In this day and age, how do you deal with people being passive aggressive? I can appreciate banter, but when people start doing shitty things because they're annoyed at you, it's really annoying. In this day and age, you can't really escalate things to physical levels, and tbh it's not worth the headache you would get from the law. If there's a pattern of this behaviour, I normally tell them my problems, and if they don't stop, just don't hang around with them any more. However sometimes it's not convenient or practical to leave, if you share friends/work/housing etc. So what is the best thing to do in these sort of situations? Does it eventually have to come to something physical if nothing else is working?