our anonymous submitter received this note after playing host to his friend’s band. in his defense, he says, “the house was not messy.” and, besides, “i never leave him notes when i do normal household chores like emptying the dishwasher and taking the trash out.”
adds our submitter: “oh, and he can’t count — it was seven guys.” (quite a michelle-esque touch, no?)
i think i actually might have to side with josh on this one. i’ll gladly welcome a gaggle of dirty musicians on my living room floor, but unless you’re, say, jared van fleet, i’d rather you steer clear of my towels. (actually, even if you’re jared, it would nice if you asked first.)
related: martyr complex much?
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69 responses so far ↓
#1 park rose
and their names were Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy.
Snow White was the one purely abusing the bathroom
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:26 pm rating: +14
#2 pry
woah. in my experience, bands are the most well-behaved and grateful guests. until they get drunk.
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:29 pm rating: +1
#3 Canthz_B
I wonder if they were having Mexican Style, Chicken Flavored Lean Pockets. A whole roll is a lot even for five to seven guys to use up in a night.
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:32 pm rating: +4
#4 Canthz_B
At least we can take heart in the fact that the bathroom was not impurely abused.
That would be sick!
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:34 pm rating: +2
#5 Wade
I hope they didn’t use the towels to dry between their legs.
Because that would be triflin’.
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:36 pm rating: +12
#6 morpho aurora
you do NOT invite 7 people over without letting your room mate know ahead of time, not to mention if they were submitter’s guests they should have taken turns purely abusing submitters’s bathroom.
btw - cleaning the kitchen and taking out the trash after having guests is usually a little more work than normal.
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:36 pm rating: +4
#7 Canthz_B
This seems kind of backward. I’d clean my personal space (my bathroom) and leave my roommate a note to clean the kitchen, and take out the trash.
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:42 pm rating: +1
#8 raiseyourglass
I always love when men(and some females not to be sexist) say “its not messy.” They hung the towel up, and cleaned the toilet. (duhh…I sprayed the blue stuff in and flushed it. BFD!) They forget about cleaning the piss that splashed on the sides of the toilet, floor and wall! Don’t get me started!!!
Now you know why people wash their hair in the sink at work!!!!
Not to mention the foot funk that can be left behind in the shower! Expecialy 5 or 7 men. Josh you better wear flip-flops.
I better stop I could rant for hours on this subject.
Oooommmm!!!!
Jan 16, 2008 at 10:56 pm rating: +5
#9 Team Cassandra
I moved the papers and the trash
O - And I found your secret stash:)
It took all day to scrub the floor
You ain’t gonna rock and roll no more
Yakety yak (don’t talk back)
Just finished cleanin’ up my room
I watched that dust fly with that broom
I got that garbage out of sight
I started cleaning Friday night
Yakety yak (don’t talk back)
You let your friends use all my towels
You let them empty out their bowels
Can’t take this nastiness no more
Can’t someone clean that bathroom floor?
Yakety yak (don’t talk back)
Don’t you give me no dirty looks
Just wipe that coffee off my books!
And tell your hoodlum friends inside
It’s time for them to take a ride!
Yakety yak (don’t talk back)
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
FADE
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Jan 16, 2008 at 11:41 pm rating: +11
#10 Kelly
Apparently the whole situation forced him to regress into a childlike state, based on the handwriting. Lordy, learn to write.
But, I am on Team Let You Roomie Know Before Dirty Musicians Put Your Towels On Their Naughty Bits.
Jan 17, 2008 at 12:09 am rating: +4
#11 Grimfool_Reluctant
Wow, flashback . . . to all the times I was host, or host’s housemate, to bands. Today’s musicians must be a gentler breed . . . they took showers? Josh didn’t have to pick up beer cans, cigarette butts, steam out dried vomit and repair scorch marks on the furniture? No bong-water stains on the carpet? No eggshells on the ceiling? They apparently loaded and operated the dishwasher? Josh should count his blessings instead of his toilet paper . . .
And let’s not feed Josh’s OCD/germophobia about towels. Used towels go into the laundry; bing-bing, they’re okay again; no skankier than after you would use them yourself. Do you people actually burn your towels after you’ve had guests?
Okay, Josh should have been notified beforehand . . . and he should have been invited (which may actually be the basis of his gripe?) . . . but I’m not totally with Team Josh here (but again, I’ve got 20-year-old vivid memories of a grungier era).
Two questions: what the hell kind of paper was that note written on? and, most troubling . . . seven guys in a band plus the host, and no girls? Sad . . .
Jan 17, 2008 at 12:45 am rating: +6
#12 lola
…and once they masturbate into those towels, they’re never soft again.
Team Jerk Into Your Own Towels
icky
Jan 17, 2008 at 12:50 am rating: +4
#13 Tyler
I don’t know about most people but I don’t have 7 towels in my bathroom, let alone own 7 towels. So I can somewhat side with him on that one of not even having a clean towel to use. (I’d hate to be the 7th guy to shower)
Jan 17, 2008 at 1:14 am rating: +2
#14 Grimfool_Reluctant
More questions!
Will the band sell the note-to-t-shirts at their next gig?
If the band becomes famous, will Josh bore his future friends with his embellished accounts of “that time they all stayed at my place for a weekend”?
