“swiffer gives cleaning a whole new meaning”

May 21st, 2008 · 109 comments

writes bibs in tacoma, washington: “my sophomore year in college, i was placed in a campus house with six other girls i didn’t know. to say the least, we did not really get along, but we made a chore chart so we would all at least have a semi-clean house to live in.” at least, that was the idea.

things broke down when one of her housemates, cindy, was confronted with the reality of seven girls sharing one bathroom. after this little display, bibs says, the chore wheel pretty much went to hell.

swiffer gives cleaning a whole new meaning

related: landmine in my bloodline

Tags: cleaning · excessive underlining · fuck fuckity fuck fuck · inappropriate word EMPHASIS · not cool · roommates · spelling and grammar police · tacoma · university · visual aids

109 responses so far ↓

  • #1  zombieBlanco

    Does this gross you out? If not, I have directions to a few dressingroom stalls, gym showers and coffee-bar restrooms you might also like.

    May 21, 2008 at 12:37 am   rating: +9  

     
  • #2  ihityouinthenose

    i must agree with Cindy….nothing delicious about that shit at all.

    nasty as it is though, i really love that she saved the thing just to tape it to the mirror!

    May 21, 2008 at 12:38 am   rating: +6  

     
  • #3  Sundance

    Get a long Swifter handle, and clean WHILE you shit.

    May 21, 2008 at 12:42 am   rating: +32  

     
  • #4  zombieBlanco

    Me thinks Cindy is a few hearts and smiley faces short of a real passive aggressive note. But we’ll award extra points for the used swiffer pad on the mirror.

    May 21, 2008 at 12:44 am   rating: +3  

     
  • #5  jadefirefly

    The thing is, if that’s REALLY a bathroom shared by seven girls, I’d expect MORE from a week’s worth of grunge. O_o

    May 21, 2008 at 12:49 am   rating: +2  

    • #5.1  fantasy

      what do you mean? Women have perfect aim.

      Unless it is dirty and we are trying not to touch the seat while doing the “I don’t fucking need your cooties ” squat!

      May 21, 2008 at 8:04 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #5.2  Joe

      Um…that doesn’t look like urine on the swiffer to me. I fail to see how aim is pertinent to stray hairs.

      May 21, 2008 at 8:44 am   rating: +2  

       
    • #5.3  KittyKat

      If you look closely, it appears there is another swiffer taped below the 2nd one, so I’m guessing there is a lot more “grossness” than we are seeing.

      May 21, 2008 at 9:43 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #5.4  karla

      Damn you for making me scroll up!

      May 21, 2008 at 12:03 pm   rating: +6  

       
    • #5.5  tinkerbell2

      I think that’s her point, it’s NOT a week’s worth, ie the other 6 weeks when it wasn’t her turn no-one was doing it..

      May 22, 2008 at 7:36 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #6  zombieBlanco

    Dear Cindy,
    It was my week to clean the bathroom. I half-heartedly attempted to sweep the shit up, but soon lost interest in the project. Wear shoes and play it safe. I would apologize, but I hate lying.
    Love, Bibs

    (Thank You Dustin )

    May 21, 2008 at 12:54 am   rating: +14  

    • #6.1  john

      ah, dustin’s note was an instant classic! thanks for the memories!

      May 26, 2008 at 7:06 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #7  appleheart

    How does the floor get so dirty? You’d think they cooked and ate on it.

    May 21, 2008 at 1:14 am   rating: +2  

     
  • #8  secondsout

    Just what is that taped below? The picture cuts it off. If the first one is a swiffer cloth, God only knows what the other one is.

    May 21, 2008 at 1:38 am   rating: 0  

    • #8.1  fantasy

      That definately was a double swiffer job!

      Kind of like #2 in bathroom speak!

      She did say it was SHIT!

      May 21, 2008 at 8:15 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #9  secondsout

    “If you have the time to shit here…” Like taking a shit takes a long time. Well, maybe if you have the heated toilet seat, a good copy of National Geographic, and a proclivity for eating only meat. Then, take your time, but be warned that your karmic duty demands that you mop the floor, too.

    May 21, 2008 at 1:52 am   rating: +1  

     
  • #10  secondsout

    Did she mean to put the underline under the word “not,” instead of “is?” Otherwise, it doesn’t really make sense. Add that to her bungled grammar, “me to,” and it tells us that UWT may be the place for the C students of Washington.

    May 21, 2008 at 2:09 am   rating: +1  

    • #10.1  pickle

      I think she got it right… She was just “snapping a Z” while she was saying it.

      May 21, 2008 at 3:58 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #10.2  Joe

      Team Emphasis in Inappropriate Places!

      May 21, 2008 at 8:53 am   rating: +3  

       
    • #10.3  zombieBlanco

      Joe-

      A priapism joke? :shock:
      We’re not that kind of site!

