Hot, rotten chicken

[Waffles and Scotch]

I'll preface this by saying I live by myself and only see my girlfriend on the weekends, so this is entirely my fault...

A few weeks ago we had a couple of shows, one on Saturday and one on a Tuesday. Being an insomniac that's not used to doing more than 1 gig per week, and never on a night when I have to work the next day, I had a rough few days. In my zombified, sleepless state, I overlooked one important detail...the raw chicken my girlfriend threw in the trash...Saturday morning...

Fast forward to the following Saturday morning. She decides to tie up the garbage for us to take it down on our way to the grocery store. For some reason it didn't smell until she moved the bag, but boy was it potent! I wreched a couple of times and had to leave the kitchen as my eyes were watering and I was sure I was going to throw up. I live in an apartment, and the dumpster is right at the entrance, so we put it in her trunk for 20-30 seconds. Or so we thought.

About an hour later as we're walking out of the grocery store, starving because we haven't eaten yet, with fried chicken and rotisserie chicken wafting from our shopping cart, we get outside and there's this smell. It's familiar, but I can't figure out what it is. We pop the trunk and BAM!! Hot, rotten chicken roasting in the Florida heat! It was one of the most horrible things I've ever smelled. And it was all through the vehicle. After a very unpleasant ride home with this terrible stench billowing from her car, we finally made it to the dumpster. It took us 2 days and half a bottle of Febreeze to get the smell out. Needless to say I did not eat any chicken that day...

Anyone else ever done this?

[Floyd Eye]

No, but Hot Rotten Chicken is a great band name.

[Waffles and Scotch]

Originally Posted by Floyd Eye

No, but Hot Rotten Chicken is a great band name.

Heck yeah it is!

/thread

[5StringBlues]

Originally Posted by Floyd Eye

No, but Hot Rotten Chicken is a great band name.

+1

[gustobassman]

Well, it wasn't food, but we did leave a couple bags of my yard clippings in my friend's cargo van for 2 days instead of taking them to the dump that afternoon.

His van became infested with spiders and who knows what else. That was not cool.

[Jim Nazium]

Not quite that bad, but for a while I lived in a large apartment complex where the dumpster was at the main entrance to the complex, and my unit was in a building at the back, 1 or two city blocks away. I would usually bag up my trash, put it in the back of the car, and drop it off on the way to work. One sleepy morning, forgot to drop off the trash, and let it bake in the hot sun all day. Pew!

[sloasdaylight]

Where do you live in Tampa?

[OldDog52]

Dead Cold Chicken. Same deal. I've thrown the remains of a KFC meal in the trash can under the kitchen sink and forgotten about it. A few days later and it stinks to holy heck.

[Bloodhammer]

About ten years ago, I was living at a friend's house and this place was a total wreck. He never cleaned anything and I got to where all I kept clean was my bedroom. Still, though there were some cool times there.

Anyway, one of us cooked spaghetti one time and left the pot with the sauce in it out on the stove. (You really would have had to have seen this kitchen to understand how that could be so easily overlooked.) About a week later or so, I was getting drunk in the living room and somehow became aware of the pot on the stove when I went to get another beer from the fridge. It was moving!

So being half drunk and not really knowing what to do about a pot full of fly maggots, I turned on the burner to kill them. At least that way, they wouldn't grow into flies. So I walk back into the living room and, at some point, pass out on the couch. The next day my roommate told me he woke up really early to the smell of cooking and went to go see what I was making. Surprise!!!

He woke me up to the song "Maggots" by GWAR being played really loud on the stereo. It was pretty dang funny, really!

[ShredderMaximus]

You do not know bad smell is till you've busted open a 140+ year old cast iron sewage drainage pipe. That was the day I vowed never to become a plumber, you seriously couldn't pay me enough.

[Munjibunga]

Is your girlfriend's name Casey Anthony?

[dmusic148]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

Is your girlfriend's name Casey Anthony?

Wow, crickets. Too soon maybe?

[T-Bird]

Hi.

One of those things You probably do only once... .

Has happened to me on several occasions, milk ain't any better, and easier to forget.




Back in the day in the upper secondary school a couple of guys got fed up with something or the other, so they devised a prank.

They were into ice-fishing, or what ever that's called in english, and on the last day before a autumn holiday, they took a few smaller catches to school and tied 'em between the heating radiators with near-invisible fishing line. Then they turned the radiators almost off, knowing that it wouldn't be noticed during the holiday.

