I used to work in a public zoo and aquarium in central South Carolina (easy
enough to find out which one, huh?). I worked as the Tropical Reef Gallery
Aquarist and most of my tanks were accessed from the front where all the stupid
patrons were.
One day I was out there working on the tanks, answering stupid
questions (like "Is that fish gonna bite you?" or "Is that fish dead?"). Then an
young-adult Special Ed group came through and after they passed, the stench was
born...
They had stopped in the other area of the aquarium and reptile complex and
one of the poor goofy bastards was obviously not trained as well as most dogs. He
crapped in his pants and shook the crap out the leg to land next to his foot. He told
no one and was in the middle of the pack. The herd of droolers then stampeded into
the Tropical Rainforest Habitat and brought pieces of the inappropriate turd with
them as none of them seemed to avoid it, but rather all seemed to make a point of
doing some shoe painting instead.
This would have been bad enough, but the story
continues... not only was there corned sausage trampled into the carpet, but the
floor of the Tropical Rainforest Habitat is heated from below the tiles. The crap
on the shoes transferred to the tiles where it was gently ripened to a stench-multiplying
120 degrees. Couple this with nearly 100% humidity, and the ingredients
for disaster are mixed together.
The crowd managed to find their way out of the
building in as orderly a fashion as can be expected from 40 crap-laden morons in a
zoo on a quick and rare escape from their cages or pens or whatever. But their
memory lives on, as you can still get a whiff of the funk they left behind. Steam
cleaning and shampooing the carpet had limited effect so it was replaced, but the
tiles were cleaned and scrubbed even now they still retain a reminder of that fateful
day when that sweet retard gave one lucky turd its freedom.
-- Pete Pooperman