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People Who Have To Enter Other People’s Houses As Part Of Their Job Share The Most Disturbing Things They’ve Seen (30 Answers)
A person's home is a reflection of their personality. Or at the very least, their lifestyle. That's why so many of us are wary of having people over. But some don't need an invitation. Movers, technicians, and even delivery drivers get to step (or at least have a peek) inside our properties virtually every day.
So when Reddit user Valar_Morghulis888 made a post on the platform, asking people who have jobs that require them to go into strangers' homes to share the weirdest things they've seen, many stepped up and delivered. Continue scrolling to read about their experiences.
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#1
Car not house, but this one guy had hundreds of stuffed animals in the back seat of his car and in the trunk. All brand new, still with tags. Turned the car on and the radio started blasting some hardcore rap. Found out after he passed away that he was really good at claw machines and would donate all the toys to childrens hospitals. RIP dude, sorry I thought you were a weirdo.
Brian Stanton 3 years ago
My stepdad worked for a claw machine company! Yearly he donated a huge trash bag full to the charity I ran! He also had them All in his car
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
My grandfather also used to keep claw machine plushies in the back of his car to give to me and my sister whenever he would come down to visit us.
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#2
I'm a tree surgeon so I have to go to a different house pretty much every other day. I never normally go in to houses but this time I did and I'm scarred for life. I went to this little old partially blind woman's house, as she wanted a couple of apple trees shaped and trimmed down. I finished the job and knocked on the door, the force of my knock just slightly opened the door. I didn't get an answer but I heard a heated one side argument from inside her house, so I went in. I walked in to the living room and she was shouting at her husband for not replying to her for the whole week. Her husband was dead in his armchair. She couldn't see very well obviously, she thought he was just ignoring her and not coming to bed. I burst in to tears, it was heartbreaking.
DC 3 years ago
Oh my ... guess she wasn't only impaired regarding vision, as, usually, you don't only see a dead person being dead, but after a few days, for sure, can smell it ... feel the cold of their hands if you touch them ... the total lack of any motion is what really creeped me out when I found a dead person, the only time so far ... no need to repeat!
Emery Walters 3 years ago
But at least you were able to put a stop to her misery and confusion. It would only have gotten worse without you. Hard on you, though.
Hannah Finley 3 years ago
Oof, I had something similar with my grandmother when I was 6. Sat in her lap, talked to her and played with her hair for awhile, then went downstairs and told mom that grandma wouldn't wake up. I had no clue, she has passed peacefully with her head propped on her hand in her couch spot, like she had when she would watch TV. Luckily the ether of youth left no lingering anxieties about it, not that I have found yet anyway.
Greg Wilhelm 3 years ago
In America we're just called Arborists. Been doing it 20 years and been ISA certified for 15 years, but now will go by Tree Surgeon.
Alexandra Davis 3 years ago
Tree surgeon is what I would use in the UK, I think it's a cool name I hope you get people adopting it in the USA! I like that it implies that they're helping keep the trees healthy and happy
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RezFidel 3 years ago
The worst part is that she didn´t bother or wanted to touch-check him for a week. Supersad..
Estelle Winwoode 3 years ago
Yea, what was happening there? Maybe he'd ignore her after an argument, and she thought that was what was happening. If she was hurt or annoyed she might not have wanted to go up to him to see if he was okay, better to just let him get over it... Too sad.
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#3
Not my story, my Dad's.
He used to deliver furniture. He and his buddy go to deliver a dining set to a house. The homeowner is sitting on a recliner as my dad and his coworker unpack the dining set and set it up. The guy had a gun on the side table directly next to him, he was just chillin and watching tv.
Finally they're done setting it up, the guy then grabs the gun and points it at my dad. Tells him to empty his wallet and get out. Dad's coworker was pissed, my dad did exactly what he said, coworker did the same. They left.
There was a payphone at the corner, my dad calls 911, says he just got mugged. Dispatch asks for details of the mugger, my dad was able to give the guy's first and last name, address, phone number, and a description of what the guy looked like.
Guy got arrested, my dad and coworker got their money back.
Bouche Clay 3 years ago
What an idiot. Did he honestly think that they wouldn't know how to find him?
Duesvolent90 3 years ago
Wow I thought there was gonna be a plot twist. Guy was not the owner, but a dude that broke in the house while owner was away and the father gave the police the actual owners name and he got arrested...
Jan Bowyer 3 years ago
Just you average run of the mill gun nut. Compensates for deficiencies in other areas.
#4
Few years ago I was volunteering with the city council helping people clean their houses after the neighborhood I lived in had been flooded. One house belonged to a Chinese couple who ran the local convenience store. They had asked our crew to help remove water damaged carpet from the ground floor rooms of their house so it could be thrown away. As we were removing this carpet, we realised that it ran in one piece under a closed door and into a locked room, so we asked the lady of the house if she wanted us to cut it off at the door and leave whatever was in the locked room behind, or if she wanted to open the room and have us remove the carpet in there also. She responded, "I'll check with my husband what to do. That's his special room." This lead to some nervously puzzled looks from our crew. What does a middle aged Chinese man who owns a convenience store keep in his "special room"? Eventually the wife came back with a set of keys and told us that we could remove the carpet in the room and she unlocked the door. We all crowded around as the door opened to reveal.. A room with carpet up the walls, a mirror ball on the ceiling, a stage at one end with a PA standard sound system, a projector, and in the corner just about the fanciest karaoke machine I'd ever seen. Special room indeed.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
That ended in a more wholesome way than I expected considering the rest of this list.
Minath 3 years ago
My dad worked out in Hong Kong and China for a while and karaoke was a big thing out there, people took it really seriously.
#5
I worked for Best Buy's Geek Squad and Circuit City as an in-home technician (They named their in-home service 'Firedog'. Does anyone remember that?) for over five years. I've seen some s**t. Here are several of the highlights.
1) Had several people try to pay me in drugs.
2) I had the police show up and arrest an old guy for domestic violence while I was at his house. That was fun.
3) One guy had a bunch of issues with my store and a computer he bought there. He was pissed, so they sent me on a free in-home call to fix things and make him happy. He tried the 'macho intimidation' thing by cleaning his gun collection in the same room where I working on his computer. (I was/am a recreational shooter, so this didn't faze me.)
4) Single Mom wants me to work on her teenage daughters desktop computer. The daughter is watching me work and asking questions, which was fine. It's a long job, and as time passes, the daughter starts getting really flirty. She keeps finding excuses to touch me, laughing at everything I am saying, and making "suggestive" comments. I'm feeling uncomfortable, but I ignore her advances and try and concentrate on the job.
She finally gets up, walks over, and sits down on my lap. No warning, no asking permission, just does it. I shot to my feet instantly, dumping her on the ground. I went to find the mom, only to discover THE MOM HAD LEFT. SHE HAD LEFT ME ALONE IN HER HOME WITH HER TEENAGE DAUGHTER.
I noped the hell out of there ASAP, drove straight back to the store, and reported it to my manager.
Matt MacFarlane 3 years ago
Someone looking to cause some serious trouble, I think.
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Deborah B 3 years ago
4) Ouch. Sorry this happened to you. It must have been painfully uncomfortable and awkward. It is so hard for a man to report an underage girl for sexual harassment or sexual assault, and be taken seriously and not accused of misconduct. Victim blaming happens to guys too. I hope your manager banned that customer.
David Brown 3 years ago
I installed home security systems for a while and got to see some crazy af shitt. Walked into a home that was completely empty except for one recliner and a coffee table. The coffee table was covered in cocaine. Dude says "you cool" and I was like yeah man of course. He got the system to protect his trap house. Another one it was an alarm for a little black grandma. Her grandson was bigger than a fridge and he couldn't understand I was just there to change batteries. He thought I was ripping her off so he walked me to the door with gun in hand. I jumped in the truck and he fired 2 shots. One hitting the ladder rack. Never been so damn scared.
DC 3 years ago (edited)
This could end you in jail. Nobody would be able to know if your or her version is true, and as people tend to stupe away their brains in cases someone yells "Chiled Mow Lester111" and call for the chair already, not knowing shid. Good thing you noped out, I'd do the same and I think everyone should. After all, it's not something tempting me whatsoever, and it may even be the plan to get you to respond to her offers and get you punished because fun. People have audacities I'd never ever even dream of on my own, you know, and beyond that, many go and remain there until their filthy plans fulfill, get you into jail and, somehow, get her some of your money for compensation. Look cute, look innocent, cry, and the average gun-freedom-murrica yelling idiot is totally invested in having your so-called molester unalived ASAP. Really any molestery to have taken place? Nah, what matters that, who cares, cares anybody at all? Sure, but ... audacities, see above - beyond, above, below all at the same time.
Unboundllama117 3 years ago
This is by far one of the weirdest things I have ever heard someone do
Hey! 3 years ago
They go practice every weekend. They have competitions, etc. My daughter could shoot the flame of a candle from 50'. Learned in the cadets; she also did a triathlon that included shooting. Otherwise it's private associations.
