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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landmine in my bloodline
February 8th, 2008 · 106 Comments
Tags: blitzkrieg approach · chore wheel · cleaning · ellipses-crazed · oakland · roommates · spelling and grammar police
crying over sour milk
January 29th, 2008 · 119 Comments
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 […]
Tags: chicago · cleaning · fridge · roommates · would you mind?
office anthropomorphism
December 29th, 2007 · 64 Comments
many offices, it seems, are a regular disneyland of what only appear to inanimate objects. the evidence? from frank in san francisco, a talking sponge:
from amy in annapolis, a talking toilet:
from ben in san antonio, a talking door:
and then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in washington, d.c. – a talking (and walking) […]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · annapolis · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · d.c. · irregular capitalization · maryland · microwave · opening/closing · san antonio · san francisco · texas · toilet
living with an adolescent (abridged)
November 14th, 2007 · 212 Comments
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 […]
Tags: cleaning · guilt trip · moms & dads · signed with love · texas
who are you calling ocd?
November 8th, 2007 · 145 Comments
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.)
Tags: cleaning · exclamation-point happy! · food · guilt trip · ital overkill · new york · office fridge · questionable logic · rhetorical question · sarcasm · thanks but no thanks