i-rant

Is there anything more frustrating then a passive aggressive person.  Its that combination of punch-n-tickle with blind "I don’t know what you mean" after a mean comment.  You hear it from people who are close enough to you to know about you and yet somehow hostile towards you. Whether its in a competitive situation or socially stressful, or a personal spat between friends or lovers. 

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it: passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. It can manifest itself as resentment, stubbornness, procrastination, sullenness, or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is assumed, often explicitly, to be responsible. It is a defense mechanism and, more often than not, only partly conscious. For example, people who are passive-aggressive might take so long to get ready for a party they do not wish to attend, that the party is nearly over by the time they arrive. Alternatively, leaving notes to avoid face-to-face discussion/confrontation is another form of passive-aggressive behavior.

I know I’ve done it, sometimes I’m just outright aggressive.  And more then not – it makes me aggressive when someone is passive aggressive