Reports Daikiki in Redwood City, California: “Two days after this note was slipped under the door of every apartment in the building, a second one appeared informing the tenants that said property manager was no longer employed as such.”
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207 responses so far ↓
#1
Fresca
You sure you don’t mean Redwood City, China? Because I could totally see that there.
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:32 am rating: 90
#2
bikerbabeee
They should have been using the kitchen napkins in there.
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:33 am rating: 90
#3
Dare
Throw your TP out the sliding door damnit!
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:33 am rating: 90
#4
Dare
Gack! A dupe!!!
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:33 am rating: 90
#5
Maddy
So that’s what the air dryers are for then!
Cheers
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:34 am rating: 90
#6
claw71
What’s this toilet paper everybody keeps talking about?
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:36 am rating: 90
#7
Frankie
My butt has been super itchy since we did away with the TP, but I’m saving money and damnit, that’s the only thing that matters!
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:38 am rating: 90
#8
Shae
Seems at least expectable, if not acceptible.
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:38 am rating: 90
#9
amy d
The memo is damn near incomprehensible.
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:40 am rating: 90
#10
mere
no, it is NOT expectable, not expectable at all.
and what exactly is a hap pit? a pit of hap?
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:40 am rating: 90
#11
Jill
I used to go to a nail salon that had a sign in the bathroom about not putting toilet paper in the toilet. This does not compute. Why are people making toilets into which you cannot throw toilet paper? That is just wrong!!
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:42 am rating: 90
#12
snee
writing p-a notes about throwing toilet paper in toilets is a bad hap pit.
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:44 am rating: 90
#13
The Mayor of Bethville
Maybe they want it enclosed with the rent checks every month?
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:46 am rating: 90
#14
HS
Your engrish is unexpectable.
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:49 am rating: 90
#15
aaa
Soooo… They got low-flows to save money but realized that it would cost more money to fix them when they crap out (no pun intended) than just to have a good fixture in the first place.
You know, there was an episode of King of the Hill about that. If only people would learn from the mistakes of animated characters on TV…
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:49 am rating: 90
#16
snee
WWAGD?
would al gore flush toilet paper? or, would he poop directly onto a compost pile and put the paper on top?
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:50 am rating: 90
#17
claw71
Daikiki sent this note. For some reasone I don’t want to picture somebody named Daikiki doing anything with toilet paper…at least not with those four inch nails.
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:57 am rating: 90
#18
Mishee
I don’t know about y’all but I have issues with the submitter’s name… daikiki – I mean…. really?
Wasn’t that a character in “Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood”??
Aww claw! Jinx! (*whispers confessions of love in claw’s ear*)
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:58 am rating: 90
#19
snee
if you can no longer put toilet paper in the toilet, perhaps you should wipe your ass with your copy of the note and flush that.
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:59 am rating: 90
#20
Weeds
The property manager is right
Everyone should be using
A rag on a stick instead of harmful
Toilet paper
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:03 pm rating: 90
#21
RunBarbara
i flush everything down my toilet and i mean everything…leftover macaroni and cheese, cat litter, socks, junk mail, broken glass…
once a month i make sure to flush a suspiciously bloody knife and some stained plastic wrap to make sure my landlord knows how i roll. he’s never mentioned it and he never will if he knows whats good for him,
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:07 pm rating: 90
#22
YourACunt
That toilet paper was fucking delicious! :/
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:15 pm rating: 90
#23
lutherblissett
That reminds me of a sign in my ex’s bathroom. I can’t recall the exact words, but it was something like “Don’t throw anything in this toilet unless you’ve eaten it first. Toilet paper is the only exception to this rule”.
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:16 pm rating: 90
#24
claw71
For the longest time I couldn’t figure out what to do with toilet paper. My parents were very reserved about such things and we never discussed how to use the bathroom. My knowledge of toilet paper came from commercials. So for years I would go to the restroom and squeeze the roll or rub just one square of toilet paper on my arm while I evacuated my bowels into the heating duct.
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:18 pm rating: 90
#25
claw71
Can I ask a serious question? If they can put garbage disposals in kitchen sinks, why hasn’t this technology been applied to the toilet?
It would certainly help with dead pet/unwanted baby disposal.
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:30 pm rating: 90
#26
Cheera
I prefer using the finest and softest of leaves of either the almighty poison ivy or oak on my sweet behind. No TP in my house!
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:55 pm rating: 90
#27
Jody
Okay…I admit it. This is a first for me.
I’ve travelled to many countries, and used bathroom facilities of every description. Not once did I ever come across anything as absurd as being forbidden from flushing freaking toilet paper. The name, alone, says it all, n’est-ce pas?
