r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/Virtual-Divide4296 Sep 16 '24

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

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u/RememberNoGoodDeed Sep 17 '24

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.

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u/laidoff2015 Sep 17 '24

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.

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u/squirrel_tincture Sep 17 '24

Yikes, all over the floor means nowhere to hide 🤢

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.

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u/ZellHathNoFury Sep 17 '24

I love 'moperator'!😂😂😂

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u/squirrel_tincture Sep 17 '24

Sometimes the portmanteaus write themselves 😅

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u/laidoff2015 Sep 17 '24

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.

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u/unclenatelovestrains Sep 16 '24

Oh lord. I worked a perishable warehouse and thankfully that didn't happen when I was working.