Fetid, foul, rancid, rank, and malodorous

November 14th, 2009

The smell. Yeah, that smell.

We found it.

Well, The Husband found it.  I got grossed out and quit 15 minutes into the expedition.

It seems that when Little Blue (the 1990 Miata I got for my 16th birthday that has not run in five years)  was moved back into our garage from his cozy little space  in the barn at the In-laws compound….he brought a friend.  A black furry friend with a l o n g pink tail.

Yes, A RAT WAS IN MY HOUSE!! That totally deserves another exclamation point!

We converted our garage into an office for The Husband about two years ago.  The half closest to our house is office and workbench space.  Then there is a partition.  Then there is Little Blue sideways, all of our camping gear, nine hundred and twelve broken computers and hospital dictation stations that the hubs uses for “parts”, tools, and a whole lotta crap.

The rat left his nest in Little Blue’s engine and was  making a fancy home out of shiny computer parts, wire, and paper under The Husband’s workbench, behind boxes of more computer junk.  And then it died.  And smelled-smelled a smell that needs a new word because smell just is not strong enough.  Neither were fetid, foul, rancid, rank, or malodorous.   And there were (oh MY GOD) bugs helping the decaying process.

The good news is it looks like it was a hermit rat because there is zero evidence it had friends.   Just in case, now might be a good time to buy stock in DCON because I predict that they will have a sudden spike in sales in our area.

It is now gone and the smell is quickly dissipating, but we have to move anyway because I can’t forget, and on Monday we are all going to the doctor because I am sure we have cholera.

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2 Responses to “Fetid, foul, rancid, rank, and malodorous”

  1. MMIL on November 14, 2009 8:50 pm

    It’s not a smell so much as it is a bone-deep infusion of disgusting that is physically and spiritually invasive and revolting. BTW, thanks for the physically reactive memory your post invoked in me. Argh.

  2. TheHusband on November 15, 2009 11:10 pm

    You forgot mephitic, noxious, pestilential, putrid, vile, and deleterious.

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