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I found a really passive-aggressive note on a car...

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KatamariDamacy · 16/05/2019 16:20

In really neat handwriting for someone so annoyed.

I promise that it is not my car, and I did not write the note.

I found a really passive-aggressive note on a car...
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ASauvignonADay · 16/05/2019 19:03

I think it's PA. in lots of places you might park partly on grass. I don't know if I'd know there was grass seed...

MisfitsMous · 16/05/2019 19:09

Its pa af! Was there signage about the seed? If not it would have just looked like bare earth, so the note writer needs to get real.

SpamChaudFroid · 16/05/2019 19:27

Politeness edging towards PA. On the cusp.

Turpy · 16/05/2019 19:32

I think it's PA and cringe worthy. Whoever parked the car was thoughtless but I'd have gone with a polite and NON PA message such as

Hi, please can you be careful not to park on my garden in future . I've just put down new grass seed. ☹️
Thanks

FiremanKing · 16/05/2019 19:40

TLDR

Note was far too long and boring.

A simple

You have parked over newly planted grass seeds. Don’t do it again or big Al will smash your fucking headlights in.

KatamariDamacy · 16/05/2019 19:47

I like FiremanKing’s note personally.

The car was parked wholly on a grass verge, just touching the pavement. The pavement and verge had been recently dug up, replaced and the grass reseeded. New grass has just started to show through.

We have a grass verge outside our house but I’ve never written a note like that when someone has parked on it. DH usually goes and politely suggests they park on the road instead.

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IvanaPee · 16/05/2019 19:50

Why was it parked wholly on the verge though? Confused

KaleidoscopeEyes · 16/05/2019 19:54

@Reallybadidea that note though 😂😂

FleurNancy · 16/05/2019 19:54

Surely the better option is to put a sign on the seeded area? Much less of a PITA than painstakingly handwriting a note to every single car who parks there without thinking.

NigellaAwesome · 16/05/2019 19:57

Am I the only one trying to decipher the etched in writing at right angles to the writing on the cardboard note?

Aridane · 16/05/2019 19:58

A remarkably restrained note in the circumstances!

KatamariDamacy · 16/05/2019 20:10

Not meaning to drip-feed, but it’s a narrowish road. There’s room for cars to park on one side only. It’s also a massively long cul-de-sac and they would have found a clear bit of road to park in all of 10 yards or so.

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AndOutComeTheBoobs · 16/05/2019 20:12

I'm the queen of PA when needs be and the opening line is PA.

However, they have a point.

Give grass a chance.

Bookworm4 · 16/05/2019 20:18

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2stepsonthewater · 16/05/2019 20:26

I don't think it's passive aggressive, but it is a bit patronising. I think it was written by a teacher, used to trying to phrase everything in polite positive terms!

Reallybadidea · 16/05/2019 20:29

@KaleidoscopeEyes

I know! Although if it had been left ton my car I'd have probably been a bit more outraged Grin

steff13 · 16/05/2019 20:34

If it was someone's lawn, they would have said so.

There's nothing in the note that precludes it being someone's lawn. Or otherwise their property.

steff13 · 16/05/2019 20:36

New grass has just started to show through.

Then they should have been aware that it was recently seeded, and not parked there.

KatamariDamacy · 16/05/2019 20:43

Not my car.

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Jux · 16/05/2019 23:56

Oh I see! You're the note writer.

U2HasTheEdge · 17/05/2019 01:17

She isn't the note writer or the car owner. It says so in her first post.

I don't think it is a polite note at all.

CloudyForest · 17/05/2019 01:53

Sound to me like it was written by someone with far too much time on their hands.

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