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?

PUNCHEDTIT4ASOUL...
Brilliant! I laughed out LOUD at this!
xx

Worked for a massive UK house builder who paid directors obscene salaries and bonuses. Toxic environment and top down bullying. I used to pour water in my directors building site boots he stored in his office for building site inspections. The pleasure of water squelching in his boots and his discomfort was a joy to his underlings.

DS (21 and should respect his dear Mother) likes to wind up my superstitious beliefs by putting his brand new shoes on the table and leaving crossed knives all over .

I peg his trunks out by the crotch then inform him I've hung your washing out DS 'cos I'm nice ..... the look on his face

@Dontwatchfootball

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.

I did that too - I set up my inbox with a column which told me if a read receipt was attached to an email and they would get opened as late as I could get away with.

@MalfunctioningRobot

When my 24 year old brother complained that I hadn’t done his washing I took his dirty washing out of the basket and hung it up, without washing it first, so it looked like it’d been washed but was still dirty.

He managed to be able to do his own washing after that funnily enough.

When my Uncle was working at his first job away from home he used to bring his washing back for my Gran to wash, dry and iron for him. My Mum though this was cheeky and when we were visiting one weekend she duly ironed his shirts to help out Gran, but then sewed up one sleeve of every single one (10: two weeks worth). He got up and was caught out by it every morning for the next two weeks as he kept thinking she couldn't possibly have taken the time to do them all 😆

MIL was always implying I couldn't clean the house properly, so once at hers when I noticed her Venetian blinds were very dusty I wiped half of each slat so the dusty half really stood out. And I put the dust in a pile in the middle of the sill.

She also used to pretend that she had forgotten people's names, she was still pretending to forget mine and my parents names a year after DH and I had been married. So once while I was at the doctor I picked up a leaflet on memory loss in older people and gave it to her the next time she 'forgot' what our names were. It must have had some great advice in that leaflet, because she remembered all our names perfectly after that

@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 genius

@SweetPetrichor

I enjoy driving exactly on the speed limit when someone’s tailgating. Or a smidge below the speed limit if they’re really annoying me.

Me too. But increasingly they decide to do a dangerous overtake instead, so sometimes I just pull over and let the idiots get past.

Me too. But increasingly they decide to do a dangerous overtake instead, so sometimes I just pull over and let the idiots get past.

I do when i'm in a 60 or country road but when they are riding up my arse in a 30 or 20 then they can just wait or find another way to go where they want.

When my parents died and we had to divide up their possessions, one of my siblings, who had always been difficult, decided to be very confrontational about it. Basically if anyone said they liked something, that sibling would then 'choose' it. After a couple of rounds of this, rather than call them out and risk an argument when we were all feeling low, we decided to loudly 'like' all the things we didn't want. It worked. The awkward sibling chose a whole load of weird things like carriage clocks (which we had said we liked) while the rest of us got the things we wanted and loved, that reminded us of our parents. I felt glad at the time but it always makes me feel sad, looking back at what was important to them...

last week I told him how Phil Taylor (former Darts champion) got into the Guinness Book of Records for completing the worlds fastest 1000 piece jigsaw
^^

There we are then

^
Who knew??!

(not me)

@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.

I love this - I am going to do this too. Now yours is easy in that it is an extra letter on the end - my issue is an extra letter 2/3 of the way through the name - so what would your advice be? To add the extra letter precisely 2/3 of the way in or just where it might make sense? I do wonder if I will get the sack if I do this at work though!!!

My now husband and I were bickering, as we'd been for a run and he's abandoned me halfway through and run home, so I wasn't in the best mood.

However, despite all this he still wanted me to set up his apple shuffle music player, as he didn't know how to work the pc (these were the tiny little mp3 players with no screen - showing my age here)

I put I whip my hair back and forth by Willow Smith, and only I whip my hair back and forth on it.

I consistently call my ex-h’s new gf by the wrong name.

He ran off with her she is much younger than me.

So for example if her name was Penny (it’s not) I refer to her as Jenny.

He will say you know her name is Penny. I just say oh is it?

I hide MIL’s —fascist rag— Daily Express when she comes to visit. I’m sure she’s cottoned on as she keeps it v close to her.

Strike through fail

When I sold my first flat the buyer insisted that the white goods were included when they were not part of the agreed sale. She left it to just before exchange and wouldn’t exchange until I included the cooker and fridge.if I had closed her bluff it would have cost me more in fees than replacing the items so she got away with it but before I left I cooked the cheapest sausages in the oven and left them there and I left some smelly out of date milk in the fridge along with some moldy veg.
I might have also left the half used washing up liquid, kitchen and bathroom spray with a little extra pee added to it.
I left 2 weeks before completion making sure to shut all the doors and windows tight before I left.

When I was with exDH and he annoyed me, I would make his tea in the worst mug we have. (You might ask why I was making his tea at all - good question - note he is exDH!)

@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.

I once had a boss like that - wish I'd thought of doing this!

My most favourite story ever was a mumsnetter who whenever her H pissed her off, she’d go to the garage and shake up one or two of her h beer cans and put them back.

It never ceased to delight her (and me!) when he’s go to get a can of beer, open it to have it practically soak him, seemingly completely randomly

I ❤️ that Mumsnetter!

If you’re still around, do take a bow!

Something I'm not proud of, but this man was so rude I had to do something. I was a cleaner years ago and he would throw stuff and miss the bin then watch me pick it up, use the urinals while I was cleaning the toilets etc. Staff were supposed to was their own mugs before they left, but his was always left on his desk and he complained that he wasn't a cleaner, he was staff, and I should wash it. So I did, using the cloth that I'd used to clean the toilet seats.

I have moderate hearing loss in both ears. I will need hearing aids very soon. No problem, I can cope perfectly well most of the time...At work (retail), I often play the 'I can't hear you card' when my boss issues instructions. She calls out my name on a minute-by-minute basis throughout any given day, and it drives me nuts. I can usually hear her well enough, I just choose to 'not hear' her, quite frequently, as her orders are constant, and I'm sick of running from one room to another, hither and thither, at her behest. 🗣️🤭. I sometimes do the same trick with customers who are being demanding/rude etc.

One bullying boss rudely handed me back my report and was very scathing about it in front of colleagues. Told me to redo it. It sat on my desk untouched for a few hours then I handed it back in. 'That's much better' he said 😏😏