I talked to a guy once who cleans up the mess that people sometimes leave behind. He once cleaned up a scene where a guy died in the bathtub during summer and went for weeks undiscovered.
I think it’d be three or four days. I live alone (with dog) and nobody regularly visits the house. I travel a lot for work and they don’t keep a close eye on the schedule so they might not notice. Once they do notice, it might be a while before anyone figured out where I live. I work for the Federal government and I don’t think anyone in my current office has my address. Of course, the Mothership does but it would take a while to track it down. So I’d be good and ripe by the time someone found me.
My wife is sitting next to me on the couch. She’s very intent on crushing candy right now, but I still think sixty seconds, max.
OneCentStamp, you made me laugh.
At work, right now I am all alone. Provided my other coworker comes in, it wouldn’t be more than an hour, I would say. If she doesn’t come in for some reason… :eek: Probably not until the end of the day when the cleaning lady comes in.
At home it would probably be minutes, unless he is wrapped up in one of his FP shooters. Then it might take an hour or so. I can be really quiet when I’m out in the living room playing on the Xbox, and he might just think I was napping.
Depends on what position I end up in. I’m at work. If I hit the floor, someone will be over in seconds. If I look like I’m staring at my screen, it could be an hour or more before someone wonders why my computer is in idle and checks on where I’m at.
At home, perhaps a couple of days. Work would call my emergency contacts trying to find out why I’m not coming in or answering my phone.
I live alone, but do work and have a habit of going out every day.
My boss and/or my downstairs neighbor would notice if I wasn’t around for a day or two.
It wouldn’t be long. I’m at work now, so someone would notice within minutes. Maybe, maybe, on a really slow day, it would take an hours.
After work, I’m going to pick up my daughter from day care. She might not notice if I was an hour or so late. She’s only 18 months old, so she’d gradually become aware that something was missing, but she wouldn’t be able to put it all together. The adults at her day care would definitely notice, though.
And if I died after picking her up, my wife is due home a couple of hours after I get home (with my daughter). Now, tonight she has plans after work, so it might actually go as late as midnight, so I suppose I could go for five or six hours (if we don’t count my daughter, who would probably be upset that Daddy isn’t paying any attention to her, but again, wouldn’t be able to figure out the situation).
There would be a few phone calls that went unanswered, and some texts, but I don’t think anybody would panic about that and come over to check on me.
So the next point at which someone would notice (assuming that my wife was away overnight, which happens sometimes when she has to travel for business) would be when I’m due at work tomorrow. After a few hours, someone would definitely call and check on me, and things would progress from there.
If I was home, it’d be weeks or months, plus or minus depending on the smell. Failing any obvious smell, they’d just fire me for not showing up at work, and the landlady would only come into my apartment after I failed to pay rent (next month) and then ignored repeated attempts to answer the door/phone/email/notes shoved under the door.
I’m the last one at the office, girlfriend is spending the night at her parents, so the the first of my co-workers to enter tomorrow morning.
At this moment I’m at work. It wouldn’t take long. But at home I live alone in the country, with no neighbors nearby to smell my rotting corpse. However, my nearest neighbors are cops and if I deviate from my routine too much, they call to check up on me. If I didn’t return their call by the next day, they’d probably come over. The husband is afraid of my dogs, so the wife would probably be the one to come in.
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At most a few hours; my wife would notice if I didn’t come upstairs from my computer.
My girlfriend is on the sofa, about four meters in front of me looking at stuff on her phone, so I reckon abouuuuuuut… say, how long until bodies start to stink?
5:20 this evening when Her Ladyship gets home from work.
About 3 seconds. I’m at work and there are at least 10 people within 20 feet of me. Plus I’m sitting on a stool and would likely fall off.
I actually think about this more than is probably healthy. If it happened on a weeknight, work would miss me the next day, but maybe not panic and send the cops until another day had passed. Friday night, as others have said, would result in me not being discovered for 3-5 days.
It’s one of the reasons I carry my phone with me everywhere in my house (and I’m in my 40s, not elderly). All it takes is one fall down the basement stairs while I’m carrying laundry up or down and I’d be in big trouble.
I’m at work. Someone would figure it out by EOB for sure, but I honestly can’t say how long it would take. We’re all in cubes and tend to leave each other to our work. I don’t have any meetings today so don’t *have *to talk to anyone. My kind of day.
Oh, I missed the “right now” part of the OP. I’m at work, in a cube farm, so it would be minutes, at most.
I’m off work this afternoon, but my husband is due back home in about 2-3 hours, so it would be then.
Back when I was single and living alone, a weekend could have elapsed. Work would have noticed.
They will probably bury you in the back yard though. They do that with all their bones.
I’m supposed to meet my mom and nieces at the pool in 30 mins, and I never pass up a chance to go swimming so someone will know right away, today.
After today? Probably about 2 days. At MOST, 4 days if it’s over a weekend. I take my dogs to my parents’ house every other day during the week so they will miss the dogs at some point and give me a call.