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Oh, great heavens.
#6
Did appliance delivery/installation for a summer, we delivered a dishwasher and a range to a house that on the outside looked like a typical middle class ranch style house. We went inside, and there were no walls in the entire house. The frame work was there, all the electrical and duct work was ran like normal, but no dry wall or plaster on anything. You could see from one side of the house to the other, including bedrooms and bathrooms. The latter was very apparent when, during the installation of the dishwasher, the guy went to the bathroom that was adjacent to the kitchen and proceeded to take a dump. He was still talking to us and we unfortunately could see everything, including the fact that he did not wash his hands when he was done.
BG 3 years ago
Male here. I go into alot of public restrooms due to bladder issues, nature of my job, etc. More than 50% of guys don't wash their hands or just pretend to.
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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
Why on earth did they stay in the house when he did that?! I would have walked out immediately and refused to reenter until he finished. Disgusting.
#7
I worked for myself as a cleaner and people would give me a key for their place or meet me there, leave, and get me to lock up before I left. One time I showed up to one of my regular cleans and let myself in, as per usual. I started from the top floor down. I got to the second floor from the third and went to go into the daughter's bedroom. I walked in to find her leaning over a cardboard box, she looked at me with panic in her eyes because she was supposed to be at school, and whispered "I'm hiding a bunny from my parents, please don't tell". I backed out of the room, finished the job, and left. I never did tell her parents about the bunny. Not really weird, just odd and super cute.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
I'm not. That's a terrible way for a rabbit to be kept, even in the short term.
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Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Poor bunny. Animals deserve to be kept in suitable conditions with companionship, not stuffed im a box under a bed.
MockingbirdTheWolf 2 years ago
You should NEVER keep an animal secret from your parents. What if it got injured or sick and you had to tell? What if they refused to pay for it or its care? What would you do? Leave it at a shelter? Put it outside? Find a job? Let it die?
#8
Hoarding. I was a state social worker... The pattern on the wallpaper started moving... and I realized it was thousands of cockroaches. Holes in the walls where cats ran through them. Counted 25 alive cats. 2 found dead under couch. The carpet was so filled with cat urine it squelched over the top of my flats and into my shoes. And used tampons..everywhere. Had to remove all children. Home was condemned and eventually burned by the city.
My O My 3 years ago
Poor kids. I always wonder if these kids can live a "normal" life in a flat of their own one day
Hannah Finley 3 years ago
By some coincidence I've been friends with 2 different women who were children of hoarders. Both had empty homes and minimal possessions, intense anxiety disorders and attachment issues (assuming from the occasional removal from family and children services), and other various issues. Functioning adults, but both terrified of everything and wound up REAL tight all the time. Normal? Yes and no
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DC 3 years ago
I never got my head around how you could have pets dying and not do anything about it. Dead family members should at least provoke some crying, and some getting rid of the dead flesh, before it turns into a maggot creator formerly known as Mooshie or Elvisiette, or whatever silly names you end up punishing your cats with once you ran out of good names before you ran out of nameless cats. Currently, I have only one, and she occopies quite a share of my time, which I joyfully provide her with ... then again, I'm no hoarder whatsoever, so ... maybe ... connected, those dots, ... but, anyway - dead cats smell like dead bodies happen to, disgusting, and also, every cat is precious and needs to be loved and spoiled. None of them needs to live in a garbage collection!
Tishia Partchey 3 years ago
It is. I went through a bad depression when I finally got my medical diagnosis. It was only my bedroom but it was at least two feet of stuff. Mostly paper thank goodness. It took a couple of years before I cleaned but I did it. I'm disabled so my cleaning is not the best but my room was immaculate at the end. It took about 3months to do it though. The guilt and despair just makes you feel like you just can't do anything about it. I do wish I could afford a housekeeper cuz it's so painful to clean. At least I'm cleaning though.
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Story time: My friends wife works for the DCF (Department of Children and Families) and she was telling us about one of her cases. She visits kids in care of foster families or just kids who have mental problems. One case in particular still haunts me. She went to check on a Mom and her 8 year old son who has some form of mental disability. She knocks on the door and the Mom answers. The Mom invites her in and she sits in their living room. They are sitting chatting and then the 8 year old son comes into the room so my buddy's wife greets him and asks him how he is doing. He was chewing on what she thought was candy or taffy. When he gets close to speak to her, he takes what he had out of his mouth to say hello. My buddy's wife looks at what he has in his hand which was just in his mouth and it is a f*****g used, bloody tampon. She is absolutely disgusted and asks the mom how she could let her son chew on a used tampon. The Mom nonchalantly explains that her son is very wild and out of control and when he chews on the used tampons it calms him down so she gives them to him. These are her used tampons that she lets her own son chew on for comfort. Needless to say she was reported and I think she was headed for a pysch eval after that. TLDR: Friends wife works for DCF. Had a case where Mom let her 8 year old son chew on her used tampons for comfort.
Pink kitty 3 years ago
Wtf happened that he first discovered a used tampon was a comforting thing to chew??! I seriously want to throw up just thinking about it. That is so messed up
Joshua Moore 3 years ago
What in the holy f*$k?!?!?🤮🤮🤮. FFS buy the kid a squeaky toy or something, sweet baby jebus. My autistic son has things he needs to stim with as well, but he sure as hell isn't ever stimming with any used hygiene products.
Dacă nu pierdeam, câștigam 3 years ago
Couldn't she have used syrup, tomato sauce...anything else???
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I'm desperately trying to think of a reason like giving a puppy your old t shirt because it comforts him by smelling of you. But it's not working
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I was a Mormon missionary. This is one kinda bizarre story.
I went into a hoarders house, but it wasn't your typical garbage nasty hoarders house. It was a sweet roughly 80 year old lady. She had the typical pathway that you could use to walk through the house and huge amounts of stuff but the difference was that everything was neat, clean, and organized. For example, she had couches that were nice and clean and in good shape, but they were completely unusable because the couch was completely covered with couch pillows, neatly organized. Her walls were completely covered with pictures, appearing to be stacked like Tetris pieces. Most of her floor was covered with decorations and lawn ornament type things with only a path that you could walk through.
She was a super nice and wonderful lady
N C 3 years ago
I think they all have OCD, just some learned how to corral it a little bit more.
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Jaaawn 3 years ago (edited)
Just like my late grandmother. She was a BAD hoarder. Just boxes and boxes and boxes of antiques piled up to the ceiling. Rooms so full she had to sleep on her couch and I slept on 2 armchairs pushed together with a piece of wood with cushions on it. She was a Holocaust survivor and apparently such trauma causes hoarding and it follows future generations- I already see it in myself.
KING ILLEGAL FOREST 3 years ago
A friend's neighbour was a hoarder and died in his house. My friend found out that most of the hoard was art. The guy's family made a FORTUNE selling it--apparently most of it was very valuable art.
Jasmine 3 years ago
As a student I rented a room that was fully furnished. To the extent that the closet had towels, baths supplies,..everything! I found that very convenient but a bit creepy as well. The woman would buy stuff just for me. The flat was tiny and stuffed to the roof with things she never used. She told me i was nit allowed to go to the living room as it was a bit messy. She kept the door locked. One day my curiosity made me try the keys from my roomdoor and it opened. The room was full of boxes. To the roof she stacked unopened boxes of stuff. Never saw something creepier and sad at the same time
That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
There's actually an aesthetic called cluttercore... It can look nice sometimes like with posters all together :)
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I once entered a home where literally (and I am using the word correctly here) every spare space on the walls was occupied with cuckoo clocks. There must have been hundreds.
So you walk in, get a strange feeling ("Something's off here") and then you register that you can't see the walls.
And the sound... All the tick-tock's just fused into a hum.
Buren 3 years ago
I would stay for a while until the hour changes and witness the hourly shenanigan
KING ILLEGAL FOREST 3 years ago
There's a clock shop near where I grew up and one room is all cuckoo clocks. My friends and I would visit it frequently just to see all the clocks going off at the same time.
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Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I wouldn't mind this too much. My father and I really love clocks, so I'd probably get a kick out of looking at all of them. Can't imagine what it would be like to dust them all, though.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
Must have sucked if they had to change the time for daylight savings, lol.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
I absolutely can't stand the ticking of clocks.... I would go insane
#12
Not a job, but found a dog that had escaped a lady's back yard. After returning it she was so pleased she wanted to give me a reward and invited me into her home. (heyo)
Inside her house was piles upon piles of boxes of strange kids toys that appeared to be from that old magazine "Oriental Trading Co." She tried to give me bouncy balls, tops, silly putty, packs of markers, stickers. These boxes were literally stacked to her roof, absorbing her entire living room. Why she had so much I have no idea. I ended up leaving with an armful of silly toys, hard candies and stickers.
Fun Fact: Silly putty is still pretty awesome.
Sarah SH 3 years ago (edited)
I’ve loved those catalogs since I was a kid! Let me know if this woman ever has a rummage sale!
