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Best passive aggressive/petty moments..

588 replies

LittleMissUnreasonable · 11/05/2022 16:49

The other day I was trying to park in one of those private run car parks where there are no designated spaces. There was only one quite awkward space left and there was another car behind me who was practically sat on my tail trying to get this awkward spot. I decided to reverse out and find another car park but this tailgating car was not letting me go go as they were so hell-bent on getting this space and were trying to go around me. I just thought screw it and drove into the spot as I had nowhere to go. You could practically see the red mist coming from the driver's ears as they had to reverse and find another car park 😤

Another consistent one is that we have a manager who will without fail walk up to a small group of colleagues with a query and direct it to the men, completely ignoring the women. So now, even if I know the answer and the male colleague doesn't, I will just get on with my work and not intervene. It's funny to see the manager flapping around trying to work out the answer when he could have just asked...you know...a woman😱

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Luculentus · 12/05/2022 17:02

Georgeskitchen · 12/05/2022 14:28

Are you on of those irritating types that start loading up half way up the belt rather than from end? If so you are VERY unreasonable, as it can give the person behind you the wrong impression, because there is a massive gap on the belt, that you have loaded everything on. I have fallen victim to this is in the past and endured the death stare from the woman in front. Just load your fucking shopping from the END of the belt and give us all the break!!

What do you mean by the end of the belt? I've never known anyone do anything other than start loading immediately behind the divider separating out the previous person's stuff, whether that's a quarter, third, halfway or three quarters up the belt or whatever. Otherwise you'd potentially be leaving a gap for no valid reason.

P1ainJanine · 12/05/2022 17:09

Have we got Coleen and Rebecca on this thread or something?

Mum242 · 12/05/2022 17:09

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EarringsandLipstick · 12/05/2022 17:10

Made him a pie with dogfood that he ate after he came home from another pub binge. Laughed all week after hed ate it. He didn't think it was funny

That's completely vile, regardless of his alcoholism. Jesus.

Bollindger · 12/05/2022 17:12

I was a witness in a court case.
The Barrister was billing over £100 an hour to be there.
My statement was 4 sentences.

First he asks me about calling his client, Sorry I don't have his number , he calls me,
Second he asks me about a comment made by his client, I told him saying something and doing something are very different,.
His foot is starting to tape and he keeps shooting daggers at me.
Then he asks me a question, and believe me it has so many ifs, buts, and dids in that I was not even sure if he was saying I did something or didn't do it, So I looked at the Judge and said "Your honour I have no idea what He just said do you?" the judge actually sniggered, so I reread the part he was talking about and asked him does that answer your question ?
The walked out of court 10mins later an Slammed the door, The Barrister for the other side was crying tears of laughed by this time, as it seems no one had ever beat him before.

ChilledScandi · 12/05/2022 17:12

EarringsandLipstick · 12/05/2022 17:10

Made him a pie with dogfood that he ate after he came home from another pub binge. Laughed all week after hed ate it. He didn't think it was funny

That's completely vile, regardless of his alcoholism. Jesus.

Yeah that is horrible..

BeepBoopBop · 12/05/2022 17:21

A couple of decades ago, my husband and I bought a house with three holiday cottages. Determined to put my stamp on them, I made a 120 mile trip to the nearest Ikea for 'stuff'. Having completely overloaded my trolley, I politely asked at checkout if a staff member could unload the trolley while I packed at the other end. Otherwise the massive queue would be stuck for ages while I ran back and forth. The assistant made such a fuss, refused to call, then when she did made passive aggressive comments such as "I know", "I told her that" etc. Finally someone comes down to help, grumpy body language, muttering to her colleague. I was going to walk out there and then. However it was more satisfying to wait until they had put every item through and totalled it. Then I told them I had changed my mind and walked out, leaving them to ring it all through again and put it all back. By the time I got to the car I could think of nothing at all I needed urgently.

Vikinga · 12/05/2022 17:22

kshaw · 12/05/2022 03:06

ExH when on the phone to DD always suggests things we could do 'why don't you and mummy go to soft play today?' etc... really annoys me as I generally have plans with her and I'd never do that to him. So he was on the phone saying he'd bought some new poster sized photo frames for his living room. I piped up with 'i think a picture of your hamster (that lives with me) would look good in them' and now my hamster obsessed 5 year old wants a poster sized photo of her hamster in his living room 😂

🤣🤣🤣

Florrey · 12/05/2022 17:33

DH works in a building with free parking. Someone got a new car and started parking across two bays to prevent it being bumped. Other people copied. Suddenly half of the employees can’t park because the other half are taking two spaces.

DH complained to management. Turns out the managers were the culprits! Of course they wanted to continue parking across two bays so they shrugged and told DH it wasn’t a requirement to park between the lines and use only one bay.

So DH said “ok boss”. Noted where the managers parked. Went to work an hour early and parked sideways across four bays - exactly where these particular managers parked. One manager squashed her car in beside DH in a single bay. The others couldn’t get in.

When they complained to DH and said he wasn’t allowed to do that, he pointed them to their earlier email saying “it’s not a requirement to park between the lines and use only one bay”.

Mimijamroll · 12/05/2022 17:39

FlissyPaps · 12/05/2022 01:46

When I was at uni and lived in student accommodation one of my flat mates left a note on the fridge saying something a long the lines of “I have spent X amount of hours vacuuming and cleaning the kitchen. Can we all keep it clean going forwards”.

