Exhibit a) Spotted at a laundromat in Silver Lake by Jessica in Los Angeles…
Exhibit b) From Ronnie’s Diner, also in LA.., by Valerie:
Exhibit c) From Barnacle Bill’s in Sarasota, Florida:
Exhibit d) From, as Miranda explains, ” the local ‘community thrift store’ in Dahlonega, Georgia, where everything is donated, and all the people who work there…are volunteers. Raising the prices to compensate for the volunteers’ efforts? Makes TONS of sense to me!”
But (because the decision had to be made) I would say that this final note — spotted by Rusty at a b&b in Newfoundland — is my absolute favorite.
related: when you can’t blame the dog
158 responses so far ↓
#1
Joyful
I hope the mean lady who called the health department sees that sign.
Jul 28, 2009 at 11:17 pm rating: +16
#2
Meh
Due to certian circumstances like management actually having to get off their collective gargantuan ass and take resposiblity, we will no longer do our jobs and provide satisfactory customer service. You had better not blame us though. It’s obviously (insert random scapegoat here)’s fault!
Jul 28, 2009 at 11:22 pm rating: +9
#3
Canthz_B
Due to what circumstances has the laundry been closed? Has dirt resistant clothing finally been perfected?
The warp drive can’t be far away!
Jul 28, 2009 at 11:23 pm rating: +6
#4
Canthz_B
J.J. Taylor gives poor customer service because he drank all of the Miller Lite, Heineken, Amstel Light, Coors Light, Fosters and Sam Adams.
Jul 28, 2009 at 11:30 pm rating: +23
#5
kelli
You’re increasing prices because the free labor you’re using is having to spend more time putting things away? Go ahead and double what you’re paying them.
Jul 28, 2009 at 11:31 pm rating: +28
#6
Canthz_B
I’m glad dogs are no longer allowed on the patio.
Ugly people rob me of my appetite.
Jul 28, 2009 at 11:44 pm rating: +12
#7
zombieBlanco
I have condensed today’s offerings, for those dear readers who don’t like to waste time reading lots of sentences:
Don’t blame us, Crazy Lady. Due to extremely poor customer service by volunteers trying to organize, the decision HAD TO BE MADE.
Jul 28, 2009 at 11:57 pm rating: +20
#8
park rose
Considering the shaky writing in the last note, the note-writer was either cut up about the whole affair and their grief is reflected in their penmanship
OR
They were writing it on the last working (and currently working) washing machine. People were taking a bunch of washing machines and taking them home. Can you believe it????
Hence the Decision HAD TO BE MADE. No more laundry. Don’t BLAME Them.
Jul 29, 2009 at 12:00 am rating: +3
#9
meh
Hmm, just got an ad at the bottom of the page that’s asking me if I prefer coke or pepsi…
I guess it’s a submission late and 75 cents short.
Jul 29, 2009 at 12:06 am rating: +13
#10
Canthz_B
If they can’t let the dogs out onto the patio anymore, do they have to take “free-range” off of the menus?
Jul 29, 2009 at 12:13 am rating: +3
#11
Canthz_B
Waiter, what’s this flea doing in my soup?
I believe that’s the backstroke, Madam.
That’s it!! I’m calling the Health Department!!
You’re a mean person. You suck!
Jul 29, 2009 at 12:21 am rating: +8
#12
Canthz_B
If shoppers would just put a replacing things clause in their wills, we’d all save money.
Jul 29, 2009 at 12:36 am rating: 0
#13
mare
Never bothered to comment before but sorry: How can an increase be justified if it is based on increased VOLUNTEER time?
Jul 29, 2009 at 1:02 am rating: +3
#14
JetJackson
DAMN YOU CIRCUMSTANCE! My laundry won’t clean itself you know!
Jul 29, 2009 at 1:25 am rating: +15
#15
fluffy8u
I shop at thrift stores a lot and I find that nobody puts things where they belong. Not even the people working there. They just don’t really care. It’s a thrift store not Barney’s.
Jul 29, 2009 at 4:03 am rating: +12
#16
fluffy8u
Whoa! People are actually stealing the paper towels that you put on top of the despensers? That’s almost as crazy as putting the towels on top instead of inside the despensers. I just can’t believe it!
It’s insane!
Outrageous!
Ludicrous!
Jul 29, 2009 at 4:12 am rating: +5
#17
Wade
Now they are even stealing paper towels from the laundromat?
Man, that is trifling. And disgusting.
Jul 29, 2009 at 6:45 am rating: +8
#18
Kelly
Gah, gigglebrax fail.
Jul 29, 2009 at 6:48 am rating: +1
#19
supresmooth
The second note now violates federal ADA law, not just state/municipal health department regulations.
All signs specifically forbidding pets or animals MUST include phrasing similar to or expressing the same idea as, “except for service animals.”
Awesome. Violate a tiny rule and choose to refute it by violating a bigger one.
Fucking. Retarded.
Jul 29, 2009 at 6:59 am rating: +3
#20
park rose
Nothing to regret from Barnacle Bill’s. I’m assuming they’ve still got stocks of real beer (looking at the Millers, Coors and Fosters there, and the Litex4).
Jul 29, 2009 at 7:01 am rating: +2
#21
Woman on the Verge
Do you think JJ Taylor’s poor customer service is that he doesn’t offer bribes as big as the Budweiser distributor?
Jul 29, 2009 at 7:58 am rating: +2
#22
Phalange
The crazy lady just made the Baja Men cry.
