Entries Tagged as 'stealing'

don’t be disturbed

June 28th, 2007 · 35 Comments

(from matt in the netherlands)

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Tags: food · netherlands · stealing

killer cookie dough

June 20th, 2007 · 34 Comments

writes lauren in kansas: “my roommate is known for her notes towards me and our other roommate. we never touch each others food as is but i guess she felt the need to threaten us to keep it that way.”

lauren adds: “inside the box? a ton of containers of frozen cookie dough.”

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Tags: die bitch die · exclamation-point happy! · food · kansas · not-so-veiled threats · roommates · signed with love · stealing

passive-aggressive challenge #2: don’t take my beer

June 18th, 2007 · 72 Comments

as the vilification of outback-bread-eating michelle shows, the passive-aggressive notes community has no mercy for the unrepentant food thief.
in fact, screw repentance — we’re out for revenge.
beyond simple note-leaving, one of most popular tactics for dealing with thieves seems to be the “if i can’t have it, nobody can” approach: [...]

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Tags: beverages · revenge · roommates · stealing

in praise of passive-aggression

June 17th, 2007 · 20 Comments

those of you that side consistently with team passive-aggressive might enjoy this excerpt from ian urbina’s book, life’s little annoyances.
urbina’s thesis: “criticizing something for being passive-aggressive is like faulting a tactic for being discreet. just as there are times when subtlety is the worst approach, there are also times when passive aggression is the best.”
as [...]

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Tags: food · rebuttals · roommates · stealing · tangent time

try a bite.

June 13th, 2007 · 24 Comments

if you’re wondering what oxypowder is, allow kenneth to explain.

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Tags: excessive underlining · food · houston · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · stealing

love, apt. #3

June 12th, 2007 · 24 Comments

(spotted by kyla in regina, saskatchewan.)

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Tags: excessive underlining · neighbors · newspaper · saskatchewan · signed with love · stealing

and the coco-pops weren’t even yours.

June 9th, 2007 · 18 Comments

vici lives in london with five roommates — all guys.
(if you don’t have a house full of cereal-stealing warcraft players like vici and don’t get the “orly?” thing…wikipedia to the rescue!)
related: cereal killer 

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Tags: food · london · rebuttals · roommates · shameless meme-mongering · stealing · university

thanks for eating my lunch

June 5th, 2007 · 11 Comments

(charlie in los angeles did not eat your lunch.)

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Tags: excessive underlining · group bitchfest · los angeles · office · office fridge · smartass · smiley · spelling and grammar police · stealing

the eleventh plague

June 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments

oh, how i love (totally tacky) reply-all e-mails.

thanks to kate in new york city, who says she has a whole inbox full of e-mails like this from the coworkers at her law firm.

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Tags: e-mail · etiquette · food · office · stealing

there you go, bringing Him into it again

June 4th, 2007 · 40 Comments

(from sarah’s AMAZING photo set, “notes on theft”, and from james in beaumont, texas.)

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Tags: excessive underlining · food · jesus · stealing · university

cereal killer

June 3rd, 2007 · 22 Comments

the cap’n is saying, “ian: If I catch you eating this delicious cereal, I’ll kill you in your sleep. love, dan.”
(”my roommate ian kept eating all the cereal i bought before i had a chance to have even a single bowl,” dan explains.)

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Tags: excessive underlining · food · not-so-veiled threats · roommates · stealing

commenter confessions: dealing with office thieves

June 1st, 2007 · 17 Comments

re: “you left evidence”, Good Soul says:

In 2001, I solved a “disappearing food” problem without these little notes. For some time (3 weeks or so), I bought some very nice food, put my name on it with a “do not touch — not for human consumption!” sign, and watched it disappear. I also [...]

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Tags: food · office · office fridge · spitting · stealing · touching

who’s the smartass?

May 31st, 2007 · 15 Comments

exhibit a, from lindsay in burbank:

says the author of post-it #2: “the next day, she added a note that said, ‘keep eating my sushi and you’re going to find out!’”
and exhibit b, from jason in new haven:

(to the left, the original note. to the right, the response.)
if you’re guessing these guys are engineers, you’re not [...]

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Tags: burbank · california · connecticut · food · milk · new haven · office · office fridge · rebuttals · smartass · stealing

killing you with cuteness

May 30th, 2007 · 22 Comments

from the cubicle of michele in jasper, indiana.
michele says she doesn’t actually expect to see her digital camera again, “but I at least wanted to inflict some guilt on the person who took it.”

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Tags: guilt trip · indiana · office · stealing

i swear this isn’t some kind of stealth viral marketing campaign

May 29th, 2007 · 36 Comments

…but hot pockets are totally the car radios of the communal freezer.
exhibit a: new york city

exhibit b: southern oregon

exhibit c: washington, d.c.

exhibit d: oahu, hawaii

thanks to beth at columbia and dj shaggy for their help in uncovering this phenomenon.

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Tags: columbia · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · office · office fridge · sad face · spelling and grammar police · stealing · unnecessary "quotation marks" · whiteboard

you left evidence

May 28th, 2007 · 20 Comments

don’t be fooled by the smiley: this is the kind of note that really throws you off balance. (it’s been more than a month since she received this note, and kiki from boston says she’s still shaking in her boots a little.)

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Tags: boston · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · food · office · smiley · stealing

next time, go for the fiji?

May 24th, 2007 · 8 Comments

this fiendishly funny note comes to us courtesy of jennifer in philly, who does not condone the theft of bottled water of any kind.

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Tags: "helpful" advice · exclamation-point happy! · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · oh snap · stealing · water

be curtius

May 23rd, 2007 · 9 Comments

the stolen item in question here? a serving of creamer.

this one’s an anonymous submission, but i have my suspicions…even if the grammar is a little off.

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · group bitchfest · office · office fridge · shameless meme-mongering · spelling and grammar police · stealing

how hazing rituals are born

May 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments

jimmy in worcester brings this jaunty little note to us from the lambda chi alpha house at WPI.
says jimmy: “the kid whose cookware was hidden ended up just leaving the utensils (tongs, spatula, etc…) wherever they were hidden and simply bought a new set. this forced the kid who originally hid them to find them [...]

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Tags: dishes · fratboys · stealing · university · worcester

i spit in mine

May 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments

spotted by sam, who also brings us this little gem — the most precise vending-machine operating instructions ever written.

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · food · group bitchfest · new york · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · stealing