our anonymous submitter in detroit tells us his roommate is a repeat offender when it comes to passive-aggressive note-leaving. this time around, he went with a note AND a text message. (”and it’s not even my fault!” our submitter says.)
EMAIL THIS POST TO A PAL!
200 responses so far ↓
#1 SharkMan » recipe for roommate discord
[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt our anonymous submitter in detroit tells us his roommate is a repeat offender when it comes to passive-aggressive note-leaving. this time around, he went with a note AND a text message. (”and it’s not even my fault!” our submitter says.) [IMG DSCN1095] [IMG] [IMG] [...]
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:05 pm rating: 0
#2 mishi monkey
First!
That hot item was fucking delicious!
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:07 pm rating: 0
#3 Mishee
Wow, I would like to know how it wasn’t submitter’s fault! Who left the oven on? ‘Cause if it was submitter, then I am on Team Roommate! Turn off the damn oven!
P.S. Thank you PAN God, you are a loving and gracious Deity!!
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:15 pm rating: 0
#4 Mishee
…And who the hell cooks anything at 450?? That’s kinda warm…
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:16 pm rating: 0
#5 babyforrest
I cook at 450 all the time when there is something I want to cook quickly, like pizza. Turn the damn oven off! How is it not your fault? If it was your company who turned it on it is still your fault for not paying attention!
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:19 pm rating: 0
#6 mishi monkey
For sure. Thats more like “im in a hurry just set it on fire already” than cooking. Which is why im Team Roommate too. Hello, electricity is expensive!
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:19 pm rating: 0
#7 Wade
I like how the texter made the extra effort to capitalize Again.
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:19 pm rating: 0
#8 sequinissues
Team Note-Leaver. Dying in a fire is never fun for anyone.
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:20 pm rating: 0
#9 Mishee
Not only is dying in a fire not fun, but also a HUGE PG&E (ok, I’ll go generic and say electric since it’s Detriot) bill would REALLY piss me off, and would then in turn result in my leaving another note bitching about the price of the utilities!
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:23 pm rating: 0
#10 Wade
450° is the temperature you bake OreIda Crinkle Cut fries
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:24 pm rating: +1
#11 PJ
Loving those freshly-baked cookies, yum!
If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:26 pm rating: +1
#12 babyforrest
Fresh pizza at 450 for 10 minutes is mmm mmm goodness.
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:27 pm rating: 0
#13 Mishee
I am actually baking cookies RIGHT NOW, I my oven is at 350. Although, when I make Texas Toast it goes to 425 - maybe they were making that and were in a hurry?
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:34 pm rating: 0
#14 Wade
Maybe the roommate suffers from objectaphilia.
Once the oven gets turned on, it’s hard to turn it off.
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:36 pm rating: 0
#15 GVI
Damn, you bastarts off topic already!
If it wasn’t submitter’s fault, do they have another roomie who would commit such a heinous crime?
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:40 pm rating: 0
#16 Mishee
MTv Generation Gman…
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:43 pm rating: 0
#17 Amy
#6: When you switch modes while texting (from numbers to text or T9 to abc), the first word is always capitalized.
He should have said “450. Again.” which would have made a better point, I think.
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:46 pm rating: 0
#18 Wade
Good catch, Amy.
I don’t switch over to numbers often, since I use text and the number comes up after I work through all the letters.
Maybe switching over to type 450 reflects the extra effort.
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:52 pm rating: 0
#19 Wade
If that is the oven the note is on, I’m surprised it can still get to 450°.
Nov 17, 2007 at 5:54 pm rating: 0
#20 WickedLady
My best friends stephfather once put his mobile phone in the oven to dry it, because he dropped it in a bucket of water…
Nov 17, 2007 at 6:17 pm rating: 0
#21 Wade
Maybe leaving the oven on is passive aggression on the roommate’s part.
After all, if the roommate is banned from using the oven, then note-leaver has to do all the cooking…
Nov 17, 2007 at 6:22 pm rating: 0
#22 Rita
Ooh Wade (#20), clever observation!
Nov 17, 2007 at 6:39 pm rating: 0
#23 A.A guy
Okay, I just got back,but I could lick any monkey in the house.
Nov 17, 2007 at 6:41 pm rating: 0
#24 A.A guy
I have lived in many places where I’ve had to turn on the oven in the morning just to make the place habitable.
Well to be honest it was always the non stop bitching of which(witch)ever woman I was living with that forced me to do this. Coincidently ,450 was usually the temperature used.
Nov 17, 2007 at 7:13 pm rating: 0
#25 Writer, Rejected
I appreciate a post-it PAN followed-up by a text-message PAN. I think that’s some damn thorough passive-aggression. Nice job.
