Sure , you could have a mature , face - to - face conversation … but you could also just leave a snarky note to be found subsequently .
So, if you’re a coward like me — and you probably are — you will love these people who dealt with their problems in the most passive aggressive way possible. For example:
1.This girlfriend, who instead of confronting her boyfriend about their future, special ordered this doormat:
2.This professor, who passed on confronting a chronically late student face-to-face and instead sent this email:
3.And this roommate who’d HAD it with their lazy roommates not doing the dishes…so they posted this note:
4.This apartment neighbor who could’ve marched under the stairs and told off this smoker, but instead rounded up their butts and left this on their doorstep:
5.This landlord who communicated with tenants via this sign…and a gloriously passive aggressive “Mahalo!":
6.And this landlord…who communicated via emoji:
Throwback to the most passive fast-growing landlord I ’ve ever had🥲
7.This person who could’ve talked to their spouse (since they, you know, live together), but instead sent this text:
8.This husband who also could’ve used his words, but instead did this:
This is what passive fast-growing husbands do when they ’re huffy at their wife
9.And this very non-confrontational grandma who let cookies do the talking for her:
My momma slay a new level of midwestern United States inactive aggressive . She made a whole spate of frowny cookie and read " they ’re sad because their kids do n’t call enough . "
10.This boss who could have called a meeting, but instead Michael Scott’d it:
11.This person, who found a very non-confrontational way to tell people to pick up after their dogs:
12.And this Alaskan, who expressed their anger against the lower 48 by hanging this map:
13.This popcorn company that tried to cut off any calls to their complaints line with a deliciously passive aggressive “clearly”:
14.This company that did the same thing while sounding like a total asshole:
15.Popeye’s, anticipating complaints with this posted note:
16.Nintendo, sounding like a disappointed parent:
17.And Duolingo — the reigning champion of passive aggressive messages — that sent this guilt + shame combo:
18.This person, who didn’t want to confront a chronic bad parker, but DID leave this snarky message:
19.This person who got biblical with their annoying parker:
20.And this person who used a very sincere “Thank you!!!” to voice their unhappiness:
21.This driver who does NOT want you to honk at them for driving too slow, hence:
22.This professor who was fed up with his TA being more popular than him:
4 year ago today I got fed up of my TA being more popular than me and always being ask where she was . So I stuck this passive aggressive flow chart to my classroom doorway .
23.These guitar store employees who didn’t want to have any awkward “can you stop playing that?” convos:
24.And these gym employees who didn’t want to have any face-to-face “please re-rack your weights” talks:
A passive aggressive etiquette reminder in my gymnasium
( The Chinese is different , just says " please return equipment to original location " )
25.This home owner who hanged this to avoid the “well, time to go” chat:
26.And literally anyone who has ever gifted this book to someone:
The sodding passive fast-growing Christmas present
H/T:r/passiveaggressive
Twitter: @HannahPilkes
