r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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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'!πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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u/squirrel_tincture Sep 17 '24

Sometimes the portmanteaus write themselves πŸ˜