What is the worst smell you have ever encountered? How/where did you come across this assault on your olfactory senses?

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Raw chicken fat--rotting. It was a warm day and I put it in the garbage, opened it later...ewwww. Now I know why in movies they open the trunk where they expect to find the dead body, and everyone lurches back with ( Read more... )

Boar, 1959. With rising sign Capricorn, to mix metaphors, and the Sun in Cancer. There must be other astrological systems somewhere, right? I just don't know them.

Being in the apartment building we lived in when I was about 3, and standing at the bottom of the steps to the apartment upstairs. My mom had made snickerdoodles and had let us have some. She sent some upstairs to the couple who lived there, and I cried standing there--because she was giving the cookies away that I could have had. I felt so ( Read more... )