chris in valdosta, georgia came home last halloween eve to find this friendly reminder taped to every mailbox in his quiet little cul-de-sac. (”it’s a little worse for wear,” chris explains, “because i ripped it off and stomped it on a few times before scanning it.”)

the underlying message, interestingly enough, actually isn’t all that different [...]

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brett in raleigh, north carolina had to move out at the end of last semester after his lease ran out, and while he didn’t want to have to resort to a finding a random craigslist roommate, that ended up being the case.
brett’s mea culpa: “being a grad student, i am not home much and have [...]

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s in london says his flatmate was obviously exceedingly upset about his missing can opener. of course, this being england, the old “stiff upper lip” sometimes still prevails…sort of.

related: memorandum to the roommates

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danielle in tampa, florida found this note in the hallway of her apartment building. writes danielle: “i don’t know what the official story is, but I can assume that it is the same as every other ‘my roommate is a slob’ story. (oh college!) i’m a little confused about why this girl thought that leaving [...]

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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 [...]

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ah, college. you’d think living in an all-girls dorm might solve problems like this…

but then you get…this. explains hannah in pullman, washington: “i live in an all-girls dorm, and guys aren’t allowed to use the bathrooms in the hall. the rule is they are supposed to be escorted out into the lobby…which is a apparently [...]

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our anonymous submitter — a college student in michigan — “borrowed” this note under the pretense of reading it to empathize with the recipient. “while the note itself is straight up aggressive,” she says, “i do know that it has followed months of passive-aggressiveness.” and most of these complaints, she says, are totally legit. “i’ve [...]

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our anonymous submitter lives in a university flat in the u.k. with four other guys. “three of us (myself, an american, and a brit) always take out the garbage and recycling when it’s our turn, but the two other international students seem to think it’s somehow beneath them. there must have been some unpleasantness while [...]

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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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alice in york, u.k. spotted this little work of art in the kitchen she shares with — yikes — fourteen other people.

now, you wizened old troublemakers might skim past this as a throwaway…but thanks to this month’s passive-aggressive notes gallery show at london’s kk outlet, little gems like this are — at least for a [...]

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writes our anonymous submitter from san francisco: “i bought $50 worth of groceries at trader joe’s, my boyfriend made an awesome pizza out of [some of] them, and as we were watching a movie and eating some, my uber-bachelor roommate yelled through the door and asked if he could get a slice. the man has [...]

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this note appeared on the whiteboard in whitney’s dorm room the day after she got in a fight with her roommate, ashley, and accused her of using her friends. the note was written by ashley’s cousin, angela, and while addressed to “ash,” seems more directed at the room’s other resident.

related: facebook, a place for frenemies

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writes toni in wales: ” i found these fightin’ words taped to one housemate’s cupboard. we’ve had some things go missing in the house, so i sympathise with their frustration. but the funniest part of this note, i think, is that this housemate had previously called a house meeting to complain about the other housemates’ [...]

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our anonymous submitter was mildly amused when he noticed this little hypothetical how-to pop up in his facebook feed. but the real kicker, he realized, is that the one person tagged in the note happens to be (ouch) the notewriter’s current roommate.

adds our submitter: “to my surprise, the girl never commented on it, but i’m [...]

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two words: missing tarantula.

mascara-borrowing roommate.

just pathetic.

related: just another picture to burn

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(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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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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quelle horreur!  “a good week after using my roommate’s microplane to grate parmesan, this note showed up on the fridge whiteboard,” writes tori in (where else?) san francisco. “apparently microplanes are for ZESTING ONLY!”

(unless, of course, it’s a microplane zester/grater.)
related: notes white people leave

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travis’s bud josh — a cable guy in delaware — snapped this photo while out on a repair call.

meanwhile, elaine in california is wondering if phil makes housecalls, too.  “i always get up and open the blinds in the morning to let the light in,” she says. “as soon as my roommate gets up, she [...]

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as rick in tennessee can attest, sharing a fridge with more than two unrelated roommates can get tricky — even in the rare event that everyone manages to keep their paws to themselves. the upside? “while there’s no space in the fridge for food, i’ll never have to worry about running out of condiments.”

meanwhile, in [...]

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