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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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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writes bibs in tacoma, washington: “my sophomore year in college, i was placed in a campus house with six other girls i didn’t know. to say the least, we did not really get along, but we made a chore chart so we would all at least have a semi-clean house to live in.” at [...]

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nothing could have prepared lauren in oakland for the passive-aggressive avalanche that awaited her the other day at her new apartment. she calls the experience of finding the notes totally surreal. “it keeps playing back in slow motion in my mind, from the second i saw the first one hanging over the threshold to my [...]

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ashley in chicago says her roommates are the king and queen of passive-aggressive notes. (”if they ever found this site, they’d think it was a self help group,” she says.) the latest example:

ashley’s still fuming over this one. “i mean, come on just throw it away yourself! you’re probably exerting more energy writing the email [...]

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many offices, it seems, are a regular disneyland of what only appear to inanimate objects. the evidence? from frank in san francisco, a talking sponge:

from amy in annapolis, a talking toilet:

from ben in san antonio, a talking door:

and then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in washington, d.c. – a talking (and walking) [...]

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carlina in texas is close with her parents, but she’s been having a bit of a rough time lately. apparently carlina’s mother has grown tired of her daughter’s apathy/hostility/general malaise, and slipped this classic mom note under her door.

if that note didn’t remind you of your own mom, perhaps you can relate to this one [...]

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