sitting on his bed, just about nonsense. I asked him when he had gotten brown sheets and he told me that these were the same blue ones he had at the beginning of the semester, he just never washed them
I never set foot in his room again
hahaha
oh old pizza and brown sheets now that is what i am looking for
smelled like a bunch of mice were re-enacting the 120 days of sodom behind the sink.
― dr. strongo, Friday, December 2, 2011 2:16 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
also just recently we had so much bad food shoved way in the back of our refrigerator that waves of what could be charitably described as “period smell” used to waft through our kitchen at random times until we cleaned that bad boy out
― OH NOES, Friday, December 2, 2011 2:25 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
dying at both of these
my kitchen sink smells fucked up right now. i guess i need baking soda or something?
I bought my house in 2009 from an old widow who had lived there alone for 4 years or so, but who had moved into the house in the 1940s. It had a very particular smell of dust and decomposing chemicals from the upholstery and 40 years of greasy cooking and booze and whatever.
So I’m on the commuter bus heading home yesterday and a guy sits down next to me who smells just like my house before we cleaned it up and renovated. It wasn’t “horrible” like rotten potatoes but it was pretty unpleasant to be rubbing up against him on a bus seat.
iirc the sheet revelation cued me into to some sensory clues that my mind was busily deflecting in order to preserve my sanity, like how the sheets felt vaguely wax-papery and how his bedroom smelled faintly like old ham
xp: my math is somewhat off there. She got the house in the late 50s.
There’s a water treatment plant a couple miles from our house which, thankfully, only smells when you are directly next to it. But sitting at the stoplight adjacent to it is pure torture, even with the windows rolled up tight and the vents shut. I’ve gagged many a time sitting there.
not really related but this just reminded me: i had no idea till i moved to the US that “skunk” is called that because it actually smells like a skunk... i always thought it was just because it was strong-smelling, LIKE a skunk.
― smoove operator, Friday, December 2, 2011 7:19 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
I don’t understand at all. You thought that skunks were called that b/c they smelled strong like a skunk, not b/c they actually smelled the way a skunk does? I’m trying to understand but there’s something I’m not getting.
Mostly I came here to say that this thread title sounds like the name of an Onion infographic, e.g., What Are We Yelling About?
I remember in high school, a bunch of us spent a week at the U of MN at a high school journalism camp where due to a mixup jjj and I were not rooming together as planned. We were in jjj’s room where we’d ordered a pizza and were sitting around bullshitting and eating when jjj’s roommate came in and freaked the fuck out. You would have thought we were frying durian in cat diarrhea based on his reaction, which included angry shouts of “WHAT IS THAT DISGUSTING STENCH” and “GET PERMISSION BEFORE YOU JUST BRING A PIZZA INTO SOMEONE’S ROOM, GAAAAAAAWD!” Of course we were all “um yr roommate is right here and he said it was okay, so whatever” and continued eating.
I want to say he ran out of the room and we hid the pizza box under his bed but I might be making that up.
xp: Jesse, “‘skunk’” = “‘mary jane’” = “‘ganja’”
tbf I will probably kick somebody out of my house for bringing in the horrible stench of dominoes
Holy shit. I read a comment on FB a while back that is perfect for this thread. I have to find it!
xp- Ooooohhhh! Now I understand. Thank you.
steady larfs at my desk, keep it up
lol
IIRC it was some local campus pizza place (which may or may not have been a Dominos now that I think about it)
green peppers smell atrocious on pizza, but it’s not like old canteloupe.
also the worst smelling old lady perfume from clinique is obviously YOUTH DEW
maybe that’s estee lauder?
youth dew vs. creamofsumyunguy
I found it! A guy posted this comment to a friend’s FB post about a stinky train car:
When we lived in the city, I was quite tired one winter morning and wearily took the dog for her morning walk. I rushed back to the apartment, got my bag, headed for the bus stop. I get on at LaSalle and Goethe. At LaSalle and Division, a homeless guy gets on and, of course, sits next to me. It is at that time I smell the strong odor of shit. FML. But, by the time we get to Oak St, the bus is packed and there is nowhere to go, so I just stay put. I get off at LaSalle & Adams, head to the office at the CBOE, the shit smell still haunting me. I get into the office, reach into my jacket pocket for my keys, and find a bag of dog shit, no doubt put there during my dog walk just 20 minutes earlier!
