Infinitesimal Passive Aggressive acts...

[FridayNightFever]

I have a few little tiny things that give me a little bit of glee in a slightly passive aggressive way...

For eg... We have some nice cutlery and some not quite so nice. When giving it out at dinner time, I will give the slightly less nice stuff to the person in my family who has annoyed me the most. I'm almost certain nobody has a clue (the differences between nice/not nice are tiny) but I get quiet satisfaction from doing this.

When sending an email to colleagues, I'll add them in the 'To' box in the order of current favourite to least. Again, I'm certain they won't notice but it gives me a little bit of pass agg joy.

Does anyone else do things like this?

Hope you live in a soft water area or else you’re getting all the limescale floaters in your freshly boiled cup whereas your irritating guest gets a crunch-free cuppa.

Get a glass kettle and you'll see what I mean.

Fortunately I do live in a soft water area, so I'm hoping that the infinitesimal disadvantage will be with the target of my passive aggression, not with me. It would be awful to think that for all these years I have been infinitesimally hoisted by my own passive aggressive petard.

Thanks too for your warning, @Babygirl166 , about the possibly positive effects of slightly cooled water. I think, though I'm not sure, that these only apply in the case of very posh and delicate teas, rather than with bog standard teabags. But your point is noted, and henceforth I will ensure that if I am using posh tea as my passive aggressive weapon of choice I will put the water in my target's cup first, so that their brew is imperceptibly scalded and imperfect.

It's hard work this infinitesimal passive aggression, isn't it. I might just resort to being nice. For simplicity's sake.

I'm pretty much always last on email lists/ group messages - but I'm also alphabetically last so now I can't work out if it is just that or because I'm really annoying!

Yes, I'm very much second guessing the email thing now. And I've never actually looked at my place in the order either...

I have a colleague who is a complete PITA. He irrationally hates the colour green. Whenever I have a face to face meeting that he’ll be at I try and remember to wear my brightest green top. I am most certainly not bitter, just getting a bit of quiet satisfaction that there are some things he can’t try and control. Oh and I suit green and have quite a bit of it in my wardrobe so might as well use it.

I assume the person behind you in the queue has pissed you off in some way and this is your PA revenge?

What objective does making deliberate mistakes on the self-checkout achieve?

The whole point of the thread is that you're exacting light-hearted revenge on someone who's irritated a bit you so if you're just doing it for your own amusement then

I class these acts as self care, like eating lots of vegetables or getting a good nights sleep.
Just think if someone annoys you it raises your cortisol levels which is very bad for your health. By carrying out these minor acts it dissipates the annoyance and your cortisol levels drop.
Just call me doctor Liz 🧑‍⚕️

Exactly Dr Liz.

We should all prescribe ourselves such small acts of pettiness daily- it will be fantastic for our health.

It definitely helps me!

I used to work with someone who told me her mother didn't approve of her second marriage so although she did attend she refused to wash her face on the morning of the wedding. Bonkers.

Oooh yeah, I do petty revenge with mugs too. DS1 likes Messi and DS2 likes Ronaldo so if I want to annoy them then I give them the wrong mug. I also use a pokey, little mug to make DH a hot drink if he's annoyed me which he can't really moan about if I've made him a drink.

I had an old friend who upset me greatly, long story, but involved her ghosting me for years. All the while she was still lurking in some WhatsApp chat groups. She came back from the dead and started posting lots, but in a kind of authoritative queen bee way, organising and booking things, it really pissed me off. I changed her contact name to a silly pun on her name, it wasn't offensive but just dumb. From them on every time she posted something it just looked stupid beside the name, it gave me so much pleasure and took away the anger. Eventually I changed it back to her real name.

Next year when the card from the person who has been cruel to you arrives, instead of telling the card it needs to be at the back, tell it that it needs to be in the bin - passive aggressive reminder of its nasty sender.

Very much a fan of The Bad Cutlery here!

I would put any greetings cards eg for birthday or Christmas with the ones from the nicest people in the most prominent positions.
Anyone who might have pissed me off at some point are placed elsewhere 😉
I would also give anyone who had annoyed me ( but I still was expected to send them a Christmas card so looking at auntie who shouted at me down the phone for no real reason ) the not so nice cheaper Christmas cards 😂
I would also make the nicer person a cup of tea with water that I had immediately boiled and the person who had irritated me would get water that had been sat there for slightly longer before pouring .
I would give nicer cutlery to the nicer person eg we have a couple of odd old teaspoons ( but who would notice anyway) almost imperceptible things that do no harm

If making a sandwich for someone who has offended me, the ketchup/mayo/brown sauce might be added in a S shape (for shithead); W for Wanker, I for idiot, basically whatever epithet fits the crime

I am stealing this one! genius

Ah, toothpaste chicken. We play that.