AIBU to ask about petty things you've done?

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Just that, really! I thought it would be a fun thread to ask about petty things you've done just because you can. I want to hear about your parking fares paid with 1p pieces!

I'll start: I had an ex who was (when I looked back after the relationship ending) emotionally abusive, sexually coercive, and generally awful. Years after we broke up, he self published the book he'd been working on whilst we'd been together. It was a dystopian novel which revolved around a huge corporation doing some terrible things, and when I googled the name of the book to be nosey, I found that a real corporation with that name DID EXIST in Brazil. I may or may not have sent an email to make them aware of such defamation and gone to the effort to have Google translated it into Portuguese

I had a temp job that was advertised with an hourly wage. They decided to pay me a monthly salary the same as the permanent staff. Obviously the monthly salary works out as more than the hourly salary in a short month, and less than the hourly salary in a long month, and it evens out over the year.

Except I wasn’t there for a year. I was there for Jun/Jul/Aug which are long months of 30/31/31 days. The way the days fell meant I was getting paid 3 monthly salaries which worked out as a couple of hundred pounds less than if they’d paid me by the hour. I was young and couldn’t afford to lose that money.

I asked to be paid by the hour as per the job advert. They refused. I sought legal advice but appeared to have no recourse. So I carefully worked out how many items in the stock room added up to the amount they had stiffed me. Then I smashed that many items and sneaked out. There was no CCTV and much fury when loads of stuff turned out to be broken.

The other week it was just DS and I home for dinner on a Sunday evening. Dh was supposed to be back by then but he hadn’t texted to say when and I was starving having just returned home myself (DS is 14 so was home alone). I messaged him to ask when he’d be back, no answer so I put food on for DS and I, and by then dh texted back to say he’d be back in half an hour so I said ‘ok, me and DS are eating now’. When he finally arrived home he wasn’t happy there was no food made for him and stomped about the kitchen like a hangry teen opening freezer stuff.
Later I said that if he’d actually been polite enough to tell me he’d be home by X time I would’ve provided something for him. He’s got form for crap communication so he needed a bit of a wake up call in that regard.

My older sister is a nasty boot, and made a really difficult situation a couple of years ago (think family death) spectacularly more painful for the entire family by her aggressiveness.

She made the mistake of going away for a week or two, leaving her nasty rum open and unattended.

Basically I gobbed in it.

I sit here smug in the knowledge that the bitch has drunk my spit.

Oh, you lot have fantastic imaginations!

"Worst" I've ever done was delete the recordings and series-link off a Sky box for stuff my (ex)DP loved watching.

"Best" I've ever heard off was a friend who sent her ex's prize collectors-edition vinyl LPs, worth quite a few quid, back to him after he walked out on her. Three LPs apparently can fit in a A5 envelope once they're snapped into smaller pieces.

Also when I was a teen my mum and I had the same white blouse for some weird reason! We were totally different sizes though and she accidentally dyed mine light pink in the wash. I was really pissed off that she still had her blouse and mine was ruined so I chucked hers out the window into a muddy puddle in the hope hers would be ruined too!!

My friend was left in a lot of debt by a girlfriend (took out loans in his name, gave her the money, she defaulted on all payments....30k or so, the fool) and didn't deal with it well and ended up having his house repossessed. Meanwhile the girlfriend who accrued all the debt had walked away without a care in the world.

We were there, emptying the house in the only four hour period the bank would give us, and discovered the girlfriend's precious drum kit sitting in the garage, waiting for her to collect it. She was a musician. This kit was expensive. Very expensive.

Oh dear.....

It's fun imagining the reactions of a future house owner strange bits of twisted metal down the back of the floor units, when they eventually rip the kitchen out to replace it....

I once had two colleagues that didn't get on A & B. A told me one day that he knows B has a read receipt thingy set up on her emails, so he deliberately deletes her emails without reading.

B then gets a message to say her mail has been deleted without being read and goes batshit.

A says he always went into his deleted folder and read her emails, he just enjoyed winding her up.

Bloomcountry did she ever ask about it? And why didnt it just "disappear" you sell it??!

Nope. She disappeared along with the money and was never heard of again. She had no intention of letting any of us know where she was. We knew, as did she, that she'd have been made to pay one way or another had we known where she was, so she was wise to keep her head down.

I don't know what a bank will do with any items left in a repossessed house - sell them? Leave them in the house so the new owners inherit them? I genuinely don't know.

It was a lot of fun destroying it. I supposed we could have taken it and sold it, but we couldn't fit it in the van we'd hired and we were all really needing to vent some anger on an inanimate object. I'd rather it had been her car but hey, needs must. I expect she could have easily bought herself another drum kit with the money she stole from my pal.

