spotted at a local restaurant by kevin in boston…

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“my family moved out of the house we grew up in seven years ago, and our old neighbor sent us this christmas card,” writes gloria in los angeles. (gloria herself seems to have made a particularly strong impression…)

meanwhile, in providence, r.i., jessica’s aunt seems to be doing her best to put the “x” in “x-mas.”

related: [...]

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libby from sydney, australia found this note taped to the wall of the IGA supermarket in newtown, sydney. “feeling sympathetic though somewhat amused, i took a photo of it — i didn’t really think it would be fair to take it with me.” (that is, of course, more than can be said for a certain [...]

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writes lisa in orlando: “my 8-year-old daughter was concerned about all the pictures of santa portraying him with a whip. she wrote him this letter thinking he might appreciate her helpful advice on taking care of his animals.”

related: no girls allowed

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writes alex in denver: “last year, my roommate luke got frustrated that our undecorated tree was still sitting in the basement on christmas eve. we decided to get retribution by moving the tree into his room.”

happy hannukah, everyone!

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sarah from san fran was taking a little stroll in berkeley, california last december when she saw a house that clearly belonged to the “more is more” school of holiday decorating.
you know the type: “giant candy canes, red bows, lights, even one of those life-sized plastic snow globes that blows confetti snow all around inside [...]

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once upon a time, our anonymous submitter informs us, a plucky young fellow who goes by the name “fluffy fox” found his way onto the walls of this underutilized florida dorm shower. as an avid personal hygiene enthusiast, fluffy has always been all too willing to provide grime-infested student bodies with his full rundown of [...]

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spotted by cara at a laundromat in ucluelet, british columbia…

related: it’s pat!

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our anonymous submitter, a college student in california, thought he was “flying under the radar” in his poetry class, but as later he discovered, the “stealth mode” setting on his ipod touch was a little buggy.

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writes monica in salt lake city, utah: “the hip abduction machine has been broken at my local gym for almost the entire year. the powers that be claim it will be fixed ’soon,’” monica says, but it looks like one fellow gym-goer decided to take up the issue with an even higher power.

related: evidently, yes

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we’ve received several copies of this instructive diagram, which the helpful illustrators of graph jam have made available to coffee watchdogs the world over.

seeing people print their passive-aggressive flow charts off the internet makes our resident nerd, eric, sentimental for simpler times. he quietly reflects on time spent wandering the halls of brown university’s CS [...]

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the spoon may lack the aggressive physique of its more acute brethren, the knife and fork, but make no mistake: it is the passive-aggressive utensil of choice.
why else would these spoons, spotted by melissa at her office in harlingen, texas, be assuming a leadership position among this group of discontented silverware? we received word of [...]

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“there’s a lot of foot traffic at a certain computer lab at our university,” says our submitter in ypsilanti, michigan, “but it can only seat 30 at a time.” in order to (in theory) alleviate the problem, and in practice, to give waiting students some new clip art to focus their rage upon, the university [...]

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our defendant, lee in austin, was just finishing off a travel-sized toothpaste from a recent business trip when lee’s roommate — apparently oblivious to this small change in routine — became convinced that lee was mooching off her tube of advance white.
“my roommate told my fake boyfriend that she had left me ‘a note,’ and [...]

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from canberra…

to london…

to washington, d.c…

…it seems like one thing everyone can agree on is the total obsolescence of print media.
(sigh)
related: love, apt. #3

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apparently, sayeth google analytics, the oh-so-clever phrase “if you sprinkle when you tinkle” is one of the most common search terms that leads people to this little website. (sorry to disappoint you, folks — no cross-stitch patterns to be found here!)
so, um, yeah…i’m gonna go curl up the fetal position and die now. i’ll leave [...]

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spotted in the basement of a church where people play bingo all the time, says yamis in garfield, new jersey, who adds: “i guess we know the demographics of the crowd.”

related: more like hardly working

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“my supervisor sent me this email because apparently someone in our office complained about my shirt,” writes our anonymous submitter in spokane, washington. “the shirt in question was a run-of-the-mill top with an empire waist…but as i’m currently 7 months pregnant, i could be wearing a turtleneck and still be showing ‘too much’ cleavage.”

related: “so [...]

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the icing on top here, says our submitter, is the second comment — the one from billy. why? because, well, that’s the guy slade just broke up with. (adds our submitter: “awkward pretty much sums it up.”)

related: please pick up your dirty laundry asap

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jen says this liquor store in chicago’s lincoln square is completely plastered with notes like these, but — vexingly enough — the guy at the register was such a hawk she was only able to snap a few photos. happily, i’d say jen scored a hat trick for insolence with these three.

related: free markets, free [...]

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