Torontoist: I Spit On Your Mirror

June 30, 2008

I Spit On Your Mirror

Spotted in the north elevator of an upscale North York condo.

By Jonathan Goldsbie in Photos | Link | Comments (16) | Recommend this! (5) |

Tags: condos, Discovery!, elevators, North York, signs, spitting, Vandals!

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[1] | 06/30/08 09:09PM
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In case there is any doubt: The "I" in the headline most certainly does not refer to myself. (I am as perplexed as the property manager as to who could be responsible, but I was not even aware this was going on until I saw the notice.)

[2] | 06/30/08 10:34PM
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difficult? i would love to have had written this letter.

[3] | 06/30/08 11:04PM
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This is a strange coincidence. In the stalls in the restroom where I work, for a good amount of last year there were some signs taped to the inside of stall doors that said something like "Please do not spit on the walls. Thank you." Scary to think that this isn't a single isolated incident.

[4] | 06/30/08 11:14PM
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The whole tone of the communique brings me back to grade school; the polite request to stop with the thinly veiled threat of punishment by law if you don't. I'd love to see that case in court :)
Nice to know that the Corporation Management are just as meticulous as the Cleaner about the state of the mirrors. I like how the letter writer dug deep to explain the dangers of transmittable germs; as though if it were simply a matter of being unsightly; well gosh; maybe we wouldn't need to press charges.

Great find; good for a chuckle or two.

[5] | 07/01/08 12:05AM
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"Govern yourselves according to the rules of the Corporation"... shiver

[6] | 07/01/08 01:22AM
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Man, I have never understood people's need to spit in public. Blech.

[7] | 07/01/08 08:12AM
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My building has a letter permenantly taped to the doors noting that some residents had been throwing bags of garbage, cans, and other junk out their windows, and feeding pigeons on their windowledges, and to please cut it out immediately.

However I live in a crappy low-rent low-rise in Parkdale, so no surprise there :P

[8] | 07/01/08 08:28AM
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I bet it's someone's idea of "street art" and they think they are being profound.

[9] | 07/01/08 09:31AM
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Quietly install webcam, wait, charge asshole.

[10] | 07/01/08 11:41AM
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Notice that it's behind glass so nobody can take it down.

What does that say about underestimating the intelligence of the readers--the tenants?

If I lived there, I'd sell up and move away from such a terrible landlord who looked down on his tenants.

[11] | 07/01/08 01:54PM
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It's a condo, so it's not a landlord note, but on from the property manager speaking on behalf of the Board.

I'm on a condo board, and it's alarming what grown-ass, educated adults will do to ruin it for everyone else. It never ceases to amaze me, from human shit in the stairwell, to throwing beer bottles off the roof onto the street below, to scratching messages into the very expensive stainless steel elevator door skins…people are fucking nasty, and unfortunately, they need to be told to behave like talking to little children.

When I was a teenager and working at Tim Horton's, I had the displeasure of having to clean the washrooms, and a day didn't go by where I didn't find a used maxi pad stuck to the wall or a toilet paper roll fallen into the toilet where someone shit on top of it rather than tell me it fell in.

People are nasty when they're not being watched, and especially when someone else has to clean up after them. This letter is hardly uncommon.

[12] | 07/01/08 10:26PM
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I'm not sure why the photo has to be edited to remove information.

Could someone please explain Torontoist's reasoning?

[13] | 07/02/08 12:13PM
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I live in a condo downtown and am amazed what some people will do to the place they paid absurd amounts of money to live in.

One elevator on the north side of the building has stinks of piss on the carpet and the walls. Elevator =/= drunk tank. Not to mention the beer bottles in common areas, in the elevators, in the stairwells, etc ad nauseum. Dog owners sometimes let their dogs poop in the hallway leading to the elevator then leave it there.

That said, my building managers also request that everyone hang white curtains and only have patio furniture that is white or black in order to maintain the exterior's appearance.

[14] | 07/02/08 01:19PM
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For the record, hiding some of the information contained in the photo was Jonathan's decision, and was not imposed editorially (nor is it a site-wide policy to edit photos in this way). That said, I think privacy concerns seem to be the obvious reason for pixelating the building address, property manager's name, etc.?

[15] | 07/02/08 02:57PM
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This is the lamest thing I've seen posted to date.

WOW, a letter
WOW, someone spit on something in a building
WOW, it's behind glass

WOWWOWWOW!

[16] | 07/04/08 01:53PM
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David Toronto: Each of the elevators in the building has a glass display case in which management puts notices. I don't think it's supposed to be a trust or intelligence thing but rather one of elegance: stuff in cases looks classier than stuff that's taped up.

johnpee: As David [Topping] noted above, the pixellation was my own decision, as I was concerned that either the property manager or my family would get in trouble if someone interpreted the post as being embarrassing to the building.

torontothegreat: I'm becoming more and more interested in meeting you in real life, as I need to know to what degree your online persona reflects the real you.