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 [...]
Tags: elevator · grow up · pleasantries as afterthought · somerville · vomit · your mother doesn't...
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 [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · boston · crazypants · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"
jessica from chicago spotted this gem at a boston-area starbucks.
notes jessica: “i wonder if all that special barista training they had recently included anything about dictating the topic of conversations allowed?”
related: our customers are always right…except when they’re wrong
Tags: "customer service" · cranky barista · massachusetts · sports · starbucks
like this phrase, there are a few irritating little pieces of clip art that keep popping up in submissions over and over again. hovering somewhere near the top of most-wanted list is this pouty little white-gloved dandy.
from the factories of pittsburgh…
…to the cube-farms of virginia, this perspiring misanthrope has been spreading his message of intolerance [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · boston · clip art catastrophe · exclamation-point happy! · gloriously redundant · neighbors · office fridge · pittsburgh
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
Tags: bathroom · exclamation-point happy! · massachusetts · piss · preggers
charlie in hopkinton, massachusetts (age 17) and his little brother (age 15) spent a good deal of time scheming about how to respond to their mother’s notes around the bathroom before deciding upon shaving cream as their weapon of choice.
p.s. matilda: the most passive-aggressive child in fiction? (also, muggle-wump: the most passive-aggressive monkey?) discuss!
related: [...]
Tags: bathroom · massachusetts · moms & dads
