Alien pink goo is invading my house!
Apr. 28th, 2005 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziA year, maybe a year and a half ago, a dear friend who shall remain nameless dropped an open bottle of a pink yogurt type drink on the rug in the middle of our living room. Miraculously, nearly none of it got on the rug and with great relief she believed she'd avoided making a regrettable mess of our home.
An hour or two later I got home and gave her a hug - then looked over her shoulder and asked "What's the pink stuff on the wall?" Somehow, no one knows how, the bottle had hit the rug bottom first and apparently sprayed pink drops at high velocity and a hand grenade type trajectory everywhere BUT the rug.
Everywhere. Traces have been found in every room of the house now but the bathroom. It couldn't be reproduced if we tried.
It's become a standing joke, really. We have cheap, soft walls and there's no good way to clean them up short of painting. The pink comes out, but a scuff stays behind. Still, most of it's been slowly cleaned up - over the past year and a half. The part I really find absurdly funny, though, is that I'm *still* finding patches that have been missed. Every month or so, I'll look at some spot and start laughing, because it has pink spots. The blinds, the heating duct grille, the lamp... and now the bottom few inches of the bedroom door. I have no idea how none of us saw it before. It's been well over a year, and each time I spot a spot, I clean it up and go looking for more. I saw a handful of pink speckles on the door tonight that I had missed for some reason, and started laughing helplessly. I told ACat why I was laughing, and he grinned and asked if I was *sure* it wasn't an alien invasion which was reproducing in our apartment.
Maybe it is. Anyone want to come with me to introduce my pink spotted door to our leaders?
An hour or two later I got home and gave her a hug - then looked over her shoulder and asked "What's the pink stuff on the wall?" Somehow, no one knows how, the bottle had hit the rug bottom first and apparently sprayed pink drops at high velocity and a hand grenade type trajectory everywhere BUT the rug.
Everywhere. Traces have been found in every room of the house now but the bathroom. It couldn't be reproduced if we tried.
It's become a standing joke, really. We have cheap, soft walls and there's no good way to clean them up short of painting. The pink comes out, but a scuff stays behind. Still, most of it's been slowly cleaned up - over the past year and a half. The part I really find absurdly funny, though, is that I'm *still* finding patches that have been missed. Every month or so, I'll look at some spot and start laughing, because it has pink spots. The blinds, the heating duct grille, the lamp... and now the bottom few inches of the bedroom door. I have no idea how none of us saw it before. It's been well over a year, and each time I spot a spot, I clean it up and go looking for more. I saw a handful of pink speckles on the door tonight that I had missed for some reason, and started laughing helplessly. I told ACat why I was laughing, and he grinned and asked if I was *sure* it wasn't an alien invasion which was reproducing in our apartment.
Maybe it is. Anyone want to come with me to introduce my pink spotted door to our leaders?
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Date: 2005-04-28 06:30 pm (UTC)I don't know what else to say....
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Date: 2005-04-29 03:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-28 07:12 pm (UTC)Can we have Meriweather stop in and change them all to blue?
Sometime I gotta tell you about the sentient rice.
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Date: 2005-04-29 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-28 07:16 pm (UTC)Seriously- yesterday you took delivery of a new couch. It fills the room.
And changes the way the light hits the walls, pictures...
.... doors.
So, the invisible pink spots suddenly find themselves with one less place to hide. :)
I'm sooooorrryyyyy....
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Date: 2005-04-29 03:32 am (UTC)o/~ 307 mead, me boys, 307 mead ~\o
Date: 2005-04-28 08:04 pm (UTC)Ann O. (finally not finding still more pieces of bottle for over a year now)
Re: o/~ 307 mead, me boys, 307 mead ~\o
Date: 2005-04-29 03:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-28 08:07 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I'd want to take the risk that the pink goo might be more intelligent...you have a reasonable assurance of its sentience, at least.
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Date: 2005-04-29 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-29 07:09 am (UTC)(Ooh, jellybeans. But I'm not sure the blue ones count.)
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Date: 2005-04-29 06:17 pm (UTC)What Do You Do With The Dormant Gookum?
Anybody want to write this one?
Ann O.
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Date: 2005-04-29 09:15 am (UTC)Happy Birthday!
*hugs*
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Date: 2005-04-29 09:49 am (UTC)