Do you know what happens when you forget yourself for a second and write a really angry, seething sort of post on your blog? Do you know what happens when you then re-think that vitriol laden post and re-work it into something deep and introspective? Do you know what happens when you re-evaluate that post and get yourself stuck in a place where you can no longer find any words to say what should be something as simple as “What the fuck, yo?”
You walk away from the computer, go upstairs, and realize that your children have hidden pumpkins in their bedroom well past their expiration dates, and you also discover, upon picking them up, that one of those pumpkins thought it would be loads of fun to rot from the bottom up, that’s what.
Posted by Mr Lady on 7 November, 2008 | 50 Complaints | File a Complaint of Your Own
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Ali
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 3:05Ewwwwwwww.
Ali wrote..Ceramic Headgear
Kelley
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 3:55I think I know what you were writing about.
I can feel your anger and the anger of all of us pulsating through your blog.
And that pumpkin didn’t rot. It shat itself.
Kelley wrote..The therapy cupboard
Ben Murphy, TheFatherLife.com
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 5:46Well, 1.) the initial post loses it’s energy and 2.) you’re gonna have to do a truly angry post aimed at those damn pumpkins… -B
Ben Murphy, TheFatherLife.com wrote..Spreading the Word About MOVEMBER!
Tammy
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 6:06awww man……
what were you gonna write about??
Tammy wrote..AC/DC
Mom24@4evermom
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 6:11Thanks for the warning. That sounds exactly like how my day would go. Of course in my case, I wrote an angry rant about my mom, kept it up to keep it real, and a few months later she found my blog. Ugh!
Hope things are better today.
Mom24@4evermom wrote..Finally Finished!
Dawn
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 6:33Wow…Karma can really suck sometimes…
RobMonroe
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 6:39No clue what to say, so:
Eww. Gross. But – it will be funny later, right? “remember that Halloween that you all let the pumpkins rot in your bedrooms….?”
jessica
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 6:53That’s disgusting!! But also funny. Only because it didn’t happen to me.
jessica wrote..AED.6
Sophie,Inzaburbs
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 7:29Good luck with that.
I am still periodically scrubbing the marks off my front porch from *last years* rotten pumpkins.
However, all things happen for a reason. Did those rotten pumpkins maybe save you from an even worse fate?
Sophie,Inzaburbs wrote..Science Projects With Some Room for Improvement
Christy
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 7:40That sounds like something that would happen to me, except that there would probably be dog shit involved (there always is around here.) SIGH
miko564
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 7:46They say that Lincoln used to write angry letters, put them in his drawer, and read them after he calmed down. He then would decide whether or not to send the letter.
I bet he TOTALLY would have recommended rotten gourds, if he had thought of it.
miko564 wrote..Why Not Let Sam Say It?
Audubon Ron
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 7:56What are you getting upset with me for?
Also, I sent you a homework assignment. I’m going to flunk you if I don’t see it soon. Just becuase you’re in-tight with the teacher doesn’t get you off the hook.
:)
Audubon Ron wrote..A Wife of Noble Character
Hockeyman
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 8:04At least it was just a pumpkin and not a small animal!
Deb
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 8:06Well, at least it wasn’t in your car!
I do think the Goard God’s medicine here is obvious though. Go with your gut. Let it out without second guessing, or the PC anger control will rot you inside out.
But that might be because I love the drama.
Lo
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 8:54ah hell you stole my f-ing post!!!! i kid. i kid. dude. sorry your day was so craptastic. i’ve deleted/reworked/deleted/reworked until all i posted was some bs paragraph basically sayin’, look yo, i am DONE.
and uhm those pumpkins? eeek. yikes. that’s why i never DO pumpkins. they’re all shades of nasty to me. (except for pumpkin pie. i heart pie.)
hope your friday is better!!!!!
Lo wrote..i’m putting my neck on the cutting board. i’m putting myself out there.
Twenty Four At Heart
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 9:05I’m angry too – I live in California after all. And yeah, our pumpkin rotted it’s ass off too. BEFORE Halloween … we had to toss it the day prior. WTF? The pumpkin growers must be picking them in Sept. or something if they’re all rotting so fast.
I knew you wanted my opinion on pumpkin growers. Admit it, you’ve been wondering all day what their harvesting schedule is like.
always home and uncool
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 9:24Crap. This explains the smell from the basement. I hate Halloween.
always home and uncool wrote..My Year of At-Home Dadness
Jill
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 9:30Ew! But you have lots of practice from the great Crab Debaucle of Summer 08, so you should be all set!
Jill wrote..The Bizzyness
Mama Bee
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 9:59eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. I just vomited in my mouth a little.
Mama Bee wrote..Ever Fallen In Love With Someone (You Shouldn’t've Fallen In Love With)?
Ash
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 10:01Eek. I believe that rotting potatoes smell 48% worse than decomposing bodies and ammonia. I sure hope that rotting pumpkins smell better than rotting potatoes.
*cheers*
Ash wrote..Delirium
Jim
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 10:05Wow, pumpkin melting vitriol. Be careful with that, next thing you know it’s all the produce. Then it’s back to the grocery store.
Jim wrote..The Smackdown (+ an award)
Gettysburg Mom
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 10:14Be thankful it wasn’t stashed under the back seat of the car.
