Our anonymous submitter in Toronto spotted this note — one copy in the elevator, and three copies taped to a couch that had been left near the dumpster in the building’s parking lot.
Dear Sir: Your “behaiviour,” spelling, and poor understanding of evolutionary theory don’t suggest that you graduated at the top of your class, either.
related: Who says Canadians are nice?
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51 responses so far ↓
#1
Hannah
Harsh, but the note writer is correct; dumping furniture when at an apartment complex is not allowed. We have this issue in my building and it doesn’t get collected with the trash unless big fees paid, so it stays there looking ugly.
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:40 pm rating: 35
#2
nick
the writer of this note sounds like an axe wound. i wish i knew them so i can punch them in their self righteous face. someone this uptight is the main cause of why “evolution takes so long”.
couches left by a dumpster are taken by the city as they are just considered oversized items.
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:43 pm rating: 7
#3
Marnee
But without a porch couch, err parking lot couch, where will the homeless people sleep?
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:47 pm rating: 20
#4
Ms Ann Thropic
While I think that the letter writer is a pretentious tool, he’s got a point. I figure if the dumper got the couch as far it is, why not just dispose of it properly? Around here, if it’s in the Dumpster, it goes.
Sep 10, 2012 at 10:04 pm rating: 9
#5
Limeliberator
Let’s be honest here. “You’re the reason evolution takes so long” is destined to be a classic line. In fact, I can’t wait to use it tomorrow on one of my co-workers.
Sep 10, 2012 at 10:31 pm rating: 63
#6
cmz
I’m Canadian and have to say, there must be something about multiple notes in Toronto. Last visit I saw three flower boxes side by side, each with the same note attached – about someone stealing their recycling bin.
The super has a right to be pissed. He should go door to door and see who is either missing a couch or has a brand new one, but he likely won’t cos he’s Canadian.
Sep 10, 2012 at 11:08 pm rating: 6
#7
AW
I find the ALL CAPS the most offensive part of the note. The person who wrote the note has a bit too much free time on their hands but the person who left the couch is an asshat. The misspelling of “behaiviour” is only partly wrong. We spell it “behaviour” in Canada, eh?
Sep 10, 2012 at 11:24 pm rating: 6
#8
SeeYouInTea
I don’t live in an apartment, but whenever I have big trash items (TVs, furniture, etc) I call Hannah’s Home to come and pick it up, because our trash people won’t pick it up.
Sep 10, 2012 at 11:41 pm rating: 0
#9
Missy
TEAM NOTE WRITER! It was one typo (behaiviour) and it is sooo annoying when people leave furnishings out and expect that the garbage men will collect them
Sep 11, 2012 at 12:19 am rating: 12
#10
makfan
Boy, improper disposal of crap is such a universal problem. Does anyone have any story of a case where leaving a note actually made a bit of difference?
Sep 11, 2012 at 1:13 am rating: 3
#11
Tatterdemalion
Man, harshing on the poor, much?
Not everyone has a vehicle available to them, believe it or not… and usually people who dump an old couch at an apartment complex have just moved out of it (often, because they can’t afford the rent) so most likely they haven’t even seen the note. But sure, note writer, have a good cry in print if it makes you feel like your own position is any less precarious.
Sep 11, 2012 at 3:56 am rating: 6
#12
Smokey
My town requires an appointment, $50.00, and that you put a sofa, in your own parking spot to be disposed of……….Go team note writer!
Sep 11, 2012 at 5:47 am rating: 2
#13
The Elf
Kind of sounds elitist, though, doesn’t it? They could have gotten the message across without putting his nose in the air about it. FWIW, my grandfather did have an 8th grade education. Like many farmer’s sons, he dropped out to help his parents around the farm. After WWII, he moved to the rust belt and built cars in the manufacturing boom, and in doing so was able to give his children the education opportunities he didn’t have. They all finished high school and some finished college. In any case, he wouldn’t have left refuse strewn about because he was very, very proud of his property. He also wouldn’t have thrown away anything that was at all repairable or useable, like many who grow up poor.
People with “rich parents” generally don’t have kids who drop out, so the note is internally inconsistent. They might be too spoiled rotten to do anything with their lives, but chances are good they made it through high school, even if the parents had to pay off the school officials to let them graduate. Money talks.
