What was your worst bait experience ??

My worst experience pales compared to the rest of you, but one day on the beach I was running out of bait, so I called my wife to bring a few macs on her way down. I didn't have a good knife so I asked her to defrost them a little (maybe 30 seconds in the microwave). She somehow screwed up with the zeroes and went about her business. Fortunately, the smell of the cooking macs caught her attention. It only took a week to air out the house and get rid of the flies.

This leaves me with my biggest fear. I worry about closing up the house on Sunday night to head home and have a power failure (which I wouldn't know about until the following weekend). What will happen to my macs in the freezer? I gave a neighbor a key in case of a widespread outage, but if it's something just in my house that the neighbor doesn't know about, I could be in a lot of trouble (not to mention not having any bait).