Oooh, yikes! Sorry to see that! I've never tried it, but my mom swears by rubbing alcohol to remove ink from lots of different things. I guess you'd have to be careful on wood floors to keep it from drying out the wood or harming the finish. Whatever you try, good luck. 

It adds character.

Yup...our dog did the same....but it was carpet...not flooring which was worse....I think we shampooed the daylights out of that carpet!

1 hour ago, What the fux say said:

It adds character.

Yes!  Kinda like putting their doggy paw imprint in freshly poured cement -- forever after you'll remember them by it...  

4 hours ago, WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo? said:

Oooh, yikes! Sorry to see that! I've never tried it, but my mom swears by rubbing alcohol to remove ink from lots of different things. I guess you'd have to be careful on wood floors to keep it from drying out the wood or harming the finish. Whatever you try, good luck. 

What I have tried so far is prayer, ignoring it, distracting myself by steam cleaning the stove top while listening to a documentary on all the things that can kill you inside a Tudor home, and reorganizing the linen closet while listening to a documentary on all the things that can kill you inside a Victorian home, washing my kitchen and bathroom floors while listening to all the things that can kill you inside an Edwardian home, and posting here.

None of those things have worked - I'm surprised, too.

tbh if I could I'd throw and area rug over and forget it because that's the kind of lazy slack-ass that I am...but it's a couple feet from the top of the stairs and not exactly the place I want to put something to trip over.

Tomorrow I'm going to try mineral spirits and super fine grade steel wool which will probably result in ruining it completely.

2 hours ago, What the fux say said:

It adds character.

Oh my floors are so full of character they are going to start writing character booklets for Gothard.  (Not really - even my floors hate him.)

I saw one of those diy home shows once and a couple was purposely ruining the finish on a perfectly good hardwood floor.  They called it distressing the wood so it looked battered and lived in.  I told my husband were going to save money on refinishing the floors and just tell people were distressed the on purpose  

Burning the house down is the only solution I can see. 

I would try napping then chocolate and wine - be sure to do it in that order or I doubt it will work.

3 minutes ago, Whoosh said:

I would try napping then chocolate and wine - be sure to do it in that order or I doubt it will work.

I don't drink wine because yucky...will iced tea work?

Just now, HerNameIsBuffy said:

I don't drink wine because yucky...will iced tea work?

If you must, but even after a few gallons of iced tea I think you will still be able to see that ink...

For your viewing pleasure....

http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Ink-from-a-Wood-Floor

Good luck!

But seriously - sorry about your floor.  That sucks.

30 minutes ago, Chickenbutt said:

For your viewing pleasure....

http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Ink-from-a-Wood-Floor

Good luck!

So reading some mild things could work I tried expecting no results...

but YAY!!  Little dish soap and SOS pad with very light pressure and voila!  

Thanks!

12 minutes ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

So reading some mild things could work I tried expecting no results...

but YAY!!  Little dish soap and SOS pad with very light pressure and voila!  

Thanks!

Burning the house down would have looked cooler. I'm just saying.

20 minutes ago, Destiny said:

Burning the house down would have looked cooler. I'm just saying.

Yeah, but this was easier and has the added bonus of not leaving my family homeless.  

I'd hate to disappoint you.  Though I recall you refusing to burn your house down at my suggestion when you had some kind of imaginary imposter-bee threatening you.

But here you go - one house burning,,,

Glad to hear something worked and your family still has a home.

22 minutes ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

I'd hate to disappoint you.  Though I recall you refusing to burn your house down at my suggestion when you had some kind of imaginary imposter-bee threatening you.

I did nothing of the sort! I was ready, willing, but not able to burn the house down. I couldn't get out because impostor bees everywhere, and I didn't want to burn the joint to the ground with me in it! Had I come home to the impostor bees, I would have burned the joint to the ground with no regrets.

I see you  already solved. I was going to suggest that you tried with an eraser. It works very well when my toddler decides to to add artsy decorations on wooden surfaces, unfortunately it doesn't work on the walls

I can't believe it came out that easily, I'm really surprised.  Yay for your floors!

4 minutes ago, What the fux say said:

I can't believe it came out that easily, I'm really surprised.  Yay for your floors!

i was stunned - when it came up so fast I did a double take and felt stupid for making it a bigger job in my head.

it was a gel pen and even though I'm not a colorist maybe the collective gel pen love of FJ worked some magic.

When my youngest was 4 we took a nap together one afternoon while the other kids were in school.  I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and woke up to the horror of finding my legs and arms covered in drawings of pirate things.  

In black sharpie.

apparently he needed less of a nap than I did and woke up before me and found drawing on me a fun activity.  Maybe I should have tried dish soap and SOS on my skin back then.

7 hours ago, laPapessaGiovanna said:

I see you  already solved. I was going to suggest that you tried with an eraser. It works very well when my toddler decides to to add artsy decorations on wooden surfaces, unfortunately it doesn't work on the walls

The magic eraser?  That always worked great on my walls when my kids were little...but it was so wearing in the paint I hated to use it.

I was telling my other half about your floor debacle and he was all man about it and said "well yeah, the floor has a finish on it that you can just buff out easily enough...."  Me: eyeroll.  He just doesn't get the drama involved here, clearly.