This isn’t explicitly passive agressive, but it kind of turned out that way……;)

Quite a few years ago(early 1980’s) I lived in Vancouver, Canada. As a bike shop employee and starving athlete/bike racer, I got around by bike. While Vancouver now is a great place to ride a bike, at the time it had its fair share of morons and getting honked at was just part of your world. I was riding to work late one morning (i think I was on a 12–9 shift), and as I left a 4 way stop sign at W. 12th, the dickweed behind me laid on the horn. My usual response (and I’m a bit better now, but it’s still hard not to) was a middle finger. As I stopped at the next stop sign, at West 10th Ave. (for those unfamiliar with it, this is a 4 lane road up to the University of BC and a fairly major thoroughfare - keep this in mind, it will be important very soon!) the dickhead pulls up beside me. I look back once and realize it’s some 19 year old in his muscle car with some poor young thing in the passenger seat, and it’s his effort to prove his manhood to her. Now as a guy who raced bikes on the track, you knew how to do a trackstand, so I was doing one waiting for traffic to clear. Testosterone boy snarls something at me about getting off the road, and I suggested creatively that he get out of his little girl’s car and say it to me again. As I did this, I lost my balance slightly and had to put my right foot down to keep from falling.

Now you should remember that he was clearly trying to impress the girl in his car. But some part of him didn’t react to that. It reacted to my putting a foot down by thinking, “Oh sh*t, he’s getting off the bike and coming after me”. That part of him took over, he absolutely MASHED the gas pedal, laid a 10 foot strip of rubber…….and after 11 feet……drove his lovely little muscle car straight into the side of the rather large city bus that was proceeding down W. 10th Ave. Given his low speed, no serious damage was done to the bus, but I just about peed my pants laughing…..>:) As did all of my racing friends when I mentioned the description of the car - apparently he’d been harassing cyclists around that part of Vancouver for a while…:)