sure, it’d be easier and quicker to just clean it up. but the modern passive-aggressive (like katey in berkeley’s ex-roommmate) can’t pass up the opportunity to make a point.

a common variation on the van der rohe approach, as documented below by sam in dallas, is the so-called “reverse magritte.”

meanwhile, post-modern passive-aggressives (like this new [...]

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nothing could have prepared lauren in oakland for the passive-aggressive avalanche that awaited her the other day at her new apartment. she calls the experience of finding the notes totally surreal. “it keeps playing back in slow motion in my mind, from the second i saw the first one hanging over the threshold to my [...]

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another doozy of an apartment manager note from oakland, california. our anonymous submitter wasn’t able to save any of those 14 notices, so it’s unclear if any of them were anything like this one.

related: love, apt. 3 

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