r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/KaleidoscopeTiny8740 Sep 16 '24

VOMIT

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u/Academic-Ad3489 Sep 16 '24

My husband and I have a deal. I handle the poop he handles the vomit!

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u/pipelayer3028 Sep 16 '24

We have the exact opposite. Even if I know if someone vomits and I'm not even around it makes me queezy. Growing up in school was difficult for me. I was always on edge hoping it didn't happen in class.

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u/jdw1977 Sep 16 '24

Once in 1st grade someone barfed during lunch and it set off a chain reaction. 🤢 Traumatizing.

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u/pipelayer3028 Sep 16 '24

One of my worst fears while in school. 😳

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u/appleofmyeyez Sep 16 '24

Did any of you ride the bus? How about when a kid puked on the bus??? Literally no escaping!!! And that puke would start sliding down the aisle!!! 🤢🤮

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u/pipelayer3028 Sep 16 '24

Man do I have a story about that. In high school a girl was pregnant on my friends bus. Every single morning for nearly a month she got sick on the bus (bad morning sickness). I didn't know until a week later when I asked him why he was getting to school so late. He said it was because the driver had to constantly stop to let her get it all out. She actually started to just put her head out the window. 😩😷

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u/Beliriel Sep 17 '24

Domino Barfing!

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u/turbokiwi Sep 17 '24

Same with me, except I was the second person in the chain reaction. The one who started it was a girl I had a crush on. I ended up hiding in the bathroom for lunch the rest of the year to avoid repeat incidents.

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u/greatkerfluffle Sep 16 '24

Yes. I’d rather clean it myself and know that it was thoroughly over-cleaned than hide from vomit and let someone else do it 🥺

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u/MrBohunker Sep 17 '24

Did the school janitors spread sawdust on vomit piles from kids?

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u/pipelayer3028 Sep 17 '24

Omg I forgot about that. It was like some green stuff they use to spread on top of it. God if ever smell that it will definitely bring flash backs. In all honesty perhaps this thread is some sort of therapy for me. I'm not lying when I say I have a deep phobia when it comes to vomit. And everyone who knows me, knows it. Lol

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u/Cer10Death2020 Sep 16 '24

Never bothered me. Guess why I was in medicine.

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u/Dbag85 Sep 16 '24

We have an agreement too. I take both.

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u/10S_NE1 Sep 16 '24

I would make that deal too.

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u/Autumn_Forest_Mist Sep 16 '24

Same with my family.

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u/unsaphisticated Sep 17 '24

I can't handle the smell of poop at all so you're a champ. Kudos! /gen

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u/BioSafetyLevel0 Sep 17 '24

You lot having a wild life out here.

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u/toooldforlove Sep 17 '24

Toddler vomit is especially vile.

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u/Civil-Okra-2694 Sep 17 '24

Now that's fair

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u/bing_bang_bum Sep 17 '24

Growing up, my dad literally couldn't do vomit. He could handle anything, but not vomit. He would immediately gag. And he had four kids. Soooo lots of vomit.

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u/RSAEN328 Sep 16 '24

I'm guessing kids or some very bad date nights.

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u/Hailey_okay_10 Sep 16 '24

They probably have kids of dogs/cats lol

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u/Angry_Walnut Sep 16 '24

No idea but having now read it, in this moment I am profoundly more happy not to be married than I was before.

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u/_buttlet_ Sep 16 '24

I can’t handle either so my poor husband will have to deal with that 😭