What the f*** do you do with ‘TOILET PAPER’ if not flush it…as it was designed?!? Eat it? (That sounds about right, given the level of ignorance exhibited by the letter writer.) Or is it preferable to leave the urine & feces-soaked toilet paper rotting in a garbage bin until garbage day?
…Nice.
Nope. Won’t be visiting grotesque, filthy places like that.
Even people in third-world countries know how to use toilets AND what toilet paper is for. Where do they get freaks like this letter writer?!?
Alright…I suppose there are a few exceptions. If you have a small septic tank, you might think it a good idea not to flush toilet paper (until you see how little volume, in comparison to feces, it actually takes up, once broken down into fibres). Sure, some boat owners ask guests not to flush toilet paper, for similar reasons (but, again, they’re deluding themselves if they think it makes that much difference, yet it creates a whole other disturbing outcome).
Myself, I have a septic tank here at my beach house, and there’s no amount of money that could convince me to store urine & feces-soaked toilet paper, rather than flushing it. I also have a composting toilet at my (mostly green) cottage. Even the composting toilet takes care of all the toilet paper you want to throw at it, and its capacity is much more finite than most septic systems, much less the water treatment facilities designed to deal with toilet flushin’s.
Again, I have to say, this is a first for me. What kind of freak hangs onto his used toilet paper?!? Seriously… Who does this?!?
Sep 23, 2008 at 1:01 pm rating: 90
#28
bean
That is one man I wouldn’t want to run into in the laundry room.
Sep 23, 2008 at 1:02 pm rating: 90
#29
Ti O
I love going down to the hap pit and get hap dances.
Sep 23, 2008 at 1:06 pm rating: 90
#30
0falcon8
help us help you
no wipe when poo
Sep 23, 2008 at 1:25 pm rating: 90
#31
0falcon8
there was a tenent from redwood city
whose booty was rather shitty
a memo went ’round:
“tp not allowed”
so he wiped up with the kitty
Sep 23, 2008 at 1:31 pm rating: 90
#32
bobby
So he was fired for telling people not to flush toilet paper down the toilet? because he didn’t realize that’s how we do it here? or what?
Sep 23, 2008 at 1:36 pm rating: 90
#33
Mike Litoris
You don’t need to know basic English grammar or spelling to be a property manager.
Sep 23, 2008 at 1:55 pm rating: 90
#34
Canthz_B
This shows just how important it is to read the fine print before signing a lease.
No flushing of TP would be a deal breaker for me.
Sep 23, 2008 at 2:07 pm rating: 90
#35
Sheepish
after you’ve done your shitty business on the can and there are such restrictions in place at your home I can offer a solution:
- keep a jar of peanut butter in the bathroom, when you’re done add some to your area and let the dog take care of the remnants of your business.
Sep 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm rating: 90
#36
denimhead
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Can we make a master list of the countries who don’t flush their toilet paper down the loo?
Sort of a reverse Berlitz guide? On where NOT to ever freakin’ go, for sure?
Not even if hot Asian women live there?
DH
Sep 23, 2008 at 2:42 pm rating: 90
#37
Julie
how do you spell ‘cooperation’ correctly but manage to make the word ‘habit’ into 2 VERY wrong words??
Sep 23, 2008 at 2:55 pm rating: 90
#38
0falcon8
help us help you form expectable hap pits
Sep 23, 2008 at 4:16 pm rating: 90
#39
lizzie frizzie
Are you allowed to put pee and poo in the toilet? Maybe they should be more specific about what IS allowed….
Sep 23, 2008 at 6:05 pm rating: 90
#40
creamy
Is anyone else feeling kind of sorry for this guy?
I’m imagining some bloke from Mombasa, Amritsa or Qingdao who turns up to his first job in California, very keen. Finds a problem he’s familiar with, and knows how to fix. So he carefully crafts a note to his respected tenants in a language which he is still learning to master, and tries to establish just the right tone. Then, inexplicably, he’s turfed out on his ear.
He’s probably still trying to work out what he did wrong, and you know, their toilets are probably still backing up.
Sep 23, 2008 at 6:17 pm rating: 90
#41
Ti O
Speaking as someone from a “border state” and having done my own fair share of world travel / living abroad there are places where the old pipes and septic systems do not handle toilet paper without serious stinky repercussions. Receptacles for used paper was a common thing. Unfortunately some of the immigrants new to this country bring this particular behaviour with them. How do you say less than an optimal situation?
Sep 23, 2008 at 7:03 pm rating: 90
#42
Canthz_B
If no one were in the hap pit of writing these crazy notes, we’d all be spending time on facebook. shudder
Sep 23, 2008 at 9:10 pm rating: 90
#43
paige
maybe it’s already been said, but how does one manage to spell “cooperate” correctly when they can’t quite figure out “habit?”
i just never could have anticipated sum won doing that.
