Gail in Pennsylvania says the Ann Taylor Loft store at her local mall has a small table stocked with paper and crayons — “an offering to the busy mother who has been forced to bring her pesky little children along for a shopping trip.”
When she took a closer look at the table’s scribblings, however, she had to chuckle at the sitcom-like image of a grown man stuffed into one those kiddie-sized chairs. Adds Gail: “I wonder if Greg’s wife ever saw her wonderful husband’s little PA note to the world? Well, here’s her chance!”
related: Happy reinforcing gender stereotypes day!
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#1
infant tyrone
Kind of chuckling imagining Greg’s former 3rd grade teacher passing by and assigning him extra chair time for unnecessary quotation marks, unnecessary capitalization, and ending his sentence with a preposition.
She wouldn’t have assigned the punishment directly, of course.
She would have found Mrs. Greg in the dressing rooms and extended her stay there by giving compliments and asking time-consuming questions.
If a 3rd grade teacher isn’t passive-aggressive, s/he’s probably a rookie.
Late Edit:
Greg might have been taught to signify satiric or reversed-meaning words with quotes, capitalization, or underlining. If I had to bet, I’d bet that Heather @1.2 is where we would find most of the smart-money players.
Apr 9, 2010 at 12:17 am rating: 15
#2
Bcteagirl
Needs a frowny face of some sort… if he was waiting for long all sorts of pictures could be added
Apr 9, 2010 at 12:32 am rating: 1
#3
DS
If Greg was smart, he would have joined his wife in the dressing room for a private show and a little hanky-panky.
Apr 9, 2010 at 12:51 am rating: 5
#4
Cat Skyfire
Greg ended his sentence with a preposition.
Apr 9, 2010 at 1:11 am rating: 5
#5
Canthz_B
Greg Kilroy gives much more information than his grandfather offered during World War II.
Apr 9, 2010 at 1:13 am rating: 16
#6
Canthz_B
I once saw this same type of note in San Francisco, only differences were the guy was named “Shane” and “wife” was the word in quotation marks.
Apr 9, 2010 at 1:59 am rating: 10
#7
Mel K
Who talks about themselves in the third person?! I’d make arrogant “Greg” wait too. I bet he put a fake name in case his wife came over and saw his “artwork.”
Apr 9, 2010 at 2:29 am rating: 1
#8
Mel K
What a princess sitting there in his tiny chair!
I am sure he could have found something to try on instead of all the pouting.
Probably couldn’t find the silver crayon.
Apr 9, 2010 at 2:30 am rating: 9
#9
Stephanie
If Greg’s wife had been shopping at someplace more exciting, like Victoria’s Secret, or DomsRUs, he probably wouldn’t have been passive-aggressive. He’d just be aggressive in a rather sexual manner.
Shopping at Ann Taylor? Yeah, I’d be bored out of my damned mind.
Apr 9, 2010 at 5:22 am rating: 10
#10
Pterosaur
Greg’s a PA amateur. He should have brought his wife a size 28 to try. This would spur the usual body image argument. (“You think I’m FAAAAT!”) She’d banish his “insensitive” ass to the Chili’s next door, and he can relax with a beer like he wanted in the first place.
Apr 9, 2010 at 7:59 am rating: 17
#11
farcical aquatic ceremony
I don’t understand why anyone drags an unwilling partner or friend along when trying on clothes. I–a female person, btw–find clothes-trying-on boring as hell when I’m the one doing the trying-on of things; I’d totally expect someone forced to just WATCH the process to rip a mannequin’s arm off with which to beat themselves to death. Any woman who drags hubby or boyfriend to the mall and insists that they trail them from women’s clothing department to women’s clothing department deserves to have said hubby or boyfriend bitch & moan about them for wasting their precious away-from-work-hours. Time spent together satisfying one person’s shopping urges is NOT quality time. (Jeez, go for a hike together or park your butts in comfy chairs in the sun & read together for cripes sake.)
Apr 9, 2010 at 8:27 am rating: 25
#12
Mrs. C
The man must have been so bored. Should have gone into the dressing room with her.
Apr 9, 2010 at 9:25 am rating: 1
#13
Fuschia Grown
Scrawled on the dressing room wall:
“Greg’s wife was here waiting ‘PATIENTLY’ for Greg to quit sulking because that Victoria’s Secret cashier wouldn’t give him her number.”
