The front:
Aaaand the back:
(Thanks to Jada in Knoxville, Tennessee for submitting!)
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Communal kitchen canoodling
May 9th, 2013 · 51 comments
Our submitter in Canada, who lives in a rooming house with a shared kitchen, laughed pretty hard upon finding this note. “It’s just so specific. So very specific.”
“P.S.,” our submitter adds: “I didn’t drop the noodles.”
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Trading up
May 8th, 2013 · 62 comments
This seems like a conversation you should probably have in person, no? I mean…ouch.
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It loses something in translation
May 7th, 2013 · 47 comments
Drew is currently sharing an apartment in Taiwan with three roommates. One day, this note appeared on the door of the bathroom, directly facing the toilet. Says Drew: “I contemplate its meaning like a Zen haiku.”
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The crap we put up with for marriage…
May 6th, 2013 · 24 comments
Our submitter spotted this twist on a well-worn trope in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
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We’ve got to hold on to what we’ve got
May 5th, 2013 · 59 comments
Bethany in California says she saw this sign hanging from a house on her street. “I don’t know the person who wrote it, but I made my husband stop in the middle of the street so I could take a picture.”
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A pre-emptive strike
May 2nd, 2013 · 44 comments
Eddy shares a house in Providence, Rhode Island with his sister. “We’re both busy with school and work,” Eddy says, “so we take turns cleaning the bathroom.” Well, sort of. “I usually put it off for weeks,” Eddy admits.
Adds Eddy: “By the way, the heart translates loosely to ‘I’ll f’ing kill you.’”
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Just to watch him die
May 1st, 2013 · 72 comments
Nicole used to live in Reno, Nevada. Unless you’ve lived there, Nicole says, “then you can’t fully understand what a straaaange place it is, but this note might help.” She found it about four years ago in personals section of the Pennysaver. Four years later, Nicole says, “I still feel a joyous bewilderment upon reading it. I can’t wait to show it to my grandkids some day.”
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The Paper Towel Apocalypse
April 29th, 2013 · 50 comments
It you want people to actually pay attention to your bathroom signage, it’s go big or go home. This one certainly made Jennifer in Tennessee take notice.
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The don of donut discipline
April 28th, 2013 · 144 comments
Don is the organizer of a doughnut co-op in his Chicago office, in which each co-worker takes a turn bringing in doughnuts every Friday to share with the rest of the group. “One of my co-workers is notorious for cutting doughnuts in half and leaving the other half behind in the box,” Don says, “which annoys some of the other members of the co-op. Apparently a co-worker felt that I was failing to maintain doughnut discipline and took it upon himself to post this warning.”
Adds Don: “Half-doughnuts are no longer showing up.”
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