Monday, 9 July 2012

Helpful Notes From Your Roommate

Hi,

Me again.  Sorry to leave another note, but could you please put the tomato sauce back in the fridge in future?  I had to throw it away and, I think I speak for everyone when I say that we don’t want our condiments budget to increase due to this kind of behaviour.

Thanks

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Hi

I know we all have to do our laundry, but if I find another pair of boxer shorts drying on the kitchen sink I will throw them away.  This is near the food preparation area and I’m sure none of us want a skid sandwich.

Thanks

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Hi,

Now, I know we have a rota and everything, but I think it needs to be revised.  I don’t think the chores share out equally since someone managed to discharge their plant watering duties. By the way, cactus and orchid soup is not a nutritious meal.

Thanks

So, this is a thing...
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Hi,

The front door was unlocked for most of the afternoon.  This might be acceptable in your own house, but as this is a student house, people could just walk in and take whatever they wanted.  I’m sure you all have expensive valuables too.  I would die if someone stole my collection of ladies toilet Polaroids.

Thanks

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Hi,

Which joker thought it was hilarious to unscrew all of my jars of food and leave them on a hot windowsill?  Since my next loan instalment isn’t due for another 2 months, I’m going to have to beg my parents for some more beetroot and pickled onions.  If this happens again, I’m writing to student services, Or my MP.

Thanks

A particularly tidy student house

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Hi,

To whoever left me a note calling me a “passive-aggressive sonuva bitch”, allow me to point out two things:

1.     “Sonuva” isn’t a word.  Whilst I don’t usually mind concatenations, “uva” is not a word either.  This renders your insult invalid.
2.    I’m not being passive-aggressive.  I’m being polite.  I leave notes because I have issues with direct confrontation.  I know you’ll probably take the piss out of me for that, but that makes you a bully.

Thanks

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Hi,

I’ve applied to change residences and student services are considering my request.  You’ll all be rid of me soon enough.  In the meantime, please stop turning the temperature up when my clothes are in the machine.  My trousers have all shrunk and I’m starting to look like The Incredible Hulk’s pasty cousin.

Thanks

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Hi,

Just wanted to say, I’m off.  No doubt you won’t miss me, just as I won’t miss any of you.  You’ve all held me back this term.  I’d have probably already passed this course if it wasn’t for your incessant meddling with my things.  By the way, did someone put Steroids in my hamster’s drinking water?  He’s looking a little buffer than normal and managed to break my finger like a Twiglet.

I hope you all die.

Thanks

22 comments:

  1. Oooooooo I had this horrible flashback reading about the Hamster. RIP Fluff, I warned you about drugs

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    1. Yeah, we have some animals round these parts with some seriously messed up lives. There's a swan that gets Methadone handouts to wean him off crack, and a hedgehog that tried to Rohypnol a lady at the local park.

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  2. Oh the passive aggressive note leaver. The person who refuses to work things out through reason and understanding and comes from that beloved moral authoritative position. They grow up to work in cubicles and become the bane of all our existences.

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    1. Sounds like you have some personal experience of this. Wait, haven't we all?

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  3. Ah yes, I had a passive aggressive note leaver, back when I lived in an apartment, who always left notes on my door about how my car was too loud and "nobody liked to hear it." That car, by the way, was a Ford Taurus, and apparently starting that "beast" every morning was so "loud" it merited an angry, passive aggressive note. She even once called the police, and when I showed them the car, they laughed. Hard.

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    1. I don't understand how you can call the police on someone starting their car without being arrested for wasting police time.

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  4. I don't know why but I love the idea of a hamster on steroids. Every dorm seems to have someone like this, and really everyone is a lot worse off without them. They're necessary.

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    1. I fail to see how. In my experience, people will go out of their way to annoy the note leaver, which probably results in more obnoxious behaviour.

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  5. Ha, the hamster.

    I lived alone during college. There's no way I would have it any other way. Having roommates never appealed to me, although I did have one after college. That lasted all of two weeks. She was, and pardon my vulgarities, a cunt. That's when I moved in with brother man. He's been a wonderful roommate. The best, except when he dumps out my coffee. He doesn't have to worry. I am not a passive-aggressive note leaver.

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    1. Sounds like you had the best policy on roomies. That is, not to have them. As for your brother, mix laxative powder into your coffee pot. That's more effective than a passive-aggressive note.

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  6. This post made me think of one of Beer's recent post "In Lieu of Flaming Dog Shit." If you haven't yet red it, I think it would provide you valuable tips.

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    1. Now you mention it, yeah it is reminiscent of that. I swear I didn't consciously try and rip off their idea.

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  7. A friend of mine had a passive-aggressive note-leaving roommate. On the last day of school, she left every one of her roommates a lengthy note under their door about "how much they held her back."

    I, fortunately enough, had a kid who would cry whenever we upset him. Then, he would go update his Facebook status on how "fake everyone is" while blasting DMX.

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    1. I bet he used to cry himself to sleep at night, praying that DMX was gon' give it to ya!

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  8. I had two roommates. That worked out for about six weeks. Five of those six weeks were the hardest five of my life.

    I don't leave notes, but I seem to get an awful lot of 'em. Generally, I am pretty innocent.

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    1. I think notes in a domestic environment should be banned.

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  9. Note to self: Never read Muppets For Justice when suffering from loose bowels and sinus problems. The chances of suffocating on ones own build up of mucus, than becomes highly probable...not gonna mention what happens with the loose bowels...

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    1. Funnily enough, thats exactly what the government told me to use as a tagline for this site.

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  10. Share housing is always a terrifying proposition. I remember throwing out one flat mate after a rather drawn out feud over an orange pair of scissors. I still stand by my decision.

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    1. A good pair of scissors are hard to come by. You did the right thing.

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  11. I am so thankful I've never had a roommate!

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  12. Fortunately, I have always had decent luck with roommates. Well, except for one who refused to ever pay me rent on time.

    Your post made me chuckle, though.

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