Today, someone spilled ammonium hydroxide in ethanol solution in the lab, which smells like very concentrated urine. Since the experiment involved Bunsen burners, we couldn't turn on the fans. We had to work in a lab that smelled like Satan's piss for two hours. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my chemistry professor made us all leave our classroom mid-lab because the class was complaining of the smell, and he was worried that there was a gas leak from one of the Bunsen burners. There wasn't, but it's nice to know my "silent but deadly" smelled like it might actually kill. FML
Today, my halitosis was so bad that when I blew onto my solution in chemistry class, it reacted. FML
Today, there was an issue with the sewage system at work. It smelled like somebody took a turd, left it in the sun to marinate, threw up on it, then put in the air conditioning to fill the store with nauseating stink. I nearly threw up multiple times because we weren't allowed to leave early. FML
Today, I was supervising a written exam, which took place in a really warm room. Half of the two hundred participants has probably never heard of deodorants. The other half used probably the whole can this morning. I had to stay in this inferno of stench for five hours. FML
Today, I ran into the living room when I heard the smoke alarm going off. Turns out, my friend thought it was a good idea to melt a plastic cup on my floor heater. He also thought the best way to put it out was to urinate on it. My house smells like burnt pee. FML
Today, I found out how acidic some of the chemicals I work with are. After a chemical shower, minor burns, and having to throw away my clothes due to a biohazard, I had the pleasure of running across the parking lot to my car, wearing only a lab coat around my waist. FML
Today, my boss told me to find the bad smell coming from the apartment we were working on. I found the bathtub about 4 inches high full of piss, and spent the next hour bailing it out into a bucket because the drain wasn't connected yet. I have pee stains in all the wrong places. FML
Today, at the coffee shop where I work, my supervisor smelled "something weird, like sulfur." I spent the next ten minutes pretending to look for the source of the smell with her, rather than admit that it had come from me. FML
Today, my roommate found a solution to his awful body odor: bathing in vinegar. Now instead of smelling like a middle school locker room, the house smells like a chemical plant. I'm not sure which is worse. FML
Today, my 10-year-old brother got the bright idea to urinate in my oven to cool it off. My whole house smells like burnt piss. FML
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Tripartita 45
Wow, it's not every day we get an FML from the folks that produce Axe body spray! This is truly an honor.
Shadowvoid 33
Sounds like a mixture of Uranium, Hydrogen, and Hydroxide. (UH OH)
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Comments (36)
Mightytall 35
I don't think that was actually an accident ...
Suaria 38
Wouldn't have it already smelled bad because you are working with those chemicals anyways?
r1has 28
That lab smells pretty bad all of the time. We affectionately refer to it as stinky lab. But we're pretty much immune to it by now. The ammonium hydroxide smelt bad enough to break through that. And we had to use the ammonium hydroxide pretty quickly in the experiment so never really smelt ours
MashaV 6
As a chemistry and genetics senior, I've seen my fair share of labs and I definitely sympathize with that! Weird shit happens dude... I remember I was bleaching my biologicals once but the buffet in the culture reacted with the bleach, turned bright red, and smelled like burning tar.
Bawbity 9
A person spilled a bottle of chlorophorm in our lab once. It was quite the doozy working through that lab.
mt21mt 15
You should always have SABAs or SCBAs on standby in case of a gas release. Do a stop-and-think, and read the MSDS. It's all OH&S.
BandGeek4Lyfe 10
Hehehehe 666 YDIs.
ToxicTyrael 26
As a chemistry student with major organic synthesis and biochemistry labs I can absolutely feel you! Sulfur and Nitrogen stuff is the worst. Though some idiots forget to close the solvents all the time which means I'm working in hazardous and explosive/flammable gas most of the time :/ too stupid to use the fume hoods... smh But fyl though!
RhondaYolonda 4
Yuck. Could have been more than two hours though..
Achicken123 22
Wat