Our submitter, Steffany, says she found this abandoned burrito in the microwave and set it on the table. When she woke up the next morning, she says, “my roommate had left me this a bitchy note…so I left one for her.”
![My food is NOT your food. don't eat it. duh. [response] You left this in the microwave when you were drunk, idiot.](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8497/8399880816_96ba0bd51f_o.jpg "My food is NOT your food. don't eat it. duh. [response] You left this in the microwave when you were drunk, idiot.")
related: Haterade on the rocks, with a twist
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As it turns out, at least one study has shown that laughter in the workplace can actually improve productivity.
Of course, that didn’t help our submitter in St. Louis from totally freaking out when she found this anonymous note on her desk at her “conservative” office, where she says that although silence pretty much reigns, “I giggle and talk loudly all the time.”
Our submitter later found out that the note was a “prank” from a friendly coworker. (But — paranoia alert — was it completely in jest, or a p-a power play?)
related: To my coworker, the thundering cow
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Our anonymous submitter in L.A. says this opus was posted at the kitchen of a production company working on a network television show…where at least two people seem to have too much time on their hands.
related: Dear Desperate for Salad
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Kay spotted these signs while shopping for CDs at a store named JB Hi-Fi in Melbourne. “I personally agree with everything said on there,” Kay says, “but the two 17-year-olds who brought the note to my attention clearly didn’t. (One of them actually said ‘Who the fuck is Johnny Rotten?’) I thought it was priceless.”
related: Top five musical crimes perpetrated by record store customers in the 90s and 2000s
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In the U.K. —more so than anywhere else — self-proclaimed “polite notices” are quite often anything but. Take, for example, these two notices, both from London.
related: A polite notice from New Zealand
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At Westside Market in New York City, a cheesemonger gives his final two (hundred and ninety-nine) cents:
related: Don’t blame us — blame the crazy lady!
extra credit: Meet The Mysterious Cheesemonger Behind The Quotable Fromage [gothamist.com]
extra extra credit: A Collection of Curiously Eccentric Cheese Labels [nymag.com]
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This type of note, I think, is the absolute WORST.
related: This thing is in the way. Is someone going to move it?
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Writes our submitter, “Bob L,” in California: “I posted a negative review on Yelp of a local business. Next time I came in, I saw this note posted on their bulletin board. Glad I didn’t use my real name!”
related: “The bathrooms are the best thing about this restaurant.”
extra credit: Portlandia “Bad Yelp review” [youtube]
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