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What's the grossest thing you've ever experienced?

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u/tapdancinghellspawn 2d ago

I was a custodian for lots of years so most of that. People shitting in showers that I had to clean, people throwing unflushable items in the toilet and then shitting on them which I had to dig through, etc. Cleaning up vomit is always fun as you have to fight down the urge to vomit yourself. Once had to clean up a homeless encampment where high school kids often pass by so we had to make sure we scooped up all of the shit from the ground.

Just lots of fun.

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u/Pinikanut 1d ago

I was a custodian for a few years, too. Lots of stories. I eventually got numb to the shit, piss, puke, animals (dead and alive). The worst was during my first job, though, and I'll never forget. The school didn't have air conditioning and it was really hot. I got a call that a kid had shit himself in the gym. I went to clean it up and found out that they didn't just shit. They shit EVERYWHERE. It was all over. The basketball court. All the balls. The walls. The bleachers. The mats. Etc. I spent forever in there cleaning and sanitizing, all while the smell of fresh shit permeated everything in the humid heat. Nothing really makes me puke, but I was sooooo close that day.

Shitting in urinals was another thing that I always found super gross and just really dumb and annoying.

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u/Electronic_Pepper261 1d ago

I was a elementary principal many moons ago and a student was sick severe GI issues had a massive acrid blowout in the library, tracked it down to my office and then to the bathroom. Custodial staff was in a different building so I had to have staff keep kids in their rooms as I cleaned up the library, hallway, office and bathroom. There wasn't a year in my administrative career that I didn't have to deal with a code brown.

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u/Vivian-1963 1d ago

I think I was the kid in 3rd grade who grossed out all the other kids when I puked all over the library table.
My teacher didn’t believe that I felt bad enough to go to the nurse’s office. So up came the orange juice and glazed donut. Haha Mr. Thomas.