Entries from June 2008

there is a poor speller among us

June 30th, 2008 · 97 Comments

writes our anonymous submitter from kentucky: “I work at a gym. I was checking the women’s locker room to make sure it wasn’t a fetid stinkpit (it wasn’t) when I saw three of these lying on the counter. i went to throw them out and found a whole mess of them in the trashcan, too.”

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Tags: gym · kentucky · rebuttals · spelling and grammar police · stealing

in daylights? in sunsets? in midnights? in posts on facebook?

June 29th, 2008 · 115 Comments

writers an anonymous social networker in gainesville, florida: “this guy and his (ex) roommate are friends of mine on facebook, and they’ve been bickering back and forth for months now, airing their grievances for everyone to see.” the girl eventually moved out, our submitter says, but it seems like maybe — just maybe — [...]

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Tags: facebook · money · roommates · stealing

top five musical crimes perpetrated by record store customers in the 90s and 2000s

June 26th, 2008 · 171 Comments

5. being a stupid, retarded jerk.

4. what, can’t you read?

3. seriously, are you fucking illiterate?

2. do we look like the kind of store that sells “i just called to say i love you”?

and last but not least…
1. the internet (probably)

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Tags: "customer service" · exclamation-point happy! · music · retail hell

spinal manipulation

June 26th, 2008 · 231 Comments

after messing up his back, clay in knoxville figured he’d give a chiropractor a shot, but when the doc he saw refused to show him the x-rays he’d taken until after a “seminar” about payment plans — oh, and treatment options — clay decided to take his aching back else where. a few days later, [...]

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Tags: "customer service" · a little patronizing · knoxville · oh-so-sincerely · tennessee · thanks (but not really)

you’re toast

June 25th, 2008 · 108 Comments

courtney in california spotted this in the front yard of a neighborhood she happened to be cruising through today — one she says is “full of blue-hairs.”

adds courtney: “i may be knocking on this person’s front door sometime this week. i HAVE to know what melba’s letter said!”
related: you can do it. we can’t help

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Tags: MYOB · california · crazypants · exclamation-point happy! · old folks · spelling and grammar police