OH NOES otm—we don’t have skunks where i come from, so i had no idea what one smelled like. i wonder how many other people are completely ignorant of this.
xp: oh god, I have a story like that
We were visiting friends in town and their condo had this awful, horrific smell in it that seemed to have no origin; everywhere we went, it was there. We thought we had tracked it down to some spots on the stairs outside their door and the husband, who was head of their condo association, typed up this long letter about cleaning up after spilling things in public spaces and taped it on the front door of the building.
After about 10 minutes of conversation we decided to leave because the smell just wouldn’t go away. We walked outside and I noticed some reasonably fresh dog shit someone had neglected to pick up with a noticeable footprint in it. It jumped out at me because the footprint matched the tread on the bottom of my shoe. Basically, in our quest to find this smell that was magically following us everyone, I managed to track dog shit around their entire condo and halfway up the carpeted stairs in the common space.
Oops.
why do I have so many of these stories, clearly I am a disgusting beast
haha I was just gonna comment about how half this thread is HI DERE posts
the other half is me! i am disgusting but also have a lot of smell-related memories.
I’ve never had to deal with skunk spray close up, mainly just smelled it in roadkill-passing; from a distance and with brief exposure, I actually kinda like it.
i usually like skunk smell too but as i mentioned, i am disgusting.
I don’t mind dead skunk smell, if dead skunk smell is what I think it is
WHAT
SKUNK SPRAY IS THE WORST FUCKING THING IN THE WORLD
gagggagaggrrgrrglaaaaaaaaaa verging on retching just thinking about the time my childhood cat tangled with a skunk, that was not good times
they don’t have to be dead!
xp says the guy who wore lysol perfume
I managed to track dog shit around their entire condo and halfway up the carpeted stairs in the common space.
I have done this. Ugggh!
Old skunk a ways away is okay. Fresh skunk real close will shut you down
xp did the shit hit the fan?
I have done a similar thing as the man with the dog shit in his pocket, except it was a purse that the cat peed on.
I would rather BATHE in cologne than smell a skunk up close ever again
I would rather soak for an hour in DRAKKAR than smell something sprayed by a skunk again, words cannot adequately describe the physical PRESENCE of that smell; the closest I can get is the aggressive BO you sometimes run into on public transportation that mashes so many terrible smells together that the overwhelming scent your brain can process is “stale saliva”.
at work there was one set of cubicles which always emitted the weirdest scent. it was as if food had gone sour and someone had vomited in response to that, and then someone took Lysol to try to cover up the sour food and vomit.
I would rather soak for an hour in DRAKKAR
hahaha what about TWO HOURS?!
you’re right though — the amalgamated stench of super old BO is what makes me retch on the most regular basis
Good lord is that Samoyed cute.
Now that we’re through mowing for the winter and the trees have dropped their leaves all over the yard, I’m very nervous about tracking dogshit into the house.
xp: don’t smell its breath
I think the worst smell ever in my mind is associated with a mental image of a pair of very old red sweatpants that have never, ever been washed
I lived in a total shithole when I first moved out on my own and we had tons of mice. One night my roommate and I were watching TV when we were overwhelmed by a horrible smell. After some inspection he realized it was coming from my chair. Pulling away the cushion revealed that I’d been sitting on a rotten dead mouse for a couple hours. NBD.
Mild, far-off skunk smell is sort of intriguing, but skunk roadkill is bad, (god help if you were the one to hit it) and skunk spray on a dog is worse. My poor childhood dog got sprayed in the face and we tried everything to wash it off (including tomato juice, which did nothing) but it hung on for months. She also got a face full of porcupine quills, and there is no question that a face full of quills is easier to handle than a face full of skunk musk. Not even in the same ballpark.
xps OH NOES OTM. It’s just impossible to handle.
more xps
One of my proudest public transit moments was when I led my inlaws between the cars on a moving train because we boarded a car on which a man who had shit his pants approximately three weeks ago and had yet to clean them was taking a nap. Even better, the car we crossed into smelled like vanilla butter cookies, no lie.
i met this dude at a bar once 4 years ago, halloween karaoke party, he was wearing nothing but a one piece shiny gold spandex jump suit type thing as if he was some generic superhero like “solid gold man” or something, and wafting off of his body was the most confusingly awful scent.
