Our submitter from Honolulu lives with two roommates…in a house that belongs to one of those roommate’s parents. (Mayday! Mayday!)
One day, apparently, mother dearest decided to come over for an unannounced visit. Surprise!
related: I can has guilt trip?
188 responses so far ↓
#1
Ashley
Mom just wants you to know that maybe if you went to church more often you’d clean your tub.
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:00 pm rating: 10
#2
bees
Diversity can be overcome!
Mass at 7, Klan meeting at 8. Punch and lemon bars will be served.
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:02 pm rating: 146
#3
Canthz_B
If they hadn’t overcome diversity, they could hire an “undocumented” domestic to work on that tub!
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:07 pm rating: 9
#4
park rose
The shower is otherwise known as Typhoid Mary, or perhaps Mary Celeste.
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:07 pm rating: 3
#5
Canthz_B
It’s very telling that this note looks like it’s being delivered by Daffy.
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:12 pm rating: 11
#6
Wade
Shouldn’t church clothes be the best attire for scrubbing bathrooms? Cleanliness is, after all, next to godliness.
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:16 pm rating: 64
#7
anglophile
Jon, Jon, Jon. That’s all we ever hear about. Jon has a job. Jon’s shower isn’t nearly as filthy as ours. Jon showed up at Grandma’s funeral.
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:20 pm rating: 38
#8
C.S. Harmonikah
It’s nice to get your lecture on your hygiene and personal religious habits all wrapped in one note
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:47 pm rating: 10
#9
flying fish
well, the lawsuit should be a lot easier to win, what with the letter left as proof. (illegal in hawaii for landlord to just stop in unannounced)
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:52 pm rating: 5
#10
park rose
I wonder if she found any hairs from their chinny-chin-chins in the bathroom?
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:52 pm rating: 7
#11
C.S. Harmonikah
I assume mom isn’t writing the church newsletter. That is a rambling, disjointed mess in a 7 year old’s handwriting.
I’ve seen stoned people express their thoughts more logically. And in better handwriting.
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:54 pm rating: 9
#12
park rose
Three cheers to all or you – but three boos for the bathtub.
Set them up, just to knock ‘em down, hey Ma?
And she huffed and she puffed and she blew their illusion of freedom and independence in …
Aug 6, 2009 at 9:58 pm rating: 14
#13
Sky
So she’s the wolf to their three little pigs, eh? I’m thinking Mom doesn’t actually know the book as well as she THINKS she does.
Aug 6, 2009 at 10:06 pm rating: 5
#14
Neeners
If she thinks the bathroom is a disease carrier, wait until she checks the bed sheets with her black light.
Aug 6, 2009 at 10:23 pm rating: 36
#15
Kerry
You’d think she could have written this note about hygiene on a piece of paper that hadn’t been used as a plate.
Aug 6, 2009 at 10:28 pm rating: 17
#16
leftfoot
Ahhh, the religious mom-landlord. Or as I like to call them, quite blasphemously, mom-lords.
There is beauty in calling on the grace of god while demanding you clean your g-d cesspool of a mf tub! And then the guilt of scrubbing on her hands and knees in her church dress.
Nothing but a Sunday & Wednesday Mass for 40 years can teach that sort of PAness.
Aug 6, 2009 at 10:34 pm rating: 7
#17
luna
diversity CAN be overcome. hallelujah!
Aug 6, 2009 at 10:41 pm rating: 0
#18
kate
holy shit, change some of the names around and this note could have been left at my house. my brother and i live with two other roommates in a house we rent from our parents. we had to lay down the law with my mom about “surprise” visits and her expectations of cleanliness. this note sounds just like her, right down to the random guilt-trip about the 1-year anniversary of grandma’s death and the creative license taken with “diversity”. lordy.
and i love how this woman seems to be sticking up for “jon” more than the other roommates. is jon a former roommate? current roommate and her offspring? current roommate and *not* her offspring (awkward…)?
Aug 6, 2009 at 11:20 pm rating: 2
#19
Don Mader
You should all be ashamed. God DIED for you, and you treat it like a joke. May he continure to half mercy on you SOUL.