I don't see anything wrong with that! She was clearly passed off but managed to write a polite note

ArrivederciCarbs · 12/05/2022 17:41

@Cyderdelic that castle sounds interesting - can you remember it's name/location?

Juniper68 · 12/05/2022 17:41

Florrey · 12/05/2022 17:33

DH works in a building with free parking. Someone got a new car and started parking across two bays to prevent it being bumped. Other people copied. Suddenly half of the employees can’t park because the other half are taking two spaces.

DH complained to management. Turns out the managers were the culprits! Of course they wanted to continue parking across two bays so they shrugged and told DH it wasn’t a requirement to park between the lines and use only one bay.

So DH said “ok boss”. Noted where the managers parked. Went to work an hour early and parked sideways across four bays - exactly where these particular managers parked. One manager squashed her car in beside DH in a single bay. The others couldn’t get in.

When they complained to DH and said he wasn’t allowed to do that, he pointed them to their earlier email saying “it’s not a requirement to park between the lines and use only one bay”.

Good for him

Handyweatherstation · 12/05/2022 17:45

Mimijamroll · 12/05/2022 17:39

I don't see anything wrong with that! She was clearly passed off but managed to write a polite note

Nor me. When I was a student and living in a shared house, I was a few years older than the other students. Most of them were fresh from home and they were, without exception, complete slobs. They used to make fun of me for emptying ashtrays that had so many fag ends in they were actually overflowing onto the carpet and the kitchen was a health hazard. I'd have probably left a similar note myself.

ScreamingMeMe · 12/05/2022 17:47

BeforeGodAndAllTheFish · 12/05/2022 10:28

Reading comprehension really has gone downhill.

It was a poorly written sentence tbf

butterpuffed · 12/05/2022 17:53

P1ainJanine · 12/05/2022 17:09

Have we got Coleen and Rebecca on this thread or something?

😅😅That's funnier than most of the 'petty/pass agg' posts !

Lilyhatesjaz · 12/05/2022 17:56

If someone starts putting their shopping on the conveyer behind me not giving me enough space to unload my trolley, I stop unloading and hand my items to the checkout person one at a time out of the trolley

EarringsandLipstick · 12/05/2022 18:00

BeepBoopBop · 12/05/2022 17:21

A couple of decades ago, my husband and I bought a house with three holiday cottages. Determined to put my stamp on them, I made a 120 mile trip to the nearest Ikea for 'stuff'. Having completely overloaded my trolley, I politely asked at checkout if a staff member could unload the trolley while I packed at the other end. Otherwise the massive queue would be stuck for ages while I ran back and forth. The assistant made such a fuss, refused to call, then when she did made passive aggressive comments such as "I know", "I told her that" etc. Finally someone comes down to help, grumpy body language, muttering to her colleague. I was going to walk out there and then. However it was more satisfying to wait until they had put every item through and totalled it. Then I told them I had changed my mind and walked out, leaving them to ring it all through again and put it all back. By the time I got to the car I could think of nothing at all I needed urgently.

this is beyond belief. I read it several times to make sure I wasn’t missing something.

you demanded a special assistant to unload joint trolley. In IKEA. Then you allowed them to put it all through - before telling them you’d changed your mind.

You’re truly awful.

EarringsandLipstick · 12/05/2022 18:01

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EarringsandLipstick · 12/05/2022 18:03

Sorry don't know why the multiple posts 🤦🏻‍♀️

This site / app. A disaster these days.

RhubarbFairy · 12/05/2022 18:49

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 12/05/2022 05:42

When DS turned 3 SIL bought him a small nerf gun. We werent particularly impressed. 4 years later when her DS turned 3 DH managed to find the same small nerf gun. SIL looked horrified and said who buys such a gift for a small child? DH looked her in the eye and said you did. 😁

We did this, but with that sodding singing Alfie Bear (the vetch one with the red body).
SIL (who I get along with famously) bought it when DS1 was born. He loved it, but he used to press the same button on it repeatedly, so we only ever heard the opening couple of lines of its song. Over and over and over.

When my nephew was born 4 years later, i gifted it back to them as both of mine had 'outgrown' it.

We have since laughed about it.

Don't think other SIL has ever forgiven me for buying oldest nephew a Crazy Frog soft toy, complete with sound button that played the song. That was 15 years ago (I was pre-DC and only focused on how much DN loved Crazy Frog). She's never taken her revenge though. She's a bigger woman than me.

Moonshine5 · 12/05/2022 18:50

@Cyderdelic
LOLLING 😆

MountainDewer · 12/05/2022 18:51

dustandroses · 12/05/2022 05:43

@FlissyPaps
Incredibly petty and passive aggressive.
We were a tight group. All she had to do was say to us face to face “guys, this kitchen’s getting a bit dirty, can we all take an hour out of our day to clean up as a team”. Not leaving silly notes on the fridge for us to find.

or you could have just cleaned up without being asked especially if it took her hours 🤔

Or she could have just asked everyone to help instead of being a martyr.

Favouritefruits · 12/05/2022 18:55

When my husbands not helping as much as he should around the house I put a weaning spoon in his packed lunch for his munch bunch yoghurt 😂 I just imagine him sat as his desk looking like a four year old, makes me happy!

Zoom101 · 12/05/2022 19:08

Indicatrice · 12/05/2022 13:59

I didn’t say exact same wording, did I? You really need to pay attention.

I know you’re secretly fumming due to your use of emojis and copious use of endearments, it’s ok.

Have a nice cup of tea and a lie down!

Fumming?