this first note was posted in the bathroom of the gay pride center in new brunswick, new jersey; the second, in the bathroom of the rhode island department of health in providence.
i’d probably recommend steering clear of the kitchen sinks at both facilities.

related: a filthy hap pit

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spotted in the basement of a church where people play bingo all the time, says yamis in garfield, new jersey, who adds: “i guess we know the demographics of the crowd.”

related: more like hardly working

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our anonymous submitter in new jersey found this note taped to every apartment door in his complex. “we do indeed have a problem with feral cats in our neighborhood, but my sense is that they’ve been around for many (cat) generations…not that people are buying new ones.”

adds our submitter: “now that i think about it, [...]

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jasy from laurel, maryland spotted this beauty while driving down the jersey turnpike.
“i’m dying to know just how blasphemous denise is to deserve the sign,” jasy says, “but is it really that surprising that the antichrist would claim jersey as home base?”

related: no, He uses vaseline
extra credit: “hey, look our toll plaza over” [nytimes.com]

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i thought it was pretty crazy when jessie sent in this sign from a thrift store in wilmington, north carolina a few months back…

then ashley sent in this eerily similar note from a thrift store in barnegat, new jersey. seriously, what is it about thrift stores that makes people want to shit in the fitting [...]

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PES picked this note out of an apartment building in newark, nj in 2004 because he loved the paragraph, which is oh-so-amazing. add in the peculiar diction and the glorious redundancy of it all, and you’ve got one fucking delicious note.

p.s. for more deliciousness, be sure to check out the stop-motion shorts at eatpes.com.

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thanks to gina in flemington, n.j. for forwarding along these e-mails between a coworker and her former roommate regarding a $22 gas bill. click to enlarge!

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semarr prefaces this submission by saying: “i realize it’s not particularly *passive* aggressive, but in context it became so.” she explains:
“there were 8 people living in the house. one of them collected shelter cats and kept them in the basement. i found this note when I had come home from work very late at night. [...]

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an anonymous submitter in jersey writes, “these ‘motivational signs’ are posted up in the photocopy room. i guess we’re supposed to pause and reflect upon whether we’re performing to the best of our abilities while waiting for our packets to cycle through the copier. all that the second one is missing is the ‘…shall we?’”

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from an auto shop somewhere between new york and atlantic city…

at first glace, this doesn’t seem to fit the criteria for a true passive-aggressive note — observe the absence of faux niceties like “please” or “thanks!!!”– but the pseudo-helpful clarification (”this means pants + shirts as a single unit…”) help inch it just over the [...]

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