Entries from May 2007

boston: a place for friends

May 30th, 2007 · 37 Comments

angry car notes are pretty common, sure, and most probably wouldn’t qualify as passive-aggressive even by our loose standards. but offering the use of a shovel? that at least earns this note a spot in our top 8.

in her defense, eeka says there were three to four empty spaces available in front of her house [...]

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Tags: boston · excessive underlining · parking · spelling and grammar police

passive-aggressive linkage

May 30th, 2007 · 6 Comments

if you liked “paul gauguin, passive-aggressive artist,” you might enjoy “passive-aggressive vegan grocery cashier: a day in the life,” from the mcsweeney’s archives…or any of the “open letters to people or entities who are unlikely to respond.”
or you might not. perhaps you’re a member of the millennial generation! in that case, you [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · fiction · tangent time

yeah, i got fired…but that hot pocket sure was worth it.

May 30th, 2007 · 14 Comments

this exercise in redundancy is brought to us by erika in los angeles. it’s like the note-writer couldn’t decide which tactic would be most effective and just opted for all of the above.

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Tags: "helpful" advice · bullet points · excessive underlining · food · guilt trip · highlighter · los angeles · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · pleasantries as afterthought

killing you with cuteness

May 30th, 2007 · 22 Comments

from the cubicle of michele in jasper, indiana.
michele says she doesn’t actually expect to see her digital camera again, “but I at least wanted to inflict some guilt on the person who took it.”

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Tags: guilt trip · indiana · office · stealing

to put it as politely as possible

May 29th, 2007 · 40 Comments

from andrea in astoria, queens, who promises more to come.
(yeah, it’s hard to read, but worth squinting over, i promise.)
UPDATE: andrea has posted a transcription of the note here.

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Tags: food · new york · sleeping · whiteboard

four legs good, two legs bad

May 29th, 2007 · 32 Comments

i empathize with the note-leaver here, but after reading apt. 10’s response, i can’t help but side with the defendant– especially after melissa in omaha revealed that this particular neighbor posts notes like this quite frequently. because really, that shit is disrespectful.

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Tags: garbage · more aggressive than passive · neighbors · oh snap · omaha · p.s. · spelling and grammar police