Like any good neighborhood news site, CHS has a (not so) proud history of passive aggressive note posts. Some get to be a bigger deal than others. They’re easy pickings so we try to, um, raise the bar to bring you only the more notable examples of the species. This one qualifies because it’s a classic of the “passive aggressive note responding to a passive aggressive note” genre. And it’s on cardboard. Pictures from only-partly-responsible party Kevin direct from I-5 Shores, below.
Note 1:
Note 2:
“PS ASSHOLE < Sorry the Handicap Card had fallen down. Who's the POS Now???"
At least nobody got towed.
Such a bunch of pussies in this city, I tell ya.
Not a fan of notes, but when someone is a parking dick, do you have to waste your afternoon waiting for them to come back? Is it acceptable to leave a note if you leave contact information? There are a lot of selfish, stroller-pushing dipshits in this town. What’s the best way to communicate with them?
So says the pussy posting anonymously on a blog.
People need to look up “passive-aggressive” in the dictionary. This case is pretty much just plain old aggression. I’m sure that if these people confronted each other in person, they would be just as aggressive. Passive aggression is acting like everything’s okay but using indirect means to use aggression. I’d say this is pretty direct! (Not saying that the homeowners aren’t PA towards the renters… I’ve experienced that… An increasing phenomenon on Capitol Hill with the new high-end condos!)
I don’t find the first note to be passive-aggressive, but the second is definitely over-bitchy. If I were handicapped, I think I’d appreciate someone going to bat for me if someone (seemingly) had illegally parked in a HC spot. (I’m only speculating of course, since I’m not disabled). Wouldn’t just parking there again and displaying your parking permit clearly, have made a more eloquent point? Or another note, “thank you for sticking up for me, my placard had fallen down” ?
this is ridiculous… but yeah, not passive aggressive.
I was legally parked in a handicapped spot at Safeway, to pick up medication, and got a nasty note. Apparently I don’t look handicapped enough :p Bitch didn’t even have the balls to confront me face-to-face, just threatened contacting “the authorities” next time. Wish she had, so they’d rip her a new one!
Where’s that? I think you mean Summit Slope.
look at your profile :)
People OWN in that Vegas-looking new-construction eyesore at Bellevue/Bellevue/Bellevue? Goodness.
… it’s being a huge douchebag in the process that pushes this over the line. A note that said something like: “hey, this is a handicapped parking spot, please don’t park here” would have been infinitely better for a first warning.
Yeah, not caring to actually wait and be all manly with pumped up douchy bravado is a sign of weakness yeah? These guys were assholes, but this blanket characterization of Seattle from people who are from “tougher” cities is just straight up stupid.
I don’t see what’s wrong with leaving a note (In this instance both were sort of assholes) stating something. For example, if there is someone who has left their car parked in a bike lane or is taking up two spots, leaving a note saying something along the lines of “hey, this is a street. You can’t park here. Just a heads up” or “hey, you are double parked, for future reference” is better than being “brave” and smashing their windows or punching them or something.
Just because Seattleites usually have the common sense to avoid putting themselves in a stupid situation that could eventually erupt into unnecessary violence doesn’t make us anything more than people who have thought situations through. Wow, novel concept.
While we are on the topic, we aren’t passive agressive. We just don’t see what the point of bothering strangers on the street, bus, what have you would be. I don’t smile at you on the street, sorry. I just don’t care. I don’t casually chat at the bus stop. Maybe I don’t want to chat? I don’t hit on you at a bar/on the bus/at a coffee shop/grocery shopping. Maybe I realize that there is such a thing as personal space and maybe you don’t want men en masse gathering around you. This is the mentality of many people who are from here (or Scandanavia). We just realize that people have their own universe. We aren’t going to enter that universe unless invited. You want Seattleites to be more forward, maybe try being forward yourself.
At least it’s not the typical east coast (Yes, I said something that wasn’t praise for the east coast. Oops.) “I want what I want and I want it now no matter what because I am the most important being in the universe” mentality.
Ughhhh….ranting over. Carry on.
Newsflash: if you’re defending this kind of action, you’re the problem. Sack up and quit being so soft.
Oh, yes!! That means you.