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I love silly small toys, and dogs, and interesting people. This would have concerned me at first and delighted me in the end
Kirk Logsdon 3 years ago
Some of the silly stuff (cheap plastic necklaces, inflated aliens, floppy "cat in hat" hats....) that you see at fairs and carnivals come from them. INCREDIBLY cheap by volume.
Marina Molina 2 years ago
I have stuff from Oriental Trading company still, going to use some things soon for Halloween and give some stuff away 😊
#13
I work for a funeral home. I go into people's houses on a daily basis. I've seen hoarders. I've seen decomposing bodies. But nothing was weirder than the family that had their refrigerator in the living room. Not even against a wall. Dead center middle of the floor.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago (edited)
I aplaud your Logic and reasoning, well done sir/lady/what ever you may identify with .
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ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
All hail the great and powerful refrigerator. Keeper of food. Giver of crisp vegetables and cold beer. We bowed down before thee
Gunn Smoke 3 years ago
I'm a plumber. My partner went to a house to install a toilet in the living room. He said the lady was old and had a hard time getting around. Worked for him.
Shadow 2 years ago
So this isn't that strange.... when I was diy renovating my kitchen I moved my fridge out into my living room while I laid new tile and painted the walls. Because it's one of the ones that makes ice it could only go so far and ended up in a really weird spot, particularly blocking the doorway between the kitchen and living room
Bernadette Spruce 3 years ago
I worked in a funeral home as well and have seen very interesting things.
#14
I used to work as a mortician removal technician. Which means I'd go to hospitals, senior living places, and homes to pick up and transport dead folks. So, you f****n' name it man. One lady died in her trailer with no relatives or friends, guy out for a jog called it in saying that the road out front of her trailer smelled really bad. Get inside and there's about 20 dogs of varying sizes, all very nice, all very full off of their owners corpse. There were cigarette butts literally (not figuratively) an inch or two deep covering the entire floor. And dog s**t, so much dog s**t. So we put the remainder of her body in a bag and took her away. There was another that was an old homeless dude, he lived in this clearing in the forest with a home made of weird metal scraps and clothes and such. It was like a 2 story Fallout building, s**t was hella intricate. He had somehow acquired a small walk in freezer that he used as a place to sleep. He died with his d**k in his hand, as we all hope we do. Overall pretty good job though. Lots of down time.
Hannah Finley 3 years ago
When I was a groomer, we had a small long haired terrier misleading who had been trapped in a small home with his deceased owner for 2 weeks. People say the dogs won't eat you, they surely will. Had to take him down to the skin and the smell ... just oh my god
Sarah SH 3 years ago
I am just picturing a guy dressed in hazmat suit pointing his finger at one of the dogs: “Drop it!…Drop it!”
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TuesdayDangerGirl 3 years ago
Never really thought about this type of job before now so looked it up. Dude does not get paid enough, ngl
Alexandria Z 3 years ago
Not my kind of job Thank you... Lived next to a hoarder couple. He died in the bedroom, They had to remove the bedroom window and take him out that way because they couldn't get the stretcher through the maze of junk floor to ceiling.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
I wonder what happened to the lady’s dogs? Will shelters take them after … that?
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
Yes. Usually animal hoards will be vetted by whatever shelter is closest and sent different shelters to adopt. Same happens with natural disasters
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Wesley F Phillips III 3 months ago
I used to work for a funeral home and this one case broke my heart. A young girl, had to be less than ten years old, had died and was covered in rashes, blisters, open cuts and sores, and had roaches crawling all over her. Needless to say, the state took the parents to court for neglect and abuse. It was so heartbreaking to pick her up and prepare her body for burial. It had to be a closed casket for obvious reasons. I didn't work there much longer after that. I just couldn't take seeing dead kids.
#15
Delivered furniture. Lady has mannequins EVERYWHERE in her home doing various tasks. At the dinner table, watching tv, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, playing cards in the game room, IN HER BED. Every single one was dressed up very nicely as well. She had us move "Gavin" from her bed to replace the mattress. When we were done she pulled a wad of money out of her bra, flipped through about 30 $100 bills, several $50's and gave us $20 each.
SobyKay 3 years ago
Halfway through the first sentence: Oh she's a fashion designer, nothing wrong with that. At the end of the first sentence: what in tarnation?!
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I have a lot of plush monsters in my room, but they stay in my room. I have always wanted one of those 7 foot Halloween skeletons, though, to keep in my house and decorate for every holiday. I think that would be fun.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
Go for it. We have a skeleton in the lounge (named Charlie), he dresses up from time to time. Never regretted acquiring him.
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Phoebe Bean 3 years ago
This story reminds me of the Geico commercial (set of mannequins "playing "cards up in the attic)
#16
Not homes but I go into customer's cars all the time for work. Usually it's mostly stuff like left over drugs or whatever. The best one though was these two chicks who had locked their keys in their SUV. They look really stoned and I think they said they were at a Wiz Khalifa concert the night before. Understandable. I unlock the car and the keys are nowhere to be found. Now I would figure most people would be discreet about this and thank me for coming and send me on my way, but these girls right in front of me began opening every compartment in the car. The glove box was filled with small bongs, pipes, blunt wraps and weed grinders. The center console was filled with sex toys and a few ounces of weed. They were just dumping all this s**t out for the world to see in a public parking garage while they rummaged through the car for their keys. All I could say is "uhhhhh...nice collection" they said thanks and went back to looking for the keys. I just decided to shuffle away from that nonsense.
Naillovedinosaur 3 years ago (edited)
Speaking as a stoner, we wouldnt keeep bongs in the glove box as they wouldn't fit really at all and water would spill... also who owns multiple grinders? 1 or none. Edit: don't drive and toke.
#17
Walked in on a p*rn shoot once. Owner's assistant forgot to tell me they rented out the house on the same day I was supposed to work on the aquarium.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Well thats normaly how crappy porn movies start lol, the repair guy goes to a home and......
Jul Chv 3 years ago
Yeah. Should have read the contract more carefully, my dude.
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LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
Yeah… I’ve , I mean someone I know told me that plot once… delivery guy shows up offering to fix her pipes?
️ saturn the furry (she/they) 3 years ago
Nooooo you can’t be doing this 😂
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#18
I work for a company that contracts work for utility companies. Mostly gas companies. Anyway, right now we're on a contract inspecting residential gas meters. I wouldn't say I've really seen anything "weird", but there's definitely been some interesting s**t. 1.) I work in Idaho right now which has a major meth problem, and I was assigned a huge trailer park for my route one week. I saw some truely horrific houses and met some really f****d up people that week. One guys trailer was just torn to s**t, broken windows, siding missing with exposed insulation, real dreamboat. I get around to the back of his place and he's got a wire running out a back window, across his lawn and its spliced into the power line running to his neighbors house. It was obviously hot because it was melting the snow around it in his yard. So I call the sheriffs, tell em what I'm seeing, and move on to the next house. Literally next door lady has two of the most neglected looking dogs I've ever seen. Back on the phone with the sheriffs. Two sheriffs deputies and an animal control officer show up at the same time, deputies go to look at the cable, AC officer goes to talk to the lady. Deputies come back after a minute and say no ones home, so they'll have me sign a witness statement and they'll contact the power company to take it from there. As soon as they finish up there they walk next door and arrest the lady who owned the dogs while the AC officer loaded them into his truck. I felt bad it was animal control taking them and not our local humane society, because they were more than likely just put down. I doubt the state would spend the money trying to rehabilitate them and then adopt them out. But, honestly, I think a quick death was a far better ending than what they had in store if left at that house. 2.) A week or so after starting with this company I was using a flathead screwdriver to try and chip some ice off the top of a meter ( I don't know what I was thinking). Sure enough I punch about a dime size hole right through the meter and get blasted in the face with natural gas. I get on the phone with the gas company to have them dispatch someone for repairs and had to walk around front of the house to get the house number. I come back and the old lady whose house it is is standing about 3ft from the meter with a lit cigarette in her mouth. I was kind of frozen because I thought we were all about to die in a giant fiery explosion when she takes a drag off her cigarette, and, with cigarette still between her two fingers, points down at the hole in the meter and says "Now has that always been there?". It was one of those moments you could feel your heart seize up in your chest. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Took about 4 hours for my b******e to fully unclench. 3.) I met a guy who was turning a huge old church into a house. Got to walk trough a bit of it on the way back to his meter. He'd done a pretty good job so far, but I was curious why would he take on such an endeavor? "Well, I have a lot of children." he says. I'm like "What like, 10 or 11?". He sort of chuckles, "No, 23... 5 biological and 18 adopted. 15 of them live here now, and 6 of them are disabled.". Ho-ly s**t. I don't believe in god, but I was like somebody or something bless this man. I mean, this guy had to have surrendered any kind of personal life outside of his kids and that house so that these kids could have parents and a home. The more I talked to him the more I kind of just wanted to hug the guy. Really cool dude. Me and the gf have been hooked on Fixer Upper so I sat and talked with the guy for like an hour about his family, and home renovations. I know his wife is a nurse but I never did bother asking what he did.
