jessica from chicago spotted this gem at a boston-area starbucks. notes jessica: “i wonder if all that special barista training they had recently included anything about dictating the topic of conversations allowed?

related: our customers are always right…except when they’re wrong

our anonymous submitter lives in what she says is a typical college apartment, one that is “not decorated according to any theme.” and yet, in a transformation a college freshman taking lit 101 might describe as “kafkaesque,” one of her roommates has been replaced by your [fill-in-your-own-ethnic-stereotype-here] grandmother.

adds our submitter: “these weird towels wouldn’t dry two fingers, much less two hands, so we don’t use them anyway! (maybe if they weren’t so ugly…)”

related: text me at work if you want to talk!!

you decide! which clip art catastrophe raises the most new and troubling questions in your mind?

is it exhibit a, from new york’s west village?

(think about the designer’s thought process here for a moment. why the sunglasses? and not just any shades…but electric blue sunglasses? ditto, the sunflower.)

exhibit b, from a casino in cambodia?

(does no crossed out mean…yes?)

or exhibit c, from a pharmacy in berlin?

(trust me: speaking german is no help here.)

if you can’t decide, remember that your first instinct is usually the best choice (um, except when it’s not).

related: clip art crimes

at this college dorm in seattle, our anonymous submitter says each floor ordinarily has one male and one female bathroom. however, because this particular floor happens to have an overwhelming number of female residents, both bathrooms were deemed female-only…much to some guy’s chagrin.

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related: losing lisa

explains our anonymous submitter: “we have a breakdown in communication at this place.”

related: what, no bubble letters?

this note was posted in the girls’ toilets at a college dorm in canberra, australia.

later, this note was slipped under the doors of everyone on the floor.

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j. star says he found this passive-aggressive twist on the old rspca campaign/scottish band in a cincinnati parking lot. (pet-lovers: just to let you know, it was crumpled up on the ground, not on his windshield.)

related: i can has guilt trip?