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To ask you for stories of passive aggressive things people have said to you?

45 replies

HexagonalQueenOfTheSummer · 19/03/2012 14:41

Funniest with me was from a 'frenemy' who said to me one day: 'Are you ok?' Me: 'Yes I'm fine thanks' Her 'Oh I'm so glad you're ok, I haven't seen you with dark circles like that under your eyes before' Me 'Well you must have done as I always look like this' Her 'Oh I wish I could be like you and go out looking less than perfect'

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HexagonalQueenOfTheSummer · 19/03/2012 14:41

She also told me my hair looked 'interesting' when I'd had it cut and highlighted once.

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Technoviking · 19/03/2012 14:42

Pretty much everything my ex said.
Best was "you're only here because I decide when you leave, not you". Hmm, ok then.

CailinDana · 19/03/2012 14:43

MIL is queen of ridiculous PA.

She HATES the fact that I don't buy kitchen roll and end up using loo roll in the kitchen. She has said at least fifteen times "Oh isn't loo roll great, the good old loo roll, loo roll is so useful." To listen to her you'd think she has some weird loo roll obsession!

nightowlmostly · 19/03/2012 14:45

I bumped into an old colleague, who (in the space of about ten minutes) said, "oh, how old are you now? You must be getting on, you were mid twenties when we worked together, how long ago was that? Quite a while..." and "well, you were much thinner when we worked together, weren't you? I remember, you always looked so skinny".

I was too shocked to say anything, she manages to come out with these things with such a way that you don't really notice what she's said until after!

buttonmoon78 · 19/03/2012 14:46

'I wish I could stop worrying about what I ate, it must be sooo liberating buttonmoon'

I am indeed a stone --or three- overweight but I will at least never be killed because of the utter jellyfishness of my comments Grin

buttonmoon78 · 19/03/2012 14:47

or three damn you!

lesley33 · 19/03/2012 14:47

"I wish I was like you and didn't worry so much about what I looked like." Shock

nobodyspecial · 19/03/2012 14:52

When I was pregnant my friend (don't talk much anymore!) told me she couldn't wait to see me go fat so she could go out with me and look thin...she also used to phone me when I gave up my job and when I'd answer she would always say "sleeping again? Doing nothing again?" when she knew I had a 2.5 year old at home - you can hardly sleep or do nothing with a toddler in the house!

I don't know if that's passive aggressiveness or just plain rude.

ifherbumwereabungalow · 19/03/2012 14:53

School Gate Mum: Your hair looks great today.
Me: Thanks, to be honest I just scraped it up out of the way because I didn't have time to straighten it.
SGM: Oh, it looks much better than when you straighten it.
Me: Hnnuhgrrr?!

TwoPeasOnePod · 19/03/2012 14:54

"Do you think your hands age you?" - out of the blue comment from a lifelong friend whilst staring at my horrible dry cracked lumpy hands Hmm Thanks for bringing that to my attention, dear friend Grin I'm only bloody 25 Grin

Steffi90 · 19/03/2012 15:04

Guy who has feelings for the me the other day who said he didn't mean it like that but it came out as such: "You always say I am shallow and only go by looks but if I was like that I wouldn't be so interested in you, would I?" :o

I just said I wish he wasn't, to be fair. Angry

Calabria · 19/03/2012 15:20

"Oh! You've coloured your hair. That's brave". HmmConfused

YonWhaleFish · 19/03/2012 15:26

MIL asked if I had had chicken pox recently. Despite knowing I hadn't.

I suffer from acne and had some bad ones on one cheek.

Clytaemnestra · 19/03/2012 15:29

"You know, everyone says you're a real bitch, but I think you're really nice!"

Never worked out if she was monumentally PA or monumentally thick.

BagofHolly · 19/03/2012 15:39

Brother : "Holly, does my breath really stink of garlic?"

Me: "no."

Brother: "Good. Now you ask me."

Angry The cheeky little shit.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 19/03/2012 15:41

Fashion conscious mate.... 'Now... hmm.... what are we wearing today?"
Me... "I'm wearing a slobby old sweatshirt with stains. What are you wearing?"

atosilis · 19/03/2012 15:47

Work colleague: You're doing really well, you've picked it up very quickly, well done.

Me: Thank you

Work colleague: It'll still be a long time before you can do it unsupervised though.

Me: :(

catgirl1976 · 19/03/2012 15:50

Work colleague

"You look really good, well - considering you're like a decade older than me"

Same work colleague

"Oh I hate my flat bum, I wish I had your bum. Men say they like a really big squishy bum don't they?"

I fecking hate this woman

ViviPru · 19/03/2012 15:54

MiL is the PA Master.

On our beautiful, spacious rented home:

"Yes it's lovely. It'll be a shame be when you eventually buy again and you'll have to move somewhere much smaller."

WTF? Why would we buy somewhere smaller? We'll only ever buy when we've got the funds to purchase somewhere even bigger and better than here. Silly woman.

Sparklingbrook · 19/03/2012 16:04

Mum of a friends of Ds1 walks into my house where I live with DH and two DSs and says-

'Oooh I used to have a little house like this before I got married. Mine had a downstairs toilet though' Angry

DucketyDuckDuck · 19/03/2012 16:18

We are having alot of finance trouble at the moment - due to a set of horrible circumstances.

One of my SIL was explaining to me how she is paying someone to do her cleaning and said "you see thats how it works Duck, I earn money and then pay it out".

Bitch

SerendipitousHarlot · 19/03/2012 16:22

In the days when I used to actually speak to DP's exw....

Me - 'No, I'm not going out with him tonight, my roots need doing Grin '
Her - 'Yes - you need to keep yourself tip-top now you have a younger man...'

Hmm Grin

Sparklingbrook · 19/03/2012 16:22

Shock Duckety. Did you say anything or were you too shocked to speak. What a cow.

Megatron · 19/03/2012 16:22

From ex; 'you were always one of my favourites'. Oh OK then.

NotVictoriaBeckham · 19/03/2012 16:24

MIL (on more than one occasion): 'It would have been nice to speak to you this weekend. We waited for your call.'
Errr, why didn't you pick up the phone and call us then? gets out violin