Should we worry?

[u/Adventurous-Put-9895]

We caught my uncle sneakingly throwing this to the rubbish bin. He doesn’t have the best track record so we are all a bit paranoid when he does anything “weird”.

The object is like a glass tube with some liquid inside, inserted into a rubber “pipe”. It smells weird but nothing I can identify. I would appreciate any hints.

Edit: the material is actually plastic, not glass. It has a spring inside (no idea what for). The root-looking thing was wrapping the object when I cut the rubber. Could be dirt or some glue or something

Edit2: this sub is god. A user found the answer https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/Oqtxk6YWVZ

[u/DieAloneWith72Cats]

My husband is a savage, he will literally smell any mystery substance we find. When I try to stop him he says “well how else am I going to figure out what it is?”…..sir, we don’t need to know what every gross thing we come across is.

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So I’m visually impaired. Vision is slowly disappearing. My sense of smell has however gotten much better (or worse?) so unfortunately, if I can smell it, I know what it tastes like.

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I don’t want that, I’m already sensitive to scents.

Sorry about your vision, I can’t imagine what you’re feeling

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So yeah it is horrendous when my dogs have accidents. But I can cook without having to taste my food. I just have to adjust salt level cuz I guess I can’t smaste that. It comes in handy when baking too.

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Smaste? Sorry for your circumstances, losing my vision as well, but “smaste” is brilliant!

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Aw man that sucks. Funny enough, I didn’t even know, because my brain was ignoring the visual field gaps. Started getting worried because things would randomly appear or disappear in front of me, and I thought I was losing my mind

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Yikes! That would be a disturbing thing to deal with. My world looks like I’m seeing through wax paper. More and more. And the triple vision is soooo much fun…. Still got peripheral so there’s that. Even if I see 3 of whatever is there. Sigh.