vida says her friend in baltimore received this note from “his pathologically lying roommate.”

it’s a little hard to read, but the (genius) last line says, “if not possible we’re moving and you can stay.”
so: team joe? team asa? or too tough to call?

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no lols from this feline — just some lovely passive voice!

(thanks to megan in michigan.)

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writes lauren in kansas: “my roommate is known for her notes towards me and our other roommate. we never touch each others food as is but i guess she felt the need to threaten us to keep it that way.”

lauren adds: “inside the box? a ton of containers of frozen cookie dough.”

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first, i’ll let stephanie in los angeles explain the context for this one: “after a night of drinking, i let a friend of mine crash with me at my apartment. this friend, who does have her own apartment in the city, left with me in the morning, yet i still received this email from my [...]

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a note to alex in waterloo, ontario from his first-year roommate. says alex: “apparently i was violating some building rules that annoyed him and rather than asking me in person, he wrote this on our front door for all to see.”

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as the vilification of outback-bread-eating michelle shows, the passive-aggressive notes community has no mercy for the unrepentant food thief.
in fact, screw repentance — we’re out for revenge.
beyond simple note-leaving, one of most popular tactics for dealing with thieves seems to be the “if i can’t have it, nobody can” approach: [...]

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those of you that side consistently with team passive-aggressive might enjoy this excerpt from ian urbina’s book, life’s little annoyances.
urbina’s thesis: “criticizing something for being passive-aggressive is like faulting a tactic for being discreet. just as there are times when subtlety is the worst approach, there are also times when passive aggression is the best.”
as [...]

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(from midgy in madison, wisconsin.)
related: with 17 roommates, it could have been worse

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this ranks right up there with the notice from an aspiring personal-injury lawyer as one of my favorite roommate notes of all time.gillian in albany points out that the malapropism here (”i am the narcotic one”) was actually deliciously appropriate, because “she cleaned exactly like cocaine.”

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says tyler in boston: “i had a roommate who stopped talking to me after the first month and only communicated via whiteboard.”or, has his roommate might say, via “whiteboard thing.”

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this note of course left by “the messiest roommate of them all,” says kate in boston.

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vici lives in london with five roommates — all guys.
(if you don’t have a house full of cereal-stealing warcraft players like vici and don’t get the “orly?” thing…wikipedia to the rescue!)
related: cereal killer 

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ouch.(says bethany: “i don’t really know what I did to deserve this.”)

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this isn’t just a note — it’s a work of art. and it’s about 100 shades of amazing.
i’ll let rich explain:
i had a party at my house once in college, and one of our roommates who was going to be gone was really scared that someone was going to sleep in his bed. so, [...]

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along with the mad bomber series, i’d say this note is one for the hall of fame. there are so many amazing elements here i can’t even pick a favorite.

related: care, it makes a difference

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from an all-girls floor of a boston university dorm…

ah, college. thanks to vicky in boston for submitting!

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dispatches from an oh-so-common passive-aggressive battleground…

so, whose side are you on?

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sara is one of seven students sharing an apartment in venice. after three months of living together, she says, it became clear that one of the flatmates had to go: he had nasty habits like, um, pleasuring himself in his in other people’s bedrooms while they were out. “we gently told him we thought it [...]

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after receiving numerous “helpful tips” from her roommate at the university of minnesota…

lydia decided to add a few post-its of her own.

(the large signs on the oven and the microwave were already there.)

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“i still put my stuff all over his couch,” says ryan in d.c., who adds that this note is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his “anal-retentive” roommate. ryan will be moving out of the apartment soon, but (in a final passive-aggressive gesture) says he has stuffed the couch full of [...]

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