Just in case anyone hasn’t gotten the memo that TMIT has come to a sad but triumphant end, I figured I’d give you a touch of it today so that no one’s world was completely shattered.
Consider this your TMI methadone, you crazy addicts.
At brunch last weekend…
Me: Lex, why don’t you share that tiny insignificant detail from your childhood that you failed to mention to any of us before? You know, the one about your dad you JUST told me this week?
Maxie and Katie look at her quizzically.
Lexa: Well, when I was little, one of my dad’s part-time jobs was as building maintenance to this block of apartment homes. It wasn’t exactly a great neighborhood, but not terrible. I would tend to tag along on the weekends as he snaked sinks, fixed wires, etc.
Well, one weekend, a domestic assault ended in murder and guess who he brought along to clean it up? There was blood and papers and just crap strewn everywhere. The best part, or worst part? Is he let me take shit from the apartment. I got a coveted copy of Guns ‘n Roses, use Your Illusion II.
I still listen to it occasionally and thank that poor woman for dying as I rock out to “You Could Be Mine.”
*Silence*
Katie: Your dad brought you to a MURDER SCENE??
Lexa: Yeah. That was kinda fucked up. I forget about it… and then I’m like… oh yeah. That happened.
Me: Wait wait wait. I have an idea. Maybe this could be the answer to why you can’t deal with bathroom humor!!! Don’t people empty their bowels when they die??
Maxie: They do! That’s it! Lex, was the body covered in feces?!?
Me: It’s okay, you’re in a safe place now. Finally, we’re getting somewhere!
Lexa: You idiots. The BODY wasn’t still there!
Maxie & me: There, there. *stroking hair* It’s okay now. We’ve got you. We’ll get you to make a fart joke yet!
Katie and Lexa shake their heads pityingly.
I love my friends.
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Ewww, body or not ewwww. ewwww. But yeah, you guys are great! haha
.-= Carissa´s last blog ..Staycations are for Winners, and Post it Note Tuesday =-.
I love your brunch talk. About a month ago, we were brunching it up, talking about cleaning up murder scenes, too! Poor Lexa.
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I love it!!!! God I thought my dad was bringing me to pretty much every bar in MA.
takes the cake.
.-= April´s last blog ..Getting To Know You Thursdays =-.
OMFG! What an excellent chat to have over omlettes in the early morning…You are all just too much!
And thanks for the TMI- Thursdays are just better with a little bitt of gross…
.-= middleagedwaitress´s last blog ..ONE perfect day… =-.
I wish I had friends like you.
.-= Kristina P.´s last blog ..5 K-arat Gold =-.
You just gotta love father daughter bonding.
.-= SilverNeurotic´s last blog ..Dear Zoe, by Philip Beard =-.
Hahaha, thanks for sharing that tiny bit of info
lol
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That’s terrible and gross and scary.. totally qualifies as TMIT material !
I love it
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TMI Thursdays will be missed…But an occasional one will keep us good
you guys are amazing 
.-= Ria´s last blog ..Ahhhhhhh…bliss (or Picture Thursdays) =-.
That will be me when I have kids..
“Hey, you wanna go to work with mommy again today?”
“Yeah! Where are we going?”
“To profile a double homicide! Make sure you bring your gloves, last time we had to run your prints through NCIC to make sure you didn’t kill anyone, remember?”
So f-d Up, I know.
.-= T. The Destructor´s last blog ..Hurry up before your uterus dries up! =-.
I think TMIW (TMIwhenever) has quite a ring to it. Hey, diarrhea diatribes and menstrual mishaps can’t be confined to just one day.
.-= BeckEye´s last blog ..American Idol 9: 4/14/10 Results =-.
Umm..that’s so weird. And how little is little? How old was she when that happened?? One thing’s for sure, I too, would be totally excited about a FREE Guns n’ Roses album!! Wahoo!
My question is how can she hang w/ you guys and not like bathroom humor? This seems very odd to me. Bathroom humor is the king of all jokes!
.-= Kellie´s last blog ..I’ve got a, I’ve got a pocket full of sherbert =-.
My dad used to bring me to murder scenes, too.
Then he’d make me help him dismember the bodies and feed them into a wood chipper.
Never got a Guns n Roses CD, though.
Gyp.
.-= moooooog35´s last blog ..The One About Ruben Studdard Ninja Spiders =-.
I was 9 or 10.
And yes. This was super messed up.
A child at a crime scene? Things just aren’t what they used to be. That would never happen today – and what a shame it is!
.-= Herding Cats´s last blog ..Let’s Focus On… =-.
That’s why America is in the fix it is in these days. Not enough kids get to see crime scenes. My dad used to take me to his clean up jobs, I still remember fondly the first time I got to pour the acid on the stiff to dissolve him. Did you know they can still titch after they died? At least I think he was dead…
.-= Skylers Dad´s last blog ..Public Service Announcement – cubed =-.
This is only a little disturbing and by a “little” I mean a lot.
Keep trying to make her say a fart joke. I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT.
this made me sad,,,, I need that G N R album…..sigh
no really it did make me sad….
bad memory AND no fart jokes …
So sad about the ending of the TMIT posts…. i’ve been collecting some of my own to share with the world and gross the audience out….
sigh… sniffle
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G N R.. well worth a crime scene clean up.
.-= Summer´s last blog ..I Write Letters. It’s Therapeutic. =-.
Hey, kids are resilient. They get over little things like being brought to clean up murder apartments. Besides, it’s excellent fodder if you are ever in a “go around the room and tell everyone your name and one thing about yourself” situation that you really want to mess with.