Happy Panda Nicole 3 years ago
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Memere 3 years ago (edited)
Um, the place where poop comes out. B-u-t-t-h-o-l-e. One must be creative to bypass the censor here!
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Delta Dawn 3 years ago
He renovates and takes care of children. What else would he have time for?
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
You can literally put a cigarette out in gasoline - I've done it several times. The heat off a cigarette cherry isn't enough to ignite a flame, you'd need a spark for that. It's when someone goes to LIGHT a cigarette, either by match or lighter, that the spark will ignite the gas.
YetAnotherSarah 3 years ago
Gasoline and natural gas are very different things, but you're right about lit cigarettes not igniting gasoline. I saw a study where they were testing what circumstances would have to be in place for cigarette/gasoline ignition. 70 tests and 4500 attempts later, they succeeded zero times. (The cigarette *is* hot enough; it's vapor concentration that needs to be perfect.)
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Alex Boyd 3 years ago
One of the more minor details from this post, but animals taken by Animal Control usually *do* end up at the local humane society/shelter. Most shelters don't have any enforcement authority, and most enforcement authorities don't have anywhere to house animals, so it's pretty common for them to have an arrangement. (I worked at a human society shelter a while ago--we'd have people call us about their neighbor's dog not being taken care of, and say they were calling us instead of involving the law...we literally just pass the message along to Animal Control. And then if they ended up seizing the animal, they'd bring it to us to put in the "quarantine" area (which was what we called the section where we put any animals not up for adoption yet), and they'd stay there for a few days or however long it took to get it straightened out to where the animal was either given back or freed for adoption.)
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago (edited)
#1 - too bad the guy didn't go down to animal control and adopt the dogs. Their deaths were not necessarily quick or humane.
#19
I used to deliver mattresses. People don't seem to care about someone they will probably never see again coming into their home so they don't really make an attempt to hide anything. Also, people hide everything in their beds. I've found money, guns, sex toys, drugs. The cooler things seem to have happened to me when I worked there. More than once, a customer has smoked weed with me, and given me some as a tip. I delivered to a house where they were having a party, and offered me shots. One time a Filipino family was having dinner and offered me and my partner dinner. We sat down and had these mini egg roll things with them.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
I remember my internship after getting my degree in computer management lol, i went to work for the biggest computer suplier of the island, One day he told me and my other coworker to deliver 2 computer desks to the other side of the island, almost at closing time, só we get in out shitty Corsa, and Race there, we delivered the desks and the client says he only pays if se assemble them, now this was passed closing time and we where pissed, and out bos " kindly ";reminded us that we nedded to get payed lol, só my coleague takes a desk to One of the client's houses and i take the other One to the other house, got there his wife brings me a plate with cheese and olives, and a soda, 10 minutes later i was laughing my a*s off eating cheese and olives, it was a fun day lol.
Florence O'Grady 3 years ago
There is a Filipino restaurant near my home and they have good food.
Hannah Finley 3 years ago
I always offer my delivery folks a cash tip, bong hit, and whiskey drink. Southern hospitality and all :D
RyanRyanRyan 3 years ago
Dinner one is so sweet. Everyone should talk to strangers more. Then they won't be strangers. Could still be strange though, but that's how we get these great stories.
#20
I'm an EMT and I think I've seen it all by this point. Extreme hoarding situations hidden in what appears from the outside to be a beautiful luxury home, literal herds of cats, dead animals (ew), trash, bizarre decor, houses completely devoid of any furniture for some reason.
And then, there's the clown house. Holy f*****g s**t. There's a bizarre old lady in our district who occasionally needs assistance getting out of her recliner... whose house is packed to the ceiling with clown memorabilia, including a 5 foot tall Murano glass sculpture of a crying Bozo that stands at the end of a shadowy hallway. I'd call myself a tough cookie, but I get the creeps every time.
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I love clowns, harlequins, and jesters. You name it. I don't know if I'd go so far as to put clowns all over my house, though. Maybe a hidden clown or two in the bathrooms and kitchen just to mess with guests.
#21
Well just food deliveries. This dude answers the door in just a speedo.(you'd be surprised how many people answer their doors with little to nothing on) I didn't acknowledge it so he says you may have noticed I don't have any clothes on.I just didn't expect you so quickly. So when I didn't mention his attire he had to make sure we talked about it then he asked if I would like to come in for a beer and a hit of his bong.
Greg Hoggarth 3 years ago
I think this guy had watched too many Adult Movies featuring pizza delivery boys.
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LH25 3 years ago
I am female, and yes that matters for this. I delivered pizza while in school, and can't count the number of times a woman answered the door wearing very little. Only to be surprised that their delivery person was female.
That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
Unrelated but people have said my boyfriend looks like a young Dahmer and Jesus in the same sentence... Jesus it's the hair, Dahmer it's the lips... I'm not kidding. I have screenshots. Lmao-
Load More Replies... Hey! 3 years ago
Thanks! I didn't know what that (a hit of his bong) meant. Good question, though.
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#22
Had to shoot an interview with a former homeless man. He was living from a tent he set up in his livingroom.
Garry Cowan 3 years ago
Having been homeless it's actually quite difficult to start sleeping in a house again even to this day I must have a window open no matter which season it is because it's too stuffy which can get quite cold in the depths of a Scottish winter
Tony James 3 years ago
I knew a guy who'd been in a Japanese PoW camp in Burma. Regular house, but there was a cage in the master bedroom made from bamboo. He said he slept in it whenever he felt stressed - it was tiny, he'd have to sleep sitting up with his knees tucked into his chest and his head crouched. Can't have been comfortable, but trauma kicks up weird results.
Raine Smith 2 years ago
It's easier and cheaper to heat a small space than the entire house. Smart use of what he has available
#23
I volunteer for hospice in stl. This one house had a collection of beanie babies like no other. Among the collections, there were beanie babies dressed up and placed in family scenes, action scenes and in small workshop type scenes. All over. They were covered in dust like they'd been placed there a long one ago. Hundreds. The creepy part was, when I went to throw a soda away, I opened up the cupboard under the sink and found a bunch of beanie babies in cages under the sink. The ones I could see had their eyes ripped out. The dude was 76, dying of COPD stuff. I didn't see any pictures of kids or family. Just a couple photos of him in the 90s with beanie babies. I wish he spoke. We're all without answers on this one.
SobyKay 3 years ago
The beanie babies in poses are one thing, but the caged & tortured ones a whole other kettle of fish!
Marleinah Smith 3 years ago (edited)
Google is a good way to find out... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs.
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meme lord 3 years ago
"aw thats kinda cute, i hope his fami-never f*****g mind i guess.'
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#24
Cats.
No, you don't understand.
So many f*****g cats.
These people had a literal breeding program set up. Their living room was a maze of floor to ceiling cages full of cats. Wire cages with p**s and s**t filtering down to the cats on the bottom. The smell was horrific. I walked in their house *once*. I almost couldn't register what I was seeing.
I found out later they were running a similar operation, this one with puppies, out of a barn on another part of the property
Bella V 3 years ago
Space is too good for them, I'd put them in the smallest cage they could fit in and let them sit in that stench until their own stench took over. Jerks.
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Taking My Antidepressants 3 years ago
I hope you called someone. That's not good for the animals
Jan Bowyer 3 years ago
Horrible animal abuse. The owners should be horse-whipped. I hope these innocent little guys were rescued.
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Marilyn Holt 3 years ago
I work with a cat rescue. You won't can't couldn't imagine what we find. Literally hundreds of kittens stuff in playpens, boxes, locked in bedrooms. Meanwhile the poor mom cats being bred and bred until they die. PLEASE if you find kittens for sale online, find out where they are from. Buying them just continues the cruelty.---Oh and same with dogs and puppies.
JMC5003 3 years ago
I've never understood why people buy animals when there are so many that need rescuing. Sometimes I think pet sales in general should be illegal. Don't shop, adopt!
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Xavier_M_P 3 years ago
My family once rescued a dog from a place like this. There were 24 dogs in the house. All starving and dehydrated. There were 5 dead dogs in the back room. Dog feces everywhere. They had 3 kids who were being treated likewise. Needless to say, they got arrested.
Brindle Nutter 3 years ago
Please tell me you reported them to animal control, ASPCA, HSUS, PETA and anyone else who might listen
#25
I deployed as part of the military's response to the Black Saturday Fires in '09 here in Victoria Australia. We had permission to enter homes to check for bodies of those who might have died from smoke inhalation. We entered a property in Flowerdale and Jesus Christ. Every room had a layer of clothes ankle deep, animal faeces everywhere and children's toys, so obviously kids lived there. Out the back were animals of all sorts, no water and still locked in cages. We used our own water to hydrate the animals and of course reported what we saw to the police we were working with.
