Our submitter from Little Rock, Arkansas offers the following mea culpa: “I was heading to the pool this afternoon, and while loading my car (a blue Mustang) I set my cup of ice water on the ground. Unfortunately, after I finishing loading, I forgot about the cup and drove off.” After returning to her apartment complex, our submitter found the cup had reappeared next to her parked car — with the addition of the following note.
Sure, the notewriter could have simply thrown the cup in the garbage using half as much effort — and that might have been the classy, neighborly thing to do. But it’s the principle of the thing, you see: honest mistakes will not be tolerated!
related: I hope you don’t put children in this car.
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65 responses so far ↓
#1
Kevin
I think that is kind of flattering. Who doesn’t want to be called classy? I bet there’s a phone number on the other side of that note.
Jul 25, 2011 at 12:05 pm rating: 21
#2
Kelly
It would have been SO much “classier” to write in ALL cursive letters, and a red pen? Me thinks she must be a teacher who likes to scold her students…That is the antithesis for “classy”… Shame!
Jul 25, 2011 at 12:13 pm rating: 8
#3
CrabbyRabbit
Publicly commenting on the behavior of others is just as rude. And, if the jackass left the cup on the ground after obviously noticing it and leaving a nasty note, he or she is just as guilty of littering.
Jul 25, 2011 at 12:15 pm rating: 34
#4
redheadwglasses
I’m surprised the note writer also didn’t chastize the classy lady for using an earth-hating styrofoam cup. ; )
Jul 25, 2011 at 12:24 pm rating: 21
#5
alopes
Oh sure, “set it down by the car.” Sorry I’m on team neighbor, and I don’t believe it was an honest mistake, but a lifetime of lazy behavior (perhaps mixed with an honest mistake in this singular case)
Jul 25, 2011 at 12:28 pm rating: 38
#6
kat
I think there should be some kind of consequence for being a ditz because if everyone just got away with mindlessly (accidentally) leaving garbage around, we’d be knee deep. I’d totally write that note. Littering pisses me off to no end. I take at least 3 pieces of garbage out with me when I hike, if those are all accidents, we’re in trouble..
Jul 25, 2011 at 12:42 pm rating: 23
#7
kat
haha no, I’d throw it away, but the note would be on her windshield.
Jul 25, 2011 at 12:46 pm rating: 7
#8
dejahthoris
EWW…That’s kind of creepy in a stalker kind of way..
Jul 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm rating: 6
#9
thegreekmind
Okay, so it’s debatable to leave this note… but we can definitely do this when people leave dirty diapers lying around, right? ‘Cause I’ve seen that on multiple occasions, and it effing pisses me off.
Jul 25, 2011 at 1:07 pm rating: 13
#10
William Raillant-Clark
Well, to be fair, she DID litter…
Jul 25, 2011 at 1:08 pm rating: 8
#11
Larz Blackman
Accident or not, she littered. And that is shitty, so own it.
Jul 25, 2011 at 1:15 pm rating: 19
#12
aaa
Not capitalizing proper nouns is classy too.
Jul 25, 2011 at 1:22 pm rating: 4
#13
Quite Contrary
Pink cursive edged with self righteousness makes for the best kind of classy.
Jul 25, 2011 at 1:27 pm rating: 16
#14
finette
I will freely admit to leaving a note next to something that was left in my apartment parking lot…but it was a used condom. My complex, not so classy.
Jul 25, 2011 at 1:40 pm rating: 11
#15
ArikaM
OMG! Get a life, wierdo!
Jul 25, 2011 at 1:53 pm rating: 1
#16
Nope
What I want to know is how is this possible?
“After returning to her apartment complex, our submitter found the cup had reappeared next to her parked car…”
If she wasn’t at the apartment complex (presumably driving back there based on the rest of the submission’s story), then how could it be next to her *parked* car when she returned? Or are we to assume she has 2 cars exactly alike and the cup just so happened to be next to the other identical one not used for driving back?
And yes I get that we’re supposed to deduce that the submitter noticing the cup had re-appeared and returning to her apartment complex are supposed to be 2 separate events. I was poking fun at the wording.
Jul 25, 2011 at 2:03 pm rating: 0
#17
BrookeDiz
Is there no wind in Little Rock? Most places, both the cup and the note would have blown away long before Classy Lady got back from the pool.
Jul 25, 2011 at 2:57 pm rating: 1
#18
liddy
If I found that note all I would have seen is every word in that sentence except for “litters” and thought, “wow, that’s nice someone thinks I am classy and noticed my rockin’ stang !” Hows that for shallow?
Jul 25, 2011 at 7:59 pm rating: 7
#19
Canthz_B
Mustangs are classy in Arkansas?
Wow.
What’s a Lincoln Town Car considered there? A Royal Carriage?
Jul 25, 2011 at 11:34 pm rating: 5
#20
Canthz_B
How did they know the lithium was hers?
Jul 25, 2011 at 11:44 pm rating: 1
#21
Divvitar
Man, a PAN from Arkansas and there’s no opening for a comment on inbreeding!
Jul 26, 2011 at 1:53 pm rating: 1
#22
Thunder Cat
You didn’t like my note?! It was the only way I could think of getting you to notice me. I thought we could go out for tuna sandwiches and discuss our wedding plans.
Jul 27, 2011 at 10:05 am rating: 1
#23
raychel
I used to live in Little Rock and I amazed anyone there can read, write etc etc
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:01 am rating: 0
#24
Newspeak
Back in the day when we people carried day planners, I left mine on the roof of my car and drove away. It fell off in the street and a nice man later contacted me and returned it. He never accused me of being a litterbug, though.
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:31 am rating: 4
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