wesh snapped this a few years back in red hook, brooklyn, while walking from his brother’s rehearsal dinner to the afterparty bar. (how bougie does park slope’s version look in comparison?)
says wesh: “what gets me are the flags. why flags?”

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as demonstrated here, a key element of the passive-aggressive lexicon. (and one of the many elevated to catchphrase status by mike judge.)

from peter (no, not that peter), who has since escaped roommate living but offers these words of wisdom for those of us who haven’t: “never trust anyone who uses post-it notes at home.”
related: [...]

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from william, who notes: “sadly, management thought this was too severe, so it was replaced with a long whiny treatise on coffee etiquette.”

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the visual aid here is genius, and i love the piggyback note. (once two people join in, the whole thing has a tendency to spiral out of control into a massive anonymous bitchfest.)
spotted by steve.
UPDATE: the sign-maker writes in to claim his handiwork! oliver explains:
I was horrified at this state, but I also did [...]

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from giovanni: a classic example of the “office fridge” sub-genre.

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i agree with amy: “EST” is what really makes this one.

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The University of North Florida has an informative section of their Website called “Roommate Conflict 101,” where Dan Pederson, Assistant Dean for Residential Life at Indiana’s Valparaiso University, offers UNF students “some tips to keep you out of trouble” when “that two-month-old carton of milk your roommate left in the mini fridge sends you into [...]

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frank writes, “nice blogs….but i would like to point out that your passive-aggressive notes site
is a complete rip-off of a humor piece i wrote over three years ago for the now-defunct humor magazine jest.”
well played, frank! not only is the piece in question quite humorous indeed, but frank’s use of classic passive-aggressive conventions (the [...]

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the latest in a series previously documented here and here.

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there’s something wildly theatrical about this one — i wouldn’t be surprised if it burst into song.
(spotted in gowanus, brooklyn)

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slipped under our door by the downstairs neighbors.

(guilty as charged.)

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from an auto shop somewhere between new york and atlantic city…

at first glace, this doesn’t seem to fit the criteria for a true passive-aggressive note — observe the absence of faux niceties like “please” or “thanks!!!”– but the pseudo-helpful clarification (”this means pants + shirts as a single unit…”) help inch it just over the [...]

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this card came with a box of homemade mandelbrot from my very own passive-aggressive jewish grandmother.

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