jonathan, john and michael  share a roof deck with their next-door neighbors in san francisco, who jonathan says “repeatedly, and seemingly sincerely, invited us to use their barbecue grill any old time.”
one weekend, jj&m decided to take them up on their offer. they organized a small cook-out for friends and invited the neighbors to join. [...]

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while returning a long-lost battery charger, kaitlin’s dad echoes the sentiments of parents with adult children everywhere.

meanwhile, sarah in greenville, s.c. shows the downside of giving in to parents’ nagging for unfettered access.

related: why you should not be facebook friends with your parents

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writes our anonymous submitter from san francisco: “i bought $50 worth of groceries at trader joe’s, my boyfriend made an awesome pizza out of [some of] them, and as we were watching a movie and eating some, my uber-bachelor roommate yelled through the door and asked if he could get a slice. the man has [...]

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writes our anonymous submitter in san francisco: “i spotted this on the sidewalk on my way to work. (it wasn’t obviously attached to anything, just laying there.)  i realize parking in SF is a real nightmare, with driveways every .03 inches, but come on!

related: how berkeley

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presumably, writes chris in san francisco, the note-writer “figured that if she didn’t put a note on all each offending bag, someone was going to feel left out.”

adds chris: “admittedly, the kashi cereal box in the back has been there for over two years.  i leave it just as an experiment in human behavior, but [...]

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quelle horreur!  “a good week after using my roommate’s microplane to grate parmesan, this note showed up on the fridge whiteboard,” writes tori in (where else?) san francisco. “apparently microplanes are for ZESTING ONLY!”

(unless, of course, it’s a microplane zester/grater.)
related: notes white people leave

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veronica spotted this gloriously expressive exercise in futility stapled to a telephone pole near her home in san francisco. i totally forgive the double p in “apartment,” because dude,  i know exactly how you feel.
also, the idea of someone ripping off one of those tabs and going “why yes, i will fuck myself!” is just [...]

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so, kevin in san francisco says his friend’s roommate went on three “hang out at a bar” dates with this guy from france. after the third date — in admirably straightforward fashion — he told french guy it wasn’t wasn’t working out and he didn’t want to see him anymore. (you know, the old “it’s [...]

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tom took notice of this “open letter” — a thoughtful missive that clearly merits our collective attention — on a telephone pole in san francisco.
if we’re really lucky, perhaps this richard asshat character will grace us with an open response in the comments, whiteblizzard70-style?

(note: for your further enrichment, here’s a less faded graphic of the [...]

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happy thxgiving, everyone!

related: it takes a “genius” to come up with a potluck theme like this one

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writes coco: “[about a year ago,] while visiting home (charleston — south carolina’s lone bastion of remote liberalism) — i left my ‘is it 2008 yet?’ sticker-adorned car in san francisco’s outer richmond district for friends to babysit. upon my return, my friend presented me with this note, which had been left on my windshield [...]

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our submitter, b., was shopping at a shoe pavilion in san francisco when she realized she really needed to use the facilities. although there was no public restroom in sight, she did spy the familiar infographic just beyond a doorway marked “employees only.” when she ducked inside, b. was greeted by this sublimely creepy warning [...]

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joe six-pack in san francisco never actually got this note, because our own passive-aggressive pit bull secondsout swiped it from under his windshield wiper. again, my understanding is that he recused himself,  but i don’t want to talk about that: i’d like to talk about energy.

and also, too, under the umbrella of job creation, therefore:

related: [...]

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need another sign we’re officially in a recession? how ’bout three?
    
 

related: “no” questions asked

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omar says he found this tucked underneath the windshield his car in noe valley, a neighborhood of san francisco “inhabited by self-centered jackasses — myself included, if you believe this note.”

adds omar: “i should clarify: the author of this masterpiece is talking about residential street parking, not a private/public lot with clearly designated lines or, [...]

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christoph found this polite and friendly note on the door of his apartment in san francisco. a reasonable enough request, to be sure, except for the fact that — despite his neighbor’s claimed omniscience — “i don’t own any exercise equipment.”

(admits christoph: “it was likely a swivel chair…and my habit of rolling back and forth [...]

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spotted in a high foot traffic area of sausalito, california…

god bless the bay area.
related: gentrification is insanit(ar)y

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“i work for a pretty awesome nonprofit, where people are amazingly laidback, accepting and non-OCD,” says our anonymous submitter in san francisco — so this note came as something of a surprise.

adds our submitter: “i have to admit, seeing the newspaper on top of the toilet tank the previous week had kinda gotten on my [...]

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sure, it’d be easier and quicker to just clean it up. but the modern passive-aggressive (like katey in berkeley’s ex-roommmate) can’t pass up the opportunity to make a point.

a common variation on the van der rohe approach, as documented below by sam in dallas, is the so-called “reverse magritte.”

meanwhile, post-modern passive-aggressives (like this new [...]

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ellen in san francisco says this note is but the latest development in what has become a toilet paper-thin relationship with her passive-aggressive roommate. it started two months ago, she says, when her roommate “decided after six months of sharing that i was no longer allowed to use her toilet paper. i should mention that [...]

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