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?

When we were teenagers my mum had a lady who came and cleaned and did washing and ironing for us…. She was such a lovely lady but one time…: after repeatedly asking us if we could make sure our clothes weren’t inside out when we threw them in the washing basket she washed, ironed, folded and put all of our clothes away inside out. We never did it again!

Taking things that MIL says at face value. She's a guess-not-ask person, you're supposed to bend over backwards to decide whether she's really happy for you to have last slice of cake, or whether she wants to be persuaded to join you on that day out she wasn't sure about. So fuck it, I take her first answer and smile.

There’s a security guard that used to work in Aldi, he would follow me and my mum round every single week watching us whilst mum was getting her weekly shop. So I started walking round aimlessly up and down the aisles doubling back on myself, picking things up glance around to see if anyone was looking then put it back again. Sometimes I’d pick an item up take it with me then put it back 5 minutes later!

Every time I stopped the security guard would sneak up beside me and pretend he was sorting the shelves. So I would go to the other side of then shop and repeat the whole process again.

I’ve since seen him in Tesco and most recently (this morning) in Morrison’s where I clocked him watching me again. They didn’t have what I wanted so played my game and left empty handed, he practically followed me out of the store!

Learned enough Welsh to respond to people who insist that, "this is the UK, everyone should speak English."

Late to the fantastic thread. My tuppence is
Had a senior I hated when I was junior. They were mean spirited and bellicose . Think of kind of idiot who wears comedy socks, says how funny they are…you get the picture.They had a desk top calendar, the kind that’s like a post it block ,I used to randomly pull put individual pages as I knew when that date arrived it’d be absent and annoy then. They dressed really scruffy and I made a point of smart dressing , they had appalling time keeping I was always early. This all culminated in them turning up late and in scruffy attire being denied entry to a meeting no one believed they were senior. Cue them blustering do you know who I am, and looking really silly. Later on They then proceeded to tear a strip off me in front of others about how very dare I
Turn up on time
Turn up Appropriately attired

Customer sent various emails to me each time getting my name wrong, either by spelling or a different name entirely. It was just rude especially as I always sign off my emails with my name and my email address also states it clearly. I tried signing off my email with my name in capitals which didn’t work and was getting thoroughly fed up with him so next email I sent him I deliberately got his name wrong.

Straight away he emailed to correct me isaying my names not Bob lol (the lol annoyed me too don’t know why) so I emailed him back and said and my names not... followed by all the variations in my name he’d sent (followed by lol for good measure)

At work we had a pool car that was mainly used by me and Annoying Colleague.

I used to change the radio station from the one he liked (Radio 4 or Classic FM) and always left it on 'Bangin Choons FM' even though I never used the radio myself because I always listened to podcasts on my phone.

I also never put fuel in it unless it actually needed it it was down to well under half a tank left (we were supposed to fill it up every time even if you only used a small amount, which I thought was a waste of time), so while I never left him without fuel for at least 200 miles, the flagrant disregard of The Rules, that he was a stickler for, would have caused him much annoyance.

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.

Have not RTFT but I can't let 5his go. In my Army days I project-managed a visit to out regiment by a senior member of the RF (an offspring of the queen).

I was friendly with the chefs who were doing the offucers' mess lunch. Some bland chicken thing. With Vichy carrots. The major in charge was a blithering idiot who read they are thinly sliced rounds of carrot. At the practice lunch he was furious because they weren't perfectly round (because: peeled carrots). So the night before the actual lunch the cooks were up all night slicing carrots and then cutting each slice into perfect rounds with tiny cutters. Lunch for 150 people.

So round carrots must be posh if they were ok'd by a flunkey for royalty to eat

@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!

Absolutely brilliant…shall be using this at work from tomorrow onwards 😊

Some of these are very odd.

Ten years of hidden chirping poster especially, you need to sort your passive aggression out.

One of the best ones of these that I read on MN a few years ago was a poster who used to go onto her DH's Netflix profile and watch Ru Paul's Drag Race, Love Island, TOWIE, etc, just to fuck with all his Netflix recommendations.

So petty.

