There are people who just lose their sh*t when they’re peeved, and then there are people who will wait for the perfect opportunity to just quietly let you know they’re angry and also they’re definitely not over it.
I’m not sure which is worse, but I think the passive-aggression is just more annoying – and these 14 super petty acts certainly back up my claim!
14. This is the stuff relationships are made of.
If my boyfriend annoys me, I put the toilet paper on the holder the way he doesn’t like, if that counts.
13. But that’s my spot!
Two of my roommates got mad at each other for one of them hogging up the whole couch.
So one of them started to leave good backpack right where the other liked to sit. He countered this by putting the backpack in the trash can.
This process repeated for about a month until they finally talked about it.
12. This makes me really angry.
In my parents divorce my father got custody and raised us in the same house. We knew that he had to sell the house and give my mother half the money when I was 21. For 10 years he did not one thing to keep the house in order. Our windows were all broken and had to be held open with bottles. Only one of our bathrooms worked because he would not replace the septic. Our working bathroom had a HUGE hole in the shower wall where a ton of tiles had fallen out and he covered it with plastic and tape. He only did the absolute necessities.
When he finally had to “sell” the house he’d paid off the mortgage so he got an appraisal and took a mortgage to give her half… and fix the house. We had all moved out by then.
11. Well that’s definitely an answer.
In college my roommate would cut his pubes and leave them all over the toilet. I wrote on a piece of paper asking him to clean up his pubes after he was done trimming. This was assigned living spaces and he never left his room so I couldn’t really talk to him.
He cut his pubes and put them on the piece of paper.
10. I want to be this woman’s best friend.
Girlfriend was upset with me over not cleaning something. I asked her for a glass of water and she brought me a glass of ice and told me to wait.
9. I bet he pretends he just forgot every time, too.
When we have a family event my father in laws partner collects all the cans to recycle them. You get 10c per can but they have to be able to scan the barcode so the cans cant be crushed.
My brother in law doesn’t like her so he deliberately crushes the cans.
8. Oooh I wish she had been wrong.
PA culprit here. While pregnant, my partner and myself decided not to find out the sex of our baby because I wanted it to be a surprise. But because this is a dumb Midwestern stage and gender reveal parties are all the rage, everyone I encountered looked at me like I’d grown two heads and asked how I planned to shop for the baby if I didn’t know whether to buy pink or blue.
One coworker in particular got particularly excessive, convinced I was having a boy just because she “has a sixth sense for these sort of things”, and every time I would refer to the baby as an “it” or “they”, she fiercely contradicted me by insisting it was a “he”. And it started to grate on me.
So when the baby was finally born, I didn’t tell her the sex for a week. All our other coworkers knew before her, it was a spiteful victory on my part.
(But she wasn’t wrong, I had a little boy)
7. A celebration was in order.
Had a falling-out with a housemate, asked her to move out. Left to do some shopping — came back home after nightfall to find she had removed every single lightbulb in the downstairs area (our part of the house, not hers) because “she paid for them.” We lived in a remote, rural area with no 24hr stores. Lived in the dark till morning.
The next day, as I was making breakfast for both my child and my housemate’s child (both the same age, in grade school), I had toast cooking in both toasters (mine and hers) to save time. She swept downstairs, took the toast out of her toaster and threw it on the counter, unplugged her toaster, and swept back upstairs with it, without one word.
The day she moved out, we celebrated like we won the lottery.
6. Roommate situations are so fragile.
My roommate in college was a super neat freak and was very passive aggressive regarding what I did to pitch in. He would arrange furniture a certain way to make sure I noticed he vacuumed, and I’d move things back. He’d leave open the entryway closet so that I saw that he hung all jackets and Winter scarves, etc.
My favorite was when he would leave the kitchen trash can in the middle of the kitchen but without putting in a new trash bag, he wanted me to put in a new bag so I would be aware that he took the trash out. I didn’t find it necessary to take out the trash every day and I found that a waste of trash bags. So, I went out one day and bought a new trash can and put it in the trash cupboard, leaving the other one in the middle of the kitchen.
5. And everyone knows who’s writing them and why.
Writing passive-aggressive “inspirational” quotes on the shared whiteboard at work.
4. So mad he sabotaged himself, too.
I did this.
I was in a small elevator at a big hotel one time. The elevator was full because people had luggage and shit. I was first on the elevator, so I am by the buttons. Everyone is going down to the lobby to check out. We stop at a floor, person looks, frowns, no room. Other person pushes on and it is now so uncomfortable/borderline painful. It takes a good three minutes of people jamming themselves together to make room so the door can close, because she is not getting off but also not fitting in. We finally get the door closed and she says sorry, but she is in a rush. So I pressed the button for every floor beneath us and we stopped at every floor on our way down to the lobby.
It was like four or five floors, but still I think the passive aggressive point was made. I also didn’t press the door close button when we stopped at the floors.
3. If you’re gonna take the fall for it anyway…
Sister accused me of soaping up her toothbrush when we were kids. I didn’t, but i felt so offended that she accused me of doing it, i scrubbed the hell out of a bar of soap with her toothbrush a few days later. She never confronted me or my parents about it, but she soon started using a different toothbrush for some reason.
2. Everyone should know to do this, right?
When my wife was in college, she used to leave notes for her roommates to clean their dishes. It was obnoxious. 7 women lived in that suite. One of them was ALWAYS there. But she never, ever said it to their faces. She would just leave these little notes.
1. Why are people like this?
I work at a fast food restaurant, and one of the managers there has been there for close to 20 years. And she never closes and always opens.
I’m a closer and so are the other managers. So if there’s anything, I mean ANYTHING that could be slightly wrong, she’ll send a picture of it to every manager and the owner of the store. No one gives a shit, but it’s annoying af.
I am dying at these people, y’all! Wow!
Do you have a hilarious story like this from your past? Tell it to us in the comments!
