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 😂

I could win gold at the Olympics for holding a grudge. I am half Welsh, nuff said.

My boss at work and his assistant, 20 years ago. Cunts.
Director at another job. Cunt.
A multitude of other people for assorted misdemeanours. All cunts.

I am quite old so have years of experience at seething with rage about things.

I love this thread, thank you OP.

When I couldn't go back to sleep last night this thread soothed me back into a peaceful slumber. Especially the 'all well adjusted people cary bags of grudges' post. I'll try and think of an interesting grudge later, when properly awake😁

Saw an article once that said Starbucks refused to give out drinks during 9/11 and instead tried to charge people for water. Have refused to drink in there since.

When I was ten we had a village fete with a fancy dress competition. There were three of us in our age category, my friend from another class, a boy I didn’t know, and me. My friend and I had home made costumes, the boy was in jeans, a denim jacket, a bought cowboy hat and a toy gun. My friend won first prize (rightly so), and the boy came second. I still fume that a bought costume beat a home made one - I’ve seen photos of my friend and I and our costumes looked really good. The judge was my teacher and I was convinced that it was personal. 30 years on and I am still seething at the injustice.

My SILs who deliberately ruined my first Christmas with my long awaited child. Years we'd spent trying to have a baby, losses along the way while they all had their babies and built their families and they couldn't welcome us for ONE day. I said we'd never spend Christmas with DPs family again and we never have 🤷

A couple of weeks before DS’s 3rd birthday I popped in to the local cake shop to ask if I could hire their ‘3’ cake tin to make a birthday cake. I couldn’t afford to buy one but they hired tins out. They agreed, wrote my details down, told me how much it would be, asked me to come in the day I needed it and assured me that they’d put me in the diary.

I turned up to collect it the day before his birthday to be told “sorry, someone is hired by it today.” “Yes,” I told them - that will be me.”

Nope, they opened the diary and someone else was down to borrow it that day - they’d never written my details in there. Fuming. I still do secret v signs at them every time I pass their shop and have never been in there since. My son is, ahem, 14 now…

in my first job, a library, and had long hair which I liked to believe and still do was very swishy and lovely. Man comes into the library and says something about urgh look at your hair hanging in the tickets. I looked at the name on his ticket and he was someone who had recently run unsuccessfully as a local councillor. I told him I would remember that comment next time he came to my house canvassing for my vote. A couple of years later knock at door and there he was standing asking for my vote. Told him no and the reason why. Move on a few years and there he is at a stall in town with his sycophants stopping passers-by to try and get their votes, I went over to tell him why he wouldn’t be getting my vote and told all his followers what a rude cunt he was to me that day. He never got elected to council which of course is down to my efforts entirely. Over 40 years ago now and I still despise him.

Sounds reasonable OP.

Barclays back closed my account when I was 13 because it hasn't been used in 6 months, and stole my £1.84. I wrote and contacted them three times but couldn't get it back, they cited THEIR costs of closing the account as the reason why!!!! I have never since used a financial service from them, I never will, and I even declined a work contract with them. I'm well aware everyone associated with that decision has probably retired by now but the grudge will last.

I also have issues with Virgin Mobile and their mistakes in taking my money. I got that money back, but haven't forgiven them for the hassle.

My SIL has been a complete and utter vile cunt to my mum in the last year. I will never speak to her or my spineless arsehole of a brother ever again. I wish unspeakable things on the two of them.

My dh old employer, whenever we see their lorries we both stick the V's up and call him a wanker. He didn't pay my dh his holiday pay and then dragged his feel so much the claim was out of date by the time it got to court. He owes my dh about 6k. If we do see a lorry and get the registration my dh will go onto a website and check if it's got an MOT and tax, if he ever finds one that doesn't (which I'm sure he will one day as they employer is v dodgy), he'll report him the the dvla and police

22 years ago my then boyfriend criticised the amount of celery I chopped off and threw away. I told him it didn't really matter in the bigger scheme of things and he got incandescent at my dismissive response. We had one of those relationship-defining rows and broke up soon after.

