There’s the typical New York City note…
And then there’s the Willamette Valley way…
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…and then there’s the glass half-full approach.
February 1st, 2012 · 44 Comments
Tags: Comic Sans Alert · New York · Oregon · smartass
Tony Q69: Never Forget
January 26th, 2012 · 43 Comments
Jen in Astoria takes the Q69 bus to work every morning, so she’s quite familiar with the infamous Tony. “I hadn’t seen them in some time,” she says, until catching a glimpse of this beauty just a few days ago. (“Apparently,” she adds, “the chick is still pissed.”)
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Astoria…
related: The Tale of Tony Q-69
Tags: blitzkrieg approach · ex drama · public shaming · public transit · Queens
Do I detect a note of hostility in your hospitality?
December 1st, 2011 · 77 Comments
As someone with a small bladder, Becky of Apostrophe Catastrophes says she’s peed in many a hotel lobby bathroom, but this was the first time she’s encountered a passive-aggressive note in the process.
“Ironically,” she says, on this occasion, “I actually was staying in one of the rooms they hint at in the note.”
![There's [sic] 1,015 other bathrooms just waiting for you upstairs.](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/5193289223_2ab11c8cbf.jpg "There's [sic] 1,015 other bathrooms just waiting for you upstairs.")
Tags: bathroom · motels & hostels · New York
Hover & Flow(chart)
November 15th, 2011 · 131 Comments
Writes Erica in New York: “I don’t think this woman is aware that the aggressive automatic flush makes water splash all over the toilet seats…but she’s obviously very angry.”
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Tags: etiquette · flow chart · most popular notes of 2011 · New York · office · piss · toilet
While My Magnadoodle Gently Weeps
October 25th, 2011 · 64 Comments
Dave‘s eight-year-old daughter is a huge of the Beatles…and at this moment, a not-so-huge fan of her father.
Dave, perhaps in a few years she’ll appreciate that, if nothing else, at least you spared her the unibrow gene?
related: Abbey Road idiots
Tags: Father-daughter notes · kids · most popular notes of 2011 · New York
Perhaps your boss is due for a little chat with HR?
September 28th, 2011 · 31 Comments
The sign to the left was posted by the boss at an office in Oneonta, New York. (Adds our submitter: “He claims the spelling was autocorrected by Word.”)
Without even getting into the finer points of what might constitute a “hostile work environment,” I think it’s safe to say that encouraging your employees to commit suicide isn’t the best management technique.
![IF YOU ARE NOT INTELLEGENT [sic] ENOUGH TO RINSE OUT THE EMPTIES, PLEASE KILL YOURSELF NOW. [response:] What about not being able to spell](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6194/6084324518_288cb88417.jpg "IF YOU ARE NOT INTELLEGENT [sic] ENOUGH TO RINSE OUT THE EMPTIES, PLEASE KILL YOURSELF NOW. [response:] What about not being able to spell \"intelligent?\"")
(Of course, some managers might disagree.)
Tags: a little insensitive · crazy boss · die bitch die · more aggressive than passive · New York · now that's management · rebuttals · recycling · spelling and grammar police · that's irresponsible
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