Entries Tagged as 'cleaning'
“This was posted after the author cleaned the house which consisted entirely of her own mess,” says our anonymous submitter in the U.K.
Of course, when you live with multiple roommates, it’s always somebody else’s mess. (Or should I say…I’ts?)
related: May the sanctity of the sink prevail!
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Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dishes · martyr complex · signed with love · spelling and grammar police · you call that punctuation?
Carmen in Washington, D.C. says she and her roommates suffered for months at the hands of this “crazy, obsessive-compulsive who made our lives miserable.” By the end of the fall semester, Carmen says, the house was a near-war zone, and the girl finally moved out.
“Around the time she was packing up her things, we decorated for [...]
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Tags: a little patronizing · cleaning · holiday spirit · mean girls · roommates · thanks (but not really) · university
Our submitter from Honolulu lives with two roommates…in a house that belongs to one of those roommate’s parents. (Mayday! Mayday!)
One day, apparently, mother dearest decided to come over for an unannounced visit. Surprise!
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related: I can has guilt trip?
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Tags: Hawaii · cleaning · guilt trip · jesus · moms & dads
Rachel spotted this on a frat house fridge in Champaign, Illinois, adding: “Said fridge was indeed revolting.”
Meanwhile, Helen swiped this from an equally revolting frat house in Vancouver. Adds Helen: “The reason why it is so ripped up is because a frat boy saw me steal the note and we fought for it for a [...]
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Tags: canada · cleaning · fratboys · fridge · roommates · university · vancouver
Writes Tim in Berkeley: “Although this note is over 17 years old, I think it’s still worth submitting, at the very least as an example of notes from a bygone era. I received this note from the apartment manager when I was a senior at Rice University, living in an off-campus apartment. Admittedly, I wasn’t [...]
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Tags: cleaning · houston · landlord · texas · that shit is disgusting · university
(Thanks to Graham in Cambridge, Mass.)
related: I can has guilt trip?
extra credit: Pope’s Easter message mostly passive-aggressive guilt trip
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Tags: cleaning · fridge · holiday spirit · roommates
this is why the “seething and waiting” strategy will never get through to a messy roommate. (they are oblivious to your blind rage!)
to wit: laura lives in a four-person suite at boston college, where she says one of her suitemates, christin, is “a notorious neat freak.” what that meant was that christin and her roommate, [...]
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Tags: TLDR · bathroom · boston · cleaning · martyr complex · roommates · that shit is disgusting · that's disrespectful · university
if you share a bathroom facility with either a) evil robots or b) electronic music enthusiasts, then this sign — from an office in paris — might work.
(but prepare for the inevitable: “one more time?”)
related: over and over – the warning (passive-aggressive remix)
extra credit: daft hands [youtube]
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Tags: bathroom · cleaning · office · paris
When you live with six art students (like Kate in London), you might find that life imitates art more often than you’d like.
related: Oxford drama
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Tags: CAPS LOCK · art · cleaning · london · roommates · the u.k. · university
Our anonymous submitter says this display is just one of many microwave missives his coworker has created. “Someone tore it down and threw it on the floor once,” he says, “but she put it back up, laminated with heavy-duty tape.”
And of course, the art-imitating-life inspiration for this post: Pam Beesly.
related: To each his own microwave
extra [...]
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Tags: CAPS LOCK · cleaning · fiction · highlighter · microwave · new york · not-so-veiled threats · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police
it’s the question of the day: have you voted yet?
if NO, please consider the following (from campaign field offices in “fake virginia” and philadelphia) before heading to the polls.
if YES — why not celebrate your participation in the democratic process in the most american way possible: buyin’ stuff!
related: herbie goes to washington
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Tags: bathroom · cleaning · pleasantries as afterthought · politics · smiley · your mother doesn't...
earlier this year, emma in california was sharing a kitchen with three other girls. one day, out of the blue, one of her roommates posted this note. (warning: prepare to reexamine any preconceptions you may have about mormons, straight-edgers, and college-aged women in general.)
by the next morning, emma says, the note was promptly defaced, but [...]