      May 21, 2008 at 11:12 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #11  secondsout

    Bibs? Who the fuck calls herself BIBS? Is that on her birth certificate, or does she actually ask people to call her that? If it’s not on her birth certificate, just what awful name IS on her birth certificate. “Yeah, my name is Gretel, but you can just call me Bibs.”

    May 21, 2008 at 2:21 am   rating: +7  

    • #11.1  zombieBlanco

      Brittany Woods sighed as she realized she was the fifteenth Brittany registered for Freshman Lit., ‘just call me Bibs’, she said with a forced smile.

      May 21, 2008 at 2:55 am   rating: +8  

       
     
  • #12  Jordyn

    Why did she underline IS? Isn’t that a little weird?

    May 21, 2008 at 2:36 am   rating: 0  

    • #12.1  zombieBlanco

      hmmm…..secondsout thought so.

      (see comment 10 ↑ )

      May 21, 2008 at 2:47 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #13  Fnnkybutt

    Cindy -

    That is trifling and disgusting. I just want you to know I wiped between my legs with that Swiffer.

    Bibs

    May 21, 2008 at 3:33 am   rating: +8  

     
  • #14  secondsout

    Cindy, you may think that your turn on the chore wheel is difficult now, but wait until it is your turn to “wipe Bibs’s dirty butt!

    May 21, 2008 at 3:42 am   rating: +1  

    • #14.1  fantasy

      Oh, that is where that shit comes from.

      It was overlooked by the toilet paper police, she must have been too busy counting her rolls.

      May 21, 2008 at 8:10 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #15  secondsout

    Anyone notice just how many of these PAN writers have handwriting that makes them look like psychopaths? I may be no forensic psychologist, but I think I’m noticing a pattern…

    May 21, 2008 at 3:45 am   rating: +1  

     
  • #16  Leish

    So much time and effort spent sticking that up. Bubble writing….so over

    May 21, 2008 at 4:16 am   rating: 0  

     
  • #17  jabbadabbaduu

    Ahh, so bubble writing is what it’s called! Thank you for clearing that up for me, Leish.

    And secondsout, I have to say that’s an interesting theory. After spending a year in the US, I noticed that all the passive aggressive girls wrote like that. I thought it was just how you were taught to write as a kid in America, and that only the passive aggressive kind stuck to it. Well, I’m finishing my master thesis in psychology these days, but this seriously made me think about starting all over again on this topic. I will call it “Passive Aggressive Handwriting - bubbles of anger”.

    May 21, 2008 at 4:56 am   rating: +4  

    • #17.1  Lyra

      Jabba, we are usually taught Perfect Teacher Script in America. Females who spend too much time in Abercrombie hiding their muffin tops and who date men with popped collars develop the serious ailment known as Bubble Writing. It is usually illegible except when read by their own kind. Apparently, it leads to Not Cleaning Up After Yourself in Your Communal Bathroom.

      ….It seems I have some resentment issues I need to deal with.

      May 22, 2008 at 4:12 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #18  Rumble_fish

    I have found an image of Jesus in that swiffer!!

    Save it for ebay!!

    May 21, 2008 at 8:11 am   rating: +12  

     
  • #19  fantasy

    that better not be a weeks worth of shit.If it is, it looks to me that someone is definately constipated, and in need of a good laxative.

    Maybe even a good chew off a chunk of cascara bark.

    May 21, 2008 at 8:21 am   rating: +3  

    • #19.1  Lyra

      Where did that poor swiffer venture? I assumed it was just the floor.

      May 22, 2008 at 4:14 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #20  fantasy

    No gold stars on the chore chart this week, next week we will issue gold stars for just about any fucking shit!

    Come on little girls, this weeks lesson is take the time to get a gold star on the “chore chart”!

    May 21, 2008 at 8:25 am   rating: 0  

     
  • #21  claw71

    Why are they shitting on the floor when there’s a perfectly operational shower right there?

    May 21, 2008 at 8:35 am   rating: +4  

     
  • #22  Quite Contrary

    Two swifter sheets…20 cents
    Bubble letters written by an orange sharpie…$7.99
    A two page passive aggressive diatribe…priceless

    May 21, 2008 at 8:42 am   rating: +5  

     
  • #23  fantasy

    BiBs= Bring It on BitcheS!

    May 21, 2008 at 8:54 am   rating: +8  

     
  • #24  globalnole

    I lived in a dorm-suite with four college freshmen guys and our bathroom floor never looked anything like that. C’mon girls, represent your sex!

    Foul.

    May 21, 2008 at 9:13 am   rating: 0  

    • #24.1  claw71

      Yeah, but when you don’t pick up towels or dirty clothes you don’t see the floor.

      May 21, 2008 at 9:51 am   rating: +8  

       
     
  • #25  unholyghost2003

    7 girls one bathroom? what the HELL is wrong with that school? And why are they cleaning their own bathroom?It is school owned housing, doesn’t the school clean the common spaces?

