“I don’t even like cats,” our submitter in San Francisco admits, “but reading the note made me want to go inside to see what someone would be so inclined to steal.”
related: Do not kiss on someone else’s kiss
“I don’t even like cats,” our submitter in San Francisco admits, “but reading the note made me want to go inside to see what someone would be so inclined to steal.”
related: Do not kiss on someone else’s kiss
Tags: cats · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · san francisco · stealing
This is one of those notes I’ve spent far too long puzzling over. The frustratingly random capitalization, the misuse of/missing punctuation, the center justification, and of course, THE BOX. WHY THE BOX?
Sir/ma’am, I will gladly supply you with as many Baby Ruths as you can stuff down your gullet if you can reconstruct the thought [...]
Tags: god · irregular capitalization · new york · office · stealing · wtf? · you call that punctuation?
writes our anonymous submitter in hartford, connecticut: “we’re not much for posting notes in our restroom at work., so the situation must have been pretty dire for someone to go to the trouble to craft this one.”
i appreciate the initial sentiment here — i really do. this website has already condemned the cutesy rhyme that [...]
Tags: bathroom · clip art catastrophe · disgruntled janitor · exclamation-point happy! · inappropriate word EMPHASIS · irregular capitalization · office · piss · stealing · toilet
Chris says this note was slipped under his apartment door by one of his “typically passive-aggressive Seattle neighbors.” And no, he adds, he hadn’t noticed. Perhaps because the door was lacking in aggressively punctuated parenthetical statements!! (Homeowners dues??)
Personally, I am just luuurving the nice little call-and-response rhythm this note has got goin’ on. I eagerly await [...]
Tags: confusion??? · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · neighbors · opening/closing · seattle · you call that punctuation?
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 [...]
Tags: blitzkrieg approach · chicago · irregular capitalization · obnoxious definition
As this sign from a Montgomery, Alabama break room shows, “PopCorn Users” remain one of the most persecuted groups in the workplace today.
related: bizarre pardoning accident
Tags: alabama · bold-underlined-caps · excessive underlining · gloriously redundant · highlighter · irregular capitalization · microwave · montgomery · office · popcorn
rodti and laura elizabeth spotted these charming examples of local scottish color outside an internet cafe in glasgow’s west end.
meanwhile, a grocery story elsewhere in glasgow displays a similar plea for clemency…one that seems intended for a similar clientele.
related: blame it on coke
extra credit: buckfast tonic wine [wikipedia]
the worst toilet in scotland [youtube]
Tags: "customer service" · CAPS LOCK · apostrophe abuse · exclamation-point happy! · glasgow · irregular capitalization · it's not my fault · pure poetry · spelling and grammar police · toilet · u.k.
in terms of the appropriate sympathetic nervous system response, an e-mail subject line like “big favor” is kinda the modern cubicle-dweller’s equivalent of “saber-tooth tiger outside cave!”
(note: this e-mail, our seattle-area submitter says, is from the very same person who brought us this.)
related: perhaps it’s time for a little group therapy?
Tags: all-staff e-mail · irregular capitalization · odor · office · oh no you didn't · seattle · thanks (but not really) · vomit
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 [...]
Tags: a little patronizing · irregular capitalization · neighbors · noise · san francisco · washington
Where do you suppose this “anomous” Tampa, Florida resident stands on the whole nature-vs.-nurture debate?
Interested? here’s a free preview!
related: your to lazy
Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · crazypants · dubious scientific claims · exclamation-point happy! · florida · gloriously redundant · irregular capitalization · kids today · moms & dads · neighbors · spelling and grammar police · tampa · the lawn · unnecessary "quotation marks"
spotted in a high foot traffic area of sausalito, california…
god bless the bay area.
related: gentrification is insanit(ar)y
Tags: bay area · california · confusion??? · irregular capitalization · neighbors · san francisco · sausalito
terri in d.c. found this sign-bedecked scooter outside her apartment hilarious for three reasons. first off, “the fact that one of those little squirrely-looking scooter guys got out his most aggressive art supply and wrote “fuck off and die” to a stranger.”
second, she says: “i live between two churches, a library, an elementary school, [...]
Tags: blitzkrieg approach · d.c. · die bitch die · irregular capitalization · questionable logic · stealing
Many offices, it seems, are a regular Disneyland of what only appear to be inanimate objects. The evidence?
From Frank in San Francisco, a sentient sponge:
From Amy in Annapolis, Maryland, a talking toilet:
From Ben in San Antonio, Texas, a talking door:
And then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in Washington, D.C. – a talking [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · annapolis · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · d.c. · irregular capitalization · maryland · microwave · opening/closing · san antonio · san francisco · texas · toilet
Thanks to Sarah for capturing this delicious little slice of life from her Christian college in Illinois. (Delicious like a quart of Starbucks Coffee Almond Fudge, not one measly little low-fat Frappucino bar.)
related: but He took the wheel
Tags: apostrophe abuse · excessive underlining · heart · ice cream · illinois · irregular capitalization · not-so-veiled threats · spelling and grammar police · touching · university · you call that punctuation? · you're like so going to hell
Hannah saw this note on the window of a small toy store in downtown Sarasota, Florida. “They are really cool about it,” Hannah says, ”but people still kiss the window.”
UPDATE: Jessica stopped by the same store recently (nearly two years later) and the sign is still up!
Tags: excessive underlining · florida · irregular capitalization · sarasota · that's unsanitary · wtf?
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 people [...]
Tags: apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · dogs · ellipses-crazed · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · park slope · saga · shit · unnecessary "quotation marks"
this delightful note comes to us from the wilds of suburban orange county, california. “there is a door at my school (a private college) that is constantly propped open,” explains amy, a grad student. “up until yesterday, the note on the door said, ‘please close door.’ i have NO idea about the microwave [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · microwave · o.c. · opening/closing · reverse psychology · spelling and grammar police · stealing · thanks (but not really) · university
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 got halfway [...]
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 · your/you're