Which is grosser to step in with bare feet in the dead of night?

[Withywindle]

I think this is a tough choice.

[Brickbat]

1. Warm is so very much worse than cold, IMO.

[Withywindle]

2. But cold means you don't know how long it's been sitting there.

[Brickbat]

3. Well, in my house, it can't be longer than overnight. And really, while gross, the return on

grossness diminishes throughout the night. IMO.

[Withywindle]

5. You know what's really gross?

When the cat horks ON YOUR FEET IN BED. My ex's cat did that a couple times.

[Brickbat]

8. That is indeed gross. The grossest we had was when our dog, who at the time was in the habit of

eating his own poo, barfed up said poo on the bedroom floor at 3 a.m. I'd like to reiterate that it was NOT MY IDEA TO GET A DAMN DOG.

[Withywindle]

9. AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGH!!!

Wow.

[petronius]

22. This is the funniest thing I've seen on DU in months

I'm crying here...

[Maine-ah]

38. our dog would eat kitty "chocolates" and barf them up

:puke:

[niceypoo]

45. We always called them tootsie rolls

[yawnmaster]

50. you mean almond rocca eom

[XemaSab]

4. Snails or slugs

rank.

[texanwitch]

6. I stepped into a pan of slugs once.

I will never forget that.

[cordelia]

12. a PAN of them???

Oh, Dear God, I may never sleep again.

How did you manage to accumulate a PAN of those things?
And then step in them.

I hope I recover from the idea soon. Don't place any bets.

[texanwitch]

13. It was cookie sheet with dry cat food.

Slugs love dry catfood.

It was dark, I had no flashlight.

It was a very creepy feeling, trust me.

I haven't forgot about it to this day.

Bugs don't really bother me but slugs do.

[cordelia]

15. Ah, now I understand. Thank you so much.

I grew up on a farm.

Cats were allowed in any number because they were SUPPOSED to eat the rats or whatever vermin may have infested the barns and eat the grain.

Did they? Oh, no.

[texanwitch]

16. The barn cats were good but the cats that hung around the house just slept and ate.

My Grandparents always had around 20 cats and kittens.

A lot of the cats became wolf food I am sure.

[Withywindle]

7. Uh yeah, that's bad.

I ate a very small slug by accident once. It was a barbecue that was going well past dusk, and I just mistook it for a piece of mushroom in the salad. :puke:

[XemaSab]

10. .

:puke:

[bluedigger]

14. I ate a sea slug once.

Lobsterman gave it to me out on Damariscove Island. Sauteed it on a Coleman stove. Not bad, but I wouldn't go out of my way for another.

[Withywindle]

17. I don't want to get all down on the slug/snail thing.

Because I have had escargot cooked in the French way, and thought they were pretty good.

This one slug in my salad, though....unbelievably BITTER and with a terrible aftertaste.

[tango-tee]

28. Gah! Big rubbery boogers in butter, garlic and white wine.

Called escargots... I tried one, years ago, but it got stuck in my throat and I had one helluva time getting it to go down all the way.

For whatever weird reason, raw oysters are a different story.

[Kali]

43. aauugghhh!!!!

oooohhhhh *thud* <kali faints>

[BlancheSplanchnik]

60. HAAAAAH! Heeeeeeeee!!!! HAHAHAHA!!

ah, uh......


I mean,
oh sorry, you poor thing! Ewww!!! *commiserates*











HAAHahahahahHAHAHHAHAHAHHHAAAAA!!!

[Arkansas Granny]

40. That gets my vote, also. That slime is next to impossible to wash off.

[cordelia]

11. Slug

Want to TRY and wash that slimy shit off your bare feet in the middle of the night.

Good night, and good luck.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Still warm dead mouse, which for the first split second I thought was the cat's tail until she

didn't yowl, it didn't move, and I realized she was over 3 feet away.

[Patiod]

61. That was my "other" vote

I called my SO once from work:

"Can you check next to the bed and see if that's a real mouse or a cat toy?"

"Well, the cat toys aren't generally eviscerated, and they don't have the rictus of death on their face"
"Thanks for the level of detail, hon"

[mwdem]

19. I've done the cold and warm cat barf for years...

but recently, I stepped on a gecko with my bare foot on my tile floor. The dry crunch will last me for years....ewwwwwww!!!!!!

[mix]

21. "dry crunch"

horribly perfect

[Quantess]

20. Dog poo.

or a slug out in the grass.

[Flipper999]

34. Yeah, that wins my vote.

:(

blech

[FunkyLeprechaun]

23. My dog had a bit of a sickly poo (he doesn't do that anymore, thank goodness)

on the side of my bed... I woke up to go to the bathroom and stepped in it! I had to wash it off and hold my vomit down!

