That note was left on our Ford Taurus this morning. What I find amusing about this note is that our car was parked well within the lines. Not only that, but we park against a wall, so if we were parked any further away, the driver would not be able to get out of the car.
I guess we should have been more considerate and parked the car so it was propped against the wall. We’re so ignorant of the feelings of others.
At least they said it with a smile, as well as underlining the main points. That’s consideration!
I am convinced some people just enjoy being pissed off about something. That feeling of righteousness. That need to triumph over subordinates… it can be heady stimulation. I don’t even think the subject matter is important as long as those people are RIGHT! Like those hippies who carry on about the Earth and Going Green (both noble pursuits), but they seem to be getting more pleasure hounding you about, oh, I don’t know, not reusing zip lock bags.
It reminded me of the days of living with roommates. Being lectured via puffy pink ink by a 17 year old about how I should realize I live with “other fucking people!!!” and not move an appliance on the counter without asking. As a note, it was moved so I could reach an outlet for a blender I bought for the both of us.
God, I’m such an asshole.
What’s even better is how no matter how many f-bombs are dropped in a note, invariably the note is signed with a smile. It’s even more ridiculous when it’s written by a girl. Cuss words and smileys written in purple and pink inks. They all seem to have the same handwriting, too. The kind of writing that makes you think of those notes you passed in school that asked you to check yes or no.
It’s a sad fact, though. People love being right and they love being obnoxious about it. Some people do this by incessantly correcting grammar. Others have notes.
These are probably the same folks who help an old lady across the street so they can tell everyone all day about their good deed and how awesome they are.
They should put that in a note. It’ll last longer.
18 Comments
July 17, 2008 at 9:33 am
ha!
well. at least this isn’t new york city. When we went to our engagement party sunday morning in the bronx there was a car parked on the street that had it’s whole driver side door busted in. Apparently the street was too narrow for two cars to get down so one car instead of having the other car *going up* wait on the side of the road where there was some room? The car going down moved over into the parked car. Whoops? How’s that for conSEATerate.
I love throwing metro-ism’s into everyday talk don’t you?
July 17, 2008 at 9:40 am
ha-ha
Good morning Liz,
That’s a pretty funny story. I grew up in NYC and if there is one thing we all had to deal with it was parking. In NYC if you saw a parking spot, unwritten law allowed you to slaughter innocents to get to it, I even sent a letter (not that I ever expected it to be answered) to the NY City DOT to ask if I could pay for a spot on my street in front of my apartment .
I then moved upstate NY and was working on a house I owned in a small city there. I had parked outside of it one day when this guy came out of the house next door. He was renting an apartment there and he told me that the spot I was parked in was his. I started laughing, I said, “yours, this is a city street”. he said ” in this city we are allowed to claim spots on the streets”.
The law does not permit that at all, but I guess it was a unwritten code or something. Being that he or whoever had actually accomplished what I dreamed of I obliged him and moved my car down 10 feet.
ha-ha
Thought you’d get a kick out of that.
-Peace
July 17, 2008 at 10:05 am
A note war is a dangerous battle…
Rip it up and go forward in peace and inconsiderate bliss.
July 17, 2008 at 10:10 am
do you have any british neighbors near you - by the way they spelled neighbor —
I have been the victim of the note left on my door before of my own apartment - “thanks for calling the police on me last night, I will move my speakers so this will stop” hmm well bass vibrating my entire room at 2am is unacceptable - morons I tell ya
July 17, 2008 at 10:18 am
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I think you’ll find it right up your alley.
July 17, 2008 at 10:19 am
Great post!!! I have linked to this at The DC Feed.
July 17, 2008 at 10:24 am
The passive aggressive notes are the worst part of communal living. “WHO THE HELL ATE MY CHEESE?!” And then two days later, “Sorry, guys. I ate my cheese when I was drunk! HEHE”.
Oye.
July 17, 2008 at 10:33 am
I’d love to see a handwriting expert’s analysis of this note, particularly the fact that all underlines are doubled, and the ones under “please” and “consideration” are straight while the ones under “neighbour” are wiggly.
July 17, 2008 at 10:58 am
How annoying. I think you are right though, a lot of people just need to have something to complain about!
July 17, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I hate passive aggressiveness. At times I’ll slip into it (like asking questions I know the answer to…), mainly because I’m not trying to offend anyone or make it a bigger deal than it is, but NOTES are awful. Especially from roommates. Dude, I’m right here, talk to me. Ugh.
July 17, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I hate that! My boyfriend accidentally parked in my downstairs neighbor’s spot. The next morning, he had a note (on puppy paper!) that went something like: “Please don’t park in my spot, there are plenty of other empty apartments, use one of those spots.”
The funny thing is, the spots are supposed to be numbered by apartment, but they are no longer visible. So it’s sort of a free-for-all. But the building is half empty. So there’s never a shortage of parking. I think the neighbor was just pissed she couldn’t park right outside her door as opposed to two spots down. OH! and their visitors had previously parked in my spot, but I never said a word…I just parked in the next one over. It’s not like walking 5 more feet will kill me. Apparently for my neighbor that wasn’t the case
July 17, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Ugh, people like that annoy the crap out of me.
They are also the people who write “letters to the editor” of the newspaper like 50 times a week to vent about something stupid.
“get a life” anyone???
I love how passive aggressive that note is.
What a douche!
July 17, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Nice. When are you moving to DC again? You do know I have a room for rent, right?
July 18, 2008 at 9:22 am
Wow, yeah, that is annoying. And er, they are apparently European with the “u” in neighbor?
July 18, 2008 at 10:25 am
Official. You have a very sad British neighbour. Who needs to get a life.
July 19, 2008 at 11:29 am
Oh wow. I used to have the most annoying neighbor on the planet who always left notes. Like, while I was out of the house in Baltimore on the 4th of July she left a note about my phone making a beeping noise. She just wanted to “let me know.” You know. That she heard it over the fireworks? Then it would be about the sink “Wanted to let you know I took care of this for you.” One day I found her sniffing over my toilet, muttering, “Smells like pee.” Ew. Then don’t sniff the toilet? Oh, and she’d pour a bottle of soft scrub all over the bathroom and leave it overnight until it hardened. It would be in the shape of the letters “Clean me.” In the time it took her to be that creative, she could have done it herself. It’s not like I didn’t clean it every day.
What really took the cake was the week after she invited me to her weird, Armageddon focusing Church. She must have heard me shaving my legs in my bedroom with my electric razor because she smiled at me while I was pouring my milk over my cereal and said, “You do know that masturbation is a sin, don’t you?”
July 20, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I imagine people who write notes like that probably don’t write notes, say if they ding your car, or cause any damage themselves, as if it restores some kind of cosmic inbalance.
July 25, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Look at that smiley face at the end. I bet it was that stupid Flanders! Or Betty White.
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