writes our anonymous submitter from san francisco: “i bought $50 worth of groceries at trader joe’s, my boyfriend made an awesome pizza out of [some of] them, and as we were watching a movie and eating some, my uber-bachelor roommate yelled through the door and asked if he could get a slice. the man has rice and soy protein on his shelf in the pantry, for almost 2 years has been replacing leftovers in the fridge with “IOUs,” and rarely makes anything worth sharing — not that we would impose. sean said ‘yeah,’ i countered with ‘meh,’ and after 30 minutes of door-slamming, he left this note on the table — along with a sticker on our pizza that said ‘meh.’”
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225 responses so far ↓
#1
TheOldSchool
It appears that not only is the submitter’s roommate situation a bitch, but now it has gone and given birth to a litter of puppies.
Congratulations!
Jun 9, 2009 at 10:47 pm rating: +53
#2
Kate
Maybe if Sean stopped sharing his excrement and starting sharing something nice he could eat that slice with impunity.
Jun 9, 2009 at 10:50 pm rating: +45
#3
leftfoot
the silhouette of the alligator puppet makes it all the more sinister.
Jun 9, 2009 at 10:52 pm rating: +14
#4
Steve
It’s true: The were-hula dancer is the mascot for Passive Aggressive Dining.
Jun 9, 2009 at 10:52 pm rating: +17
#5
Harry
The animal with the stylised LAME made me crack up so bad.
Jun 9, 2009 at 11:01 pm rating: +15
#6
AG
Is is wrong that my only reaction to this is revulsion at the thought of how disgusting this costly, precious Trader Joe’s pizza must have been?
Jun 9, 2009 at 11:21 pm rating: +15
#7
The Rev. Ug
amazing that the roommate hadn’t burned through that pad of shopping lists yet, huh?
Jun 9, 2009 at 11:43 pm rating: +10
#8
TheOldSchool
I predict sean and the notewriter will be the couple before the remaining products from the TJ shopping spree are digested.
Jun 9, 2009 at 11:57 pm rating: +5
#9
K-Rock
INSPIRING! i love this guy. is he single? (thx for posting!!!)
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:01 am rating: +2
#10
zenvelo
just goes to show, the best art comes from hungry artists…
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:26 am rating: +19
#11
bikerbabeee
Uber-dork actually drew a large pink penis growing from hula girl’s head first, but, then wimped out and created the black dog thing to cover it up.
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:27 am rating: +11
#12
Neeners
This note is gross. I am envisioning everyone huddled in a corner of their cavelike dwelling sharing and eating shit. Maybe dressed in rags like zombies or animal pelts like cavemen. All grunting (’meh and yeah’) and exchanging excremental goodness. There is no door slamming in a cave though.
I think these people may be a little challenged in certain social etiquette. Why the hell would the roommate cross out you in the note? Any significance to the howling wolf drawing? And who puts IOU’s in a fridge? Everyone knows if anyone asks, you plead innocent and say it had to be thrown out because it was bad. Maybe the door slamming roommate is upset because they had a little something going on at one point. Who knows? Mysteries unsolved.
Even if the roommate is a mooch, I bet he would have shared his soy protein and rice pizza with them had he made one.
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:37 am rating: +12
#13
AuntyBron
I thought it looked like a wolf that was pooping out a hula girl. I’m thinking wolfie needs more fiber in his diet.
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:54 am rating: +14
#14
Bradley
This reminds me of a guy I had as a roommate for a year. I would come home from work and cook and because it’s hard to cook for one I’d usually have enough for two and I didn’t mind sharing.
The problem: After doing the cooking and more often than not the buying, I’d ask him to take care of the dishes. He’d agree, but then he’d leave them in the sink unwashed. The next day I’d ask him about it and he’d tell me that he just hadn’t gotten around to it yet.
The bigger problem: There were only so many pots and pans in the kitchen, so I’d wind up washing the stuff just so I could use it to cook it again.
The solution: This behavior continued (as I’d already fucked up and set a precedent for it) until he got a girlfriend that moved in. At that time, we met in the middle and dumped all further dish washing on her, regardless of who cooked and who bought the food.
Jun 10, 2009 at 3:27 am rating: +2
#15
SuperMe
that hula dancer has the biggest, most dog-like head i’ve ever seen outside of a big dog-like dog.
Jun 10, 2009 at 3:42 am rating: +9
#16
SuperMe
lame dog is lame
Jun 10, 2009 at 3:43 am rating: +7
#17
Eila
Who cares that the submitter bought $50 worth of groceries at Trader Joe’s? I work there and the way people act about us is so ridiculous and pathetic. Most of the people that shop there get on my nerves and judging from the backstory of this note, these people fit the mold.