Sep 23, 2008 at 9:17 pm rating: 90
#44
bubbledumpster
My roommate got a request quite like this one soon after purchasing a condo in Kissimmee, FL. After answering the door, he was asked by the maintenance man whether his parents where home. When he explained that it was his condo, he was then told in broken English that when he was done using the toilet, he should put his toilet paper in the garbage can please.
Sep 23, 2008 at 9:57 pm rating: 90
#45
Jamie
A friend rented a place from a man from Eastern Europe. When their toilet clogged, he told them that they needed to use only one square of toilet paper.
Sep 24, 2008 at 8:41 am rating: 90
#46
Sheepish
after reading all the dialogue about flushing toilet paper and all the other alternatives i’m officially sending my membership and the $5 membership fee, to be part of the ‘Wash My Ass With Water” (WMAWW) society. it sounds like a lovely alternative to toilet paper.
i live in Canada and i’ve never seen a bidet installed in a home before but now i want one… Home Depot here I come!
Sep 24, 2008 at 11:21 am rating: 90
#47
Em Tee
This just made me twitchy and gave me flashbacks of my junior year college roommates. She didn’t throw anything in the toilet either, but she used paper towels when she ran out of tp and refused to buy more. Her toilet, her issue.
Word to The Beast.
Sep 24, 2008 at 11:27 am rating: 90
#48
Lara
While I agree (and have seen first-hand) that there are places all over the world (and indeed, in the U.S.) that don’t handle TP, if I’m renting an apartment and the TP goes down fine, then they install new toilets and I can’t flush my TP anymore,
I’m getting out of that lease and giving my money to someone else.
This discussion seems to center more around where in the world you can’t flush TP than the fact that this note is not from China or Taiwan. Places in the US that have that issue are not the norm but the exception, so I wouldn’t think it odd for the note-receiver to find this note to be unusual or annoying.
Sep 24, 2008 at 4:10 pm rating: 90
#49
Chonny
Everything you know is a lie!
Sep 24, 2008 at 4:11 pm rating: 90
#50
Jody
I’m just laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing. Stupid sanctimonious comments only make the writer look bad, not me.
Thankfully, there are some very funny people who post comments here and seem to know that devising false accusations, making huge leaps of (moronic) “logic” which result in incredibly stupid (not to mention completely incorrect) conclusions would only diminish themselves, not the targets of their unwarranted aggression.
I just can’t believe people think they’re clever by calling me a “liar” (uh, you are, given what you wrote), a “cunt” (your mother is a much bigger cunt than I’ll ever be), deny my life experience (yet admit you have none), or wish harm comes to me (wow…what a child), in the freaking comments section of a humourous web site.
You know what? It’s not clever. It’s sophomoric.
What? You spend all day trolling around various web sites calling other people liars and cunts and deciding you know everything about their lives? Yeah…that’s sounds about what these jokers did to me. You must feel really big now.
(sigh) What a bunch of losers. (that is…the a-holes who attacked me and my account of my personal experiences) The people who are genuinely funny and original, you make the comments section worth reading…sometimes…
Sep 25, 2008 at 11:13 am rating: 90
#51
Frankie
LISTEN HERE BITCH Jody, you are more than welcome to leave now. Please and Thank You. Have a nice day. Don’t come again.
Sep 25, 2008 at 11:26 am rating: 90
#52
Ti O
Shhhh shhhhh. It is okay. Your personal experiences are valid. you are a valid human being. You are good enough and smart enough and gosh darn it there are people that like you.
Now mater and I are going to have cucumber sandwiches and then I am off to play the grand piano.
Sep 25, 2008 at 11:50 am rating: 90
#53
fantasy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6G7MkBMVxE
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Sep 25, 2008 at 12:44 pm rating: 90
#54
Lildonbro
I like that it’s not expectable rather than acceptable.
Sep 25, 2008 at 2:32 pm rating: 90
#55
MW
I wonder how much used toilet paper was at the management’s front door the next morning?
Sep 25, 2008 at 5:24 pm rating: 90
#56
Canthz_B
If the pipes can’t handle toilet paper, how can they be trusted to handle a healthy dump?
Do the tenants all suffer from amoebic dysentery?
Sep 26, 2008 at 10:05 am rating: 90
#57
Ping Wam
This is like my apartment building in downtown China. We must lower our leavings into the bowl by hand so to not make noises with our humiliating splashings.
WANG CHUNG!
Sep 26, 2008 at 10:34 pm rating: 90
#58
skratte-o-lantern
We should just make more hot chicks. As everyone knows, hot chicks do not make doodies like the rest of us. More hot chicks = less toilet paper used. Think of the trees.
Nov 2, 2008 at 4:18 am rating: 90
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