I laughed so hard at some of these!

We have recently got ourselves an Alexa for the house as DH loves his music and anything in life that makes it easier. I was the one to set it up so I have the app etc on my phone.

We had a mini argument the other day and in the end he 'shushed' me. I thought this was so rude and it got me really angry but I left it at the time as had to go to work. Because he works from home I knew he would have some music playing on the Alexa device. I went on the app and continued to pause/unpause. I did this until he called me to say the 'damn thing was faulty!!!' He went on a rant for the next 5 mins until I almost split my sides laughing at him.

When I got home I fessed up and told him never to shush me again as he would have 'shushed' music for the rest of his life 😂 Maybe one of those 'had to be there' moments but I'm still chuckling about this as I'm typing!

My teenage son loves death metal music etc. He has a Bluetooth speaker. When he annoys me I play 80’s pop or musicals through his room 🙂

Setup WhatsApp status for just one recipient and passive aggressive status ie “Those who matter don’t mind, those whose mind don’t matter”.

They don’t know it’s just for them and very satisfying as I know they have read it!

@MrsGideon that sounds very familiar 😂. Myself and some friends mocked up an official university eviction note and pinned it to a friends door......he went into complete panic mode. It was a tad convincing ...

Mind you it was a revenge prank, we'd had our rooms emptied etc. But then his parents arrived and it really wasn't funny anymore.

Oh my this has really brought back memories, we had a lot of tit for tat room wars going on at Uni.

Contents of room emptied into the shower.

Jar of opened pickled eggs left under the bed and the radiators turned up.

Pickles rammed down the back of the radiator

The most extreme was the eviction notice, I'm pretty sure we actually got hold of official headed paper for that one.

I can't even remember how it all started, but it was WAR 😇🤣🤣

When DP works late he can never sleep on a night and keeps me awake with the TV in the bedroom (he does turn the brightness and volume down to give him some credit), yesterday I was in a fowl mood so hid the Now Tv box, no telly for him and peaceful sleep for me😊

I also like to enjoy watching him having to light a cigarette with the kitchen hob when he's lost yet another of his lighters and then make a mad dash outside as I get my lighter out of my pocket

May also be known for taking the lemonade out of the fridge and putting it in the cupboard so it's really warm, I don't drink fizzy pop

Flaffable that is pure genius!!!!

My step dad was utterly foul to me growing up, bordering on abusive.

Occasionally I'd silently fight back, he's mildly allergic to cats (just to the extent of sore eyes and blocked nose) so I would rub our cat on his pillow (cat loved it).

He once accused me of using his razor (I hadn't) and got really nasty about it, so for about a month I took to using his razor to shave the carpet, making it nice and blunt.

The cat hated him too, and used to wee in his briefcase

DH has been very vocal about trying to lose a bit of weight recently. When he annoys me during the day, I give him the bigger portion of dinner and dessert to sabotage him a bit. He doesn't realise what's been going on, but the scales do

I was in an abusive marriage years ago.

We used to share a pc and played the same game. When he left the house I'd play the game until I'd taken his name off the high score table.

There are a lot of single lane river and railway bridges where I live with one way having the right of way. Whenever someone ignores my right of way and pulls onto the bridge while I’m on it I stop the car and put the handbrake on. I waited 15 mins once until the other car reversed back then cheerfully explained the concept of give way lines when I slowly drove past them.

If my sdad annoys me when I’m at their house ( only mildly he’s actually a lovely man) I de alphabetise the spice rack.
He never mentions it and next time I go there it’s always back in order, he knows it’s me though

The uni ones prompted a memory.

When I was in halls, one of the other girls thought it would be funny to post my name and number in one of the other halls as a sex worker. So of course I started getting calls from blokes asking for my prices etc. I was reasonably well liked by the others (more so than she was), so they weren't impressed.

It started as a one off - on the day the cleaners were due in we were in the kitchen and one of the guys threw a food item of hers in the bin. She was at an early lecture, so it was gone by the time she got back. We started doing it each week - we would take something of hers out of the fridge, usually aiming for something unopened and well within date, and chuck it.

The whole year she couldn't work out what was happening. She thought one of us was eating her stuff, but we denied all knowledge. She labelled her stuff thinking it would stop, but that just made it easier for us to take turns and do it on a rota.

MaitlandGirl wow that's hilarious!! until say an emergency services vehicle needs to get through quickly and is delayed by you and the other vehicle in a stand off. Sometimes those extra few minutes you take to clear the road might really matter in a life or death situation.

I put in an expenses claim for a £1.20 parking voucher/ parking ticket.
(Incuring about £10 of admin time for the company to process the form and photocopy the receipt).
Petty but I hated the job so felt slightly justified.