Karolina in Dallas says she typically tries to wait her husband out in situations like this one, but she almost always ends up caving — “particularly when mold is involved.”
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#1
anglophile
The only problem with a note like this is it won’t work on atheists.
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:23 pm rating: 90
#2
Mishee
Now that is what I call a murky liquid!
The writing is all uniform and there is no punctuation. I would definitely have to say that “Jesus Punctuates”.
If this was my husband’s, well, I’d probably smother him in his sleep…
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:29 pm rating: 90
#3
Canthz_B
Holy Moldy?
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:30 pm rating: 90
#4
zenvelo
I think it was supposed to be spelled “hole-y”, like, “you’re not getting any ’til this thing is washed”.
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:30 pm rating: 90
#5
Canthz_B
Nothing like a nice bacterial culture in the kitchen to show one’s love!
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:32 pm rating: 90
#6
wickedgirl
She can try what I do with my son if he doesn’t clean up his toys when he’s supposed to: put it/them in a box and see if he misses it.
Sometimes I give a warning that if he doesn’t pick up XYZ items, I will be putting it or giving it away, sometimes I don’t
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:35 pm rating: 90
#7
Canthz_B
Hubby is trying to leave “The Andromeda Stain”!
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:37 pm rating: 90
#8
Wade
She might get better results if she leaves it in the middle of the kitchen floor.
Then again….
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:39 pm rating: 90
#9
Olivia
Dirty dishes are best left on beds.
That’s the only thing that will get through to someone (because it’s hard to avoid).
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:43 pm rating: 90
#10
GVI
Maybe he is trying to make her some cheese.
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:43 pm rating: 90
#11
Agargara
I guess they aren’t on speaking terms with each other.
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:53 pm rating: 90
#12
WanderingPenguin
Hmmm. That appears to be “The Virgin Pickle” I see in that coffee cup. Coincidence?
Dec 4, 2007 at 10:02 pm rating: 90
#13
WanderingPenguin
Woo hoo! Another repeat “Word!” champeen! Congrats, Ari!
Personally, I just hope to get my double before anglo gets the first threepeat the way she was the first to have two. Odds are against me, I’d say.
Dec 4, 2007 at 10:09 pm rating: 90
#14
Nathaniel
Here’s a crazy idea, has she considered putting the cup in the dishwasher herself? For fuck’s sake, why do people have to pick fights over nothing with their own spouses? When he’s banging his secretary and you’re raising the kids by yourself, be sure to pat yourself on the back about how you stood your ground on the dirty cup issue.
Dec 4, 2007 at 10:15 pm rating: 90
#15
Andy
That looks like an attempt to make some wine. Delicious wine.
That’s how wine was invented. Gogoroth the caveman wouldn’t clean up his rocks full of berry juice, and his wife was waiting him out. Then, in a fit of pique, he said, “Ak-ak-rok-ruk”, which is translated to, “What? I was still drinking it! It’s still good! Watch!”
He then took a mighty swig, and promptly went blind.
Well, did I ever say the first attempt at wine worked?
So, lay off, sister.
Dec 4, 2007 at 10:16 pm rating: 90
#16
Olrun
The only thing I would have to wonder is, are the chores are divided between the couple, and if so, who’s turn is it to do the dishes ?
Does she Nit-Pick at what she decides to clean ?
Has the husband ever cleaned up after her ?
Or is it a rule of “what’s mine is mine, what’s your’s is your’s” ?
Because that would be fun to figure out in an issue of community property if they decide to divorce over the moldy cup.
Besides…..it looks like Koolaid ( I think )
Anyway…..
Dec 4, 2007 at 10:35 pm rating: 90
#17
A.A guy
Chunky style Koolaid.
Dec 4, 2007 at 10:47 pm rating: 90
#18
kureshii
Does she have kids? If yes, she should’ve just asked him to “do it for the kids”… if not, “do it for me”. Somehow “the love of all that is holy” has become more important than either, like he’s some clergyman who’s more likely found at the parish than at home.
Heh, we should do more unanswerable Y/N questions… choose your own adventure!
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:08 pm rating: 90
#19
kureshii
And in any case, if you really wanted it to get to him you would wait for mold to grow… and put it in a conspicuous place for him.
Note how mold growth is an essential ingredient for this method to work. Prior to its growth, said object would not look out of place in a typical clean home environment (unless it starts crusting, maybe).
If I wrote that note it’d probably be “IN ALL THE TIME I’VE KNOWN YOU I NEVER KNEW YOU HAD ANY INTEREST IN MOLD CULTIVATION BUT IF FOR SOME REASON YOU DO PLEASE DO IT IN A PETRI DISH NOT IN THE CUP THANK YOU”
If you want to leave punctuation out then go all the way, don’t do a half-assed job by leaving a period at the end, makes it look like PAN writer’s remorse.