Jan 17, 2008 at 1:42 am rating: +2
#15 Lauren
I know how awful abused bathrooms can be. My husband and I rented a house from my brother back in the day. Since it was his house, I told him he could hold his buddy’s bachelor party there. BTW, I was 7 months pregnant at the time. The house was disgusting in the morning. Vomit in every sink, luncheon meat floating in the mayo jar that had been left out all night…this was the tip of the iceberg. That was 18 years ago and I’m still not over it yet.
Jan 17, 2008 at 7:30 am rating: +3
#16 Writerrejected
Dude’s got no cred whatsoever re: “the house was not messy. ” There just ain’t no way. Seems to me that he was a douche and instead of posting the PAN, he should have apologized to the roommate. Though really where’s the fun in that?
So here’s my little morning thank you to the PAN-goddess and PAN-posters, whether they are in the right or in the wrong. (Just feeling grateful today.)
Jan 17, 2008 at 7:48 am rating: +1
#17 MJaz
Sharing toilet paper is nasty. I mean really!
I don’t mind if people USE my toilet paper (in fact, I rather prefer that they do, versus using my towel), but sharing the TP is gross. So is sharing a kleenex. Yick.
I am definitely on Josh’s side, other than that.
Jan 17, 2008 at 8:38 am rating: +2
#18 senor subagua
His name is Josh? Looked like Job to me when I first looked at it — figured a couple of dirty towels beats a face full of boils any day… unless…… can you get face boils from a dirty towel?
Jan 17, 2008 at 8:38 am rating: +2
#19 Lala
what is that fabric underneath the note?? looks like 80s bachelor pad polyester comforter to me
Jan 17, 2008 at 8:47 am rating: +1
#20 Jamie
“purely abused”
That’s great! I need to find a way to work that phrase into conversation somehow.
Jan 17, 2008 at 8:48 am rating: +1
#21 JPav
Dear Josh,
You ask why I invited 5 guys who would use all the TP and abuse your bathroom to stay over without telling you? C’mon, every one knows it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
P.S. I would think about buying a new toothbrush
Jan 17, 2008 at 9:02 am rating: +2
#22 gggggggggg
how do i get my entry to post in green? come on … i must know now …
Jan 17, 2008 at 9:24 am rating: 0
#23 BoggyWoggy
Sometimes, after a large number of “boys” use our guest bath, I notice that there are yellow-crystally stalactites hanging from the inside edge of the toilet. I have to wonder if this is what Josh found…
sta·lac·tite (st?-l?k’t?t’)
n. An icicle-shaped mineral deposit, usually calcite or aragonite, hanging from the roof of a cavern, formed from the dripping of mineral-rich water.
Jan 17, 2008 at 10:03 am rating: 0
#24 Bellabeastie
Dear Josh -
Forgot to tell you I borrowed your ultra soft bristled Oral-B since you threw mine out with the trash. Payback’s a bitch.
Cha e
Jan 17, 2008 at 12:25 pm rating: +1
#25 DrAstroZoom
To get truly pure abuse, one usually has to invite a band of priests over.
Thank you … I’m here all week.
Jan 17, 2008 at 12:46 pm rating: +3
#26 GhostWriter
The note itself wasn’t so bad, but taping it to the back of my black corduroy disco jacket (and having somebody point it out to me on the dance floor) was uncalled for.
Jan 17, 2008 at 2:22 pm rating: +2
#27 Canthz_B
All of this could be avoided if we could find seven brides for these seven brothers!
How about the new girl band “The Pleiades”, featuring:
Maia
Electra
Taygete
Alcyone
Celaeno
Sterope
Merope
Jan 17, 2008 at 3:44 pm rating: +2
#28 STees
That. Is. Too. Many. Boys. In. One. House.
Unless you’re mom to quintuplets or something, and then you can’t help it.
Jan 17, 2008 at 4:52 pm rating: +3
#29 Lurker
If the recipient already believes that someone else using your towels is nasty, then it’s implied, and its parenthetical addittion is unneeded.
If the recipient does NOT already believe that, then the parenthesis is not going to convince him that it is.
By the way, I used all you guys’ towels to clean up the cat vomit. Seriously, don’t feed her the cheap kibbles again.
Jan 17, 2008 at 9:43 pm rating: 0
#30 A.A guy
I think that we’ve lost sight of some very positive sides of this event.I mean they’re a band that don’t dry off with their own clothing and they actually used the bathroom.Bet those potted ferns are happy.
Jan 17, 2008 at 9:52 pm rating: +3
#31 Canthz_B
Seven guests and no PA note from the neighbors?
Sounds like Josh is a lonely and envious man.
Invite him to come and play next time.
Jan 17, 2008 at 11:03 pm rating: 0
#32 sir jorge
i’d crumple the paper and flush it down her toilet.
Jan 18, 2008 at 2:23 pm rating: 0
#33 starburst2185
Sounds like the roommates have separate bathrooms to me, and it makes me wonder what Josh did to his roommate to make him send the band buddies to Josh’s bathroom. Girls, you know what I mean, no one in their right mind would want to share a toliet with 5 guys, that’s a worse mental picture then the thrift store dressing room!
Jan 18, 2008 at 6:11 pm rating: +1