I’ve had two recent gross moments. Neither is anywhere near as gross as some of the previous stories here, but they’re both a change of pace from the body functions gone wrong.
(By the way: women’s panties that have been worn, then eaten by a dog, then pooped out by the dog… have we finally found an item that, even on the internet, is not someone’s fetish object?)
Story #1:
Last week I showed up at the Y to play a match in my racquetball league. I opened up my trunk to get my racquetball stuff. As I was grabbing it, I noticed that there was an orange in my trunk. Why was there an orange in my trunk? I never put oranges in my trunk. I never buy oranges. I get my vitamin C from overpriced premium orange juice, as God intended. So this orange must have been there long enough that I had completely forgotten where it came from. And in fact, there was not just one orange, but several oranges. Which had been in my trunk, which presumably gets very hot during the day, for weeks or months. A few of them were still pretty solid, but one of them, as I was gingerly picking it up with only my racquetball glove for protection, had the consistency of a plastic baggie full of guacamole. And it had been sitting in a box of magic cards, some of which were now coated with congealed rotten orange gunk.
The capper is that I had just had a nice glass of orange juice 20 minutes or so earlier, so I still had the taste of orange in my mouth the whole time. Ech.
Story #2:
Sunday night, while I had an apartment full of guests playing games, the sewage line under my apartment decided to back up. Have you ever had your bathtub spontaneously fill itself up with raw sewage to a depth of 8 inches or so?
Not surprisingly, we quickly moved the game to a friend’s apartment. Few things are more relaxing, upon returning home from some late night card playing, than having to clean the goop left by raw sewage out of your tub.
(Note: the nice thing about raw sewage is that, given that it comes from people flushing toilets, at least it’s mostly water.)