Filter

This urgent note was posted by the bathrooms at Filter- a coffeehouse in Wicker Park:

WHOEVER TOOK THE THE DIESEL JEANS FROM DOWNSTAIRS NEEDS TO RETURN THEM. ITS A SHITTY THING TO DO, STEALING SOMETHING FROM PEOPLE YOU WORK WITH.

WE WOULD NOT WANT TO IMPLEMENT NEW RULES SUCH AS NOT ALLOWING EMPLOYEES TO BRING IN BACKPACKS OR ANY TYPE OF OVERSIZED BAG OR HAVING RANDOM BAG CHECKS.

BOTH OF WHICH ARE ACTUAL RULES AT OTHER RESTAURANTS. BUT WE DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE THEM DO WE?

Such desperation about a pair of expensive jeans in a coffeehouse in an area of Chicago that supposedly holds a counter culture-anti-corporation-down with the man-thrift store shopping-doing whatever it takes to get by-way of thinking.

I imagine that before the author wrote the note, he/she spoke to coworkers quietly in between customers, discussing possible suspects. The suspect was probably narrowed down very quickly. Rather than confronting the suspected jeans thief, the victim probably acted normally to the suspect and chose instead to post a very passive aggressive note by the bathrooms. The purpose of the note was not to get the jeans back, they were gone. He/she understood this and had already purchased another, better pair.