So says the sack posting the tough guy talk on a blog.
I live across the street from this building. I don’t know of any handicap parking spots within a 10 block radius. It’s all street parking, up for grabs.
Do they have a parking garage? Maybe in there? cause yeah, there’s no handicapped parking anywhere around where that sign was.
what he said
Oh yes, I am the biggest pussy in Seattle. Oh yes, you are! Ha ha…classic.
I think that was the point, wasn’t it? The car was in a designated HC spot on/in that bldg’s lot, and the person who parked had a placard that had fallen down, and wasn’t visible to the person who left the note.
Firstly, “passive-aggressive” is excessively misused term and that is really annoying. A note, in and of itself, is not passive-aggressive. The contents of the note dictate that. The note is simply a medium used when the writer doesn’t want to spend time dealing with the audience in person. For whatever reason.
Secondly, notes totally work. How pissed are you when you receive a note?
Thirdly, Pete’s right. The note’s content and tone is annoying and better served to be “This is a handicap stall. Please make sure your card is visible or it will be towed” would have worked better.
Fourthly, Jomama say waht?
These notes aren’t passive aggressive at all. They’re straightforward messages to one intended, unknown recipient. Nothing passive about these.
A passive aggressive note is more indirect. Read a book sometime.
I think these days it’s actually called WeBro.
Whoever wrote the first note is right.
You see people parking in handicapped spots and then roll their fat asses out and say something like “I’ll just be a minute” Everyone is so important. There are people that need those spots that have legitimate issues.
The second note on the cardboard is childish, you got busted, although perhaps harshly, but seriously? The people living in the building are passive aggressive dicks? Sounds like you got caught with your pants or permit down, and based on your response, you didn’t have a permit.
I’m with whoever wrote that note, you are a bad person who didn’t care about the place they were renting in, sounds like the “homeowners” do.
… is just like being on the internet.
Somehow being anonymous gives people the license to be assholes.
The simpler solution…
Note 1: Please do not park in handicapped stall. Next time I will have you towed.
Note 2: Sorry but hc placard fell down. Thanks for looking out for me.
Also, my vote… NOT passive aggressive. Just assholery.
Love that term…”assholery”. Good one, umvue.
I seriously doubt that the person’s handicapped placard had “fallen down.” (I use one at times as part of a volunteer driver job I have). Once you affix the placard to the rear-view mirror, it is securely in place, and it would just not be possible to fall off on its own.
Of course it is not OK to park in a disabled spot if you’re not authorized to do so, but it’s also true that some people who have a permit can be very aggressive/self-righteous when they think their rights have been violated…
A few years ago, there was a woman near where I live who was storing her RV in a disabled spot (on the street) for months at a time, without ever using it….this was legal, because those with a permit are exempt from the 72-hour maximum parking rule (unfortunately). I decided to leave a note on her windshield, asking her politely to move her vehicle occasionally so that other disabled people might have access to the spot from time to time. In return, she left me a nasty note, referring me to the ADA legislation and threatening to sue me if I persisted. She clearly thought the spot was her personal parking space.
I think those with disabled permits should be subject to the 72-hour rule rule, just like everyone else.
Where do you live? Just wondering.
uhhh no. direct would be to someone’s face, not to a piece of paper.
oiseau:
Your post cracks me up. You are EXACTLY who those of us from other cities are referring to when we talk about Seattleites being passive and oh yes a great many of you lack common sense! You may be highly educated but being highly educated does not equal common sense especially not in this town. Yes of course I’m from the east coast (thanks for your blanket characterization of us btw) and what we really want is for some Seattleites to learn how to drive and to acquire just a little common sense, you’d be amazed at how far it gets you! (PS: I know that Seattle driving skills have nothing to do with this article but I figured since everyone else was ranting – hey why not?)
No need to respond, I never read this blog and just came across this article so you just stay in your safe little universe and have a great day!
Hey “yr mom”, where do you suggest we meet so that I can tell you that you’re a dipshit directly to your face?
Now THAT is how you do passive aggression.
Only Seattleaites would ever defend and try and find a logical reason for their passive aggressiveness…anyone else would just go talk to the person..face to face. wow what a concept.