Sarah in Somerville, Mass. wasn’t fazed when she left her apartment one Saturday to find this otherwise “run-of-the-mill your-mother-doesn’t-live-here note”…until she rounded the corner and was greeted by photocopies of the same note taped to every available surface in the hallway.
Then, the next day, another note appeared near the elevator…
![was NOT us, but cleaned it up b/c we're SICK of being harrassed [sic] in our home!! call management if you have an issue next time, GROW UP!](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2642123983_e973f54124.jpg "was NOT us, but cleaned it up b/c we're SICK of being harrassed [sic] in our home!! call management if you have an issue next time, GROW UP!")
…which had apparently been written on the back of yet another (more targeted) note:
“In fairness,” Sarah says, “this whole thing really is gross, and now the lobby and the hallway — in addition to the elevator — smell of vomit. I’m just not sure why the first notewriter thought that spending $10 on copies was going to help.”
And lastly, Sarah adds: “My mommy didn’t clean up my dorm, either.”
related: Going up?
209 responses so far ↓
#1
maircydoats
Scary that someone actually followed a vomit trail, to say nothing of leaving one. Ew.
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:22 pm rating: 2
#2
Wade
Nothing illustrates how to reach an adult, reasoned resolution of conflict quite like:
“You grow up!”
“No, you grow up!”
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:33 pm rating: 36
#3
Mishee
Sounds like a great NIN song in the making…
oh wait…
hey pig…
yeah you…
hey pig piggy pig pig pig
I wonder what made the mystery vomiter regurgitate to no extent.
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:38 pm rating: 0
#4
< Mishee
This would have been so much more effective with a clip art bean pig.
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:40 pm rating: 10
#5
anglophile
“PIG!”
“Oh, Pretty, Intelligent Girl? Thank you!”
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:41 pm rating: 2
#6
RunBarbara
the last time i left a vomit trail was after a Motely Crue concert in the early 90s. luckily, i passed out in front of the band’s tour bus and woke up inside of it on the fold-out-couch with a sore mouth and a sweaty pair of leather pants tying my legs together. i was alone, so i raided the fridge for beer and stole their drugs.
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:43 pm rating: 20
#7
Canthz_B
Gretel: We can find our way home if we leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind.
Hansel: Nein. The birds will eat them…let’s eat the bread and puke as we go.
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:47 pm rating: 23
#8
Bunnee
It’s funny how I had no idea she was talking about vomit until her description in the last paragraph, and then WHAMO! The notes only referred to a “mess”. A” mess”, indeed! Yecchh! That had to be an awfully nice person to clean up a stranger’s vomit.
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:48 pm rating: 2
#9
Dina
Hey PIG! Clean up the eighty thousand notes you just plastered all over the walls! Maybe you should invest in a wipe board so you can vent your misdirected aggression at everyone who passes by your room-oh wait! This isn’t a dorm! Exclamation point!
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:49 pm rating: 6
#10
< Mishee
Dude. It’s a “less than” sign! Mishee will always be the greatest.
The Pig
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:50 pm rating: 0
#11
YL
….maybe they were too sick to clean it up yet?
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:53 pm rating: 0
#12
aaa
I bet that the manager left the first note so they could try to guilt somebody else into cleaning the vomit.
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:56 pm rating: 1
#13
aaa
P.S.
Your “mommy” cleaning up your dorm? That’s social suicide. No wonder the first note-writer leaves bitchy notes and has a fear of calling the manager.
Aug 13, 2008 at 3:58 pm rating: 3
#14
Canthz_B
At least now we know where the errant shipment of Buckfast ended up.
Aug 13, 2008 at 4:00 pm rating: 17
#15
Mishee
I wonder if PETA is going to protest saying that these notes portray an unfair and unrealistic image of the noble pig and it is disparaging to their species. Then sue the fuckers for mental anguish and slander.
Fucking hippies.
Aug 13, 2008 at 4:01 pm rating: 0
#16
Canthz_B
They hired Dr. Henry Lee to determine that the trail leads from the elevator, not to the elevator, but they don’t have a printer?
