writes an anonymous submitter in peterborough, ontario: “this past year my roommates and i had a stranger rent the extra room in our house, and he turned out to be a socially oblivious slob we spent the entire year picking up after.” as frustrating as the situation was, his roommate andrew can’t seem to fully [...]

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“my friend katelyn’s roommate left her this note before she went away for memorial day weekend last year,” says monica in boston. “i love how it starts off so BFF-like…then takes a sharp left into passive-aggressive territory.”

adds monica: “while katelyn normally likes to avoid confrontation, i think this note pushed her over the edge. she [...]

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an anonymous submitter in portland, maine is currently chafing under one of the most common irritants of communal living: a roommate “who has never once bought toilet paper.”
she and her other roommate tried some of the more subtle manuevers in the passive-aggressive playbook — up to and including the ol’ hide-and-carry — to no avail. [...]

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the word “newsflash,” like the phrase “no offense,” is an early indicator that what follows is probably going to be something pretty bitchy. unless, of course, you’re watching tv news, in which case the word “newsflash” more likely heralds the announcement of a hard-hitting segment about the household product in your kitchen that could be [...]

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sure, it’d be easier and quicker to just clean it up. but the modern passive-aggressive (like katey in berkeley’s ex-roommmate) can’t pass up the opportunity to make a point.

a common variation on the van der rohe approach, as documented below by sam in dallas, is the so-called “reverse magritte.”

meanwhile, post-modern passive-aggressives (like this new [...]

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