When they came back, the reduced heat had prevented the "fish" from drying up and spoiling the fun, and when they turned the heat all up monday morning, well let's just say the stench was a memorable one by noon.

It was next to the clothes racks, so our clothes smelled pretty rank for a few days as well.

Regards
Sam

[fhm555]

Originally Posted by T-Bird

...they took a few smaller catches to school and tied 'em between the heating radiators with near-invisible fishing line...
...the reduced heat had prevented the "fish" from drying up and spoiling the fun, and when they turned the heat all up monday morning, well let's just say the stench was a memorable one by noon...

When I lived in Florida if I was not at work or sleeping I was fishing. One day my folks came to visit and I could tell my mom was uncomfortable about something so I asked her what was up. She said my house, clothes, even my car, all reeked of dead fish. Apparently people who lived there didn't notice because none of them ever said anything about it and I didn't notice it on me or anyone else.

But wait...there's more...

When I was about 7~8 years old, my dad and I took off out of the house one morning just before daylight, bound for a gully a couple miles behind the house to sight in his deer rifle for the upcoming season. Getting there required us to walk through a couple of (fallow) peanut fields and a big cow pasture. I was out ranging ahead with the dog and we came up on a dead calf that was all bloated up. I don't recall why, but I kicked it hard in the belly and it kinda exploded all over me. I'm on my hands and knees retching and my dad is about to fall out he's laughing so hard. Looking back I'm sure it was funny, but at the time, dripping with rot while losing my breakfast, the humorous aspect was mostly lost on me.

[T-Bird]

Hi.

Originally Posted by fhm555

But wait...there's more...

When I was about 7~8 years old, my dad and I took off out of the house one morning just before daylight, bound for a gully a couple miles behind the house to sight in his deer rifle for the upcoming season. Getting there required us to walk through a couple of (fallow) peanut fields and a big cow pasture. I was out ranging ahead with the dog and we came up on a dead calf that was all bloated up. I don't recall why, but I kicked it hard in the belly and it kinda exploded all over me. I'm on my hands and knees retching and my dad is about to fall out he's laughing so hard. Looking back I'm sure it was funny, but at the time, dripping with rot while losing my breakfast, the humorous aspect was mostly lost on me.

I guess another "things You probably do only once... ".

I can see how Your dad tought it was funny, I do admit I laughed pretty hard as well reading the story.
I can also see how You had a quite different perspective.

Reminds of the bloated badgers on the side of the highways about this time of year. No animal will eat 'em and they just explode eventually. One can smell 'em when driving by 80 km/h. Even inside a car . Damn lazy coppers.

Regards
Sam

[tastybasslines]

I feel like singing "Hot, Rotten Chicken" to the tune of Cat Scratch Fever for some reason.

[5StringBlues]

Originally Posted by tastybasslines

I feel like singing "Hot, Rotten Chicken" to the tune of Cat Scratch Fever for some reason.

LOL


I've been singing it to the tune of "Hot Rod Lincoln" for the past three hours.

[tastybasslines]

Originally Posted by 5StringBlues

LOL


I've been singing it to the tune of "Hot Rod Lincoln" for the past three hours.

lmao

That's it, it's been decided...must write a song about this.

[jp58]

If you ever work at a fast food place, grocery store, or just around perishable items in general, you get them on a regular basis. I've worked at a grocery store, and I used to temp in various departments when that department's head was on vacation. You could always tell which departments ran well by the smell after 2-3 days. The produce department was, and probably still is, horrible there. Those are the kinds of sights that cannot be unseen.

Once, some pomegranates had been spoiled so long that they had something growing on them that looked and smelled a lot like yogurt. There was another time that the department was almost fined $10k over a cooler fan going out and it not getting noticed for 10 DAYS, even though temp checks were supposed to occur every 2 hours. The entire department smelled like death. The worst smell ever though was when some awesome customer thought it would be a great prank to put some meat under a self-checkout machine (that can't be moved to clean under or behind them), and after a few days, it was completely unbearable to be in the store.

Fast food smells are worse, although I can't remember nearly as many of the stories from my times as a fry-cook.

[Waffles and Scotch]

Originally Posted by sloasdaylight

Where do you live in Tampa?

I'll have to come out and see you guys...looks like we play some of the same venues.