Entries Tagged as 'california'
marc in san francisco spotted this at a restaurant in the haight called all you knead (have fun with those puns, kids). i can certainly empathize, but after reading some of the reviews…well, maybe there’s a reason the tips aren’t so great.
related: a friendly tip from your waitress
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Tags: "helpful" advice · a little patronizing · french · restaurant · san francisco · tourists
so, after seeing this note from daily piglet in columbia, south carolina:
and this one, from anna in providence, rhode island:
and this doozy from an anonymous san francisco office worker…
is it any wonder that this photo from afroswede’s flickrstream (and others) came to mind?
(meanwhile, over at bethany’s “blog”…u can touch this.)
related: can i lick […]
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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · exclamation-point happy! · providence · san francisco · south carolina · temperature · touching
nothing could have prepared lauren in oakland for the passive-aggressive avalanche that awaited her the other day at her new apartment. she calls the experience of finding the notes totally surreal. “it keeps playing back in slow motion in my mind, from the second i saw the first one hanging over the threshold to my […]
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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · chore wheel · cleaning · ellipses-crazed · oakland · roommates · spelling and grammar police
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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Tags: los angeles · not-so-veiled threats · pleasantries as afterthought · roommates · underlining
mishee was about to go ahead and just pay for that snapple…until she saw this colorful little note at a drugstore in sunnyvale, california. phew!
UPDATE: mishee (ever the overachiever) has returned to the scene to satisfy your curiosity about the signs behind the signs…and finds her snapple-drinking plans foiled in the process!
related: if it weren’t […]
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Tags: "helpful" advice · bathroom · california · frowny face · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"