jonathan, john and michael  share a roof deck with their next-door neighbors in san francisco, who jonathan says “repeatedly, and seemingly sincerely, invited us to use their barbecue grill any old time.”
one weekend, jj&m decided to take them up on their offer. they organized a small cook-out for friends and invited the neighbors to join. [...]

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back in my college newspaper days, the pizzas in the back room always ended up, by the end of the night, completely decimated — some slices had the cheese picked off, others had the crusts nibbled away, and then those slices were oh-so-charitably left in the pizza box, presumably with the idea that some other, [...]

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carmen in washington, d.c. says she and her roommates suffered for months at the hands of this “crazy, obsessive-compulsive who made our lives miserable.” by the end of the fall semester, carmen says, the house was a near-war zone, and the girl finally moved out. “around the time she was packing up her things, we [...]

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today’s post is dedicated to the dirty minds in the department of double entendres. (hey there, commenters!)
this first note, as spotted by dana in san francisco, needs no further introduction.

next up: michelle in orlando says this note posted on the employee mailboxes at the theme park where she works. “our uniforms include a vest made [...]

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writes marni in brooklyn: “we tried this restaurant back when they first opened. the food was pretty bad, it took forever to arrive, and i believe our waitress quit or was fired (either way, there was some yelling) during our meal. many gimmicks involving morning coffee were attempted, but the signage made the food look [...]

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writes our anonymous submitter: “this was sent to my 6-year-old step daughter by her grandma. the birthday present in question was a pack of writing paper and $5 american. we live in canada.”
(the “did you get…” pretense combined with the oh-so-subtle post script is so classic “passive-aggressive grandma” that i cannot even handle it. bonus [...]

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this martyr alert spotted by randy on the breakroom fridge of his office in chico, california…

related: hostile takeover

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this note — spotted by erik in a breakroom at northwestern’s medill school of journalism — takes me back to my days as a bright-eyed young reporter cheerfully slaving away at my college daily, where the grizzled old alumni “mentors” working at the times or the globe always seemed to have the same advice: that [...]

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erin in minneapolis found this note attached to a door in an apartment building of her then-boyfriend. (whether or not this act of fate would later precipitate her own breakup remains unclear.)
oh, and mary? paper is traditionally given as a gift for the first anniversary. perhaps a note written on an empty soda can would [...]

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there’s a guilt trip…

and then there’s a guilt trip.

related: your hamster died? well, i can top that.

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d in sunderland, mass. received a piece of her previous manager’s mail several months after he was fired. “i felt it was only right to contact him about a membership directory for an organization with which he was heavily involved,” she says. “i was genuinely shocked to receive his reply, especially considering how careful he [...]

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writes matt in los angeles: “i went to get some of the 2% milk i keep in our communal work fridge for my coffee, and BAM! — front and center was this lovely.”

related: and i’m singing “uh oh” on a friday night

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alec in houston found this little work of art on his desk, he says, “after i went out for lunch and didn’t do the dishes like they had asked.” with gritted teeth, he goes on: “they have ‘too much work’ and i have ‘none’ so i might as well wash them!”

related: al gore knows you [...]

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writes our anonymous submitter: “unable to visit my mother last year for mother’s day, my partner and i sent her a box of chocolate truffles and an antique brooch. this is her ‘thank you’ note (which is really more like a ‘fuck you’ note).”

the final “fuck you,” of course, is the nearly indecipherable handwriting. here’s [...]

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our anonymous submitter found several copies of this notice posted around her mcmansion-filled neighborhood in leander, texas, just five charmingly rustic miles north of austin proper. (if you’re a little short in the 4-h ribbon department, that’s your cue to shake your head and mutter “pshaw, city folk!”)

related: if your grandma wrote PSAs

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lately, our anonymous submitter in new york has been going to the housingworks cafe to study for the bar exam. because tables near electrical outlets are hot commodities, for the past few days she’s ended up sharing a table with the same “over-the-hill dude.”
our submitter knows her table-sharing etiquette: “i always keep the table free [...]

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shirley in canada says one of her coworkers sent this e-mail to the entire building — several hundred people in all — after what we can only assume was an unsuccessful half-day cooling-off period. (or perhaps just several hours spent choosing the most whimsically enraged font/color combination.)

meanwhile, this all-staff e-mail was sent to over 400 [...]

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one night last summer, sylvia in new york was just chillin’ out, watching tv, when she noticed a cat had wandered through the open window. sylvia, an animal-lover, assumed he was a stray (he didn’t have a collar), and because “he was super cute and affectionate,” she says, “we let him stay a little while. [...]

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earlier this year, emma in california was sharing a kitchen with three other girls. one day, out of the blue, one of her roommates posted this note. (warning: prepare to reexamine any preconceptions you may have about mormons, straight-edgers, and college-aged women in general.)

by the next morning, emma says, the note was promptly defaced, but [...]

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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.

(you know, because otherwise people [...]

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