When someone starts hiding the formerly communal toilet paper, that’s typically the beginning of the end.
Exhibit a) From Liz in Brooklyn, New York: “My old roommate was a huge pain for a lot of reasons, but what really did it for me was when she would finish the roll of toilet paper and then hide the new roll in her room so only she could use it.” Before moving out, Liz left her roomie with this parting gift.
Exhibit b) From BK in Kansas City, Missouri: “My roommate wanted us to buy separate toilet paper because he thought I used a lot, which seemed kind of ridiculous to me. Then, when he ran out of toilet paper he would use mine. I took my toilet paper out of the bathroom so he couldn’t use it anymore. Then he wrote me a passive aggressive note saying I was passive-aggressive.”
Exhibit c) From LJ at Mississipi State University: “I have no idea why my roommate felt the need to hide the toilet paper — it wasn’t like I was using it *excessively* or anything. A few days after this happened, we had to have a meeting mediated by the Residence Director, because they were pretty sure we were going to kill each other.”
related: I’m not here to wipe your dirty butt.
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124 responses so far ↓
#1
Jynical
Is it just me or does Exhibit B have beautiful handwriting?
May 25, 2010 at 8:25 pm rating: 56
#2
Escape Goat
#1: Oh, Hi Liz! Yay! Thanks! Sorry, I did hide it … in the toilet … where it was supposed to be … it was covered in feces. Next time I’ll just leave it on your bed. Naah, I’ll just use you’re pillowcase. ~S
XOXO-B.O.-xoxox
May 25, 2010 at 8:26 pm rating: 19
#3
sunshyne84
notes in the bathroom are never a good thing, just like sayin “we need to talk”
May 25, 2010 at 8:48 pm rating: 9
#4
Quite Contrary
If I’ve said it once (I have), I’ve said it a million times (I have)…I don’t miss having roommates.
May 25, 2010 at 8:51 pm rating: 41
#5
ClearlyDemented
I’m really disappointed that none of these were written on the TP itself, especially the last one, so they’d at least have one last wipe to savor.
May 25, 2010 at 8:59 pm rating: 19
#6
ClearlyDemented
I understand notewriter #2′s indignation. I also like to assertively not share and then call my non-share-y out when they passive-aggressively won’t share with me. I mean, really, note-receiver, have some class.
May 25, 2010 at 9:00 pm rating: 7
#7
Bubby
Can’t you spare one square?
May 25, 2010 at 9:04 pm rating: 18
#8
Jonathan
Sandra knows some people need a lot of “toilet paper” for those “big jobs”.
May 25, 2010 at 10:00 pm rating: 8
#9
Bunnee
Why can’t they just steal toilet paper from a fast food place or gas station like I did when I was young and poor?
May 25, 2010 at 10:17 pm rating: 19
#10
marco
Here is my contribution to this one:
http://gallery.timmylein.com/Marco-Archive/Travel/Stafford-2000/-/242031687_d7Pkm-L.jpg
yes, I was co-author of that note
May 25, 2010 at 10:46 pm rating: 0
#11
sharko
Just FYI, women use toilet paper at about 3-4x the rate men do.
May 25, 2010 at 11:53 pm rating: 4
#12
Splint Chesthair
Don’t any of the young people today know how to steal toilet paper from public restrooms like normal young adults strapped for cash? Plus, if you’re in college, find one of the janitor’s closets in the classroom building and you’ll have all the toilet paper you can handle. Of course, it’s not top quality TP, but if you want that you’ll have to work for it.
May 26, 2010 at 6:25 am rating: 11
#13
Sam S
I just like it that a girl is leaving a note with kisses and hugs to her female room-mate…
Girls don’t kiss and hug each other enough, in my opinion.
May 26, 2010 at 6:29 am rating: 6
#14
Kou
What is it about toilet paper that brings out the crazy? My suitemates from this last school year told me not to buy toilet paper when I offered and refused to accept the money I tried to give them for the packages they bought, so I stopped offering. I bought TP when I noticed we were getting low.
However, the one who hadn’t even bought the TP before got furiously angry and, after leaving me a bunch of weird notes and yelling at me a few times about it, started sabotaging my stuff in the bathroom so I had to hide it all from her in my room. She threw away some of my things, filled my sink with the hair from her brush, and threatened to beat me up– she actually confronted me while she was naked. The RAs were useless and told me to just “talk to her” and “resolve it like adults.”
I resolved it by stealing all the TP she eventually bought & then emptying out her cleanser and replacing it with conditioner, which was the same color and consistency.
May 26, 2010 at 6:45 am rating: 18
#15
Wrench
What exactly IS it that causes some people to use excessive amounts of toilet paper? I live with a guy — a GUY — who easily goes through a full roll in a matter of 2 days. I’m not talking about standard rolls, either, I’m talking about the Charmin heavy-duty mega rolls. The kind you cannot wipe through unless your ass is made of sand paper and Hell. Seriously, how does that happen? Guys don’t even use TP for every visit, just for twosies. I could kind of understand if it was a female with a bowel disorder on her period, but this shit (no pun intended) is bananas.
