Entries Tagged as 'xoxo'

dear grandma: thanks, i guess.

July 8th, 2009 · 253 Comments

writes our anonymous submitter: “this was sent to my 6-year-old step daughter by her grandma. the birthday present in question was a pack of writing paper and $5 american. we live in canada.”
(the “did you get…” pretense combined with the oh-so-subtle post script is so classic “passive-aggressive grandma” that i cannot even handle it. bonus [...]

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Tags: birthday · canada · martyr complex · ohio · old folks · p.s. · thanks (but not really) · xoxo

j-school today: from a dying medium to a dead horse

June 4th, 2009 · 119 Comments

this note — spotted by erik in a breakroom at northwestern’s medill school of journalism — takes me back to my days as a bright-eyed young reporter cheerfully slaving away at my college daily, where the grizzled old alumni “mentors” working at the times or the globe always seemed to have the same advice: that [...]

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Tags: chicago · kids today · thanks (but not really) · university · xoxo

tant pis, mon amie

November 7th, 2008 · 165 Comments

writes our anonymous submitter: “amie and i were friends since junior high. we had plans to go out for my 22nd birthday, but she canceled the day of. i said it was cool and that we should reschedule, and then i never heard from her again…until four years later, when she requested me as a [...]

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Tags: facebook · frenemies · mean girls · weddings and bridezillas · xoxo

the hot topic at this year’s warped tour

September 15th, 2008 · 161 Comments

spotted by christina in minnesota at the angels & airwaves merch booth…

can’t read the smaller writing? here’s a (blurry) close-up:

(as it turns out, christina says, this was an empty threat.)
related: the chav’s guide to sxsw

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Tags: minnesota · not-so-veiled threats · signed with love · tipping · xoxo

you might want to take a hard look at your washcloth first

June 5th, 2008 · 144 Comments

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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Tags: all clogged up · bathroom · maine · paper product fairy · rainbow-colored · roommates · shit · toilet · xoxo

all i want is a room somewhere

November 19th, 2007 · 104 Comments

one loverly lady in illinois found this note on the door of her dorm room after a long day of classes. (the identity of the note-leaver is still a mystery, as is the meaning of the phrase “dollar sign flower slams easily.”)

adds our submitter: “when we had our next floor meeting, i did the not-so-passive [...]

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Tags: door-slamming · excessive underlining · heart · illinois · mean girls · signed with love · sleeping · thanks (but not really) · university · xoxo