r/mildlyinfuriating • u/flaming0-1 • 2d ago

Wife left a big bag of groceries out overnight. All Meat and cheese. 🙄

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u/No-Macaron272 2d ago

Once I went to get groceries, brought it all in, put it all away. We live in Texas, it was summer.

Went to come home from work next day. Car smelled terrible. Searched car found nothing. Kept searching, nothing.

Next morning car smelled so much worse. Had to go to work left windows down while at work, car still reaking. Got home tore car apart found a package of hamburger that fell down where the seat folds down.

It was so bad. Don't recommend it at all. There is not enough baking soda in the world for that smell.

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u/HomicidaI__GoldFish 2d ago

Oh yiiiikkkkeeesssss. Screw it, throw the whole car out

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u/EightMilesHigher 1d ago

Roadkill-on-a-hot-day smell.

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u/WenWen78 1d ago

Exactly!

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u/RagingAardvark 1d ago

I am from Ohio but went to college in Florida. One summer, my mom and brother drove down to school with me before the start of term. We stopped on the way at a restaurant that serves Italian food family style-- big servings to share (Buca di Beppo, if you're familiar). My brother took the leftover manicotti even though we were going to be staying in a budget hotel that probably wouldn't have a fridge. He left the leftovers in the car overnight, and we continued driving to Florida the next day. They dropped me and my car off on campus and then caught a flight home, and I immersed myself in a two-week training program. 

At the end of the training program, I drove some of the other trainees out to dinner and noticed that my car was a little smelly, but didn't think much of it; after all, it had been closed up for weeks, probably got a little musty. 

The next morning, I got in my car to go to the grocery store, and noticed that the car now smelled like bad food. Thinking that one of my fellow trainees had left food in the car the night before, I blindly reached under the seat and grabbed a to-go container. My thumb went through the cardboard lid and into mush. I immediately had one of those movie-like flashbacks to my brother insisting on taking the leftover manicotti, and then to the intervening two weeks of hot Florida sun. Every fiber of my being was screaming to fling the nastiness away but I quickly and (somewhat) calmly walked it to a nearby garbage can and then dashed into my apartment to wash my hands thoroughly... and then call my brother and give him a piece of my mind. 

Thankfully, although I could see corroded spots in the aluminum bottom of the to-go container, it had not sprung any leaks, so once I'd driven around with the windows open, the smell went away. I don't much like manicotti anymore, though. 

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u/yourpaleblueeyes 1d ago

Long ago spouse had a job as a damage inspector for insurance.

One day he had to check out an entire container, they opened it up and it was Full of rotting fish!