Ebook162 pages1 minute
Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings
By Kerry Miller
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
About this ebook
“A deliriously funny collection” of angry messages and smiley faces (Davy Rothbart, editor of Found Magazine and NPR contributor).
You are welcome to contribute if you are enjoying the special blend coffee in Marketing on a regular basis.
Thank you—
The Marketing Department
Part voyeuristic entertainment, part group therapy, Passive Aggressive Notes offers a fascinating look at the all-too-familiar frustrations of embattled office drones, apartment dwellers, parents, and pet owners everywhere.
This curated collection combines dozens of outrageous, never-before-seen notes as well as favorites from the Webby Award-winning site that was named “Best Blog” at the SXSW Interactive festival.
You are welcome to contribute if you are enjoying the special blend coffee in Marketing on a regular basis.
Thank you—
The Marketing Department
Part voyeuristic entertainment, part group therapy, Passive Aggressive Notes offers a fascinating look at the all-too-familiar frustrations of embattled office drones, apartment dwellers, parents, and pet owners everywhere.
This curated collection combines dozens of outrageous, never-before-seen notes as well as favorites from the Webby Award-winning site that was named “Best Blog” at the SXSW Interactive festival.
Related to Passive Aggressive Notes
Related ebooks
The Dog Listener: Learn How to Communicate with Your Dog for Willing Cooperation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Your Canine Soul Mate: How to Choose a Dog Based on Personality Types Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeart and Brain: Gut Instincts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Parenting Advice to Ignore in Art and Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWife No. 19 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stay Out of the Woods: Strange Encounters, Volume 9: Stay Out of the Woods, #9 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLake Monsters: Strange Encounters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings52 Fantastic Dates for You and Your Mate Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDog Training Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWendigo Woods: Antlers in the Mist: Wendigo Woods, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurviving Other People's Self-Esteem: The Lengths Some People Go to Just to Feel Better Than Others Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Choose To Be a Lady: Basic Life Lessons for Our Daughters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTheory of the Eldest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHave You Heard the One About . . .: More Than 500 Side-Splitting Jokes! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Doctor's Death Diagnosis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poodle in the Puddle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThat Mother-in-Law of Mine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat’s Jesus Have to Do With Santa? A Concise History of where Santa Came From Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWheels of Wisdom: Life Lessons for the Restless Spirit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stay Out of the Woods: Strange Encounters, Volume 2: Stay Out of the Woods, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBelieve Me The Story of a Narcissist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You're Still Not Crazy: You May Be An Empath Dealing With A Narcissist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFifty Shades of Grey - True or False?: GWhizBooks.com Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Many Faces of The Same Woman? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to My People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeaven: God's Challenges Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Legacy of Faith: From Mother to Daughter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStay Out of the Woods: Strange Encounters, Volume 8: Stay Out of the Woods, #8 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Live with Bipolar Disorder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Humor & Satire For You
The Screwtape Letters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Swamp Story: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love and Other Words Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5101 Fun Personality Quizzes: Who Are You . . . Really?! Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best F*cking Activity Book Ever: Irreverent (and Slightly Vulgar) Activities for Adults Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Anxious People: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mindful As F*ck: 100 Simple Exercises to Let That Sh*t Go! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Big Swiss: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Go the F**k to Sleep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Soulmate Equation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tidy the F*ck Up: The American Art of Organizing Your Sh*t Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Favorite Half-Night Stand Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In a Holidaze Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Solutions and Other Problems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Passive Aggressive Notes
Rating: 3.5647059199999998 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
85 ratings8 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is really funny, and I completely understand the motivation that one might have for writing the notes....
I especially liked the one left on the restaurant tab tip line: "Boo You Fail". I have a better one, that I just might use myself: Good service earns a gratuity, poor service does not.....
I also liked the one left by "Vermin Inc" how a dirty kitchen helps them to multiply & attracts more types of unwanted visitors!