Every time I chop celery, I whack off an extra bit for the bin and say under my breath 'screw you celery man, that'll show you'!

What did they do?

FIL is 84 and still holds a grudge against the entire Swiss nation because a woman in a gift shop was (allegedly) rude to him when he was 25.

Oh and Live Aid! I'll never forgive them either. I was probably about 11, I'd saved up all my pocket money for a TShirt, I'd even done odd jobs to get money from my parents. I gave my mum the money and she wrote a cheque, we sent it off and I never got my T-shirt.. I still moan about it every time I hear the song - I'm now 50

Kirsty Ketteridge. Nasty evil cow.

We had a nightmare experience with a local tradesman last year, involving trading standards.
Every time someone asks for a plumber on the local FB groups, I message that person telling them of our experience. I must have told hundreds of people that way.
I get great satisfaction from depriving him of business.

Oh and siobhan you can rot in hell too.

Yes but now my memory is bad so I don’t remember them all.

I’m planning to dance on my ex managers grave and if I die before him that I’m going to haunt him, the lying cunt!

Then

There's a small chain of bakeries near us and on the two times I've popped in for bread, I've picked something off the shelf, handed it to be scanned and the woman on the till has glared at me and hung on to it for dear life while my debit card was authorised...almost as though she thinks I'm about to bolt from the shop with a crusty baguette, when if I wanted to do that, I'd never have gone to the till in the first place. I've not gone gone back since and as they've recently started selling their products in the local corner shop, I refuse to buy them despite the fact I'm missing out because their bread is SO good.

Ridiculously petty of me. 😂

This is very cathartic . Sorry to the posters who have genuinely tragic or distressing events still haunting them.
Mine are more petty. The corner shop talk reminds me why i insist on driving to the local Tesco rather than nipping a few doors up. About ten years ago, I paid with a note, the woman engaged me deliberately distracted me in chat and didn't give me any change. Then they refused to admit it and left me without the change. Apparently the till added up at the end of the day and the manager offered me credit which I refused. Obviously.
Also - pizza place. Long queue and we were waiting for ages (front). I asked when they would open the top and they said not for ages so we ordered from the takeaway section. As we ordered they opened the upstairs. The manager refused to let us change to eat in. Outside the food hall was rammed and you had to queue again (Covid times) for a table so the pizza was cold by the time we sat down. They offered credit as a result of my complaint and I wrote back and said that would be hypocritical of me and I would never eat there ever again. The teens, disloyal arseholes, refuse to back me on this and sneak off there when they can.

I still have a grudge against Prince for keeping Take That off the number 1 spot. Didn't even abate when he died 🤣

Kissedbyfire1 I had a similar issue with Kwikfit many years ago as an early twenty something. Basically tried to tell me I had no choice, do the work or scrap my car and buy a new one. They even asked if my boyfriend to come along so they could explain it to him. I told them I'd rather buy a new car than give them the money. I took the car elsewhere and got it fixed for a fraction of the price Kwikfit quoted. Never went back and bad mouthed them to everyone. Sexist money grabbing arseholes who give mechanics and garages a bad name!

First marriage, first house and nasty, horrible neighbours. They were fine one day, took against us the next and wouldn't say why. Their mate used to park across our garage in the shared alley behind the houses so that we constantly had to knock to get let out, and deal with abuse on the doorstep. When having a BBQ with friends they would throw bones, bits of sausage etc into our garden.

After I moved away due to divorce, and was in management in local government, I found myself facing the wife who had applied for a job in the general office. In a situation where I would manager her manager. Her face was a picture. I declared that she had been my neighbour and did the "Oh hi, lovely to see you" thing.
She was the best suited for the job and I'm a bigger person than her so she got it. Or am I? The joy of wandering into the office on Mondays and saying "Hi everyone. Have you had a good weekend? Dawn, it was lovely and sunny, did you manage to get the BBQ out?". Or "That nice friend with the BMW I used to bump into by the garages. How's he doing?" It's about 30 years ago but if I bumped into her on the street I'd ask the same sort of things.