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Dear couchsurfer: here’s a clue you might have overstayed your welcome

Kerry — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:54:20 +0000

From Austin, Texas: a last-ditch attempt to get rid of a houseguest who took “Mi casa es su casa” a bit too literally…

related: Couchsurfing Greg gets pissed

Deny a man his web comics? How dare you.

Kerry — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:16:33 +0000

Heather in Indianapolis is the kind of gal who helps out a pal who’s down on his luck. So when her marginally employed friend needed a place to crash while he got back on his feet, she let Greg live in her house and help himself to her food and other belongings, like her laptop, “pretty much rent-free,” for three months.

One day, after several hours spent trying to get rid of all the spyware on her computer — thanks to all the porn sites she found in the browser history — she turned on parental controls. (A lil’ passive-aggressive? Maybe.) Then, when she forgot to log off one day, Greg removed them.

When Heather figured this out (after being bombarded by spyware once again) she added the parental controls back. And Greg — instead of saying something like, “Hey, did you realize those settings block stuff like Google and Careerbuilder?” — left her this charming note.

“According to this note,” Heather says, “in addition to all the horrible things I’ve done such as give him a place to live, let him eat my food, give him breaks on rent for months at a time and put up with his laziness, carelessness and filth, I have also DENIED HIM A SOCIAL LIFE! OMG!”

UPDATE: The back of the note!

Shoshana, it looks like you have some competition.

Notes white people leave

Kerry — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:14:16 +0000

OMG, ramekin drama! (from San Francisco, natch…)

(click to enlarge!)

related: #54 kitchen gadgets [stuffwhitepeoplelike.com]

Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)

Kerry — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:00:32 +0000

Mary saw this collection of missives while visiting friends in Long Island City, Queens last spring.

Anthony left a note on the door…

Saving his pennies for someday…

You oughta know by now

Workin’ too hard can give you a heart attackackackackackack

And it seems such a waste of time

You should never argue with a crazy mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mind

But she’s not movin’ out.

Tantamount to storage

Kerry — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:05:45 +0000

I’m just gonna let Ben from D.C. set this one up:

Last October, I moved from one apartment to another on fairly short notice. The kid I found on Craigslist to take my spot really wanted to move in a few days early, which was incredibly inconvenient for me. However, I agreed, so I spent most of Halloween weekend moving my stuff out. The one thing I couldn’t move was my futon, because it wouldn’t fit on top of my car. I figured he’d give me a little leeway though, since I’d done him a favor, and I came back to pick it up November 10. A week later I came home to find this amazing passive-aggressive e-mail from him:

Dear Alex

Kerry — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:05:16 +0000

Scott saw this note posted to the refrigerator of his friends’ house in D.C. and surreptitiously snapped a photo. “I didn’t want to pry by pulling out the whole note,” he says. “I’m pretty sure alex was a roommate in the house at some point, but it’s probably been years.”

The magnet’s a nice touch, though, right?

A common misconception

Kerry — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:26:32 +0000

Dispatches from an oh-so-common passive-aggressive battleground: “the common area.”

So, whose side are you on?

studying up on bedside manner might not be a bad idea

Kerry — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:51:26 +0000

CC found this note in one of the study carrels at her large midwestern med school:

this was her response:

(she continues on a second page.)

this is your “last warning”

Kerry — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:55:32 +0000

a doozy from our pals over at the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.