Writes our anonymous submitter in Minneapolis: “I received this note — and accompanying tater tots — from a co-worker (a balding, 40-year-old male) who had been making false reports about me to our manager and was caught doing so.” (We’re talking hardcore, premeditated sabotage here, so calling himself “a bit of a jerk” was probably [...]

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Hey, so do you remember hearing about how crazy cat ladies might be explained by the Toxoplasma parasite? (No? Then listen to this episode of Radiolab. It’s pretty awesome.) Well, Toxo may or may not explain these notes.
Exhibit a) Spotted by Shane at an office in Upland, California…

Exhibit b) From an apartment building in Austin, [...]

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Spotted above the office “water cooler” by Josh in Boston…

related: and all the pieces matter

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Where do you suppose this “anomous” Tampa, Florida resident stands on the whole nature-vs.-nurture debate?

Interested? here’s a free preview!

related: your to lazy

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most drivers could easily identify these duct-tape wrapped shapes as the universal sign for “caution: crazy person ahead,” but our submitter in boston actually pulled over and parked in order to get a better look. up close, “the signs were even crazier than we thought,” she reports. “seriously, what happened to this guy?”

related: movin’ out [...]

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our anonymous submitter spotted this signage at a homemade water park somewhere near cherry point, south carolina.

related: and pull up your pants

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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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“beware,” indeed: walking along “west 25th or so” in manhattan, this “work of art” was enough to make eric “personally” “shit his pants.”

tangential: the zagat history of my last relationship [the new yorker]

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mishee was about to go ahead and just pay for that snapple…until she saw this colorful little note at a drugstore in sunnyvale, california. phew!

UPDATE: mishee (ever the overachiever) has returned to the scene to satisfy your curiosity about the signs behind the signs…and finds her snapple-drinking plans foiled in the process!

related: if it weren’t [...]

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my own neighborhood of park slope, brooklyn has high concentrations of dogs, babies, crazies and bloggers, which makes for a heady brew of incredibly well-documented passive-aggressiveness. certain notes (like this long-running series) show up in my inbox over and over again. i’ve gotten various iterations of this note from no fewer than six different [...]

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aarwenn from seattle found this note in her office’s cafeteria, which she says is a hot spot for bad writers with passive-aggressive issues. “of course,” she says, “here at Large Aerospace Company, a lot of us have ‘issues.’”

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this series of signs (all made by one person, and pinned up across an entire bulletin board) is among my all-time favorites. the glorious redundancies, the inappropriate quotation marks, the clip art — oh, it’s just too good.

(yeah, the last one is blurry. our anonymous canadian submitter apologizes.)

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this exercise in mass shaming is brought to us by rocky in san diego, who adds: “these are 5-year-olds playing t-ball.”

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a doozy from our pals over at the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.

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…but Hot Pockets are totally the car radios of the communal freezer.
Exhibit a: New York City

Exhibit b: Southern Oregon

Exhibit c: Washington, D.C.

Exhibit d: Oahu, Hawaii

Thanks to Beth at Columbia and DJ Shaggy for their help in uncovering this phenomenon.

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