mystery solved

there has been an ever-increasing foul stench emanating from my kitchen for the past week. i bleached every available surface and still the stench grew. on thursday a handyman came and attempted to fix something under the kitchen sink, but still the stench grew. it had gotten to the point of being so unbearable that i could barely stand to be in the kitchen long enough to boil water. i was determined to have someone come and fix it for good tomorrow.

today i had some girls over and they wanted to help me do the dishes. i told them i didn't want them in the kitchen because i was embarrassed of the odor. they said that they smelled it today and had noticed it last week, too. we all guessed that it was coming from the fridge, and they suggested we pull the fridge away from the wall to see if we could find anything. we all nearly gagged when we got a whiff of the exhaust from the back. we unscrewed something at the bottom of the fridge but couldn't find the source of the smell.

i planned on calling someone in the morning to come look at it. so i decided to clean out my fridge tonight so that there would be no way that the smell was coming from food in the fridge. it's a good thing i did! not only did i find the problem, i fixed it, too! apparently some chicken blood from a package of chicken i had thawed in the fridge had dripped down a drain hole in the back of the fridge. i poured some bleach down the hole, and voila!!! the foul, or should i say fowl (hehe) smell disappeared!