ok here is the latest.
one thing i forgot to mention yesterday is the fact that my mp3 player was sitting in this festering bag all day. i have those Sony headphones that the little blue alien dude wears in those commercials, the ones that basically wrap around your ears. the stank ass spread to the plushy surface of the headphones and caused them to reek as well. i found this out yesterday at the beginning of my traps workout immediately after work. i put them on right before my first set of deads and i almost passed out. i thought i was away from the smell, but NO. and i am so used to lifting to music and tuning the rest of the world out that i couldn't very well not wear the headphones. so the smell of fucking nasty putrid spoiled milk hovered around me throught the entire workout, which fortunately was relatively short. i gagged twice in the gym and i can assure you it wasn't from overexerting myself. this morning when i got out of my car, i sprayed them with cologne so i'm hoping that will cover it up.
ok so as of right now the bag is out on my patio drying out. as i had previously mentioned, i washed the thing last night in my washing machine and it sounded like i was cleansing a dead body when the spin cycle hit. i put it out on my patio to air out last night and i didn't check on it this morning so i'm not sure what the smell status or ruinage factor of the bag is. i do know that i will probably send my cat out on the patio first to go smell the little demon bag and let me know if things are ok or if i need to quarantine my patio. honestly even if it came out ok and didn't smell anymore, i just look at the thing and the smell comes back to my nose so i may just throw it out regardless. i have never been scarred before by a black leather bag so i'm not quite sure how to handle this. i did however, stop off at wal-mart on the way into work this morning and bought a cooler. i can't believe i didn't have one of these things in the first place. hello dumbshit. well you live and learn.
also i forgot to mention that basically everything that was inside my bag now wreaks of this nastiness. i had my checkbook in there and last night i wrote out a check for some groceries, handed the cashier the check, and she disintegrated.