Harmless little acts of rebellion

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This is completely LIGHTHEARTED.

My husband absolutely cannot stand Cardi B at all. If she comes on the radio he will switch off, if her songs on the TV he will exit the room or change the channel. Now I don't think she's amazing but, I must admit she has some catchy songs.

My little act of rebellion is when I'm in the car alone, if Cardi B comes on the radio I will turn it up extremely loud and sing my heart out, even giving the woman herself a run for her money.

What are you little acts of rebellion?

I drove over a mini roundabout at around 2am the other week and got pulled over by the police. They looked in my fiat and saw a middle aged mum so didn't bother to breathalyse, just gave me a lecture.

It's a mini roundabout I particularly hate, I still drive over it but look in my mirrors for police cars first now.

It’s not so much rebellion as revenge, but my last boss was an absolute a-grade arsehole, and very into his feng shui, to the point where he paid for a consultation from a very expensive feng shui master and followed his instructions to the letter. So I took great satisfaction on one of the days I was in the office alone to empty all his strategically placed bottles of “blessed” water down the drain and refill them with tap water, and turn all the little elephants in the windowsills so they faced inwards instead of outwards.

He also always uses one particular cup for his first morning coffee. Turns out that cup is just the right size and shape for getting a urine sample when you want to do a pregnancy test...

At work we are allowed to wear jeans on a Friday.

Guess what I DON'T do on a Friday?

AgeLikeWine

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Love yours

We had a man in our office who was OCD about his desk, all his pins in his tray were laid with heads at one end & points at the other in neat rows, his break time banana was always set at a certain angle on his desk & he was paranoid about Mark's on his monitor screen. Every morning one of the managers waited until he disappeared for his 10.30 big dump at the toilet, yes 10.30, not 10.29 or 10.31 walked past his desk, stirred up his pins, moved his banana & left a massive thumb print on his monitor.

Wait, what..? You're not allowed to drive over mini roundabouts?! They shouldn't make them so bloody flat then should they! I am so a rebel 🤣

You kitkat eaters are just savages

There's a section of the school run that people always speed through. I make a point of doing exactly 30 (somemes 29, little cars and hills, can't be helped...) all the way to the end of it. There are well attended allotments on one side, houses on the other and my friend with DS lives on this stretch and I always feel like I need to PROTECT THE GOOD PEOPLE. And I turn my music up.

I still put the divider on the supermarket conveyor belt the wrong way round. Thank you Mumsnet.
My kids do it too.

DH set his alarm for 6.15 this morning and then let it snooze every 10 minutes til mine went off at 7 but I didn't bloody need because of his stupid snooze!
I got out of bed and he turned over to go back to sleep... So I've just opened the curtains as I left the room... I can still hear him moaning 🤭

Yay the supermarket divider! I forgot all about that. I’m so doing that next time.

Talking of school run, when I was waiting to collect DD from primary school, ALL of the other parents would stand in a large knot right in front of the gates but within the playground. Effectively blocking it to anyone else who was leaving or arriving.

I used to walk 40 feet or so away from them and stand pointedly alone. They were so bloody sheep-like and stupid!

I don't pay to park unless I have to. Meters, pay and display? Nah mate. Never get caught.

I stick Apple ( as in MAC) stickers onto Windows machines at work....

Not harmless really but every time I'm on day 2 of a (usually low carb/ sugar) diet, I rebel against myself and have a really ott cake like a cream doughnut or something I wouldn't normally have in the first place!

A harmless rebellion is when all the staff have gone home at school where I work and Im the last one in the building, I put my music on youtube and sing my head off!

I love these

My favourite one is the upside down stamp

I can’t think of any, that’s so boring of me, I will try harder!

@managedmis - me too. When I first failed to dress down on Fridays I didn't know my much loathed boss had introduced it. He has long since left but every Friday when I get ready for work I get a millisecond of pleasure out of the fact that it annoyed him.

I worked for a company that had a really strict stair code. We had training at least twice a year on how to use the stairs properly!

So when I found out I was being made redundant I walked up the stairs m:

• on the wrong side
• not holding the handrail
• with a hot drink
• drink didn’t have a lid on

Those 12 steps felt soooo good!

DH insists that the bedroom door stays closed so the cat can't get in. The cat is at least 140 and only finds the energy to climb the stairs once in a blue moon, whereupon he sits behind my chair in the study until he decides it's time for more food. When I'm working from home, I open the bedroom door the minute DH has left the building.

KitKat1985 We also are not allowed a single, very basic teabag on a 12.5 hour shift with no break (the break that is unpaid!), so have to bring in our own tea and coffee, then label it. One of the Consultants is always disgustingly rude to us mere mortals, so I take great, petty pleasure in helping myself to his posh coffee.

Fantastic thread - has made me laugh!

I also do the rigid adherence to the 30 limit through my village. Except, I actually do about 25, just to bring the average down, and to show it really doesn't make it that much f a longer journey!

After years of asking wife and children to not leave trouser one leg right way, one leg inside out, and the same for arms on sweaters, I now refuse to fix them after they've been washed, and hang them to dry all twisted. Oddly, my clothes are always ready to wear again before theirs.

My DH loves routine. He likes to have everything exactly the same as much as he can.

He pissed me off one day. The same day I had to buy a new jug. I came home with a model that allows you to change the boiling tempurature by pushing a button.

Now every time he annoys me I make a cup of tea and change the jug off his preferred setting. And then I giggle at the sharp intake of breathe when he discovers it.

This thread is brilliant! I'm another kit kat chomped.

My brother will only eat heinz tomato ketchup, so I have a bottle with Tesco own in it. I give it to him everytime he has dinner here. Unfortunately he had a 100% success rate of knowing what I've done 🤔 clearly he can tell the difference, I can't...

I sing a catchy tune in front of my husband until he picks up on it and starts to sing it too. I then stop. He sings it for most of the day, on and off, and then after about 5 hours complains that he can’t get the tune out of his head. I only do it about two or three times a month but every single time he takes the bait

I play a music game on my phone where you can double your daily reward by watching a video ad. I turn my phone screen down until the ad finishes.

That's sticking it to the man. 😎