andrea in beaver dam, wisconsin says her friend mckenna woke up on her 19th birthday to find this note on the counter from mom.
(you can tell it’s heartfelt because of the underlining.)

related: when a card just won’t do

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“we’ve had trouble with our downstairs neighbors since we moved in,” says sara in madison. “well, really just one of them, a woman in her fifties.” this neighbor’s most recent dose of crazy appeared in the mailbox sarah shares with her roommate (”little buddy,” in crazy lady-speak).

i kinda prefer this note without any explanation whatsoever, [...]

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the car you drive can say a lot about you as a person.

sometimes…too much.

(thanks to the eagle-eyed russell in madison, alyssa in pleasant grove, utah and samantha in lexington, kentucky for the photos!)
related: so if i start selling drugs i can drive an escalade, too?

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just in case gas prices aren’t hurting you enough lately, tim from madison, wisconsin brings us this stomach-turning (yet impressively restrained) note from a petrol station somewhere en route to green bay.

meanwhile, tonya in oakland passes along a photo taken by a traveler brave/desperate enough to actual enter a gas station restroom somewhere in utah.

and [...]

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“this is from my shrink’s office,” explains our anonymous submitter in wisconsin. “ironically, I was going to them to help me resolve issues with my spouse’s passive-aggressive tendencies.”

can’t you just feel the repressed anger in the sudden drop-off in punctuation?  (after all, if you’re not gonna use three exclamation points, why bother?)
related: perhaps it’s time [...]

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our anonymous submitter lives in what she says is a typical college apartment, one that is “not decorated according to any theme.” and yet, in a transformation a college freshman taking lit 101 might describe as “kafkaesque,” one of her roommates has been replaced by your [fill-in-your-own-ethnic-stereotype-here] grandmother.

adds our submitter: “these weird towels wouldn’t dry [...]

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laid back? i’ll give you laid back. in fact, i’ll spell it out for you: janice will break your legs.

(thanks to peter in milwaukee for documenting — you’re my number one guy!)
related: be informed, homeland security will be

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“our CA (community advisor) posted this friendly note on our bathroom door,” says our submitter, a college student in milwaukee.
the dorm residents — apparently a libertarian-minded bunch — were pissed about frequent CAD (common area damage) charges for putting recyclables in the trash instead of the mandatory recycling bin. they took a break from ranking [...]

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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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our anonymous contributor works part-time (through a non-profit) at a large, “troubled” high school in milwaukee. today, while making some copies, she found this anonymous wonder.

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(from midgy in madison, wisconsin.)
related: with 17 roommates, it could have been worse

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