So Mr. Lady from Whiskey In My Sippy Cup and Jill from Charming & Delightful are having a contest.
Mr. Lady found dead crabs in her car. Dead. Crabs. Now, having never had the pleasure of smelling dead crabs left in a hot car, I can’t be sure if this is worse, but the worst thing to ever stank up my car?
Cat pee. Hot, baked in the sun cat pee. Chris had taken the seats out of the van for a trip to Home Depot and had left them in the driveway. He came back, unloaded the van, and then a short while later we needed to run another errand so he put the seats back in. We all piled into the van and started driving, and then the smell hit us.
My god, the SMELL.
“What IS that?” “Oh my god what IS that?” “Does that smell like when the cat peed on the carpet in the living room?”
Unfortunately, thanks to a sick cat, we were quite familiar with the smell of cat pee on fabric, and there was no doubt. And also, our neighborhood at the time had several cats that ran loose. Which we deduced meant that while the van seats were in the driveway, one of them had jumped onto the seat and marked his territory. It was the only explanation that made sense.
Since we were already on the road, we toughed it out and drove to Target, sure that we would find some kind of fabric-saving cleaner there. Coincidentally, the first thing we bought was Febreze, who happens to be the sponsor of the prize in this contest! LOVE Febreze, oh yes I do. We also bought van seat covers that happened to match the upholstery of the van anyway.
It took several scrubbings with auto upholstery shampoo and more Febreze before the van seat stopped smelling like hot cat piss. I had blocked the whole incident out of my head until I read Mr. Lady’s post, and then it all came back to me. Hot. Cat. Pee. Dude.
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Sorry, but I think your story almost trumps Mr.Lady’s crab…I know just how bad cat pee can be! We had a cat that liked to hitch hike on the back of people’s cars. We couldn’t find him for about 5 days, and finally we get a call from my Uncle…I guess the little tom cat had hopped in his car and been living in there all week! ICK! That smell could make you pass out.
Cat pee is really the worst smell there is to be found in anywhere. Then again there is the smell of milk in a bottle being left in a hot car that is also pretty bad when said bottle is found and opened to be cleaned!
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I think you could have had me on this one, but then my brother left a comment. You REALLY need to go read it. His name is Gnilleps. I won’t even taint your blog with his story.
Oh, make sure you have an empty stomach.
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Oh god, a DEAD CAT? I think I just lost.
Your very welcome! And I will take you up on that offer for that badge of yours to be done in colors to match my place!
And yea that dead cat thing totally needs to win. But cat pee is right there as well. I would declare two winners if I could.
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Both of those sound absolutely terrible! I had a friend who recently discovered an unfrozen turkey in her car that somehow got left behind from a shopping trip – wasn’t pretty!
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I can’t possibly compete with any of these. I think it’s partially because I have a VERY sensitive nose, and I never let things rot for more than a day before I absolutely have to find out WHERE IS THAT PUTRID SMELL COMING FROM (as everyone else stares at my like I’m insane – they can’t smell a thing).
I did have a liquefied onion in my kitchen, once. That was pretty much the grossest thing I’ve ever personally touched with my bare hand.
I had a car a few years back and one of my mates thought it would be fun to put fish in my boot and petunia oil down the air vents of the car, needless to say when i come back from my holidays after 2 weeks the car stank that bad that i had to sell it..
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Sis, totally OT here but where is the button for older posts now? It’s late and I could just be missing it but I’m not seeing it anywhere.
yeak, cat pee it’s not a nice smell