RezFidel 3 years ago
"kids lived there" .. I notice that a lot of similar stories with kids and animals involved people pity the animals first.. I mean WTF guys?!
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#26
I used to work delivery and we went into this one house where an old lady had a ridiculous amount of birds. Every corner seemed to have a cage in it. It smelled like she never cleaned any of the cages. The stench was so bad that we had to occasionally stop to go out side and get a breath of fresh air.
alias D. 3 years ago
So sad when that happens the animals deserve better lives but these broken men and women decide that they do not deserve that and makes their lives miserable
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago (edited)
You just reminded me of a client i had once, super Nice guy, very polite, it took 5 of us to take all of his orders, nome of us could hang around him for Over 5m widout out eyes start watering.... Dude had a farm, had been working with sheep menour, and didn't had a shower, and still had that " acidic " as f**k stink on him.
#27
This is late but in my old job I had to always be in people's homes for quality checks and repairs for Internet related issues, had a request to fix a PC, we'll I had to install new wireless drivers so I eject what's in there and of course it's a porn DVD. Well knowing this is a teenage boys room I discreetly lay the disc face down on his desk and install my drivers while putting the DVD in one of his game cases and just wrote a sticky note telling him I put his game back in its case after fixing his drivers. Signed the note, You Welcome. Probably saved him from at least being grounded cause hey, we were all little dudes at one time.....
Upstaged75 3 years ago
Even worse - my computer broke and I took it to a shop to get fixed. They used a paperclip to eject my Twilight DVD from the player. Yes Twilight. And no I wasn't a teenager - I was about 35. Oh the shame! :)
Happy Panda Nicole 3 years ago
This might start a debate but I don’t understand why a person would get grounded for having porn. I raised two boys and of course I found magazines and videos. I never grounded them. Both boys and girls alike are curious as preteens and teenagers. It’s human nature so it seems counter intuitive to punish them. Perhaps the parents should just give them the age old birds and bees talk.
Well-Dressed Wolf 3 years ago
I think many times parents may be religious, or very old-fashioned, and their morals and sensibilities do not allow for the children to be naturally curious. I’m not trying to be judgmental by that. But I have relatives to whom it would be a “sin” for their children to even THINK about their genitals and what they’re used for (other than bodily waste removal, lol).
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Yeah... at one time... way back then... ehem... totally a long time ago...
RyanRyanRyan 3 years ago
What a missed opportunity. "I put your game back. Nice taste." "I put your game back. I think my third cousin is in it actually." "I put your game back. I hope you don't mind, I played it with your mom a few times. You have a great mom."
#28
I work for a remodel company and this lady who lives all by herself in this huge three story house had an exorbitant amount of dream catchers in basically every room of the house. There was one particularly large dream catcher (about the size of a smart car) hanging down in the middle of the dining room. I never got the nerve to ask what her fascination with them was.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
If its what i think it is, we call them " espanta espíritos " ( spirit dazer, or spirit frightener, it doesn't translate well to English )
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Samantha Mitchell 3 years ago
That's what they are supposed to look like 😊😊 the web is to catch nightmares or bad spirits before they get to you according to the native Canadian mythology. When I was a kid, I had one hanging over my bed.
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Oh dude i love those ( Steam catchers are the same as " chimings " right ? ) If só i love those, One of my neigbours hás an aluminium One and i frikking love the sound it makes when there's a light breese, its só soothing.
Dill 3 years ago
I could be wrong but I think you are talking about wind chimes - which can be soothing to some and really annoying to others! Dream catchers don't make a noise (as far as I'm aware anyway!). It's not something I believe in personally, that they can catch a dream, but I do think some are pretty.
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ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
She kept buying dream catchers. What she needed was a dream caught
#29
I'm currently a sub contractor working for health canada. I go to military homes and install radon gas detectors. I have a ton of horror stories and some great ones.
Went into one guys basement and there were piles of cat s**t everywhere. I mean everywhere, over 50 piles easily. It looked to neat and tidy to be natural. either he was placing the cat poo in those spots, or it was his poop. Still a mystery.
Rang the door bell and a woman yelled from the living room for me to come in. Take my boots off, turn the corner and the couple are having sex casually on the couch while watching tv. No blanket, I see everything.
After finishing the work, I come up from the basement and the guy is standing there, massive erection, asking me questions about radon gas. I think they were F*****g with me. Or the guy liked showing off his huge d**k.
Another home I went into seemed super normal. Older man, 50s, very polite and his house was super clean. He appeared to be living alone. As I walk through the living room to get to the basement, I notice the very polished stripper pole in the middle of the room.
Lena Z 3 years ago
Last one isn't so bad though, pole dance is more of a trend sport nowadays... i got a "stripper pole" at home too for training, it's a good way to exercise strength and posture :)
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
I’m going to suggest that the gentleman paid for ladies to go to his house and ‘entertain’ him with their flexibility and prowess on the pole. Just an alternative view 😜
Load More Replies... Kate Jones 3 years ago
I can't imagine how someone wouldn't understand that having sex in front of someone or going near someone with an erection isn't appropriate and I wouldn't be as nice as some of these people are in the situations they're in. I would be calling this stuff out, honestly. I feel like this is even a little dangerous. No sane person would walk toward a stranger with an erection or tell someone to 'come in' while having sex. This list is full of animals, seriously!
Emily 3 years ago (edited)
I think the people who do this (have sex in front of strangers and talk to service workers while they - the homeowner- have an erection) have very different boundaries than lots of people. I'm not defending those people, just trying to explain their choices
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Would you say it was bigger or smaller than a banana? (everyone is wondering)
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
The pole probably belonged to his girlfriend. 50's is the new 30's.
#30
Former door-to-door telecom salesman. Once entered the home of an elderly lady who I am 100% certain is a serial killer. The insider of her house was COVERED in thousands of dolls of all kinds, mostly porcelain dolls. All the walls, floor to ceiling. Every piece of furniture. Every table, every shelf. She had a china cabinet full of little dolls. Her floor was covered in big dolls. Her garden was full of ceramic dolls. It was terrifying.
Amanda Bock 3 years ago
Yeah doll collecting is a common and normal hobby. My mom collects dolls and she’s the sweetest woman ever.
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Kate Jones 3 years ago (edited)
There was this show on HBO years ago that was about serial killers and I can't remember the name. But I'll never forget this one guy who was obsessed with eyes and the particular blank, dead stare of mannequins. He got a job working with mannequins and used to draw eyes all the time. He had tons of mannequins and dolls in his house. He finally started killing women and cutting out their eyes and when the cops caught him they found all the eyes from his victims hiding in his vacuum bag in a closet. In prison he has drawings of eyes all around his cell. Now every time I hear a story about someone who has tons of mannequins or dolls in their house I'm like...yeah, they might be serial killers. They might be hiding eyeballs. Edited to add: I looked it up and his name was Charles Albright.
Florence O'Grady 3 years ago
She probably grew up poor and her parents could not afford presents for her. She made up for it as an adult and bought all the dolls she dreamed about as a little girl.
adam craker 3 years ago
I don't know think that's all that weird for people from the older generation. My grandmother grew up extremely poor. Her father f****ed off when she was five. Just moved a few towns over and started a new family. Left her mother alone with no job and no real skills to raise 3 kids. Back In the Forty's people shamed single mom. They couldn't afford food much less toys for the kids. Lived in a abandoned trailer. Long story short my grandma was bad a*s. Met my grandpa and started a good life. She collected dolls because she was to poor to afford them as a kid. I mean she didn't even have shoes until she was 15. Grew up to be very smart classy lady. When she died she made sure her dolls were sold and the money was donated to single parent family.
Kody Franks (She/her) 2 years ago
I love dolls! I have quite a few. I specifically love old/creepy/damaged dolls. I have a porcelain doll from my great-grandma that's decapitated. I got it like that btw.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
My niece's 8th birthday was held at the Bellevue (WA) Doll Museum. It had some really beautiful pieces, many of which were hundreds of years old. It was still creepy AF.
#31
I was sent in to replace a ceiling in a rental unit over the bathtub. It was bulging down like it had water damage. I thought it would be fast to just smash into it with my crowbar and yank it down, It all came down and I got covered from head to foot with ant larva. I did a little ew, ew dance.
nachtinachtischachti 3 years ago
A little ew ew dance? Setting yourself on fire would also been ok at this point
#32
I install internet. While being shown where they wanted their modem I was ushered into a bedroom with a women sleeping in a bed with a goat next to her. The goat was watching T.V.
#33
I am an HVAC mechanic. I was dispatched to a clean and tune for a furnace in a VERY upper class neighborhood (million dollar homes). Rang the door bell. A young girl around 7 or 8 opened the door *wearing nothing but diapers*. Wow. OK. I asked if her mommy or daddy was home and she said daddy "Isn't here anymore" and that "Mommy drank a lot of orange juice last night and is still sleeping". I left right away.
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
About as often as people call the police when they see someone else getting mugged. So hardly ever.
