“I live in a condominium building that is popular with the elderly,” writes our submitter from the Chicagoland area. Recently, he says, the building’s board of managers put copies of this note in everyone’s mailboxes and posted it in the lobby (so guests wouldn’t be spared the details, either.)
Adds our submitter: “I don’t know what’s [...]

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Writes Stephanie in Lubbock, Texas: “One day at work, there were four or five of these bulletins posted above all bathroom trash cans, with an additional flyer posted in the ‘memos’ section on the bulletin board. There’s such rage in her bulletin, it’s like she personally found crap resting on a pile of paper towels.”

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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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our anonymous submitter in tel aviv spotted this note outside the kitchenette of a client’s office. in case your hebrew is a little rusty, she also provided an english translation:
please feel free to pour drinks, cut up food, warm things through, stir and mix food, chop food up very small, taste things and eat until [...]

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after 55 years, the north shore music theatre in beverly, mass. is closing its doors, terrance writes, “and i wanted to preserve the rich history of notes and art that have accumulated over the years.” first up: this artistic series from the intern lounge. (sidenote: intern lounge?!)

related: i’ll tell you what’s classy, though

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tom took notice of this “open letter” — a thoughtful missive that clearly merits our collective attention — on a telephone pole in san francisco.
if we’re really lucky, perhaps this richard asshat character will grace us with an open response in the comments, whiteblizzard70-style?

(note: for your further enrichment, here’s a less faded graphic of the [...]

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because it’s monday and you’re so thrilled to be back at work, i though it was as appropriate a time as any to bring you these little gems from the columbia, kentucky and melbourne, australia campuses, respectively, of the university of what the fuck.

(and commenters, please note the enormous exercise of restraint demonstrated by the [...]

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our anonymous submitter in california is not the resident of apartment 105, but she knew exactly who this note was intended for. “the dude in 105 lets his dog out, deposit her gifts on the sidewalk, and then run back. dude stands and watches her, perfectly at his ease,” she says. “this has been going [...]

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i didn’t think i’d ever see a kitchen appliance more inappropriately anthropomorphized than this fridge, but i think this dishwasher note (from an anonymous submitter in england) dials the WTF-factor up to 11.

related: the passive-aggressive note has not been destroyed; it has been solved

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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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well, our anonymous contributor in pompano beach, florida has one for you.
he explains: “i keep a gym membership just so that i can feel good about my financial commitment to my health — not so much for the actual health benefits per se. i hadn’t been to the gym in at least two months when [...]

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based on the online/canine aging scale (one dog year = one youtube day) this video is pretty much on its last legs, but we love it just the same. consider this post a mercy shot of euthanasia. (and thanks to maximilian, jen, chris, willa, nattie, cat and dave for passing along!)

related: oh, shit!

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Amanda spotted this on the door of the post office in Milford, Pennsylvania. (Confidential to the fecal matter general: Dude, I know recycling can be a hassle sometimes, but this seems like a little much.)

Perhaps the Brooklynites who issued this poetical preemptive warning knew what they were doing all along…

related: this is why your server [...]

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I thought it was pretty crazy when Jessie sent in this sign from a thrift store in Wilmington, North Carolina a few months years back…

Then Ashley sent in this eerily similar note from a thrift store in Barnegat, New Jersey. “The first time I noticed it, there was only one note,” Ashley says. “Weeks later, [...]

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The inimitable Jeff Rubin passes along this note from the foyer of his Park Slope apartment building. Yup, that’s what you think it is there on the floor. (Perhaps a hapless victim of the bag-tampering deliquent?)

(Jeff says the mess was cleaned up when he checked a few hours later.)
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Brooklyn, confusion still reigns.

related: [...]

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My own neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn has high concentrations of dogs, babies, crazies and bloggers, which makes for a heady brew of incredibly well-documented passive-aggressiveness. Certain notes (like this long-running series) show up in my inbox over and over again. I’ve gotten various iterations of this note from no fewer than six different people [...]

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Presenting, for your analysis, this anonymous contribution from a hair salon in Bettendorf, Iowa (pop. 32,394). For the scatologically inclined vandal (and for Putz’s owner) the unconscious issues at play appear to be anything but borderline. College psych majors: care to address which stage of psychosexual development is associated with passive-aggressiveness?

related: I can’t stand this [...]

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in all fairness, says brandi in austin, “this note was written after our dishes became so caked with fungus that we had to buy new stuff. the smell was also REALLY bad.”

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Semarr prefaces this submission by saying: “I realize it’s not particularly *passive* aggressive, but in context it became so.” She explains:
“There were eight people living in the house. One of them collected shelter cats and kept them in the basement. I found this note when I had come home from work very late at night. [...]

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sometimes, a little complaining is necessary.
(submitted by jeremiah in little rock, arkansas.)

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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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Looks like both the Mad Bomber and Richard G. Sells have West-coast counterparts:

Grossed out? Yeah, me too. Blame Gregory in Los Angeles for documenting this one (!!!)
related: The Mad Bomber, Act 1: “Sorry about the language”

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If you missed it, Act 1 is where this saga begins. Here, we see Richard G. Sell’s frustration grow to a fever pitch…

And it continues with Act 3…

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I don’t want to oversell this, but the following series of three signs (sent in by a health-club patron who wishes to remain nameless) just became my new all-time favorite. I love so many things about Richard G. Sells’s first masterpiece (below) that I don’t even know where to begin.

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I realize this example (from outside the American Legion HQ in Park Slope, Brooklyn) is not so much “passive-aggressive” as it is “crazy,” but it tickles me too much not to post. The little species/feces couplet has been painted over and re-written at least twice, so obviously I’m not the only one who appreciated it.

You [...]

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