if you’ve ever tut-tutted over the consequences of big-box stores and online retailers overtaking small businesses, you’ll be heartened to hear that some folks have figured out how to bring those old-fashioned mom-n-pop ideas about customer service into the digital age…with the help of a big ol’ corporation called ebay!
while browsing the auction site for [...]

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as our submitter peter points out, the residents of berlin — with their trademark berliner schnauze — are not known for mincing words. but this sign, found at a coffee shop of sorts in the u-bahn station kottbusser tor, takes that characteristic berliner directness one step further.
peter’s rough translation: “anyone who doesn’t buy anything [...]

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a breakup note too long for a text message…though that might have a been more (fucking) appropriate.

related: you oughta know

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“my roommate thinks I took her dry erase board when I was 40 miles away the week it was taken,” says an anonymous college student in tampa, florida. “she has been leaving me notes like this ALL YEAR.”
god help our poor submitter, but i’m nominating this crazy rainbow of a note for the passive-aggressive hall [...]

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but…but…it’s cold out and you’re so close to all the really good gifting suites! perhaps a swarovski-crystal-encrusted-organic-sea-kelp loofah would change your mind?

(thanks to dan m. in park city, utah for snapping the photo.)
related: but He took the wheel

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laura spotted this punchline of a note (”you know it’s time to move out when…”) at her apartment building in downtown brooklyn. or rather, her former apartment building.

it’s unclear whether the note-leaver was motivated by recent research suggesting that pictures of eyes may deter crime. meanwhile, kim documented a convenience store in worcester, massachusetts taking [...]

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our anonymous submitter in california was having some issues with her roommates not washing their dishes. “it got so bad that i picked up what i thought was a black bowl only to find it was white and covered in ants,” she says. when asked to clean up after themselves, the roommates responded with a [...]

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