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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writes leslie in london: “janine was having some serious keyboard RAGE and posted this request to our office’s online help desk…which every single person in the company can see…including daniel.”

this post is dedicated to my cube-mate leah, who recently received a surprise “gift” — a quiet-touch keyboard — from our boss, which succeeded in making [...]

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our anonymous submitter — a college student in michigan — “borrowed” this note under the pretense of reading it to empathize with the recipient. “while the note itself is straight up aggressive,” she says, “i do know that it has followed months of passive-aggressiveness.” and most of these complaints, she says, are totally legit. “i’ve [...]

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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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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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our anonymous submitter found this on his keyboard 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 get our [...]

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passive-aggressive? oh, heavens no! these are just a few selfless public service announcements.
from an office in oregon…

new zealand…

and kentucky…

related: the overly friendly coworker: ruining your day since you held the elevator for her that one time

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our anonymous submitter in tel aviv spotted this note outside the kitchenette of a client’s office. in case your hebrew is a little rusty, she also provided an english translation:
please feel free to pour drinks, cut up food, warm things through, stir and mix food, chop food up very small, taste things and eat until [...]

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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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passed along by the unfortunate hacker in question from littleton, colorado…

related: stay home!!!

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liza, a student at mississippi state university, was up late one night writing a paper when her roommate asked her to stop — the noise of her typing was keeping her up. “i had a paper to write and i didn’t think i was making enough noise to warrant moving my workstation outside, so, i [...]

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like so many passive-aggressive notewriters, the author of this note — which sarah in brockton, mass. says was posted in the elevator, front hallway, back hallway and the mailroom of her building after a particularly rowdy friday — just can’t seem to fully commit to sarcasm as a rhetorical technique.

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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 [...]

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edward says this sign was posted on every floor and inside all the elevators at the hotel that headquartered ucla’s study abroad program in granada, spain last semester.

can you blame them? i mean, really — what a waste of perfectly good manchego!

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an anonymous submitter in ann arbor, michigan received this e-mail from a guy who just moved into her co-op (”basically a co-ed frat house”) for the rest of the summer. “we’ve tried to reason with him,” she says, to no avail. “when asked why he has to get up so early, he says, ‘i have [...]

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christoph found this polite and friendly note on the door of his apartment in san francisco. a reasonable enough request, to be sure, except for the fact that — despite his neighbor’s claimed omniscience — “i don’t own any exercise equipment.”

(admits christoph: “it was likely a swivel chair…and my habit of rolling back and forth [...]

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this bit of poetry is brought to us by alex in vancouver, an innocent observer on the scene.

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daniel in new york spotted this note (and the follow-up) on the door of his soho office building’s restroom — “a nice single seater with a window.” adds daniel: “i understand the sentiment — my sphincter locks up like a vise with any distraction. but i do hope that the large white area on the [...]

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faydra in gainesville, florida lives in an apartment complex she describes as “a step above dorm living” — 85 girls total, all of them coming and going at all hours. faydra’s next door neighbors kicked things off (with the most frightening clip art extravaganza ever) and things devolved from there. in chronological order:

related: a fancy [...]

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as we’ve seen this week, notes re: the neighbor’s constantly barking dog often end up being less passive-aggressive and more out-and-out aggressive. but as matt noticed, this san francisco resident was able to put a festive holiday spin on the old not-so-veiled threat.

related: oh, the irony 

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