sarah in somerville, mass. wasn’t fazed when she left her apartment one saturday to find this otherwise “run-of-the-mill your-mother-doesn’t-live-here note”…until she rounded the corner and was greeted by photocopies of the same note taped to every available surface in the hallway.

then, the next day, another note appeared near the elevator…

…which had apparently been written on [...]

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in terms of the appropriate sympathetic nervous system response, an e-mail subject line like “big favor” is kinda the modern cubicle-dweller’s equivalent of “saber-tooth tiger outside cave!”

(note: this e-mail, our seattle-area submitter says, is from the very same person who brought us this.)
related: perhaps it’s time for a little group therapy?

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dealing with the rantings of your crazy boss or overzealous receptionist is one thing, but what do you do when your office’s resident passive-aggressive note-leaver doesn’t even work there? casey in san diego (a.k.a. the beloved runbarbara) says that’s the situation she’s found herself in at her job.
the offender, sandra, “has met me a total [...]

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the fact that nightclubs have to post notes like this one:
 
(thanks to jeff in new york for passing along!)
related: going up?

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up first, anna brings us this charitable little note from the her apartment building in london, ontario.

anytime stan…proof that canadians really are nicer? meanwhile, in milwaukee…

and lastly, a vaguely dadaist interpretation, in what very well may be another one of l.a.’s elevator-cum-film sets.

related: cross-country elevator action

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