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October 28, 2008 |
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Car Alarm
FOUND by Drace
in College Station, Texas
I found this on the ground in the parking lot of my apartments... the ending remarks are sweet.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I guess they don't like alarm clocks going all night?
Or is this one of those guy things, y'know, like calling your friends "asshats" or "douchetards"?
Well, -someone- has class.
"Its (sic) Annoying." I love that. Right there in the middle of all the other strong language 'annoying' seems so incongruous, like a momentary lapse of insanity.
Is there an opposite to tourette's syndrome?
@man: very interesting observation about the lapse of insanity. There are all sorts of cliches that the writer could have used instead of 'annoying'
the note author would later feel guilty about this, when it was found out that the Reason the alarm was left going off all night was because the owner was laying on the floor paralyzed after a stroke.
if only the pissed off note writer HAD called the police they might have found the poor alarm owner in time...
I don't think we're talking about alarm clocks here. This guy's car alarm kept going off.
And I think the use of "Annoying" was a reference to the alarm itself (which the writer did not want to offend), and the car owner (which the writer DID want to offend) is the prick / piece of shit who needs to have a shitty day.
By the way, doesn't a piece of shit, by definition, always have a shitty day?
Woah...no "passive" here, this is pure agression. But there's no "agressivenotes.com" so they sent it to Found.
Car alarms ARE annoying. They are headbangingly, arm-bitingly disturbing, particularly at night. Especially as the owner of the vehicle always gets home late at night and parks miles away from where they live, so they will never, ever hear the damn thing which is waking up the neighbourhood.Most times they have also parked someone in who lives in the area and will have to be late to work while waiting for them to sleep off their hangover and show up to set them free. (Personally, I'd just call the cops and have the damn thing towed, but then I don't drive.)
An alarm-related incident of this type happened on a hot summer night where I live, in the days before we all had AC (about 25 yrs ago). It was so loud that a group of irate neighbours finally went down and removed the battery from the car, leaving it on the pavement. Peace reigned.
I would have loved to have seen the car-owner's face the next morning.
Hmm. Reminds me...the tenant who rents my 2 bedroom basement apartment downstairs...when he has gone away for the weekend but forgets to turn off HIS alarm cock/radio...thank the Lord I have a key...isn't it common decency to make sure all of your belongings and such are turned off and taken care of before you hit the road?
aren't you supposed to call the police if the car alarm goes off? what are they for anyway?
I love it when people threaten to call the police over something that no police force, ever, anywhere, in any town, could possibly be concerned about.
P.P.S. Fuck you
Um, I don't think that calling the police "You piece of shit" will endear you to the law enforcement community.
Lol! Librarian, I love you remark!
Even if the police would respond to the call, I don't think they can actually DO anything about it, could they?
Oh. Call. The. Police. When I was visiting Texas, I saw a news report about how the police were taking over an hour to respond to house alarms if they responded at all. The people could be there getting home invasion robbed, raped, or killed. Yeah, I'm sure they give a shit about car alarms.
two exclamation marks, one comma, and two periods for all of that.
sorry, but to me it looks like SALT wrote this note. (sounds like it, too.)
They'll take forever to respond to the call but they can issue a citation for disturbing the peace. Or something of that nature.
I had to do it for some noisy neighbors. It was great to see them have to quiet down!
Well, this note really hits home. I would change it to say, "Your dog was barking all night nonstop you prick!"
Barking dogs. Some people have no clue
Thanks and you have a shitty day, yourself.
Teehee. LASH said "his alarm cock". What a way to wake up!
When I say "Have a shitty day!" in a cheerful voice, with a smile, it makes me giggle.
Try it!
I feel pretty sympathetic to the note writer. I think my attitude and grammar would suffer after a sleepless night.
@ Librarian: That is a contender for "Best Comment of the Month"
@everyone who isn't me: Yeah, I guess car alarm makes more sense.
Too much apartment living for this gal.
If your child had not been trying to break into my car the alarm would have not been going off all night. Thanks for raising a shitty child.
P.S. You need to bail your child out.
@Turbo--Actually, it said "alarm cock-RADIO". Now that's a trick I'd like to see!
@ Geek ... ooo, ooo, and I just got it in a few days before the end of the month! Actually, I'm not here for the awards. It's the intellectual stimulation I receive that keeps me coming back.
Which reminds me that my other comment about this Find is just to point out that another phrase reads "It[']s annoying if it continues, [but apparently wasn't annoying last night] ...".
if it's a house/car alarm, aren't you supposed to call the police? and if its annoying noise coming from a neighbor's apartment (like an incessant alarm clock) isn't there someone to call in that situation too?
i just don't get the point of the writer's pissed-offedness. call the police or don't call the police, what's a note going to do?
my bf always hits the 'snooze' button when he get gets up. it takes him less than the 10 minute snooze to throw on clothes and head out the door to class. this is why he never hears me cursing his name when the stupid thing goes off while i'm thought-deep in some work.
jerkface.
Given the inconsiderate shitbags who used to live across the street from me, I could have easily written a note like this a couple years ago (only much more creative and colorful). And if I had, the reply would have probably been very similar in tone and content to today's other Find of the Day.
@Terrie – there was a story here in the UK about a householder who heard a burglar outside his house and rang the police. They said they were ‘too busy’ and had ‘no one available’ to investigate.
Five minutes later he rang again: ‘You know that burglar? I've just shot him’. Within ten minutes there were five police cars (including armed units) on his doorstep.
‘Just kidding’, he said, ‘I don’t have a gun anyway. But here’s the burglar.’
I think he got done for wasting police time.
@ librarian, i agree with geek. i haven't been here for the whole month, but your post is... remarkable!
dearest neighbor,
sorry for the annoying alarm!! your hubby's prick was going off nonstop last night. no need to call the police he was with me the piece of shit.
ps have a beautiful day
College Station, Texas, home to the Aggies of Texas A&M and (I think) the crazy chick who carved a backwards "B" in her face after claiming an angry, ATM-stalking Obama lover beat her up for loving McCain. Lots of anger in that town...
What's the point of car alarms, anyway? Does anybody ever give a rat's ass if one goes off?
That's crazy Jonathan.
They also had a story on while I was there about how the police didn't have enough bullets (there was a shortage because of the war). I'm sure there's some kind of irony in there somewhere.
And I just noticed that the only place the word "car" appears is in the Finder's title.
Not on the Find itself.
So this COULD have been a suitemate, roommate, or next door neighbor's note to someone with an annoyingly loud alarm clock sounding all night long from within her/his locked bedroom.
It was an Aggie alarm. Go figure.
If it wasn't a car alarm, why would it be in the car park? Unless it was addressed to a transformer, and was given to him in his disguise form, because he was trying to pull the old "I'm just a normal car, don't get shitty with me" routine. Very probable
@ Turbo:
"We got a thing that's called radar love..."
The church across the street has an annoying building alarm that shrills into the night whenever the wind blows. And it can take hours for someone to make it stop. Yes, I relate to the anger that's generated from a night of listening to annoying alarms. Come to think of it, the alarm is overdue. Why am I thinking I won't be sleeping tonight?
Nice
The ending is the best part. It's almost as if the writer couldn't leave well enough alone that they had to toss in ruining their day over it.
Thanks, Night. Now that song is stuck in my head.
Thanks, Night. Now that song is stuck in my head.
stuttering..sorry
Whoever wrote this note is quite in love with its recipient.
He should have wrote, 'due to your inconsiderate actions of leaving your car alarm on ultra, if the wind blows, it goes off 55 times an hour; I am now forced to shove one ungreased, overly starved, Yorkshire terror up your a$$.'
(terror is not a typo)