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:16 pm rating: 90
#20
summer
Hubby: “Sure i’ll wash this cup honey, if you use comma’s in your notes to me from now on.”
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:17 pm rating: 90
#21
"Detective" Julie
I’ve seen worse.
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:19 pm rating: 90
#22
Eilis
She just needs to suck it up and wait it out for a few more days. Then when the mold has really started to own the cup she should just toss it into the trash can. Preferably right on top so it is seen by hubby. In my experience, I have found that when you pitch a few cups (bowls, plates) and replace them with paper or plastic ones, all of a sudden everyone is concerned about the dishes. Of course you have to have the mismatched, cheapies to begin with so it doesn’t seem like you’re just being a crazy bitch.
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:42 pm rating: 90
#23
southern girl
I would have just thrown it away and made him buy another mug. I wouldn’t drink out of that one, ever, ever again.
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:43 pm rating: 90
#24
Nicole
I find that if you offer the dirty cup to his mother when she visits, he’s a lot more fastidious about washing the dishes.
Some of the above posters assume the woman is always nagging the man to clean up. Heh, around here that note would be just as likely to come from him as it would from me, depending on what thing needs to be cleaned/washed/replaced.
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:53 pm rating: 90
#25
morpho aurora
my husband had a terrible habit of leaving mugs with that last sip of coffee in them all over the kitchen – i finally got tired of it and moved one on top of his computer with a LARGE note that read “HEY! No Science Experiments In the Kitchen!” and waay down at the bottom in tiny letters “next time, I’ll upend the cup on top of your computer” – problem solved!
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:57 pm rating: 90
#26
fussbudget
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY* DO NOT WASH THAT CUP
MURDER THAT INNOCENT CHUNK OF MOLD AND YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED TO HELL FOR ETERNITY
*kirk cameron
Dec 5, 2007 at 12:19 am rating: 90
#27
Canthz_B
“Honey, I’ll wash my dishes if you’ll stop washing the poolboy!”
Dec 5, 2007 at 12:28 am rating: 90
#28
Dooser
Do I sense an allusion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSb-nV8l2QY
Dec 5, 2007 at 12:47 am rating: 90
#29
SHARKFAN
My favorite part of the note is where she says “FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY” – it’s almost like saying “for the greater good”
Team Get Off Your Lazy Ass And Clean Up After Yourself!
Dec 5, 2007 at 12:47 am rating: 90
#30
Robyn
Nathaniel – fucking delicious comment! And so very true. Gotta learn to choose your battles, don’t ya?
Of course, he could have his secretary wash it in between boinks.
Dec 5, 2007 at 2:37 am rating: 90
#31
Bas
I must be quite the bloody satanist looking at the 2 pans of moldy soup, 20+ glasses and the stink of rotten tomatoes at my kitchen.
Hail Satan.
Dec 5, 2007 at 3:43 am rating: 90
#32
Writer, Rejected
Man, I truly do LOVE all things holy. Especially Kirk Cameron. I think he should wash the cup. I myself have an offending person in my household who leaves teabags in the bottom of cups. FYI: the mold that grows on a teabag is furry and white. It’s not pretty. Isn’t it funny how mold takes different forms depending on the medium of the host? Fascinating really.
Dec 5, 2007 at 8:21 am rating: 90
#33
DrAstroZoom
I’m just disappointed we didn’t get the note-writer’s nude reflection in the mold.
Dec 5, 2007 at 8:54 am rating: 90
#34
Writer, Rejected
Wow, Doctor AZ, nudity? You get much more interesting mold growth than I do. I just get white fur or black resin.
Dec 5, 2007 at 9:18 am rating: 90
#35
Rocky
Clearly the only solution is to replace hubby’s toothbrush cup with the moldy coffee cup.
Do I really need to point out that the toothbrush needs to be inserted head-down?
Signed,
Evil
Dec 5, 2007 at 9:27 am rating: 90
#36
laure
That mold was fucking delicious.
Dec 5, 2007 at 9:29 am rating: 90
#37
Bucklehoneysuckle
So now we offend Jesus (or “all that is holy”) if we don’t wash our cups out?!
Dec 5, 2007 at 9:31 am rating: 90
#38
Sundaeg1rl
That mug Nazi would have me in the showers faster than you can say ‘torture’. I’m an artist, therefore my mugs are MEANT to be encrudded with mould. (yes, that’s English mould, hahaha)
His next move is to smash the mug and leave the bits on the side.
Dec 5, 2007 at 9:34 am rating: 90
#39
unholyghost2003
*checks out window sees 1′ of snow* Nope, I have NOT suddenly moved to Dallas. HUH. I could have sworn I left that note for my husband. Oh! the tell tale difference … my notes say “For the love of all that is UNholy.”
Team ‘I am your WIFE not your housekeeper/mother’ all the way!