like there’s BO, and then there’s the next-level cottage-cheese-in-the-desert-heat-mixed-with-pickle-brine poupourri that was drifting towards my nostrils in what i swear were visible stink lines.
our cat tangled with a skunk once when I was a kid, which did have a semi-funny ending because before the skunk encounter she was grey and white and afterward, when we pour several cans of tomato juice over her in a fruitless attempt to remove the smell, she ran away before we could wash her off so for several weeks she was stained dark pink and light pink
yeah there is def a world of difference between up-close and far-away skunk. pretty sure we had a family of them living under our house for a while—the weirdest part of the smell is the sort of burnt-rubber aspect.
also remy otm, that should be posted everywhere
yeah I only really remember the burnt-rubber aspect
another fun fact; the urban possum smells just as bad as a skunk
One of my proudest public transit moments was when I led my inlaws between the cars on a moving train because we boarded a car on which a man who had shit his pants approximately three weeks ago and had yet to clean them was taking a nap. Even better, the car we crossed into smelled like vanilla butter cookies, no lie.
― thejenny, Friday, December 2, 2011 9:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
i want to go to this car
took me two reads to realize you said “possum”...xpost
xp I assume you mean the vanilla butter cookie car…
lol
There is absolutely no way that urban ‘possum smells as bad as skunk.
60 seconds of steam makes broccoli sweet and precious
people who steam broccoli, otoh, are disgusting savages
*snaps suspenders proudly*
people who eat broccoli = disgusting savages
sorry ilxors, but it’s true
people who eat broccoli = healthy
...smell terrible, and have stuff between their teeth
:D
(joeks, I love youse all)
you know what else is terrible, is when yr teeth fall out due to scurvy
steamed broccoli also helps block cancer
cancer can’t even handle the smell.
the farting drives it away
steamed broccoli could give hour long orgasms and glorious shiny stools and cure whatever but it would still taste like the worst kind of ass and I refuse to eat it. hmph
many xps—that was me with the gone over Siracha! Haha we do not use enough condiments it seems.
I would consider eating the worst kind of ass for an hour-long orgasm. Well, I would have considered it 20 years ago when my heart was strong enough to survive an hour-long orgasm.
broccoli is fucking delicious
^^^ real talk
save this talk for vegetables that deserve it, like okra
okra is the most vile vegetable
Your opinion is wrong.
xp vile indeed—it’s so watery and mushy inside, and so tasteless
I would consider eating the worst kind of ass for an hour-long orgasm.
#463 on the list of ‘Things Not To Say In A Swinger’s Bar’
Okra isn’t as good as broccoli, but it’s good. And you can cook it as long as you want and nobody’s going to say “what is that horrible smell”
many xps—that was me with the gone over Siracha! Haha we do not use enough condiments it seems.
― thejenny, Monday, December 5, 2011 4:33 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
No, it wasn’t! It was Katie.
I love: broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, visits to Yellowstone Nat’l Park, and most of all: RUTABAGAS. FUCK YES.
!!! I did the same thing! I thought you were witness to my shame, but it must have been Jeff.
You know what I like? Parsnips. That’s a good root vegetable.
parsnips are prtty gr8
Gonna also rep for broccoli, when its stinky and mushy, yr doing it rong basically. Lightly boiled/steamed, the sauteed in garlic and chilli, Italian-style. Aw yeah
^^^ dead to me, fyi
I do not are for broccoli 95% of the time but I will say that roasted broccoli is really good. Also, I like the stems much better than I like the bushy tops.
*care for
I like the stems too. I wonder if candying broccoli stems would produce horrors or delights. (If Tep can make candied olives, I can at least ponder candied broccoli.)
What is that horrible smell
(haha)
lol, yeah, I think that one may need to stay on the drawing board
you know, i currently have no srirachia in the house b/c what was left in the last bottle i had was ruined in the toasted sandwich incident. it was sitting on the counter a safe enough distance from the skillet, but the extended, extreme radiating heat caused the bottle to buckle, making me think of BPAs and stuff, so I threw it away.
I don’t know what that horrible smell was, but it kind of smelled like wet fart covered with cheap cologne and filled the hallways and elevator in my apartment complex when I went out this morning.
BLOOD AND BONE FERTILIZER UUURRGHRHR.
I mean, it smells like what it basically is—death.
Oh mate, is that horrible smell you?
