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This actually happened today, about an hour ago.
My house has a dining room that we don't use very often. Unless we're having a larger get together or a special holiday, we just eat at the kitchen table.
We have a toddler in diapers, so we have a couple diaper pails: one in his bedroom that we empty daily - and the other we never use anymore so it made its way into the corner of the dining room and has since been totally forgotten about.
Today I was coming into the dining room to store some bulk food items when an offensive odor hit my nostrils. "What is that?!" I thought to myself, as I was questioning if maybe the dog had shit somewhere.
As I was looking around for a dog turd, it was like I was playing the "hot & cold" game. Sometimes I felt as though I was getting closer to the foul stench, other times it seemed as though I was getting further away.
Closer, closer,....BAM. Literally face to face with the long-since-forgotten diaper garbage. "How could this be the source? We don't even use it!"
As I dared open the lid, it was like a wall of stale shit and piss hit me. I dry heaved as I willed myself to keep vomit down.
Apparently my mother in law had discovered this diaper garbage long ago and had been using it when she babysits the kids. I don't know when the last time she actually used it was, but the brand in there is one that we stopped using at least two months ago. She probably stopped using the garbage because it was full.
If I had gone into the dining room more often I would have noticed this stank before it festered into the God-awful fermented concoction I experienced today. I'm surprised the damn paint isn't peeling off the walls! I'll have to explain to her about why it was full and that it's fine for her to use it, I'll just know to empty it any time she's been here. Hopefully she doesn't think her son and I are dirty pig asses.
After emptying the diapers into a different bag and taking them outside, scrubbing the garage with cleaner, and then spraying it with lysol, it's finally starting to air out. Never again will I let a diaper pail go unchecked!
TL/DR: dirty diapers that sit around turn toxic
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