We had us a night crew rookie, who, of course, got stuck with the crappiest of the 50 or so hauls we did.
One of them sucks to haul because its usual contents consists of 20 cubic yards seafood of one type or another. This customer gets the fish, crab, lobster, etc right off the boats, but sometimes the stuff doesn’t get stored well and needs to be tossed immediately to keep it from ruining the rest of the shipment (Apples and fish, who knew?).
Anyway, the rookie arrives at the box around 0130 after it had sat in the 75-80 degree sun, probably since around noon, and he is able to smell it before he sees it. As he gets back in the truck after loading the box on, he gives a great big thank you to whomever left it in his ‘To Do’ pile. The conversation follows as such:
Senior driver 1: Is it crab guts again tonight?
Rookie: Yep, and some rice too.
Senior driver 2: Rice? Where the hell did they get rice?
SD1: I’ve seen that rice before, Bill. Hey, Dean was the rice twitching?
R: Yeah, now that you mention it, it looked like it was, but I thought it was just a trick of the lights.
SD1: Yep, that is some of that special rice from Hoo Flung Dung. Tastes like hell.
Yes readers, we’re simple folk, but we have a good time. And you thought that trash truck you were following the other day smelled bad? We haul the really stinky stuff at night.
With two, you get egg roll and wiggly rice…
-Hoo Flung Poo
Reminds me of a particularly gaggy episode of Dirty Jobs wherein they process fish guts, etc. into fish food and such. I swear you could catch a whiff of the stench right through the television screen.
I remember one time when I was crab fishing, pulling up a pot that had a piece of hanging bait that the flesh oozed off of… Smelled and looked so bad I hurled immediately. And if you can still smell anything after being on a crab-boat for a week, it’s got to be strong stuff…
Rather than repeat the story here, I’ll just give a link.