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How petty are you?

74 replies

Pettyspaghetti111 · 30/06/2020 21:20

Sometimes when DH annoys me I eat toast on his side of the bed.. I already know I'm unreasonable, I'd probably murder him if he did it to me. Is anyone else a petty fucker?

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BlackWhitePurple · 30/06/2020 23:19

I wouldn't get petty revenge if I was really mad about something, but if DH does something mildly irritating then I might.

Like one night recently he was reading in bed and kept laughing out loud while I was trying to sleep, so I sat up and turned the light off.

Belledan1 · 30/06/2020 23:21

A long time ago when in mid teens my brother was a pain all day winding me up .I had cooked tea as my mom was at work. It was the days you had bread and butter in themiddle of table. The cat jumped on the table and licked the butter and I never told him. I also when 16 year old office junior I washed a cup of a girl worked with with a dirty cloth that i wiped floor with as she was always so mean to me. If she dropped some paper she would make me pick it up and always give me her post late and treat me as a slave and called me fat. I just think things now that i would like to do to people and don't do it.

ReturnOfTheMc · 30/06/2020 23:22

I read this on here I think, and I tried it once. Warning - it's incredibly immature and a bit odd.
My husband was annoying me. I managed to stick a clothes peg on the back of his jumper without him noticing.
It cheered me up no end seeing it for a few hours before he noticed (at which point I feigned ignorance and he concluded it had come off the line with it stuck on). Actually, my petty, childish mirth served the purpose of defusing my foul humour.

Belledan1 · 30/06/2020 23:26

Lol viciousjacksaw.
I stuck my fingers up once at hubby when i sat in back of car. I dont rem why and he saw me in the mirror. We did laugh about it after.

LookBackInIngres · 30/06/2020 23:29

Mum would clean the dogs’ teeth with daddy’s toothbrush if he’d been particularly nasty (which he was - often).

Caselgarcia · 30/06/2020 23:31

On a weekend evening shift the whole team would have a burgers from a local takeaway. There was one man in the team who was top lazy to ever offer to drive and pick up the burgers. We all ordered different burger meals which were labelled with our names ready for collection. When colleague and I went to pick the order up, I unwrapped his burger, took the top of the bread roll off and we drove back into work
with me holding his burger out of the window down the dual carriageway. Put the top back on and rewrapped it before giving it to him stone cold

Maureenthecat · 30/06/2020 23:36

I read “pretty” and came prepared to say I’m a 5. 😂
Petty? Not very at all really. Life’s too short, I let things go.

Lockdownginger · 30/06/2020 23:46

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Drbrowns · 30/06/2020 23:54

When I was in college I had a housemate who used to use all the pots and pans and leave them around dirty, for everyone else to clean and never did his share of cleaning anything else and used to always hog the remote, but always washed one plate, bowl, cup and cutlery set which he kept in his press so no one else could use them. I used to lick his cutlery sometimes if he was out.

pumpkintree · 01/07/2020 00:04

This is the level of pettiness (is that a word) I aspire to. I don't put sugar in his coffee so he has to get up and go to the kitchen if he annoys me, he hates it.

CrazyToast · 01/07/2020 00:52

I'm not usually but once I had an awful boss. When I left I wanted to go in her office and spill milk on the carpet. I didn't do that but I did go in and totally change the adjustment of her chair. I know how annoying that is!

HoomanMoomin · 01/07/2020 01:03

Umm. Well, in the past I have taken back two of my boyfriends after they treated me like shit and cheated on me to then dump them a week later. Yes, it was very calculated.
Although nowadays I just talk to DH. In 6 years we’ve had maybe 2 full on loud arguments.

CardsforKittens · 01/07/2020 01:12

I merely aspire to pettiness. I used to work with someone who was unpleasant to me and I fully intended to rotate her PC display someday (Ctrl+Shift+Down arrow) because I knew she would be completely freaked out and unable to fix it - but sadly I never got the chance.

