amanda in fairhaven, mass. recently took her sister-in-law in for an ultrasound appointment, and she was a little frightened by this sign. (it was posted in three places inside and outside the restroom.)

related: bun — er, pizza in the oven

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dan spotted this triple-bonus-score of a note at the desk of a receptionist in MTV’s new york office. the craziest part, he says? “she leaves it up there all the time, just in case she calls in sick. it’s just up there, all day, in her face, reaffirming her violent disapproval for people invading her [...]

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so, after seeing this note from daily piglet in columbia, south carolina:

and this one, from anna in providence, rhode island:

and this doozy from an anonymous san francisco office worker…

is it any wonder that this photo from afroswede’s flickrstream (and others) came to mind?

(meanwhile, over at bethany’s “blog”…u can touch this.)
related: can i lick [...]

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faydra in gainesville, florida lives in an apartment complex she describes as “a step above dorm living” — 85 girls total, all of them coming and going at all hours. faydra’s next door neighbors kicked things off (with the most frightening clip art extravaganza ever) and things devolved from there. in chronological order:

related: a fancy [...]

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from an anonymous heathen in washington, d.c.:

related: it must have been a pretty big bite

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thanks to rusty in decatur, georgia, who spotted this lovely exchange on the door of his apartment complex’s parking garage.

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“the tiny sioux city, iowa airport had a jaw-droppingly comprehensive intro to what one could or could not take on board a plane,” reports timoni in san francisco, including actual sample-sized bottles of toiletries taped up, show-and-tell style. “the corker, though, was this vehement note near the end (which, yes, had a plastic QUART-SIZE BAG!!!!!!!!! [...]

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at the circuit city in bradenton, florida (which i envision something like this) one anonymous employee reports that much of the staff’s downtime is spent obsessively playing guitar hero 3 in the store’s break room. they even have a 42-inch wall-mounted flatscreen expressly for this purpose. or at least, they did, until about a month [...]

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writes deanne: “because orlando prides itself on being a friendly city, we tend to do most of our dirty work via passive-aggressive notes and signs. this one is from the front door of a tacky tourist shop on international drive. i can get past the reference to ‘plane rude’ but the ‘macdonalds’ analogy is a [...]

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our anonymous submitter in dearborn, michigan spotted this gem in a women’s restroom at her office of “several hundred financial and information technology professionals” — perhaps the future workplace of a “trifling” young uc-berkeley student?

related: i think it’s going to be a long long time

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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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this just in: starving unborn children aren’t the only casualties of office fridge lunch thievery. as one anonymous new yorker reports, now the sick and the infirm are being picked off, too!

(thank you kindly? best wishes? hungry on the 12th floor, you kill me.)

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PES picked this note out of an apartment building in newark, nj in 2004 because he loved the paragraph, which is oh-so-amazing. add in the peculiar diction and the glorious redundancy of it all, and you’ve got one fucking delicious note.

p.s. for more deliciousness, be sure to check out the stop-motion shorts at eatpes.com.

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this delightful note comes to us from the wilds of suburban orange county, california. “there is a door at my school (a private college) that is constantly propped open,” explains amy, a grad student. “up until yesterday, the note on the door said, ‘please close door.’ i have NO idea about the microwave [...]

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those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter, a GM at a property management firm in springfield, missouri for today’s masterpiece. “one of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “i [...]

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when our saga begins, our anonymous submitter’s girlfriend was living in a tiny apartment in sydney, australia. due to space constraints, she was temporarily sleeping on what our submitter admits was “possibly one of the world’s shittiest sofabeds.”

but while the mailbox notes were presumably written first (based on the tone) they weren’t actually discovered until [...]

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“the healthy companies committee” explains katherine in d.c., is the name of the office pep squad led by the sender of the e-mail. (”ironically,” she adds, “he does not seem to be able to deal with his frustration in a ‘healthy’ way.”)
the hilarity of this note is more subtle than say, a “thank you terry,” [...]

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brandy in york haven, p.a. forgot to put water back in the fridge, she says, “and my boyfriend likes his cold water.” yikes.

also note the list of tasks for brandy and her boyfriend at upper right. um, so much for challenging gender stereotypes at home, huh?

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our anonymous submitter lives in a 30-story condo building in chicago. her father works in the same building, and received this note in the suggestion box. “i found the letter slipped under my door one day,” she says. “my dad had put it there after reading it with his boss. i’m sure he’s damn proud [...]

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in all fairness, says brandi in austin, “this note was written after our dishes became so caked with fungus that we had to buy new stuff. the smell was also REALLY bad.”

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