This is a special note indeed. The idiosyncratic spelling, spacing, and bolding are fascinating — and I love how the third sentence is so rhetorical it doesn’t even deserve a question mark. I think what I enjoy most, however, is the after-the-fact realization that the desired action here just wasn’t quite explicit enough.
![Special people stop leaving your garage [sic]in the sink. This is not your home this is a staff kitchen for all to use. Why should other people have to clean up after you Please have respect for others. Please put your dishes in the dishwasher.](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5039311546_d73e69e42c.jpg "Special people stop leaving your garage [sic]in the sink. This is not your home this is a staff kitchen for all to use. Why should other people have to clean up after you Please have respect for others. Please put your dishes in the dishwasher.")
(Thanks to Molly in Washington, D.C. for submitting!)
related: The needy little dishwasher
Tags: D.C. · dishes · dishwasher · kitchen · office · spelling and grammar police · that's disrespectful · You call that punctuation?
Writes Lauren in Kansas: “My roommate is known for her notes towards me and our other roommate. We never touch each other’s food as is, but I guess she felt the need to threaten us to keep it that way. Inside the box? A ton of containers of frozen cookie dough.”
Sadly, Lacey’s earlier notes to Lauren and her roommates went unrecorded. Lauren’s personal favorite:
If you’re hot run around naked
If you’re cold put on sweatshirts
Do NOT touch the heater
Love, Lacey
Tags: die bitch die · exclamation-point happy!!!! · food · Kansas · not-so-veiled threats · roommates · signed with love · stealing
Looks like both the Mad Bomber and Richard G. Sells have West-coast counterparts:
Grossed out? Yeah, me too. Blame Gregory in Los Angeles for documenting this one (!!!)
Tags: CAPS LOCK · die bitch die · ellipses-crazed · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy!!!! · group bitchfest · Los Angeles · more aggressive than passive · office · piss · shit · that's disgusting · toilet
Tags: dishes · exclamation-point happy!!!! · kitchen · office · rhetorical question · smiley · spelling and grammar police
Any note that starts with “let’s” I kind of immediately love. This one was forwarded by Lindsay in Watford, England:
Tags: "helpful" advice · dishes · exclamation-point happy!!!! · office · U.K.
Found on the company dishwasher by Pete M….
The text at the bottom reads: “If you would like a lesson in telling the difference between the machine being on or not, please see reception.” )Now that’s a power point presentation I’d love to see.)
Tags: CAPS LOCK · confusion??? · dishwasher · office · opening/closing
Along with the Mad Bomber series, I’d say this note is one for the hall of fame. There are so many amazing elements here I can’t even pick a favorite.
related: care, it makes a difference
Tags: cleaning · college life · dishes · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy!!!! · noise · odor · roommates · sex sex sex · whiteboard
Dispatches from an oh-so-common passive-aggressive battleground: “the common area.”
So, whose side are you on?
Tags: confusion??? · moving/not moving · questionable logic · roommates