Don Mader
358 W Wilson Ave
Lombard, IL 60148-3833
(630) 627-8409
Aug 6, 2009 at 11:33 pm rating: 5
#20
chrys
What’s up with the spacing? I can’t even laugh at the spelling and grammar because the spacing takes center stage. I would just love to know how she determined which lines needed to stand alone and which ones could be squished together.
Aug 6, 2009 at 11:50 pm rating: 5
#21
Cameron
Her note is MORE messy in every way, including grease spots, misspellings, bad grammar — than the people she is accusing.
If there *IS* a god, please save this woman. More than she thinks she already is.
Aug 6, 2009 at 11:56 pm rating: 2
#22
Cameron
Her note is MORE messy in every way, including grease spots, misspellings, bad grammar — than the people she is accusing.
If there *IS* a god, please save this woman. More than she thinks she already is.
Aug 6, 2009 at 11:56 pm rating: 1
#23
JS2009
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Aug 7, 2009 at 12:06 am rating: 0
#24
Geek Goddess
Start cleaning up after yourselves. Your mother doesn’t work here, you know!
Aug 7, 2009 at 12:14 am rating: 1
#25
Sue Do Nim
I’ve read the book. There’s no mention of a disease carrier shower. Crazy old lady.
Aug 7, 2009 at 2:00 am rating: 14
#26
Oh Really
Damn public libraries and their edited versions of fairy tales! My library didn’t have the version where the big bad wolf was coming to eat the three little pigs because they didn’t clean their bathtubs (because cleaning the tub would cut into the fiddlin’ time, you know).
Also, “use half the stuff under your sink”? Which half?? And I hope she’s not encouraging them to just go mixing cleaning agents willy-nilly. That will send them right to the hospital. By the time they got out and headed to church to see Grandma, the Big Bad Wolf will have stowed her in the confessional and taken her place in the pew.
Aug 7, 2009 at 2:18 am rating: 5
#27
blueangels7901
Church Mom didn’t mention the crud hanging off Daffy’s bill…the roommates didn’t leave the nasty bathtub- Daffy did, as he was swim-qualifying to take over Michael Phelps’ title. You can see his guilt by the goofy look on his face.
Aug 7, 2009 at 6:48 am rating: 0
#28
amy d
Once upon a time there were three little pigs and the time came for them to leave home and seek their fortunes.
Before they left, their mother told them, “Whatever you do , do it the best that you can because that’s the way to overcome diversity.”
The first little pig covered the tub with his grime over a period of weeks.
The second little pig continued to use the shower without cleaning it, either, thereby causing mildew to grow.
The third little pig, not wanting to clean up a mess all three of them made, also continued to use the dirty shower. Soon, his contibution was mold.
One Sabbath, the big bad mom-lord came a-visiting. She took one look at that bathroom and roared, ” Blasphemy! A dirty bathroom is a horror. I’ll scour and I’ll scrub and I’ll rub this tub clean!”
Aug 7, 2009 at 9:56 am rating: 8
#29
Rachet
At first I read “scrubbed harder” as “scrubbed herder” and thought “Wow…cool band name!”
Daffy looks like he’s disturbed by the note, too.
Aug 7, 2009 at 10:12 am rating: 1
#30
ignacio
Haha, I’m not really surprised that an avid churchgoer that expects these kids to go to breaksfast-time mass feels that diversity is something that should be overcome.
Aug 7, 2009 at 10:55 am rating: 2
#31
bibs
My favorite part is when she is using God’s Grace to overcome diversity. Are we in Apartheid South Africa?
It’s adversity, sweetheart!
Aug 7, 2009 at 11:48 am rating: 1
#32
Desuko.
I was going to think harder about a witty comment to post here, but I was wearing my church clothes.
Aug 7, 2009 at 12:22 pm rating: 19
#33
oi
because of god’s grace diversity is being overcome.
ALL people of different colors red, yellow, black, white, brown, wheat hued are blue now by merely attempting to decipher this note.
This church goer is true to her word.
Aug 7, 2009 at 12:29 pm rating: 6
#34
GhostWriter
Quick Poll: Has anybody else ever had an opportunity to attend their Grandma’s 18th anniversary?
