What tiny things have you done to specifically annoy someone?

[FlyingSoHigh]

My Mil came from a pretty wealthy family and definitely saw herself as a 'cut above' most people.
So I always used to chop carrots into rounds when she came for a meal as I knew she thought it was 'common'; posh people always cut carrots into sticks.
It was a tiny thing but it gave me so much pleasure over the years.
Can anyone beat passive-aggressive cooked carrots?

I went vegetarian for more than a year just to annoy my mother.

Ive ignored my whiney neighbour when she knocked at the door.

Worn a face mask. I like being anonymous and having my face covered and it really winds some people up as it is not longer legally required. It's hiding my smile.

Discreetly quickly Googling something on, say, a 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' question before the answers come up, as we're so competitive with each other. Although it's not nearly as satisfying as already knowing the answer .

When I was a student in a house share in ancient times, I used to hold the phone quite near when my housemate's mother rang and shout for her with a thick local accent "it's yer maaaaaaaam". Housemate used to love informing us that she came from the home counties and was a cut above. I could feel her mother wincing down the phone.

One of my SILs really annoys me at times. She says things to try and get a reaction. I never bite but save it up and the next time she posts a picture of DN I comment how DN looks just like her Dad, I know it drives SIL mad as she wants DN to me a 'mini me'.

Waited till my CF neighbours had their skip, which they'd put outside my house instead of theirs, swapped and quickly nipped into the space before the new one was brought in. They had to move their Merc from outside their own house to accommodate it. They had the cheek to ask me to move my car out of the way so they could reposition the skip and get their own car infront of their house.

Similar to @FlyingSoHigh. I have a snobby SIL who looks down on sandwiches which are cut in the middle instead of corner to corner. I always serve up sandwiches cut across the middle when she’s round.

We often go away with the in laws, on holiday, they are quite tight and hate eating out, I make a point of suggesting restaurants that I know my DH will want to go too, even though I'm more than happy to eat in ....winds the MIL up no end

A few jobs back, my old boss was vile. If I had an excuse to go in his office, I would make a point of twisting the phone cord around so when he picked up the phone, the cable was very short and he would have to speak to the person with his head close to the phone whilst he untangled it.

I used to work in a bank call centre. We had the terms and conditions available on the intranet. Whenever people used to come on complaining about something that was in the terms and conditions, they would always ask "Where exactly?!". It used to give me great pleasure to tell them it was under section such and such and then recite the entire condition to them.

I quit after nine months after a piece of my soul died.

I have a tiny gadget the size of my thumb that beeps and chirps at random intervals. Its sole purpose is to annoy people. The sound is short and irregular so the gadget is difficult to locate. When DH annoys me I turn it on and hide it somewhere. Been doing it for ten years and he’s never found it yet. He was particularly puzzled when we moved house and the mysterious chirp came with us!

A few jobs back, my old boss was vile. If I had an excuse to go in his office, I would make a point of twisting the phone cord around so when he picked up the phone, the cable was very short and he would have to speak to the person with his head close to the phone whilst he untangled it.

Most posters here have too much spite and too little clemency but that is genius.

My husband dislikes Essex accents and tries to correct the pronunciations of our youngest child, who has picked it up by following a few YouTubers who are from Essex. She genuinely doesn't grasp what he is asking of her and couldn't change even if she wanted to. Sometimes she tries to oblige her dad and the Essex accent just gets stronger. Now her older sibling and I have joined in. At dinnertime we are constantly asking each other for a bottle of water, or to pass the butter. It's great fun. Wait till I teach them both how to address their dad as "Father"

I enjoy being really friendly to a colleague I know doesn't like me. It makes me giggle inside to watch her being forced to smile at me.

@Amima

I have a tiny gadget the size of my thumb that beeps and chirps at random intervals. Its sole purpose is to annoy people. The sound is short and irregular so the gadget is difficult to locate. When DH annoys me I turn it on and hide it somewhere. Been doing it for ten years and he’s never found it yet. He was particularly puzzled when we moved house and the mysterious chirp came with us!

ahhhh MUST HAVE.

Where did you get it??? Do you know what it's called?

This would make my life complete. DH cannot abide mysterious noises.

Called someone Pauline instead of Paula on purpose repeatedly. It was satisfying

Amima
I have a tiny gadget the size of my thumb that beeps and chirps at random intervals. Its sole purpose is to annoy people. The sound is short and irregular so the gadget is difficult to locate. When DH annoys me I turn it on and hide it somewhere. Been doing it for ten years and he’s never found it yet. He was particularly puzzled when we moved house and the mysterious chirp came with us!

I can't work out whether that is genius or slightly unhinged....TEN YEARS???

Mine is when DH is annoying me (which is quite frequently lately) I deliberately put his laundry away in the wrong places. He then tells me patiently whilst he's rearranging everything where I've gone wrong..."the socks go in this drawer love" while I smile and go "u-huh, u-huh" like I give a shit. Then I carry on as I was. Poor thing doesn't realise I do it on purpose!

I know I do petty stuff like that but can't think of a single one right now.

I hope that's annoying 🤣

Every time a certain doctor left his stethoscope lying about I'd hide it.

I was sat in a meeting room at work. Meeting rooms on my floor were never ever booked, you just grabbed one that was free. Whilst I was working away in there, a team from the other end of the floor arrived to say they booked it for, say 3pm. I asked if they can go to the room that was right next door (which was the exact same size) as I was settled into a difficult piece of work and had folders every where. They refused saying they had booked this particular room.

So I packed up, went back to my desk, logged onto the meeting room system...and booked the room for 4pm. Took great joy in going back to the room at 4pm to kick them out, mid meeting!

@Bashfulinseduary

I enjoy being really friendly to a colleague I know doesn't like me. It makes me giggle inside to watch her being forced to smile at me.

Oh yes! My neighbours tried having a feud with me after I told them not to build an extension. I pointed out it would require planning permission which was unlikely to be granted, and said I would object. Their solicitor agreed with me and they dropped the idea.

They didn't speak to me for months. I refused to notice. Whenever I saw them, I waved and smiled, and cheerfully chatted in their direction. Eventually they gave up eventually and started behaving normally.

I have a little device that turns off tv screens.

Meeting rooms for presentations, at airport lounges (back in the old days), in other people's houses.
Tis great.

Not exactly tiny but this morning we have a contractor and his team working on a project managed by a 3rd party who is funded by a govt grant.

It appears 3rd party is bowing out of the work but hasn't yet told us or the Govt contact. The contractor has been ''blamed'' to us for things 3rd party changed or delayed.

So I sent the contractor a copy of the emails and the grant manager's contact details (mistakenly left on an email by 3rd party) and he is directly contacting the grant manager today to see if he can take over the project management as well as do the work.

3rd Party will be ropable, but as she attempted to cancel the work a few months back (after we had paid her and after she was awarded project management) frankly she can go to hell.

Drank pints instead of halves in front of my mother