Jun 10, 2009 at 4:29 am rating: +19
#18
Griffen P.
Lolz! That pizza was fucking delicious!!
ROFLMAOLAO!!!!
Jun 10, 2009 at 4:48 am rating: +4
#19
Taylor
“i countered with ‘meh,’”
the single most annoying part of this whole tale (of course, feeling the need to point out the store you shop at is pretty obnoxious too).
but COUNTERED with “meh”? sounds like a pair of passive-aggressive roommates.
Jun 10, 2009 at 6:47 am rating: +31
#20
Woman on the Verge
That poor dog has an oversized head and a tiny body with puny legs because he is malnourished. Rice and soy protein taste like ass (which is why they are untouched) and poor Wolfie is literally lame due to starvation.
That is not a threatening illustration, it is the cartoon equivalent of the Indian crying a single tear.
Jun 10, 2009 at 6:48 am rating: +30
#21
stickman
meh
Jun 10, 2009 at 7:16 am rating: +11
#22
cam
And clearly he wouldn’t have understood the justification behind your extreme arsiness with him, as you had never actually bothered to speak to him about it. BTW ‘meh’ doesn’t exactly explain your reasoning in a cool, considerate, informative manner.
Do you like drama? Are you waiting for him to mess up, encouraging it? Is it fun to play house with your BF whilst excluding your rent paying housemate? Is greasy food so superiour to healthy stuff that if he offers it, it doesn’t count because YOU don’t like it? Are you sure HE is the passive-agressive one?
Jun 10, 2009 at 7:16 am rating: +23
#23
CS harmonikah
There really needs to be a PAN gallery/museum somewhere.
This note is a piece of art. Adding the wolf head to the flowery hula-dancer pad is an incredible metaphor for this roommate who is trying to carve out his own identity and place in a house with a female roommate but having no idea how to do it properly.
Jun 10, 2009 at 8:28 am rating: +3
#24
claw71
Can I ask a serious question?
Who the fuck says “meh”? I don’t even know what that means. I thought it was a sound that expressed disinterest, a verbal shrug if you will, but this submitter apparently has taken it to new levels and turned it into an expression of disagreement. Or so she would have us believe.
Personally, I’ve never used “meh” as an expression. I’ve not keyed it in a text message and when I see it used I generally think much less of the person who employed it. “Meh.” Fuck you, you emo dweeb. Use your words! God knows you’ve taken enough college classes, without earning a meaningful degree I might add, so fucking tap into your vocabulary.
The only person in this whole situation I respect is Sean, who has the good sense to hit it and quit it. He comes over, makes a pizza, watches a movie and taps that selfish ass but in the morning he wakes up in his own bed while “meh” and mooch battle over who owes what to whom.
Team Sean and his doughy Trader Joe’s pizza.
Jun 10, 2009 at 9:09 am rating: +60
#25
Canthz_B
Of course, after these “men” all made up, they listened together to Streisand CDs wearing nothing but shit-eating grins.
Jun 10, 2009 at 9:16 am rating: +2
#26
xenylamine
$50 of groceries at Trader Joe’s (and Whole Foods, and Wild Oats) is like $25 of groceries bought anywhere else. Someone needs to come out with, “I slaved over the the coupon clipping and it took me three hours at the store and then I convinced them to give me 10% off and I got $75 worth of groceries for only $26.57, and then my worthless roommate ate the discount canned beans that I was saving for a rainy day!”
/random
Jun 10, 2009 at 9:22 am rating: +12
#27
NewMoon
This note is not about sharing the pizza at all. The submitter is male. The roommate is jealous and upset about losing his “dirty sanchez” partner. (Notice, from San Francisco, masculinization of hula girl, “lame” a reference to ED) He wanted a “slice” and was hurt by the indifferent response. The “meh” on the pizza box was a comment on the relative appeal of the new boyfriend.
There you have it: a meh-ta anal-ysis.
Jun 10, 2009 at 9:56 am rating: +8
#28
aaa
P.S.
(Honoes! My comment’s caught in the spam filter! x3)
Mr. McBachelor’s douchey-ness doesn’t justify the weak, ineffectual, and passive aggressive “Meh.” You’re not Lisa or Bart Simpson and it’s not the 90s anymore. And all adults know better than to think that “Meh” is a good substitute for “Fuck no, you self-serving asshat!”
Jun 10, 2009 at 9:57 am rating: +15
#29
jenny h
I think he’s implying that if he isn’t allowed to feast on the leftovers his roommate paid for, he’ll turn into a hula-dancing werewolf, complete with “lame” smoke.
