How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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20+ years agoI used to be a TV Engineer (back in the day when people had them repaired) and would spend most of the day visiting customers homes. Generally they were okay; some ocd spotless, others less so, but no need to call out Kim & Aggie...apart from one.
Even after all these years I can remember it was on Burrwood Drive, Adswood in Stockport - the entire road has since been demolished. I have no idea what the original colour of the carpet was in the room where the TV was, but it was now dark and sticky. The room was littered with used disposable nappies and there were a few kids running around - at least one in only a vest and no nappy, together with a few dogs. These must have all contributed to the pervasive smell, which was further heightened with it being a hot summers day. Looking back, I did well not to heave and add to it, I suspect others hadn't had the self control.
The final straw was kneeling down to take the back off the TV set and feeling my knees go wet, not damp, visibly wet. The TV went straight back to the workshop for repair.
I spent the rest of the day trying to ignore the smell that had attached itself to me and I made sure someone else took that set back.
It could've been a lot worse, I could have lived there and thought it was normal to live like that.
Apologies for length...first time I've ever had to say that.
(, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:21, Reply)
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