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Tell me the petty things you have done when you have had enough of people's shit!

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Travelfairy · 18/03/2026 14:37

I'll go first ☺️

DSis criticises everything I do, from where I have sent my children to school to how many holidays we take. She runs us down and tries to downplay our achievements to anyone she knows 🙄
She is also very controlling and likes to dictate what happens in the wider family. Anyway this past Mother's Day, she told me a month before that I 'had to' 'take' our Mum for Mother's day. Shes a sprightly 70 year old. Anyway I said i was already taking her out to a show and dinner on the friday night and that would be our little celebration. She said no I would need to 'take' her Sunday as well because she has plans for Mother's day as she's a mother too and 'deserves to be celebrated!' 😂😂
I am also a mother but you know, that doesnt matter. So Anyway we planned a last minute break away and our flight left Mother's Day Morning. Problem solved 😬😬 i have never done anything like that before but boy did it feel good. I am absolutely sick of pandering to her shit! Always putting her needs first to keep tje peace. Not anymore!!! IDGAF!!!

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Ivygold · 18/03/2026 21:53

Friendlygingercat · 18/03/2026 21:46

Many years ago (when I was renting) I inadvertantly took the NDN's green garden bin. Please note - for gardening waste - you dont cut the lawn every day. Instead of coming and speaking to me she rang the LL who lived opposite. Stupid LL (who is an anything for a quiet life type) rang me. I told LL I will take the bin around tomorrow. "She wants it now." "Well she can wait til tomorrow for snitching."

Next day I left it at the bottom of her drive, having sprayed SNITCH on the side with gold paint. A few weeks later every single one of her bins went missing. I parked them in the back garden of an empty house. She had to order new ones. They took about 10 days to come.

Another time (during a kitchen remodel) a different neighbour slung several black bags over my fence in an attempt to get them into the skip. The garden gates are kept locked. One of my workmen saw him, took them back and dumped them on his step. He would have had to move them in order to get into his house.

I am the neighbour you do not cross.

What a nasty thing to do. This was meant to be a light hearted thread…

Namechangerage · 18/03/2026 21:59

Friendlygingercat · 18/03/2026 21:46

Many years ago (when I was renting) I inadvertantly took the NDN's green garden bin. Please note - for gardening waste - you dont cut the lawn every day. Instead of coming and speaking to me she rang the LL who lived opposite. Stupid LL (who is an anything for a quiet life type) rang me. I told LL I will take the bin around tomorrow. "She wants it now." "Well she can wait til tomorrow for snitching."

Next day I left it at the bottom of her drive, having sprayed SNITCH on the side with gold paint. A few weeks later every single one of her bins went missing. I parked them in the back garden of an empty house. She had to order new ones. They took about 10 days to come.

Another time (during a kitchen remodel) a different neighbour slung several black bags over my fence in an attempt to get them into the skip. The garden gates are kept locked. One of my workmen saw him, took them back and dumped them on his step. He would have had to move them in order to get into his house.

I am the neighbour you do not cross.

Ummm the bin (over)reaction is psycho behaviour 😬😬

YelramBob · 18/03/2026 21:59

FlapperFlamingo · 18/03/2026 20:51

My neighbours would have screaming rows - literally two or three hours of full on screaming in the middle of the night. Slamming doors, stuff breaking etc. I asked them nicely to keep it down, I complained, spoke to building manager - still it continued. I put some hefty speakers against their wall and played the Linkin Park album on repeat all day for 16 hours. I went shopping and visited a friend. Never heard them again.

I did similar with my stupid bitch neighbour. I played the music so loud that my cats ran away.

This was at 6am on a Sunday morning.

Friendlygingercat · 18/03/2026 22:02

No nastier thn playing loud music for hours (which could disturb other neighbours) or putting itching or farting powder into people's clothes. Get a grip.

