Entries Tagged as 'stealing'

roommate fumes; unilever marketing execs rejoice

February 3rd, 2008 · 66 Comments

curse as much as you want, dude: you’re still bitching about body wash. (personally, that’s what i’d call a gamekiller.)

related: i swear this isn’t some sort of stealth viral marketing campaign

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Tags: beer · brooklyn · new york · stealing · whiteboard

“take out of box, place directly in toilet”

January 13th, 2008 · 86 Comments

after noticing a tell-tale crisper sleeve in the garbage, charlie in new york spotted this helpful directive on the office fridge.

(though if you ask jim gaffigan, the thief was really doing the guy a favor.)
related: i swear this isn’t some kind of viral marketing campaign

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Tags: "helpful" advice · new york · office fridge · stealing · visual aids

i know where she lives

January 3rd, 2008 · 125 Comments

margarita spotted this note in the window of a laundromat in san francisco. honestly, she says, “i’m more afraid of a vindictive, threatening neighbor than a laundry ‘theif.’”

related: no, that’s not the british spelling

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Tags: laundry · neighbors · san francisco · spelling and grammar police · stealing · warning

adio, amigo

December 12th, 2007 · 103 Comments

our anonymous submitter saw this note posted on the door to the walk-in cooler at a convenience store in boerne, texas. “the clerk told me that the red bull delivery person had been drinking red bull and leaving the empty cans on the floor of the walk-in,” our submitter says. “in her words, ‘he was [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · message to all intended for one · spelling and grammar police · stealing

it’s not funny, it’s my sandwich

December 5th, 2007 · 136 Comments

joe in northern virginia has amassed a pretty divine collection of office fridge notes over the years, the best of which portend various forms of karmic/economic/physical retribution.

related: it must have been a pretty big bite 

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · ellipses-crazed · food · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · reston · stealing · virginia

ABP on the V8

December 2nd, 2007 · 86 Comments

nobody likes it when food goes missing from the office fridge, but one v8-drinking facilities staffer in savannah, georgia wanted to make her displeasure a bit more official.

adds our anonymous submitter: “as you can see, the pest control department took appropriate action.”

related: if the TSA was in charge of the office fridge? 

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Tags: beverages · georgia · office · office fridge · savannah · stealing

i’ve got my eye on you

November 27th, 2007 · 135 Comments

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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Tags: CAPS LOCK · apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · excessive underlining · massachusetts · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · stealing · worcester

“no” questions asked

November 26th, 2007 · 120 Comments

i love how the notewriter quickly abandons the initial pretense here, then completely throws in the towel with the last line.

thanks to adam in san francisco for this masterpiece!

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · CAPS LOCK · confusion??? · san francisco · stealing · strangers

“if it wasn’t for the toilet, there would be no books”

November 21st, 2007 · 117 Comments

reading in the bathroom is one thing…but kicking back with a purloined snapple? that’s one step too far for this food service establishment, as spotted by jenny in washington, d.c.

you gotta love that passive voice! any kindly guesses re: the crossed-out word?

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Tags: bathroom · highlighter · not-so-veiled threats · passive voice · restaurant · stealing

come get some

October 26th, 2007 · 147 Comments

lisa in berkeley says she was doing laundry in her dorm building when someone pointed out this amazing note to her. “according to that person, who knew the note-poster through a friend, ‘the towels were actually nice. they were from kohl’s or something.’”

lisa says the note has since been taken down. “i guess an ra [...]

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Tags: TMI · berkeley · california · comic sans alert · comma diarrhea · die bitch die · laundry · not-so-veiled threats · spelling and grammar police · stealing · that shit is disgusting · towels · university

free markets, free people, free papers

October 19th, 2007 · 216 Comments

another doozy of an apartment manager note from oakland, california. our anonymous submitter wasn’t able to save any of those 14 notices, so it’s unclear if any of them were anything like this one.

related: love, apt. 3 

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · excessive underlining · guilt trip · landlord · neighbors · newspaper · oakland · obnoxious definition · stealing

you gotta keep ’em separated

October 18th, 2007 · 183 Comments

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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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · microwave · o.c. · opening/closing · reverse psychology · spelling and grammar police · stealing · thanks (but not really) · university

just in case you didn’t catch the sarcasm…

September 26th, 2007 · 97 Comments

a staff-all email from an anonymous submitter in seattle…

what’s muscle milk, you ask? well, say its makers, “muscle milk is arguably america’s favorite protein.” apparently because unlike, say, chicken, muscle milk comes in flavors like “egg nog,” “chocolate banana crunch” and “root beer float.”
related: try a bite 

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · comic sans alert · ellipses-crazed · office fridge · sarcasm · seattle · spelling and grammar police · stealing

no, that’s not the british spelling

September 24th, 2007 · 126 Comments

“you know when you drink so much that you can’t remember what you did the night before?” asks our anonymous scottish pizza bandit. “sometimes we’re lucky enough to encounter certain things which trigger memories of our alcohol-fueled rampage. i was lucky enough to come across this the next day.”

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Tags: fridge · guilt trip · not-so-veiled threats · pizza · sarcasm · scotland · spelling and grammar police · stealing

sophisticated dryers use silverware when they eat your socks

September 19th, 2007 · 150 Comments

our anonymous submitter spotted this note on a resident’s door in an apartment complex in portland, oregon. oddly, she says, this resident lives alone.
then there’s this one, which james’s roommate found in the laundry room of his sacramento apartment complex.

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Tags: excessive underlining · laundry · neighbors · portland · sacramento · stealing

a fancy feast

September 4th, 2007 · 122 Comments

joshua brings us this amazing pair of notes from his apartment building in philly.
the backstory: “a bulk package of cat food (probably 20 or so cans) was delivered and sat in the hallway for about 4 or 5 days. we could see what it was because the sides of the package were cardboard, but [...]

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Tags: cats · neighbors · not-so-veiled threats · philadelphia · rebuttals · smiley · stealing · thanks (but not really) · that's illegal

um, rene hall?

August 30th, 2007 · 98 Comments

meric spotted this sign in melbourne while going to the launderette a few doors down. the bizarre thing, says meric, is that it’s in a shop window. “i have no idea what kind of dastardly person would steal poor dave’s bananas but every time i walked past it i laughed so much a little bit [...]

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Tags: australia · bananas · beverages · coke · food · melbourne · not-so-veiled threats · revenge · stealing · virginia

pencils goeth

August 6th, 2007 · 43 Comments

this note comes to us from an archaeological dig in the u.k. (roman silchester, to be precise), where our submitter says the planning team was quite worried about the writing instruments going the way of ancient rome.

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Tags: stealing · u.k.

passive-aggressive free-for-all

July 8th, 2007 · 78 Comments

during his fourth year of college, andrew from waterloo says he lived with some seriously passive-aggressive roommates. the following three notes all went up within a 48-hour period:

andrew couldn’t resist adding one of his own…

it was taken down.
related: the post-it wars

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Tags: dishes · excessive underlining · rebuttals · roommates · stealing · university · waterloo

it must have been a pretty big bite

June 29th, 2007 · 130 Comments

an amazing one from brian in cleveland:

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · cheese · cleveland · exclamation-point happy! · moms & dads · more aggressive than passive · office · office fridge · ohio · pleasantries as afterthought · preggers · questionable logic · spelling and grammar police · stealing