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julian_black
2008-06-13 10:01 pm UTC (link)

I'd leave a note like that.

And I'd be laughing my ass off as I wrote it--as I suspect the person who left that note under the pond in 2003 did.

Come on--"snivelling pond-destroyer?" "I hope your head falls off?" That's pretty lulzy stuff.

Then again, I used to work in construction, and did a lot of remodeling gigs. During demolition on jobs I'd occasionally find anonymous "Easter eggs" left by the original builders or subsequent remodeling crews. That inspired me to start leaving my own, for future demolition crews to find.

(It's sort of the building trades' ultra-lo-fi version of

lol_meme, now that I think about it.)

On one really godawful master bath remodel I put a note behind the medicine cabinet, thanking a future demolition crew for tearing out all my hard work because the customers had far more money than taste and such a grotesque bathroom should never have been allowed to exist in the first place. That was in Hillsboro, CA in 1992, so chances are very good somebody's long since found it on a subsequent remodel...

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frequentmouse
2008-06-13 10:06 pm UTC (link)

One of the coolest things that's happened to me lately had to do with a mall remodel near here- they took the ugly sandstone boulder facing off the exterior, and there, under it, in huge looping carpenter's pencil text were notes on dimensions and wiring cuts in my father's handwriting. He'd worked on the building in 1962 or so, and has been dead now for more than a decade, and it was a blast from the past in the nicest way possible.

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danceswithelvis
2008-06-13 10:19 pm UTC (link)

I love those kinds of Easter eggs. I lost my father four years ago; last month, my mother, sisters and I were going to refinish a table that he'd built for us years ago. We'd stripped off the paint and had started sanding when we discovered his handwritten plans on one of the boards that made of the surface. They had me trace all of it with the wood burner so that when they put the varnish over it, it'd stand out and be preserved in a place where we could all see it.

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	mary_mac 2008-06-14 10:11 am UTC (link)
	My dad, when he made the mistake, many years ago, of stripping the hall of our original house back to the early Victorian horsehair plaster, plasterboarded the entire thing, and wrote, in permanent marker top and bottom of the stairs 'There is horsehair plaster under this. Don't take it down unless you know what you're doing. Honestly. One idiot per century is enough.' (Reply to this)(Parent)

wook77
2008-06-14 09:17 pm UTC (link)

I used to own a bunch of houses we'd rent out to people. But... I was poor so I'd buy these crapholes and then fix them up. One craphole had everything in 1960s pink in the one bathroom. The toilet, the sink, the bathtub, the medicine cabinet, the floor, the walls (pink tile, omg). When we ripped the tile from the walls, there was a handwritten note saying "I know my wife has no taste. I'm very sorry but she made me do it. I preferred wood."

It makes me lol to this day.

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	caffeine_fairy 2008-06-17 11:21 am UTC (link)
	When my brother moved into his house, it had previously been the home of a divorcing couple, who had divided the house neatly in two horizontally and painted one half peppermint green and the other surgical appliance pink. I often wondered what they had led to a divorce that acrimonious. (Reply to this)(Parent)

daughterofhelen
2008-06-19 09:51 am UTC (link)

When we moved into our old house, I inherited a kids' bedroom with a large closet- filled with graffiti dating back to the 1980s. I think my favorite bit went something like "I love Bob S.: the one with the hairy legs and nice ass". My friends and I added things as well. I'm fairly sure I drew some Pokemon. xD

Haa, I probably should've written a note on it for the next owner though. "If you erase all this graffiti history, I'll haunt you forever!"

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