craig from nottingham, england snapped these at the pub where his cousin works. (apologies for the blurriness — just pretend you’ve already knocked back a few pints.)

by the way, if you’d like to go meet stephen and shake his hand, craig says the name of the pub is the flowing spring, in henley. stephen seems [...]

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frequent troublemaker team cassandra sends us a dispatch from her trip to old montreal. the charmant hostel she stayed in had 32 hostelers, two bathrooms, one kitchen, lots of awkward signage, and an overall vibe of, “i’ve said this 10, 000 times and i’m not saying it again.”

plus….

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our anonymous submitter has held on to this email for more than five years now, but she still has no idea what she did to offend the sender. she barely knew him at the time, she says, “and needless to say, i don’t know him any better now, except i have a better handle on [...]

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explains sarah in new york city: “one lab in the building where i work has covered the walls outside their lab with candid photos of the lab members. over time, some of these photos got some ‘modifications’ from passers-by, such as a mustache or horns here or there. mature, I know. today, i [...]

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our anonymous submitter lives in a 30-story condo building in chicago. her father works in the same building, and received this note in the suggestion box. “i found the letter slipped under my door one day,” she says. “my dad had put it there after reading it with his boss. i’m sure he’s damn proud [...]

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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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by popular demand, ellen in acton, mass. has sent in a photo of the note that appeared next to the one about spitting in the water fountain on her gym’s suggestion board…

the original “no spitting” note has since been taken down, ellen says. “in its place was one saying that people should stop focusing on [...]

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exhibit a) submitted by an anonymous bystander at a lunch counter in oregon caves national park:

exhibit b) submitted by patrick in kansas city, mo, who explains: “my friends chris and katie had a rude waitress a few weeks ago. in order to tell the waitress that there was indeed a reason she wasn’t getting a [...]

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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 8 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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alanna lives in a house in ottawa with nine other girls, where “dishes are always being left in the sink dirty and growing stuff, or clean on the counter taking up space.” a note war has commenced on the window above the fridge.

by popular demand, alanna has helpfully posted another picture showing the underlying notes!

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this exercise in mass shaming is brought to us by rocky in san diego, who adds: “these are 5-year-olds playing t-ball.”

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annette in the u.k. calls this one “how to make toast in the nhs.”

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during his fourth year of college, andrew from waterloo says he lived with some seriously passive-aggressive roommates. the following three notes all went up within a 48-hour period:

andrew couldn’t resist adding one of his own…

it was taken down.
related: the post-it wars

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kristin in minneapolis says her (23-year-old) roommate slipped this note under her door — along with three others, all on the same day. she explains: “this note was caused by my preference that the windows in the house be kept open during the summer and her preference that they be kept shut.”

the fine print says: [...]

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smileys can be terrifying.

(submitted by simon in richmond, virginia.)

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(thanks to jon for sending.)

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cassie in orlando is preschool teacher, and brings us this note posted by the school’s director. “i cannot help but be in awe of her after this note,” cassie says, and i have to agree.

a classic, no?

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explains james, “my cool roommate tries to do something nice for the house, and then jerk roommate writes this”:

seriously, team cormac all the way.

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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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