Jun 10, 2009 at 10:44 am rating: +3
#30
Sarcastraphe
Ladies and gentlemen you are looking at a note that will eventually be used as state’s evidence.
Jun 10, 2009 at 10:48 am rating: +2
#31
claw71
Seriously though, horrific snake-dog head notwithstanding, I’d totally do that hula girl.
Jun 10, 2009 at 11:14 am rating: +14
#32
haley
i love this. the pic is of a zoso. zosos are the hounds of hell. also a rad zeppelin and black crowes symbol.
ITS A ZOSO, MAN.
Jun 10, 2009 at 11:18 am rating: +1
#33
Heywood
So this is a story of three men, right?
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:53 pm rating: +1
#34
ClearlyDemented
I have to say I’m very impressed with Lame’s commitment to the art of passive-aggressive note writing. I mean, in the time taken to draw that little Lame coyote he could have made himself something to eat. But our man, Lame, stands on principle; and I, for one, respect that. If he had been around during the time of our founding fathers — well, actually, I guess he’d be with the British. Never mind.
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:54 pm rating: +4
#35
G
WTF is up with the Luck Dragon?
Jun 10, 2009 at 1:42 pm rating: +2
#36
Aurora
That cartoon wolf looks like he covered up the original doodle of a penis. Ingenious.
Jun 10, 2009 at 1:50 pm rating: +2
#37
T to the O
The overly developed sense of entitlement uber douchebag roommate should get prison raped with a pepperoni stick. Before this I am sure he was at home mooching off Mom and Dad. They probably sold the house and hit the road in a Winnebago just to be rid of their mutant developmentally stunted spawn.
Jun 10, 2009 at 2:55 pm rating: +4
#38
surrahsurrah
Since when is a slice of pizza a nibble?
“Yea can I get two nibbles of pepperoni and a nibble of plain? Awesome bro!”
I hate people who try to mooch food. What a fucktard.
Jun 10, 2009 at 2:59 pm rating: +8
#39
MissMelony
What i love most about the note is how he scratched out “you” and replaced it with “Sean”… its like an extra dig… apparently Anon cant cook
Jun 10, 2009 at 4:19 pm rating: +1
#40
oi!
I am picturing roommate as a manbaby crying because submitter responded with meh! He spent then half an hour drawing wolf on hula girl paper complaining about she does not share! wow! describing this sounds so ridiculous and he did not even feel a pang doing that?
Jun 10, 2009 at 4:37 pm rating: +2
#41
Amy
fuck him. It is SO rude to mooch off food a boyfriend made for he and his girlfriend. Have the courtesy to wait until the BF leaves, and if he leaves food there, ask about the pizza. Don’t invite yourself to lunch, douchebag.
Jun 10, 2009 at 4:58 pm rating: +2
#42
Eric
Demonic demigod of Sumerian lore speaking from the fridge? That plot’s been done before.
LAME
Jun 10, 2009 at 5:28 pm rating: +1
#43
park rose
If we wander back to the illustration, I think the hula girl might be in need of a lumberjack. Where’s the Axe-man when you ever really need him?
Jun 10, 2009 at 5:35 pm rating: +3
#44
oi!
damn I am sleepy.
Jun 10, 2009 at 11:13 pm rating: 0
#45
T
Team Sean. I’m sorry, but if your roommate makes a pizza, and his girlfriend dictates that you can’t have a slice? That’s just kind of a jerk move.
On top of that, as I’m sure she’ll discover if they move in together, I’m betting the boyfriend is not blameless. He’s probably the kind of jerk who never buys toilet paper or he owes six months of water bills.
I’m just saying, there’s likely some sort of equilibrium, and you’re disrupting it. That makes you the asshole, not him.
Jun 11, 2009 at 11:46 am rating: 0
#46
wicked opinion
What could possibly be MORE entitlement complex, freeloader, always has enough money for Natty Light and cigarettes than the angst of someone who has NOT been wronged in any way?
Jun 14, 2009 at 1:36 pm rating: 0
#47
kymee
I have never understood why roommates don’t pool their money together for groceries. I always did with my roomies. I can’t cook anything in small amounts. Pooling funds means more groceries and less waste. And, no hard feelings when one is hungry with no cash at the end of the month.
People, share and eat together…it’s basic human nature to commune over food.
Jun 19, 2009 at 1:31 am rating: 0
#48
voidseraph
the repressed rage in this note is visceral… seems like dude should channel his anger into art? In any case, the vocal “meh” response seems a little PA to me, also.
Jun 21, 2009 at 2:05 am rating: 0
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