Today, I found the source of the bad smell that has been plaguing me for the past two weeks in my apartment. The police knocked on my door asking if I've seen my neighbor recently. I haven't. The smell has been that of a dead person. It's a smell that even Febreze can't remove. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I cleaned my entire apartment hoping to find the source of the terrible odor I've been smelling for the past week. It's me. FML
Today, I finally determined the source of the horrible smell that periodically invades my apartment: there's nothing wrong with the plumbing as I previously thought, I can just smell my neighbors pooping in their bathroom on the other side of the wall. FML
Today, I opened my front door to be greeted by what I can only describe as the stink of death. After moving furniture and lifting floorboards, frantically searching for whatever had died, I finally discovered the actual source of the stench - my girlfriend's feet. FML
Today, I returned home after a four day weekend at my parents' house. Upon entering by the front door, a horrid stench assaulted my nose. Hours later I still cannot find the source of the foul odor. I'm starting to wonder if this is how it's always smelled without my knowing. FML
Today, my downstairs neighbor died. I knew because the smell wafted up to my apartment. FML
Today, I found out that the horrible stench haunting my apartment for the past week was the decomposing corpse of my freedom loving gerbil underneath the bed that I've been sleeping on. FML
Today, I finally found out what the weird sour smell that's been in my dorm room for a while is. My roommate's sweat. FML
Today, I came home to a terrible smell in the apartment. Three hours, and a scoured kitchen later, I took the trash out. The smell was not my apartment, but from just across the alley; a neighbor had moved and emptied their fridge. Six more days of sunned milk until pickup. FML
Today, I woke up to a weird smell in my apartment. I checked everywhere but couldn’t find the source. After a while, I discovered the smell was coming from the pile of laundry I'd left in the corner, laundry that I thought was clean. It was the gym clothes I'd thrown in there three weeks ago. FML
Today, I realized my morbidly obese, sweaty sibling is the source of a strange waft I've been smelling when I get home. He'll only shower once a week, so the apartment and furniture smell like sweat and sometimes poo, especially on hot days. I didn't notice until I went outside and stepped back in to follow my nose. FML
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Top comments
Curtieeeez 0
Oh dear me o_o RIP.
Will09 0
Gotta love the smell of dead people in the mornin!
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JessRab 0
If I don't see my neighbor for two weeks, I thank God. I don't investigate. Not my problem.
wingedtoad 0
How come nobody can spell Febreze right? Everyone spells it Febreeze or Fabreeze or some other weird combination I can't even think up on my own. I never even used the product and I know how to spell it! May your neighbor rest in peace.
familyguyfan 0
Oh my GODDD!!!!
gbgb 0
Your neighbor died and the FML is the smell.....?
nuclear 0
I'm sorry but I call shenanigans on this one. Although if it is true, that's absolutely terrible but honestly I doubt it is real. We would have at least heard this mentioned on the news or something.. #98 makes a good point by the way :)
Night22_fml 4
People the body was in the neighbors apartment. Also I wouldn't have noticed he was missong because, frankly, i don't give a damn about my neighbors. They're a bunch of crazy old cat ladies, a stoner, and a crazy old **** that drives a golf cart instead of a car.
shooter523 0
I love dead bodies
bigman14 0
Holy shit
im_sexy_baby 0
Are you stupid it smells like rotting flesh what did you thinkn it was a rotten egg?
redbluegreen 41
Not everyone keeps tabs on their neighbor. I didn't even know my neighbors until the second or third year of living there. I still wouldn't realize they went missing if I hadn't seen them for two weeks, because that isn't uncommon. I would've investigated the smell though. This sounds a lot like something from 'Lullaby' though, where the guy kills his neighbor and the body sits there for days, but maybe I'm the only one. At least it wasn't the apartment above yours — There'd be a body stain on your ceiling.