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Harmless little acts of rebellion

538 replies

KungFuPandaWorks · 17/09/2019 17:55

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. Grin

What are you little acts of rebellion?

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MissDew · 18/09/2019 12:35

My colleague is a well known pain in the hole. He loves his stuff exactly as he leaves it on his desk. We have a hot desk office which he ignores because he has to sit in the same desk everyday. Sometimes when I am in early I sit at his desk and he silently short circuits but can’t say anything.

I love this. Absolutely love it !

wanderings · 18/09/2019 12:38

Another cinema one: I mess about on my phone during the adverts before the film, because I’m not going to be forced to watch adverts as I paid to see the film. Also, in the days of video cassette rentals, I used to rewind them until just after the adverts at the beginning, before I returned them!

MissDew · 18/09/2019 12:45

I never use the toilet on my break at work, always go during work, i like to get paid to have a shit and piss

Yep. I resent interrupting my break to go to the toilet. I'll go to the toilet then go on break or hold on to it and go afterwards.

I also park by our garden wall so that there's not enough space behind our car to park a car in. Well, you could shoe horn a small Fiat in there I suppose. If I reverse any further back, you can't open the passenger door because there's a lamp post there.

Loving the letter re-arranging in shops so that mugs or herbs and spices make rude words.

saj90 · 18/09/2019 12:50

@Hoppinggreen Shock That drives me MAD when my DP mixes up my perfect alphabetical Spice Rack haha.

Pollywollydoodah · 18/09/2019 13:17

Love the mini roundabout and rearranging lettered stock ones. I live way out in the sticks and if I'm driving home alone late at night and there's a full moon I turn my lights off. When I go in a shop with cushions etc with those two-way sequins on I write poo on them.

FredaFrogspawn · 18/09/2019 13:19

I still put the divider on the supermarket conveyor belt the wrong way round.

I did that this morning and the irrationally annoyed little man behind me corrected it pointedly with a fantastic scowl. That made me happy.

To all the NHS workers denied a teabag, I wish I could buy a huge bag for the staff on every ward and department. It is nothing short of a disgrace that staff who work through their breaks are denied a single, simple teabag.

The NHS is virtually running on the goodwill of the staff who do so much unpaid overtime.

The teabag denial thing makes me furious.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 18/09/2019 13:24

I don’t think I do anything very much. I need to try harder.

VeryQuaintIrene · 18/09/2019 13:24

Going into Tiger or some such place and setting all the egg timers or alarm clocks to go off at the same time.

Moominmammaatsea · 18/09/2019 13:32

I have a child who is registered blind and has associated mobility issues - and a (selfish, rude and domineering) neighbour who has land-grabbed and colonised all the public space between our homes with weedy shrubs in giant plant pots. I have never discussed my daughter's blindness with my neighbour but the pots irk me every time my daughter trips over one.

I occasionally (often!) nip out in the dead of night (I'm an insomniac, it's not like I'm petty enough to set my alarm) to give the shrubs a little trim. I'm brilliant at disposing of the evidence and I like to think it messes with her head wondering why her plants never grow...

sashh · 18/09/2019 13:33

FredaFrogspawn

No reason you can't take some to your local hospital. The last time I had an emergency admission I went back a few days later with a carrier bag full of goodies and I took another one for the ambulance staff.

GalactiCat · 18/09/2019 13:49

I have made "You park like a Cunt" slips of paper to put under the windscreens of the cars who park on the pavement outside the Doctors. It's a busy road with only a pavement on that side so they deserve it.

TimeToGetMeBack · 18/09/2019 14:01

Do was it one of you lot who done this in my local Poundland

Harmless little acts of rebellion
TimeToGetMeBack · 18/09/2019 14:01

So*

cjt110 · 18/09/2019 14:09

People kept leaving scummy dishwater in the washing up bowl at work after having their lunch.

So I binned the bowl and confiscated the plug.

Mousetolioness · 18/09/2019 14:18

Wear dark and smart jeans to work every day, with tunic tops over and smart flat shoes to lessen the obviousness! Jeans are not appropriate workwear according to our rules. I have managed one period of approx 9.5 months and one of 13 months with other shorter periods of stopping and starting in between. Only stopping when general memos about appropriate clothing in the workplace were sent around. Currently wearing approved attire but feel the devil in me raising it's head again... Wink

mumderland · 18/09/2019 14:18

There's a roundabout outside our estate and there have been several crashes in to the fence next to it because people come speeding up to it too fast. So if I see someone driving too fast up to the roundabout when I'm going around I purposely drive slow

YouBelongHere · 18/09/2019 14:27

I was once watching a film with my Mom in her room when my step-dad came in and told me I was 'rubbing my dirty feet all over his side of the bed' - I was literally just lying there. For the next few weeks whenever him and my Mum were out I'd go in their room and rub my feet all over his pillow.

I told my friend and she said I should've farted on it but I never had one brewing...

Staysexyanddontgetmurdered · 18/09/2019 14:34

Not me but my mum tips all of the cutlery from the dishwasher straight into the cutlery drawer without sorting it into separate knife/fork/spoon compartments
It used to drive me insane when I lived with her...now I'm a mum I can kind of understand the suppressed rage.

silenceofthemams · 18/09/2019 14:43

Don't know about the one fingered salute figurines but I did arrange all the wooden life drawing mannekins in IKEA to spell out YMCA last month.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 18/09/2019 14:49

I hope you have a picture!

80daysaroundtheworld · 18/09/2019 14:50

Driving. When someone is inching the nose of their car out of a junction, in that expectant You WILL let me out of here way

I don't let them out, in fact I slow down and make a big fucking deal of squeezing through in front of them reaaaallllly slowly

If someone is sitting at the line, I more often than not, let them ahead

Basketofkittens · 18/09/2019 14:52

When I worked from home in previous jobs with little to do, I logged in my work laptop and made sure Skype Char was set to online. I then spent the day watching Netflix.

nowayhose · 18/09/2019 14:53

@ silenceofthemams

Choked on my coffee laughing at that :) Thank you for making my day fun ! :)

80daysaroundtheworld · 18/09/2019 14:57

Going round supermarket carparks the wrong way, is not 'harmless'

It is dangerous

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 18/09/2019 15:04

I feel naughty when I zip around tiger the wrong way if I need to grab something quickly!

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