Dishonest Note
January 2nd, 2009
A driver who is returning to his parked car finds that it has been damaged in a collision. There is a note on the windshield. The driver picks up the note which reads, “The people watching me think I am leaving my name and address, but I am not.”
This story has been repeated since the 1960s in newspaper articles and through word of mouth. It describes how a crowd of people watch the guilty party write the note, but no one in the crowd seems to have even written down the party’s license-plate number.
(Source: Brunvand, Jan H. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. 2001.)
