PassiveAggressiveNotes.com » Los Angeles

Well, Randy Newman? Let’s hear you write an Oscar-winning song about a dirty sponge.

Kerry — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:38:16 +0000

Kate in Los Angeles likened this office post-it pile-on to “the Toy Story of the office kitchen — when you’re away, all of the inanimate objects start talking.”

So…Dreamworks, Pixar — let’s talk options, shall we? (“It’s Toy Story meets The Office — a guaranteed hit in all four quadrants!)

Signed, R. Mutt

Kerry — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:18:53 +0000

What’s wrong with America today? If you ask Jason in Los Angeles, it’s people who don’t return their shopping carts. At least, that’s the action that prompted this note (which was originally attached the the upright cart itself).

That note, in turn, inspired this Dadaist creation:

related: Untitled (Broken Glass)

What’s harder than changing the toilet paper roll?

Kerry — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:23:03 +0000

Well…lots of stuff.

And yet, somehow, the employees at this office in Edmonton still can’t quite make TP happen. (Maybe wrestling grizzlies is more their forte?)

Perhaps a visual aid (like this one from a Los Angeles apartment share) would be helpful?

Or maybe just a bit more encouragement would push someone over the edge?

(Probably not, though.)

How NOT to raise your neighborhood’s property values

Kerry — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:43:43 +0000

Tim lives in Northwest D.C., “at the front of the gentrification wave” flowing east from Dupont Circle. “We have (only) one rundown/uninhabited house on the block,” Tim says, “and this morning one of the other neighbors decided to mow the front lawn to tidy it’s appearance a bit.” While taking out the trash later that evening, Tim noticed that his neighbor’s good deed had been rewarded by this neighborly thank-you note.

(As far as the smell goes…perhaps some people were under the same mistaken impression as those near this West Hollywood residence?)

related: Gentrification is insanit(ar)y

Why can’t we all just get along?

Kerry — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:05:18 +0000

Hey, here’s some advice! If you’re looking to improve your relationships with your roommates, communicating through the erasable whiteboard might not be the most effective way to go.

(Above, from a sorority house in L.A.; below, from a shared apartment in Chicago.)

Violent (but amusing) threats

Kerry — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:40:44 +0000

So, which of these warnings would most readily scare you into compliance?

Exhibit a) from an alley in York, U.K.

Exhibit b) from a sharehouse in Australia

or Exhibit c) spotted by Robert on a film shoot in Los Angeles?

related: Wishin’ and hopin’

But…the economy sucks back home

Kerry — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:23:29 +0000

“The other morning,” says our submitter from Los Angeles, “my boyfriend found this typed (on an honest to goodness typewriter!) note left for him on his windshield.” (Another car on the block with out-of-state plates had a similar message.)

“We’re not sure if the WeHo suggestion was meant to be homophobic or to imply we should be hanging out with our pals Heidi and Spencer at Hyde. Since we are neither gay nor from the cast of the Hills, it’s hard to say.”

Gee, that’ll show ’em

Kerry — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:25:58 +0000

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

Spit & vinegar

Kerry — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:29:15 +0000

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.”

Southern California: it’s hard out here for a goth

Kerry — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:52:28 +0000

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, Sam in Pomona snapped this photo at the local Wal-Mart. Will this persecution never end?!

related: I know where she lives

Oh, sure, blame it on the housekeeper

Kerry — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:05:05 +0000

Says Corrine in Los Angeles: “I walked into my friends’ building and saw these posted ALL OVER.” (Trifling much?)

related: come get some

Desperately seeking closure

Kerry — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:30:06 +0000

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. (Zen? Desperate? Really, really flexible?)

Adds Nate: “I particularly appreciate how he gives Roberto the option to improvise.”

related: Tant pis, mon amie

Putting the “X” in “X-mas”

Kerry — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:27:09 +0000

“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: two birds with one snowman

And a Happy Halloween to you, too

Kerry — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:50:39 +0000

Spotted by Lange from Cambridge, Massachusetts while campaigning for Obama in New Hampshire. Says lange: “We 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 in the office after already ‘decorating’ the office with empty candy containers,” says our submitter in Los Angeles.

In Oakridge, Oregon, however — as our submitter Tyree noticed — they don’t go in much for subtlelty.

related: Pumpkin with a death wish