Yet another What’s That Smell? moment
Why do things always seem to go wrong when you’re headed out the door, and frantically trying to maintain a schedule? Yesterday, I was on top of things. I was even early. I had to drop off Olivia at my mom’s, then take Madeline to Art. I had the kids in the van, and was taking care of one last thing in the house, when suddenly….queue the scary music…”What is that smell? What IS that? That smells like dog poop. Wait a minute, I don’t have a dog!”
Sure enough, there it was, all smashed into the grooves of one shoe. After I got it out (ewwww), I checked around the floor to see if there were any remains. I still couldn’t figure out where it came from. I had walked out on the driveway, you’d think I’d have seen that, right? Then I remembered that some small person, who shall remain nameless, had run in the front door and out the back door. Yep, there it was. One poopy foot print through the house. Luckily it was mostly on the wood floor, so it was easy to clean. Kim, you complain about diaper odors; to me, that’s nothing compared to the smell of dog poop. I lived through the Curse of King Tut, and cleaning up my neighbor’s vomit (two very fascinating stories I’ll share some other time!) with nary a gag. But, I cannot stand the smell of dog doodie. The odor gets into your nose, and that’s all you can smell. And that’s all I can think of every time the kids ask for a dog.
Anyway, we made it on time; but somewhere in my yard is a ticking time bomb just waiting for someone else to step in it. And, queue the scary music again.
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October 31st, 2008 at 12:45 am
DogPoo is truly one of the worst smells ever. One time we were at my inlaws and there were a lot of ppl over so a lot of shoes lined up outside. Well while we were eating the smell kept creepinginto my nose, and wouldnt leave me alone, i couldnt eat. I figured oneof the 432967 kids there must have had an accident, but it kept bugging me when either my son or neice were beside me, their diapers were fine, so what was it. I went to investigate and apparently one of the shoes had some dogpoo on them and my neice and son must have touched them. I almost died, i thought great these ppl are going to think i have stinky kids LOL< i grabbed them both straight to the tub, i was so disgusted. My SIL was liek why did you gave Layann a bath, i was liek yea she needed it, they were both playing in sh*t LOL
Ive also had my neice puke in one of my cribs while i was babysitting her, i also died that day too, its funy when its not your kids’ poo or vomit, you get sooo grossed out.
All in all id rather deal with my kids poo then with vomit any day.
I think i just typed a novel LOL sorry!
October 31st, 2008 at 8:32 am
Lori, I was waiting for a picture of what he tracked in!
There is something about it that lingers way past any normal smell should…
October 31st, 2008 at 9:55 am
Oh I couldn’t agree more! Doggie Doo is the *worst* smell!! No mistaking that one! Good thing it was an easy clean up job!
October 31st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Oh Lori…ugh! The sole reason we do not have a dog yet is because I would have to be the one cleaning up after it and cleaning up after a carnivore is no fun. Bring on the herbivores I say! Yep, for sure a “What’s That Smell?” moment.:)
November 1st, 2008 at 9:30 am
I agree that is not a nice smell. But I could totally picture you frantically looking for the source lol
November 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am
Oh yuck!!! What a perfect post to go with your theme though….
November 1st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
ewwwwww……
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
That is the worst! Although I do I have a nasty cat story…maybe I will share it another time. It makes me gag every time I think about it.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Even though I washed my hands many times, I could still smell it. My mom had some nice pumpkin scented hand lotion that finally got the smell out of my nose. And, it actually wasn’t a ‘he’! He stepped in it on Friday, and I still can’t find it! Not that I’m out there looking. :>