Kyle disappears from his home leaving nothing but a messy room and a short note for his father.

"But it became this huge, messy room that you'd have to plow through before you could find your way out to the Web," he said.

She treated me like I was a messy room.

She walked into the messy room and tossed a pile of clothes off a chair onto the floor.

We spend a lot of time criticizing our children for messy rooms, being late, and other negative things.

But the traits are all there, starting with that messy room back in Cambridge.

As for me, I have a very messy room to clean up.

Give up fighting over hair color, hemlines and messy rooms.

Consider the mother of a typical 12-year-old with a messy room.

Find someone who had a messy room as a child.