To see some examples of Passive Aggressive tactic BINGO

[GeekLove]

I have seen a fair few in my time so here are some of mine

1. Dramatic Washing Up. To be done messily and splashily as possible preferably with deep breathing and sighing.

1. The Last Biscuit. "No OF COURSE you can have it. It's just a biscuit. I'm fine, fine, fine really I am."

1. The Passive Aggressive Bath. Might sound weird but highly effective if the only toilet in the house is in the bathroom. Most effective if you have guest that have just arrived or you are doing it near most people's bed time. Have a long bath and observe the squirming dance/irritation at not being able to do bedtime ablutions.

More effective still if doors are locked and guests have no keys and the kitchen sink isn't an option. On no account warn your guests about wanting to have a bath.

1. Dramatic Housework in general - Particularly if they have it in mind it should be YOUR job. Bonus points if they think that having a penis (or ID'ing as male) absolves you from housework EVER.

Employment of bombshell weasel phrase:

'I don't mind '

My gran is at Olympic level. Would you like to go to the Christmas Carol Service Gran?

I don't mind.

Oh I know you don't mind, but would you actually like that?

(confused face)

I don't mind dear if you want to go.

Yes gran but what I'm asking is do you WANT to go?

I DON'T MIND

Cue huffing throughout service followed by a year of moaning about it.

Nakatomi The perfume is indeed the loathesome Sunflowers
I could win an Oscar for my delight at said gift every year. (My delight is mostly anticipating the laugh DH and I have on the way home).
Wouldn't be Christmas without it.
China plates, you say? That's brilliant!

How about Passive Agressive Emptying of the Washing Machine, if it hasn't been emptied within 15 minutes of the beep?

Oh wait, that's me when I'm PMSing

Where is my whateveritis?
I don't know.
Did you put my whateveritis somewhere?
No.
Well, someone put my whateveritis somewhere.
I have no idea where YOUR whateveritis is, have you checked the specialcupboardforthewhateveritis?

Cue load and dramatic search .

Just asked DP and I'm apparently I'm the master of not being able to decide what to get for a takeaway:

Him :"Where do you want to go?"
Me: "Oh I don't mind, you choose."
Him: "Chinese?"
Me: "No"
Him: "Indian?"
Me: "No"
Him: "Fish and chips?"
Me: "No"
Him: "OK, why don't you just tell me where you want to go?"
Me: "I said it was up to you!"

And then we end up having a Chinese anyway.

Mightyducks

We have that in our family. Started with my mum winning a gift in a tombola and giving it to my aunty for Christmas. My aunty hated it and gave it back as a gift for my mum's birthday, who still hated it and gave it back to her for Christmas. It's been going on for years and nobody wants the bloody thing. The worst thing is, it's now involving three people as my mum tried to palm it off on someone else but they didn't like it either so it's been gifted back!

People addressing you through your children. Even when the children were little babies and clearly pre-talking

(Mine are adult but it used to happen)

"And did your Mummy put a vest/long socks/insert suitable item on you today?" - accompanied by a sly glance sideways to see if you are biting.

To be answered by passive aggressive backfiring, Salmotrutta. Awww, tell the auntie mummy can decide that herself, boobooboo.

Actually you see a lot of it on here:-

OP: "I'm worried my child might have X/Y/Z illness" or "My neighbour's seem to be running a crack den"

Poster: "And what did the GP say when you asked them?" or "And what did the Police say when you told them" - knowing full well the poster hasn't been to GP/phoned the Police...

neighbours - stray apostrophe!

And yes - that's what I used to do paxillin!

Passive aggressive gardening in our house.

Dh loves gardening. Reads books on it. Bores anyone who can't get away about it.

But makes it sound like a terrible chore so he can get away with doing his hobby all frigging weekend.

Same with baking bread.

Funny how the other 'chores' washing, washing up, cleaning are never as pressing.

Oh and the resulting passive aggressive bad back.

teejayem - I do the PA duvet throwing, DH is usually too busy snoring to notice.

My mum is queen of PA hovering. I myself enjoy a bit of angry cleaning, kills 2 birds, get a bit of housework done & work off my bad mood.

" To retaliate my mum makes some passive aggressive mince pies"
How do you keep track of the pa ones, do they go in a special box?

Champers4Pampers

Does your mum make the same noises the hoover does whilst PA hoovering? Mine does, it's hilarious. She does it directly in front of the TV as well, though she's stopped doing that ever since my dad said "We've only got a 32 inch telly and you've got a 34 inch arse!"

Passive Agressive Bed-making, if that counts?

Love that passive aggressive steam generator ironing whoooooosh! Just off to get mine set up now!

PA pet escapes. If in bed for too long the living room door would be "accidentally" left open for the dog to shoot upstairs and jump on the person in bed. If the dog didn't do that you could hear her encouraging the poor thing.
Followed by huffing up the stairs apparently in chase and shouting as loud as she could.

The Passive Aggressive Steam Generator Iron... Whooosssssssshhhhh, hisssssssss

^ that right there was my childhood. In . A .nutshell.

My mum does passive aggressive slow walking, she has a bad hip and gets annoyed with us for walking too fast for her and retaliates by walking extraaaaa slowllly and stopping to read planning notices and to look for ages in a boring shop window etc

How about PA visit arranging. As in whenever we try and arrange to go somewhere that would be his cup of tea he says "but I thought we would go see "insert random relative nor seen for ten plus years" or if he feels that might fail it's "but I was going to take you to (insert place he would never volunteer to attend normally).

DH "accidentally" lets the cats swarm around the house if he thinks I've gone to bed too early & "needs help to round them up" FFS - I'm always awake, reading, but it's a total PITA.

Sorry, I have another DW will ask questions she already knows the answer to.

ARRRRG! I don't mind! Practically my first BFs favourite phrase. Of course done in such a way such that you made all the decisions because he never does.
Then he'll have ammunition to accuse you of making a fuss and being controlling.

I did use to attract them in my youth!

Passive aggressive cooking after a disagreement/perceived slight = making something the other hates and pretending not to know OR not making quite enough to share with the offending person/s yet too much for innocent parties themselves so one cannot be accused.