An amazing one from Brian in Cleveland:

Brian explains the serious scheming that went into getting this one:
My co-workers and I were in love with this note when we found it attached to the office refrigerator.
We wanted a copy, but the woman frightened us. So we came up with an elaborate scheme.
One co-worker walked to the [...]

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(from matt in the netherlands)

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cassie in orlando is preschool teacher, and brings us this note posted by the school’s director. “i cannot help but be in awe of her after this note,” cassie says, and i have to agree.

a classic, no?

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explains james, “my cool roommate tries to do something nice for the house, and then jerk roommate writes this”:

seriously, team cormac all the way.

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paul in san diego says this note showed up above both urinals at his office last week.

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an anonymous brooklyn mom sends in this choice — dare we say priceless — example of park slope’s well-documented mama drama.

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dan in miami beach — who by the way knows a thing or two about roommate drama — bring us this sign from a clothing store in the gay mecca of wilton manors, florida. says dan: “sometimes, gay men are a little bitchy with each other.” (again, something he knows a bit about.)

(and seriously, sweetheart, [...]

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vida says her friend in baltimore received this note from “his pathologically lying roommate.”

it’s a little hard to read, but the (genius) last line says, “if not possible we’re moving and you can stay.”
so: team joe? team asa? or too tough to call?

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no lols from this feline — just some lovely passive voice!

(thanks to megan in michigan.)

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this is a special note indeed.
the idiosyncratic spelling, spacing, bolding and are fascinating — i love how the third sentence is so rhetorical it doesn’t deserve a question mark — but i think what i enjoy most is the after-the-fact realization that the desired action here just wasn’t quite explicit enough.

(thanks to molly in [...]

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writes lauren in kansas: “my roommate is known for her notes towards me and our other roommate. we never touch each others food as is but i guess she felt the need to threaten us to keep it that way.”

lauren adds: “inside the box? a ton of containers of frozen cookie dough.”

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exhibit a) from richmond, virginia: the pedantic approach

exhibit b) from minneapolis. minnesota: the conditional approach

exhibit c) from hartford, connecticut: the ALL for one and one for ALL approach

exhibit d) from dallas, texas: the federal government’s approach

(thanks to erik and kim for their submissions.)

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Looks like both the Mad Bomber and Richard G. Sells have West-coast counterparts:

Grossed out? Yeah, me too. Blame Gregory in Los ANgeles for documenting this one (!!!)
related: the mad bomber, act 1: “sorry about the language”

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first, i’ll let stephanie in los angeles explain the context for this one: “after a night of drinking, i let a friend of mine crash with me at my apartment. this friend, who does have her own apartment in the city, left with me in the morning, yet i still received this email from my [...]

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a note to alex in waterloo, ontario from his first-year roommate. says alex: “apparently i was violating some building rules that annoyed him and rather than asking me in person, he wrote this on our front door for all to see.”

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as the vilification of outback-bread-eating michelle shows, the passive-aggressive notes community has no mercy for the unrepentant food thief.
in fact, screw repentance — we’re out for revenge.
beyond simple note-leaving, one of most popular tactics for dealing with thieves seems to be the “if i can’t have it, nobody can” approach: [...]

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this one makes me wince. seriously, ouch.

(from cassandra in toronto.)

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it’s been an exciting weekend here at passiveaggressivenotes.com. first, we got some love from the nine’s maria sansone. then, via our webform, we got this note from laura in chicago:
From: laura<redacted>
Date: June 16, 2007 9:35:15 PM EDT
Dear Passiveaggressivenotes.com:
You clearly don’t know what passive aggressive means. This is my overtly aggressive action to make fun of [...]

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those of you that side consistently with team passive-aggressive might enjoy this excerpt from ian urbina’s book, life’s little annoyances.
urbina’s thesis: “criticizing something for being passive-aggressive is like faulting a tactic for being discreet. just as there are times when subtlety is the worst approach, there are also times when passive aggression is the best.”
as [...]

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The third paragraph of the first e-mail is the brilliant part…though I’m gonna have to side with Michelle’s roommate on this one.

Adds Michelle: “that bread was fucking delicious.”

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from the bay-area offices of yahoo! hotjobs…

those programmers…so literal-minded, sometimes.
(thiz onez fer u, slackferno.)

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found in a recycling bin in california.
(and yes, as veritas notes, most likely the product of a high school english class.)

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(from midgy in madison, wisconsin.)
related: with 17 roommates, it could have been worse

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from the offices of nickelodeon in new york…

(spotted by ivy from nashville.)

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if you’re wondering what oxypowder is, allow kenneth to explain.

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