Gettysburg Mom wrote..The Destroyer Arrives Today…
Arjewtino
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 10:16Man, blogger burnout seems to be a trend this week.
I hope I don’t catch it.
Arjewtino wrote..I really expected more from you, American Apparel
VegasDad
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 10:43Yuck. I can’t imagine the smell.
VegasDad wrote..a week in disarray
Sticky
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 10:44eewwwww….for the pumkins. Had the same prob. I’m going to agree with the previous posters that at least it wasn’t the car…
I over review, over edit and second guess all the time. You shouldn’t, your blog is wonderful.
tracey
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 11:00I have experienced rotting pumpkins and gourds. On my good end table. The ONLY piece of furniture that didn’t have a scratch or coffee ring or ding on it.
That’ll teach me for being festive…
Be glad you found it NOW instead of in another week. Pumpkins are HORRENDOUS and the bugs and critters love them…
tracey wrote..Put those piggies away!
pam
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 11:42Ooooh sorry about the pumpkin. Can’t wait to read the post.
Melanie @ MelADramatic Mommy
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 13:15At least it wasn’t in the laundry pile?
Melanie @ MelADramatic Mommy wrote..In the Blink of An Eye
Em
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 13:20I’m curious now – let it out – you’ll feel better. And I need some good entertainment to shake me out of the funk.
It is defintely contagious.
Em
Em wrote..Friday’s Food for Thought
Tara R.
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 13:50Nice. At least you found them before Christmas when they would have been pumpkin mummies.
Tara R. wrote..UPDATE ~ interview with Kathleen’s family
April
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 14:41Our pumpkins didn’t even make it to Halloween! Luckily, not hidden in the rooms so I was able to get them out w/o too much trauma.
April wrote..Emotional
Kori
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 14:45And that smell….there is no other smell like the smell of a rotting pimpkin. None. And don’t ask me how I know that.
Kori wrote..Take it Back, Bitch! A Letter to the Instructor
Momo Fali
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 15:22I once found a sippy cup of milk a good two years later.
Polly
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 16:12Yeah, I’m with you: What the fuck, yo?
That’ll do it. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Tradeja one tremendous, historic blow for racial justice for one sock in the solar plexus to equality for The Gays.
Fewer words than What the fuck, yo? Sick. And. Tired.
Polly wrote..The people ignited will never be defeated**
Carrie
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 16:27Grody.
And I agree with the other’s above that a) the pumpkin shat itself and b) thank god it was not in your car. It is hard enough to get Corn Nut smell out of a car, let alone rotting pumpkin.
Carrie wrote..Sixty Months
The Real Life Fairy Tale Princess
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 16:34Oh GAG!! I’d have puked in the pumpkin!!
The Real Life Fairy Tale Princess wrote..POETS Society
Missives From Suburbia
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 16:57Blaaaahhhhhh!
One Mom's Opinion
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 17:01Curious. What reason did they give for HIDING pumpkins in their bedrooms? Yuck.
One Mom’s Opinion wrote..Political Wrapup
Aimee Greeblemonkey
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 18:43Ouch.
Courtney
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 20:50I suspect that I might know why you’re angry – if it’s the same reason I’m angry, anyway.
That said, pumpkins are ew.
You should post the angry post.
DC Urban Dad
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 21:08Karma is one nasty beoch.
raino
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 21:48ah. gawd love them. but just think how damn cute they were out trick or treating.
raino wrote..Again. I chickened out!
Elizabeth
Friday, 7 November, 2008 at 21:53Funny, ’cause I just wrote a really angry seething post and then toned it way down.
I’m new, by the way. Found you on a comment on Redneck Mommy’s blog. :)
Elizabeth wrote..Eugene Bean Takes the Subway
janethesane
Saturday, 8 November, 2008 at 16:24Well as a rule I would never advise anyone do drink alcohol but a little drunken blogging might solve your problem. Well, not your pumpkin problem. It reminds me of the time I hid candycanes in my closet. I reached for one in mid-January and got a mouth full of ants. Dude, did you know ants like sugar??? I didn’t.
janethesane wrote..Get your Obama On
Cookie
Saturday, 8 November, 2008 at 23:16OMG! I can so relate to the rotten pumpkin!
LaskiGal
Saturday, 8 November, 2008 at 23:42Nah. No karma here . . . that pumpkin was reminding you that if you keep it in, it’ll just rot.
And stink.
And create a mess.
Let it out . . .
LaskiGal wrote..Little Corners
Zoeyjane
Sunday, 9 November, 2008 at 3:38I was going to say something witty about Prop 8 causing instand decomposition. But then saw Momo Fali’s comment and pretty much all thought left my head and I passed out. I’ve just come to, again – it’s been a few hours – and I’m shaking and every so frightened.
Jeanette
Sunday, 9 November, 2008 at 11:33Oh gross, I can imagine the stench! Eeeuuw!
Jaina
Tuesday, 11 November, 2008 at 17:39I HATE it when pumpkins do that, SO gross! Sorry about that, I hope it all turned out okay.
Jaina wrote..Campfires, Quads and Sandstorms…Oh My!!
Kim
Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 at 11:02First water through the nose and now a little vomit in the throat. lol
Kim wrote..Wordless Wednesday – Sisters