Is it not traditional to blow one's nose into a tissue? And should security have to deal with employees taking sink baths in the lobby?
― james k polk, Friday, 20 March 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe he's using a neti pot?
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Friday, 20 March 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, why shouldn't you wash up your arms/hands in a kitchen sink tho? if you've spilled on yourself at lunch do you have to then go to the, um, lobby and clean up?
i'm not addressing the nose blowing thing because that is utterly bizarre, who blows their nose into a sink??
― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Friday, 20 March 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I recommend you post a note humbly requesting that they STOP using the space above the kitchen sink as a bulletin board. Posting of paranoid aspie germaphobe rants can be done in their own cubicle.
― Roberto Mussolini (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 March 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, why shouldn't you wash up your arms/hands in a kitchen sink tho?
judging from the note I suspect someone (probably male) was washing their hands and face in the sink and while rinsing their face off exhaled through/blew their nose or something. cuz yeah seriously washing your face and hands in a sink = um duh
― Roberto Mussolini (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 March 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
hard to imagine anyone going to a sink to projectile-spew boogers (which yeah is pretty gross but I guess is possible)
I choose to believe it's the note-writer who's batshit, and that some guy just blows his nose into a tissue in front of the sink and then washes his hands, including the forearms because he's a little bit of a clean freak. Note-writer thinks this is unhygenic for said batshit reasons.
― en i see kay, Friday, 20 March 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I just don't get the nose-blowing part at all. I have never ever seen someone blowing their nose directly into the sink. People blow their noses on paper towels and the like in the kitchen and do not dispose of these towels in the sink, but in the trash can, as best I can tell. That's perfectly OK, innit? And I see absolutely nothing wrong with washing arms in the kitchen. I'm not gonna escalate, tho, not unless someone suggests a really funny one-liner I can put on a mini-sticky.
XP, I haven't seen combo face-washings/nose-blowings yet, but that's reasonable.
My face feels oily. Perhaps I need to wash it.
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Friday, 20 March 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Our office kitchen has one of those cursed "yr mom doesn't work here" notes as well. Worst ever. Oooo I HATE "Your mom doesn't work here" signs because you know what? Even if my mom did work there, it's NOT AUTOMATICALLY HER JOB TO CLEAN UP AFTER PEOPLE.
I have two inappropriate washing at work stories:
1. A clerk at a law firm where I worked washed her hair in the break room sink, although this is apocryphal as it happened before I started there. 2. I came across a guy washing his pants in the water fountain at work one day. I started using the water cooler for drinking water thereafter.
― home of the vain (Jenny), Friday, 20 March 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
not unless someone suggests a really funny one-liner I can put on a mini-sticky
"does this mean no peeing in the sink either?"
― Roberto Mussolini (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 March 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not gonna escalate, tho, not unless someone suggests a really funny one-liner
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Friday, March 20, 2009 7:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
http://i44.tinypic.com/15rmooi.jpg
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
btw i do blow my nose into the sink at home on occasion - using the hot water to clean off yr nose after is way more effective than a tissue and feels nice if yr all stuffed up
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Note is GONE.
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember singing in a concert at Princeton while in college; the onstage grand piano had TWO notes lying on top of it that said "Do not place ANYTHING on this piano!" I wrote "except for this note" on one of them and "except for this note and the other one" on the other.
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Monday, 23 March 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
and then what
― brocktune (jeff), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
that was the extent of my passive-aggression
I never said it was a very good story
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Not really passive-aggressive, but the coffee pots have started to grow sticky notes containing this info:
1. Time and date of brew2. Type of beans & roast3. Drip setting (light, normal, or strong)
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
they actually stick to the coffee pot?
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
There was a gas station in lower michigan that we always stopped at during trips to Ann Arbor, and they always had flowers in the women's bathroom, and my friend would always take one of the flowers. Eventually the put up a sign that said "Please leave flowers for all the guests to enjoy", so she stole the flowers and the sign. I think they gave up after that.
― joygoat, Monday, 23 March 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend got this one this morning:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3597/3384175968_7bf9a00488_o.jpg
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
in a fortune cookie?
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
It looks like it, doesn't it? It was stuck to her door. She said she thinks she has new neighbours upstairs..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
got a hilarious essay from some curtain twitching anonymous neighbour about leaving my recycling in the wrong place last month, but my favourite was a few years ago in a unisex work toilet saying in one big chunk "PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR PADS IN THE TOILETS IT IS DISGUTSING THERE IS A SANIE BIN PLEASE USE IT WHOEVER DONE IT KNOW THEMSELVES SIGN MADGE"
it was a fair point, though
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
used to respond to pass-agg uni housemate's notes by posting random ones saying "DON'T PISS IN THE FRIGGING SINK" and shit, which at the time I thought was funny
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
the fact that someone actually typed that out, although cute, makes me wonder how often they've distributed the same note out to other neighbours.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
be more civilised
"Jocasta, will you please pass me the bottle of lubrication jelly?""Certainly Hubert, here you are!""Thank you very much, my dear!"
― snoball, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i got an anonymous note a few weeks back asking me to keep music down after 10pm. totally reasonable, just seemed a bit weird that the letter was anon so i don't know whether they're below, above or adjacent and it was written in a really elegant font and printed out as if they'd really thought about the presenation (may not count as pass-agg but still).
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
(xxpost) it's a standard template in MS Word
I suppose that is a little less awkward than having a 50-something neighbor knock on your door and request, "Next time you knockin' the boots, could you keep it down? You're scarin' the kids."
(xxxx-post)
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
xp I think my friend's boyfriend is thinking of investing in a monocle and top hat to up his civility
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
but will it make him quieter during the physical act of love?
― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.southportforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64522&stc=1
― snoball, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Is 5 minutes of bedsprings creaking REALLY too much to handle here peeps?
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
that's not noisy sex, that's noisy furniture
― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I will check in with the fellow's neighbours in a week or so and see if the lovemaking has quietened…
I used to have a noisy bed. IKEA no more! What a nightmare that was.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i use to kea but now ikea no more
― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
make peace and quiet not love
― Local Garda, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus my upstairs neighbors sound like they're building a goddam railroad and i wouldn't even think to complain, pass-agg or not
― laying | (goole), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
dyslexic fans of Grand Funk Railroad
― snoball, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
my ex next door neighbour used to have the squeaky bed syndrome, but i didn't dare complain because of the appalling rhythym that became apparent to anyone listening (ten seconds of fury, a minute of a break, repeated maybe twice). i didn't want him to see the pity in my eyes.
― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
complaining about people fucking is almost always lame as hell
― WOOKIE JOHNSON (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm a little concerned that i've never heard my downstairs neighbors bonin' in a year and a half. i mean, they just got engaged.
― meat of beef (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i hear them hanging out in the kitchen and watching movies sometimes, but maybe they just soundproofed the bedroom.
― meat of beef (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
suggest reply
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/note.jpg
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
xp ken c: or conversely
"U Jealous!"
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
― Local Garda, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:47 (7 hours ago) Bookmark
LOL
on his birthday as well, what a day for the lad
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ten seconds of fury, a minute of a break, repeated maybe twice
It takes me longer than that to brush my teeth
maybe they just soundproofed the bedroom
One word: ballgags
― snoball, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
civilized love-making is a sad concept.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
noise off because i have been known to pause smashing for the sake of changing the song on stereo
― 20 HOOS poppin steens on kawasakis (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 23:09 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to say OMG LOL but then I remembered the time shuffle-play brought up Naked City during, so yeah, I know where that's at.
― WmC, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link