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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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theDudesmummy · 18/04/2023 18:10

Oh, PE teachers! Mine pushed me into the swimming pool and then laughed at me when I cried (aged about 7). She also disbelieved me when I had a note from my mum because I had had a nail through my foot, and made me take off the bandage to show her the injury. She was a total cow to the kids who like me, were very bad at sport. This is a very long time ago, presumably would not happen today.

FlibbertyGibbitt · 18/04/2023 18:10

NSPCC

My dad’s parents alongside my dad lived in a NSPCC owned property as my grandfather had worked for them for years. They always said to my grandfather that if anything happened to him my grandmother and my dad would always have a home.

Grandfather died very suddenly and about a week later my grandmother was issued a notice to leave. My dad was young. They then had to go to friends , live in dreadful conditions ironic that my grandfather had done his best to help families and kids for years.

this is about 80 years ago and I still can’t forgive .

My dad hated them with a passion. So do I on his behalf now.

Gloriousgardener11 · 18/04/2023 18:15

BuntyFayreweather · 18/04/2023 17:47

I am writing this on behalf of my lovely DD who was expelled for wearing trousers and lost her Oxbridge scholarship. To the HOY at her famous boarding school who allowed her to bullied for 'asking for it' when she was assaulted hence the trousers. To the HM (and his tossy Eton socks) at the previously boys school near Cirencester who said they didn't want her after making her wait all Christmas to say no after her entrance interview.
You can all fuck the fuck off because she is studying medicine and top of her class!

Shocking treatment and well done to her for rising above this and being a top person !

BuntyFayreweather · 18/04/2023 18:21

@Gloriousgardener11 oh thank you. I have wanted to write about this for years. When I go past the school I shout 'bastards'. It makes her laugh.
It does feel good.

Felicityiselecricity · 18/04/2023 18:34

My childhood bully, who made my life hell. I truanted from school because of her, missing my final exams.
she picked on anyone she considered beneath her, who didn’t have the ‘right clothes’ etc.
A friend of a friend is fb friends with a member of her family, and I recently discovered she’s now happily married to a younger man and has a famous household name daughter. but what really choked me was seeing her on her page campaigning against bullying!
you know who you are, you vile specimen.

JimmyDurham · 18/04/2023 18:51

My physics master a school. Ran in to him by chance many years later when he was headmaster of a school in the Welsh Borders. He didn't remember me but I knew him and hated him.

OneFrenchEgg · 18/04/2023 18:53

And fucking Louise who started a rumour that I was off school because I sat on a pencil and it went up my bum. It was actually tonsillitis. I am forever prejudiced against Louises now...which is tough as a Millenial!

OMG. Im sorry I did laugh a bit though. Fucking Louise.

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AckleAckinckacker · 18/04/2023 18:54

The nurse who accused me of abusing my Nan on a hospital ward in front of all the other patients and their visitors, She called security to get me off the ward for my Nan's 'safety' My Nan cried as they took me off the ward, She has dementia and I will never forgive them.

The next time my mum went to visit my Nan that same nurse pulled her to one side and told her they got me mixed up with another patient's daughter. No apology.

BuntyFayreweather · 18/04/2023 19:02

The new mum who begged me to help her with maternity discrimination and then highered a top London solicitor to threaten the company with a £500k claim if I didn't lose my job so she could have it. She applied before I was appointed, failed at interview and went on sick leave as soon as I started. I fell on my sword and allowed them to make me redundant. She got my job six months later. She sits on her arse and tapes every conversation with her colleagues. What a wonderful example of the sisterhood.
Grudge, moi?

VerySlovenly · 18/04/2023 19:04

Cattenberg · 18/04/2023 13:10

A bus driver refused to let me off for ages after I pressed the Stop button, leaving me standing at the front of the bus like a lemon.

Not only did I not thank him when I got off, I now walk into town instead (4 mile round trip). Take that, First Bus!

Oh the bus drivers used to do this when I got the bus to school! If you pressed the button half a second too early or late for their liking they'd ignore you and make you wait for the next stop or sometimes the one after. I think they just hated school kids.

VerySlovenly · 18/04/2023 19:48

Beeinalily · 18/04/2023 16:23

@VerySlovenly please, please don't feel guilty for trusting the experts. You tried your best and they dismissed your fears, it's really not your fault, and guilt is such a destructive emotion.

Thank you for your kindness. I suppose I feel angry more than guilty really. They were so incompetent. There's actually more to the story because DC had another health condition that the GP and HV dismissed and that ended up being serious. And they later denied that the delay in diagnosis, thanks to them telling me everything I was seeing was normal, led to the condition being worse. I'm much more assertive now.

HectorPlasm · 18/04/2023 20:07

Frith2013 · 18/04/2023 11:02

We all cheer when Manchester City lose at football.

An ex of mine was a fan. I haven't seen him for a decade but the cheering continues!

Tsk. You don't cheer much then. Says the city fan ..

Meecrowavay · 18/04/2023 20:14

Premier Inn. Had a shockingly bad experience one night 2 years ago and so despite them being the best location/cheapest option for a bed for a night a couple of times since, I flat out refuse to use any of their hotels again. If they had dealt with the issue properly on the night I'd have forgotten about it by now.

IaltagDhubh · 18/04/2023 20:45

Hannah D, 1989. Farted and pretended it was me. And everyone believed her.

Bitch.

VerySlovenly · 18/04/2023 20:53

It's really shocking to see so many stories of teachers and nurses been horribly spiteful to young children. Obviously safeguarding has come a long way since some of these things happened, but there are still opportunities for those in these professions to be extremely nasty to kids.

