Do you enter other people's homes as a part of your job? What's the craziest thing you saw?

I was on a ride along with a fire department. We responded to, smell of smoke, in an apartment building.

We found the apartment fast enough because the fire alarm was going off inside. We walked in to find

this guy as exposed as the day he was born, passed out on the floor in front of the TV, with

adult movies on way louder than they should be, and the remnants of a pizza in the oven.

The gentleman in question was very drunk. There were beer cans all over the kitchen,

and a bottle of liquor on the floor next to him. To wake him up, we actually all left,

and the fire chief woke him up in his daily uniform so he didn't

think he was being abducted. Lastly, this was in Fargo, North Dakota, about 14 years ago.

So this isn't so much weird, but it was the most shocking. I was working with adults

with intellectual disabilities that lived in residential homes. It was one of my first weeks

on the job, and a coworker was taking me out to a home to show me what she did when she did home reviews. We got to the house, opened the doors, and we were instantly hit with a wall of air smelling like poop. Two steps in, and it was apparent there was diarrhea on a chair, on the carpets, and random splotches all over. The whole house was in shambles.

The fridge was full of mouldy food, and I'll never forget picking up the shredded cheese,

shaking the bag and seeing green mold flakes go up and down. Food was spattered all over the cabinets,

the beds were stained with pee and poop, and expired canned food was everywhere. The staff there had been

neglecting those guys for a long time, and nobody had bothered to check up on them.

Service plumber here. At the house of an elderly lady, at least 75 years old, there were

undressed pictures of her on the walls and several marital aids all about. It was interesting.

My parents have a friend who commissioned a

portrait of herself undressed from the waist up. She and her husband hung this giant professional

portrait, front and center in their living room, and have since their children were young. They are

interesting people. I do construction sales, so I'm in homes a lot. For me, it's the sheer number of preppers that exist.

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