Nov 17, 2007 at 7:38 pm rating: 0
#26 Wade
The crazy quality of the note writer’s penmanship is mesmerizing.
Don 4 we Ne ouev, if yon cuu 4 twmif Uef.
Nov 17, 2007 at 7:56 pm rating: 0
#27 Canthz_B
I’d suggest they pay the heating bill and then they can turn the oven off!
Nov 17, 2007 at 8:01 pm rating: 0
#28 Wade
Fahrenheit 450?
Maybe the roommate is a fireman-in-training.
Nov 17, 2007 at 8:10 pm rating: 0
#29 BoggyWoggy
Mishee…once again, you’ve proven you are an idiot. Lots of recipes (outside of those frozen boxed Budget Gourmets you buy) are baked at 450 degrees.
Nov 17, 2007 at 8:23 pm rating: 0
#30 Mishee
Wade then he needs to train a little more cause he’s ONE degree off!!
Nov 17, 2007 at 8:25 pm rating: 0
#31 Mishee
Wow Boggy, didn’t know you even READ my comments anymore…
Good to know that you can also go off topic.
I know lots of things cook at 450, I was just being a smartass. God, do I have to spell everything out for you? I thought you were a fucking teacher…
Nov 17, 2007 at 8:39 pm rating: 0
#32 Wade
Mishi Monkey! You just got pwnd by spam.
Nov 17, 2007 at 8:40 pm rating: 0
#33 Wade
He gets that final degree at graduation, Mishee.
Nov 17, 2007 at 8:43 pm rating: 0
#34 Writer, Rejected
Yeah, 451 would definitely indicate a case of book burning in the oven, which would totally merit passive aggression in note and text form. Though, really, who needs justification for PAN?
Nov 17, 2007 at 8:51 pm rating: 0
#35 Ozymandias
Hey W,R, #35 - would they be inciting the fires of hate, then (the person leaving on the oven)? Or fighting them (the person urging it to be switched off)?
Nov 17, 2007 at 9:58 pm rating: +1
#36 Andy
That note handwriting made my head hurt.
Nice, sending a text message. I’d have sent a follow-up voicemail, email and set up a website with up-to-date oven temperature updates.
With that text message, did they reply by saying “Dike off”?
Just wondering.
Nov 17, 2007 at 10:26 pm rating: 0
#37 KarenLW
OK, I’ve been out all day…just got back…and yes, I DO wonder what my co-worker’s coffee cup innards will look like on Monday a.m…..not really, but it’s Sat. night, so WTF ? ha !
Nov 17, 2007 at 10:28 pm rating: 0
#38 whOOt
in our age of the interweb 451 degrees is nothing to be concerned with. He’d need to be cooking with another 460 degrees before we’d have a problem
Nov 17, 2007 at 10:34 pm rating: 0
#39 Sam Jackson
Who left the mother-fuckin’ oven on?!
You tryin’ to kill a mother-fucka up in here?!
You tryin’ to burn the mother-fuckin’ house down you stupid mother-fucka?, Huh?!
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:45 am rating: 0
#40 Bob
Team not burning the house down.
Nov 18, 2007 at 4:23 am rating: 0
#41 Troy McClure
Watch out - turn off the oven after
You’re a fool, baby, if you think we’re not in danger
I’m ass-kicking any guy
Burning down the house
Hold tight - wait till the baking’s over
Hold tight - then turn the stove off whether
It was you, or someone you invited to stay
Burning down the house
Here’s your ticket pack your bag, time for jumpin’ overboard
The transportation is here
Florida is not too far, don’t let me know where you are
I’m frightened of dying on fire
Phone’s wet - hey pull it outta that bucket
Shake it out - then quickly toast it at, like,
Three hundred sixty five degrees
Burning down the house
It was not your fault, you say; sometimes I make mistakes myself
But this is just a disgrace
I would like this lease to work, but if the oven dial’s not checked
We’re gonna burst into flame
This house - it’s out of the ordinary
But alright - and I don’t want to burn my body
My computer’s emailing you on “repeat”
Burning down the house
I’ll text you and leave you notes and you have not seen nothin’ yet
I’m at the end of my tether
I don’t know if you expect a blitzkrieg, but I’m quite upset
I’m frightened of dying on fire
Nov 18, 2007 at 6:50 am rating: +2
#42 Juliet
Ah, another gem from Troy.
Thank you.
Team turn the oven off!
Nov 18, 2007 at 10:27 am rating: 0
#43 A.A guy
Sam that was the worst “I’m an inner city black guy”post that I have ever read.
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:26 am rating: 0
#44 Sam Jackson
A.A Guy, Thanks for telling an actual Inner City Black how I should sound! I’m sure you would be so much mor real than the real thing!
I know how mother-fuckas talk dammit!!
