Sink squatters

December 10th, 2012 · 23 comments

Spotted, appropriately enough, in New York’s Theater District (though I guess Hell’s Kitchen would have made sense, too):

I've been here since Monday. How about you? I got here last week. I'm staying. Me too. I'm never leaving. Let's make salmonella.

related: Toy Story meets The Office

FILED UNDER: anthropomorphism · dishes · New York · office


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  • #1   tpgal

    If you have the time to print notes, you have time to throw that stuff away.

    Or, if you really wanted to be passive aggressive you could clean everything up nice and neat, install a camera and then track the dish leavers. At the end of every night put the offending dish on (or in) the person’s desk with a note. “you left this in the sink.”

    hmmm… maybe it’s a good thing that I work at home.

    Dec 10, 2012 at 2:31 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

    • #1.1   wait...what?

      and why would I clean up after other people in the office? I am not their maid, mother or wife.

      Probably a good think you do work at home.

      Team note writer.

      Dec 10, 2012 at 2:41 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
    • #1.2   Matty-Wat

      Wait… what? So you are saying wives are supposed to clean up after their husbands? Is this the 1950s?

      Dec 11, 2012 at 7:00 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
     
  • #2   shwo! bang

    The next submitter who sends a photo using a Hipstamatic filter should be stabbed with every one of those salmonella-encrusted forks and knives.

    Dec 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

    • #2.1   shwo! bang

      …and then left in the sink.

      Dec 10, 2012 at 3:11 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
    • #2.2   Aaron B from IL

      Thank you! What is the point of having a high quality digital camera on a phone if you’re just going to ruin the picture with some silly filter.

      Dec 10, 2012 at 3:19 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
    • #2.3   homer simpson

      Mmm… Salmonella-encrusted forks…

      Dec 10, 2012 at 3:41 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
    • #2.4   The Elf

      That’s what that is? Oh thank goodness. I was getting seriously icked out. Dishes left in the sink is one thing. A sink rusting out and/or crusted over is another.

      Dec 11, 2012 at 6:33 am   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
    • #2.5   Bex

      Here I thought that that IS what the sink looks like. ewww.

      Dec 11, 2012 at 10:06 am   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
     
  • #3   oi

    The sink’s so dirty, notes are of irregular shape and something about lighting and color make it look like an art piece to unaware reader.

    You can tell how much I adore pretentious art from the above statement. Can’t you?

    Dec 10, 2012 at 3:29 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

     
  • #4   Julia

    “Let’s Make Salmonella” sounds like a showstopper.

    Dec 10, 2012 at 4:38 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

    • #4.1   infanttyrone

      Well, those utensils probably took a lesson from the media’s
      coverage of the Occupy events, what with their incessant
      “But what are your demands?”

      On the other hand, it could be a bacterial channeling of Walter Sobchak’s line in The Big Lebowski: Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.

      Dec 10, 2012 at 5:04 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
     
  • #5   Bluecanary

    I always have sympathy for the person who is fed up with cleaning up after other adults in a shared kitchen. At least they went cute instead of bitchy.

    And yeah, that Instagram filter has got to go.

    Dec 10, 2012 at 5:28 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

     
  • #6   Roto13

    Ugh, that’s so disgusting. How can a human being do that? It makes me retch. What kind of horrible piece of garbage can’t even take a picture of a sink full of dirty dishes without using Instagram?

    Dec 10, 2012 at 6:20 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

     
  • #7   sooz

    All those utensils with their points up… Makes me shudder a little to think about someone stabbing themselves.

    Team Point the Tips of Sharp Objects Downward

    Dec 10, 2012 at 9:39 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

    • #7.1   meri

      Oh, I agree. My brother’s girlfriend’s mother’s best friend’s grand daughter put her hand in the sink and stabbed it on a fork that was pointed upwards and she had to get a tetanus shot.

      Dec 10, 2012 at 10:16 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
    • #7.2   The Elf

      That couldn’t have been the first time she had to get a shot after getting forked.

      Dec 11, 2012 at 6:35 am   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
     
  • #8   enginuitor

    Aaaggh, the tone mapping… it hurts…

    Dec 11, 2012 at 12:28 am   rating: 90  small thumbs up

     
  • #9   TRT

    Last time I saw a sink that colour it was in a 1940′s dark room (in use until the late 80s).

    Dec 11, 2012 at 3:41 am   rating: 90  small thumbs up

     
  • #10   betty lou

    OMG, I just thought the sink was old and gross. I didn’t even realize it was Instagrammed or whatever. Fucking hipster douches. I am sick of you!

    Dec 11, 2012 at 6:26 am   rating: 90  small thumbs up

    • #10.1   Jami

      Good, I’m not the only one who thought that it was an old sink.

      Dec 11, 2012 at 11:53 am   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
     
  • #11   ulu

    Wow! Dating sites for cutlery.

    Dec 11, 2012 at 5:14 pm   rating: 90  small thumbs up

    • #11.1   The Elf

      The Dish and Spoon are missing. They must have already hooked up.

      Dec 12, 2012 at 7:41 am   rating: 90  small thumbs up

       
     

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