I was calling to check my messages from work and my roommate was on the machine snickering. "Heh, your cat has left you a little present behind the closet door." I figured - oh great - a hairball. Little did i know what horror i would come home to. The closet he was referring to is the place I keep the cat box, so I decided to be on the safe side and pick up a bag of litter on the way home. When I arrived home I had to piss REALLY bad, so as I walked by the door to the closet I gave it only a superficial inspection. I then went and got the fresh litter, figuring that the message was just my roommate's polite way of asking me to change the box. When I pulled the box out of the closet I decided it would be a good idea to inspect more thoroughly to make sure that was all he was talking about. Deep in the closet I saw a dark shape. Upon probing with the catbox scooper I heard the sound of mounds of cat shit kibbles. I scooped and scooped the mass of maybe 5 pounds of petrified ancient cat shit until I had cleared the side of the closet. Then I realized something......
 

At this point I had been working in one direction. I had not looked in the other side of the closet, where I found another five pounds of joy.

Ok. Now I know what you're thinking. "How could I not know?" Cat boxes always smell bad. They smell awful from the very first poo kibble. I knew I had been neglecting the cat box, but when I would walk by it never looked AS bad as I thought it would. It was not until i saw it with my own eyes that I had my moment of clarity. The litter box apparently looked ok because the cat had not been using it for what looked like WEEKS.

And now...

The "OH MY GOD" moment...