Petty for your thoughts? Passive aggressive messages take pedantry to a whole new level
It’s inevitable in life that people will annoy you, but why communicate what irks you in a honest and mature way when you can write up a good old-fashioned passive aggressive note?
From Nashville and Melbourne to London and Leeds, Yahoo! Finance has collated a gallery of hilarious messages from disgruntled people who really wanted to convey how annoyed they were, but did not want to escalate things to a full-on confrontation.
One restaurant manager left a note to customers saying that if they were not happy with the wait time at their establishment, they could apply for a job to help the short-staffed team.
Elsewhere, a university lecturer sent an email to a chronically late student to ‘congratulate’ them on beating their own record for tardiness.
And another shared a very passive-aggressive message from the language app Duolingo, which is famed for the petty reminders it sends to users who skip their lessons.
From Popeyes restaurants in the US to Leeds, Yahoo! Finance has collated a gallery of hilarious passive-aggressive messages from disgruntled people. In London, someone left a note calling picking up after someone’s dog ‘free yoga’
A manager at the Louisianan restaurant chain Popeyes told customers that if they were not happy with the wait time at their establishment, they could apply for a job to help the short-staffed team
After a car failed to park in the correct bay, an angry passer-by drew new lines on each side of the parking spot
In Hawaii, a landlord ‘thanked’ his tenants for using a planter in front of the house as an ashtray.
In Nashville, a disgruntled mother used ‘sad’ cookies to guilt her children into visiting her more.
Meanwhile, several wives and husbands and even housemates showed the passive aggressive texts they sent to each other regarding housework and doing the dishes.
For more petty and passive-aggressive messages that will leave you in stitches, scroll down!
A shop selling guitars in Leeds was so fed up with hearing some people play the same songs again and again that they put a sign to ban them from being played
The language learning app Duolingo leaves passive aggressive reminds for users who skip their lessons
In the US, a driver wanted to make it known that they were better at following speed restrictions than others
A company went as far as slipping a passive-aggressive note in this safety warning on a package
After witnessing their neighbour smoke in the stairwell, someone went through the trouble of collecting them to make a point
A disgruntled housemate left a fed up note about washing up after the people they live with failed to clean up after themselves
A petty husband in Alberta incorrectly filled up the dishwasher to get back at their wife after they had a row
A wife in Melbourne took a picture of a bit of egg her husband left on the floor after their breakfast and sent it to him instead of cleaning it up
A mother used cookies as a passive-aggressive way to let her kids from Nashville know she would like them to visit more often
Could there be a not-so-hidden message in this manager who recommended a pointed book to their employee?
Somewhere else, a university lecturer sent an email to a chronically late student to ‘congratulate’ them on beating their own record for tardiness
A landlord managed to get under their tenant’s skin by only replying using emojis after they requested shelves
A girlfriend bought this rug to let all visitors know what she thinks about her boyfriend’s lack of proposal
A landlord in Hawaii left a note in a planter to stop people from putting cigarette ash in it and signed it with ‘mahalo,’ which means ‘thank you’
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