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?

@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.

You total monster!

@hiredandsqueak

When the dc got bored of their Tamagotchis now exh obsessively took over their care. Absolutely everything from meals to conversations had to be delayed or put on hold whilst he fed the Tamagotchis. Each time he annoyed me I'd kill the Tamagotchi by overfeeding it.

😂

I bought (in fact I specifically imported it from the USA) a version of the bleepy thing previously mentioned. This one (an Annoyotron from Think Geek, sadly no longer available) had a number of settings, one of which was the voice of a little girl saying "Help me" in a plaintive tone. You could only really hear it when there was little ambient noise.

I used to fix it under the desk of a staff member who liked to work late when there were few others in the office.

My husbands ex (DSDs mum) has been married twice since they split up…. Both new husbands had very similar names… think Darren and Daryl…. So difficult to remember who was who and get them the right way round. Especially to their faces! I always had such a terrible problem remembering 😂😂😂😂

DP is an avid birdwatcher. When we are out and about, I like to piss him off by claiming every bird I spot is either a duck, seagull or sparrow. When he protests loudly, I claim not to be able to spot the difference.

Drives him batty

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

Exist. Pisses certain of the in-laws off no end and I don't have to do a solitary thing.

Passive aggression doesn't do much for me. I was on the receiving end of it for years until I cut them off: PA Christmas gifts year after year were their favourite thing and gave me many a quiet chuckle. This is why these days if people piss me off I prefer the blunt, direct approach.

BUT ... I cackled like a bilious goose over the twisty phone wire and Danny's tiny cock! Brilliantly funny and made my day!

Oh, passive aggressive Christmas presents.

XP's absolutely minted precious princess sister decided that the present she was going to give me the year after the XP had spent over a grand on a fancy sound system for her and her new boyfriend yes he always was a show offy twat which too much access to easy credit was a box of shitty old bits from various gift baskets of toiletries she'd been given over the previous few years. In amongst the dusty bottles of Dewberry and Fuzzy Peach soaps (that went straight into the bin as they were at least ten years old and had probably been opened and topped up with water) was an ugly as fuck gel face mask that went in the fridge.

Backfired on her enormously. I made a point of telling everybody how wonderful her gift was because she'd provided the cure for my crippling migraines in it. Which she had, albeit with the intention of telling me I wasn't worth more than a box of old rubbish.

I was still using that gel mask 17 years later. And she was still having to politely smile every time she had a headache, toothache, sore neck or other pain whilst various members of her family asked her if she'd ever tried using a chilled face mask like she gave Mooncup all those years ago.

I have a sadly failed one.

DH decided he wanted to magnet fish our pond. It’s been here centuries and we’re just off a Roman road so he decided treasure was to be found.
Sadly the hoard of hooky Roman coins I bought from China to Chuck in and fool him weren’t metal. Gutted.

@MaMelon

we agree that tailgating is unacceptable

Of course - I don't think anyone would argue otherwise. However, the way you deal with tailgaters is important for road safety. As SugarCaneHarvest rightly says, winding them up is likely to cause a ripple effect, whether that's further down the road - or behind them when you create a line of frustrated drivers by slowing down even further. It seems very controlling behaviour to look in your mirror and think 'right, I'm going to play a game with you, I'm going to wind you up right up and slow you down even further'. Just keep a steady speed and let them go in front of you as soon as you can - that way you can see them in front of you, you reduce the risk of future accidents and traffic keeps flowing at the speed it should be.

I think I remember from the driving theory test that you should slow down to reduce the stopping distance (obvs the slower you are the shorter the stopping distance needed). I always slow down for safety if someone is tailgating (and maybe just a tiny little bit to piss then off)

This is from the RAC website:

Don't police the road to teach a tailgater a lesson or be tempted to drive well under the speed limit or repeatedly touch your brakes to make your point – this only increases the risk of a collision

Just as it is never okay to tailgate, it’s also not okay to try and force them to slow down using your own vehicle.

Try to stay calm and always stick to the speed limit. If you are on a dual carriageway pull in and let them pass when safe to do so and if you are on a single carriageway continue at an appropriate speed or pull over somewhere safe and let the person behind pass if they are persistent, it's not worth breaking the law or getting into an accident over.

Many years back, my (evil) manager used to be a stickler for the rules… except when they replied to her. Our ultimate boss had said that we were absolutely not to put our desk phones on DND unless we were in a meeting - ‘I’m busy’ was not an excuse. Yet somehow, magically, her phone would never ring when there was a call to the main office line (which rang on all phones), meaning the rest of us had to field all the calls.

However, one day I was putting my own phone on DND for a meeting and spotted that there was no protection on the system. I could put anyone’s phone on DND - or indeed, take it off. Watching her confusion when her phone kept ringing entertained the rest of us through many a long day.

