Passive-aggressive?

[energizer bunny]

I'm guilty of this at times. Mainly as a reaction when its done to me, particularly with indirect comments. In which i'll either ignore, call them out, or take an indirect swipe at them. From experience its almost a guarantee that my words are going to be more accurate, and have much more of a bigger bite if its the latter. Luckily people just give me the silent treatment. Which is a reward.

[bennyboy]

Many years ago some pin head was tailgating me (I was doing speed limit in the slow lane).  Up ahead I saw a pallet laying in the road. Checked mirrors and there was no one around except for Mr. Pinhead behind me.

So I waited to last second to hop to the passing lane and the idjit behind me NAILED the pallet.

I didn't hang around to evaluate the damages . . . .

I did something similar once. A guy was riding my ass up this main road leading to the highway. I was in the turning lane so I wasn't going to change lanes, instead I sped up to see if he'd back off a little, of course he did not. I turned onto the highway and started gunning it down the exit ramp to get this guy off my ass. He stayed right on me so as soon as we got past the guard rail (I didn't want him to smack the guard rail and get hurt or damage his car) I slammed on the breaks, causing him to swerve and spin out in the grass. I then went onto the highway and casually drove home.

I was 18 at the time... no excuse as doing something like that and, and something like what you did, is incredibly stupid and irresponsible. What if the guy I brake-checked flipped over or something? You never know. 

I've never done anything like that since and don't ever plan to. In the car, especially on the highway, is no place to start being a passive-aggressive little asshole and start risking people's safety. Not cool!

I dunno.  Seems pretty cool to me.

[bennyboy]

I found this super-funny video!

[EgoDeath]

I am unlucky enough to have grown up with a very passive-aggressive family. It made me at least a little maladjusted to dealing with people in "the real world," so to speak. I used to catch myself thinking people were making back-handed comments to me or subtly trying to make fun of me in completely normal social settings. I've since learned to "lighten up" in that most people, even if they are "busting balls," will do it in a way that is very obviously a joke. Unlike my family who would hurl legitimate insults at me and then the moment I began to defend myself would tell me, "We are just joking, RELAX!" Always turning it back on me. The problem was, they were not joking.

Passive-aggressive behaviors are not always as obvious as people think either. It's easy to list them in a thread on a forum like this and say, "These things are passive-aggressive" but sometimes it can be legitimately difficult to recognize them in real life and confront them. Sometimes, it can be hard to be assertive with someone who is passive-aggressive because they will take any sign of assertiveness as a threat and tell you that you're overreacting or being unruly or unreasonable. Yet another tactic of the passive-aggressive.

[brewer]

I had a wonderfully passive aggressive mother. When I'd tell her of an accomplishment she'd say, "That's good, but why do you think that you didn't do better?".