Share your little wins - the pettier the better!

CaveMum · 2024-12-10T14:47:44+00:00

Anyone had any good little wins recently? I had a very satisfying, but petty, one this morning - I saw my former best friend (who ghosted me several years ago with absolutely no warning or explanation) walking towards me down the local high street, she lives in another town these days so it was unexpected. Happily I had just stepped out of the hairdressers with freshly cut and dyed hair, was wearing my fabulous new coat and generally felt rather glamorous. She, bless her (and here’s the petty part), wasn’t looking her best. I flashed her a big smile while she glared daggers at me and I walked on by. Most satisfying! So come one, give me your satisfying/petty recent little wins.

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CaveMum · 10/12/2024 15:16

Just me feeling petty then 😁

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Lucy25 · 10/12/2024 16:14

CaveMum · 10/12/2024 15:16

Just me feeling petty then 😁

No 😂 that was a really good one.

FUBAR77 · 10/12/2024 16:26

👏 winning at life today OP! This is the dream for all scorned friends and lovers everywhere!!

Resisterance · 10/12/2024 16:58

That is the stuff of dreams. I would love that to happen to me in real life.... you've definitely got cause to celebrate OP!

Jimmyville · 10/12/2024 17:07

Oh I have one. Very uncharitable but nice to get off my chest anonymously.

There is a woman I don’t like and who doesn’t like me and this weekend has been particularly tough in that she is now sleeping with my ex.

Anyway, Facebook was promoting an event this week - ‘Come on down’ etc - and there is a photograph of last week’s event. I looked at the photo…hang on …. this same woman, but photographed from behind, with the truly frumpiest outfit and very unappealing silhouette. A photograph any woman would dread. Public, and I think it had at least 30 likes when I saw it.

OY VEY. Yes.

(Super petty 😁)

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CaveMum · 10/12/2024 17:14

Ah, my petty friends - here you are!

@Jimmyville yours is fabulous in its pettiness, I too would revel!

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CaveMum · 10/12/2024 18:07

Hopeful bump, I need to hear more tales of pettiness!

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Cursieputed · 10/12/2024 18:17

I live in a coastal town that gets pretty rammed in the summer, especially certain roads

Anyway, arsehole cuts me up on the roundabout, by undertaking me.
It unsettled me. It was a close miss.

He goes on ahead. Gets caught in slowing traffic so I'm still behind him. by a few cars
There's a two-lane road - this gets jammed every summer
I was in the correct feeder lane to turn left.
He was in the incorrect lane (the straight ahead lane) and was indicating to move into my lane
No one, but no one let him in, which is unusual, because people round here are usually pretty okay at making space for people, but no, this guy was stuck.

So I did. I flashed him into my lane, mainly for the poor sods stuck behind him

There were no thanks from the arsehole
he just limped on in slow traffic right in front of me.

That lovely warm glow of pettiness stayed with me for hours.

Nc546888 · 10/12/2024 18:29

Oh mine is very small. But it was this morning.
DH moaning lately that I buy random stuff some Lidl, he’s mentioned a few times some weird cherries in syrup in the cupboard that I’ll ‘never use’ and I was like huh did I really buy cherries in alcohol? I thought I just bought jam?!

and he mentioned it again today and said you must use up that weird cherries in the cupboard in your cooking this week (I’m making a trifle) and I was like I’m pretty sure it’s jam darling (calm and nice).
Hes like I’ll prove it to you!! and storms over to the cupboard and grabs the jar and loudly reads no it’s a CONSERVE!!
and I just leave the pregnant pause

and he says that’s jam. Isn’t it?

and I just say nothing but look at him and carry on eating my cereal.

fucking love how I’m always right about this shit. Why does he never learn if he challenges me on stuff he is always gonna have jam on his face

Muncha · 10/12/2024 18:36

Cursieputed · 10/12/2024 18:17

I live in a coastal town that gets pretty rammed in the summer, especially certain roads

Anyway, arsehole cuts me up on the roundabout, by undertaking me.
It unsettled me. It was a close miss.

He goes on ahead. Gets caught in slowing traffic so I'm still behind him. by a few cars
There's a two-lane road - this gets jammed every summer
I was in the correct feeder lane to turn left.
He was in the incorrect lane (the straight ahead lane) and was indicating to move into my lane
No one, but no one let him in, which is unusual, because people round here are usually pretty okay at making space for people, but no, this guy was stuck.

So I did. I flashed him into my lane, mainly for the poor sods stuck behind him

There were no thanks from the arsehole
he just limped on in slow traffic right in front of me.

That lovely warm glow of pettiness stayed with me for hours.

Petty would have been not letting him out. He won.

wendywoopywoo222 · 10/12/2024 18:57

Got tailgated by an artic lorry for miles on a wet bendy road in the dark. He overtook me on the duel carriageway. I waited till just before the roadworks, overtook him and made him do the whole 2 miles at 25mph. Petty but satisfying.

TheDandyLion · 10/12/2024 19:07

Usual story of neighbour parking wars. He says the road outside his house belongs to him and his wife needed it. He was aggressive about it and blocked me in. I suggested he get in touch with the council to put in a disabled parking space. The council eventually painted the box in the road and so I parked in it and put my disabled badge in the window. I wasn't going to bother getting the council to do it for me as there is tons of space in the road end of cul-de-sac and I wasn't going to be living there that long and I didn't want to pay for it. I didn't expect the council to be so efficient but I was certainly going to take advantage of it when I could.

myladybelle · 10/12/2024 20:35

TheDandyLion · 10/12/2024 19:07

Usual story of neighbour parking wars. He says the road outside his house belongs to him and his wife needed it. He was aggressive about it and blocked me in. I suggested he get in touch with the council to put in a disabled parking space. The council eventually painted the box in the road and so I parked in it and put my disabled badge in the window. I wasn't going to bother getting the council to do it for me as there is tons of space in the road end of cul-de-sac and I wasn't going to be living there that long and I didn't want to pay for it. I didn't expect the council to be so efficient but I was certainly going to take advantage of it when I could.

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