Best passive aggressive/petty moments..

[LittleMissUnreasonable]

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😱

Recently I was on a flight between the only two arseholes who reclined, and didn't come up even when food was served. So I made it my mission to make sure they got no sleep and were as uncomfortable as possible. A well-timed shove at regular intervals whenever they were dropping off, regularly putting in or retrieving items from the pocket in the back of their seats.

It actually really helped pass four hours and made the flight much more fun!

BEHIND* the only two arseholes who reclined.

Love it!

I left Lego and a couple of upturned plugs on the floor next to my husbands side of the bed when he was drunk and had pissed me off.

Don’t worry….that’s only what they’d like to have done. Most of these stories are pure fantasy.

I think that's what you want to believe. You obviously are sheltered and don't know that there are some very aggressive and abusive people out there who talk and act like this all the time!

Yeah, but MN is full of fantasists in general.

Not sheltered at all! 😂 but I know a load of old tosh when I see it.

Just because you are not world-experienced and you can't comprehend something happening doesn't mean it is a 'load of old tosh'. 😂It just means you've seen less of the world and society than others.

Yes, that must be it. Definitely not as worldly wise as yourself obviously…haven’t see the world either, gosh! you got me there…bless your heart.

@whitewashing - I’m not sure what you are saying - clearly there are people out there who will punch someone or call them a cunt - I can’t see how that is a ‘load of old tosh’. I don’t think it’s out of the realms of possibility that some of these people might post on MN either.

I do agree that calling someone a cunt is straight-up aggressive, nothing passive about it, but I alsothink saying See You Next Tuesday to someone is an oblique way of calling them a cunt, and thus might qualify as passive aggressive.

Colleagues of mine remember someone who would pay for a £3 train fare in copper, and then occasionally with a £20 note (I realise that we could legally refuse to accept that quantity in copper, but the alternative would have been letting him off without paying). One of them steadily accumulated the copper in the float and one day when the bloke offered the £20 note returned £17 in copper.

More recently, there was a man who would routinely offer a £50 note in the knowledge that the guards would deem it too much hassle to change it. So one of the guard made sure to charge him, give him the right change, and then when they got to the next passenger said "sorry, I've got no change left" so they didn't get charged. The bloke with the £50 was hopping mad and never tried the stunt again.

I love your dad! And I hope the apprentice knew what he'd done.

I wonder if its usage varies between regions or something? I'm in the SE and it's use has always applied to either sex.

I once worked somewhere where the most senior manager was so utterly unpleasant he was known as That Cunt to almost the entire department, and this was often abbreviated to TC.

He somehow got to hear that he was known as TC, and assumed it meant Top Cat. He was rather smug about it, which just goes to show what a cunt he was.

Your last paragraph..

At a job many years ago, the staff took it in turns to make cups of tea for the rest of the team. I don't drink tea or coffee, only water, but no-one ever offered to get me water as it wasn't in the kitchen. However, they did expect me to make rounds of tea and coffee and then carry them upstairs!

After my first turn, i'd had enough and for the next few turns, i made the tea and coffee as bad as possible - very weak tea and made the coffee the same colour as the tea. They very quickly decided that everyone should make their own and put tea/coffee making facilities in the actual office.

I was only very young and didn't feel confident enough to say no.

Reminds me of my first class teacher in secondary school. For some reason I'd been put in a class above my age group. Teacher was the games teacher and, as I wasn't sporty, she despised me anyway. She made no secret of the fact that she thought I shouldn't be in that class and, at the end of the first term, openly sneered at my marks in subjects like French which, given that I had to catch up with people who had had a year's more teaching, weren't actually that bad. (It was a LONG time ago when teachers used to read out marks and class position publicly).

She made me really quite miserable and my response was basically to get my head down and work. She was visibly mortified when I came third in class at the end of the year and there was no reason why I couldn't move up with the rest of the class.

This thread is brilliant 😂
Favs are the Hamster poster and cutlery knobber!

I taught for 35+ and am now long retired. I was the first in my family to access higher education and came from an industrialised area in the north of England. Some of my family were involved, in and representatives of, influential Unions (useful information).
Anyway, it’s 1972, it’s my first teaching post in a new, very large, comprehensive school. There was a dress code for staff and pupils. One day a supply Art teacher came in her new jeans which she had worn in a cold bath (very, very, close fit) filled with bleach - very cool, edgy faded effect! This provided the Head with an opportunity to sort out the female staff. The Senior Mistress ( yes, her job title) held a meeting to explain what could not be worn by the ‘ladies’. If we wanted to wear trousers they had to be part of a ‘tailored trouser suit’. I had been working for less than 4 months, there was no way I could afford that kind of clothing. I was dressed in a pair of M&S black wide cut trousers, a mini dress with short sleeves worn over a long sleeved blouse - I was literally covered from neck to ankle in dark, block colours. So I asked in the meeting if I was dressed inappropriately and was told by a very po faced Senior Mistress that indeed I was. I apologised profusely and said I would rectify my mistake as soon as I could. And I did. I went into the ladies, removed the trousers, donned a pair of tights and came out in the mini dress. I taught all afternoon dressed like that. No one said a word. The next day I went in dressed in the same clothes as the previous morning (clean blouse of course) and no one said a word again - except the Senior Mistress. She looked me up and down, smiled broadly and wished me a hearty’Good morning’.
I did have good legs back in the day! 😌

Brilliant story!

Soon after my exH moved in with OW & one of the first times DD went overnight, DD was dropped back with her toys/belongings in a Victoria's Secret bag!

So true. 😂 Also true of the wider online community.

If dh annoys me in the day when we go to bed if I wake in the night I will 'accidentally' kick him and wake him up just to bother him. It's been 15 years and he's never realised!

Unless your DH is an abusive twat, that's really nasty.