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😱

@Motnight why do you keep posting to me and getting het up when I respond? Very odd.

I am responding to your posts. That is how Mumsnet works. Anyway, crack on!

We are still cheering this 🥰🥰🥰

How do you know he didn't say it? Were you there? Are you the rude manager?

@Motnight nah, ya think?

Because she quoted what he said. Are you capable of reading?

Landlord is evicting me, and is now shocked and upset to find that I'm exercising my right of quiet enjoyment and won't let their contractors in until the end of the tenancy agreement. The net effect is that I'll delay his building works (likely to turn it into an Airbnb, during a housing shortage).

I have been informed that he "may consider seeking legal advice" because according to them being self employed and WFH is a breach of tenancy (hint: it's not).

They're halfwits. Even if it was a breach of tenancy, the remedy is to... issue an eviction notice. Which they've already done. Should have kept their powder dry.

Urgh think this sort of behaviour so pathetic sorry. Remember a 50 something woman in the village I grew up in who refused to be served by me as a teen in the village shop because my dad had had to politely ask her son to leave 6th form as he wasn’t doing any work.

Quite capable

His exact words were 'madam, that's not my problem'.

Are you?

My bitch psycho boss had been micro managing me all day and it was a Friday before we had the bank holiday off.
I cheerfully told her See You Next Tuesday as I left.It felt so good and she knew what I meant but couldn't do anything as it was factually correct.

What does the man being black have to do with it…?

@Indicatrice

The poster was quite clear. The manager said, "Madam, that's not my problem."

That's what's she wrote. That is why she said to him "that's not my problem" at the end. She did it because of how spectacularly rude he was.

Why are you saying that he didnt say that?

@hangrylady I don't get this. People make mistakes, and if someone acts a certain way fair enough they get taken aside (or whatever they do with shoplifting). Your husband is stealing and I hope he gets caught.

Oh dear @Indicatrice, I’m embarrassed for you 😬 imagining you frantically re-reading the post looking for the fictional apology then slinking off the thread quietly 😂

@FlipFlopFlap that's excellent 👏

@ShirleyPhallus

I think the DH who is a police officer was black, and that’s why the shop assistants were suspicious of him. Then when he got to nick someone in front of them it showed them up because he (a black man) who they always suspected was an innocent person, in fact a police officer, while they happily allowed a white man to commit the crime they always suspected him of. But he got his comeuppance by watching them allow someone else to commit the crime when they always accused him.

My next door neighbour is The King of Pass Agg. He once commented how much he liked our new double glazing as when he stared at us through his upstairs windows "it made us look like a real middle class family" now he couldn't hear us anymore.

“You’re just thick and couldn’t figure it out” Christ.

Back in the late 60s early 70s credit cards were less common and he often had issues as obviously a young black man had probably stolen the card This part read to me that the person who stole the card was “obviously a young black man”, not that the poster’s husband was. Perhaps I misunderstood it but there is no need to call people thick and be so bloody rude.

thanks @Kanaloa for politely explaining it!

Actually I think Motright made her point very well. He shouldn't have told her it wasn't his problem. That's really rude.

I think it's fairly obvious that the poster thought that the black man was the customer who was arrest, not the posters DP. I had to read it twice as the first paragraph was a little confusing. Or are you just trying to create a passive aggressive moment in the spirit of the thread?

Years back we were on a flight to America, I was only a child, for some reason we had been separated on the flight, with my mum sitting on her own, she is terrified of flying and asked the flight attendant if there was a way we could be seated together, flight attendant asked the lady sitting next to my mum in the aisle seat if she would swap with me, (also aisle seat), so I could sit with my mum.
The lady refused, she was reading a 1400 page book throughout the flight, just before landing she went to the toilet and my mum ripped out the last few pages of her book, which obviously contained the conclusion of the story she was reading.
I wish I could have seen her face when she got to the end of her book.
(She was also an arse during the flight, refusing to get up when my mum needed the toilet, hogging the arm rest and asked my mum to stop eating her dinner because she didn't like the smell)

Yes agree with @ShirleyPhallus I also read the first two sentences as the customer was a black man not the DH.

And she literally just asked a question, no need to call her 'thick'

I only explained it because I was initially a bit confused too! I guess I skim read it and didn’t fully get that the DH is the black police officer and I thought he was a police officer but obviously a young black man had stolen his card. I’m not thick though!

Back in the day, our school had an after school play centre, and local primaries who also offered this service worked on a rota system, offering all-day care during school holidays. Teachers would be asked to stow away breakables so that their classroom could be used by visiting play supervisors.
At the start of one holiday, I realised that I had left some personal property at school, so I went back to retrieve it. I knew the building would be open, as it was our turn to host the summer scheme. Access was much more open in those days.
I'm fully aware that supervisors need to be careful about random adults coming on site, so no problem with her challenging my presence politely, but the fact that various pupils from the school were cheerily greeting me by name gave a bit of a clue that I might be a regular member of staff, but this did not stop the supervisor being officious to the point of hostility.
I retrieved my property and exited smartly.
Our headteacher was a wonderful person, but he had some little flaws, and one of them was that he could not be trusted with a key. He had so many, he'd lose them like a needle in a haystack. This left the only key to the classroom in my possession.
When it was our school's turn to be host to the holiday scheme again, I realised that Mrs. Jobsworth would be supervisor again. So I cleared my classroom, locked it with the only available key, and went home.
She had to track me down and be polite, through gritted teeth, before I could make a leisurely return to the premises to helpfully unlock.
I later signed up to do some play centre work myself, to raise extra money for my house deposit, and it transpired that I automatically came in on a higher grade than her because I was a qualified teacher; I never mentioned it.