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?

Your Kumbaya one is genius, @ChaToilLeam

@canihaveacoffeeplease

We have a Rubik's cube. It drives DH mad when it isn't all perfectly done. So of course I fiddle randomly with it and leave it somewhere I know he'll see if so he has to fix it. So petty. So entertaining.

Ooooh can you come live with me??

I love solving a Rubik's cube, we could follow each other around endlessly solving and in solving it

My horrible colleague was very particular about having everything on his desk at right angles. He would spend ages lining up his laptop, monitor, folder, notepad, pen, coaster, etc.

I used to occasionally move one thing very slightly at an angle when he went to the loo. And if he was off for the day I would alter his seat settings.

Drove him mad.

@amitoooldforthisshit

Voted Brexit, seemed to annoy quite a few, though my target was guardian readers. Mainly

That is bizarre. And also, I have to say, self-defeating, dontcha think?

Yeah, it's a bit 'doh'

Ooohh, @XDownwiththissortofthingX, you've given me an idea now!

I wonder if I can get hold of a Labour party bumper sticker before Sunday, when vile, racist, Tory-voting SIL will be at the same event as me?

That will be so much more satisfying than smiling sweetly and saying "Ah, well, that's what people voted for" every time she moans about the state of the roads/schools/NHS/police service/anything else that's been decimated by 10 years of Tory austerity.

A Jeremy Corbyn sticker on the back of her car would be even better.

I love the twisted phone cord!!

All the office ones makes me glad about wfh. I don't miss any of the jerks in the office stuff.

Somebody staying with us kept using our bathroom, which wasn't part of the deal at all, they had their own en suite to use but for some reason preferred ours and they were having a lovely soak in our bath whilst we were out. Admittedly lm a bit Howard Hughes about bathrooms and he didn't really hide the evidence very well (he left a tide mark one night).
I started taking the bath plug out in my handbag whenever we went out (one of the old fashioned ones where you could just unhook the chain from the bath)
Came back in from a night out first time and l could see he'd been gearing up for his usual soak as he'd left something in our bathroom. He had a face like thunder but couldn't obviously query where the plug was as he wasn't supposed be using ours in the first place.

@Snugglepumpkin

I swapped the wires on one side of a double switch so that if you wanted both lights off one switch had to be up while the other was down.

That’s just a step too far!

@thanksforyourcommentrandomman

This thread is obviously winding you up *@Iamthewombat* so why don't you do yourself and us a favour and stop reading it

Was just about to post the same thing - jeez what a fun sponge wombat is! Yawn at the "outraged of tunbridge wells" routine on what is obviously a light hearted and fun thread.

@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.

A former police driving instructor told me that the best way to stop people tailgating you is to just ease off the gas a bit when they get too close, so you slow down gradually but don't show any brake lights.

They soon start to leave a bit more of a gap after the 2nd or 3rd time they've almost ended up in your boot. It's very satisfying.

It's especially satisfying if they're riled enough to shout or give obscene gestures when you or they turn off. Then I enjoy giving them a big smile and a friendly wave.

On one occasion, I was giving someone from another organisation a lift to a meeting and the driver behind started to to sound his horn repeatedly. My passenger told me to stop in the middle of the road, then walked up to the angry driver's car, tapped on his window .... and produced his police warrant card!

@TheSkatesOfCoachBombay

A colleague everyone disliked for his bullying nature and homophobic attitudes. Bought him one of this glitter bomb cards as his leaving card covering him in glitter.

That reminds me of when I used to buy my sister birthday/Christmas presents from the Disney store. I would pay for a present box and it would come with little Mickey head confetti. I usually asked for extra Mickey head confetti. When she opened the present they would cover her and the floor. The best part is that Mickey head confetti would appear under sofas or in corners years later as you can never fully get rid of it. 😁

@thanksforyourcommentrandomman

This thread is obviously winding you up *@Iamthewombat* so why don't you do yourself and us a favour and stop reading it

If it’s all right with you, I’ll keep reading. It really is an education in the workings of the spiteful and mean spirited mind.

Was just about to post the same thing - jeez what a fun sponge wombat is! Yawn at the "outraged of tunbridge wells" routine on what is obviously a light hearted and fun thread.

Bore off. We clearly have different definitions of ‘fun’ and ‘light hearted’. Some of the stories on here are really nasty.

Women often complain about not being taken seriously at work or in relationships. If you want to be taken seriously, don’t secretly do spiteful mean minded stuff to ‘get back’ at partners or colleagues then ‘dance inside’ at their discomfiture. Don’t cripple a business by keeping a load of knowledge to yourself then destroying your notes and wrecking accounting records because you don’t get on with your new boss. Grow up and be direct with people. They might respect you then.

My husband loves country music and i hate it with a firey passion. I've set up our alexa that any time he asks her to play it, if he doesn't say please, she refuses and starts to play blippi songs instead. Once the kids hear blippi it's too late to correct his mistake as the kids go mental.

@Iamthewombat I'm not the boring one here this is FUN

And you also seem to be completely ignoring the fact that someone was being a cunt to the posters before they did their thing to annoy them. Like trying to get them out of a job. It's not entirely unprovoked behaviour

Doesn't it usually take some mention of the civil service to get you this pissed off?

shagged her son/ hhad his babies

I've got cuntish neighbours too, @therocinante, well, the man really (the woman is actually ok). He's also obsessed with parking outside his house.

He rarely goes out, but if I come home and the space outside his house is empty, I park there in preference to parking outside mine, just because I know it will piss him off.

Actually in many of the stories on this thread the spiteful behaviour was not provoked.

What did a PP’s mother in law do to deserve the PP hiding her newspaper, for example? The PP might not have liked the choice of newspaper but she doesn’t get to decide what someone else reads.

What did a PP’s husband do to deserve ten years of electronic beeps designed to annoy him? That is just bizarre.

What did the staff of the restaurant do to deserve being given the run around by a PP’s spoilt son with his remote control app, switching TV screens off? The staff won’t have had any say in the decor and ambience, but it’s fine to waste the time of busy people trying to do their job, is it?

Even when a poster claims that their reaction was provoked - and we only have their word for the severity of the provocation because perceptions of eg rudeness vary - the reactions described in some of these stories are spiteful and disproportionate. Why would you destroy all the notes explaining how a ledger works and make false entries? Why would you deliberately cause someone’s milk to go off because you didn’t like them? Why would you microwave someone’s purse to disable their debit card? If you have an issue with somebody you either get over it or address it like a grown up. You don’t play mean spiteful tricks on the person who has offended you.

@SocialAffairsAndWoodlandFolk

Doesn't it usually take some mention of the civil service to get you this pissed off?

Do you mean me? I think you may be confused. Unless you are one of those weird people who stalks posters across threads, cherishing resentment and looking for opportunities to take pathetic revenge. In which case, you’ll be right at home on this thread.

We had an awful neighbour who used to threaten to beat my dh up every time he saw him, over some ridiculous argument where he thought we objected to his planning permission (we didn’t)
He used to park his car outside our house instead of his driveway in an attempt to wind us up. Frequently there was a bird dropping on his car from the trees he’d parked under. I bought a bird feeder and plonked it in my front garden. My dc’s used to love stocking up the feeder every day attracting more and more birds.
Eventually the car was covered with bird poo every morning and he’d come out his house acting all nonchalant like he didn’t care and fart off in his bird poo covered car.
I used to love opening the curtains each day to see more and more poo’s on that car.