Namechangerage · 18/03/2026 22:02

Badbadbunny · 18/03/2026 20:22

I have a small office for my business. It has a driveway. Unfortunately, the driveway includes a "right of way" for access to neighbour's back gardens. Most of the neighbours use it properly, i.e. basically just to wheel their wheelie bins and occasionally for workmen to take materials/tools into their back gardens for garden work or rear of house maintenance - no problems at all with that. One CF neighbour treats it as "his own" and parks his own car on it, or leaves pallets of grass/building materials etc on it for days/weeks, or tells his workmen they can park their van on it etc. That means I can't park my own car on it when I'm at work, not just for the odd day occasionally, but sometimes for several days in a row, or a day or two every week for several weeks. I constantly asked him to move so I could park, but it was always "it's only a day or two", "where do you expect the builder's van to park", "where do you expect the builders merchant van to leave the pallets" etc. I checked the law, and it confirmed my view that the "right of access" just meant a 1 metre wide "strip" to facilitate pedestrian or wheel barrow access to their back gardens, and no rights to use anything wider nor leave anything on my drive. My son recently moved to London and he no longer needs his battered old banger of a car. Rather than sell it for scrap/We buy any car, it's now proudly parked on my drive, carefully having left a 1 metre wide walkway past it to allow for the legal right of access. Neighbour is spitting feathers but I really don't give a toss. He's just cut off his nose to spite his face. Beforehand, I was only there working hours, so he had free reign to use the drive weekends, evenings, and when I was on holiday. Now he has nowhere to store his crap, his car, his pallets or building materials, etc. Yes, petty, but some people drive you to it when they're entitled pillocks!

👏👏👏👏

chefs kiss!

Friendlygingercat · 18/03/2026 22:04

Love the one about parking the car to restrict access.

BashfulClam · 18/03/2026 22:08

I am quite petty. When I was younger I had a friend who acted like a spoilt Princess. Whenever we went to the shops she’d ask me to hold her bags while she paid and then would just swan off leave me with her crap to carry. When I would tell her to take her stuff back she’d act like I was being a whinger. One day usual story, she got me to hold her stuff and swanned off like I was a lackey. I just put her bags down shrugged and walked on. After about 5 minutes she asked ‘where are my bags?’ I said ‘oh back there somewhere, I’m not here to carry your stuff!’ She ran back and luckily her stuff was where I left it.

I got suspended from school for being petty but that’s a story that would give away who I am…..

1980isitjustme · 18/03/2026 22:12

damelza · 18/03/2026 20:23

Ha ha ha ha ha. The laughing emoji should be reinstated.

Except a touch typist would have no trouble - if they weren’t looking at the keys their password would be correct as they typed it.

and the keyboard would only have one T so couldn’t spell TWAT.

few holes in this story!

Friendlygingercat · 18/03/2026 22:12

I wont tell you about some of the really mean things Ive done because this is meant to be a light hearted thread - according to the thread police.

OneFootAfterTheOther · 18/03/2026 22:19

If people annoy me I move them from fresh coffee to instant. I’m quite sure no one cares but it makes me feel better.

Gall10 · 18/03/2026 22:20

Mydogisagentleman · 18/03/2026 14:50

Much younger me was persuaded to accompany my boyfriend to a fishing competition.
I had never been so bored (and horrified at the cruelty).
I offered him a thickly spread Dairylea sandwich.
It had a few maggots as well.

Serious fishermen use maggots as bait… the REALLY serious ones keep the maggots in their mouths to keep them warm and keep them wriggling so they’re more likely to attract fish!!!

silverbirches · 18/03/2026 22:24

OneFootAfterTheOther · 18/03/2026 22:19

If people annoy me I move them from fresh coffee to instant. I’m quite sure no one cares but it makes me feel better.

If people annoy me late in the evening they get regular coffee instead of decaf.

Travelfairy · 18/03/2026 22:25

Perkedup · 18/03/2026 19:56

What’s your relationship like with your mum?

Good. But she enables a lot of undesirable behaviour from my sister. We get along very well. She had no issue wirh me getting away

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OneFootAfterTheOther · 18/03/2026 22:26

silverbirches · 18/03/2026 22:24

If people annoy me late in the evening they get regular coffee instead of decaf.

That is epic.

silverbirches · 18/03/2026 22:28

OneFootAfterTheOther · 18/03/2026 22:26

That is epic.

Simple but effective. Halo

Travelfairy · 18/03/2026 22:28

LadyOfLymeHouse · 18/03/2026 20:37

I had a horrible landlord when I was a student.

When I moved out I poured milk into the airing cupboard.

Omg!!!!

