Right before we went on vacation, FI's crew at work had to do a bunch of crazy shit. Particularly "burping" a condenser into a river. It was holding millions of gallons of hot, stagnant OLD (like a few months old) river water. When FI got home that morning, he sat down to watch some TV. I got woken up by ~the smell~ UPSTAIRS. I could smell it THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE. The mystery stank apocalypse was nigh, y'all. And it was ugly.
Finally, I figured out that it was FI. I asked him to please put his work clothes in the washing machine, and for the love of all that might have some omniscient control over our lives, PLEASE FUCKING SHOWER BEFORE YOU GO SLEEP IN OUR BED. PLEASE. So he showered, I washed his work clothes in a hot wash with vinegar and oxi-clean and they still stink, so Cintas will have the pleasure of dealing with them. Hopefully they will be sent to the government for use in biological warfare experiments.
The problem I have now, is that FI's boots are still here stinkin' up the joint. I had initially put them outside because they smell like the devil shit a rotten fish into a shoe. He wore them for his next shift on, realized that they smell like an abandoned fish market dumpster, and decided that airing them out was not enough.
I got home today and they were by the door. I made the mistake of standing there for another second, and I almost honked on the fucking shoes. Hot washes with vinegar isn't killing the stink, nor oxi-clean, and probably not the serious business detergent/anti-stank shake on things/oxi combo I'm running now.
Before I just burn these in one of the local sandpits and call it a day, do any of you know how to get the smell out of these motherfuckers? I'm not religious but I'm pretty sure I came really close to meeting Jesus when I accidentally took a whiff in the general direction of the accursed boots this afternoon.