Apr 9, 2010 at 10:00 am rating: 23
#14
molly ringwald
poor greg. at the sight of his wife trying on yet another ruffled blouse with matching cardigan, he becomes so enraged that he rips the baby blue crayon from an unsuspecting toddler’s hands and proceeds to write a third-person passive aggressive note that’s so passive, his wife will never even see it. i’m sure the sounds of children screaming and babies crying could be heard all the way from the food court.
Apr 9, 2010 at 10:04 am rating: 13
#15
chefgrrl
If “Greg” is lucky, his little PA wonder will be cross-posted on that unnecessary quotation marks site.
In addition, I’m not really sure that an aqua crayon is the best color choice in this scenario. The burnt orange that the apparently very angry toddler used would have been a more masculine choice.
Apr 9, 2010 at 10:25 am rating: 2
#16
GhostWriter
“Honey, of course I wasn’t creeping over to Hot Topic to ogle their Goth salesgirl with nipple rings that poke out under her black T-shirt while you were trying on clothes. As you can see, my alibi is plainly documented right here.”
Apr 9, 2010 at 10:48 am rating: 21
#17
Lisa
I stopped asking my husband to come shopping with me and he couldn’t be even more happier.
Apr 9, 2010 at 11:28 am rating: 3
#18
maceelaine
The crayons were f*cking delicious?
Apr 9, 2010 at 2:25 pm rating: 1
#19
aaa
And so why wasn’t Greg able to go to other stores or walk around or something while his wife was trying on clothes and then have her call him when she was done?
Apr 9, 2010 at 3:13 pm rating: 3
#20
Party in my pants
My husband’s idea… every clothing and shoe store should have a bar instead of that little chair outside of the dressing room. Take a look at the chair; it looks like the husband is in ‘time out.’
Apr 9, 2010 at 6:06 pm rating: 1
#21
Odious
Yet another person that can’t construct a proper phrase in English. (I know how to try on CLOTHES, but how do you try clothes ON? Can you try clothes OFF?)
Do we give high school diplomas to these people?
Every single freaking note is written at the 3rd grade freaking level!
Apr 9, 2010 at 11:10 pm rating: 2
#22
Escape Goat
I’ve never seen one of these crayon lounges outside a men’s dressing room.
Apr 10, 2010 at 2:47 am rating: 1
#23
Escape Goat
“Now, Greggy, you jus’ sit there like a good boy and play wif dah cray-wons. OK, my pookie-mookie?”
Apr 10, 2010 at 2:54 am rating: 2
#24
Rossy
Congratulations guys, you understand grammar rules. Keep up the good work, and you’ll get an extra cookie at snack time! Oh wait actually, this isn’t school, and all you get is a smug and inordinate sense of self-importance.
Apr 10, 2010 at 10:11 am rating: 2
#25
kr
I learned to leave kids and husband home when I shopped. Both much happier. I see women dragging little kids around to do their shopping and I think that is a mistake. Kids get wore out quickly. They don’t really understand why they can’t have stuff if you’re getting stuff. Pay a few bucks for a sitter if you need to, or get with a friend and work out an arrangement. I got a little off the subject but I really feel for the kids and the Moms and would really rather not witness a screaming hungry or nervous baby or another 3yr old having a tantrum in the checkout lane who is long overdue for a nap.
Apr 10, 2010 at 2:01 pm rating: 1
#26
jayayceeblog
I love the quote marks and all caps on the word “PATIENTLY!”
Apr 11, 2010 at 2:46 am rating: 1
#27
Maaya
i dont know what everybody is on about i love it!
Apr 11, 2010 at 4:50 am rating: 1
#28
Blogmella
With all that time to kill, you’d think he would have done a better drawing.
Apr 11, 2010 at 9:09 am rating: 2
#29
Geek_kittie
This is kind of cute. Props to the men in my life who have waited around for me to try on clothes. (Although I tend to know better than to take them with me on such adventures.)
Apr 11, 2010 at 10:05 am rating: 1
#30
oi
so are we getting new note or what? Word is changed to this one.
I am going to be first.
Apr 11, 2010 at 1:59 pm rating: 1
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