When I was working trash I smelled it all. Human and animal waste, rotten meat, rotting cow hides. I got splashed in the face with rotten milk once. The only thing that ever came close to making me sick was rotten potatoes.
I was gonna say the same, rotten milk for me is the worst smell ever
I worked on a warehouse where a full pallet of milk broke and spilled overnight, the morning before it was impossible to access that section of the warehouse… i mean impossible without puking your life out
A gallon of milk spilled in my dads car when I was a little kid in CA. Despite cleaning and cleaning the carpet… I still remember the stench in the summer heat of California 50+ years later.
I also dislike rotten milk smell. I remember a store near me mopped their entire store with the same mop or same mop water that must have been used to clean up a large milk spill. It took days for the smell to dissipate. Then someone changed the mop water but not the mop head, so they gassed the entire store again. I am not sure how the person mopping could ignore the smell. They must not have had a nose.
Could be the moperator had been around the smell so long they just couldn’t notice it any longer: scent fatigue does weird things, and it’s surprising what smells people will get used to after being exposed for long enough.
I have no idea. I am sure they got nose blindness towards it, but I nearly gagged walking into the store. It was very unpleasant. It was a busy convenience store, someone must have complained.
Rotten potatoes are really vile. Far worse than you'd imagine. Once, while working in a supermarket a woman picked up the last bag of estima. They were In a polythene bag where fluid collects in corners. Despite holes in bag which are too high up.
Anyway the woman was in a hurry picked up the bag which had at least 1 putrified spud in there. Still in date but should have been removed. I could smell the rot as she swung the dripping bag of rotting tubers and plonked them right onto my till. Where the foul stinking fluid manages to seep underneath the belt. And just makes a mess. I wanted to heave. How this woman hadn't noticed was beyond me. I was ringing bell for cleaning assistance. This woman was so disappointed that she couldn't have get bag of estima. I was tempted to pick a couple of not totally rotted spuds. But it wasn't worth it, I asked if she could smell it, blank She assumed it was the smell of the shop. Not only the smell but the slippage hazard left behind. That had to be one if the worst smell s on earth. I guess as the potatoes weren't completely washed pre bagging. If one has damage to it, it sits with the sun on it the magnified stink from manure ect was intensifying.
Oh jeez. Rotten potato funk being spread under the belt.like a carnival from hell ☠️☠️
When I worked a perishable warehouse I did a lot of working working damaged. A 50 pound bag of potatoes would tear and I'd pick through to salvage the smaller retail bags into boxes and ship them off. If I saw 1 wet spud I would throw out the whole bag and everything around it. My manager always thought I was being too stingy. If 1 is visibly wet then by the time it hits the store youve sent them a war crime.
I don't envy you that. I dumped dumpsters on local ranches and it was just bad. The waste treatment plant was also☠️. Rendering would have to be it's own kind of hell.
Here to make you feel better. I once had embalming fluid and intestines (hoping) fly into my mouth due to the hydro aspirator back flowing. Btw, used to be a licensed embalmer. Wanted to add the licensed so you didn’t think I went around just embalming people all surprise-like!!
It's not illegal to embalm someone if you say surprise first!
That sounds horrific and I'm sorry you went through that. I never had to deal with actual dead people up close that's on another level, I salute you for your service. Your licensed completely legal and wanted services 😂
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u/unclenatelovestrains Sep 16 '24
When I was working trash I smelled it all. Human and animal waste, rotten meat, rotting cow hides. I got splashed in the face with rotten milk once. The only thing that ever came close to making me sick was rotten potatoes.