I need to clean mine out, but cutting into a watermelon today reminded me of last summer. We had worms we bought for the kids to take fishing (no lures or flies for them yet). When we came home we put the container in the fridge and didn't really think about them for a while. Later I went to get watermelon out. It had been cut into quarters with plastic wrap over it. The worms had pushed up the top of the container, escaped, found the watermelon, and climbed in under the plastic to hang out. They seemed to be thriving in there, in fact.
My mother tells me that when she was a little girl she had a pet turtle that died. She was hoping it would wake up so she put it in the refrigerator. Her father made her take it out when he found it.
I'm feeling like my fridge is pretty gross right now and I'm sure I'll find some new life and new civilizations when I wade in to clean it, but I would love to hear any entertaining stories, even if it's just leftovers that you thought might attack you. :)
Christine, I rarely actually laugh over things on here, so thank you!! :) That is hilarious that you had to PUT that in there!
I stored my cat from biology (post-dissection) in our freezer because I wanted to bury it. I felt so sad for it that it had to be used for science and thought it deserved a proper burial. My mom wasn't really impressed with that one.
I once let my neighbor use my deep freeze. What did they need it for? To put a bobcat in it before it could be taken to be stuffed. So I open the freezer to see a 40 lb bobcat staring at me. Good times.
Meal worms for my sons lizard, bleck!
oooh the veggie drawer!!! the slimy cucumber and or the thing that was in a baggy and stuck in the back - a bell pepper - it was hardly recognizable!!! YUCK!!!!
My kids spilled kool-aid and it went UNDER the veggie drawer - THAT was a mess!! EEEEWWWW!!!!
Weirdest thing? My phone (and other non food items). I can be...a bit absent minded.
Gross stuff? Oh goodness. I'm not ready to talk about the science experiments I've (accidentally) conducted.
Happy fishing?
In college, my roommate brought her biology lab rat home and put in our fridge without telling us. Well guess what we did when we opened that "container"! I about killed her, and all she could do was laugh and say she needed to study it over the weekend so she could ace the lab test on Monday. GROSS!
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Weirdest thing? People. (Not soylent green, though, promise!)
As in just moved in and had an empty fridge and my son popped out of the fridge and his bestie out of the freezer as I walked through the kitchen.
Grossest? It doesn't get gross. If you wait long enough they develop their own political systems and law enforcement and sanitation. Just let the colonies learn to self govern and everything will be cleaned for you. (j/k)...
... So back during desert storm nearly all military aircraft, and most commercial jets were rerouted for a few weeks / no one was landing in Japan . We had friends who got stuck stateside and we got roped into cleaning out their fridge (along with a few other odds and ends when you find yourself away from home unexpectedly for a few weeks). It shouldn't have been that bad, but the power had gone out. And we were in the jungle (100+ degree heat, 98% humidity). There were uprisings going on in that fridge, and only one thing in the world smells worse than that fridge. To make matters more interesting, as soon as the door was opened the heat and humidity (because, of course, no air-con) sped up the process 100 fold. You could literally watch things decay like timelapse video before your eyes. Grossness. And whole clouds of varicolored spores and gasses. It makes my eye twitch just thinking about it.
The most disgusting thing I've put in my refrigerator is my daughter's urine. When she first started going to preschool she got frequent urinary tract infections so I was constinually collecting urine samples to take to the doctor's office for them to check. The first time you pee in the morning is supposed to be the best time to get a sample. Unfortunately, our doctor's office doesn't open until 9:00 a.m. so I always had to refrigerate the urine so the bacteria didn't multiply too quickly. I used to love taking the urine sample into the doctor's office! I always had the sample inside a little paper bag so it wasn't visible, but each time I told the male receptionist what I had in the bag he would get queasy and I could almost see him vomit a little bit in his mouth. He couldn't stand to have me sitting out front where he might have to look at me and the bag so he would send me right back and someone would test the sample immediately. :)
Stool sample...so gross but they said it HAD to be frozen. Icccckkkkkyyyy!
We have a few glow-sticks in the freezer my son is trying to make last longer.
In the refrigerator it's usually the bottom of the vegetable drawer where a hidden cucumber has turned black and pink or a bag with a few green beans has liquified. No problem, I just toss it in the compost.
Refrigerators in veterinary clinics can be very interesting. If they don't have separate refrigerators for medical things vs. food, then you could have fecal samples, urine samples, blood samples, biopsy specimens, and vaccines all sitting in there with your lunch. There is also a deep freezer where deceased pets are kept until they are picked up by the crematory service - I've known some employees to buy ice cream and keep it in there.
I came home from work one day to find a pheasant and a squirrel in my freezer ! In the house freezer ! My husband and a friend had come in from hunting and had to keep them until they could get them to the taxidermist. At least the pheasant. Not sure what was going on with the squirrel. I figured after that, there isn't much that could shock me in my fridge or freezer.
My dogs' food..sounds innocent...nope not in the least. They are RAW feed dogs so all their food ranges from chicken,rabbit,beef,fish and so on. Well let me tell you some of the stuff I have had in there was thawed rabbits feet, rabbit guts, rabbit organs, pig balls, and the absolute worse thing I have ever put in my fridge was green tripe. We aren't talking about the bleached cooked stuff you can find in stores like Wal-mart but unwashed,uncooked, plain green tripe. I promise you that is the foulest smelling stuff one can ever come across.
When we first got our ball python it took a bit to find a petstore that sold pinkies so we had to order some frozen ones....so yea I had some frozen mice