May 26, 2010 at 6:59 am rating: 19
#16
Angela
When I lived with my friend, we had separate bathrooms. When I ran out of toilet paper, I would use her bathroom until I remembered to go to the store. I wonder if she thought I was a shitty roommate.
May 26, 2010 at 7:18 am rating: 7
#17
clumber
Re: Exh a.) could someone please insert a clever witty comment about THX SANDRA ?
Someone (else) needs to do the work around here….
May 26, 2010 at 8:36 am rating: 1
#18
Edwina the Defrocked Nun
I use lots of toilet paper. But I’m married to my roommate, and being a man of mature years, he recognizes that what he gets back in so many ways is worth the extra toilet paper. The one time he mentioned the level of toilet paper usage, he got the (not at all passive aggressive) message that “We don’t go there.”
Being direct is wonderful in so many ways. Not the least, you don’t have to draw in spurious smiley faces and xoxoxo’s.
May 26, 2010 at 9:50 am rating: 10
#19
CPal
I don’t do passive-aggressive but I have stashed toilet paper. I lived with four guys, none of whom would ever buy any TP or give me money. Finally I said that they could buy the next pack, and when they didn’t for DAYS (seriously, I don’t know how they did it), I had already purchased my own “emergency roll” and stashed it. The TP situation has much improved now that I’m living with girls!
May 26, 2010 at 11:09 am rating: 8
#20
Walker, "Tex" (a stranger)
I like Liz’s brand of sarcasm. Passive-aggressive and patronizing at the same time.
I’m out of the roommate days, but if someone habitually used up the TP and didn’t replace it? Well, let’s just say “Hey roomie, don’t leave your towel in the bathroom.”
May 26, 2010 at 12:01 pm rating: 7
#21
Dave
Well I for one can totally understand these notes, it all depends on your past living situations I guess. I lived with 2 friends who never, and I mean NEVER, bought toilet paper. It seems like such a small thing but with 3 adults in the house it can easily be $10/week that you’re spending, so that’s $520 by the end of a year. If it’s one person who’s shouldering all of that $520 while one or more others are skating by for free simply because they can it gets frustrating.
May 26, 2010 at 1:08 pm rating: 10
#22
mamason
My first husband would never buy more than one paper product at a time. If we had papertowels, then we didn’t need toilet paper as far as he was concerned. It was not a happy time.
May 26, 2010 at 1:27 pm rating: 4
#23
orange
Team TP hider. Whilst at University, I had a roommate who never contributed to buying communal supplies. After purchasing the TP 4 times in a row and discussing the need to take turns buying TP, I ended up keeping the last roll in my room so I’d at least have something to use while she figured out that I wasn’t going to buy any more. She eventually broke down and spent her father’s hard earned money on a pack (he was supporting her, I was supporting myself).
Passive aggressive? Sure, but only after the direct approach failed dismally.
May 26, 2010 at 1:38 pm rating: 9
#24
Not That Nicole the Other Nicole
Exhibit B reminds me strongly of an old roommate I had with whom I shared as a matter of course all the groceries I bought when I first moved in. Some months down the road she accused me of eating her entire birthday cake even though she “didn’t even get any.” I had, it is true, cut a small piece off once a day (I had just enough money to pay bills at the time and that cake was pretty much all I had to eat besides ramen; tough times woo). There was also more than half a cake left two, maybe three weeks later. It was so stale it was like a dried-out sponge so I tossed it because I was honestly afraid I was so desperate for nutrients I’d eat it. How dare I deprive her of the cake she had ignored for two weeks? I am a terrible person. I should have bought her a new one.
Even she never stooped to hiding toilet paper, though. Although that could have been because I was living out of my car/friends’ houses at that point because I couldn’t take it any more…
May 26, 2010 at 2:48 pm rating: 1
#25
branham
It looks like Exhibit C is the same person from this post:
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/01/07/a-new-years-resolution/
Note the same “International Paper” paper, along with the same handwriting on the note from the passive agressor.
May 26, 2010 at 3:51 pm rating: 3
#26
Max Time
just use tissue paper
May 27, 2010 at 8:56 am rating: 0
#27
Joe Blow
Some women do tend to use an inordinately large amount of toilet paper, so I can see the frustration from someone who only uses the normal amount. It’s not just the cost of buying more, it’s also the fact that it just doesn’t have to be that way..
May 27, 2010 at 10:03 am rating: 1
#28
Sally
I had evil roommates who pulled this crap. They did similar things with laundry detergent (apparently we need four open boxes). Also, they insisted I used too many dishes, so rather than rotating, we should all wash our own. Names on all the food. Oh, and don’t forget complaining about tampons in the trashcan. How rude of me not to take them directly out to the dumpster.
Jun 7, 2010 at 10:18 pm rating: 2
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