Along with the Mad Bomber series, I’d say this note is one for the hall of fame. There are so many amazing elements here I can’t even pick a favorite.
related: care, it makes a difference
Entries from June 2007
Which one of these is not like the other?
June 6th, 2007 · 48 Comments
Tags: cleaning · college life · dishes · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy!!!! · noise · odor · roommates · sex sex sex · whiteboard
priorities
June 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments
from the offices of “a large internet company” in northern virginia…
thanks to liz for submitting!
Tags: bathroom · group bitchfest · office · smiley · toilet · Virginia
Nobody wants to see that
June 6th, 2007 · 14 Comments
From an all-girls floor of a Boston University dorm…
Ah, college. Thanks to Vicky in Boston for submitting!
Tags: Boston · college life · grow up · pleasantries as afterthought · roommates · sex sex sex
A common misconception
June 5th, 2007 · 25 Comments
Dispatches from an oh-so-common passive-aggressive battleground: “the common area.”
So, whose side are you on?
Tags: confusion??? · moving/not moving · questionable logic · roommates
studying up on bedside manner might not be a bad idea
June 5th, 2007 · 38 Comments
CC found this note in one of the study carrels at her large midwestern med school:
this was her response:
(she continues on a second page.)
Tags: college life · excessive underlining · Michigan · moving/not moving · smartass
Arrivederci, asshole
June 5th, 2007 · 7 Comments
Sara is one of seven students sharing an apartment in Venice. After three months of living together, she says, it became clear that one of the flatmates had to go: he had nasty habits like, um, pleasuring himself in his in other people’s bedrooms while they were out.
“We gently told him we thought it was better for everybody if he looked for another house,” Sara says, but he didn’t take the hint. So one of the other roommates decided to leave him this note:
Roughly translated from the Italian, it reads: “It’s time you leave.”
(He did.)
Tags: Italiano · Italy · roommates
The souls of our shoes
June 5th, 2007 · 26 Comments
This important safety message is brought to you from an anonymous worker at a call center in Toronto.
Tags: attire · danger · e-mail · kitchen · office · spelling and grammar police · Toronto
Thanks for eating my lunch
June 5th, 2007 · 12 Comments
(Charlie in Los Angeles did not eat your lunch.)
![PLEASE RETURN CREAMER TO FRIDGE WHEN YOU ARE DONE. [thanks for eating my lunch...AND MINE!] [No problem Guys. Bring some more tomorrow. :) JP](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1014/531062169_946c977169.jpg "PLEASE RETURN CREAMER TO FRIDGE WHEN YOU ARE DONE. [thanks for eating my lunch...AND MINE!] [No problem Guys. Bring some more tomorrow. :) JP")
Tags: excessive underlining · group bitchfest · Los Angeles · office · office fridge · smartass · smiley · spelling and grammar police · stealing
