This was a long time ago, but so far the most disgusting thing I have ever smelled anywhere. I was riding the bus to work down Michigan Avenue and traffic was stop and go. There used to be real rush hours in the D once upon a time. Our bus gradually caught up to, flanked and slowly passed an open vat truck from Detroit Rendering. This truck had the rankest, most overpowering, most clinging miasmic stench that you could ever imagine. The whole overtaking and passing process took about twenty minutes. It was very very hot in town that week. That truck, full of no doubt every kind of animal scraps that could be gleaned from the slaughterhouse, had obviously been sitting out in the sun for far too long. In addition to smelling unbelievably horrible, it also appeared to be leaking ever so gently from every possible seam. I guess it was the poor animals' last revenge on all meateaters on Michigan Avenue that morning.
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