^^^^ a harsh things to say to someone imo. The implication is not so much that they caused the bad smell, but more that they ARE the bad smell, as if they embody whatever smelly smell that’s currently assaulting you.
“If you were a bad smell, which bad smell would you be?”
oh god the skunk/burnt/dogshit/mildew smell is back, and i’m in the middle of eating my lunch
perhaps it is your lunch?
They screw up your order at the sandwich shop again?
damn
dad jokes, guys, dad jokes ~rolls eyes~
“I ordered the skunk, dogshit, and mildew special medium rare, not burnt to a crisp!”
Sat next to someone in a meeting today who was...not fresh.
Although tbh I am wearing a quite dirty cardigan yet again instead of having it cleaned on schedule, so the first few times the smell wafted my way, I wondered if it was me...but no.
i was reminded by that dumbass rick perry video that another way of saying that someone smells rank is to say that s/he smells “strong” — it’s all in the delivery, but when you say it in a certain way you know that the person reeks and doesn’t just smell strongly of shampoo or w/e
so I washed my cutting board three or four days ago and laid down, wet, on the countertop and forgot about it
when I washed it again today, a horrible smell like decomposing ham was unleashed when I released it from the countertop (it was still wet)
not really sure where it came from—I haven’t cooked meat in like a month!
if I’m honest with myself I’ll say it smelled like halfway poop—food that’s halfway to becoming poop
wow yuk
that’s super gross
congrats!
Throw that fucker out, dude, thats salmonella central you got there.
My stinky odessey: y’all recall I had a very sick cat for quite a long time (RIP yampy). She had been peeing all over the living room rug over and over and by the time we realised it was too late to save the carpet beneath. I got it cleaned and then laid down some plastic rug protectors under the rug but she kept on peeing til her end days, and now, six months later, i’ve peeled up the rug and plastic and OH GOD THE STENCH :(
I am so not getting any bond back :/ I’ve febreezed the shit out of the carpet but i doubt its gonna do much.
lol I sprayed it with comet and washed it
Impt questions: is comet bleach, and also is the borad wood or plastic? If wood *chuck it*. If plastic thats ok. Bleach and boiling water’ll fix it (tho it may still pong)
plastic. it wasn’t the cutting side that was gross it was the side underneath it. hmm
it was just some kind of general purpose cleaning stuff. the water that comes out of my tap does get to boiling though so I’ll run it under that for a few more mins
That should see to it I think. wood borads are great but they do have more germ risks. lol says me who has been using a wooden board with splits in it and a mouldy taint to it for far too long now haha. :/
Ugh this cat piss smell is the worst, and its hot and muggy which is just adding to the horror.
I DONT EVEN HAVE A CAT ANY MORE :( Yampy, effin’ things up even beyond the grave.
The landlord had to replace the carpet in our den-type room because of a ceiling leak and the floor under place where the previous tenants, who moved out more than a year ago, kept their cat box still smelled like pee.
It is a very irremovable smell, I realise :( I feel bad, cos all her life my cat was fastidious about her loo habits, but when she got sick she just stopped being careful. Sigh.
aw :( sorry you have to deal with that trayce
Aw its ok now, I’ve come to terms with it, tho I do miss her muchly.
There was a kid who went to my middle school named Guy (pronounced the French way, etc) who, unbeknownst to me, came from a really fucked up situation and was actually an amazing person whom I befriended as a more *mature* 19-year old.
Anyway: Guy smelled like a mixture of unwashed feet and puke. Just...raw. Nasty.
We were in computer class one day, and some kid mentioned Guy, and I’m just all typing at my computer and I say, “Oh, you mean that really smelly kid?” And there’s this silence. And then I look up and Guy is looking right at me. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more like an asshole in my entire life.
Oh also, he didn’t smell bad when he got older. Mostly because his schizophrenic mother who kept 50 cats in the house died when we were both 15.
Last year around this time, there was an awful smell in the kitchen of our former house. It was a nasty winter, and we had decided to smoke cigarettes in the house anyway, so for a few weeks, we just covered it up by smoking.
But then it got worse. It migrated. This awful, burning death smell. Like someone else above, it smelled like we were in meth country, somewhere out in the Alpine area of San Diego or something.
Anyway, it started taking up the whole house.