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#34
Door to door window sales; dude answered the door buck naked. I didn't know what to do, so I just kept trying to sell the windows. I took his first 'no' and gladly left.
Pizza delivery; dude lived in an RV, smelled so bad, like s**t and death and rot. He ordered twice a week and always when I was the only driver, didn't tip either. I would alway hyperventelate in the car to get good O2 then take a deep breathe so I would have enough air to speak and not have to breathe in his plague lair.
Also pizza; Worked there 3 years, first time I delivered to an older lady she was fat, later she was in a wheel chair, the she lost a foot, then a whole leg, then stopped ordering all together. Probably dead. Always got stuffed crust and 2 2-liters.
Blitzø 3 years ago
the last lady sounds like diabetes to me- I know they can lose use of their feet/legs if they don't properly take care of themselves, leading to amputation. My older sister has type 1 I think (the type you develop as a kid usually) and she has issues with her feet and vision
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub 3 years ago
My mother is type 1 and she also has problems with her feet going numb or the feeling of television static plus her eyesight is getting worse. It's heartbreaking. I'll be praying for your sister, love.
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Worked over 12 years as a cable guy (basically). Average 6 houses per day I'd be in 150 a year. So 1800 different homes. I've seen it all. Hoarders. I see this so much it doesn't even faze me anymore. Curse it every time though trying to work around it all. Drugs. So much drugs. Full grow ops. Seen lots being done and have been offered some. Dirty homes. Just beyond words nasty. Left alone with kids. Worse ever was a woman he left without telling me and I was there with her 8 and 6 year old kids. Yes she left me there and went back to work. Kids are usually home alone after school for a couple hours until she got home. I didn't care and told her off. P*rn/sex toys. I knocked a big dildo off a computer desk onto my own head once. Nudity/advances. Flat out had a woman pull her skirt up and showed me that she wasn't wearing underwear. Dead things. I had to run a line through a old ladies attic. Opened hatch and the smell gagged me. Flashlight showed numerous dead cats. Yes cats. How they got there or what happened I don't know.
Nandros M 3 years ago
Injured, sick or old cats are hiding themselves, until cure or die.
Load More Replies... Emmydearest 3 years ago
When I used to babysit, one day I had been told by the family that a plumber (or electrician or something like that) was coming over. So he comes in and he immediately asks If there are kids in the house and If they are supervised. I say "sure, I'm the babysitter, I'm gonna stay here". He says "Good, because I refuse to work in a house where I'm left alone with unsupervised kids." Basically he was afraid to get accused of inappropriate behaviors to the children and he wouldn't have any chance to defend himself because it would have been his words against the accuser's words. So, to avoid any problems, he straight up decided to require that no kids would be left alone in the house with him present. I guess it's a smart policy.
Happy Panda Nicole 3 years ago (edited)
So on average he goes to 6 houses a day. Assuming he works 5 days a week that would be 30 houses a week. Which would turn out to be (on average per his words) 6,240 per year. Not sure how he states 150 per year. Not really sure why it matters to me, I’m just a bored panda today!
SobyKay 3 years ago
Thoughts about this feed: - Some ppl think they are living in a porn movie and need psychological help - Some ppl in this world are extremely lonely and it does strange things to them, and it's so so sad - I wish the hoarders would leave the animals alone. Seriously, why must so many innocent creatures suffer? - I thank God I never worked any job where I needed to go to random ppl's homes!!
Audra Sisler 3 years ago
Woah...... If you tell your grandkids(one day) a different story every day you would have enough for a lifetime!! That's some seriously crazy s**t! 😳😆
#36
Back in early 00's I was a Dominos pizza delivery guy. On a normal delivery, this woman in her 30's slams the door open and yells "Do you want me to suck your d**k or what?". Me, 18 years old in Dominos outfit, cap and pizza bag in my hand is totally caught off guard. All I manage to say is "why?". Luckily, her girlfriend comes to the door and tells me that she is just f*****g with me.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
Lmao... 18 year old me in a Dominos outfit, cap and pizza bag woulda just said yes and walked in
#37
Rich people in San Francisco high-rises love spying on one another. Like every condo has a telescope.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Yes, assuming the apartment in front hás a movie star living in it lol, because its fair to assume those would be the only stars they would gaze upon lol.
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#38
Worked as a meter inspector for a few summers, weirdest thing I saw was a tree with a sh*tload of doll heads hanging in it. Zipped out of there preying quick.
kath morgan 3 years ago
Interesting, I will consider this strategy to prevent unwanted callers.
Jack Holt 3 years ago
Religious caller deterrent? My friend has sheep skulls at her door for this reason. Works well
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I used to work for the local council as a plumber and saw many strange things but I think the strangest thing I have seen is this. I had to bleed all the radiators so asked the tenants if I could proceeded to go round the house and do so. Permission granted I set about going from room to room releasing the air from the radiators and filling each one up, everything was fine until I got upstairs. I did the first 2 bedrooms and the bathroom without a hitch then I went into the final bedroom. As I opened the door I could hear there was something in there running about, I just assumed it was a dog as it wasn't unusual for tenants to put their dogs out the way while we worked in the property. As I walked in the room I noticed a strong smell of urine and that there was no furniture I looked down towards where the sounds of movement had come from to see the most flea bitten fox running around in circles. I was out that room like a shot
#40
Occupation: Jeweler/precious metal dealer. I was on a call with a man who had recently lost his wife. He was selling me her jewelry and some of his jewelry. The whole thing was very, very sad. He looked at every piece as though it were her, crying and screaming. Now, I understand grieving a loved one is rough. I've been there and I'm certainly not mentally well for a while afterwards... However, that's not the weird part. The weird part was when he took me into other rooms of the house asking if I wanted to buy other things. Him and his wife were both massive hoarders and collectors of pretty much anything collectable. Each "pile" was fairly neatly organized and was mostly standard stuff like bottles, art, books, etc. Until I got to the large board filled with rat s**t organized by color and shape...
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
I’d have serious questions for & about anyone who did.
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My dude is a flooring guy and owns his own business. He always tried to only take jobs on referrals so he doesn't get stuck with weirdos but he ran into a slow patch. He went to a house of a lady that had found his number on the internet to provide a quote. She was in her 30's, not terribly attractive and high on something. Oh and wearing sheer lingerie. He walks further in the house and realizes her mother is sitting in the living room wearing a similar outfit. He hurriedly slaps together a quote ten times higher than the going rate then let's them know he's super backed up on his schedule and gets TFO of there.
#42
my dad cleans air ducts. one time there was a bunch of human s**t in one air duct. the owners were complaining about a smell when their AC was on or something like that. turns out their kid somehow knew how to get in them and pooped in there for like a few weeks straight
#43
I sometimes help my uncle do house clean outs. This one house had more books than a library. Their entire attic, garage, and basement were filled with books, some from the 1700s. I helped out on third day of the job and we were still able to completely fill my uncles dump truck twice with just books. I should probably mention that this was a 3 story house with a basement.
Agent 8433599 3 years ago (edited)
This is the best ones! Books from the 1700's?!! Just books is amazing but this is INCREDIBLE!!!
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Well, it was amazing until he said they were filling a dump truck with them. Then it became very sad. :(
Load More Replies... Lena Z 3 years ago
Did you give the older books to the library at least or just throw everything out?
Gardener of Weeden 3 years ago
Filled a dump truck. So books from the 1700's... just so much garbage. Makes me cry
Load More Replies... Littlebunnyfufu 3 years ago
Some of those older books may have been worth some money. There are people who collect rare and old books. Sad that they were all thrown out.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
I'd have been going through all of them! Hope they were donated not trashed
Upstaged75 3 years ago
My elderly neighbor hoards newspapers. He has an entire room with nothing but newspapers - stacked floor to ceiling. The rest of his house is OK though. We have no idea what he plans to do with them, but worry it's a fire hazard. He lives alone so there would be no one to immediately help him if those papers went up in flames.
#44
I cleaned out the apartment of someone who cared for barnyard animals, and I'm pretty sure had a Valium problem. The place was absolutely disgusting. One guy I was working with walked in and immediately threw up. Found needles. And empty liquid Valium bottles, crusty blankets and old food, and about 200 gay porn vhs tapes. The most recent of which was from like 98 (this was in 2015). Also lots of weird nik naks and things. The weirdest thing though was a chewing tobacco tin. It felt light so I opened it. And inside was a little person made out of pipe cleaners, complete with facial features and an abnormally large pipe cleaner penis, that fit perfectly into the tin.
Tabitha Frost 3 years ago
The-The last paragraph... 0_0 I shall forever be scarred from this post.
#45
While in college I was a runner for a real estate company. So I'd drive around and take pictures of the homes and put up signs. One time I was sent to a home that was vacant as the owners had already moved to another state. I tried getting in the front door with the key provided but it was stuck. I couldn't see inside but I could see some condensation on the front door window. I head to the back door and was able to open that one. I walked in to one of the craziest things I've ever seen. The house was filled with mold and mushrooms were growing out of the floor. Apparently the dish washer's hot water was leaking from the kitchen for weeks. The hot water flowed down the stairs into the basement. Everything was ruined. Apparently they were able to salvage the house but I thought they were going to have to condemn it. I felt bad for the owners but I believe insurance covered them.
