(And much love to our submitter Robin in Sydney!)
Entries from December 2007
Happy New Year!
December 31st, 2007 · 47 Comments
Tags: drizzunk · holiday spirit · spelling and grammar police · Sydney
The sincerest form of passive-aggression
December 30th, 2007 · 45 Comments
Laura in Boston says one of the restrooms at her school is a real note bonanza. The inside of the stall features no fewer than four individual notes about proper flushing etiquette, and immediately outside the restroom are two (slightly contradictory notes) about proper door opening/closing procedure.
But what’s most interesting? How a couple of those notes look awfully familiar...
related: Passive perfectionism; Et tu, Dora?
Tags: bathroom · blitzkrieg approach · Boston · meta · opening/closing · toilet
Office anthropomorphism
December 29th, 2007 · 65 Comments
Many offices, it seems, are a regular Disneyland of what only appear to be inanimate objects. The evidence?
From Frank in San Francisco, a sentient sponge:
From Amy in Annapolis, Maryland, a talking toilet:
From Ben in San Antonio, Texas, a talking door:
And then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in Washington, D.C. – a talking (and walking) microwave:
(Most baffling…where on earth did that clip art come from?)
related: I guess that’s why
Tags: Annapolis · CAPS LOCK · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · D.C. · irregular capitalization · Maryland · microwave · opening/closing · San Antonio · San Francisco · Texas · toilet
Well, ho ho ho
December 23rd, 2007 · 88 Comments
As we’ve seen this week, notes re: the neighbor’s constantly barking dog often end up being less passive-aggressive and more out-and-out aggressive. But as Matt noticed, this San Francisco resident was able to put a festive holiday spin on the old not-so-veiled threat.
related: Oh, the irony
Tags: Christmas · dogs · holiday spirit · neighbors · noise · San Francisco
And what’s your Christmas wish?
December 20th, 2007 · 105 Comments
Tags: Boulder · Christmas · dogs · heartwarming compassion · holiday spirit · Los Angeles · piss · pleasantries as afterthought · the homeless
2good 2b 4gotten
December 19th, 2007 · 107 Comments
Margaret says she and her high school classmate Gertrude had a “well-established mutual loathing” — but of course, that’s no reason not to sign each other’s senior yearbooks!
(God, I love teenage girls. Frenemies 4-eva!)
related: Gossip Boy
Tags: frenemies · schools & teachers · signed with love
These walls are NOT soundproof.
December 18th, 2007 · 135 Comments
Jared says this sign was posted in both the men’s and women’s restrooms at his office in Salt Lake City, Utah. “It seems that someone does not like hearing people ‘pushing,’” he says.
related: Are you there, Margaret? God, could you be any more disgusting?
Tags: bathroom · CAPS LOCK · eww · excessive underlining · noise · office · privacy · Salt Lake City · that's disgusting
Passive (voice) abuse
December 17th, 2007 · 155 Comments
Amber received this amazing note in an envelope on her doorstep in Sacramento. “I have no idea which neighbor sent this to me, but I can only assume it was the paranoid-looking woman who lives above me,” she says. “But I don’t do drugs. I don’t even smoke cigarettes!”
related: Don’t hate the playa
Tags: a little uptight · drugs · holiday spirit · neighbors · not-so-veiled threats · odor · passive voice · Sacramento
