I used to blast music at 1am until my roommate left a note that just said 'I have a 6am shift'
Saw that sticky note on the fridge 3 months ago and now I keep headphones on after 10pm, which fixed like 90% of our fights. Anyone else have a roommate who communicated a whole argument through one sentence on a Post-it?
Why does everyone act like the sticky note is some genius move? A note on the fridge is the easy way out. Your roommate got lucky that you're a decent person who took the hint, but plenty of people would've just ignored it or gotten more annoyed. A real talk takes five minutes and actually solves the problem instead of leaving you to guess the tone. For all you knew, that note could've been passive aggressive or a joke, and you spent three months assuming the best case. What happens next time there's an issue and nobody wants to say it out loud? You end up with a fridge full of notes and two people who never learned how to talk to each other.