Entries Tagged as 'roommates'

A foreign policy allegory?

January 24th, 2010 · 86 Comments

The long arm of Uncle Sam has extended all the way up to this roommate squabble in Peterborough, Ontario.
“The note on the right,” our submitter says, “is is written by a roommate who (as you can see) does not recognize the hypocrisy of calling someone out for being passive-aggressive in her own passive-aggressive note.”

related: Are [...]

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Tags: canada · ontario · rebuttals · roommates · toilet

Let the rest of us eat cake.

January 12th, 2010 · 189 Comments

“My roommate in college was allergic to everything,” says Casey in Watsonville, California — and she talked about it ad nauseam. “For her birthday sophomore year, we went to buy her a cake but of course she was allergic to everything good. So in the end, I just got a cake I liked and we [...]

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Tags: birthday · cake · mean girls · non-apology apology · roommates

Happy Boxing Day from Passive-Aggressive Notes!

December 26th, 2009 · 44 Comments

Now, if you wouldn’t mind taking a moment out of your busy schedule of sport and/or shopping to bestow a bit of charity on those you live with?

(Cheers to our submitter Victoria, her mates at Oxford, and their disgusting flatties.)
related: ceci n’est pas une note passif-agressif

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Tags: meta · roommates · that shit is disgusting · u.k.

Deny a man his web comics? How dare you.

December 3rd, 2009 · 217 Comments

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, [...]

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Tags: guilt trip · indianapolis · martyr complex · moving/not moving · not cool · p.s. · roommates

all that’s missing is a smiley face and an xoxo

November 8th, 2009 · 90 Comments

“After being kicked out of the apartment for numerous horrible acts,” says S. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, “Our roommate for the summer sent us this with her last rent check…which was later edited a bit by one angry roommate.” S. leaves us to wonder exactly what kinds of “horrible acts” were committed by K., [...]

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Tags: "south dakota' · non-apology apology · roommates

jerk-o-lanterns

October 29th, 2009 · 157 Comments

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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Tags: holiday spirit · jesus · roommates · you're like so going to hell

P.S. You’re not invited to my birthday party, either!

October 16th, 2009 · 213 Comments

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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Tags: north carolina · roommates · university

Please resubmit your inquiry after it has been properly notarized. Regards, your flatmates

October 12th, 2009 · 127 Comments

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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Tags: a little uptight · london · roommates

sounds like you two deserve each other

September 21st, 2009 · 88 Comments

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. I’m a little confused about why this girl thought that leaving her garbage [...]

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Tags: garbage · group bitchfest · neighbors · roommates · tampa · university

the patron(izing) saint of roommates

September 1st, 2009 · 91 Comments

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

a new twist on the walk of shame

August 13th, 2009 · 125 Comments

Ah, college. While living in an all-female dorm might reduce some types of conflicts…

You also 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 too [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · piss · roommates · sex sex sex · that shit is disgusting · that's unsanitary · university

Can you hear me now, biotch?

July 22nd, 2009 · 160 Comments

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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Tags: hygiene · michigan · noise · roommates · that shit is disgusting · university

Are you proud to be an American?

July 4th, 2009 · 205 Comments

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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Tags: americans abroad · misplaced patriotism · recycling · roommates · u.k. · university

Make an effing wish

June 25th, 2009 · 93 Comments

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

Signed, R. Mutt

June 11th, 2009 · 45 Comments

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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Tags: roommates · u.k.

No, no you can’t

June 9th, 2009 · 226 Comments

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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Tags: art · food · roommates · san francisco · shit

analog version of a Facebook wall post

June 1st, 2009 · 160 Comments

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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Tags: austin · frenemies · mean girls · roommates · signed with love · university · whiteboard

I don’t remember signing any bond/contract regarding your use of exclamation points!!!!!

May 26th, 2009 · 118 Comments

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’ infrequent [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · roommates · stealing · wales

some advice on roommate living

April 28th, 2009 · 142 Comments

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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Tags: facebook · frenemies · roommates · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police

the soul of lingerie

April 10th, 2009 · 111 Comments

Two words: missing tarantula.

Mascara-borrowing roommate.

Just pathetic.

related: just another picture to burn

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Tags: office · roommates · stealing

The Easter Bunny is such a passive-aggressive little fucker

April 9th, 2009 · 94 Comments

(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

your new best friend

April 8th, 2009 · 375 Comments

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

more notes white people leave

March 30th, 2009 · 247 Comments

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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Tags: "helpful" advice · kitchen · roommates · san francisco · whiteboard

phil the vampire slayer

February 23rd, 2009 · 91 Comments

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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Tags: Delaware · california · roommates · signed with love · smiley · wtf?

Untitled (broken glass)

February 6th, 2009 · 98 Comments

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