Fuel pump went Tango Uniform on one of the old cars.
Had to partially drain the tank of about 10 gallons of the oldest, most putrid gas I can imagine. Got some on my hands, of course, and MY GOD! Does this stuff REEK! Washed 'em over and over, but they still stink to high heaven.
Dirty feet, Wet Weiner Dogs, Ski boots and Sheep Cheese, but nothing stinks as bad as rotten gas.
So, I poured it into the Jeep. :rolleyes: Jeep don’t care.
>>What smells worse than gas gone bad?
A trunk full of dead hookers.
A squirrel that dies in your garage.
A decaying raccoon.
Three of those in the trunk just above the tank, and didn’t even notice them.
A German hooker in the Rome police station, who reeked of every man she had been with, all of their body excretions, including her own (including shit and vomit), and everything she had to drink or smoke or shoot up.
Gear oil.
Gangrenous bowel.
lunch!
Slightly off-topic, but back in 2002 when my wife bought her Camry, a friend of mine was commenting on the size of the trunk: “You could fit three dead bodies in there!” (He did not specify hookers.) Ever since then, our standard unit of trunk capacity has been the number of dead bodies it can hold.
Could someone explain to me how gas “rots?”
I could see evaporation affecting the relative balance of volatile fractions, but… I can’t even imagine any process that would affect a pure mix of hydrocarbons and alcohols that would qualify as decay. But I’m not a petroleum engineer or a gas station attendant, so I’m askin’ here. Enlighten me. Fight my ignorance.
I was cracking open and eating mixed nuts at Christmas one year. I had gotten into a rhythm … pick, crack, toss the shells into the fireplace, toss the nut into my mouth. One Brazil nut had gone bad, bad, bad. Unfortunately, I didn’t register that the putrid smell was coming from the nut I had just opened, until it was halfway chewed.
So, have you ever smelled the delightful smell of ‘old gas’ that you’ve mixed with 2-cycle engine oil so you can run it through your chainsaw (or snow blower)?
That’s one ‘manly scent’ that won’t bring women running… even of the snow is on their walks (or the branch is on their house).
I was going to mention Durian, but this stopped me in my tracks.
The words themselves stink to high heaven.
Old gasoline is certainly one of the worst smells in the world–I’ve had to clean out a couple gas tanks in my day–but for me the absolute worst, almost comically bad, was when Little R was a baby and ate dirt. The resulting diaper was beyond description.
Many BMW’s come with a little plastic card with Velcro on the back that sticks to the inside lid of the trunk that illustrates how to correctly stow up to 4 dead bodies. Well, actually golf bags, but I re-labeled it. 
Can’t. Not smart enough. Don’t know the chemistry. I’ll have to leave it to someone else.
I can tell ya it stinks, though!
Chicken poop. Nothing worse although pig poop is close.
Embarrassing username/post combo.
To respond to the OP, rotten potatoes. It doesn’t stick to you like bad gas, but one one whiff will make you gag. If you can get them out of the house without tossing your cookies, you’re a better man than I.
Maybe not as bad as Quadgop’s gangrenous bowel, but I suspect most people will not encounter gangrenous bowel.
Not embarrassing, ironic. 
Like a free ride when you’re already there?