With an email from CoffeehouseNW barista Tim Roth. Personally I don’t see what Roth’s problem is. We paid for our double-tall-mochalattos. We should have gotten them exactly the way we wanted them and the barista should have known. We shouldn’t have to talk to him. Also, what’s wrong with writing a friendly note? After all, that’s the Portland standard.

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“SINCERELY:” DICKS

Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.

7 replies on “Portland Makes Passiveaggressivenotes.com”

  1. If people in Portland actually got the ovaries to say something kindly in person, they’d get their coffee right.
    This smug passive-aggressive stuff happens all of the time! On Twitter. On Blogs. And now on Coffee Cups.
    Pretty soon, people are going to train their dogs to arrange their poop to say, “You suck.”

  2. It’s like the ‘nice’ drivers who stop in the middle of the road to let someone cross – while no other drivers stop, so the person can’t cross anyway and everybody gets pissed. Dicks!

  3. Notes are cowardly, that’s what it is.

    Portland is cowardly enough. Have some balls, people appreciate it.

    That said, I left a passive-aggressive note for my roommates just today. Because the direct method hasn’t been working. Go figure.

  4. That’s cute. We could go back to the good old days, back when the preferred means of direct communication here in town was a baseball bat.

  5. Notes are cowardly, except if you don’t know who’s been stealing something out of an office fridge.

    I got stuck in a doctor’s office waiting room for over an hour past my appointment time, even though I showed up 15 minutes early.

    I complained to reception and to the executive assistant of the Kaiser specialty department verbally, then sent in a grievance.

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