my own neighborhood of park slope, brooklyn has high concentrations of dogs, babies, crazies and bloggers, which makes for a heady brew of incredibly well-documented passive-aggressiveness. certain notes (like this long-running series) show up in my inbox over and over again. i’ve gotten various iterations of this note from no fewer than six different [...]
Entries Tagged as 'dogs'
oh, shit!
November 11th, 2007 · 173 Comments
Tags: apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · dogs · ellipses-crazed · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · park slope · saga · shit · unnecessary "quotation marks"
your to lazy
October 15th, 2007 · 173 Comments
those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter, a GM at a property management firm in springfield, missouri for today’s masterpiece. “one of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “i [...]
Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parking · rhetorical question · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism
dr. freud’s salon scatologica
September 30th, 2007 · 97 Comments
presenting, for your analysis, this anonymous contribution from a hair salon in bettendorf, iowa (pop. 32,394). for the scatologically inclined vandal — and for putz’s owner — the unconscious issues at play appear to be anything but borderline. college psych majors: care to address which stage of psychosexual development is associated with passive-aggressiveness?
related: i can’t [...]
Tags: dogs · freudian shit · iowa · office · rebuttals · shit
the bark heard ‘cross the country
September 17th, 2007 · 203 Comments
so, our anonymous submitter had lived at her house in austin, texas for about two months when she went out of town for the weekend. for the two days while she was gone, she left her dog outside in the yard. three weeks later, her landlord – who lives at a completely different address — [...]
Tags: austin · dogs · neighbors
martyr complex much?
July 19th, 2007 · 78 Comments
sometimes, a little complaining is necessary.
(submitted by jeremiah in little rock, arkansas.)
Tags: arkansas · cleaning · dishes · dogs · money · roommates · shit
now you’re just bringing it on yourself, don’t you think?
May 20th, 2007 · 7 Comments
the latest in a well-documented series.
Tags: brooklyn · dogs · garbage · neighbors · park slope · shit · smiley