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Tags: cleaning · god · mean girls · roommates · saga · sex sex sex · signed with love · thanks (but not really) · university · you know who you are
my favorite part of this two-page glory? the flash of insight on page 2: “i realize that last sentence is phrased as a question, but really it is more of a statement.”
related: care, it makes a difference
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Tags: CAPS LOCK · cleaning · confusion??? · exclamation-point happy! · grow up · highlighter · martyr complex · roommates · shoes · spelling and grammar police
writes an anonymous submitter in peterborough, ontario: “this past year my roommates and i had a stranger rent the extra room in our house, and he turned out to be a socially oblivious slob we spent the entire year picking up after.” as frustrating as the situation was, his roommate andrew can’t seem to fully [...]
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Tags: canada · cleaning · ontario · roommates · thanks (but not really)
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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Tags: actions speak louder · art · berkeley · cleaning · houston · new york · oakland · obnoxious definition · office · roommates · san francisco · wtf?
writes bibs in tacoma, washington: “my sophomore year in college, i was placed in a campus house with six other girls i didn’t know. to say the least, we did not really get along, but we made a chore chart so we would all at least have a semi-clean house to live in.” at [...]
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Tags: cleaning · excessive underlining · fuck fuckity fuck fuck · inappropriate word EMPHASIS · not cool · roommates · spelling and grammar police · tacoma · university · visual aids
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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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · cleaning · ellipses-crazed · oakland · roommates · spelling and grammar police
ashley in chicago says her roommates are the king and queen of passive-aggressive notes. (“if they ever found this site, they’d think it was a self help group,” she says.) the latest example:
ashley’s still fuming over this one. “i mean, come on just throw it away yourself! you’re probably exerting more energy writing the email [...]
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Tags: chicago · cleaning · fridge · roommates · would you mind?
Many offices, it seems, are a regular Disneyland of what only appear to be inanimate objects. The evidence?
From Frank in San Francisco, a sentient sponge:
From Amy in Annapolis, Maryland, a talking toilet:
From Ben in San Antonio, Texas, a talking door:
And then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in Washington, D.C. – a talking [...]
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Tags: CAPS LOCK · annapolis · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · d.c. · irregular capitalization · maryland · microwave · opening/closing · san antonio · san francisco · texas · toilet
Carlina in Texas is close with her parents, but she’s been having a bit of a rough time lately. Apparently Carlina’s mother has grown tired of her daughter’s apathy/hostility/general malaise, and slipped this classic mom note under her door.
If that note didn’t remind you of your own mom, perhaps you can relate to this one [...]
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Tags: cleaning · family · guilt trip · moms & dads · signed with love · texas
This just in: starving unborn children aren’t the only casualties of office fridge lunch thievery. As one anonymous New Yorker reports, now the sick and the infirm are being picked off, too!
(Thank you kindly? Best wishes? Hungry on the 12th floor, you kill me.)
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Tags: cleaning · exclamation-point happy! · food · guilt trip · ital overkill · new york · office fridge · questionable logic · rhetorical question · sarcasm · thanks (but not really)
Those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter (a GM at a property management firm in Springfield, Missouri) for today’s masterpiece. “One of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “I got halfway [...]
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Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parking · rhetorical question · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism · your/you're
Mona in Los Angeles brings us this pair of notes from her high-rise Century City office building. Says Mona, “Apparently my co-worker saw the panties at issue. My question is…who leaves their panties in the bathroom at work? Who does that?”
My question: Why are we letting Paris and Britney off the hook? If they actually [...]
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Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · attire · bathroom · bodily fluids · cleaning · danger · excessive underlining · group bitchfest · hygiene · los angeles · office · that shit is disgusting
Writes our anonymous submitter in Corte Madera, California: “We have a lot of passive-aggressive notes up around the office, and most of them are addressed to the entire office staff in common areas. You can imagine my surprise when after eating lunch and going out for a smoke break with some coworkers today, we came [...]
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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · cleaning · dishes · garbage · guilt trip · kitchen · moms & dads · office · oh snap · opening/closing · recycling · spelling and grammar police · the earth · visual aids · your mother doesn't...
Craig from Nottingham, England snapped these at the pub where his cousin works. (Apologies for the blurriness — just pretend you’ve already knocked back a few pints.)
By the way, if you’d like to go meet Stephen and shake his hand, Craig says the name of the pub is The Flowing Spring, in Henley. Stephen seems [...]
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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bar · cleaning · crazy boss · excessive underlining · not-so-veiled threats · nottingham · office · u.k.