writes dan in seattle: “i work at a federal hospital and often ride my motorcycle to work. there is another hospital employee that also does so, and we usually park in the same area. space is at a premium —especially around this woman and her self-proclaimed 10-foot-wide protected parking bubble. another time she left me [...]

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writes our anonymous submitter in san francisco: “i spotted this on the sidewalk on my way to work. (it wasn’t obviously attached to anything, just laying there.)  i realize parking in SF is a real nightmare, with driveways every .03 inches, but come on!

related: how berkeley

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the village of irvington, new york, aaron explains, is a quiet suburb of the big apple in westchester county. “it’s got one main drag, conveniently named main street, where all the major businesses are located,” he says. one day, ” a public services vehicle pulled up too far on the sidewalk for the local italian [...]

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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.
as [...]

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just a humble suggestion for 2009…

(spotted by charles in minneapolis)

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writes coco: “[about a year ago,] while visiting home (charleston — south carolina’s lone bastion of remote liberalism) — i left my ‘is it 2008 yet?’ sticker-adorned car in san francisco’s outer richmond district for friends to babysit. upon my return, my friend presented me with this note, which had been left on my windshield [...]

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joe six-pack in san francisco never actually got this note, because our own passive-aggressive pit bull secondsout swiped it from under his windshield wiper. again, my understanding is that he recused himself,  but i don’t want to talk about that: i’d like to talk about energy.

and also, too, under the umbrella of job creation, therefore:

related: [...]

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i think we’ve received some of your mail by mistake. just wanted to pass these along! xoxo, PAN

related: arrivederci, asshole

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you say you’re politically engaged, but do you know where your candidate stands on…vanity license plates? are they:
a) a bombastic example of the first amendment in action
b) a potent symbol for the reductive nature of america’s two-party political system
c) unwise at any speed
still undecided? take a look at the tags rachel has on her car [...]

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omar says he found this tucked underneath the windshield his car in noe valley, a neighborhood of san francisco “inhabited by self-centered jackasses — myself included, if you believe this note.”

adds omar: “i should clarify: the author of this masterpiece is talking about residential street parking, not a private/public lot with clearly designated lines or, [...]

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writes michael in milton keynes, england: “i have an ex-service ambulance which i use as a van and i had parked it on the road round the corner from me for a couple of weeks.
“after two days i got a call from the town council’s abandoned vehicle unit. then i got a few calls from [...]

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this lovely little exchange from seattle comes to us via the ever-brilliant dan savage at the stranger. it reads a bit like a “SAHM vs. WOHM” faceoff on urbanbaby, with blessedly fewer acronyms.

(more backstory and larger versions of the photos over at the slog.)
related: there’s hertz…and there’s “not exactly”

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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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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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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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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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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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summer from decatur, georgia says she found this note “left on a car piously parked while attempting to attend mass on vacation” in galveston, texas.

stealing hot pockets is apparently not the only thing that jesus wouldn’t do.

related: there you go, bringing Him into it again

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angry car notes are pretty common, sure, and most probably wouldn’t qualify as passive-aggressive even by our loose standards. but offering the use of a shovel? that at least earns this note a spot in our top 8.

in her defense, eeka says there were three to four empty spaces available in front of her house [...]

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this amazing and somewhat baffling little note comes to us from tiffanni in atlanta, who looks nothing like a man but is confident enough in her femininity not to be troubled by allegations to the contrary.
says tiffanni: “this was left on my windshield by a lady in the wal-mart parking lot. i guess she was [...]

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