Exhibit a) The “urban” example, from the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A…

Exhibit b) The equally ineffectual suburban cousin of exhibit a, from “a quiet, small community in San Diego where the residents are basically all over 50.”

related: bleak house

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Writes Matt in Los Angeles: “I went to get some of the 2% milk I keep in our communal work fridge for my coffee, and BAM! — front and center was this lovely.”

related: and I’m singing “uh oh” on a Friday night

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jennifer in echo park admits that she stole this note under the cover of night, (she found it stuck with silver electrical tape to the back of a battered electrician’s work truck) BUT, she contends, ” i would never ever steal someone’s leather pants (out of their truck). i am not a monster.”

meanwhile, claudia’s friend [...]

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says corrine in los angeles: “i walked into my friends’ building and saw these posted ALL OVER.” (trifling much?)

related: come get some

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nate’s sister heather found this note (written on a bus schedule) outside their house in los angeles. “i’d like to think dan took a bus to surprise roberto, only to be given the cold shoulder,” nate says , but we can only speculate about the nature of dan’s attitude towards the future of this relationship [...]

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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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spotted by lange from cambridge, mass. while campaigning for obama in new hampshire. says lange: “decided against bugging them with our political spiel. (we assumed they were obama supporters anyway.)”

meanwhile, corporate belt-tightening isn’t going over so well with the office grunts this halloween.  “this was the response to the environment/holiday committee’s lack of halloween candy [...]

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our anonymous submitter in california — pleading innocence — says she was singled-out with this note in a barn that houses 60 other horses and their hay.

this note’s lack of obvious sitcom-ish puns — with the exception of “breeding good vibes” — makes me think that maybe i’ve been doing this too long…or perhaps that [...]

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tina is los angeles didn’t have any problem with her roommate’s friend couchsurfing at their apartment for a month, but both she and her roomie started to get irked when the friend started inviting other friends to stay over — and then kept doing it, even after the roomie expressly asked her not to. “the [...]

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Two heartwarming notes brimming with compassion and holiday cheer!

related: a holiday wish

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Casey from Shreveport, Louisiana spotted this on the Coke machine in the office break room. she clarifies: “Henry G.’s comment is in reference to the increase in price, not Katie’s wanting more Coke Zero.”

Meanwhile, Breanna in L.A. saw this somewhat amusing notice in a liquor store on the corner of Hollywood and Wine. (“Did someone [...]

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says our anonymous contributor from los angeles: “this is page three (!) of a three-page letter of complaints from my wife’s (ex) office manager to the heads of the company.” apparently one of her coworkers, jake, merited his own page. (no word on how this went over with the bosses.)
click to enlarge!

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Anna brings us this charitable little note from the her apartment building in London, Ontario.
“Anytime Stan” — proof that Canadians really are the nicest people on earth?

Meanwhile, in Milwaukee…

And lastly, a vaguely dadaist interpretation, in what very well may be another one of L.A.’s elevator-cum-film sets.

related: cross-country elevator action

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Mona in Los Angeles brings us this pair of notes from her high-rise Century City office building.  Says Mona, “Apparently my co-worker saw the panties at issue. My question is…who leaves their panties in the bathroom at work?  Who does that?”
My question: Why are we letting Paris and Britney off the hook? If they actually [...]

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Looks like both the Mad Bomber and Richard G. Sells have West-coast counterparts:

Grossed out? Yeah, me too. Blame Gregory in Los Angeles for documenting this one (!!!)
related: The Mad Bomber, Act 1: “Sorry about the language”

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first, i’ll let stephanie in los angeles explain the context for this one: “after a night of drinking, i let a friend of mine crash with me at my apartment. this friend, who does have her own apartment in the city, left with me in the morning, yet i still received this email from my [...]

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(charlie in los angeles did not eat your lunch.)

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One of these notes is from Los Angeles; one is from Lexington, Kentucky. Can you guess which is which?

(Thanks to Eve in Kentucky and Natalie in L.A. for submitting.)

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This exercise in redundancy is brought to us by Erika in Los Angeles. It’s like the note-writer couldn’t decide which tactic would be most effective and just opted for all of the above.

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