You never can tell
4 storey house tenanted by an eclectic mix of people.
A couple of greebos in the basement, some stockbroker type and a chintzy Laura Ashley freak on the 1st floor
Post college unemployed me and a student on my floor.
A guy who cleaned the streets and a nurse on the top floor.
2 huge high ceilinged rooms and shared bathroom on each level.
Constantly fed up of finding our bathroom in a disgusting state and only me ever cleaning it, I often went upstairs and used theirs as it was always pristine.
I assumed it was the nurse who kept it that way, as the few times I saw into her room it was spotless and gleaming.
Anyway there comes a time when she moves out and as i knew someone who was looking for a place I gave her the landlords number.
She has a look at the big lovely clean room and deal done, arranges to move in.
On the day I offer to help and we are emptying boxes etc.
Now these rooms had a built in cupboard in the corner.
Floor to ceiling, 4 feet wide and at least 2 feet deep.
Friend opens the cupboard, stands frozen for a minute, makes a very odd sound, then leans in to take a closer look.
I heard a strangled retch and then she was puking in the kitchen sink, one hand waving at the cupboard.
I look and cant believe what I see.
3 of the 8 shelves are stacked full of used tampons.
That image will be forever burned into my retinas.
Row upon row neatly stacked, the bottom shelves are, well pretty dessicated and dont touch the underside of the shelf above.
The top shelf does.
That had to be a few years of storage.
We just couldnt figure it out.
Totally houseproud and clean in every way, but that???
Why?
And why wasnt it noticed when the room was re let?
She had to get the landlord to get someone to remove it all and sterilise and repaint inside the cupboard, and she got a months free rent.
She never used those 3 shelves though apart from bowls of pot pouri.
Just flipping weird that was
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:31, 5 replies)

I like this
click!
(Grrrrr Tigers, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:46, closed)

Thanks for the click :)
I lost contact with her years ago.
Which is probably just as well.
If I mentioned this, she would probably go into meltdown as I'm sure she must have erased it from memory by now ;)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 27 Feb 2009, 23:55, closed)

jeeze!
you wern't wrong! reminds me of my gross vomit enducing experience on page one this week.

have a click, its nice to know the ladies are as dirty as the gents
( SpankyHanky, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:08, closed)

That is bloody freaky!
*shivers*
( girlinthehole, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:58, closed)

Heh heh
Nurses!
(kitescreech still here, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 20:33, closed)