‘Cleaning fairy’ went to the wrong N.J. house. His TikTok rant explains hilarious mixup.
When Beth Motzel’s husband returned home from work one day last month, he was shocked.
The Cherry Hill townhome that the couple had been renovating was messy when he left in the morning, but spotlessly clean when he opened the front door in the evening. No dust, dirt or grime.
“(My husband) called me in a panic and he said that someone was here and they cleaned the whole place,” Beth Motzel said, noting the suspicion in his voice.
Whoever tidied up made a clean getaway, but they left a note. ...
On the piece of paper was a sentence in Sharpie explaining that someone’s cleaner went to the wrong address, along with a name and phone number.
That cleaner was Barrington resident Louis Angelino III, whose TikTok posted June 28 explaining the hilarious mix-up has garnered more than 600,000 views. Commenters dubbed Angelino III South Jersey’s ‘cleaning fairy’— and many are begging him to break into their homes too.
Here’s how Angelino ended up in the unusual situation.
The 27-year-old works at a Joe Canal’s liquor store, but also cleans his friends’ houses on the side for some extra cash. One day last month, he got a new client ... It was a friend’s coworker, who texted Angelino his Cherry Hill address and told him he left a key under a mat to get inside.
But Angelino accidentally jotted down the wrong address. He had the correct street, but the house number was off by one digit.
... Angelino pulled up to a townhome that had a key under the mat, and assumed he was at the correct place. The right apartment was a short, two-minute drive away. ...
He spent about two-and-a-half hours scrubbing the stove and Swiffer-ing the floors. Once Angelino was done, he started playing with two cats in the apartment and got ready to leave.
That’s when Angelino’s friend called asking if he ever came to clean the apartment. Moments later, panic set in as he realized his mistake.
“I said ‘I’m literally in your living room right now playing with your cats and waiting for you to walk in,’ and he was like ‘Louis, I don’t have any cats,’” Angelino recalled. “In that moment, I froze. My heart dropped. I was just like, ‘Where am I right now? What is going on?’” ...