To think a doormat with "WIPE YOUR FEET!" written on it outside your front door is...

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PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE, RUDE and uninviting?

I think it is and can't believe things like that are made and people actually buy them. Horrible.

Surely a passive aggressive doormat would read

don't worry about wiping your feet, it really doesn't matter, it's only my house, it doesn't matter if you trample mud through it, don't mind about me...

My BIL bought a house that had a comedy musical doorbell.

It played "Glory, glory hallelujah" - (not in UK).

That was a bit offensive because we aren't religious.

YOU CAN PUT IT ON YOUR ROSES. Haha! But yeah, yabu - don't think a doormat can be rude really.

It says:

WIPE YOUR FEET!

(With capital letters and the exclamation mark for added shouty rudeness)

If it said:

Please wipe your feet :)

Then I wouldn't have felt it was rude

And I agree with Hecate - that's a forthright and up-front doormat you have described OP.

So would that make the 'wipe your feet' door mat aggressive aggressive and not passive aggressive?

Hecate.........:o

Maybe it was bought deliberately because YOU THE OP, didn't wipe your feet last time you were there.
Maybe it is all about YOU!

Not PA jus A at YOU!

Why is it passive aggressive? It's just telling you to wipe your feet, which is what most normal people do with a doormat... isn't it?

drink I might have known you'd like the linked doormat. We should get one for MTM

Passive aggressive is running round the house after people wiping the carpet whilst saying, 'No no, I don't mind your shoes. Please keep them on. We don't mind a bit of mud round here, no we don't.'

It's like those signs in loos, 'Now wash your hands'. Sounds patronising but I'm guessing there are people who had to be told.

WIPE YOUR FEET. There speaks people who are dealing with the sort of people who had to be told to wash their hands in public loos.

If it needs saying then at least say it straight.

I like this one

If you see it as less of an order from the homeowner and more of an invitation from the doormat, it's actually quite polite!

"Wipe your feet" could be aimed at their children? It would be at my house!

Isn't it quite passive aggressive to be talking about this behind the back of the person who owns the mat? Why not just tell them that you think their mat is rude? Let them explain it to you (I would guess they haven't though about it deeply/at all or its aimed at children rushing in en mass with muddy feet). The mat itself as everyone else says is not passive aggressive at all.

I don't think it is healthy to get too wound up by a doormat op

chemenger I did say it to them.

What did they say back?

I was asked "but have you wiped your feet?" , then we had a giggle.

Next time you go round there put boiled beetroot in your back jeans' pockets and when you get in flump onto the sofa, hold your feet up and declare 'I wiped my feet! Look!'

It's the only way these frightfully dreadful people will learn.

'Passive aggressive'? How can a doormat sabotage your plans through inaction? Is it because they just lie there?

Or is this yet another example of someone using a phrase that they don't understand the meaning of?

God, really? I bet you're one of those people who would keep your shoes on just because you don't agree with removing them as well, aren't you.

It never ceases to amaze me what some people choose to be offended by.

Hec - I like yours though.

Pisci - that link reminded me of a sign I saw on an Aussie property once that said "Trespassers can FUCK OFF!"

Oops, forgot - YABU.

They actually sound fun.

Perhaps it is in case you have never seen one before and don't know how it works.