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?

Christ. The type of colleague everyone dreads. How spiteful.

@Firstruleofsoupover - is your username a reference to Count Arthur Strong by any chance?

We used to have a set of placemats that were varying shades of brown. I preferred the darker brown because it looked like nice gravy, while the paler brown looked horrible. I used to lay the table and give hated step-parent the pale brown one every time. Utterly pointless but it made me feel better

@Disrespected

I also left it 24 hours before replying.

your post is even more funny as it comes up straight below the one refusing to answer her DH shouting in the next room 😂

@Iamthewombat

Christ. The type of colleague everyone dreads. How spiteful.

especially nasty as the person likely to end up stuck with the mess will be an outsider who had nothing to do with the original petty fight.

Erm, our house caught fire when I left a blender (switched off but) plugged in at the wall so actually your H is right to unplug them.

@Iamthewombat

Christ. The type of colleague everyone dreads. How spiteful.

You clearly have no idea what kind of monumental bitch of a boss I was dealing with. She'd slagged me off to the entire board of directors, and told them I wasn't up to the job. Funny that the previous incumbent of her job (a director himself, although she wasn't) and the accountancy practice who did our audit all thought what I did was fine. Five years without a single audit adjustment counts for something.

Ironic that she wasn't up to the job, and got the push 3 months after I left. Served her right. I found out afterwards that she was a nasty piece of work as it turned out that an acquaintance of mine had also worked with her. Briefly.

I have one lovely neighbour and one vile neighbour, our regular longstanding Postman knocked asking if I could take in a parcel for each of them as they were out, I took lovely neighbours but declined vile neighbours on the grounds that they weren't very nice...there was a brief pause whilst Postman registered what I'd said then he replied with a smile "I'll drop that back at the collection office then".... The collection office which is 5 miles away on the other side of town
Small act of pettiness but very satisfying.

I have a tiny gadget the size of my thumb that beeps and chirps at random intervals. Its sole purpose is to annoy people. The sound is short and irregular so the gadget is difficult to locate. When DH annoys me I turn it on and hide it somewhere. Been doing it for ten years and he’s never found it yet. He was particularly puzzled when we moved house and the mysterious chirp came with us!

what's called and where did you buy this? pretty please, asking for a friend.

@Clawedbutler yes, I am a big fan.Love it.

My grandmother, long gone now, once described for my ma how she and some other women had all had to report to some unpleasant boss who treated them poorly and insisted on having tea and an iced bun brought to him at exactly 11am each day. The women took it in turns to do this task. Each day they would mix in a little bit of spit into the icing. It’s terrible. But I have always been quietly impressed.

We had a new boss who declared we could no longer have a microwave in the staff kitchen as he couldn't stand the smell of cooked food wafting into the open plan office (poor love) We could only eat at desks so from that day on I took tinned fish, pilchards if possible, for my lunch and thoroughly enjoyed sitting next or near him while eating it. He could hardly tell me what to eat!

My boss is a narcissist and borderline bully who makes her dislike of me very clear at every opportunity. I don't work on Mondays, so every Friday at home time I put on a bright smile and say see you next Tuesday in my cheeriest voice.

Ah, a well-placed "see you next Tuesday" is very satisfying.

I'd not heard of "There we are then" but will definitely be using that one in future!

If my husbands being a pain, I put him a weaning spoon in his packed lunch box for work instead of a spoon when he had meeting over lunch 😂 (before COVID)

Calling in sick on New Year's Eve due to 'morning sickness' so assistant manager, who had been a complete jerk about my pregnancy 'not being convenient for them' had to work New Year's Eve evening.

@Iamthewombat

Are you suggesting that your friend was doing a ‘dumb foreigner’ act? Because that is more disturbing than the behaviour of the security guard.

Really? More disturbing than the overt racism displayed by the security guard? That tells me all I need to know about you.

When DH annoys me I polish the hall floor.
Then I watch him skid all over the floor
It’s the little things 😁

Downloaded a Sky remote app and synced it with the box when irritating tv hog guest relative was out the room.

Then changed channel every so often via my mobile. I knew nothing! I was just on my phone looking at facebook as I demonstrated (after quickly flipping the app over before showing ;) )

Mean manager at work - always asked for a read receipt when sending around her orders requests. Turned them off so mine never got sent and did not respond unless I was specifically addressed.

our car had seat/bum warmers ( I know, its made in Sweden). my husband and I, well mainly me, pretend to be adjusting the fan in the car on hot days, and we secretly turn on the other's seat heaters so spouse has sweltering bum before they notice its on.

its the little things...

@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! Going to use this one....a lot!

There We Are Then

It is quite an off way to consistently end a sentence. I wonder whether manager will notice and cotton on.

Where would the poster be then?

Soon after I moved in CF neighbour asks me my name. Told her my first name. Waited for her to tell me hers. Nothing.

"Whats your second name?" Told her. Again, does not introduce herself.

"Is that Miss or Mrs?" Still no attempt to introduce herself.

"Well before I give you any more information about myself suppose you have the courtesy to tell me your name!"

She looks at me like Im speaking old high Martian.

"Its neither Miss nor Mrs. Its Dr. My first name is for my friends and relatives. You can call me Dr Member."

Left her open mouthed. Looked her up on the land registry website and found out her full name, who her mortgage is with, when taken out and how much she paid.

My ex boss was micro managing,possible psychopathic fun sponge.I hated her so much.
The day before every bank holiday weekend I cheerfully stuck my head round her door and said "see you next Tuesday"

@Amima

I have a tiny gadget the size of my thumb that beeps and chirps at random intervals. Its sole purpose is to annoy people. The sound is short and irregular so the gadget is difficult to locate. When DH annoys me I turn it on and hide it somewhere. Been doing it for ten years and he’s never found it yet. He was particularly puzzled when we moved house and the mysterious chirp came with us!

@Amima

I NEED this. Repeats I NEED this. Please where did you buy such a stupendous gadget from? It will be used to annoy my teenager who has stealthily made my house a smart house - I am so fed up with yelling at the A device to turn the light on and off.

@MsHedgehog

I was sat in a meeting room at work. Meeting rooms on my floor were never ever booked, you just grabbed one that was free. Whilst I was working away in there, a team from the other end of the floor arrived to say they booked it for, say 3pm. I asked if they can go to the room that was right next door (which was the exact same size) as I was settled into a difficult piece of work and had folders every where. They refused saying they had booked this particular room.

So I packed up, went back to my desk, logged onto the meeting room system...and booked the room for 4pm. Took great joy in going back to the room at 4pm to kick them out, mid meeting!

Beyond howling with laughter at this one and I am only on Page 1!!