My former boss used to pour his leftover coffee (with cream and sugar) on a plant in his office. One day, we wondered what that terrible smell was - it was coming from the plant. It smelled like vomit, only worse. We were all gagging that day!

Another time, a co-worker decided to boil broccoli, cauliflower and shrimp together in the office. Overcooked it and boy, what a smell! He reported to me, so I told him to never, ever do that again. It was gag-worthy as well.

I have a similar story to Acra's. My ex husband and I went to Price Club (pre Costco) for some Christmas shopping. We purchased a nice shrimp ring. We packed it away with the Christmas presents. 9 days later, we smelled it - disgusting!

Hmm

I worked in a funeral home for about a year... so there's that lol I won't go into too much detail, but sometimes the elderly pass away and don't get found for long periods of time.

I cleaned frat houses one summer when I was a student. Some asshole left ground beef in an unplugged refrigerator in May and I found it in August.

BO and chicken $#!t - at the same time. there was a "customer" who used to come in weekly. it was august, so we're talking 95' or so. he worked in a chicken house and rarely showered and seemingly at a lot of onions. oh it was disgustingly gross.

meth mouth breath. absolutely putrid.

i (thankfully) have not smelled this firsthand - week old octopus rotting in a car trunk in the middle of summer, again 95' or so. an ex-coworker's grandfather died of a heart-attack. she went to the coastal town in mexico that her family was from, and spent a week. apparently the grandfather had stopped and bought some pulpo but had his heart-attack shortly after returning home. she said they finally discovered the source of the vile stench the last day she was there.

My DH and I got in my truck to go somewhere and there was a stench so bad that our eyes were stinging and we jumped out of the truck gagging. It took me ten min to find the socks that my DD-8 at the time had stuffed behind the seats. She hated socks at the time and would take them off and wear tennis shoes in the Texas heat without socks. I love her dearly and she doesn't have the problem anymore, but her feet reeked at that age!!!!

Other than the concentrated panther piss that the local farmers pour on their fields as fertilizer this time of year, I'd say it was the combo of skid feet, stale French fries, skid piss and gone off spilt chocolate milk. I'll never forget nor miss that smell for as long as I live.

Probably skids. It's been so bad at times that we have had to drive the entire 40 minutes from BM's house to ours with the windows down and my hand over my nose and mouth. We've had to leave the car windows down for days at a time just to air out the car from their stench. It's like a combo feet, ass and grease. Stings the eyes.

A salesman's breath. :sick: You could smell it at least 20 feet away. He must have had some kind of problem because I can't imagine anyone letting their mouth get that nasty.

How could he NOT know and at least be chewing some gum???

I had a friend who was always having issues with her DH's EW. I'm sure most of that was created by the friend but regardless.
My fried confessed one day that she had bought some of the deer urine liquid that hunters used to cover their smell when hunting. She dumped the container in the heating vents of the XW's car. Apparently it totaled the car because they couldn't get the smell out.

The grocery store i worked at was situated over the septic system for the whole complex. About once a month the entire center of the store reeked like sewer. Customers complained, staff complained. A staff member would have to walk the aisles spraying air freshers. Awful.

I have an awful gag reflex and several times while pregnant i puked in a store having walked into someones fart.

I also had a roomate at one time who was not very clean. I could literally smell her vagina sitting next to her. A mix of unwashed but sexed vagina so awful. I would just leave the room after i realized what it was because the girls bf asked my bf what could cause her to smell so awful and he said because yall do not shower! Then she started leaving douchebags all over the bathroom. FreakiNg awful. 9 people sharing a bathroom.

1) A former boyfriend had a dead squirrel in his wall, somewhere behind his bathroom, during the summer. It was horrid. We had to take very fast showers and brush our teeth in the kitchen for a couple weeks. Even opening the window in that room didn't help much.

2) In our (DH and I) rental home, we had a huge rat problem the last winter we were there. They over-ran the basement and I will never, ever forget the stench of rat p*ss and sh*t and thier basic odor. I know when rats are in an area 100% of the time now. I still shudder when I think of that place...the last couple months there we had rats, mice, slugs, ants and flies. I was constantly cleaning everything. The only thing that kept me there for that end time was I knew we were moving and the exterminator was trying his best to keep things in control.

My brother knew a girl in college that came home from the grocery store and was missing the chicken she bought... she figured it just got left at the store.

Welp.. no.. it had somehow slipped into the spare tire wheel well. By the time they found it, the stench had permeated the car so badly she had to sell it!

SS and his friend from down the hall were playing over at the friend's house. SS had to come home so I went into the apartment and this kid's bedroom (11 y/o boy) where he and SS were lounging around and it smelled like asshole, feet, breath and armpit. I almost fainted.

The neighbor child never looks clean. SS isn't too bad, but we stay on top of his hygiene when he is over.

Hard to pick just one!!!

Cigarettes do it to me, especially when the smell gets in someone's hair, and for whatever reason my ace gets near, I start gagging. I have a wonderful photographer friend who had rotting teeth for a number of years, before dentures, so talking to him was gag-inducing. Cat pee/poo will also do it for me.

We had an Irish themed potluck at the office this year so there were several cabbage dishes. The smell of cabbage was over powering. The next day, someone got the bright idea to set out a few crock-pots with the leftover cabbage dishes inside. The smell of day old cabbage that has been stewing in a crock-pot all day is disgusting. I literally had to hide my nose inside of my sweater to keep from vomiting. You don't even want to know what the restroom smelled like after several ladies had digested the cabbage.

And cat poop. Oh my lord, it's the worst smell ever.

I had a student job one summer sorting garbage for a company that did recycling audits (basically see how much and what recycling was tossed in the trash). Disgusting ... dirty diapers, dead animals, old food, poop in a cup, a plate of rice that turned out to be a plate of maggots.... and the list goes on.

But the worst smell, skids when they return from BMs.

Potato's pushed back in pantry.

Smells like something has died. I remember years ago I called my Mom (rip mom ) and said MOM there is this awful smell in the house, I think something is dead in here.

She laughed and said GoodLuck check your pantry--I bet is it potato's. She was right.

I miss my mom.

I had a college room mate once who had chronic medically treated halitosis... we would not let him open his mouth when anyone else was in the same room. :sick:

I am the manager of a shoe store. I have seen THE feet of the moster on the conjuring in real life.

I have seen feet that I knew were rotting. I have told people to seek medical attention for the infections on their feet.

On a side note, shoe store employees have no medical training... we never, never, never ever want to see your feet. Ever.

We go through about 5 bottles of air freshner a week.