Dec 5, 2007 at 10:04 am rating: 90
#40
Juliet
I don’t know what is in this cup, but it looks like recently poured juice.
What a grim future Nathaniel has laid out. I’m sure it happens, but how depressing.
I am more likely to let dishes get moldy than my fiance. He cooks dinner, so if I am fed there are no complaints. If he ever decided to stop cooking, then the P-A notes might begin.
Dec 5, 2007 at 11:08 am rating: 90
#41
A.A guy
The fact that he actually uses a cup when no ones around,sets him apart from probably 80% of guys
I’ve know.
Team” right out of the carton baby”!
Dec 5, 2007 at 11:24 am rating: 90
#42
Ariadne
Forgive me if somebody else has already pointed this out, but wouldn’t it take less time to simply rinse out the cup than to write the note?
Personally, it would irritate me more to look at the gross moldy cup everyday than to clean it up myself.
Team “choose your battles!”
Dec 5, 2007 at 12:06 pm rating: 90
#43
cre8tivewmn
It seems the most passive-aggressive thing about this note is that Karolina submitted it here. That raises an ordinary note to an internet-ional incident.
Dec 5, 2007 at 12:26 pm rating: 90
#44
T-Bone
Cup o’ Blood.
Communion? For the love of all things holy?
Yeah, I’d def choose battles.
If I had a husband.
Or someone. With which to choose battles.
Dec 5, 2007 at 1:11 pm rating: 90
#45
Reno
Agreed Cre8tvewmn,
Are we allowed to post our own P/A acts here?
On another note: Isn’t this how Penicillin was invented? For the good of humankind, please save the mold!
Reno
Dec 5, 2007 at 1:12 pm rating: 90
#46
A.A guy
Looks like the ceiling needs painting.
Dec 5, 2007 at 1:49 pm rating: 90
#47
Chicka
My hubby refuses to wash dishes; yet he hates eating off paper plates. LOL!
He will at least have the common courtesy of rinsing his cups (or plates, whatever the case may be). If my small children can do it, so can he.
And if he chooses to run off with the secretary, so be it. (He’s got to actually have the office job first. *snort*)
Dec 5, 2007 at 2:22 pm rating: 90
#48
GhostWriter
Have we heard back yet from Dallas, in Carolina?
Dec 5, 2007 at 2:26 pm rating: 90
#49
GhostWriter
It IS all part of an arcane religous ritual.
Note that the left side of the note, when read top-to-bottom, becomes the ancient offering prayer of the Gnostic priests, “Please the all-holy, this cup!”
Team Davinci Code!
Dec 5, 2007 at 2:31 pm rating: 90
#50
Juliet
Re: #40.1
Andy, that’s not only hilarious, but a great idea!
If I ever get to try it I’ll let you know!
Dec 5, 2007 at 2:44 pm rating: 90
#51
Juliet
Oops shoulda posted on the thread – didn’t understand the whole 40.1 thing til just now.
Will mind that in the future.
Dec 5, 2007 at 2:51 pm rating: 90
#52
Meeg
Artsy pic
Dec 5, 2007 at 3:48 pm rating: 90
#53
Jodi Blaze
As bad as the mold sounds, nothing holy would even go near it
Dec 5, 2007 at 4:13 pm rating: 90
#54
cham cham
Want a pet? Grow your own!
That’s right, folks, for a limited time you can buy this mould-pet starter kit for on;y £4.99 from your local JML stockist. All you need to do is add water, bacteria and wait a little while to have your very own furry bundle of love.
Dec 5, 2007 at 5:28 pm rating: 90
#55
D
That is so funny!
Dec 5, 2007 at 6:47 pm rating: 90
#56
Meg
My roommates and I clean our own dishes. Once, my roommate let her dishes pile up for so long that they filled up both sinks and covered the counter. When my other roommate complained that the house was smelly, she denied that they were hers. When we told her there was no way they were our dishes, she said she’d clean them the next day. After 3 more stinky days, I finally washed the dishes myself. What I found were maggots in the sink. Lovely!
I deal with moldy glasses ALL the time. My roommate (same maggoty one) loves to drink milk and leave her glasses out.
Dec 17, 2007 at 12:42 am rating: 90
#57
Karolina
Oh, wow. So flickr just enabled stats and I followed this photo’s referrals back here only to find this. Erm, ok, a few things:
1. This was a joke and everyone involved understood it as such.
2. I am not religious.
3. It was tea.
4. I did not submit the photo to this web site. I added it to the flickr PA Notes group per a friend’s suggestion and this website’s owner contacted me months later for an ok to add it here.
5. Holy* crapstick, you guys actually sit around critiquing the punctuation and grammar on these bad boys? Who knew! I’ll have to remember that next time I want to have an e-mail laugh with my husband.
Or, you know, not.
*intentional
Dec 17, 2007 at 11:55 pm rating: 90
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