The Letter in the Pond

Posted by Miss Cellania in Home & Garden on June 6, 2008 at 11:21 am


Yes, it’s a letter, from 2003. Found in the bottom of a pond.

Recently, a friend of ours, Simon, moved to Over, just North of Cambridge, UK. He was moving to a lovely property, with a nice garden and a pond.

Simon wasn’t so keen on the pond though. It’s not very child friendly, and with two young ones running around the garden, he thought it would be safer to get rid of it.

A few buckets and hours of sweating later, Simon lifted the pond lining to discover a laminated piece of paper sitting at the bottom of the gaping hole that once was the previous owner’s pond.

You’ll need to go to the linked story to read the entire letter, but I’ll let you know this much: the writer was not happy. Link -via Metafilter


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22 comments to "The Letter in the Pond"

  1. Xinavera
    June 6th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    That's fantastic! I am so going to pin notes inside any construction projects I add to my house. You Sniveling Pond Destroyer!

  2. soops
    June 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Great post Miss C, but dang what a pessimist! To go to the effort of typing and laminating; 'I'm gonna build a pond.. someones just going to fill it in i bet.. ... ..I'll write a note'

  3. nick
    June 6th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    i hope your head falls off.

  4. PAgent
    June 6th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    That was awesome. And I mean that in the most literal sense: I am in awe that someone would go to that much trouble to administer a delayed remote-detonated guilt trip. Well-played, sir. Well-played.

  5. Algonkin
    June 6th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Love the ending LOL!!

  6. JohnnySLC
    June 6th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    We recently bought a house with a small pond. We also ripped it out for the same reason (small kids). I'd wager that it took as much effort to rip that MFer out as it did to put it in.
    Our neighborhood also has a tradition that they give you a rose bush when your parents pass away. There were two rose bushes planted next to the front door, given to the previous owners when their parents passed away. Guess what happened to them? Those were much easier to rip out than the pond.
    Yes, I know my head is going to fall off.

  7. Sid Morrison
    June 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    That's pretty funny, but what is even funnier is that I've done teh same thing myself. My wife and I own a nearly 200 year old house. Over the years it was pretty well conserved, but in the 1960s a family of morons lived here who did some horrendously poor quality work. I've been gradually undoing their schlock... My efforts include replacing some cheap drywall with real lath and plaster (which I can do fairly well - it's not that hard and looks/performs a lot better). Fortunately, most of the house still has real plaster, so it's only a few places where these lazy hacks screwed up the walls. Anyhow, whenever I restore a wall, I leave inside it the current day's newspaper. Occasionally, I leave inside a note as well, threathening to HAUNT them forever if they re-replace my plaster with drywall again. :-)

  8. Miss Cellania
    June 6th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Sid, my house is over 80 years old, and I'm always repairing stuff. When I replaced the vinyl floor in the bathroom, I found no subflooring. The previous owner had leveled the porch boards with newspapers! Specifically, newspapers from 1968 and 1969. They were full of RFK and MLK assassination updates and Apollo stories. I saved them as best as I can.

  9. Miss Cellania
    June 6th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    I also have a small pond, probably 50 years old or more. I would never consider taking it out, since it's concrete.

  10. L.C.
    June 6th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    how excellent. i hope that persons head falls off as well

  11. Evilbeagle
    June 6th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    That is classic! I am getting ideas now.

  12. SenorMysterioso
    June 6th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    Ha, nice work pond digger

  13. Thomas
    June 6th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    that's excellent. I want to leave notes on everything I do from now on. Maybe the occasional Gypsy curse.

  14. tona b.
    June 6th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    This is stupid. Who cares if someone changes things after you have left? You don't live there anymore, so let it go already!

  15. ripper
    June 6th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Tona - No one wants to see something they created destroyed. (especially with such effort) Wonder how many more letters this guy left around the house?

  16. ted
    June 6th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Doesn't matter how much effort you spent. You have to learn to let go of material things, or just keep the place forever.

    It's a cute thing to put there, and I doubt the person who wrote the note was really all that peeved. He probably knew that one day it would give someone a chuckle.

  17. jack.wh
    June 7th, 2008 at 4:50 am

    That was quality. Officially one of the best posts in existence!

  18. Aeris
    June 7th, 2008 at 6:37 am

    hehehe, i love this letter. I want something like that underneath my grave ^^

  19. SenorMysterioso
    June 7th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    Why do some people take everything so seriously. The letter is pretty tongue in cheek and the pond creator obviously knew that not everyone that lived there would share his same love of pond so why not leave a little note that will make someone smile after a long day of pond removal

  20. DOJ
    June 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    you should see the note under the pyramids, those aliens are hilarious

  21. tomtheman5
    June 8th, 2008 at 1:44 am

    A bite on the ankle from a wildebeest? LOL this is definitely an awesome read...

  22. pumps for ponds
    September 2nd, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    I love stuff like this! I always try to leave messages and jokes and things whenever I make something in the hopes that someone, somewhere will read it and laugh.


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