Then one day I came home and my housemate Jaime said, “WE FOUND THE SMELL!!!” while running up to me. And then she described, in intimate detail, how she and our other housemate SCRAPED A BURNT AND ROTTING RAT CARCASS OFF OF THE BACK OF OUR FRIDGE.
Glad I moved out.
i mean yeah, i’ve lived in collective houses/punk palaces/squats for many years, but that story actually takes the cake. the rotting rat carcass cake.
oh! and i second that ‘soaking beans and forgetting about them’ smell. when i lived in a co-op in college, i was preparing lunch for a mess of people and was like, “wonder what’s in this metal tub that’s been here for two weeks” and when i opened it....ugh, molded....chickpeas.....of....doom.....
we had a carousel of roomates the first couple of years I shared a house, and a lot of them smoked and kept grabbing cups or w/e from the kitchen and using them as ashtrays, and then leaving them outside for us to find later. the worst was a cup that was full of cigarette butts, water, and had been sat just inside the laundry room door at some point and stayed there for...well, godknows.
it smelled like fermented evil vomit and it made me want to die
Man even as a smoker I will say icky ashtrays—esp ones full of water and left for a while—are the worst thing ever. Nothing worse than waking up with a hangover and coming out to a room with ashtrays in it and smelling them :(
I’ve always wondered why people don’t dump out ashtrays more often than they do.
Me too! Especially when the old cig butts catch fire off the fresh ones & it’s a big smokey gross mess.
Like someone else above, it smelled like we were in meth country, somewhere out in the Alpine area of San Diego or something.
lol
once in the summer the freezer in my flat somehow became unplugged, i don’t know how this happens without someone moving it.
a smell had begun to rise through the flat, and when i confronted it, it was because my flatmate had a lot of fish wrapped in tinfoil in there.
i wanted to cry it smelled so bad, and almost laugh at the same time, i was screaming.
one time I entered the house during the blistering heat of the summer to an overwhelming aroma that made me nauseous and wanting to vomit.
as I got closer to my bathroom, it was enough to make me keel over. and I realized on entering what it was.
Someone, presumably from my roommate’s family, had taken a shit, clogged the toilet and let it sit for 9–10 hours. I was so fucking pissed. had to plunge it while holding my nose and trying not to throw up.
also the scent that emanates from really spoiled food? last house. roommate had fucking mayonaise from 2010 in there....all kinds of shit past expiry. it was like he just had no clue.
just spilled half a litre of milk onto the floor of my car fuck fuck fuck
Lucky it’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
when you have the heat on and the windows up
How did you spill milk all over the inside of your car? Hydraulics acting up again?
there was a horrible smell in the grocery store yesterday and i think it was because they’d set up a propane bbq (for free samples of some sort) and something was amiss. five minutes after i walked by, i went by again and it was gone. half the store smelled so weird, the kind of smell that is bad yet hard to place, so i was both trying not to breathe deeply and yet trying to figure out what the horrible smell was and so, breathing deeper. eesh.
xp Actually I remember when the windscreen on my old car leaked and rainwater got in, pooling in the passenger side footwell, and that stunk bad enough. I can’t (or at least don’t want to) imagine how bad milk would stink up a car.
way to humour a deems jeez
the only logical thing to do is to find something even smellier to mask the milk smell
Just don’t wash, like, ever again.
Also, put used burger wrappers all over the floor of the car to soak up the milk.
one (1) full tin of baking soda brushed in through the carpet, have to vacuum in the morning. fingers crossed
i sold a car before because i spilled milk in it. shit is the worst
Stop drinking milk in the car.
i was transporting it from the shop this time tbf
the last one, yeah ok fair enough
There was an episode of Car Talk from a while back in which a guy called in to ask how to get rid of the smell of rancid butter that had melted into the heating ducts in his car. It was pretty funny.
!!! haha wtf
lol car talk gets bad smell q’s all the time. iirc the answer is to take it to a body shop.
there was one where a guy’s buddies pranked him by hiding a fish in the vents or something
ta!
No smell as yet i’ve the soda left on it and will hoover tonight before checking status
why are you putting coke on it? gross
simpsons
all i’m sayin
simpsons
The odor that you may smell on the 9th floor is due to an oil delivery to the building early this morning. I have spoken to the building security and they have checked our floor and now that the ventilators are running – the odor should be eliminated shortly.
If you have any problems, please see me at once.
parents are boiling seaweed again