Passive aggressive notes

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??

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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

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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

Note is GONE.

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.

and then what

that was the extent of my passive-aggression

I never said it was a very good story

Not really passive-aggressive, but the coffee pots have started to grow sticky notes containing this info:

1. Time and date of brew
2. Type of beans & roast
3. Drip setting (light, normal, or strong)

they actually stick to the coffee pot?

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.

My friend got this one this morning:

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in a fortune cookie?

It looks like it, doesn't it? It was stuck to her door. She said she thinks she has new neighbours upstairs..

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

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

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.

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!"

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).

(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)

xp I think my friend's boyfriend is thinking of investing in a monocle and top hat to up his civility

but will it make him quieter during the physical act of love?

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Is 5 minutes of bedsprings creaking REALLY too much to handle here peeps?

that's not noisy sex, that's noisy furniture

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.

i use to kea but now ikea no more

make peace and quiet not love

jesus my upstairs neighbors sound like they're building a goddam railroad and i wouldn't even think to complain, pass-agg or not

dyslexic fans of Grand Funk Railroad

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.

complaining about people fucking is almost always lame as hell

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.

i hear them hanging out in the kitchen and watching movies sometimes, but maybe they just soundproofed the bedroom.

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xp ken c: or conversely

"U Jealous!"

make peace and quiet not love

― Local Garda, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:47 (7 hours ago) Bookmark

LOL

on his birthday as well, what a day for the lad

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

civilized love-making is a sad concept.

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

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.

^^ thinking about John Zorn's orange camo pants is a real mood killer.

i find it a little creepy/weird that they referred to it as 'making love' and not just 'having sex'.