Entries Tagged as 'chicago'

Can you dig it?

February 21st, 2010 · 360 Comments

“When I first moved to Chicago,” says Mike, “my grandfather told me about parking in the winter. One would dig out a spot and insert a chair, reserving the spot for your trouble.” One of his neighbors, it seems, didn’t get the benefit of such grandfatherly wisdom.

Neither, apparently, did Chris…who made the mistake of parking [...]

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Tags: chicago · etiquette · neighbors · parking · snow

And you thought college students were foul…

January 10th, 2010 · 70 Comments

“I live in a condominium building that is popular with the elderly,” writes our submitter from the Chicagoland area. Recently, he says, the building’s board of managers put copies of this note in everyone’s mailboxes and posted it in the lobby (so guests wouldn’t be spared the details, either.)
Adds our submitter: “I don’t know what’s [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · chicago · disturbingly detailed · old folks · shit · that shit is disgusting

Buy curtains. Please.

October 5th, 2009 · 160 Comments

Writes Michael in Chicago: “Apparently, some of our neighbors had a problem with us being naked in our apartment.” Without knowing any other details of this situation, I’d have to say:
a) “Be more private with yourself” is a phrase I am going to try to work into future conversations whenever possible.
b) Michael, while I 100% [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · chicago · neighbors

J-school today: from a dying medium to a dead horse

June 4th, 2009 · 119 Comments

This note — spotted by Erik in a break room at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism — takes me back to my days as a bright-eyed young reporter cheerfully slaving away at my college daily, where the grizzled old alumni “mentors” working at the Times or the Globe always seemed to have the same advice:  [...]

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Tags: chicago · kids today · thanks (but not really) · university · xoxo

i’m not a doctor, but i was an extra on ER once?

December 3rd, 2008 · 150 Comments

jen says this liquor store in chicago’s lincoln square is completely plastered with notes like these, but — vexingly enough — the guy at the register was such a hawk she was only able to snap a few photos. happily, i’d say jen scored a hat trick for insolence with these three.

related: free markets, free [...]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · chicago · irregular capitalization · obnoxious definition

the silverware segregationist

November 13th, 2008 · 165 Comments

i’d say this whiteboard notice — from a student at northwestern university in evanston, illinois — is neck-and-neck with this for “most unnecessary and inappropriate analogy ever.”

‘plex, by the way, refers to (in the words of our anonymous submitter, the note’s recipient) a northwestern residence hall, foster walker complex, “that’s full of disinterested seniors and [...]

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Tags: a little insensitive · chicago · illinois · roommates · university · whiteboard

crying over sour milk

January 29th, 2008 · 127 Comments

ashley in chicago says her roommates are the king and queen of passive-aggressive notes. (“if they ever found this site, they’d think it was a self help group,” she says.) the latest example:

ashley’s still fuming over this one. “i mean, come on just throw it away yourself! you’re probably exerting more energy writing the email [...]

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Tags: chicago · cleaning · fridge · roommates · would you mind?

excuse me, I believe you have my stapler

September 19th, 2007 · 266 Comments

attention: corporate emergency in the chicagoland area!

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Tags: a little uptight · and that's an order · chicago · crazy boss · excessive underlining · not-so-veiled threats · office · office supplies · seattle · spelling and grammar police

more from the frontlines of post-post-feminism

August 17th, 2007 · 131 Comments

says kristi in chicago: “this was from our receptionist to the ENTIRE office except, for some reason, me (thanks to my other co-worker for forwarding it and including me in the fun). it’s her job to order supplies and put away deliveries. someone signed for a delivery of paper and apparently the receptionist doesn’t like [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · chicago · comma diarrhea · e-mail · moving/not moving · office · spelling and grammar police

Don’t hate the playa

August 12th, 2007 · 114 Comments

Our anonymous submitter lives in a 30-story condo building in Chicago. Her father works in the same building, and received this note in the suggestion box.
“I found the letter slipped under my door one day,” she says. “My dad had put it there after reading it with his boss. I’m sure he’s damn proud of [...]

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Tags: chicago · danger · drugs · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · moms & dads · neighbors · noise · nonsensical spacing · not-so-veiled threats · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police