Alexandra and her best friend David were thrift-store shopping in Memphis, Tennessee when they spotted this sign (in the restroom, this time…not the fitting room).
What I love about this one is that, unlike most of its kind, this notice doesn’t issue any kind of directive (e.g. “Hey nitwits, don’t flush the merchandise!!!”), nor does it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'tennessee'
Just, you know, [TMI] FYI
March 5th, 2010 · 76 Comments
Tags: TMI · retail hell · spelling and grammar police · tennessee · toilet
The penny is the most passive-aggressive coin.
February 23rd, 2010 · 118 Comments
“Due to budget issues,” writes our submitter from Nashville, “coffee in our office is now funded through donations by those who drink it.” (Cost: 50 cents per cup, on the honor system.)
While some office workers no doubt continue to fill their cups without paying, the passive-aggressives in this office found their own way to convey [...]
Tags: coffee · money · nashville · office
What would Jesus do for a Klondike bar?
April 7th, 2009 · 104 Comments
Joanna from San Diego spotted this beauty in the public kitchen at her grandparents’ retirement home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Writes Joanna: “I love it because it combines passive-aggressiveness with religious sanctimony. Delicious!”
related: no, He uses vaseline
Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · jesus · martyr complex · old folks · stealing · tennessee
Deviled egg, anyone?
January 26th, 2009 · 119 Comments
As Rick in Tennessee can attest, sharing a fridge with more than two unrelated roommates can get tricky — even in the rare event that everyone manages to keep their paws to themselves. The upside? “While there’s no space in the fridge for food, I’ll never have to worry about running out of condiments.”
Meanwhile, in [...]
Tags: d.c. · fridge · roommates · tennessee
Making time for the important things in life…like Facebook apps.
September 5th, 2008 · 63 Comments
Spotted by an anonymous bullshit cop in Knoxville, Tennessee…
related: Facebook schoolyard smackdown
Tags: facebook · knoxville · smiley
spinal manipulation
June 26th, 2008 · 240 Comments
after messing up his back, clay in knoxville figured he’d give a chiropractor a shot, but when the doc he saw refused to show him the x-rays he’d taken until after a “seminar” about payment plans — oh, and treatment options — clay decided to take his aching back else where. a few days later, [...]
Tags: "customer service" · a little patronizing · knoxville · oh-so-sincerely · tennessee · thanks (but not really)
greek melodrama
May 22nd, 2008 · 104 Comments
writes kimberly in knoxville, tennessee: “on our sorority dorm floor, the girls decorate their doors with pictures and various sorority decorations.” but when one of kimberly’s sorority sisters noticed a few of her pictures were missing, she was like, really not happy. so, over the course of several days, she made her feelings known.
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Tags: and that's an order · knoxville · sorority girls · stealing · tennessee · university
When nature calls
January 2nd, 2008 · 125 Comments
I thought it was pretty crazy when Jessie sent in this sign from a thrift store in Wilmington, North Carolina a few months years back…
Then Ashley sent in this eerily similar note from a thrift store in Barnegat, New Jersey. “The first time I noticed it, there was only one note,” Ashley says. “Weeks later, [...]
Tags: jersey · kansas · louisiana · north carolina · piss · retail hell · shit · tennessee · that shit is disgusting · wilmington · wtf?
and pull up your pants
July 23rd, 2007 · 96 Comments
bill snapped this photo at a liquor store in middle-of-nowhere tennessee, 40 miles east of memphis. like this one and this one, it’s more crazy than passive-aggressive — but too good to pass up.
bill adds: “from what the friend i was visiting told me, the store aired religious TV every hour it was open. [...]
Tags: more aggressive than passive · more like crazy · tennessee