Tabitha Frost 3 years ago
Wow. I don't know why but I really want to see what the house looked like lol.
#46
Tippy-toeing across the living floor to avoid the piles of dog s**t. Old peanutbutter sandwich behind the tv. Bedroom with dirty clothes stacked level with the bed. Cat lady house....avoid those. Guy pranking his neighbor with tv remote...guy called in for a service call because his cable box kept changing channels by itself. Neighbor fessed (he had the same cable remote) up while I was there we all LOLed. Life of a cable guy.
#47
I used to work for Best Buy's Geek Squad doing in-home stuff. I once had a lady with nothing more than a bra and panties on the entire time I was in her home. Meanwhile, her obviously high boyfriend was in the room and never said a thing.
SobyKay 3 years ago
All these stories of ppl naked or scantily clad and they just continue working. I would HAVE to ask they wear something or refuse service and just leave. Its just too inappropriate!
The crushinator 3 years ago
That's what they want. They are out to basically eye rapeseed you.
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A hairy bachelor who had lined every single inch of all three bedroom walls with pages out of Cosmo - up close model faces from advertisements, with many of them folded to show only the eyes. Interspersed among them was a similar picture of his own mother every few feet. He had stapled all of them, with at least a dozen staples on every one. He also had a thin coating of his own hair and grease all over the walls and floors. And gold chain necklaces.
#49
while working for the red cross some years ago, I went into peoples houses to install some emergency system to call the doctor. Some of these people were quite rich and the stranges thing I encountered was a bowl next to the door, that had multiple bundles of money of different currencies (Euro, Pound and I think Russian money) I asked the old man whether this was such a clever Idea, to which he only said that there were far more valuable things to steal in the house (i didn´t dare to ask what) and that if somebody would steal it he would just get new money. he was just not interested in getting money from the bank all the time and didn´t want to hire anybody to do it for him. still gave no tip in the end.
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
"Hi, how much is 500 rubles in dollars?" "About 8 bucks." "Goddammit..."
Load More Replies... #50
I once did door to door vacuum sales for a week and ended up entering this single 40+ year old ladies house. She was really nice and wanted me to clean the carpet by the sliding door in the kitchen. So as I walk through the living room there are nesting dolls EVERYWHERE. I had never seen so many nesting dolls in my life some were even child size. Every single desk, coffee table, couch corner, TV stand, etc. had nesting dolls covering the entire surface. When I asked her about the dolls she said her mother use to collect them before she died when she was younger and has been collecting them ever since.
#51
House full of unsupervised children under the age of six, answering the house's landline, dirty kitchen full of plastic bowls with uneaten top ramen in them. There was an adult "around," but he was in the house's adjoining garage, watching movies: audio at full blast, two fans full blast, door closed. He got out at some point to see what was going on, but didn't even make contact with us. Anyway, the landlord wanted to know why the dishwasher wouldn't drain (no air gap).
#52
Property manager here, I work in rentals and have had a few weird things happen in my time. I deal with a lot of vacant properties so there are the few creepy/weird ones from time to time. - I took over the management of a property and went to inspect it for the first time. The whole house was beautiful, really well maintained and looked after, that is until i reached the 4th bedroom upstairs. The walls were covered in porn magazine pages and weird sexual writing, mostly nonsensical rambling. I'm talking EVERYWHERE. Maybe they thought I wouldn't notice? - Once while in a property by myself doing a condition report, I went to the bathroom and when I came back out every single light in the house was on. It was the middle of the day and I had left all the lights off when I came in. That was pretty weird for me. - Similar to the one above, once while in the bedroom of a property doing a condition report I heard a loud bang and the sound of running and walked out to see the front door and back door wide open. It could have been wind but that day was a sunny calm day, no wind at all. The house was vacant at the time. Squatter? - I had a family once turn up for an open for inspection and as they reached the door to greet me and come in, the mother decided not to, saying we aren't welcome and shouldn't be here. She didn't feel right about it. I stayed out the front for the rest of the open home. - This ones kinda sad, not me but my colleague was trying to contact her tenants that were an elderly couple. After multiple phone calls and a couple of days she received a call from the elderly couples daughter. She also couldn't get in touch with them and was worried. They both decided to go over and knock on the door and use the spare key if they needed to. They knocked on the door and no one answered, so they used the key to get in. Once they opened the door they heard this really uncomfortable moaning noises coming from the bedroom. The man has fallen over and took his wife with him, the both had broken bones and couldn't get up. They had been there for days. You can imagine the smell. Unfortunately they passed away in the hospital shortly after. I'm sure there's a heap more that people in my office have experienced but that's all I can think of now.
Audra Sisler 3 years ago
Aww that's terrible😢 It sounds like a couple of those places were legit haunted! 👻
#53
A moose-head mounted on the wall over a tall fireplace with its antlers drooping down instead of pointing up. I kept wondering why its antlers were down as opposed to being erect, but decided not to ask because the guy seemed strange - as if he were just waiting for me to inquire.
#54
Deliver furniture for a charity, you get good customers and pretty terrible customers. My first day we were delivering a freezer to an old lady, she seemed nice enough when she came to buy it so all was fine, got outside her house in the van and the front garden contained six cats and four dogs. You could smell it as soon as you got halfway up the path, she obviously didn't let these animals out often and they'd all bolted out when she opened the door to let us in. The first thing we noticed inside the house was the fact the stairs had different carpet to the rest of the house, it wasn't different, it was caked in s**t. Had to move the fridge between each room and then make an excuse to get out, along the lines of "need to go and speak to the boss". We got out and it became policy that we carry a tub of Vicks in the van now. The upside being it's still for a charity and, you get some great customers too! Delivered a suite to an old couple a few weeks back and the wife insisted on making us dinner.
#55
I go in people's houses all the time. One time I was working under someones sink. I needed a flashlight looked over and saw one. Turned on said flashlight and it started vibrating. It was a Fleshlight not a flashlight. Had to clean an apartment out of a guy that was known to hire hookers all the time. He left behind a blood-soaked mattress that I had to dispose of,out of a high rise condo.
#56
Guy had tons of photos of naked guys all over the walls in one room. In all kinds of poses. I thought they were wrestlers with body suits on until I got a closer look and they were absolutely naked. I double checked to see if any looked obviously underage and then finished up my job.
#57
Human s**t on the floor. Also there were two entrances inside, one in the kitchen and one at the living room. The one that came through the kitchen seemed like the logical one from the outside but it was completely blocked with random c**p. Couch was filthy covered in random black smudges, like gum on the sidewalk. Floor was filthy. Crumbs covering everything. Three small boys all under the age of 6, all wearing diapers. Filthy f*****g filthy place. Had a therapist quit after one visit when apparently the oldest boy pulled off his diaper and started wiping s**t in her hair. Also remember a house with a china cabinet full of random figurines. Like Disneyland souvenirs but random whatever. That kid had a sweet a*s toy vacuum though, so that was what was most important.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
It's sad because stories like this used to be rare and shocking and now there are so many. Lack of education and good health care, and an explosion of drug abuse are just making this type of thing more and more prevalent. And these poor kids are going to grow up with all kinds of issues and just keep the cycle going or become criminals because they were mistreated for so long. It's this viscous circle, except that instead of being rare now it's all over the place. We're making serial killers.
Lawrencium 3 years ago
To be fair there's been plenty of this stuff throughout the past, but we're able to share these stories to wider audiences than was previously available.
Load More Replies... #58
I used to install and repair home care equipment. Went into this old person's house and the smell of dog s**t was overwhelming. There were dog turds everywhere. Worked fast, holding back a puke. Didn't even ask for him to sign. Told him I was done and left quickly.
#59
I work in low income occupied rehab. One of the weirder things I found was a rubber glove with hot dogs in it. We found it under a bed that we moved to replace a window. Pretty sure the gal was using it as a sex toy. I come across a lot of sex toys moving stuff.
#60
Was doing some shifts with paramedics as part of med school. The one that stuck out was a flat belonging to a well known alcoholic. You could barely push the door open, only enough to squeeze through. The entire floor in all of the rooms was littered with plastic 2L cider bottles, probably a foot deep. It was like walking through a ball pit
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
Where does one acquire 2Litre cider bottles...... Asking for myself. It's me
#61
Went out with district nurses as a student to this old guy with leg ulcers. His house is filthy and he's a bit of a hoarder so it's one of them try not to breathe or touch anything visits. Took the dressing down and turned round to get something and when I turn back he's happily letting his dog lick the wounds.