Try again, note-writer! And this time, stick to the facts.
Sep 11, 2012 at 7:54 am rating: 7
#14
Dane Zeller
I just don’t understand. You put a little cupcake in the office refrigerator and someone steals it. You put a perfectly good couch and blanket in the hallway, and no one takes it. People, how are we going to get things distributed properly if we can’t count on public theft!
Sep 11, 2012 at 8:14 am rating: 41
#15
AP
The health department in my city goes around putting orange stickers with pictures of bedbugs on thrown-out sofas and mattresses on Move Out Day. No one wants used furniture any more, unless they know and trust the original owner.
But yeah, I never understood why people get all bent out of shape when people move out and throw away furniture that doesn’t fit in the truck, and OMGZ it’s at the curb. Where else are they supposed to put it, next to the three trash barrels in the building basement?
Sep 11, 2012 at 9:55 am rating: 2
#16
Kwyjor
Perhaps whoever left the couch there should have attached a note to it advising the reader that it was clean and in good condition and emphasizing that he hoped someone might make use of it?
Now, if it really was total rubbish shredded to pieces and missing the cushions, that would be a different matter.
Sep 11, 2012 at 9:57 am rating: 1
#17
Poltergeist
Boy, I’m glad I don’t live wherever the hell you people live. In my apartment complex, we are free to dispose of furniture by placing it by the dumpsters and it is taken away within a reasonable time frame. In fact, this is the best place to place large unwanted items because on many occasions, it’ll be gone the next day when somebody else in the complex takes it.
Frankly, I don’t know what else you people would have had us do with it. We have no place to store it, nobody who wanted it, and we needed it out of our apartment for the new furniture. We don’t have a truck to take it somewhere, and we don’t have extra money to spare on getting rid of unwanted things (new couches were a gift).
I’m sorry our couches would have soiled your otherwise pristine view of our dumpsters and parking lot, but you’ll get over it. And no, the notewriter doesn’t have a point. 3 postings of the same note in all caps, insulting the appearance of the couch and the intelligence/evolutionary impact of the person who was probably just trying to make room in his/her apartment. Classic signs of an insecure person looking for just about any excuse to feel superior to somebody else, or in other words – an asshole.
There, I feel better now. Carry on.
Sep 11, 2012 at 10:23 am rating: 16
#18
8lackie
First world, white people problems.
Sep 11, 2012 at 10:55 am rating: 7
#19
annepanny
AND! That’s a motherfucking Missoni for Target bedspread. Fuuuuuuuuuck.
Sep 11, 2012 at 12:55 pm rating: 2
#20
Amy in Toronto
I’ve lived in apartment buildings in Toronto for most of my adult life and I’m frankly surprised that this piece of furniture didn’t get swiped almost immediately. I once left a damaged motorcycle helmet in the area next to our dumpster (with a note saying that the helmet was no longer safe since it had been in an accident) and someone still took it.
There’s no excuse for leaving it for days at a time. Toronto is part of Freecycle, where there is always SOMEONE who wants your s@#! so long as it’s free.
Sep 12, 2012 at 12:16 pm rating: 2
#21
Jessi
Maybe they left it there in case someone else might want to take it. I see furniture sitting outside a lot around here, college town, and it usually gets picked up by students who want it. I only saw the one spelling mistake, some common grammar mistakes, though.
Sep 12, 2012 at 2:45 pm rating: 0
#22
Zorin
Another vote for “someone else might be able to use it”. In our neighborhood we frequently leave large unwanted furniture on the curb. Often it is gone within hours as someone sees it and decides they can make use of it.
I’d rather do this than just take it to the dump; what’s the sense in putting more stuff in a landfill when someone can keep using it? This is recycling at its absolute best.
Sep 13, 2012 at 3:29 pm rating: 1
#23
spike
Stupid, lazy, clueless, selfish, inconsiderate trolls are everywhere, throughout the world.
Sep 20, 2012 at 8:23 am rating: 0
#24
mike
Not exactly passive, but funny lol
Sep 20, 2012 at 6:58 pm rating: 0
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