Cleaning Stories
Mainly concerning my brother's room:

We tidied his room for him when he was 12.

1. We found my old lunch box, which he had hidden in a fit of pique when he was 6. We think the fur-encrusted fossils within used to be sandwiches.

2. Hamsters musk when they fight. Either that or he hadn't cleaned up the 2 years of it peeing on the wallpaper and tearing bits of it off for bedding. Hamster had recently died under 'mysterious' circumstances which probably had nothing to do with swallowing more wallpaper paste and piss soaked plaster than (insert name of drug-addled celebrity here).

3. He also had pet mice. The tank broke so we put them in my mum's vivarium. They made a complex system of tunnels and promptly disappeared into them, never to be seen again. We're not allowed to recover the bodies because mum has a certain fondness for the plant. This vivarium is also in his room.

We have a dog at the moment. If it disappears I know where I'm looking for it...
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 16:33, 2 replies)

I like the expectation, embodied in the statement "at the moment".
... that the dog isn't going to last long.
(karnuvap, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 21:07, closed)

He's lasted a good 10 years
if he hasn't been sucked into the vortex yet, he might yet make it.

I've learned not to get my hopes up, though. :/
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 22:23, closed)