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Grudges you continue to hold

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OneFrenchEgg · 17/04/2023 18:54

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 😂

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Lulu2171 · 17/04/2023 21:56

NCT for being a spineless bunch of cunts during the pandemic.

BA for offloading me from a flight because they sent a plane too small. One year left on five year moratorium.

My ex SIL - shiny-faced gold digger. I hear you're miserable now: GOOD.

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 17/04/2023 22:02

Nowaysunshine · 17/04/2023 21:24

Here's a corker for you - I have had a long held grudge against Lulu for marrying 'my' Bee Gee and then they bloody divorced. Totally illogical but I was quite young and still can't abide her - funnily enough my kids aren't keen on her either - some sort of projection involved obviously - oh dear. When he died my mother rang as soon as she heard and said 'your bee gees died' 😆

Love it 😆

InSpainTheRain · 17/04/2023 22:05

@twanmever surely that's only if you want to buy medicibe/tablets. If it's shampoo or tubigrip it's fine. Isnt it?

Melodybogwot · 17/04/2023 22:09

Drunk, aggressive, promiscuous cow who's dad runs a local pub. My husband was having a a drink in there a couple of weeks after a cancer removal operation on his face. She called him an "ugly, big nosed bastard freak". He has part of his nose fucking removed, remnants of black eyes and was so self conscious. I wasn't there luckily, but I saw her once in a different pub toilet and could feel the rage swelling. I kept it down with some side eye. This week she was in our local paper, banned for drug driving. oh and her job was mentioned aswell, freelance babysitter.
all the best with that love.

Soproudoflionesses · 17/04/2023 22:10

The supernarket l used to work in refused to sell me alcohol once as l had no id on me ...worked there 15 years from the age of 16 so was in my 30's. Stopped going there for ages

Dacadactyl · 17/04/2023 22:15

Soproudoflionesses · 17/04/2023 22:10

The supernarket l used to work in refused to sell me alcohol once as l had no id on me ...worked there 15 years from the age of 16 so was in my 30's. Stopped going there for ages

I've had similar as well. Was I'D in a local shop when I was in my late 20s. They refused to let me buy the wine. I had my wedding ring on and in no way looked under 25. Never been back and always slag them off when we go past.

MsFrog · 17/04/2023 22:21

TheOtherBennetSister · 17/04/2023 20:59

I haven't worked for Julie for 4 years now but I still flick the Vs at her building on the odd occasion I drive past.

😂😂😂😂

IfIGoThereWillBeTrouble · 17/04/2023 22:27

I’m another one who boycotts shops to “punish” them for bad service. A particular Sainsburys store managed to get itself “un-boycotted” after a couple of years, but WH Smith is still on the no-go list.

I was very late to FB, only joined last year. Received various friend requests from people I had been at school with, felt obliged to accept. When one particular woman’s posts appear I hiss at the screen and growl that I still haven’t forgotten that she tried to take credit for a piece of work I did at middle school…..over 30 years ago😁

Charlottewebsbabies · 17/04/2023 22:30

Years ago when I was about 12,I went into the local shell garage
For context,my parents had stopped paying for stuff (like san-pro,clothes,school trips-what id call the basics of life-i had to work just to eat)
I had £6 (id just been paid)
A £5 note and a £1 coin
The old cow behind the counter took my note claiming it was fake and pocketed it-saying she was going to call the police on me for daring to try to pay with a fake note and that I'd be arrested
My parents did nothing-and I went hungry that day

Still refuse to go onto a shell garage to this day and I'm in my 40's

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OneFrenchEgg · 17/04/2023 22:30

Oh some of these are excellent in their pettiness. Those shops will miss us! And the credit stealing school mate!
Some are a bit sad though, although I appreciate the cutlery rearranging fury. Dm comes over and trims bits of my garden and I have to smile and say thank you because it is actually helpful.
I wonder if anyone is silently flicking Vs at my house when they drive past 😂

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Cocolapew · 17/04/2023 22:31

1977, I was in hospital in Germany. We were Army and the hospital was a good bit away from where we lived, so I didn't get a visit every day.
My mum brought me chocolate fingers and asked if I liked them, this was a mega treat for me. I didn't ever see the box but saw chocolate fingers sticking out the top pocket of a nurse.
I get the rage every time I see the stupid biscuits now.

Gloriousgardener11 · 17/04/2023 22:41

My DH,s dear sweet old granny - not !
On seeing our beautiful new born daughter she enquired if I was disappointed she wasn't a boy ?
Like a knife through my heart and I never liked her from day day on, old cow.

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BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 17/04/2023 22:44

I reckon mine is the longest held grudge. I'm late 50s and when I was in primary school the teacher was talking about the equator and she said (just as an aside I think) that you could tell that you were at the equator if it was midday and you didn't have a shadow. I piped up that it was only true at the two equinoxes, so twice a year. She told me off for being rude and contradicting her. But I was RIGHT!

