Entries Tagged as 'parking'

it’s not a race (it’s a social construct)

March 25th, 2008 · 183 Comments

here’s a trio of notes from california that each make me very uncomfortable…and not just because of the painful lack of irony.
first up: an excerpt from seating guidelines posted at the quaint little mexican restaurant in huntington beach where brynn used to waitress. so quaint, in fact, brynn says “they also posted a dress code […]

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Tags: california · casual xenophobia · parking · restaurant · san diego

there’s hertz…and there’s “not exactly”

February 10th, 2008 · 46 Comments

thanks to rusty in decatur, georgia, who spotted this lovely exchange on the door of his apartment complex’s parking garage.

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · neighbors · oh snap · parking · rebuttals

think ya used enough dynamite there, butch?

January 23rd, 2008 · 69 Comments

but…but…it’s cold out and you’re so close to all the really good gifting suites! perhaps a swarovski-crystal-encrusted-organic-sea-kelp loofah would change your mind?

(thanks to dan m. in park city, utah for snapping the photo.)
related: but He took the wheel

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Tags: more aggressive than passive · park city · parking · utah

your move, “officer”

January 1st, 2008 · 55 Comments

emily from boston summed this one up beautifully, so i’m going to let her take it away. writes emily:
1. i’m not making this up.
2. the 389 highland ave referred to in the note is a shop called “your move games.” they have a basement where dorky kids congregate and play D&D and WoW and […]

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Tags: gaming · massachusetts · parking · raging against the machine · somerville · that's illegal

your to lazy

October 15th, 2007 · 167 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 […]

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