In my first job, a smug woman who thought that, because she was sleeping with the boss, that she was the boss. Massivey taking advantage of her position (literally), and always trying to tell me and others what to do, in the pettiest way possible. Once she told me off for going to people’s desks to tell them when someone was on the phone - ‘there’s no need to leave your desk when you can just call across the office’. It totally backfired on her just a couple of days later. It was hot gossip in the office that she was pregnant - so when her doctor rang and I answered, I did exactly as I’d been told and shouted ‘Doctor Belmont for you, Kirsty’ across the office. She couldn’t say a word, but her face said it all.

My DM is a notorious skinflint and never puts any thought into gifts.
DH and I always make sure we pick a really thoughtful gift that we know she will love and spend plenty on it - it drives her mad

Rolling around laughing at some of these. Is it bad that I am laughing even more at the reactions, calling the pranksters or revenge seakers glass lighters, cruel and bullies etc? I have teenagers, so watch pranks against each other constantly. If they are pranks against the people we love, As long as everyone us laughing its fine. If the pranks are little sweet revenges on people who have wronged us, then why not!

@Saidtoomuch

Rolling around laughing at some of these. Is it bad that I am laughing even more at the reactions, calling the pranksters or revenge seakers glass lighters, cruel and bullies etc? I have teenagers, so watch pranks against each other constantly. If they are pranks against the people we love, As long as everyone us laughing its fine. If the pranks are little sweet revenges on people who have wronged us, then why not!

Glass lighters now I'm am rolling on the floor laughing!!

I worked with a chap who was very, very particular. Thinking back he may even have had OCD. Everything on his desk had to be just so, including the fruit, replenished each day, arranged precisely, and eaten in the same order. Whenever I passed his desk and he wasn’t there I would move his fruit. Only by an inch or so out of place, or swapping two pieces around, but it drove him crazy! I feel guilty about it now but I was young and thoughtless at the time. I actually liked him, I just couldn’t resist it!

Our smart tv has a YouTube app, and I can choose videos on my iPad and cast them to the TV app.

Of course, there are times my husband is downstairs watching TV and I’m upstairs on my iPad, when I can’t resist choosing a wee video to interrupt his viewing.

He’s recently had New Kids On The Block Live In Concert, the Got Any Grapes duck, Artax dying in Neverending Story, some sporn, and a Minecraft rap.

He hasn’t pissed me off or anything, it’s just how we are.

I found a new annoyance just the other day!
We have a new smart tv - but DS2 likes to hide "lose" the remote so we can't change channel, turn it down or switch it off. So I downloaded a tv remote app onto my phone.

Was using it the other night, but the tv wasn't responding, which was irritating, because it said it was connected...
then DH came out of the bedroom and said "Who's messing with my tv?"

Seems the phone had linked up with his tv instead of the main one and was turning his sound down instead of ours!

@ToffeeNotCoffee

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Well played !

When opening Pringles, DH half opens the paper seal and leaves it on because he knows it annoys me.

If the DC or DH want to wind me up they’ll buy me patterned kitchen towel or coloured loo roll. Plain white only, people!!! 😡 They might also put the loo roll on with the end of the paper underneath rather than over the top.

Even typing that was difficult.

dd1 keeps changing dd2s name on her netflix profile, it's being going on for a couple of months now and is really winding dd2 up.(Don't worry she'll get her revenge at some point)

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.

@WolfFleeceSpotter

Crying.🤣 You are a passive aggressive genius.

@Mynameisthecatwhogotthecream

dd1 keeps changing dd2s name on her netflix profile, it's being going on for a couple of months now and is really winding dd2 up.(Don't worry she'll get her revenge at some point)

I sometimes change the Netflix/Disney+ profile picture if a particularly family member is being irritating.

2 spring to mind. Both the same person.

I had a properly horrible boss going back about 15 years ago. Even though my role wasn't the office junior, she very much treated me as one. I was expected to make her a daily coffee every morning at 11am precisely using her own special coffee. She was obsessed about this fucking coffee, had it roasted and ground specially to her own liking from the local coffee merchant. Except what she didn't know is that she was drinking the cheapest of the cheap tesco value coffee I had replaced her coffee with.

She was also very anti foodbanks. Thought that they were unnecessary and akin to encouraging people to beg. The company we worked with were big on corporate doing good at the time, so I made sure that the charity of the year was the local foodbank. And through a colleague who was also in on it made it look like the idea had come from horrible boss.

@cliffdiver

When opening Pringles, DH half opens the paper seal and leaves it on because he knows it annoys me.

Eat the entire rest of the tube. It's worth getting fat and sick to make a point like that.

@Amima I salute you! You are a legend!