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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of these are situations where someone is a bully or a jerk, and people engage in NORMAL behaviors knowing that it's going to piss the jerk off, and choosing not to care.

Like insisting on going the speed limit to annoy a tailgater? That's not going out of your way to annoy someone, it's simply not allowing yourself to be bullied into speeding up or pulling over to accommodate a jerk driver.

Choosing to leave a gate open knowing that annoying neighbors never leash their dogs is going a little further -- the polite thing to do is to close the gate. But especially if it's the anti-leash people who are always yelling about the gate, to some degree this is just passively refusing to be bullied by people who won't obey the rules for dogs in the building. Yes, petty. But not going out of your way to annoy someone. Just not allowing yourself to be bullied.

My conclusion is that if you often encounter people who seem to be doing things just to annoy you, you might want to look at your own behavior to see if you are particularly impatient, rude, or aggressive in ways that might make someone think "hmmm, maybe I'll just slow down, not get out of the way, not take extra care to accommodate this person who is bullying me. Maybe I'll just have some self-respect instead."

Something to think about.[/quote]

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