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?

I'm a quiet woman who works with all loud men. We all get on really well but I do sometimes get talked over, not intentionally but just because I have a quiet voice. A colleague left in January to move to SE Asia, and he and I are still in regular contact, but because we'd been doing a lot of remote work before that it wasn't obvious to other people that we were good friends.

After he left, from time to time someone would ask if anyone still talked to him, and someone else would say no. When I tried to say that actually I did no-one listened. After the third time this happened I decided I wouldn't tell them, and so for the last six months I've kept my mouth shut whenever his name comes up, about once a week. I'm hopefully going to visit next year, restrictions permitting, and I'm greatly looking forward to casually mentioning it a few weeks beforehand and feigning total innocence when everyone's surprised and confused.

It's not annoying anyone but it is a ridiculously petty response to being mildly annoyed myself, so I hope it counts!

Dp once pissed me off.

He really loves my cooking, his own attempts are appalling. I once came home and thought he was being sick in a bowl but no, the slop he turned out to be spooning into his gob not out of it was scrambled eggs. That's how bad he is. He can reheat a pizza or whatever but nothing decent.

So for weeks I made his favourite meals and left him the raw ingredients in the fridge (( so a raw chicken breast, garlic cloves, tomatoes etc for chicken and chorizo stew)) . The absolute Joy I felt the first day he came home from work sniffing the air like the bisto kid with no idea of what I'd planned has never been beaten.

In a youth hostel in Australia many years ago, vain guy who thought he was God's gift kept trying to chat me up, and had even tried getting into bed with me whilst drunk (mixed dorms). I waited til he passed out drunk, then dyed his eyebrows blue. He moved out.

@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.

Perfect.

igelkott2021 Wed 11-Aug-21 12:22:43
[replying to my earlier post]

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

haha, you're funny. No they don't because I don't usually do this on the first "offence" but after multiple repeats. So no, they don't "realise" until someone does it back to them.

@Spongedog - I'd do it in the same place as they do it in yours, if you can, to make it more obvious. Would just look like a mis-hit key at the end of the word otherwise, maybe?

My mil brought her own mug to my house as she like a China cup. I never use it when I make her a drink lol

@Whatinthelord

Called someone Pauline instead of Paula on purpose repeatedly. It was satisfying

That's just cuntish

Unpleasant man in an office I worked in. Just four of us, used to just take it in turns to make teas.

He would always accept a drink but when he made one, he'd only make himself one.

Obviously no one was going to continue allowing this to happen.

I Used to make the tea, empty the kettle, fill it to the brim with cold water, so it took ages to boil, he never had the sense to empty it! Or throw the milk away. He'd then have go to the shop and buy more milk.

Might've been easier to just take his turn?

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

Maybe you've chosen to read the wrong thread for you Iam - 10 pages of stuff that upsets you ...... why???

Many moons ago when DC were young I listened to a radio prog that declared that many children started school unable to use a knife and fork and rarely sit at a table to eat- from then on it was the DCs job to set the table nicely - when I visit them, 30 years later, the cutlery is always piled in the middle of the table - grrrrr. Their revenge...

DH and I have separate bathrooms ie an en suite and the main bathroom (not stealth boasting - relevant), He is obsessively tidy and always, always, comes into my bathroom at night to align the towels and to neatly fold clothes Ive left over the bath. So I make a point of untidying them again. I love him dearly but .... See also straightening piles of files and books on MY desk

@LanaDelBoy Sonos can be dangerous. A holiday rental we were staying in with friends had a system in every room that could be controlled centrally on your phone. I (accidentally -honestly) played a death metal song very loudly in a friends bedroom at around 7 in the morning. They got the shock of their lives. Felt terrible about it.

@Iamthewombat

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.

I agree with Wombat. Most of those examples aren’t because of provocation, it’s just posters fucking with people because they can. The mentality is disturbing.

^When DH is being irksome I’ll find a reason to refer to his “knickers” rather than pants. “I’ve just put away a pile of your clean knickers”
I also refer to his wallet as his “purse”.^

I love this.

I don't know what this says about me as I'm a very normal not saintly human but it has never occurred to me to deliberately annoy someone else with these games, acts of petty sabotage and 'practical jokes' regardless of what they had done. Even as a child, I was somehow too grown up to consider it. And what may give me a moment of glee could cause the other person real hurt or distress.

This thread has taught me there are happily, shamelessly petty people out there.

My partners ex wife is a nutter-I could write a book on her tricks to try to break us up

(Think ringing us every single day to scream down the phone,has had him arrested-she punched him but rang the police to say he’d hit her,told lies,bad mouthed him to the kids,kept ringing my In laws to scream at them,she once tried to tell him that she’s banning me from walking through the doors in my own home-oh,the list goes on (but I once saw her in the street and she ran away)

Anyway after almost 7 years she calmed down a bit-it helped we’ve changed all our phone numbers and have a burner phone just for her,which we only turn on to check for messages twice a week

She still thinks nothing of texting him to whine for more money or to hint for help when she’s got herself into another problem and needs help (I’d be the first to say he should if she hadn’t caused so much shit for us) so I tend to leave him to deal with her-he will then phone her back if it’s important

I wind her up by doing things like wander into the room,and ask if he’d like a cup of tea or that I’m ready to go etc

It’s petty but it really winds her up knowing that I’m lurking in the background but she can’t do anything about it as I’ve not done anything wrong and if she starts screaming,he just puts the phone down and turns it onto silent so she can keep ringing-we don’t hear it

@Iamthewombat

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.

Got to say I agree with this and @Iamthewombat's other posts. Should have realised that petty revenge threads always go this way. I can certainly see how some people end up in jobs or relationships where they can't get on with people.

Some of these are funny, yes

But Iamawombat is right about some of these being disturbing and downright nasty

I'm not sure how much "FUN" it is being such bullying basket cases but if it makes you laugh, good for you. Sad though.

@MobyDicksTinyCanoe

Dp once pissed me off.

He really loves my cooking, his own attempts are appalling. I once came home and thought he was being sick in a bowl but no, the slop he turned out to be spooning into his gob not out of it was scrambled eggs. That's how bad he is. He can reheat a pizza or whatever but nothing decent.

So for weeks I made his favourite meals and left him the raw ingredients in the fridge (( so a raw chicken breast, garlic cloves, tomatoes etc for chicken and chorizo stew)) . The absolute Joy I felt the first day he came home from work sniffing the air like the bisto kid with no idea of what I'd planned has never been beaten.

I don't understand this. You cooked the dish just for yourself and bought the raw ingredients for him to cook?

@SugarCaneHarvest try Baby Shark next time

@thefirstmrsrochester

Similar to *@FlyingSoHigh*. I have a snobby SIL who looks down on sandwiches which are cut in the middle instead of corner to corner. I always serve up sandwiches cut across the middle when she’s round.

If you want to take it up a notch have you considered continuing to cut hers in the middle but posting photos on Facebook of tea parties you host for friends with them cut corner to corner

@hellywelly3 why? Your mother in law has a preferred mug and she's supplied it. Just use it if you're making her a drink? What point are you trying to make?

I'm literally 🤷‍♀️ at most of these. The tangled phone wire is amusing. The rest just serve to highlight that a lot of people are very strange indeed.

@NamechangeApril21

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.

@NamechangeApril21 how did you do that? Is it a certain phrase you have used by setting up a routine?

@figmenofimagination Yes, I set up 2 routines, one for replacing the normal command, and then a second so it works when he says please.

@NamechangeApril21 thankyou! I thought it would be something like that. I like how you have her saying no first 😁. I might try this one day for a giggle.