So I'm currently feeling a petty sense of triumph. I know this makes me a bad person, more so because it makes me smug.
I've been struggling with house renovations and one of the companies I instructed to rebuild part of the roof has made an awful mess of things - leaving a hole unfixed, breaking furniture and denting walls with scaffolding, cracking a manhole cover in the garden etc. At the same time, a plumber from the same company has had to be back three times to fix a leak in a loo pipe and it's still leaking! I asked them to come over and repair the damage last week, stayed in and not only did the guy not show up, he didn't call to tell me he wasn't coming (wasted day for me). He came by today to do some of the repairs and I was so livid by that point, that when he asked to use the loo, I told him no because their incompetence meant it was still leaking when flushed and the room below had water damage to the ceiling. The plumber came back round whilst the first guy was here and promised to get the damage fixed. The second chap then asked, as he was leaving, if he could now use the loo as we'd established that the company was willing to fix it. In a pique of irritation with him, I said no again and sent him on his way.
Petty? Yes. Unreasonable? Yes. But it felt so good to get my own back, in however pathetic and small-minded a way, on this man who has wasted my time and damaged my home.
Please, please, make me feel better about how pathetic I am - tell me, have you ever done something you knew to be really petty?