writes mike in provo, utah: “this is a letter my friend liz found on the windshield of her car during the time she was dating her now-husband. they framed the note, and now have it proudly displayed in their living room.”

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jonathan, john and michael  share a roof deck with their next-door neighbors in san francisco, who jonathan says “repeatedly, and seemingly sincerely, invited us to use their barbecue grill any old time.”
one weekend, jj&m decided to take them up on their offer. they organized a small cook-out for friends and invited the neighbors to join. [...]

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writes michael in chicago: “apparently, some of our neighbors had a problem with us being naked in our apartment.” without knowing any other details of this situation, i’d have to say:
a) “be more private with yourself” is a phrase i am going to try to work into future conversations whenever possible
and b) michael, while i [...]

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danielle in tampa, florida found this note in the hallway of her apartment building. writes danielle: “i don’t know what the official story is, but I can assume that it is the same as every other ‘my roommate is a slob’ story. (oh college!) i’m a little confused about why this girl thought that leaving [...]

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julia in australia attended a new year’s eve party in an affluent neighborhood. the next morning, after she came to, she realized her digital camera was missing. when she back to search for it, she found this sign posted up all around the local park.

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“we’ve had trouble with our downstairs neighbors since we moved in,” says sara in madison. “well, really just one of them, a woman in her fifties.” this neighbor’s most recent dose of crazy appeared in the mailbox sarah shares with her roommate (”little buddy,” in crazy lady-speak).

i kinda prefer this note without any explanation whatsoever, [...]

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spotted by tessa’s brother during his travels through america…

(this is one of those where the passive-aggressive part isn’t the note itself.)
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as far as he can tell, chris in portland thinks this anonymous text was sent by his downstairs neighbor after a morning of hitting the snooze button one too many times. “needless to say,” chris admits, “this was not the first time i had ignored the alarm  clock.”
what’s strange, chris says, is that he has [...]

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writes linda in austin, texas: “this note popped up a few months ago on my downstairs neighbor’s door, but i didn’t take a look at it until now.” but how much longer will it be before she garners an invite from this gracious host?

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writes kerry in brooklyn: “i just moved into a new apartment, and they don’t have secured outside parking for bikes. my place is NYC-sized, so naturally i decided to lock one of my bikes to the banister right outside my door. apparently that’s a big no-no in the building.”

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writes jay in miami beach: “the woman who lives in apt. 2, right next to the front door of the building, had such a stinky dog smell emanating from her apartment that you could smell it through the closed door.” presumably, she could hear everyone’s complaints through the closed door, too.

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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 [...]

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our anonymous submitter found several copies of this notice posted around her mcmansion-filled neighborhood in leander, texas, just five charmingly rustic miles north of austin proper. (if you’re a little short in the 4-h ribbon department, that’s your cue to shake your head and mutter “pshaw, city folk!”)

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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 [...]

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our anonymous submitter in quebec says this note is posted on the door of an apartment in her building. “looks like somebody had a rough breakup,” she speculates…in which case i think dude is probably better off. still, i think the ambiguity here presents a wealth of other possible scenarios, no?

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first of all, the disclaimer: our anonymous submitter in houston lives in an apartment complex with very limited parking for residents. “when i come home from work late at night,” she explains, “the handicapped parking spot is typically the only one available.” that excuse, however, doesn’t seem to cut it for one of her neighbors.
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one night last summer, sylvia in new york was just chillin’ out, watching tv, when she noticed a cat had wandered through the open window. sylvia, an animal-lover, assumed he was a stray (he didn’t have a collar), and because “he was super cute and affectionate,” she says, “we let him stay a little while. [...]

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josh from annapolis, maryland says the first and last note in this exchange were apparently written by stephen, a college student at a school “known for it’s obtusely intellectual, chronically spacey student body.”
the notes were gone within a few days, but josh says the situation hasn’t exactly improved. in the meantime, he says, “i’m kinda [...]

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“my family moved out of the house we grew up in seven years ago, and our old neighbor sent us this christmas card,” writes gloria in los angeles. (gloria herself seems to have made a particularly strong impression…)

meanwhile, in providence, r.i., jessica’s aunt seems to be doing her best to put the “x” in “x-mas.”

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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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