This books says quite a bit about "social commentary" in regards to how people deal with problems that could have a backlash response. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SO funny! I love the blog and the book is basically the blog in written form.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very funny examples if the kinds of notes coworkers, roommates, and family members leave for others. Not all of them are necessarily passive aggressive in my book, just a way to let multiple people know the same thing, but most are really funny, some laugh-out-loud hilarious. Near the end the notes became similar so I felt I was rereading the book but overall it was very enjoyable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Exactly what the cover advertises. Most of the notes contained within are cringingly funny. All of them could have been, and maybe were, written my my mother. This book will convince you to scrape by without a roommate, even if you have to burn the furniture to heat your house this winter. Worth a look.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Have you ever vented your pent-up irritation through the time-honoured medium of The Note? Perhaps you've been on the receiving end of one yourself? Yeah, well, so have these guys. With the book's banner reading 'Warning: Contains sugarcoated anger' it basically does what it says on the tin. This is a glossy collection of notes, alternately begging and angry, threatening and sugary, but all out to make a point. There are some from the workplace, some from student flats, and some from shared apartment buildings. Some are hilariously clever, some are downright venomous. Aside from the brilliant ketchup note and possessive sandwich fiend on the cover, here are a few of my favourites:> "This party would be way better if this music DIDN'T F**KING SUCK. xox"> "Is there some Great-God of unwashed plates? Whom we must appease by building statues in his honour every day? Just a thought."> (on vending machine) "This machine is like a box of chocolates! You never know what you'll get! (For Diet Pepsi, push Mountain Dew. For Brisk Tea push Mountain Dew.) Still haven't found the Mountain Dew."> "STOP eating my soup! I know who you are. I'm watching you. I mixed a little Oxy Powder in my soup today. Care to find out what that is?? Try a bite..."I think Dylan Moran summed it up pretty well in his stand-up show, talking about a particularly anal note-leaver in his student digs: "I used to leave a few notes for Tina myself. 'Dear Tina, eeeeeeverybody hates you.'" This would make a great novelty gift or toilet book - read it and cringe, people, read it and cringe!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In yet another blog-turned-book move, Passive Aggressive Notes pulls entries to the website passiveagressivenotes.com as well as never-before-seen notes submitted to website owner/author Kerry Miller. Miller explains in the introduction to the book that while on a first date, the topic of passive-aggressive notes left between roommates came up. Miller quipped that she should collect these notes -- and later decided this was a good idea. The idea quickly caught on as others began submitting passive-aggressive notes they had received or seen for inclusion on the website Miller created. The book includes a fair share of angry roommates, office co-workers, and co-tenants ranting on anything from unwashed dishes, unflushed toilets, loud noises at inappropriate hours, stolen food, opened mail, and so on. Some notes even caused reactionary notes, which add to the absurdity of the situation.While the collection is certainly humorous, there's a fair amount of the “this is funny because it's true, but it's also sad because it's true” (in quotes because this is what my dad says about The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) feeling when reading this book. True, as the author says in the introduction, "the split between what is said and what is understood is what passive aggression so 'uniquely crazy-making,' and I think this contradictory quality is also what makes the written evidence of this behavior so compelling. Taken together, these notes are a revealing trip through our collective neurosis." Yes, there's a fair amount of criticism to be said about the passive-aggressive note writers who feel they cannot directly confront their offenders, but I think I'm more turned off by the ridiculous numbers of people who clearly never learned how to clean up after themselves or show a modicum of respect for other human beings. But perhaps that's just my passive-aggressiveness coming across in this review. :) To sum up, this is an amusing collection of absurd little notes written about offensive, but ultimately mundane, ticks. But if you start thinking about it too hard like me, you might find yourself shaking your head in disgusted wonder as much as laughing out loud.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While not the typical "Ulysses" fare I peruse, sometimes "Ulysses" fare can drive one to want to repeatedly flush one's head into the toilet. And speaking of toilets, that's where books like this come in handy. No, not in the emergency situation where you may find your roommate has left you with half a square of Charmin on the roll after you've had a long night drinking Milk Stout and you can therefore use the pages of the book to aggravate that nasty case of hemorrhoids. No. A book like this comes in handy because it's light reading, it's funny, and if you've never written a "Passive-Aggressive Note" then you've probably received one. If you've experienced neither, then refer to the note you'll write to your roommate about the Charmin . . . or lack thereof.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I thought this one would be funnier. Some were funny and others just lame.
Book preview
Passive Aggressive Notes - Kerry Miller
we book_preview_excerpt.html
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1