[susanna]

24. I don't have a cat. :)

[old mark]

25. Just had the opportunity to clean up a little cat puke this morning....

did not step in it this time, though....Personally, the cold puke is more irritating and tends to wake me up and engender rage...


mark

[Mist]

26. Cat barf with a hairball in the middle of it. Now that's special... nt

[MorningGlow]

46. That's my vote

Gotta love that lil' extra sumpin'... :puke:

[SoxFan]

27. HORKHORKHORK

Definitely warm...

[tango-tee]

29. !!!

I *know* that look.

[SoxFan]

30. I know that sound!

The worst is when you hear it in the middle of the night, but have no idea where the wee beast left the goodies.

[TommyO]

31. Been there, done that.

Even better, I've gotten good enough that if I hear it happening on the bed, I flail wildly to get the miscreant off the white sheets before the horking produces the goodies. I can do this from a dead sleep.

[tango-tee]

35. OMG - Yes!!! Same here!

Seems we've developed a deep sense of foreboding.... husband or other dearly beloved could be peacefully snoring up a storm next to us - no problem. But let the first faint hint of horkhorkhork enter our sleep and it's the immediate Great Gah. There we are, at a five-foot hover above the bed, throwing off cat, sheets, duvet, pillows within split seconds - only to find ourselves standing in warm barf.

There he is, right next to me, Mosche the Toothless Barfer. Looking all innocent, one paw on my leg.

[CBGLuthier]

32. Slug. Nothing tops oozy slug between the toes. And I have cats too.

[Courtesy Flush]

33. Before I clicked this thread I was thinking...

"I don't know what's on that list, but I'm going to add cat barf."

[amyrose2712]

36. Just happened last night! Oh I hate that.nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. A tough choice.

The cold stuff is more startling, I think; but the warm stuff is more nauseating. Stepping in either kind makes me yell "Eww!! Fuck!!" while hopping on the other foot to the bathroom as quickly as possible.

One of my cats has perfected the art of vomiting in the exact places where I am most likely to step, like at the foot of the stairs. :puke:

[hedgehog]

39. Dog barf

[sharp_stick]

41. Some dead and seriously rotten animal parts

that my dog dragged into the house and left in the main hall outside of my bedroom. I have no idea what the thing was but it weighed about 3 pounds and was nothing but a piece of fur attached to meat and a shitload of maggots. I think it may have been part of a deer roadkill but that's just a guess.

After looking at what I stepped in I puked, barely making it to the bathroom, then used a shovel to chuck it outside. I poured alcohol and boiling water on what was left, scrubbed the shit out of the carpet. More alchohol and boiling water, then carpet shampoo at least 4 times. I didn't get a wink of sleep for the rest of the night but the dog was snoring away in the living room.

[WildEyedLiberal]

49. OMG, you win

That's beyond disgusting.

[sharp_stick]

51. It was beyond disgusting

It was a long time ago, I was only about 14 but I'll never forget trying to clean that up. I think the dog was pretty proud of himself though, he probably thought he had quite the find.

[Digit]

57. I am kicking myself for wanting to read just ONE more post before bed...

Why in the hell did I click on this?

G-night!

Grumble, grumble.........

[sharp_stick]

58. Sorry... n/t

[foxfeet]

42. Limbaugh's belly.

Horrible at first, but glorious later, when you realize he's dead, dead, dead.

[Kali]

44. it IS a tough choice

but I will add the element that makes either even worse: socks!

[Seneca]

47. I was torn

I split the difference by voting for warm, just to even the votes.

I am more conscientious about wearing slippers in the middle of the night, I can tell you that!

[WildEyedLiberal]

48. Other: cold cat poo

Left RIGHT in front of the toilet, where he knew I'd step on it. Little bastard.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

52. Dog poop.

[kedrys]

53. Definitely warm cat hork

Cold cat hork doesn't make me gag nearly as dramatically as warm hork does.

[kwassa]

54. A small live frog.

My friend stepped on it on the way to the latrines at Boy Scout camp. The frog was squished, of course. My friend was barefoot and traumatized.

[Lucian]

55. Warm dog poop.

[Kaleva]

56. Crawled over a dead cat filled with maggots once.

Was working beneath a trailer repairing broken water lines and crawled over something soft and stinky. Rolled over and turned on my flashlight to see what it was and saw a dead cat covered with maggots. On another job in a crawlspace a live skunk kept me company.

[meow2u3]

59. Little is grosser than stepping in warm cat puke in the middle of the night

Especially when the color of the throwup matches that of the floor perfectly. :puke:

[libodem]

62. You selected:

Warm cat barf. I had to laugh when I read that.

[skygazer]

63. Dead and partially disemboweled rodent is right up there

Of course, you can combine the two and get warm cat barf containing dead and partially disemboweled rodent. With cats, it's a never-ending smorgasbord of choices.