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13 March 2008

I've decided to move to Manhattan, and this is where I'm going to live →[More:]Text of the ad, in case it gets flagged down:

I am an elderly lady, in my 70's. I am looking for someone lovely to live in the second bedroom(lovely people only). I am not thrilled about living with someone but I could use the extra cash. I have only one rule. You must wear a belt I designed that has bells all over it. I do this so I know when you are in the appartment and where in the appartment you are.

If you have friends over, they must wear the device as well. I only have 2, so no more than 1 friend over.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 22:49 | 16 comments

That would be fun... for about a week.

posted by pieisexactlythree 13 March | 23:05

HAhahaha . . .oh man, it's fun to have fun.

posted by nola 13 March | 23:14

Hilarious. Show up wearing a cat collar.

posted by sweetkid 13 March | 23:32

I once shared a house with a couple people I SHOULD have done that to.

posted by wendell 13 March | 23:37

Hmm. Do you have to wear the belt at ALL times? Like, even outside the apartment? Because that would interesting (as pie said, for about a week.)

posted by brina 13 March | 23:42

You wouldn't rather live in the apartment described as $2250 2 BRs in 3BRs apartment with emotionally unstable female roommate (Upper West Side)?

Is it scary and wrong that the first thing I thought about the bell-belt was "Really? For a guest, too? What sound would that make during sex?"

I know, I know, I keep saying I'm going to sleep, and then I post.

posted by Elsa 13 March | 23:48

"What sound would that make during sex?" on the dinning room table?

posted by arse_hat 13 March | 23:51

I'd be less worried about the noise than what would happen when the bells get tangled together. How would you explain that in the ER?

posted by dg 13 March | 23:52

Someone should mine these ads for short stories/short films. Someone probably has.

posted by sweetkid 13 March | 23:57

Ahh bell-belt sex stuck in my mind!

posted by halonine 14 March | 02:15

Invite a troup of Morris Dancers round and freak her out.

posted by essexjan 14 March | 02:40

Let's hope you don't mean "freak" in the R'n'B sense.

posted by cillit bang 14 March | 05:28

Am I the only one who felt sorry for an elderly lady letting all sorts of crazies live in her house? She might be chopped up and served as chop suey in a week.

posted by dabitch 14 March | 05:46

and Murray Hill isn't necessarily that nice to begin with

posted by matteo 14 March | 13:28

I know, right? For $700 a month. Good grief.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 March | 13:58

Wait, do we think she's in earnest? I'm amused and horrified at the same time.

posted by Specklet 14 March | 14:10

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