Our anonymous submitter found this on his keyboard at work one morning. His sheepish explanation? “I guess I really get into the music on my iPod…”
Admittedly, the note-writer has a point — that shit is annoying, yo! — but the contrarian in me still thinks the rest of the office needs to chip in and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'music'
tap tap revenge
May 19th, 2009 · 158 Comments
Tags: arizona · music · noise · office · scottsdale
On jamming
April 1st, 2009 · 205 Comments
This note is so goddamn beautiful that if i just saw this floating around on Digg or something, I’d probably assume it was fake. And yet, Marta in Vancouver swears it’s for real.
She explains: “The guy who lives in one of the basement suites in our house left this on our front door after we [...]
Tags: TLDR · canada · crazypants · music · neighbors · noise · vancouver
seriously?
January 29th, 2009 · 171 Comments
kait’s roommate in providence was already pissed that the animal house next door was throwing a party on a tuesday night before a big exam, but it was the shitty pop-rock that really pushed her over the edge. and like so many other college-aged females, “over the edge” means…colored markers.
adds kait: “it didn’t stop the [...]
Tags: highlighter · music · providence · university
anyone for “heart and soul”?
November 24th, 2008 · 90 Comments
“there are several common rooms in my dormitory at indiana university, and most of them have pianos available for the students to play,” writes jain in bloomington.
“while I can empathize with this anonymous student’s frustration, possibly after hearing the third or fourth broken attempt at ‘chopsticks’ in a single day, i’ve personally found the exit [...]
Tags: indiana · music · northern virginia · university · virginia
do that to me one more time…
November 23rd, 2008 · 116 Comments
the most passive-aggressive thing about this note? well, our submitter admits: “i do play soundtracks just to annoy him. maybe next time he shouldn’t dance with other people’s significant others at the office holiday party.”
related: it was an ironic dance party, okay?
Tags: massachusetts · music · office · p.s. · touching
buskers & broomsticks
September 18th, 2008 · 205 Comments
zora zero spotted this ongoing street-musician spat in portobello road market, london.
i’m not a londoner, but living near portobello road and complaining about the buskers seems like living near times square and complaining about the lights, no? i was cheered, therefore, to see the responses added by other more busker-friendly neighbo(u)rs at the bottom of [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · cry me a fuckin' river · london · music · neighbors · noise · p.s. · saga · u.k.
Top five musical crimes perpetrated by record store customers in the 90s and 2000s
June 26th, 2008 · 177 Comments
5. Being a stupid, retarded jerk.
4. What, can’t you read?
3. Seriously, are you fucking illiterate?
2. Do we look like the kind of store that sells “I just called to say I love you”?
And last but not least…
1. The Internet (probably)
related: Our customers are always right…except when they’re wrong.
extra credit: thanks, mr. hipster
Tags: "customer service" · exclamation-point happy! · ithaca · music · retail hell
upset girl (living in a very white bread world)
January 8th, 2008 · 152 Comments
chonny lives in manhattan apartment with three spirited roommates, and they enjoy, on occasion, knocking back a few glasses of wine for an impromptu roomie-bonding sing-a-long. “one night around 10, after a particularly taxing day, we decided to bring the vibe down with a little peter gabriel,” chonny says. “as we all belted out ‘in [...]
Tags: a matter of taste · music · neighbors · new york
i used to be your biggest fan
December 3rd, 2007 · 73 Comments
derek and his bandmates in the grand rapids, mich. rock/metal band charles the osprey were in the middle of a post-set smoke when the club’s bartender came outside, grinning ear-to-ear, and handed them this note.
unlike the unwilling participants in improv everywhere’s “best gig ever,” charles the osprey seem to be taking the attention in stride. [...]
Tags: grand rapids · michigan · music · sarcasm · thanks (but not really)
Your to lazy
October 15th, 2007 · 178 Comments
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
Cubicle etiquette
July 17th, 2007 · 103 Comments
This series of signs (all made by one person, and pinned up across an entire bulletin board) is among my all-time favorites. The glorious redundancies, the inappropriate quotation marks, the clip art — oh, it’s just too good.
(Yeah, the last one is blurry. Our anonymous Canadian submitter apologizes.)
Tags: blitzkrieg approach · canada · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · etiquette · gloriously redundant · music · noise · odor · office · office cop · privacy · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"
we hear you, man
July 7th, 2007 · 81 Comments
thanks to elliette for passing this along for her friend in manhattan.
and as a bonus, a classic passive-aggressive noise complaint from the fantastic found magazine:
Tags: music · neighbors · new york · noise · ohio · pleasantries as afterthought · thanks (but not really)
You know he only became a DJ to get girls
May 23rd, 2007 · 17 Comments
Jenny insists this note wasn’t just because the dude wouldn’t take her request for “Toxic.” (“The DJ really sucked!”)
Tags: "helpful" advice · excessive underlining · heart · music · xoxo

