Published on November 7, 2005
By
Tova7
In
Misc
Right now I am sitting in the most disgusting stench it has ever been my misfortune to whiff.
My son has a friend, who is a very nice child. But the child has such a horrible smell I can hardly be around him.
Today I picked them up from school and my vehicle still carries the heavy musk of his body odor. It is a musky, body odor, dead cat kind of smell. And it is THICK. I mean it doesn’t dissipate when he leaves a room. If he sits on an upholstered piece of furniture that piece will bear his scent for days.
We had a cat die in our attic once. It was summer and the temperatures soared everyday into the high 90’s and low 100’s. We didn’t know it and by the time we found it because of the smell, maggots were building houses in its carcass. Nasty.
We were living in a foreign country at the time so I paid a local to go up in the attic and clean it all up. I gagged from the smell when I went into the room below the cat’s body so I knew I couldn’t get up in a hot crawl space and smell it. It took a couple weeks before the smell left the house entirely.
This kid smells worse.
I had to roll the windows down in my vehicle because I started gagging. I am not joking. It is such a heavy smell that once you breathe it into your nose it takes up residence on the back of your tongue. Then you have to smell it AND taste it.
I am not one to beat around the bush, so gasping for air, I asked the kid if he showers everyday. He said yes. Well what the?
I have never seen a human smell so bad. I know there is a disorder but I don’t think that’s it because he doesn’t smell like fish. http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=trimethylaminuria
He is gone now…several hours gone, but his scent still lingers. I have sprayed everything with Lysol and Oust, opened windows, and brushed my teeth trying to get rid of it. Nothing works.
I am supposed to pick this kid up from ball practice 7 more times and he will stay at my house for about 4 hours.
I can’t decide whether to even tell his parents, or ask them about it because maybe they don’t notice it? It’s so strong it has its own physical presence in a room. I don't want him back in the house, it is that bad.
I asked my son if he smelled it and he said, “yeah but he can’t help it mom.”
Pfft.
I didn’t say he could help it. But it doesn’t make the stink any less potent.