Jul 29, 2009 at 8:12 am rating: +3
#23
A pig? hell no!
The Crazy Lady was just mad because the dogs kept chasing Mittens. If they had just provided a separate cat patio, none of this would have happened.
Jul 29, 2009 at 8:16 am rating: +3
#24
Flat Jack
Isn’t everything due to circumstances?
Jul 29, 2009 at 8:40 am rating: +1
#25
GhostWriter
Removing Sam Adams was the last straw.
First , they pulled both Southern Tier Iniquity and Unearthly, then Great Lakes’ Christmas Ale, and then Dogfish Head’s Punkin Ale. Last week I asked for a Ommegang Abbey Ale; it’s gone too!
JJ Taylor seems to have it in for a certain someone…
Jul 29, 2009 at 8:47 am rating: 0
#26
broke at the laundromat
Okay, I can’t believe no one else notice this, but miss Jessica took the laundromat note photo with a HELIO phone… What exactly is someone who can afford a helio doing at the laundromat?!
… stealing the paper towels, perhaps?
Jul 29, 2009 at 9:10 am rating: +2
#27
claw71
I can believe that somebody swipe paper towels right off of the dispenser and take them home. What I can’t believe is that the culprits are sending those paper towels to Pakistan in order to help the terrorists. Apparently those Islamic zealots like to wipe their hands after they use their fingers to scoop out their butt cracks after a big, stinky, hummus-induced crap.
Jul 29, 2009 at 9:40 am rating: +2
#28
aaa
Ten bucks that whoever at the bed and breakfast a giant pile of crap sitting right on top of the towels sitting in the washing machine.
Jul 29, 2009 at 11:00 am rating: +5
#29
Kelly
OMG! I live in Dahlonega, GA- the town with the asshole thrift store. That place is a disaster, I can’t imagine is being any more disorganized than it already is. Oh, and the people who “volunteer” are actually people doing community service.
Jul 29, 2009 at 12:03 pm rating: +4
#30
Quite Contrary
You think I *want* laundry?
Jul 29, 2009 at 12:48 pm rating: +1
#31
claw71
Mean people don’t suck. They aren’t always fun to be around but mean people are much easier to deal with than snotty little jerks who regularly engage in douche-baggery.
I’m a mean person. I’ll look you right in your eye and tell you that your kids are ugly,stupid and the product of an incestuous affair. I regularly step on old people’s heels and then plow over them when they fall. My favorite movie is Logan’s Run. Fuck old people. I’ll screw your wife whileyou’re golfing with the boss and leave the used rubber in your dress shoes. Then I’ll hand the video to your daughter when she’s at the office for career day. You don’t even have to piss me off, just annoy me a little. Piss me off and you’ll be a grandfather before you turn 50. Fuck the age of consent.
I like dogs and cats. Even annoying, yappy debutant accessories and those big monsters that pooped in my yard. When dogs piss me off I blame the people and I take it out on them. How? Well it’s pretty easy to stage an accident where you spill a frozen margarita all over the idiot who brought the unruly dog. It’s also easy to wait in the parking lot and call them in to the state troopers as a drunk drive who nearly ran you over. And then pointed a gun in your face as they drove off. My neighbor’s with the heavy shitters? A midnight dump in their chimney will handle that.
A mean person would never call the health department because mean people are assholes and not douche bags.
Jul 29, 2009 at 1:20 pm rating: +3
#32
Twitch
I will never understand people who dont like dogs. Not that I’m going to try. I feel very sad for people who are that way. Dog hair is a wonderful condiment.
Jul 29, 2009 at 1:39 pm rating: +9
#33
Jalla-peno
So, how many Newfie’s does it take to do the laundry? Five – one to load the machine and at least four to pick it up and spin it around.
The ‘circumstances’ referenced are the damage and injuries sustained while completing the first load.
Jul 29, 2009 at 4:09 pm rating: +5
#34
Stephanie
The decision didn’t have to be made, it HAD TO BE MADE.
Jul 29, 2009 at 5:49 pm rating: +2
#35
TheOldSchool
I’m intrigued by something in the second photo. The paper appears to be standard notebook paper, but it is larger in size than the woman standing by the car. Where does one go to purchase this giant paper?*
(And do NOT tell me the woman is a midget, because that would mean the car next to her was miniaturized, as well, and THAT, my friend, would be highly dubious, indeed. So, don’t even start down that path. It just leads to a dead end.)
* I also wonder how much the giant notebook would weigh while fully loaded with paper?
Jul 29, 2009 at 7:12 pm rating: +6
#36
Tish
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Jul 29, 2009 at 7:53 pm rating: 0
#37
ansco
how rude that they are charging for volunteers work, I thought they were volunteers and didn’t get paid for their time.
Jul 30, 2009 at 8:24 pm rating: 0
#38
stephizzal
oh it does make me laugh when people get all het up about those ‘filthy ANIMALS’ near their food (which is only more ironic if they’re eating meat). as long as the animals aren’t actually getting in the food or on the preparation surfaces, for me it’s the filthy humans with all their human pathogens that i worry about.
honestly, if you’re precious, stick your finger in a petri dish and leave the dish overnight. it’ll rock your world.
Jul 31, 2009 at 2:18 pm rating: 0
#39
Joanna
i can’t believe people are stealing the paper towels. WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE?! haha
Aug 11, 2009 at 9:31 pm rating: 0
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