Davodia · 01/07/2020 01:32

I once farted on DH’s toothbrush after he was horrible to me.

hadtojoin · 01/07/2020 01:51

If my friend was mad at her husband she used to make his lunch sandwiches and leave them on the side till they started to curl before wrapping them, or she would give him cheese and leave them wrapped in the sun till they started to go sweaty.
He had nowhere to buy replacements either.

MrsAvocet · 01/07/2020 02:17

Not generally, but once, many years ago, my then boyfriend really pissed me off by spending the entire day in the garage with one of his friends, tinkering with his car. It was his birthday, so yes, I suppose he was entitled to spend it however he wished, but I had spent hours, and quite a lot if money on cooking his favourite food for romantic birthday meal, and I hadn't really planned on sharing it with his mate, with them both wearing oily overalls. Plus I had called them in repeatedly but they had ignored me and the food was all ruined anyway. So I decided enough was enough, picked up the cake that I had lovingly prepared and took it into the garage. I put it on the floor, said "happy birthday", then stamped on the cake a few times, got into my car and drove home without another word.
It was slightly self destructive as it was a fresh cream cake and my car stank for ages afterwards due to the cream and crumbs that transferred from my feet into the carpet. And 30 odd years later he still takes ages to come in from the garage at mealtimes so it didn't even work!Hmm

Mothership4two · 01/07/2020 02:24

I think I must be really dull!

Lesat · 01/07/2020 02:27

:)

MaintainTheMolehill · 01/07/2020 03:04

We have a cupboard just for plates and cups. One time when the food cupboards where full I put some tins in the plate cupboard and it really pissed DH off. He went on and on about how that was the plates and cups cupboard.

Now when he has annoyed me I will go into the food cupboard and move something into the plate cupboard. Sometimes a loaf, sometimes tins and sometimes just the salt or pepper. I enjoy his annoyance and it makes me feel better.

timeisnotaline · 01/07/2020 03:49

Some of these are good but I was hoping for more world record levels of petty tbh!! Come on mn, up your game. I only have something very minor- my younger brother didn’t want me as a Fb friend so every time he didn’t log out I’d add me on his account. Eventually he’d notice and delete me, rinse and repeat...

Yeahnahmum · 01/07/2020 04:00

Hahaahahahahaha you eat toast on his side of the bed Grin I love that! I aspire to become this queen of pettyness Smile.

I just speak a different language with my kids when my husband is really annoying and make sure that we have a super funny haha kinda conversation. And he doesn't have a clue what we talk about muhahaha.

user1473878824 · 01/07/2020 04:00

Oh sorry OP, I’m a grown up and an angel and nothing ever annoys me and if it does I sit down and talk it out and everyone then understands my point of view and if that doesn’t happen then everyone is clearly a child and then I just polish my halo silently in my spotless kitchen.

Totally stealing your toast thing.

MrsAvocet · 01/07/2020 04:22

One of my ex colleagues used to share an office with someone she didn't like. The other woman was obsessively tidy so my colleague used to periodically slightly move just one item on her desk when she left the office. Just enough to disturb the symmetry, but not enough for her to be certain that someone else had done it deliberately. And at random time intervals so there was no predictable pattern to it. Quite nasty really but the obsessive woman was mean to her too.

AlwaysDancing1234 · 01/07/2020 04:25

I bought a set of mugs a while ago and one of them has a cockerel on it - when “D” H is being a twat I delight in giving him tea in the cock mug!
Yes childish and petty but it’s these little things that stop me from screaming/leaving/burying him under the patio!

Sparticuscaticus · 01/07/2020 06:59

@AlwaysDancing1234

I bought a set of mugs a while ago and one of them has a cockerel on it - when “D” H is being a twat I delight in giving him tea in the cock mug! Yes childish and petty but it’s these little things that stop me from screaming/leaving/burying him under the patio!
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