jawafour wrote:Corazon de Leon wrote:That is, to be fair, the epitome of passive-aggressive.
Oh, boy. The phrase "passive-aggressive" often triggers me... it seems to be increasingly used as a descriptive term when someone doesn't like the fact that they've acted in a lousy fashion and then been called out on it. "I don't like being admonished for my bad behaviour and so I am gonna make out that the person is being aggressive".
Of course, the person issuing the polite notes should instead have gone actual-aggressive and just set light to the offending vehicles.
Trigger you it might, but it doesn't escape the fact that behaviour like that, where the person who has been upset by what seems to me to be fairly innocuous behaviour can't muster the gumption to reveal their identity(I am assuming the notes weren't signed), is passive aggressive. I'd agree that it's used in a flippant manner by a lot of people, but I reckon leaving notes on people's cars is a particularly needless example, especially if there's a group social media page to discuss the matter.
If you don't have the stones to criticise someone to their face, I don't believe you have the right to criticise them at all. That kind of behaviour really grinds my gears, because I'll always hear out any reasonable points or arguments as to why my behaviour has been unacceptable, but I should be given the chance to explain or defend myself if required, not just have some wanker leaving a note under my car's windscreen wiper.
Seems to me that the biggest problem with this one is the designers of the estate not realising that families often have up to three or four cars, especially if they have adult children.