Loving some of the stories and am definitely taking notes.
I had a client once who was always very difficult and seemed to think that, as a (relatively) young female, I should bow down to his superior expertise and carry out actions that I knew shouldn't be. When he was leaving he emailed me an utterly patronising and demeaning email and copied loads of people in to it that I would have to continue working with. My boss was a little worried when I said I would be responding and asked if he could have a look at it before sending. I've very fond of my boss so was quite happy to share. I then wrote the most effusive, gushing thank you email about what a joy it had been to work with him and how much I had learnt under his wise tutelage. It was a 'reply all' email. When written I showed my boss and when he'd finished reading it he asked if I could make one tiny change...to add 'and xxx' to my signature.
It entertained me so much (still does to be fair) as I knew he wanted me to call him out so that he could brandish it around and say 'see, I told you what she's like'
There's nothing more fun than being nice to people who don't like you and want others to agree how awful you are.

@olidora63 we use CU Next Time too as a fun alternative! 😂😂😂

I do quite a few things to annoy my neighbour because he's a fucking dickhead, including leaving the front hedges to get a bit more overgrown than I would like in the summer because I know ut irritates the fuck out of him. To be honest I don't even really notice them until one day I think oh they need a trim, but I'll leave it another few weeks. There is a bit of grass/gravel that runs along the side of his fence (not his land) and he hates it when people park on it. He actually brought 8 traffic cones home from work and sat them along it so people in the street couldn't park, but that ment that when people did park there the road got blocked. I park there often and just move a couple of cones. My dad and mum are less passive with their aggression and throw the cones out his side of the fence everytime they visit 🤣.

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My old boss hated milky tea, I took great delight in putting loads of milk in and putting the lid onto it

Gone thru the self-checkout while shopping with my parents. They see the self-checkout line as evil job-stealing. They are pathological about it.

Sometimes I leave drawers or cabinets open. This makes DH break out in hives.

@Firstruleofsoupover

With a family member who has selective hearing, and manages to miss most things I say while my husband is present (so she can talk exclusive to him) I have taken to standing in front of her and bellowing. You can see it flash across her eyes while she decides to answer or not - can I get away with pretending I didn't hear Soup no not really.

I love this.

I sewed up the front of my Exh boxer shorts when he annoyed me, every single pair 😊

Not me, but someone I once worked with. He wasn't originally from this country, and found a security guard used to follow him all around a particular shop. So one day, he knew what he was going to buy, and made sure he had the EXACT money for it. He picked up all the goods, and then walked straight out of the shop (making sure the security guard was watching him), and dropped the money in the bin inside the shop door. Security man, finally pleased to have caught his suspected shoplifter comes charging out after him. He innocently explains, in very broken English (he is fluent, he got his PhD in the UK), that he had paid, he put his money in the machine. Security guard then asks what machine, and he points to the bin. Security guard then had to empty said bin, where he did indeed find the exact money. My friend was never followed by him again lol!

I was a big labour supporter during the Corbyn reign and my in laws are staunch tories (The immigrant hating, poor-people-are-scroungers, daily mail loving kind) and they despised Corbyn.

When I was pregnant, I told them that if the baby was a boy, he'd be called Jeremy and if she was a girl, Corbyna. 😂😂

After taking a battering i used to cut out random pages at chapter end in my mums book by her bed.

@Dippydinosaurus

I really couldn't be bothered doing any of these but my DH really enjoys it: When we moved out of a rented place, the letting agents were already being awkward (think trying to blame marks on the carpet as us even though they were on the inventory). So he tightened the oil tank so they wouldn't be able to open it. He's found an app that phones back cold callers 9999 times automatically. He really hates them and makes up stories to keep them on the phone to waste their time so they have less time to call someone else.

Please share the name of this app!

Great thread! I love some of these, but found some a bit gaslighty.

I make passive aggressive shoe towers. DH and DS like to leave their shoes lying about the place, even though we have plenty of space on our shoe racks.

I pile the shoes up, next to a wall for support. I mix the pairs up so that if they want a specific pair, they will have to play shoe Jenga. This game has not persuaded either of them to start using the racks, but I get some pleasure from it anyway.

I dont know why i found this so hilarious but my friend used to repeatedly call a Mrs Dove 'mrs glove' to her face, even when steam from her ears was visible

@JetBlackSteed my son could di that using his iPhone! We went to a restaurant one night, all the TVs were on ,but on different channels, with no sound. I mean, what's the point? So he turned them all off with his phone. Was hilarious, watching members of staff, and the manager, trying to work out what was wrong with them. Every time they got them back on, he'd put them off again! They gave up in the end and left them off- which was so much better- then he switched them all back on again as we left!😁😁😁