our anonymous submitter in california was having some issues with her roommates not washing their dishes. “it got so bad that i picked up what i thought was a black bowl only to find it was white and covered in ants,” she says. when asked to clean up after themselves, the roommates responded with a [...]

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our anonymous submitter in detroit tells us his roommate is a repeat offender when it comes to passive-aggressive note-leaving. this time around, he went with a note AND a text message. (”and it’s not even my fault!” our submitter says.)

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“keep in mind that this is coming from the messiest and loudest of six roommates,” says our anonymous submitter, a college student in new york. isn’t it always?

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this delightful note comes to us from the wilds of suburban orange county, california. “there is a door at my school (a private college) that is constantly propped open,” explains amy, a grad student. “up until yesterday, the note on the door said, ‘please close door.’ i have NO idea about the microwave [...]

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“you know when you drink so much that you can’t remember what you did the night before?” asks our anonymous scottish pizza bandit. “sometimes we’re lucky enough to encounter certain things which trigger memories of our alcohol-fueled rampage. i was lucky enough to come across this the next day.”

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writes our anonymous submitter in corte madera, california: “we have a lot of passive aggressive notes up around the office, and most of them are addressed to the entire office staff in common areas. you can imagine my surprise when after eating lunch and going out for a smoke break with some coworkers today, we [...]

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as it turns out, the internet isn’t the best place for the secret journal you don’t want your roommate to see. but for the other party involved, it certainly makes for some fascinating reading.

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the coast newspaper in halifax recently invited its readers to share their “passive-aggressive roommate tales.” (gee, what a great idea!)
my favorite part:

Excerpts from a 34-point note sent to a former roommate:
2. Your rent was always late and it was not paid in full.
4. You used the dishes and baking ware that we provided to you [...]

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while jessica was a college student in boston, she lived in a five-person apartment with one friend and three strangers. jess says apartment issues were rarely (if ever– there was only one “meeting”) talked about directly (there was but one “meeting), but were instead handled through a series of “love notes” from anne, like this [...]

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“the healthy companies committee” explains katherine in d.c., is the name of the office pep squad led by the sender of the e-mail. (”ironically,” she adds, “he does not seem to be able to deal with his frustration in a ‘healthy’ way.”)
the hilarity of this note is more subtle than say, a “thank you terry,” [...]

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an anonymous submitter brings us this note from the kitchen of vermont theater’s group housing, “where all the techies live.” unlike other notes we’ve seen attributed to management/the apartment/the cat, etc., our submitter says the bit at the bottom was, in fact, written by the house’s cleaning lady. he adds, “granted, the kitchen was messy, [...]

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

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paddy in belfast sends us this series of shots from his office kitchen, where several of his coworkers have taken their frustrations with microwave cleanliness into their own hands.
it all started when one day, a microwave appeared bearing this note:

…but SDT wasn’t taking any chances.

later, a second microwave appeared, complete with its own note:
…which prompted [...]

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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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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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this is a special note indeed.
the idiosyncratic spelling, spacing, bolding and are fascinating — i love how the third sentence is so rhetorical it doesn’t deserve a question mark — but i think what i enjoy most is the after-the-fact realization that the desired action here just wasn’t quite explicit enough.

(thanks to molly in [...]

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

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

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