“my friend katelyn’s roommate left her this note before she went away for memorial day weekend last year,” says monica in boston. “i love how it starts off so BFF-like…then takes a sharp left into passive-aggressive territory.”
adds monica: “while katelyn normally likes to avoid confrontation, i think this note pushed her over the edge. she didn’t empty the trash or rinse a dish the entire weekend, and they spent the next three months before their lease ended in a passive-aggressive standoff (purposely being loud when they knew the other had to study…’accidentally’ breaking the other’s belongings, etc.) good times!”
related: (they match the plastic slipcover on the futon)
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145 responses so far ↓
#1 TuesdayPillow
Ah yes, the Bostonian passive-aggressive note. Just picture and pronounce all the words without their respective “r”s and you’ll see how it’s much worse than your standard PAN.
Jun 10, 2008 at 4:57 pm rating: +4
#2 zchamu
“I lovelovelove you, smoochy kiss! And rinse the fucking dishes before you put them in the dishwasher, you bitch! Kisskiss!”
Jun 10, 2008 at 4:58 pm rating: +23
#3 Joyful
The attempt to keep this note lighthearted is so very painful. And maddening!
Team dirty sink!
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:00 pm rating: +5
#4 GhostWriter
A typical commenter might assume that the passive-aggressiveness starts with the 2nd paragraph.
The learned eye sees that “drunk-dialing” is simply chore-monitoring in disguise.
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:05 pm rating: +34
#5 vimandvigor
“You are so silly the way you leave food all over the plates to be dried on and crusted over in the dishwasher. Oh! Oh! And I LOVE how when I come home I get to see what you’ve eaten in my absence because you leave chunks of salsa in the drain. You go girl! Love and Hugs, Sam”
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:07 pm rating: +5
#6 Mishee
Hmmm, this almost sounds like a note from my mom.
Just take out the “have a good time”, “don’t miss me too much”, and of course, the under appreciated “Thanks”…
Other than that, JUST like Mom..
*sigh*
I should give her a call… or have RB do it.
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:08 pm rating: +4
#7 HeWhoCannotBeNamed
That kind of talk is bound to incur some spiteful retaliatory wrath. She might as well have written “P.S. Make sure you fuck my boyfriend while I’m away. See ya Tuesday!”
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:10 pm rating: +18
#8 GhostWriter
Everybody knows that Sam really wanted to use the phrase, C-U-Next-Tuesday as her closing.
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:11 pm rating: +52
#9 Mishee
This should be 8.1, my “Reply To This Comment” isn’t working: GW - it took me like, 5 times reading your comment before I got it.
Genius! LOLing all the way to the bank!
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:14 pm rating: +2
#10 unholyghost2003
*sigh* Fighting passive aggression with passive aggression. When will people learn? What is wrong with some aggression aggression? “Wow! I hope you had as much fun this weekend as I had reading your snotty little note. I’m not retarded, you ARE OCD though. Unless I am SHITTING in it the sink will not need to be cleaned after 3 days. Rinsed? Sure! Cleaned? No. So how about you back the fuck off.”
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:24 pm rating: +16
#11 Joe
Oh, God that penmanship! I could only IMAGINE what a joy it is to live with this obsessive tyrant. What a control freak you are Samantha.
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:36 pm rating: 0
#12 Mark
If the dishwasher is less than 10 years old or so, RINSING before you put dishes in is most likely UNNECESSARY, and only WASTES water. Kisses!
THX,
SANDRA
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:50 pm rating: +9
#13 KittyKat
Empty the trash? Sure! How about in your bed, Sammie?
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:53 pm rating: +3
#14 RALPHY
This was written by a typical Virgo. I’d like to find out what her plan “B” and plan”C’ was and then, when all else failed, what vailed threats was she going to make in one of her “Drunk Dials”.
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:56 pm rating: 0
#15 paranoiagirl
“I just wanted to be sure you knew that this is stuff that needs to be done on a regular basis. Thanks!”
translation: “I’m going to talk to you like you’re 5 and have no concept of what cleaning is, BITCH.”
A former roommate of mine asked my friend: “now, what do we do when we’re done with our toys?” while she picked up a tape measure he had been fiddling with. GHAA.
Jun 10, 2008 at 5:59 pm rating: +5
#16 Jimmy Straightline
Sam,
How dare you leave me a note attempting to remote-control me? To put you in your place, I will spend 3 months “accidentally” breaking your shit. After that I will just badmouth you forever, but we still won’t be even.
XO Sandra
Jun 10, 2008 at 6:04 pm rating: +4
#17 claw71
Whoa, that’s just nasty.
If I’m Katelyn I’d make sure the trash was emptiued and the dishes were spotless. Sam would come home to a remarkably spotless house and warm welcome home hug.
We’d order pizza (my treat) and I’d even offer to throw her travel clothes in the laundry as I would be doing a small load of my own. We’d be the best of friends. Giggling as she regaled me with stories of her travels.
Then we’d turn in for the evening and Sam would come to the grim realization that I had been using her bed as a toilet for the entire duration of her trip. And she’d know why because that note of hers would be stuck to the wall with the very first wipe.
Jun 10, 2008 at 6:09 pm rating: +26
#18 marcopuffin
Katelyn should have fought pa with pa by ignoring Sam’s instructions, saying nothing about her note but doing lots of extremely annoying things until their tenancy expired and then posting Sam’s note on PAN… oh
Jun 10, 2008 at 6:39 pm rating: +17
#19 damon
Why the hell would I even have a dishwasher if I was going to wash the dishes before I washed the dishes? Team Not Rinsing!
Jun 10, 2008 at 6:56 pm rating: +7