.-= Dani´s last blog ..Just call me Sister Mary Tanqueray… =-.
I wish i’d been a fly on the wall during that brunch.
Thank you though – seriously, I was just thinking as I walked home tonight how I was missing TMIT already and now I feel a little LESS heartbroken. And also a bit freaked out.
So now it’s just like a normal Thursday once again. All is right in the world…
.-= Paula´s last blog ..A SORT-OF GUEST POST . . . FROM MY BEST PAL ROSY! =-.
Her Dad must be rich because those murderscene clean up people make bank. Maybe not in the 80′s or 90′s though…
I know a guy who managed some apartments and one of the tenants killed his friend with a machete for coming on to his wife. Watch yourself gentlemen!
.-= Nikki´s last blog ..Staycation means within the State right? =-.
I can’t even tell you how much I appreciate that Lexa doesn’t do the bathroom humor. Shine rags on me for it all the time. Luckily I never cleaned up after a murder though, so I wonder what I’m suppressing that made me a bathroom prude. Interesting. Insight from a TMI Thursday…who knew!?
.-= April´s last blog ..Thank you(s), epiphanies, and a HUGE break-up! =-.
One of these days, damn it, I WILL crash one of these notorious brunches…
.-= Hannah´s last blog ..Password… =-.
Wow… I bet that girl was scarred for life because of that experience. A murder scene is no place for a young girl. Is she being haunted by that killed persons spirit for taking their CD? Haha
Thanks for slowly weaning us off TMIT, LiLu =) So thoughtful of you! We all appreciate it.
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Hahahaa!!! That kills me…
*crickets*
.-= Kris´s last blog ..Found treasure…. =-.
sunshine cleaning.
.-= Alyxmyself´s last blog ..Wherein it is a beautiful day. =-.
I kept expecting the CSI miami punchline to end this post.
*sunglasses
“This scene looks mother tested.. kid approved”
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
.-= Rahul´s last blog ..London Bawling (See What I Did There?) =-.
Yeah, crime and murder are bad and gross and not for children, blah blah blah. But what I am REALLY curious about here is how one can go through life without bodily function/bathroom humor? It’s like an entire realm of what’s good in the Universe is off limits to them. Keep working on her– she must know the magic that is lighting a fart and telling the story for decades to come!
.-= LesleyG´s last blog ..2006 makes 2010 make a little more sense =-.
Next time my kids bitch about cleaning, I’m going to use this. “Oh, shut up! It’s not as if I’m asking you to clean up a murder scene like poor Lexa had to do!”
.-= lisagolden´s last blog ..A Post of Many Colors =-.
How I will miss TMI’s!
But a murder scene, that’s craziness!!
Holy Crap! Your too funny!
.-= Alina´s last blog ..To do’s and To Dont’s =-.
Umm talk about father-daughter bonding moments. Couldn’t he just take her to a movie or out for ice-cream?
.-= littlemsblogger´s last blog ..Question of the Week…. =-.
Dang, what a moment for a kid to experience … the thing that upsets me most is the lack of bathroom humour in one’s life, so sad! (And I’m happy you brought back TMI for a little wee bit, I attempt to resurrect it in the form of a gross picture of water in my post today … and I had beer-battered haddock today but soon I will drink myself silly in honour of you!).
.-= Nikolett´s last blog ..therapeutic thursdays: celebrating =-.
Wow, that’s pretty messed up.
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Holy cow. Good thing she has friends to distract her from how she was scarred for life…
.-= speakyourself´s last blog ..Homeward bound =-.
Man! My dad just took me to work with autistic kids, and yeah, there was blood there too, but this!
.-= Her´s last blog ..Doctors, doctors everywhere, nor any cure to be found =-.
Soooooo, a sneaky TMIT. Maybe somebody else is the one that’s hooked.
You just can’t miss with a good bloody murder scene/child/feces story! They are the absolute best. Thursdays will never be the same without diarrhea, puke and all the other wonders of bodily functions.
.-= Tom Goette´s last blog ..Tom’s Celebrity Corner Returns =-.
That’s awesome. I just have no idea what else to say, except that it made me laugh.
And since I’m here, you totally rock in general, so I’m passing on an award to you. Craziness, I know. I wrote about it in my last post that the commentluv has up.
.-= Kandace´s last blog ..Yay! It’s the Sunshine Award =-.
I’m convinced this is where the poobia (poo + phobia) comes from.
Still waiting for that fart joke, though.
.-= Maxie´s last blog ..TMI Thursday: Out with a Bang =-.
I love your blog! I have awarded you the Fabulous Treat Blog Award for being such a fabulous treat that could sweeten up even the dullest of days. Thanks for writing, thanks for keeping me entertained, and thanks for being fabulous. Here is the link to the award post: http://www.beingagrownupblows.com/2010/04/i-read-too-many-awesome-blogs-to-not.html
Here is the award:
.-= April´s last blog ..Getting To Know You Thursdays =-.
No fair. I’ve always wanted to rob from a murder scene!
And to think my government employee father just brought me to his office in Gatineau when I was little! Bo-ring! :p
P.S. I hope nobody thanks me for dying when they nab my stuff!
.-= Pauline´s last blog ..Wacky Plastic Surgery =-.
And to think my government employee father just brought me to his office in Gatineau when I was little! Bo-ring! :p
P.S. I hope nobody thanks me one day for dying when they nab my stuff! That’s cold!
.-= Pauline´s last blog ..Wacky Plastic Surgery =-.
That’s insane. Kinda like fiction stories I read, usually some kids grow up to be detectives. :p
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your friends rock!
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