Putting it sticky side up doesn't really let it stick to the wall...
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I think you are, like I did, interpreting "sticky side down" as meaning "sticky side against the surface to which you're attaching the note."
I don't want to speak for the OP, but I think they meant "sticky side down" as "still against the wall, but at the bottom of the note, rather than with the note hanging from the sticky side at the top."
Yeah, I considered that and decided that was no fun... :)
It's true - I am fun at parties!
You are correct!
You and the commenter to whom I was responding have very similar usernames.
I want to make a joke about that, but I've got nothing. I can only think of something about command line flags or something about "O" faces and I don't have any way to make either of those funny in this context.
Please ~~clap~~ laugh.
We're the same user. They're just at the end of a good night out.
Har har har. Very funny ;p
usually because I wrote the note before unsticking it from the pad, realize I wrote it upside down (or sideways), and I'm not gonna be arsed to rewrite it
I bet they put the toilet paper roll the other way too...
Stinky side down?
Yeah, the wrong way!!!1!
Holding the sticky part?
To remind my co-workers that we're all just clinging to a speck of dust floating through an incomprehensible nothingness, and the concept of "up" or "down" is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
I literally do not give a fuck which orientation the temporary note is.
Depends where on my monitors I'm putting it.
At work, we only have post-it notes that are lined, with a larger section on top, but the sticky side alternates between top/bottom so that the entire stack is an accordion instead of a booklet. It's infuriating.
Those are meant for sticky note dispensers
To see you squirm
Had to write some sticky notes at work yesterday and the pad, they have for it, always switches where the sheets are glued together for every single sheet.
I assume, that has some purpose, but it was rather annoying, especially since I actually wanted to write specifically on the sticky part and then cut off the rest...
It’s because they make dispensers to hide the notes and only the top one comes out.
I use them a lot to date things in the fridge, and with some containers sticky side down is the only way it works.
Makes it harder for people to read my passwords
I mean if I knew it upset someone I would do it on purpose because it would be funny.
If you really want to annoy people use one of those glue sticks to stick them on things with the sticky side facing outward.
Found the damn prankster.
Are you high?