Emily in Richmond, Virginia says this note was recently posted in her apartment building, “right next to a note complaining about a) the tenants in the building that have parties and don’t clean up the beer that gets left in the hallways and b) the laziness of the dog owners in the building that don’t [...]
Entries Tagged as 'kids'
Launching a cannonball at the breeders
March 9th, 2010 · 258 Comments
Tags: exclamation-point happy! · fuck fuckity fuck fuck · kids · more aggressive than passive · neighbors · noise · richmond · spelling and grammar police
The joys of motherhood
March 2nd, 2010 · 138 Comments
Writes Sarah: “This note was written to me after I told my seven-year-old daughter to go to her room until she felt like being nice. I’m still trying to figure out what she really feels. Was it love mingled with regret…or slathering me with goodness in hopes of ending the misery in her room? Somehow [...]
Tags: art · heart · kids · moms & dads · not-so-veiled threats · signed with love · spelling and grammar police
Spoken like someone who has never tried to take a one-year-old shopping
February 15th, 2010 · 307 Comments
Alex and his wife, Kathy, have an 18-month-old son who, among other his hobbies, enjoys pulling off his socks and shoes at any opportunity. (Perhaps he’s a future marathon-running superathlete. Or, you know, a normal 18-month-old.)
Recently, Kathy took her son with her on a trip to the store in their hometown of Las Vegas (temperature: [...]
Tags: "helpful" advice · exclamation-point happy! · kids · moms & dads · strangers · unsolicited feedback
Look, Tooth Fairy, here’s the deal.
February 9th, 2010 · 126 Comments
“My wife and I have been busy lately,” writes Sean in Vancouver, “and we forgot to get the newly-lost baby tooth from under my daughter’s pillow. We finally remembered a few days later. When my wife went in to slip some money under the pillow, I could hear her trying hard not to crack up.” [...]
Tags: kids · p.s. · signed with love · vancouver
Just in case you haven’t gotten your daily fix of working-mom guilt…
January 28th, 2010 · 217 Comments
“During the past few weeks, our preschool-aged son has been trying to play games that are too violent for his classmates,” Juli says. “We’ve been trying to work on the problem with the teacher, but each morning’s drop-off has become a guilt and angst-filled time for me, in part because I can tell the teacher [...]
Tags: guilt trip · kids · moms & dads · smiley
I want to inform you
January 17th, 2010 · 43 Comments
Claire and her mom found this relic of childhood while going through a filing cabinet over Christmas. “Neither of us know what prompted it,” Claire says, “though apparently I was mad enough about something to write her this note, but not mad enough to go to bed without her telling me goodnight. Boy, was I [...]
Tags: houston · kids · moms & dads
you can have the inflatable bananas
September 28th, 2009 · 100 Comments
Katie in Scotland says she found this note “stuck to a wall at about knee-height, right above a very sad-looking deflated palm tree and a bunch of deflated inflatable bananas.” Unfortunately, Katie says, “i have no idea what the back story is…but I would love to, especially as the note writer seems to be a [...]
Takashi Murakami meets Lilly Pulitzer meets “no cuts, no buts, no coconuts”
September 22nd, 2009 · 127 Comments
Dee Dee in Virginia says her five-year-old daughter, Lilly, presented her with this card after Kindergarten last week.
“At first it seems like the usual ‘I love mommy’ card,” Dee Dee says, “but the back clearly addresses her irritation with the neighboring copycat whose use of hearts, stars, and flowers were infringing on my daughter’s copyrighted [...]
Unattended children will be shot.
September 13th, 2009 · 134 Comments
As previously discussed, this hamfisted attempt at wit remains the scourge of retail establishments the world over.
As it turns out, the umpteen-million variations are even more hilariously clever!
For example, while the original version merely confuses a lot of people, this one just seems like a bizarre incentive for child abandonment.
Quickly, however, things start to get [...]
Tags: kids · kinda creepy · oh no you didn't · retail hell
Daddy’s little smartass
August 16th, 2009 · 47 Comments
Nick in Florida was in his car one day, when he “pulled up at a light, looked to my left, and immediately started laughing.” He quickly pulled out his iPhone, snapped a photo, then get stepped on the gas before daddy dearest could get out and beat the crap out of him.
Meanwhile, Lisa in Maryland [...]
Tags: car · florida · kids · maryland · moms & dads · smartass · smiley
startin’ young
August 3rd, 2009 · 87 Comments
Shortly after the birth of her new nephew (a.k.a “Gee-Gee-Boo”), Liz in Waltham, Mass. received this note (channeling grandmothers everywhere) from the precocious 7-year-old daughter of her other sister. Writes Liz: “I love that she is simultaneously trying to guilt trip me into having a kid while not-so-subtly hinting that Baby G should move up [...]
Tags: family · guilt trip · kids · signed with love
p.p.s. do you really have a belly like a bowl full of jelly? if so, you might want to lay off the cookies
December 24th, 2008 · 42 Comments
writes lisa in orlando: “my 8-year-old daughter was concerned about all the pictures of santa portraying him with a whip. she wrote him this letter thinking he might appreciate her helpful advice on taking care of his animals.”
related: no girls allowed
Tags: "helpful" advice · florida · holiday spirit · kids · orlando · p.s. · signed with love
no girls allowed
April 18th, 2008 · 99 Comments
writes bailey in oklahoma: “my nine-year-old brother hung the original note on his door when i came home from college for christmas. after i laughed it off, he left a special note just for me. when i when walked in anyway, he yelled, “didn’t you see the sign?!?’ i can’t believe i’m being patronized by [...]
Tags: battle of the sexes · kids · siblings · visual aids
To be young
February 14th, 2008 · 60 Comments
Happy Valentine’s Day, kids!
(Thanks to Ron in West Jordan, Utah, who found this note taped to his front door.)
related: wake me up? wham!
Tags: kids · spelling and grammar police · spurned lover · utah
The “your mother doesn’t work here” of the hospitality industry
October 31st, 2007 · 215 Comments
My former roommate Eric inspired this roundup (and an overly dramatic round of gagging/hair-pulling/eye-gouging on my part) by passing along a photo of this sign spotted on Marco Island, Florida — though it could have been anywhere on Main Street, USA. (Note the small print at top, which reads: “Signs sold in our gift shop.”)
I [...]
market segmentation
September 25th, 2007 · 78 Comments
from jasmine in georgia…
Tags: excessive underlining · georgia · kids · neighbors · not-so-veiled threats

