I didn’t know my son was getting rid of the food that he didn’t like, until I found it in his secret hiding spot.
He must have been putting food in that spot for several weeks, because the food was filled with mold and rotten.
I turned on the furnace this morning, because it was very cold last night. The house was only 55 degrees and I decided to turn on the furnace for a couple of hours. After a few minutes, I started to smell the most horrible odor coming from the kitchen. I looked all over the room and I even cleaned out the fridge. Still, the horrible odor lingered all over the room. I got out some cleaning supplies and I scrubbed all of the countertops. After I was finished, I got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed the floors. While I was scrubbing the floors, I found the location and source of the odor. On the left side of the dining room table, there is a vent for our furnace on the floor. My son sits on the chair directly above the furnace vent. I don’t think the amount of food was a mistake or an accident, so I assumed my son was hiding the food in the furnace vent. It was a clever place to hide the food, until I realized where the smell was coming from. When I confronted him with the truth, he started crying and begged me not to make him eat spinach. I’m lucky the food didn’t cause damage to the vent or the furnace.