What tiny things have you done to specifically annoy someone?

[FlyingSoHigh]

My Mil came from a pretty wealthy family and definitely saw herself as a 'cut above' most people.
So I always used to chop carrots into rounds when she came for a meal as I knew she thought it was 'common'; posh people always cut carrots into sticks.
It was a tiny thing but it gave me so much pleasure over the years.
Can anyone beat passive-aggressive cooked carrots?

@PJday41

I used to work in a bank call centre. We had the terms and conditions available on the intranet. Whenever people used to come on complaining about something that was in the terms and conditions, they would always ask "Where exactly?!". It used to give me great pleasure to tell them it was under section such and such and then recite the entire condition to them.

I quit after nine months after a piece of my soul died.

@PJday41My son worked in a Bank Call centre too, and a little piece of his soul died as well. He is now self employed doing something completely different , and still shudders in horror if I mention ''Quote to close ratio''.

He actually had nosebleeds with stress.

I had an annoying American colleague who'd been to a college called Wharton and thought it made her the best thing evah.

Each and every time she mentioned it (which was often) I would make my face go blank and say "Wharton? What's that again?" Or "it's funny, I don't think anyone in the UK has ever even heard of Wharton" or similar. Used to love watching her get wound up.

@WolfFleeceSpotter

A few jobs back, my old boss was vile. If I had an excuse to go in his office, I would make a point of twisting the phone cord around so when he picked up the phone, the cable was very short and he would have to speak to the person with his head close to the phone whilst he untangled it.

This is evil genius

When my husband left {After taking out a mortgage extension that I had to pay for!!} I scratched the new car he'd bought using the loan.

Oddly it didn't give me much satisfaction.

@OldTurtleNewShell

Weird thread. I'd also leave a DP if they did some of these things to me. The chirping one in particular is awful.

Most are funny but I would guarantee that there would be a different MN recation if it were the male doing them in a relationship!!

Dh a bit obsessed with even numbers. Won't have TV volume on odd number or put odd number of petrol in car.

I purposefully put volume on odd numbers. I put £50.01 deisel in my car and sent him a picture

Re aligning the chrome heater knobs in DH's old car so they were uneven was always a favourite. He couldn't bear it.

More recently I found an F1 game where you test your reaction times to lights out. It started bit of a challenge between adult DS and I. He's still desperately trying to beat my lowest score many weeks later. What he doesn't know is I photoshopped it 😂

Someone who kept spelling my name wrong on emails (simple name and it’s in my email signature and email address) so I change/drop a letter every time I reply to them. Think, Hi Mett, Hi Mat, Hi Natt. Childish but satisfying. They probably think I’m illiterate or sloppy but meh.

@brokenbiscuitsx

Someone who kept spelling my name wrong on emails (simple name and it’s in my email signature and email address) so I change/drop a letter every time I reply to them. Think, Hi Mett, Hi Mat, Hi Natt. Childish but satisfying. They probably think I’m illiterate or sloppy but meh.

I love this

I am too much of a goody-two-shoes people-pleaser to deliberately do stuff to annoy people.

However, I am certain that my ex used to do two specific things deliberately to wind me up. He would put empty cans on the kitchen table NEXT to the recycling bin instead of IN the recycling bin, literally passing his hand over the recycling bin to put them on the table.

He would also only give the cat half a food pouch and leave the half-full pouch on its side on the counter, so it leaked gravy. Every. Single. Time.

@Letsallscreamatthesistene it’s the little things.

(I mean he might think I’m sloppy but he REALLY is 😆 never got my name right, not once )

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I've played my own music loud on my phone, when other people in public transport play theirs. Only twice, though. Should do it more often.

Also put back rear view mirrors on badly parked cars, particularly those too close to mine. Just so that I am able to pass between the two cars.

My neighbour gets in a huff because we have asked him (politely) not to park on our drive...there are more stupid things he does like this.

I remain consistently cheerful and friendly...in my mind this drives him round the bend and it makes me feel better.

My husband and I occasionally annoy one another by playing on each others minor compulsions....so lying in bed...."did you lock the door?"....we have been married for 24 years this year and I dont think either of us has resisted the urge to get up and check!

(That's more of a running joke though)

My wonderful colleague, when one of the managers annoyed her at work, used to end the conversation with 'There We Are Then'. Nobody else got the acronym which made it properly funny!

I have a particularly irritating colleague who caused me various problems when I first started. She packed it in after a while when I just smiled sweetly and left her to make herself look like a tit, but I still use my mouse pointer to draw a penis on her head when I can see her on a Teams call.

@ThumbWitchesAbroad

I don't know if this winds people up or not but I still do it!

I have a name that can be misspelled easily by adding another letter onto the end. Too many people do this in reply to emails, DESPITE it being FULLY OBVIOUS in my own email address how my name is spelled.

So when I reply, I add the extra letter to the end of their name too.

I would say it works in about 2/3 of cases, that they realise and don't do it again.

They probably realise as soon as they send the email, not because you've written their name wrong.

Devices that turn off TV screens

I want one. But preferably one that turns off the volume too.

DH often tries to put the mental load onto me by not specifying exactly what he wants (eg for dinner or to drink) so that I have to guess his preference. He genuinely thinks that this is because he's 'easy' and will accept 'anything', he's wrong. I deliberately get it 'wrong' sometimes because if he's not prepared to give it a couple of seconds thought then neither am I. There was one lovely summer when we had bought a few cans of something fizzy and fruity that turned out to taste horrible. So every time I asked him if he wanted a drink and he said "Yes, anything", I handed him the last can of the horrible drink. Meaning he had to get up and put the can back in the fridge and get himself something he actually wanted. One day the can just disappeared.

@smoothieooo

My wonderful colleague, when one of the managers annoyed her at work, used to end the conversation with 'There We Are Then'. Nobody else got the acronym which made it properly funny!

Amazing!

@smoothieooo
There We Are Then! Love it and am stealing it

PA washing up:

MIL always questioned my washing up (after dd was born, not before). If I was washing the glasses it would be "aren't you washing the bowls?", if I was washing the plates it was "oh, aren't you washing the pans?" etc. And always, always, "don't you rinse?" (I do just not when she thought I should).

So I never rinsed when she was round.

And if she turned up unexpectedly, and I'd already done the washing up (a frequent occurence) I would dash out to the kitchen, quickly make some suds and splash them about on whatever was on the draining board.

It was bloody silly but she got my goat. If only that had been the only pointless beef she had; so many bees in her bonnet that woman.

Gosh so many people here who are just on to moan and criticise! What’s the view like from up there on your high horse?

Devices that turn off TV screens

Really easy to find. Look for a universal remote control app on your phone. I use them in pubs when we're given the booths with the little TV's in that are almost always showing bloody Bing.

I bought myself a bracelet that spells out 'fuck off! In morse code. Flashing it makes me feel better in many different scenarios

I'll probably get slaughtered for this but when I was still working at the chalkface it included the period when Catherine Tate's Lauren was the bane of all teachers' lives, Am I bovvered, etc! I had one girl who was a particular exponant of this, in all her lessons. After one lesson she stayed behind and told me very quietly that she was struggling with the Coursework, without her posse she was quite a nice girl. I couldn't resist it, I didn't look up from my marking, Am I bovvered? She was shocked, But Miss..... . Face? Bovvered? After a few minutes she laughed and said, You win Miss, I'm sorry, didn't realise how annoying it is. We then spent time sorting her Coursework out. The next day her Mother was on the phone, Oh hell I thought, but she couldn't stop laughing, Wish I'd been there, serves the little Madam right.