#62
I work in the IT department but was shadowing a workman and how he used his PDA and what could be improved with it. First house we go into the tenant points us towards a door to the bathroom, 'Yeah that's the handle that needs fixing' she says, 'go ahead', workmen pushes the door open to a bloke sat on the toilet having a s**t. Not sure who was more surprised.
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
Like a cheat code. Sadly, it didn't work, and now he's doing a dime for insurance fraud.
Load More Replies... #63
Not me but a home inspector who came to our place recently told us that he had just visited a house where the entire floor, basically every square inch of the place was covered in loose change. He said that there was probably a solid layer of coins and now they were working on their second. Said it must've been thousands of dollars worth.
#64
I'm a paramedic and one time I went into this older ladies apartment to help her, while asking her about what was going on I couldn't help but notice the huge canvas painting on the wall behind her which was clearly her completely naked sprawled out on a motorcycle. The weirdest part was that the lady was probably 60 years old and the painting was probably done when she was 40ish...
Ember 3 years ago
What’s weird about that? Sounds like she had a fun filled life and probably had lots of great stories to tell.
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Yep. For years the best French restaurant in the city sported a painting of the owner lying naked on a velvet chaise lounge hung in the entranceway. Fifi (that was really her name) was quite a character. She’d been a courtesan in Paris in the 20s (iirc) and the painting had been gift from one of her lovers.
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#65
A giant pile of cat carriers (like 30 of them) in the living room, tons and tons of cat fur on everything, no cats.
#66
Worked for a moving company my senior year of high school. 80 year old lady had a massive box of sex toys.
#67
This reminds me about the time I was out late with some coworkers at the apartment of one of our bosses after a team outing with a lot of drinking. It was me, two coworkers who were about the same age as me, another coworker who was several years older than us, and our boss, who was probably in her late 40s. We were all hanging out on the balcony out back, when some of her neighbors noticed she was out and told us all to come over. Our boss told us to go and meet these guys, because they were awesome, so we went. When we got there they introduced themselves and gave us all a drink, even though we all already one in our hands. Then they gave us a tour of the apartment, which was pretty typical, until they got to their bedroom. "And this is our leather wall..." The two coworkers who were around my age and all exchanged looks that conveyed the sentiment of "wtf?" It was literally a giant piece of plywood that had been upholstered and hung on a wall, covering a good portion of it. To them it was completely normal and something they were really proud to show off. They were actually really nice, friendly guys and we ended up hanging out for a bit before leaving, but I still think that leather wall was pretty bizarre.
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Alexandra Davis 3 years ago
I'm sure I would appear on this list from one guy. We had pet sheep and one little runt we rescued had alopecia and lost most of his fleece and had pneumonia too, so he lived in my house. He was toilet trained to a litter box so wasn't messing round my house and wore dog clothes to keep warm. A guy came to install a hoist system for me (I'm in a wheelchair) and Tip the lamb was snuggled on my lap asleep wearing a blue dog hoody. He looked at him and was like "that's a cute dog, what breed is he?" and when I replied that he was a lamb the guy laughed not believing me. Tip woke so I placed him on the ground and the guy could see he was indeed a lamb and I explained about his health issues and how it meant he wouldn't survive in the paddock with the other lambs (they had a stable full of hay and straw and were all bottle fed rescued lambs living their best life) and so I had litter trained him to allow him to live in the house. Tip got better and moved to the paddock too
Mark Karol-Chik 3 years ago
About 1989, working for a paint store in downtown Denver. I had to do a delivery to an apartment complex that would eventually be raised because it was so worn down. Anyways- after trudging up two flights of stairs- elevator broken- I get to the manager's office. She cracks open the door and leads me through a labyrinth of stacked newspapers that were at least 5-6 feet in height. All the time I am following her I here a clicking on the hardwood floors, like a dog following us. I walk past an open door- the bathroom with the tub in view , filled with potting soil and plants growing out of it. Sure, why not? She asks me to place the paint buckets next to her desk, and that is when I see that she has on flip flops, and her toe nails have grown over the ends and that is what was making the clicking noise on the floor.
JeannevB 3 years ago
My husband was in construction and built an appartment building. By the time they got to the fourth floor they noticed a bad smell from an open window at the neighbouring building. They called the police because they thought there must be a dead body inside. The police came and couldn’t get in, so my husband decided to go in through the open window. One of the cops even suggested he’d take his gun inside the appartment. My husband refused, obviously. They placed a plank and my husband went inside. He saw a lot of junk, piles of chicken bones and other food left overs. There was an old man sitting on the couch and my husband was sure he was dead. But suddenly the man moved and turned out he was just living between the junk and everything was filthy and a health hazard. The police took the man to a shelter and a team came to clean the house. Couple of weeks later he was back there and the whole story started again.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
i used to have to do home visits. one home i went to i was invited in. i sat on the couch. that day i was dressed casual in khakis, polo, socks and sneakers. as i am talking to the client i look down and see all these little dots on my socks and hem of my pants. they were fleas! cut the visit down, called my super and went home to change. every visit after that was held outside on the porch. it was reported but i didn't want to take a chance that they didn't take care of the issue.
Jared Robbins 2 years ago
I worked as a mover for a couple years between 18 and 23. Fun job, loved the challenge, but I learned very quickly to expect the worst entering any house. The most disgusting ones were families of military wether on base or not. The husband's were deployed or already living where they were transferred. Dirty laundry, human and animal feces, leftover food and dishes in every room. Dirty children, filled diapers, and the stench of bo, feces, and garbage that stays in your nose for hours. Every time. Same branch. Same conditions. I will never understand how, knowing how clean and neat they need to be because of how they live while deployed
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Jeez. What is it with people caring more about animals than actual human children? I am ashamed.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Downvoted for caring about children's rights! I take it back, I'm not ashamed, I'm disgusted.
Load More Replies... Alexandra Davis 3 years ago
I'm sure I would appear on this list from one guy. We had pet sheep and one little runt we rescued had alopecia and lost most of his fleece and had pneumonia too, so he lived in my house. He was toilet trained to a litter box so wasn't messing round my house and wore dog clothes to keep warm. A guy came to install a hoist system for me (I'm in a wheelchair) and Tip the lamb was snuggled on my lap asleep wearing a blue dog hoody. He looked at him and was like "that's a cute dog, what breed is he?" and when I replied that he was a lamb the guy laughed not believing me. Tip woke so I placed him on the ground and the guy could see he was indeed a lamb and I explained about his health issues and how it meant he wouldn't survive in the paddock with the other lambs (they had a stable full of hay and straw and were all bottle fed rescued lambs living their best life) and so I had litter trained him to allow him to live in the house. Tip got better and moved to the paddock too
Mark Karol-Chik 3 years ago
About 1989, working for a paint store in downtown Denver. I had to do a delivery to an apartment complex that would eventually be raised because it was so worn down. Anyways- after trudging up two flights of stairs- elevator broken- I get to the manager's office. She cracks open the door and leads me through a labyrinth of stacked newspapers that were at least 5-6 feet in height. All the time I am following her I here a clicking on the hardwood floors, like a dog following us. I walk past an open door- the bathroom with the tub in view , filled with potting soil and plants growing out of it. Sure, why not? She asks me to place the paint buckets next to her desk, and that is when I see that she has on flip flops, and her toe nails have grown over the ends and that is what was making the clicking noise on the floor.
JeannevB 3 years ago
My husband was in construction and built an appartment building. By the time they got to the fourth floor they noticed a bad smell from an open window at the neighbouring building. They called the police because they thought there must be a dead body inside. The police came and couldn’t get in, so my husband decided to go in through the open window. One of the cops even suggested he’d take his gun inside the appartment. My husband refused, obviously. They placed a plank and my husband went inside. He saw a lot of junk, piles of chicken bones and other food left overs. There was an old man sitting on the couch and my husband was sure he was dead. But suddenly the man moved and turned out he was just living between the junk and everything was filthy and a health hazard. The police took the man to a shelter and a team came to clean the house. Couple of weeks later he was back there and the whole story started again.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
i used to have to do home visits. one home i went to i was invited in. i sat on the couch. that day i was dressed casual in khakis, polo, socks and sneakers. as i am talking to the client i look down and see all these little dots on my socks and hem of my pants. they were fleas! cut the visit down, called my super and went home to change. every visit after that was held outside on the porch. it was reported but i didn't want to take a chance that they didn't take care of the issue.
Jared Robbins 2 years ago
I worked as a mover for a couple years between 18 and 23. Fun job, loved the challenge, but I learned very quickly to expect the worst entering any house. The most disgusting ones were families of military wether on base or not. The husband's were deployed or already living where they were transferred. Dirty laundry, human and animal feces, leftover food and dishes in every room. Dirty children, filled diapers, and the stench of bo, feces, and garbage that stays in your nose for hours. Every time. Same branch. Same conditions. I will never understand how, knowing how clean and neat they need to be because of how they live while deployed
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Jeez. What is it with people caring more about animals than actual human children? I am ashamed.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Downvoted for caring about children's rights! I take it back, I'm not ashamed, I'm disgusted.
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