There's a monster in my fridge!

[blas]

No.....I'm not still 10 years old thinking the boogeyman is under my bed and Freddy Kreuger is after me...........there is a MONSTER growing in my refrigerator!

Months ago when it was my roomate's birthday, his parents gave him a whole bunch of good old fashioned home cooked food. Thankfully, he took most of it to his gf's house and I didn't have to clean anything up (thank God....we all know I am NOT a maid). Well, there was one dish that he decided to keep in the fridge for later...much later.

Some kind of casserole or hotdish.......in a plastic bowl secured with a top......it has been sitting in the fridge since early December. Once a month had passed and I still saw it there, I decided to just let it go until it got smelly. Throughout this entire roomate ordeal, I have made it my personal job to NOT clean up after him, to always shove his shit aside (as in, the kitchen sink for his dirty dishes). Even though the "leftovers" were past their freshdate and it is a really gross thought, I shoved it into the way back of the fridge and declared I'd only do something if it started to smell awful.

Of course, shoving it back there made me forget all about it, until I did some re-arranging after grocery shopping today. I remembered the mysery dish and took a peek at it................it's growing arms and legs and a nose! Thankfully, something has kept it preserved well enough NOT to stink.......but still, it's SO gross.

I'm starting to think that just this once I should get over my "I'm not a maid" spiel and throw it away.........or throw it in his bedroom...........or just throw it straight into the DUMPSTER. Any suggestions?

While we're at it, anyone else have a disgusting story similiar to this one that a spouse/bf/gf/roomate/relative did? I'd love to hear about all the other monsters living in our fridges and in our homes!

[myswtghst]

My college roommate, sophomore year, had a hot pot in our dorm room she used for mac and cheese. She was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a neat person, but this was the worst. She cooked mac and cheese one night, and just never washed the hot pot. It grew about 6 different colors of mold, reeked to high heaven and started producing spores. Once it affected my allergies, I scooped the damn thing up in a garbage bag and dropped it down the garbage chute, didn't even offer to replace it.

Keep in mind, this particular roommate never once cleaned our room. The only time it was cleaned that I didn't do it was when her mom came to visit and cleaned up after her. :p

If he used his bed/bedroom, I'd say to put it in his bed, but if he's always at the gf's, it won't affect him much. I'd say let him know, give him a deadline, if it ain't done by then, pitch the gross thing.

[Greenday]

My roommate has done that before. He'll leave crap just laying around in our dorm room. At the end of the fall semester, I told him a day in advance that I was going to thaw out the fridge and to get anything out of there he wants. No problem he says. Well, I made the mistake of not checking the freezer and thawed it out. When I went to move it, some red and purple liquids spilt out. I put the fridge down and checked the freezer. A bunch of melted popsicles and something else was in there. Sucks. I'm just pissed I got it on me.

[Tanasi]

Blas just throw it away. He's not going to miss it and besides why would you may yourself suffer because you're trying to teach a lesson to someone that doesn't live there? The analogy of "Cutting off your nose to spite you face" come to mind.

[Caveat Emptor]

There are some things in the back of my fridge that I plan to buy heavy duty garbage bags and just start tossing. Luckily most are GladLock /Ziploc disposable, but there is one "nice" dish that once held leftover dip, I think I'll just sacrifice that rather than open the top...

[blas]

Milk from August ewwwww.....that had to be a bit foul.....

I was hoping you guys would vote "throw it in his bedroom".........considering it's getting warmer now and without the fridge to preserve it....it WILL start smelling, and pretty soon he will have to stop by sooner or later to get his wife beaters out of the closet...

[Broomjockey]

I think I've told these gross fridge stories before, but lets give them another peek at the light of day...

When I first moved into my old place with my roomies, we found a jar of what looked like mayonaise in the freezer. Being the intrepid bachelors we were, we put it in the fridge. A few days later, the other roomie who wasn't there that first day asked why we had a jar of... oil and stuff in the fridge. We, being very confused, came to see what he was talking about. Yep, the "mayonaise" had serperated out. For some reason, we then threw it back in the freezer, where it turned back into "mayo". A few days later, a friend asked why we had mayo in the freezer. We told her to just throw it out.

A few months later roomie 1 decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner. There was a bit of gravy left over, but nothing really to put it on, so he put it in a measuring cup, and covered it with tin foil, and put it in the fridge. We found it again sometime in January... (for those of you playing along, Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, so this is about three months later). The thing had grown green, white, and RED mold. We bleached that cup for about 3 days straight.

[Spiffy McMoron]

There's a monster in my fridge!

I. AM. ZUUL!!!

(Gold star to whomever gets the reference.)

[NightAngel]

I. AM. ZUUL!!!

GHOSTBUSTERS!

[myswtghst]

I. AM. ZUUL!!!

(Gold star to whomever gets the reference.)

Ghostbusters. :D My cousins have a cat named Zuul.

[Spiffy McMoron]

*Spiffy hands a gold star to NightAngel and myswtghst for being the ones to get the reference, as he promised.*

[Barefootgirl]

The sensible thing would be to throw it straight into the dumpster...the satisfying thing to do would be to leave it in his bed

[Mr B Rabbit]

When I started secondary school in 1994, all students were assigned a locker. First day of school I couldn't be bothered eating my lunch (hiding in various places to escape the other students, a habit that ran throughout most of my school life) and so I left it in the locker. Then I lost the key.

Our lockers were never changed, and the school only emptied and cleaned them at the end of the year.

I suspect my lunch ate the caretaker.

