![]() ![]() Various pairs of my gloves were strewn about – leather, dishwashing and otherwise – I imagine in a weak attempt to cover up fingerprints. The death-like smell emanating from the bathroom was frightening (and still is) and the bathroom sink was caked with a crusty yellow substance. Comet Cleanser was dumped everywhere the kitchen counters, wood furniture, my gorgeous new bed frame, my desk, my printer… all were doused in powdered bleach. The kitchen was a disaster – the sink piled high with filthy dishes, pots and pans burnt out and ruined. Yet they were stupid and careless enough to leave the flue closed dirty gray ash now covered every surface inside. Despite the heat wave, they used my fireplace and multiple Duraflame logs to reduce mounds of stuff (my stuff?) to ash – including, I believe, the missing set of guest sheets I left carefully folded for their comfort. They found my coupons for Bed Bath & Beyond and used the discount, along with my Mastercard, to shop online. They rifled through all my drawers, wore my shoes and clothes, and left my clothing crumpled up in a pile of wet, mildewing towels on the closet floor. They found my birth certificate and social security card, which I believe they photocopied – using the printer/copier I kindly left out for my guests’ use. They took my camera, my iPod, an old laptop, and my external backup drive filled with photos, journals… my entire life. They smashed a hole through a locked closet door, and found the passport, cash, credit card and grandmother’s jewelry I had hidden inside. Walls were cut through to get to locked valuables, including her grandmother’s jewelry. ![]() The facts: Last month “EJ” wrote a long blog post about how a renter spent an entire week carefully robbing and trashing her home. It turns out that when something like this happens, Airbnb isn’t financially responsible. Airbnb’s response so far has been tepid at best. But now the story of a trusting Airbnb user who’s had her home sacked (it’s the only way to describe it) is starting to spread. And they’re now a part of the billion dollar valuation club. They’ve been cloned by the Germans, which is always a mark of success. The company launched in 2008 and has grown rapidly. The reality is, we all get trapped in the closet and most eventually get up.Until now everything has been just great for Airbnb, a service that lets people rent out their homes and become a sort of mini-hotel. This last time cut deeply, but it was a beautiful lesson I needed to learn. I had no plan in place in my last situation and I quickly ended up back in the closet. TWITTER TRAPPED IN A CLOSET MOMENT HOW TOYou may feel a few burn marks and have some permanent scars from being in the closet, but rising up is the first step to recognizing your self-worth.īut before you can rise up, do you have a self-care plan on how to rise up from being trapped in the closet? Or better yet, a plan on how not to get trapped in the closet again? This is when your inner voice has finally connected with self-worth and the dynamic duo takes you by the hand and begins to guide you out of that dang closet. It’s when you realize that you are indeed trapped in situation that no longer serves you and say to yourself, “Something has gotta give!” ![]() No matter how you got there, the great part about the moment when you realize that you’re trapped is that this is when there is hope. Others may protest they were forced into being trapped in the closet, but those are the ones still in major denial. Many of us walked freely into that closet some even skipped and twerked into it. We didn’t magically get trapped into the closet. Yet, so many of us are focused on how horrible it is to be here, that we forget about how we even got here. If you think about it, the metaphor of being trapped in the closet is really about the internal battle over our own self-worth. We need the drama and stress in our lives to finally hear our inner voice yell that we deserve better. I think it’s because some of us don’t trust our instincts. The delivery of the story is hilarious, but once you wipe away the tears of laughter you start to think about your own trapped in the closet moments and that’s not so funny.īut why do we end up trapped in the closet in the first place? Done being trapped, she throws a Gucci flip-flop at the lover and runs out the house crying, not about the guy, but about how she deserves better. If you missed it, a guy who goes by “ X” on Twitter tells a story about a woman who thought she met her dream man and was about to give up “the cookies” only to have his lover come home and she gets trapped in the closet. The Tina and the Gucci flip-flop story that went viral yesterday on Twitter was funny. ![]()
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