    May 21, 2008 at 9:15 am   rating: +1  

    • #25.1  Quite Contrary

      When I lived with three other girls in school owned housing, we were responsible for the interior of the space, including the bathroom. The school cleaned the halls, the laundry room, etc. It looks like this is a house; we lived in an apartment. I think the only bathrooms schools clean are in campus dorms (and non-housing buildings).

      May 21, 2008 at 9:22 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #25.2  unholyghost2003

      Oh. At my school if it was owned by the school there was cleaning staff for common areas (This was also true for Greek houses) when their was a housing crunch the school helped set up off campus rental housing. We had to clean our rental house ourselves, but it wasn’t school owned.

      May 21, 2008 at 9:26 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #25.3  Quite Contrary

      Interesting. My school didn’t clean the greek houses and the frat bathrooms were NEVER to be entered. If I was at a frat party, I’d hold it rather than enter one of their bathrooms. It made for some early evenings.

      May 21, 2008 at 9:48 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #25.4  Lyra

      My school has no dorms.
      D:

      May 22, 2008 at 4:18 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #26  fantasy

    ……seven girls one cup?

    OMG! I mean seven girls one chore chart! :oops:

    May 21, 2008 at 9:24 am   rating: +9  

     
  • #27  Mishee

    I guess you know you are overextending yourself when you don’t even have time to shit!

    P.S. SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

    May 21, 2008 at 9:28 am   rating: +1  

    • #27.1  fantasy

      I don’t want any SHIT in my basement!

      May 21, 2008 at 9:31 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #28  amy d

    Team wtf is tour week?

    May 21, 2008 at 9:48 am   rating: 0  

    • #28.1  Quite Contrary

      Team wtf…why so many fucks in the original note for fuck’s sake?

      May 21, 2008 at 9:48 am   rating: +4  

       
    • #28.2  fantasy

      You can never have too many fuck’s!

      May 21, 2008 at 9:51 am   rating: +2  

       
    • #28.3  amy d

      Fuckin’ team wtf, you fucking fucker! (jokes)

      May 21, 2008 at 10:00 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #28.4  Sue Do Nim

      I love that she calls shit “chit” but liberally drops the fucks.

      May 21, 2008 at 10:23 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #29  amy d

    After extensive carbon dating tests were run, it was found that it was indeed a week’s worth of shit. Furthermore, DNA testting proved it was Cindy’s shit.

    Subsequently, her roommates rubbed Cindy’s nose in it.

    May 21, 2008 at 9:50 am   rating: +10  

     
  • #30  RALPHY

    Why am I not surprised that 7 girls sharing the same bathroom are having problems? Given the axiom that the bathroom is the primary core value of most women, DNA testing is in order to determine the wayward child.
    Otherwise do what the guys do (1) grab the waders(so you don’t slip and slide ) (2) grab a candle and the latest(perferred) isue of LOWRIDER(3) take your dump ,blow out the candles, and leave the waders outside for the next guy. Simple.

    May 21, 2008 at 9:51 am   rating: +2  

     
  • #31  RunBarbara

    the best part is how she made fuckinggross one word.
    those swifter’s look like the sort of used diaper’s you’d see left behind in a wal mart parking lot.
    fuckinggross.

    May 21, 2008 at 9:51 am   rating: +6  

     
  • #32  claw71

    College girls are nasty which is why I always break up with my girlfriends when they graduate high school. Funny thing about high school girls…I keep getting older and they all stay the same.

    May 21, 2008 at 9:54 am   rating: +7  

    • #32.1  Mishee

      Love the Dazed and Confused nod…

      The more I learn about you just make you get better and better every day, claw!

      May 21, 2008 at 9:58 am   rating: +1  

       
    • #32.2  unholyghost2003

      Are you gettin’ those Aerosmith tickets?

      May 21, 2008 at 9:58 am   rating: +1  

       
    • #32.3  secondsout

      Claw, I could have sworn you liked them a lot younger than high school, so their little bitty hands would make your dick look HUGE.

      May 21, 2008 at 11:44 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #32.4  Mishee

      don’t need itty bitty hands to accomplish that! Hell, I think Buffy & Hildy’s hands would still make his dick look huge!!

      May 21, 2008 at 12:18 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #32.5  RunBarbara

      3rd grade is prime- baby teeth falling out, lots of extra mouth room, still in Girl Scouts… and the burning desire to please adults…no matter what.

      May 21, 2008 at 12:49 pm   rating: +4  

       
    • #32.6  Mishee

      Mr. Mishee has asked me to wear my old Girl Scout uniform in the past… now I know why.

      May 21, 2008 at 1:00 pm   rating: +1  

       
    • #32.7  RunBarbara

      he wants to frost your cookies, mishee. and give you a “merit badge”.

      May 21, 2008 at 1:01 pm   rating: +1  

       
    • #32.8  Mishee

      If I get any more “merit badges” I am afraid I will go blind! Although, my skin has been soft and my hair luxurious!

      May 21, 2008 at 1:20 pm   rating: +1