PassiveAggressiveNotes.com » passive voice http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The neighborhood warning wagon http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/09/28/the-neighborhood-warning-wagon/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/09/28/the-neighborhood-warning-wagon/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:33:07 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=16596 Upon moving into their new college house this fall, Danny and his roommates at Boston College received this delightfully punctuated welcome letter from their next door neighbor — delivered via U.S. Postal Service, no less.

I, for one, can’t wait ’til the Ben Affleck adaptation comes out. We’ll have a “late night beer party” to celebrate!

Welcome to our neighborhood, I just wanted to let you know, that your house has been over the years had really bad police reports on late nigh beer parties! (10 PM to almost all night) Please keep in mind that this neighborhood will not tolerate "late night parties" Which includes: yelling, talking loud on back porches and your back yard and loud friends that visit! Especially this Labor Day Weekend! I understand that you college kids like to drink and have fun, but! After 10 PM if noise is too loud, police will be called, there are alot of elderly, kids and families in this area that will not tolerate this bullshit! I know Bill Mills very well (BC College) and if you guys "act up"! Calls will be made! Please show some respect in our neighborhood and keep the noise level low! If not! Police will be called! Have a good school year and be good neighbors, ok?

(P.S.) THIS INCLUDES

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]]> http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/09/28/the-neighborhood-warning-wagon/feed/ 157 Don’t blame us http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/07/28/dont-blame-us/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/07/28/dont-blame-us/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:11:16 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=11249 Exhibit a) Spotted at a laundromat in Silver Lake by Jessica in Los Angeles…

Don't BLAME us if there aren't any paper towels!!!

Exhibit b) From Ronnie’s Diner, also in LA.., by Valerie:

Mean people suck.

Exhibit c) From Barnacle Bill’s in Sarasota, Florida:

No (shitty) beer for you!

Exhibit d) From, as Miranda explains, ” the local ‘community thrift store’ in Dahlonega, Georgia, where everything is donated, and all the people who work there…are volunteers. Raising the prices to compensate for the volunteers’ efforts? Makes TONS of sense to me!”
the price is being increased due to the time spent by volunteers

But (because the decision had to be made) I would say that this  final note — spotted by Rusty at a b&b in Newfoundland — is my absolute favorite.

could you be a little more specific?

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]]> http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/07/28/dont-blame-us/feed/ 158 Passive (voice) abuse http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/12/17/passive-voice-abuse/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/12/17/passive-voice-abuse/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:12:06 +0000 kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/12/17/passive-voice-abuse/ Amber received this amazing note in an envelope on her doorstep in Sacramento. “I have no idea which neighbor sent this to me, but I can only assume it was the paranoid-looking woman who lives above me,” she says. “But I don’t do drugs. I don’t even smoke cigarettes!”

I suspect illicit drug use

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]]> http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/12/17/passive-voice-abuse/feed/ 155 “If it wasn’t for the toilet, there would be no books” http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/11/21/if-it-wasn%e2%80%99t-for-the-toilet-there-would-be-no-books/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/11/21/if-it-wasn%e2%80%99t-for-the-toilet-there-would-be-no-books/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:45:29 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/11/21/if-it-wasn%e2%80%99t-for-the-toilet-there-would-be-no-books/ Reading in the bathroom is one thing…but kicking back with a purloined Snapple? Tbat’s one step too far for this food service establishment, as spotted by Jenny in Washington, D.C.

*Attention Customers* Recently we have experienced customers stealing drinks and consuming them in our bathroom. We kindly ask that you stop this as we do not tolerate stealers in our store. If this continues to proceed, right course of action will be taken to stop this violation immediately. Thank you.

You gotta love that passive voice! Any kindly guesses re: the crossed-out word?

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Our house is dirty. Cleaning needs to be done. Thanx, Hendrix

(Thanx to Megan in Michigan for submitting.)

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