Aug 13, 2008 at 4:07 pm rating: 3
#17
Canthz_B
Ohh! Take responsibility!!
That’s where I went wrong…I took ipecac.
Aug 13, 2008 at 4:14 pm rating: 9
#18
SchrodingersDuck
It’s amazing how much a single stray pen mark and a missing full stop can completely change a sentence: “call management if you have an issue next time I GROW UP!!”
I’m not sure how you could GROW UP!! more than once, but I agree that it could certainly be an issue.
Aug 13, 2008 at 4:41 pm rating: 4
#19
Holiday Djinn
Gotta love living with a community douche-nozzle that must have the last PA comment. Seriously, i would have found out who posted the first and third note, and had a sick, diarrhea encrusted, disease having, vomit spraying, snot-nozed, lip sore-having homeless person accost them.
Repeatedly.
Seriously, it’s not like Mishee has anything better to do with her time, and she could probably use the money (for more alcohol).
Aug 13, 2008 at 4:48 pm rating: 5
#20
Jeffrey
I guess I would have to rip that note down and replace it with “Hey Wade! Clean up the existential mess you created on the InnerTubes! You responded to a post politely and accurately and you know that kind of shit does not fly on the pages you frequent! So, what’s it going to be, agree with incorrect assumptions about levels of knowledge based on whether someone complies with invisible requirements, or generally give someone the benefit of the doubt that they might being doing something of their own free will? If you don’t think you need to pick sides here, then I, sorry, i think you need to GROW UP!”
Aug 13, 2008 at 4:53 pm rating: 6
#21
Mishee
I love how we have the topic switched to Mishee (for the most part) before we even hit 100 comments!
I effin RULE!
Aug 13, 2008 at 5:04 pm rating: 1
#22
agong
I worked really hard on my vomit *boot* trail! I thought it accented the carpet nicely, at least that’s what your mom said!
Aug 13, 2008 at 5:10 pm rating: 0
#23
ama
I like how the third note reads like an adventure game:
“The trail leads from the elevator to this corner. Do you choose to (A) camp out for the night (B) start an uprising and burn your enemy’s house to the ground (C) ford the river? You do not have enough supplies. Should have kept that pig; they are very clean animals. Game Over.”
Aug 13, 2008 at 5:12 pm rating: 17
#24
PandoraWombat
What they didn’t tell you was that the week before, there was a note that said:
Hey Bitch! Quit writing notes in the hallway with a Sharpie! The smell makes me have to vomit in the elevator and all over the hall! Grow up!
Aug 13, 2008 at 5:58 pm rating: 13
#25
but seriously
FYI, ground coffee covers the vomit AND the smell quite nicely, until the obviously lacking management gets around to janitorial duties. Professionals that have to occasionally deal with vomiters know this and always have ground coffee on hand for this purpose.
Aug 13, 2008 at 11:45 pm rating: 1
#26
nacey
Now, I might be remembering handwriting analysis completely wrong, but backwards slanting apparently indicates a certain amount of uptightness.
Who knows how they figure that stuff out. Really. :I
Aug 14, 2008 at 1:00 am rating: 0
#27
Quite Contrary
I wonder if any of these idiots would grow up and take responsibility if anybody shit in the shower.
Aug 14, 2008 at 10:08 am rating: 0
#28
ssb
Not that I disagree with the “clean up after yourself” sentiment, but it’s the responsibility of building management, not the tenants, to keep common areas clean.
Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59 pm rating: 0
#29
agong
But most responsible adults would take a mop or sponge to an area they just “chummed” dontcha think?
Aug 14, 2008 at 1:04 pm rating: 0
#30
Ryan
I love this city!
Boston, you’re my home.
Aug 14, 2008 at 3:03 pm rating: 0
#31
Agent Inspired
Wow, that’s going to result in some interesting calls to the super/landlord.
Aug 14, 2008 at 10:27 pm rating: 0
#32
sab
Wow. I recognize that carpet. Is there an office in North America that doesn’t have that carpet?
Aug 19, 2008 at 4:18 pm rating: 1
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