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post #1 of 41
6/8/07 at 2:53pm
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A brilliant collection of passive aggressive stories:

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/

Good for work, although don't be suprised if you get an email, cc'd to all, saying that you shouldn't surf the web while at work
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post #2 of 41
6/10/07 at 4:50am
I f**king hate passive aggressiveness. Thanks for this, I will read every last word.
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post #3 of 41
6/10/07 at 4:58am
I once got a note stuck to my windshield. At first, I thought it was some ticket; however, it turned out it was a badly penned, judiciously illiterate note (on notepaper stolen from a realtor's office) informing me that would you please park within the lines? If not, you are making it very--I repeat--very difficult for people with wheelchairs. Well, my space was next to one of those cross-hatch walking spaces and there was a disabled space across. I had parked about 4 inches into the cross-hatch section and this monstrous and hideous dung-brown '80s van with one of those mechanical wheelchair contraptions was parked in there. I can't conceivably imagine how difficult it was to get out of one's little mechanical ramp onto a spacious walking space. Perhaps she was unnecessarily obese.
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post #4 of 41
6/10/07 at 2:07pm
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Originally Posted by LabelKing View Post
I once got a note stuck to my windshield. At first, I thought it was some ticket; however, it turned out it was a badly penned, judiciously illiterate note (on notepaper stolen from a realtor's office) informing me that would you please park within the lines? If not, you are making it very--I repeat--very difficult for people with wheelchairs.

Well, my space was next to one of those cross-hatch walking spaces and there was a disabled space across. I had parked about 4 inches into the cross-hatch section and this monstrous and hideous dung-brown '80s van with one of those mechanical wheelchair contraptions was parked in there. I can't conceivably imagine how difficult it was to get out of one's little mechanical ramp onto a spacious walking space.

Perhaps she was unnecessarily obese.

Your description of the van is so passive-agressive.
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post #5 of 41
6/10/07 at 7:55pm
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Originally Posted by LabelKing View Post
I once got a note stuck to my windshield. At first, I thought it was some ticket; however, it turned out it was a badly penned, judiciously illiterate note (on notepaper stolen from a realtor's office) informing me that would you please park within the lines? If not, you are making it very--I repeat--very difficult for people with wheelchairs. Well, my space was next to one of those cross-hatch walking spaces and there was a disabled space across. I had parked about 4 inches into the cross-hatch section and this monstrous and hideous dung-brown '80s van with one of those mechanical wheelchair contraptions was parked in there. I can't conceivably imagine how difficult it was to get out of one's little mechanical ramp onto a spacious walking space. Perhaps she was unnecessarily obese.
You are lucky you didn't get a $300 ticket (assuming this was CA). A relative of mine got one for less than 1" of her tire going over the line while she went to the bank to make a desposit.
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post #6 of 41
6/10/07 at 8:04pm
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Originally Posted by tiecollector View Post
You are lucky you didn't get a $300 ticket (assuming this was CA). A relative of mine got one for less than 1" of her tire going over the line while she went to the bank to make a desposit.
Traffic fines in CA are blown hideously out of proportion. A friend of mine got a $300+ ticket for jaywalking in Pasadena.
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post #7 of 41
6/10/07 at 8:09pm
I got a handicapped ticket 4 years ago because I went to my friend's apartment complex and he wasn't waiting for me like he said he would so I parked in a handicap for less than a minute, just enough time for a cop to pull up behind me. I was shocked that they were patrolling PRIVATE property in the middle of nowhere, there were farm fields on 3 sides of the complex. Next time, double park, the fine is only 35 bucks. Keeping in with the theme of the thread, I called the cop a metermaid with a gun, was that passive aggressive?
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post #8 of 41
6/10/07 at 9:45pm
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Originally Posted by LabelKing View Post
I can't conceivably imagine how difficult it was to get out of one's little mechanical ramp onto a spacious walking space.


I think that might have been the authors point.

It could have been worse you know. You could have got your car keyed.
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post #9 of 41
6/10/07 at 10:13pm
Lots of the things in that link to me didn't seem passive aggressive. When I think of passive aggressive, I think of a waiter peeing in the soup of an obnoxious customer, or someone pouring a cup of bleach in another's washer in the student laundromat -- things that get revenge but don't necessarily call out who did it or why.
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post #10 of 41
6/10/07 at 10:27pm
Can a note really be all that passive aggressive? Maybe sarcastic, but they address the problem pretty directly. I guess a note could be passive aggressive if you accidentally leave a note out that says something like "Pick up paternity test for Fred" while at his parent's house. Oops, how'd that get there?
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post #11 of 41
6/11/07 at 10:47am
I guess I missed the point. Thought it was the website's passive-agressive take on the notes that was funny.
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post #12 of 41
6/11/07 at 5:31pm
Many would be surprised at how often people adjust their own size or choose their clothing for passive-aggressive purposes.
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post #13 of 41
6/11/07 at 5:33pm
I am just not going to respond to any of this.
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post #14 of 41
6/11/07 at 5:33pm
The most recent example of passive-aggressiveness is David Chase's last episode of The Sopranos. Seems he resented our addiction to his show so he gave us a nothing ending, but could claim he gave us something.
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post #15 of 41
6/11/07 at 8:39pm
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Originally Posted by redcaimen View Post
I think that might have been the authors point.

It could have been worse you know. You could have got your car keyed.

I prefer aggressive aggressive. So much more cathartic.
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