This ain’t no mother-fuckin’ Hollywood script you dumb mother-fucka!!
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:34 am rating: 0
#45 Canthz_B
Damn A.A…First sex, now race! Your record isn’t really that good! Better stop making assumptions, eh?
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:39 am rating: 0
#46 Mishee
Sam, your motherfuckin’ rants are fuckin’ delicious, goddammit!
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:39 am rating: 0
#47 A.A guy
It sure sounds like it was scripted.Oh ,by the way, could you use the phrase “mother-fucka” more ,it really puts me in my place(much like Ho,Nigger,Bitch,Baby mother ect…….. )
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:42 am rating: 0
#48 Canthz_B
WHOA THERE SPARKY!!!!
BETTER WATCH WHERE YOU PUT YOUR N-WORDS!!!
NOT EVERYONE CURSED YOUR BEHIND OUT!!!!!
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:46 am rating: 0
#49 Mishee
AAGuy said the “N-word!” I’m telling!!!!!
Comon AA - I am tight with these two wonderful, black men & I don’t even dare say that word around them!!! Get a clue… are you retarded or something?
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:48 am rating: 0
#50 GVI
OMFG! He did not just say what i think he said!
AWW HELL TO THE FUCK NO!!!!
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:49 am rating: 0
#51 Canthz_B
Sounds scripted to you?! Must be based on your vast inner city experiences AA
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:50 am rating: 0
#52 Canthz_B
I know GVI…not even the decency to use an “a” at the end! He used the lynching term!!!
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:51 am rating: 0
#53 Mishee
Boys, if you will allow me to talk like a “Brotha” for a second…
*ahem*
AA, you just got served, son! You betta recognize! CB & GVI just regulated your punk ass, beeotch!
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:54 am rating: 0
#54 A.A guy
Let me get this straight.It’s okay to imply that I have sex with my mother but it’s not all right to use a word that has been SO over used that it has all but been rendered defunct? Get over it people, I can still refer to the potato famine.
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:55 am rating: 0
#55 Mishee
It okay to imply that because, hell, it’s your mother. But if you remember the Family Guy flashback to the Huck Finn days, N-word Jim tells Huck Griffin - “That is OUR word!”
Just learn to have a little tact and respect… and think before you type… remember…
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:58 am rating: 0
#56 Canthz_B
Don’t use the N-Word…you don’t know how.
I suggest you revisit your 12 step program.
You are a Racist, I am PISSED and will leave your future comments unread…I don’t need assholes in my life…I have enough stress!!!
Leave your address…some friends and I would LOVE TO VISIT!!!
Nov 18, 2007 at 11:59 am rating: 0
#57 Canthz_B
One asshole got under his skin so he insults an entire Racial Group? That is the signature of someone with a warped world-view.
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:04 pm rating: 0
#58 Canthz_B
Bad 1960’s memories G-Man…Bad memories.
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:10 pm rating: 0
#59 A.A guy
Wow it just amazes me that one little overused word can strike such terror in the hearts of intelligent people.Words that propagate hatred should be used again and again and again until their power disappears.
As for calling me a racist,that’s just laughable!I call them as I see (or read) them.I have defended,played with and against,insulted,fought, loved and hated EVERY colour, creed and sex that I have ever encountered.
If one word can inspire such fear in you, then I suggest you start burning books(starting with Clemans) and re-write history as you see fit.(see Huxley)
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:15 pm rating: 0
#60 A.A guy
Oh by the way that monkey comment goes back to post#216 on the previous note.Troy and I were refering to an SNL skit.
This has been blown WAY out of proportion.
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:24 pm rating: 0
#61 GVI
It has nothing to do about Striking Terror in the hearts of people, It’s about anger.
So what if you dated different races, I hate American cars, but I drive one, still doesn’t change how I feel about them.
Anyways, if you are racist, do you and if you are not, then you seriously need to watch what you say.
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:26 pm rating: 0
#62 Sam Jackson
None of these mother-fuckas sound afraid to me you dumb mother-fucka! They sound mother-fuckin’ ready to jack your mother-fuckin’ ass up tho, that’s what I see!
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:26 pm rating: 0
#63 Vicecb
I know exactly what happened here. My old roommate used to do the same thing: use the oven and then rather than turn it off, turn it up to broil when he was done thinking as long as he turned the dial one way or the other it would turn off and there was no need to actually look at the dial to see if it was off. Grrrr!
His GF used to use the oven part of the toast-r-oven to make toast, not having any concept of how a toast-r-oven works and then take her toast out and just leave the on. No clue that it needed to be turned off when she was done.
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:26 pm rating: 0
#64 GVI
That happens to me sometimes, mines has 2 dials and I would turn off one and leave the other on.
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:36 pm rating: 0