As a Valentine’s Day gift to you all, I present you with this epic love story (which Teddie in Minneapolis discovered pinned to the bulletin board in his apartment building).
Teddie’s love note to this love note: “I love that this person (he? she?) used commas, ellipses, and possibly a semicolon, but no periods. I also [...]
Entries Tagged as 'minneapolis'
Sonic Boo
February 14th, 2010 · 102 Comments
Tags: TLDR · ex drama · minneapolis · p.s. · runaway run-on sentences · spelling and grammar police · spurned lover · wtf? · xoxo · you call that punctuation?
Napoleon Dynamite Complex
January 4th, 2010 · 96 Comments
Writes our anonymous submitter in Minneapolis: “I received this note — and accompanying tater tots — from a co-worker (a balding, 40-year-old male) who had been making false reports about me to our manager and was caught doing so.” (We’re talking hardcore, premeditated sabotage here, so calling himself “a bit of a jerk” was probably [...]
Tags: minneapolis · office · unnecessary "quotation marks" · wtf?
The Kronic—what?—kles of Keith
July 30th, 2009 · 151 Comments
One lazy Sunday, when our anonymous submitter in Minneapolis spotted this bit of graphity on a wooden bridge at a park, “At first I thought it was sweet in a sad kind of way,” he says. But then he kept finding more — “on benches, picnic tables, even trees, and they got progressively more insane.”
And [...]
Tags: blitzkrieg approach · drugs · ex drama · heart · minneapolis · money · wtf?
and a happy new year to you!
January 2nd, 2009 · 39 Comments
Tags: holiday spirit · minneapolis · minnesota · office · parking
and my beef sandwich and my yogurt
February 28th, 2008 · 82 Comments
Tags: "helpful" advice · FYI · food · minneapolis · office fridge
More like hardly working
January 9th, 2008 · 133 Comments
Mara in Minneapolis ( average temperature in January: 12° F/-11° C) says the worst job she’s ever had was at a local thrift store — and not because of the crazy customers and their indiscreet use of the fitting rooms. No, like many workers, the crazy person driving Mara crazy was her boss — [...]
Tags: "helpful" advice · crazy boss · minneapolis · now that's management · retail hell · runaway run-on sentences · temperature
right back atcha
July 5th, 2007 · 87 Comments
kristin in minneapolis says her (23-year-old) roommate slipped this note under her door — along with three others, all on the same day. she explains: “this note was caused by my preference that the windows in the house be kept open during the summer and her preference that they be kept shut.”
the fine print says: [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · excessive underlining · minneapolis · more aggressive than passive · roommates

