Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Anyone smell something???

I think that I should be followed by a camera for America's Funniest Retards. My life seems like it is one flop after another. Imagine the most horrible smell you have EVER smelled..... OK you got it??.... Now multiply that by a billion... Keep that stench in your mind as I tell you this story. It was a typical week at the Holcomb House you know work-home-work-home. On one of my trips to the store I bought the cat some different kind of cat food because I haven't taken the time to go to Wal-Mart which is the only place that sells the kind that he (the cat) likes. Anyways he was just having to eat it or starve is all I had to tell him. Now all of you who have met FAT CAT know that he is most definitely not into starving. So of course he ate it. Well I noticed over the next few days that the utility room began to smell... I was like man that cat food has done a number on him because his litter box is pretty stinky... Of course I changed the litter box and the smell got better the next day... Then the day after that the smell was back and I thought Lord now I can't afford to change that litter box every other day... That's just too much... Well by this time its Friday night and the smell is faint but you can tell that its there... I am a 9 o'clock bedtime person... I know that's bad but that is just the way that I am.... On this particular Friday night I was working and burning the midnight oil literally doing scrapbook pages for the t-ball team that Phillip coached this time. We wanted to do something really special for all of the players so I took the task on of doing 12x12 pages for each one. I also placed them in frames and they turned out really really good. Anyway by the time that I finished with them all it was 1 in the morning or so. Needless to say I was really tired oh and by the way Phillip wasn't home. I had to get our clothes ready for the next morning because we had ball pictures at 11 so I went to put clothes in the wash. Now I never throw my clothes in front of the washer I just usually have it ready to put them in but for some reason this time I threw them in the floor. As I was loading the washer I saw out of the corner of my eye an empty plug in. Now to some of you that means nothing but to me it meant that someone must have plugged the freezer up in a different socket... So as I slowly turned my head to look praying that I was wrong, there it was .... no little red light on the front of my BRAND NEW freezer and another empty plug in... Yep you guessed it the freezer was unplugged!!!!!!! Did you get the point that Phillip was not home???.... So I did what anyone would do in my position, I slowly opened the freezer but QUICKLY shut it back before all of the BLACK FOG could escape... The cat was NOT the cause of the odor in my utility room is was the freezer that had about 200 to 300 dollars worth of meat in it... Well I did the only thing that I knew to do, I ran got the outside trash can and put it to the end of the steps and was just hauling it out the door.. Now I thought that I had asked my sweet baby girl to help me but she was no where to be found.. I ran into the living room and found her curled up in the corner of the couch begging me not to make her help. She was saying "Mom I cant please I cant I cant" My sweet son was asleep but was yanked out of a deep sleep by a steamy stinky fog that now filled my house and began to yell "mom what is that nasty smell mom please"... I am telling you it was HORRIBLE... I had a towel wrapped all the way around my face and the only thing showing were my eyes and they were full of tears because I soooooo did not want to have to clean that up... I finally got all of the nasty meat out of the freezer and then proceeded to clean the three inches of blood that was in the bottom... It was the most disgusting thing I have ever had to do and I have had to do some pretty bad stuff in my life... When I finished with everything I went outside and pulled the garbage can back away from the steps and back where it always sits to bake in the 90 degree southern sun for the next few days until the garbage man ran on the Monday morning. Now in hind site I should have placed a little caution note on the can but you know I wasn't thinking of anyone but myself and what I had just went through. So my poor poor garbage man got nothing in the way of a warning for what loomed beneath the lid of that can. I just so happened to be home on Monday morning to see the retrieval of my trash and like a sneaky little school kid I could be found peeking out my bedroom window laughing. When he rolled the can out and lifted the lid a GIGANTIC black cloud of flies and other vermin exploded out of the can. Of course he jumped back and as he was feverishly pressing the lift button the smell came.. Now I know what it smelled like before it baked for the days prior to his arrival so I am certain that it was RIPE!.. I don't know if the thought of someone else having to experience what I went through was what I found so amusing or just the facts themselves. I was rolling with laughter and well he probably could hear the roar coming from my house but I could not help it. To me that was HILARIOUS!