LONDON -- There's something spectacularly blunt about a sweary, hastily scrawled note left on a parked car.
You know the ones: balanced on windscreens or tucked under a wiper, they're the anonymous, all-caps messages left to not-so-politely inform drivers they've done something to piss someone else off.
Bristol-based writer Daniel Mehmet has been documenting these notes since 2012. He's set up an Instagram account, bristolparkingnotes, and has written a blog post sharing some of the more memorable messages he's come across.
Mehmet told Mashable that the majority of notes he finds are in the Clifton and Redland areas of Bristol.
"They have a good mix of students and wealthy homeowners, which provides the perfect combination of bad parking behaviour and good-mannered, righteous indignation," he said.
Here are some of the notes Mehmet has found.
"I love how sarcastic the note-leavers are," said Mehmet, when we asked about his motivation for photographing the messages. "The vast majority start and end with 'please' and 'thank you,' but sandwich some pretty colourful language between.
"Second, being a writer, I love the awful spelling, punctuation and grammar. And third, coming from angry London to chilled-out Bristol, it was such a relief to discover all this lovely, lovely rage."