Ladysaurus · 17/04/2023 22:49

Macmillan.

They abandoned my bed bound mother once she went on to palliative care "because she is likely to die of a secondary infection not the actual cancer." They just stopped turning up the day after an appointment with consultant. They were due at 8am for breakfast call. When they hadn't been by 9.30 they told us the above (after we called to check things were ok because no one had been). Marie curie came within the hour and took over all mums care for her final 3 months.

15 years on It still takes all my strength not to flip their cake tables when someone throws a coffee morning fundraiser at work.

whynotwhatknot · 17/04/2023 22:50

Clinton cards

about ten years ago went to the till to buy a card-gave a twenty woman only gave me change fom a ten-i said i gave you 20, no you didnt she said and got quite huffy

Manager came over didnt she give you twenty, no the woman said definitely not-we'll have to let you know when we cash up-assistant looked smug as anything

got a phone call later erm weve got your change sorry about that-i wnt in and got it off same assitant with a great big smile and sarky thankyou

anyway i refuse to shop there now

Bensteeth · 17/04/2023 22:52

The big Sainsburys near me. I was overcharged for the pizza meal deal and they wouldn’t refund the difference so I’ve never been back 🤣

KohlaParasaurus · 17/04/2023 22:54

Many years ago I worked as a GP locum in a central Glasgow practice. I had to park in a metered bay and could only pay for 2 hours at a time so I had to dive out and refeed the meter several times during the working day. One time I was a couple of minutes late and got ticketed by a hovering warden. I haven't spent a penny piece of my money in Glasgow since that day.

k1233 · 17/04/2023 22:56

I don't hold grudges, I get even...

Went into a lighting store once, prepared to spend a couple of thousand to redo my lights and fans. Walking around the store, literally standing looking at fans trying to find a price. One sales person was chatting to friends the other stood behind the counter. I eventually gave up trying to get anyone's attention and tried to leave. The only help I got was to tell me where the button was to push to exit. I went to my next appointment (hairdresser) and googled the chain, found a contact us email and basically wrote the above, adding I'll never shop at their stores again due to this frap service. Well state manager got on touch trying to get a sale, I wasn't spending peanuts, it was a good solid sale. I told him sorry but I have no interest dealing with them ad their customer service standards are so poor.

The other was my flooring. Utter debacle. I wrote an accurate recount in an online review which has been read 1200 times. Fuck you floor wankers!

PurplePlayhouse · 17/04/2023 22:57

When my brother was 10, he went to the local corner shop for my parents. The owners accused him of stealing and went through his pockets. They found nothing.

My Dad was absolutely furious that they'd manhandled my brother and gone through his pockets. We were instructed to never use that shop from then on.

Cue 25 years later, we're visiting an old neighbour and my Dad wanted a newspaper. I walked and extra 20 minutes to get it because I was still loyal to my brother and refused to use that shop again.

PurplePlayhouse · 17/04/2023 22:58

My Dad was like 'did you go to the other shop?' and I said yes and he said "I knew it! That's my girl!" 😁

PurplePlayhouse · 17/04/2023 23:02

When my other brother was a kid, he was having a really tough time at school and home life was tough for him too. The neighbours kids were little shits and really horrid to him.I didn't know about it at the time but he was a very unhappy little boy and these kids made my brother's life even more miserable.

That kid grew up and applied for a job and I was on the interview panel. I made sure that I made it as uncomfortable as possible for him during the interview. He didn't get the job. Sorry, not sorry!

Gloriousgardener11 · 17/04/2023 23:06

RSPCA

For sending the bloody gas people round to disconnect the gas fire after I rang them about a wood pigeon stuck up the chimney.

They couldn't give a toss about the pigeon, six hours later and a set of chimney sweep brushes from B and Q the poor thing was finally pushed out, no thanks to them.

Then I had to pay a gas engineer to reconnect me.

Never given a penny to that charity - bastards !

notsayingmuch · 17/04/2023 23:09

I think chemists have special customer disservice lessons. The one in Hawkhurst (the actual pharmacist) was rude to me years ago, implying that I was trying to steal from him because he gave me too much change by ten pence and as I looked at the money in my hand he seized it back and said that I was trying to keep it! Well, he got the ten pence back but I went to Boots religiously after that.

PutKettleOn · 17/04/2023 23:15

Grudge held for at least 6 years now against rude neighbour over asking a builder working on their house to turn very loud radio down. I snarl every time I pass their house but I'm very petty 🤣
She has moved down my list though since another neighbour reversed into DC's car 😤
Top of list remains manager at work to whose face I'm forced to be polite but against whom I hold a grudge dating back about 14 years now I think 🤔