Grudges you continue to hold

[OneFrenchEgg]

Just drive a different way home, past a car wash and remembered how I refuse to use it on principle 😂
Years ago, I was in a hurry and no one in front - as I drove in, and was being 'washed' by one of the chaps, the one in charge allowed someone to jump the queue as they were 'in a hurry' and 'just wanted a spritz' - nope, they reversed all the way back, had everything, and I sat fuming at the the queue jumpy enablement.
Refuse to go back, I'm sure they are disappointed 😂

Former head at the London state comp I taught at 15 years ago after qualifying. Bullied and belittled me and many colleagues and made our lives a complete misery. Drove several good teachers out of the profession altogether. How I smiled when he was (finally) done for bullying last year and given the boot. Better late than never I suppose….

I don't call it a grudge, but some might think my wish to see Boris Johnson in jail for a very long time for his Covid inactions one.

One of the local shops...owner was very rude to me one day so not been back in.
Got a phone call from her couple of years later wanting my OH to do her a favour,I said no and put the phone down

Oh that's awful @DrPrunesqualler Did your husband recover?

John Lewis for not having 75% of the stuff that my wedding guests bought from my wedding list and refusing to refund the parts of sets that they did have even though they did not have the rest of the set. No one would have bought part of a set if they'd realised the rest of the set was unavailable but John Lewis didn't tell them that!

Kid in the mid-80s. Next-door neighbour got a new motorbike. Six kids on the street - four boys and two girls. Five of us wanted a go (my sister didn't). He gave all the boys a ride on it one by one but wouldn't take me because I was a girl. I'm not sure I have ever experienced a greater sense of injustice.
They moved out soon after. I saw him for the first time in almost 40 years recently at a lunch at my parents' house. It was all I could do to be civil, but he seemed like quite a harmless, elderly-ish man.

A boyfriend & I went into a cafe on a day trip to Lincoln, & ordered lunch which came with chips. The waitress brought out a lunch plate for another customer, with a huge pile of chips on it & so that's what we expected. Ours came out with meagre portions - then the waitress sat down & chatted with the other customer, who was obviously a friend & getting preferential treatment.

I think of that whenever anyone mentions Lincoln.

It made no sense at all - it was the van driver that collected the mattress that told us what he was going to do with it which is why my husband followed him back to the depot. He couldn't understand why he'd been told to collect it and then dump it as he thought it was a complete waste of his time!

I remember everyone I've lent books to, who didn't return them.

I won't buy any Apple products because of the way Steve Jobs treated Chrisann Brennan and their daughter Lisa. W@nker.

Obviously, this is completely pointless and doesn't affect the company at all.

Won a prize in primary school, for ‘heraldry’, drawing a shield. I wasn’t in school that morning, so my idiotic classmate who wasn’t my friend picked my prize of a book about a stupid dog called Barry.
This was the 70s when prizes were not given freely and is probably the only ‘achievement’ I had a record of from primary. Everytime I look at the book and read the little well done etc. from the teacher, I feel the injustice I did as a 10 year old.

Not sure if it's a grudge but there's an old boss that I had who was a complete and utter prick who made my life a misery, I 'm now a writer and the weaselly, paranoid, beta male boss in my new book is based on him... except, not of course because any resemblance to person living or dead... etc!

My school bully, bumped into her years later and she was all ‘oh hi how are?’…. Eh still pissed off you were such a bitch to me forever years ago thanks very much

So did i (I am Jewish).

I assumed they were explaining why smoked salmon would be cut like that, to order.

In my younger, naïve, self-conscious years, I had a job interview at a really big company in my local town. The first interview (with a female panel) went really well and I was invited back for a second interview with the head of the team, who was a man. When I arrived, he sat me down and actually said (his words) "why did you leave your last job? You failed didn't you. You failed and now you want to come here and you'll fail again." I was so dumbstruck I couldn't actually formulate an answer (I was moving companies from their rival to this potential new company). At the end (literally, the whole thing lasted 5 minutes), he stood up and said "I won't show you out. You know where the door is". My poor 23 year old self then got up and left in tears.

That guys name will always be Snot Talker to me (his real name is very close!!) and I can't believe he felt it was OK to talk to me like that. That humiliation was the last time I ever applied for a job in that sector again.

Paperchase -for the arsey sales assistant with her passive aggressive hand sanitising when my daughter paid with money, spoiling our day out when my husband had not long died.
Not been in for years.

Also, a thieving bastard school friend who turned out to be a amateur porn actress/escort 31 my arse!

I keep thinking of more and am now angry all over again 😂

Took my old dog to the vet as he’s suddenly gained an insatiable appetite and thirst and almost overnight he’d developed a pot belly. Vet didn’t listen to a word I said, was rude and condescending and told me my dog was fat, I was making excuses and need to put him on a diet.

Cut his food back, bought special low fat food from the vet and followed their plan to the letter. Went back a couple of months later for a check up and dog had gained weight. Vet was again rude, condescending and didn’t listen to a word I had to say. Stuck to the food plan again, by this time dog was out in the garden eating grass, and had become aggressive around food. Went back for another check up - dog had again gained weight. This time we saw a different vet, who actually listened to me and carried out some more tests. Turned out dog wasn’t fat, he had a massive tumour on his adrenal gland - however, given his age, etc they felt it was too big to operate on - I don’t know whether we’d have been able to do anything had the first vet listened to me earlier, but I hate the man’s guts and I will not see him and (very politely) tell the receptionists why every time they offer me an appointment with him - arrogant prick.

Scott Walker??

@Bamboux - you cracked the code!

This was only a year ago but I will always be upset and annoyed with my in laws for carelessly passing covid onto me when I was 34 weeks pregnant, I was so
unwell with it and worried about my baby, luckily she was okay.

There’s a neighbour of my parents who had a very short go at me for parking outside their house. She was school marmish and very irritating, and drove off just before I could tell her to fuck off.

Each time I see her I call her awful names under my breath, she looks too earnest and has red, flushed cheeks like she’s always been on a country hike. I detest her for it.

Had she given me time for the fuck off it’d have been ok, but she didn’t.

Ah, I knew a Mr B that taught Chemistry and hated girls. The school had originally been a boys school and he still believed it was unforgivable that girls graced the halls and ruined the great halls of the old school house.

He was also one of the careers advisers and told me that I was never going to get the career I wanted - all I was good for, like every woman, was getting married and having babies. Wimin had no place in the workforce. Home, seen and not heard was the only place for a good woman.

Well, Mr B - I not only got that job but also excelled at it.

There's not a single grudge on this thread that I think is unreasonable.

I give you Motorpoint, who do not honour their warranty period. My fault for buying a car from them. I also now boycott Audi who have ripped me off for servicing so many times. The last when they refused to let me have my car back as they wanted to replace a legal tyre. I wanted to get the tyre from elsewhere - and not be charged £136 + VAT for it.

I now do, have a fantastic garage I go to. I continue to have e-mails and texts from both twatty places about missing me and can they help? No. Never again. Very satisfying.

Oooh you just reminded me of another old one, this time 40+ years old. I (and several other female students) were all told by the same, male, HoD professor not to bother going to do other degrees as we weren't cut out for research and we should concentrate on getting a job in industry. We all went on to get good PhDs and I'm still sad I didn't go back to the dept, ask to see him and shove my PhD cert in his face. I still work in research in the same field all these years later.

I just looked him up. He's Prof Emeritus so I could still do it...

@Heronatemygoldfish do it! My DSis was told the exact same thing by her HoY (and that she wouldn't amount to anything) and she is now a PhD holder in a very lucrative industry. It's sad when people try to rain on the dreams of others.