“my roommate thinks I took her dry erase board when I was 40 miles away the week it was taken,” says an anonymous college student in tampa, florida. “she has been leaving me notes like this ALL YEAR.”
god help our poor submitter, but i’m nominating this crazy rainbow of a note for the passive-aggressive hall of fame. (prize: a year’s worth of anger-management therapy?)
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147 responses so far ↓
#1 Dave
OMG…thank you for adding me on twitter. Really digging the Site ya’ll.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:08 pm rating: 0
#2 Agargara
The irony runs deep in this one. An instant classic.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:08 pm rating: 0
#3 secondsout
The little gay mafia is planning a hit, apparently.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:12 pm rating: +1
#4 Orange Tyrant
“I . . . don’t play childish games . . . the next step in this game . . . ” wait a minute, I thought there were no games being played, hrm?! I hope that Emily secretly wrote that as big bad friend of herself. Awesome. and why is it three hole punched? So she can save her death threats in a convenient binder for court?
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:12 pm rating: +3
#5 Mishee
whoa, she went STRAIGHT for the “C” word!
Usually only girls who use that word are actually describing themselves!
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:12 pm rating: +1
#6 secondsout
I am not a child. But the little hearts and the smiley face might tell you otherwise.
Really, how seriously can you take a threat like this, when it has rainbow hearts, and rainbow-colored text?
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:16 pm rating: 0
#7 aaa
So she doesn’t want to get people involved that don’t need to be in it, yet she’s involving herself in tracking down an item that doesn’t even belong to her?
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:17 pm rating: +2
#8 Sofia
Seriously… how much could a white board in a dorm room possibly cost? Is it really worth calling someone a cunt over?
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:18 pm rating: 0
#9 amy d
And I’m not gonna be passive-aggressive about it …
Really?
Rainbow hearts, threatening paragraphs printed in alternating colors, vague threats, bringing skeltons out of the closet, calling the subject of the letter a cunt and then signing off as a secret admirer.
If that’s not p/a, nothing is or ever will be.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:21 pm rating: +5
#10 Katy
What can I say, this is a masterpiece. The all caps, the rainbow print, the excessive use of ellipses and exclamation points, the smiley face at the end, the random indentation of “AND THAT ANGERS ME!!!” and “IMMEDIATELY,” and of course, the c-word at the end. I think I might weep.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:21 pm rating: +4
#11 Canthz_B
…And I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and…
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:22 pm rating: +4
#12 Carrie
AHHH!! I KNEW my college roommate would take 10 years to graduate… glad to see she’s still torturing people!!!
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:22 pm rating: +2
#13 aaa
P.S.
I’ll bet $10 that we’re gonna see the roommate either on one of those high-speed chase shows on Spike, on Court TV (er, truTV now), or on that Snapped show on Oxygen.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:23 pm rating: +1
#14 agatha christie
If stealing a white dry-erase board is considered an “ignorant act”, I wonder what the writer considers the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Darfur to be…
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:25 pm rating: +3
#15 damon
In Soviet Russia, dry erase board takes YOU!
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:27 pm rating: +5
#16 douchegirl
I love the intro “YOU DON’T KNOW ME… AND I DONT THINK YOU WANT TO…”
It really sets the tone for the rest of the letter. Why are there so many ellipses? I don’t get it. There could be commas, colons, semi colons, periods…
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:29 pm rating: +1
#17 Canthz_B
You don’t know me, but I feel I have the right to judge you a thief, tell you what to do and threaten to spread details of your personal life (which I only have on hearsay) around.
Ever notice that when someone feels the need to stress what they are not that something is usually just what they are?
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:30 pm rating: +5
#18 Wade
Wait… the submitter says that her roommate thinks she took the dry erase board, and left this note.
The note accuses the submitter of taking Emily’s dry erase board, that was given as a gift by the “you don’t know me” notewriter.
So, if Emily is the roommate, then either she is out-sourcing her passive-aggression… or is Sybil.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:32 pm rating: +3
#19 aflirtycatastrophe
Someone must have been deprived of a white board as a child and now is clinging to this one, blaming whomever is in her reach. Poor roomie.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:33 pm rating: +1
#20 Canthz_B
Technicolor should be sited as an aggravating factor in the upcoming libel suit!
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:37 pm rating: +2
#21 Crash
I’m hoping that dry erase board was framed in 24 karat gold and had a secret stash door on the back where all her F’ing secret med’s were stashed…
I mean that’s less crazy than this note.
Anyway…
I’d actually take it as a compliment, you know, if one could be 40 miles away and still manage to steal the dry erase board she must have some kind of super human abilities…which in that case I’d say, BRING IT ON BITCH !!!
And that’s still less crazy of an idea than this note.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:46 pm rating: +6
#22 Lindsey
Um, this person sounds a little stalker-ish to me! “You don’t know me…you don’t want to know me…” -but apparently, the letter-writer knows all about the perpetrator, and the “skeeze ball boyfriend.” S/he’s probably jealous of said skeeze ball.
And what is skeeze anyways? Is it a physical form of sleaze, kind of like waxy buildup in your ears?
I imagine that, when you are sleazy, you start producing skeeze, which can then be formed into a ball once you have enough.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:52 pm rating: +5
#23 jenna
that whiteboard was fucking delicious.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:56 pm rating: 0
#24 EvilTwin
I’d buy a new dry erase board, walk straight up to her with her little note, hand the note to her, tell her I didn’t steal her shitty dry erase board, break the brand new board over my knee in front of her, hand it to her, and walk away. What a stupid petty thing to argue over…must be college.
Apr 10, 2008 at 4:56 pm rating: +5