The suggested gift type is porcelain…
Aug 7, 2009 at 1:51 pm rating: 0
#35
giblet
I miss Don … *sniff*
Aug 7, 2009 at 1:53 pm rating: 1
#36
Mysterious13
Maybe it’s another case of rocket pubes?
Aug 7, 2009 at 1:56 pm rating: 2
#37
amanda
I like the line “We’ve proved that diversity can be overcome”. I think she meant ADVERSITY…. lol!
Aug 7, 2009 at 4:45 pm rating: 2
#38
Janelle
Oh, I love the church clothes bit!
Aug 7, 2009 at 5:07 pm rating: 1
#39
mamason
Remember the part where she says they don’t want to be known as the 3 little pigs… you know the book and then remember how she said that the shower looked like a disease carrier? That was great. And the time she said that it’s “worst” than J- and not to talk about his mess? That was awesome.
Aug 7, 2009 at 7:44 pm rating: 2
#40
Silhouette
Diversity here means diverse opinions on bathtubs. That diversity must and will be overcome (Jon can do what he wants, though, because he works). Soon, the whole world will be of the same opinion, that bathtubs should be “scrubbing bubble” clean (unless the scrubbing bubbles are in their good clothes.)
Aug 7, 2009 at 8:35 pm rating: 1
#41
lauren
My friend offered me that next year, I could live with her in a house her parents bought- I said no, and this note just confirmed to me all the reasons why.
Aug 8, 2009 at 9:04 am rating: 1
#42
Claire
This is nothing compared to the letter my roommate’s aunt left me, if I still had it I’d post. There were accusations of drug abuse and theft GALORE.
Aug 8, 2009 at 10:29 pm rating: 0
#43
Leah
I’m still laughing at “Diversity can be overcome”.
Aug 9, 2009 at 12:28 am rating: 0
#44
Lili
o.O
Aug 9, 2009 at 10:31 am rating: 0
#45
prostoprosom
What causes the sound of air swishing inside your head?
Aug 9, 2009 at 2:53 pm rating: 0
#46
OhLawdy
I happen to like spreading disease via shower, thank you. Something about the juxtaposition of an ostensibly clean place with the potential for viral infection gets my nethers all a-flutter.
Aug 9, 2009 at 4:05 pm rating: 2
#47
Teleute
Um, am I the only one who missed the ellipsis in this sentence the first time through?
“Come on the shower looks like it is a disease carrier.”
TOTALLY different meaning… although possibly also true.
Aug 9, 2009 at 4:43 pm rating: 1
#48
QSquared
Remember: Diversity CAN be Overcome!! (They’ve proven it through church-lady’s housing program!) Now GTFO! =D
Aug 10, 2009 at 11:34 am rating: 0
#49
Wordtinker doesnt smith
My favorite bit isn’t even in the note itself. It’s the “ALMOST” to the left of Daffy’s head (giving the whole shot an entirely new twist) that I love.
Aug 10, 2009 at 4:56 pm rating: 0
#50
ipredator
How will we have money to support millions of more people in the future?
Aug 11, 2009 at 3:48 pm rating: 0
#51
logiciel comme hotspot shield
I did this years ago in a class as well. Though Apple is expensive, its stocks rise quickly.
Aug 11, 2009 at 5:57 pm rating: 0
#52
John
The mother dearest Caper
The police were standing just out side the refrigerator door chatting. They had just come in from the cold when –
You know what bothers me captain, whats that lt Bradshaw, the senseless dribble on and on about crap then the whole daffy duck magnet thing. I just hope we catch her before her next victims are on the floor in their church cloths scubbing the bathroom and sobbing… wait Im 82 years old my mother died 20 years ago who are the three little pigs? And do I have to overcome diversity it took me so long to get my portfolio diversified.
I don’t understand capt why does a man dress up in women’s clothing to do this. Because he is daffy now get back in the refrigerator and when you hear that magnet…..
Aug 12, 2009 at 2:55 am rating: 0
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Hairstyles
Abbreviation is such a long word because they dont allow abreviations in scrabble
Aug 14, 2009 at 11:52 am rating: 0
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