Martz · 18/04/2023 20:54

A woman who was a friend of my aunt on my dads side. She really fancied my dad but he took no interest in her because she looked like a troll, and when my parents divorced she took great pleasure in it. My dad was/still is a vile excuse for a human being and treated my mother appallingly- thinking about it he’d be well suited for aunts friend. A few years later at a bbq at my aunts house, aunts friend came over to me and proceeded to say the most disgusting things about my mother and really went to town on her. My aunt and my dads other siblings to their credit told her she was in the wrong and asked her to apologise, her response was “I can’t and I won’t”. I never forgot the awful things she’d said though. A few months ago it had snowed particularly bad in my town and I saw her standing in the doorway of the supermarket as I was leaving with my mother, she waddled over and asked if we were driving her way, and would we give her a lift as she was struggling for a taxi. What I really wanted to say was “I can’t and I won’t” But my mother said yes!!! So I ended up responding with “no we won’t be doing that mum, she can find her own way home”. She didn’t get a lift home, but I was robbed of the perfect response due to my mothers incessant need to be the bigger person! I’ll probably hold onto that as a grudge for a while now too!

Ourladycheesusedatum · 18/04/2023 20:58

Ooh a local vet. I found a cat, schlepped it all the way to the local vet in my cat carrier (no car, bus would cost money) to have it scanned. She was fucking rude, snatched the cat, took it out back, allegedly scanned it. Waltzed back into reception saying very loudly, very rudely "we CANT keep it you know"

I'd never asked her to keep it, it wasnt chipped she said. So I carried the thing wailing and heavy back home. Found it a new owner. But because the vet was so bloody nasty I've never gone to her surgery again. I now have money and lots of pets, and i moved closer to this vet. I go right out of my way to avoid it.
I tell everyone they are shit.

Thst was over 8 years ago, I know cos I moved house exactly 8 years ago.

NotReallyTheVicar · 18/04/2023 21:11

Many of the shop keepers mentioned on here have never learned that, "You never win an argument with a customer; Because when you do, you lose the customer".

IsaiditwasLighthearted · 18/04/2023 21:12

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.

I've heard of so many similar experiences. They just didn't seem to give a shit.

Plus weren't they told off for using too much % of their money on ad campaigns etc by the Charity Commission rather than what the money was donated for ie helping people?
Plus places have to pay them for using the MacMillan name for nurses that are not paid for by macmillan.

Whatever, I'll always support Marie Curie over them as they are amazing.

OneFrenchEgg · 18/04/2023 21:27

Ooh reading about the 'mother thwarting the response' post reminds me of a pointless grudge I have against a random woman in a shopping centre car park.
Christmas parking - nightmare.
Eventually car leaves, we say are you going, they say yes etc etc.
My mother is driving and waits.
Another woman drives up, and also waits. She is better placed to sneak in, as the exiting car will have to come towards us.
I get out and stand in the space.
My mother chickens out.
The woman calls out to me that we were in the wrong place.
I am furious.
As my mother cringes (the parking traitor) I shout back.
I refuse to park there ever again.
That will show the random woman.

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Finalstar · 18/04/2023 21:33

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 18/04/2023 13:48

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

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. Grin

I have recently had this exact argument! Car went in for recall work - I don't use main dealer services otherwise. Was told when I went to collect the car that one of my tyres was "illegal" and needed to be replaced immediately (with a £££ offer to do so).

When I politely declined, I was told I "had" to sign a waiver which said that I knew I was driving an "illegal car" and that I would take full responsibility in the event of prosecution/accident/death/total global meltdown. And that if they didn't do the work I would have to sign a waiver making me responsible for accidents/death/global meltdown....

Absolute twats are now on my shit list and I will go further to the more distant dealers rather than use them again. Had they taken any time at all to ask, I could have explained to them that I know the tyre is low (but still legal), there is a reason why it had worn unevenly (now fixed) and that the car was booked in already with my regular tyre fitter.

I wonder how many people they frighten into getting £££ work done on the strength of having to sign a misleading and incorrect waiver document....

Buzzinwithbez · 18/04/2023 21:59

The local VW dealership. They were really rude when I tried to buy my first car.. They'd profiled me and obviously decided I was wasting their time. Ironically, with no responsibilities I had far more to spend on a car that I do these days and knew exactly what I wanted.
I went to the dealership in the next town and bought from there instead.

HazelBite · 18/04/2023 22:13

Barnsley Social Services, who have had huge negative impact on the lives of myself DH and mainly the 4 people they let down by their utter incompetence and inability to read reports etc.
The complaint made against them (at great expense) was upheld in by a Judge the High Ct., but the damage had already been done, and its effects ripple on.
I am very bitter about this, and would love to have 5 minutes with those social workers to tell them about the heartbreak they have caused that will never go away.

LollipopViolet · 18/04/2023 22:19

Helena M - you lied about having cancer, you lied about having Lupus, you stopped talking to me then "accidentally" sent texts about both these things to me, hoping for sympathy. I know this is true because when I asked how your cancer treatment had gone when I saw you in a professional capacity, you said "oh no I've got a condition that causes cysts." I lost a friend because you turned her against me.

I hope you burn in hell and karma gets you. This was 13 years ago and still holding a grudge.

whynotwhatknot · 18/04/2023 22:36

ElegantPuma · 18/04/2023 13:22

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.

i missed all that what did he do

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