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silverbirches · 18/03/2026 22:31

I can't remember who told me now, but one of my long-ago acquaintances had a vile teacher at secondary school, and on the last day of term before the summer holidays he attached a kipper to the underside of the teacher's desk.

asco · 18/03/2026 22:31

I still have a house in a beautiful seaside spot that was mine and my first husbands home, my now husband and I and our kids spend a lot of time down there (4 hours away) and are very particular who we allow to stay.
I begrudgingly agreed to an aunt of DH's using it, don't particularly like her but detest her son, his wife and their 2 foul mouthed, wild and VERY badly behaved kids (whose parents and nana think are perfect) - they are NOT allowed use it and the Aunt knows this and was reminded that it was to be her and her alone,
Found out by chance that she was bringing them😡😡

Not to worry, I just rang my former MIL and got her to lock the doors in the kitchen/diner/living room that led to the hall which in turn led to the playroom, sitting room and upstairs bedrooms, leaving only the downstairs ensuite bedroom that is off the kitchen for them to use. The bedroom has one double bed.
Also got her to completely clear out all the cupboards of everything edible, so all tea, coffee, oil, condiments, the whole lot as well as all toilet roll, kitchen roll, cleaning stuff.
She went one better and also took the coffee machine, toaster, sandwich toaster and wifi router😂😂 and left only one bath and one hand towel.
When the Aunt called to her for the keys she only gave her the back door key.
I would soooooooooooooooo love to have been there when they arrived as, despite them being quite wealthy they are as miserable as a badgers arse and wouldn't spend Christmas, the Aunt had to drive back to the local town to get basic supplies and the others had to go and spend money and book into a local hotel.
And of course none of them could complain as they weren't supposed to be there in the first place.

Denim4ever · 18/03/2026 22:32

I prefer to think of this as audacious but it might still count.

I was very shy when younger and bullied a lot. In my first job most people were nice and I felt a lot braver. There was one young woman a couple of years older than me who was never very nice to me and quite like some of the school bullies. She organised a house warming evening for the coffee table people from work to show off her new flat. She invited them all when I wasn't there as I was omitted from the guest list. I found out this was happening and decided I'd just go along figuring she wouldn't want to look lose face by turning me away if I knocked on the door when the others were there. No more bullying or exclusion happened after that.

Umop3pi5dn · 18/03/2026 22:34

Sister Glitter bombed ex's house. Over all the carpets plus in the washing machine drawer and drum. Really fine Glitter used for ceramics. Took hours to cover the carpets so it wasn't immediately visible.

He cheated and moved OW into his flat while he was staying at sister's house. He used to complain about his kid having Glitter as it got everywhere. Kid outted the cheat.

sandrapinchedmysandwich · 18/03/2026 22:37

Ivygold · 18/03/2026 21:53

What a nasty thing to do. This was meant to be a light hearted thread…

I totally agree. Completely unnecessary

Umop3pi5dn · 18/03/2026 22:39

Your former MIL is a gem @asco

MarmaladeSandwichUnderMyHat · 18/03/2026 22:43

MissRaspberry · 18/03/2026 21:05

I made up a petty lie to my older sister a number of years ago. I had a male friend over who I hooked up with(we had known this guy since we were all teenagers). My older sister came over and saw him at my house. He asked for a local taxi number and she offered him a lift home. Showed up over an hour later looking very smug saying sorry but she shagged him and she couldn't resist as he was quite sexy. He asked if he could see me again I said no as I knew he had screwed my sister the same night we had hooked up. My sister actually had the cheek to tell me I could no longer be friends with him as she wanted to pursue a relationship and she didn't want him anywhere near me. She was totally trying to be smug about this guy and proceeded to tell my friends how she's shagged a guy the same night that id been there first like she had won a prize or something. So I told her well I can only hope you made him wash before jumping on him she said no she didn't 🤮 so I lied and told her he gave me anal that night. She soon stopped bragging about that night 🤣

Blimey

MarthaBeach · 18/03/2026 22:50

CrustyBread1977 · 18/03/2026 21:39

Never mind that - moving the keys around wouldn’t make you type anything different. It’s the bit under the keys being depressed that tells the computer which letter to type, not what’s written on the key itself.

That's what I thought too when I read it!

microwavecurry · 18/03/2026 23:10

Student neighbours annoyed me with an all night party when I was 9 months pregnant many years ago. And were not especially polite either when I knocked at 1am, 2am and 3am asking them to pipe down. Apparently I was a killjoy.

At 8am I fucked off to my Mum's sofa for the day, leaving a pair of speakers turned to the shared wall with a selection of the worst stuff I could find on YouTube (teletubbies, Christian heavy metal and Chesney Hawkes amongst other stuff iirc). And dobbed them into their uni.

There was a box of chocolates waiting on my doorstep that night with a post it saying 'sorry'. Apparently they were told by the uni (it was uni owned accomodation) that a repeat performance would get them removed from their courses. I stayed in that house for several years and never did have a problem with any more students after that.