[BookstoreEscapee]

A friend of mine in college made a bowl of oatmeal, didn't quite finish it, and set it aside on the TV stand while she was doing something. Then she forgot about it. And the next day we went home for Spring Break. Her roommate found it when she got back. I think she just threw out the whole bowl.

My first roommate used to clean our floor every week (she always did it while I was at work; we didn't have carpet so the floor was just tile). Then one weekend she decided to have a party and she and her friends made Jell-o shots. They used little paper cups, and cleaned out the fridge and pretty much filled it up with little paper cups of red Jell-o, and the bottom of the fridge was covered in little red circles from where it seeped through, as was the floor in front of the dresser, where they had placed the cups while they were filling them. She left those rings there for 2 weeks, and since it wasn't my mess (and since I hated her) I wasn't gonna clean them up. The floor rings turned fuzzy before she finally mopped again.

My ex likes to cook, and always makes the whole Thanksgiving dinner, even if it's just him and the dog. A couple years ago he made his turkey (came out real good, too) and the leftovers he just left in the roasting pan and stashed the whole thing in the fridge. It was in there for about a month, I think. It got to the point where I was afraid to lift the lid for fear it would jump out at me, or eat the dog, or something. He kept putting it off and when I finally got up the courage to look in the pan, it seemed to have somehow been mummified or something. I was expecting it to be green or worse but it just looked all dried out. I still made him throw it out (finally) though.

blas, I'm with the others. Get some rubber gloves and just toss the whole thing.

[jayel]

How about a picture of it so we can see the 'Fridge Monster'?

Is that too sick? :confused:

[blas]

I don't have a digital cam, but trust me, it ranks up there with all the other stories on this thread. It's absolutey disgusting. I'm positive if I took the top off, it would wreek.........

If the smell wouldn't affect me, I'd love to put it in his bedroom and let it air out hahaha........if he questions me, I'd say....."Maybe some homeless people broke in last night, figured they'd raid the fridge, but once they opened it they were so grossed out they threw it in your room!"

It's going in the dumpster (it's not going to get the pleasure of sitting in my garbage) tomorrow morning and if roomie throws a tantrum over his lost tupperware, that's too damn bad. That bowl and top cannot be salvaged.

[Cia]

If you know his gf's address you could always mail him his dish.

[digilight]

If you know his gf's address you could always mail him his dish.

Damnit, thats what I was thinking. But doesn't UPS and the post office have a rule against shipping hazardus waste.

[Ackee]

Throwing away anything they leave on the floor is an effective deterrent. You can start off with food then move on to clothes, expensive, dvds...

[blas]

This morning I said ta ta to the mystery dish as i put it in a plastic bag and hurled it into the dumpster. I just hope it doesn't get too warm out......garbage day is Tuesday and we all know how things tend to wreek even worse in the heat.

He's going to know it's gone. The one day a week or every two weeks he stops here to get the mail, he always peeps in the fridge (I'm half awake on the couch and I hear him open the fridge, then 3 seconds later shut it, then open the freezer). Not sure what he's looking at or for. I know he wouldn't bring his booze to his gf's house because she doesn't drink.....but if those bottled have stayed in the same place for 7 months.....why does he think I'm going to use them now? I hate hard liquor. Maybe he's peeping to see if I've thrown away the mystery dish yet, so when I do, he can leave a note in all capital letters shaming me for throwing away "good" tupperware and "good" food.

He's an idiot, I wouldn't put it past him.

[BookstoreEscapee]

He's going to know it's gone. The one day a week or every two weeks he stops here to get the mail, he always peeps in the fridge (I'm half awake on the couch and I hear him open the fridge, then 3 seconds later shut it, then open the freezer). Not sure what he's looking at or for.

Maybe he's afraid of it too and is looking to see if it's gone yet...;)

[Food Lady]

It's better now, after I made enough jokes about all the new "friends" my roommate created over the last two years. I've seen my share of unintentional yogurt. (Her son would always take a sport bottle with milk to bed and forget about it.) You know it's bad when you are moving and you find dishes under the bed. Shortly after I moved into the old apartment, one of my spoons went missing and we never found it. I was mad; that was my good set. I think the couch ate it. If we took that couch apart, I'm sure we'd find long-lost reletives.

[Dreamstalker]

Ghostbusters. :D My cousins have a cat named Zuul.
Our older one should have been named Zuul...she is truly a demon-cat (the vet and his assistant had to wear falconry gloves to hold her down for shots; yes she needed two people).

[Mr. Rager!]

I have one roomie who likes to buy everything in bulk, then let it go to waste. Since she likes a lot of junk food, I don't eat it and neither does my other roomie.

So I frequently find myself in the fridge going, "what the hell?... gross..." then I toss whatever irked my gag-reflex into the trash.

I'm not a maid either, but I don't even like to wait for things to start smelling before File-13 it.

[Dreamstalker]

My second college roommate would leave cooked rice, raw meat, milk etc in the (shared) fridge forever.

The woman had issues. I was unable to determine if that food-hoarding was part of it. How she never got sick from eating the bioweapon experiments (or how I never got sick from my food being in the same area) was a mystery. Dunno, maybe the school food had trained my immune system well.

I'm pretty good about clearing out perishable stuff; once in a blue moon I'll miss something, but I always catch it before it starts to smell.

[AirHostess]

My old housemate once left a bowl of chilli con carne in the fridge for a week and it went all furry :puke:

[repsac]

Douglas Adams wrote in his book "The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul" about a monster that occured when Dirk Gently (the main character) failed to clean out his refrigerator in a timely manner.

There's a running gag about the thing in it, so I won't spoil the book. Suffice it to say, you should buy it. And remember, the answer is always a suffusion of yellow.