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 smile and wave at the snotty woman up the road who hates everyone and particularly anyone with dogs. Like me. She's recently reported my dogs for barking on a specific date - which means she must have amazing hearing as we were 300miles away at the time!!! 🙄😂
She is literally always either sitting in her front garden on her bench or standing looking out the front window.

Anyway I smile and wave as I drive past every morning - if it's hot and my windows are down sometimes I even shout good morning too. Her face is like thunder 😂😂😂

Anyway I smile and wave as I drive past every morning - if it's hot and my windows are down sometimes I even shout good morning too. Her face is like thunder 😂😂😂

Love. love. love. 😂

Nothing is more annoying to horrible people than being reasonable when provoked.

They're desperate for a row, and you just stand there benignly, not giving them the satisfaction and watching them wind themselves up

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.

Bloody excellent! I love it when a PA plan backfires.

Most of hers were pre-teen stuff. One year she gave me one of those plastic handbags in the shape of a rose, that you often see in those little stalls that stand in the thoroughfares of shopping malls. They're the ones that sell the sparkly iphone covers and gaudily-coloured headbands. But the best one was a child's bracelet. I wore it whenever I visited their mother's house for a good few years after that.

I once saw a 'Lady Macbeth's Guest Bedroom Soap' which I thought would have been great were I inclined to respond in kind. Or failing that a chocolate cock, as she's quite a prude. But by that time we'd stopped exchanging 'gifts' and shortly after that even DH lost patience and broke contact. Best thing all round with our first peaceful Christmases in many years!

Guess I'm glad I took the high road in the end because a. I'm a lazy arse who CBA to go to all that effort to make a demonstrative gesture to dickheads, and b: it would have given the impression she'd got under my skin. Gives us a good laugh retrospectively, though!

@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.

@ThumbWitchesAbroad I had a massage this morning and whilst I was lying there all relaxed I was thinking about what your name could be. So far I have:-

Jan
Jane
Janet

Sara
Sarah

Elle
Ellen

And my favourite is……..
Chris
Christ Do I win?

@MaMelon

Genuine question - why on earth do people do this? If a driver is annoying you just pull in or indicate and move over and in a bit and let them get on with their lives as you get on with yours. All this ridiculous slowing down - you don't do anything more that make yourself look like a prat as you slow down not just the driver behind you but everyone behind them as well.

isn't it obvious?

Driving too close is dangerous. You are forced to slow down to reduce the risk, and keep slowing down until the car behind leaves a reasonable distance between your 2 vehicles. If you end up doing 10mph, then you do what you need to.

Encouraging someone to overtake when it's not legal, or not safe, is beyond stupid.

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.

it's not about try to force them to slow down, it's trying to keep a safe distance so they don't end up smashing into my car if I have to break suddenly for any reason. What do you think the distance of security are for?

You should already have a safe distance between you and the car in front of you.

Did you see the link to the advice I linked to on how to handle tailgaters from the RAC?

@MaMelon

You should already have a safe distance between you and the car in front of you.

Did you see the link to the advice I linked to on how to handle tailgaters from the RAC?

I can have the safest distance with the car in front of me, it doesn't mean I won't have to slam on the brakes. Yesterday, it was 2 deers jumping across the road right in front of me.

So you cannot tell me that slowing down when you are being harassed by a tailgater is not the only solution to try to keep safe.

Did you read the RAC guidance?

I have read the "guidance".

I don't have to follow the "guidance" when I feel they are unsafe, but thank you.

Absolutely - no need to take the advice from a long standing motoring organisation. Braking to a random speed to create a stopping distance that should be in front of you anyway will do absolutely nothing to stop another driver going into the back of you if you have to 'slam' on your brakes, but you do you. There are all sorts of idiots on the road - tailgaters are just one sort.

I work in a hospital (receptionist) and always go out of my way to be helpful and give directions to where patients need to go once they check in. So when someone checks in I’ll say “okay so you’re going to the yellow suite, clinic 3. That’s down this long corridor about three quarters of the way down, it’s on the left hand side and it’s all yellow around the door. Once you go in, it’s the third door on your right”.

Once, I had this man be horrible to me for absolutely no reason whatsoever (I have to ask some standard questions to check identity and then make sure none of their details have changed and he took issue with this) and he called me a joke and started being verbally abusive towards me. Once I had checked him I just told him which colour suite he was going to (which is technically what the computer tells me - I just know from experience which doctor is in which clinic). He got arsey with me and asked me where that was, so I pointed down the very long corridor and replied “down that corridor, it’s yellow”. He pulled a face and asked what clinic, I said “I don’t know, you’ll have to check the consultant board when you get down there”. I watched him walk away muttering to himself 😆

The next patient was an absolute sweetheart and asked me if I was okay and apologised for this stranger’s behaviour. When it transpired she actually had a phone consultation and not a face-to-face, I happily went around to ask the doctor if he could see her as she was given the wrong letter (little white lie) and she was a bit upset (an exaggeration). He did and she was very grateful for my help.

It pays to be nice people ☺️

@MaMelon

Absolutely - no need to take the advice from a long standing motoring organisation. Braking to a random speed to create a stopping distance that should be in front of you anyway will do absolutely nothing to stop another driver going into the back of you if you have to 'slam' on your brakes, but you do you. There are all sorts of idiots on the road - tailgaters are just one sort.

Braking to a random speed to create a stopping distance that should be in front of you anyway

you do know that there's a stopping distance.. in front of you

and BEHIND you?

will do absolutely nothing to stop another driver going into the back of you
You might want to educate yourself, I assure you that someone going in the back of your car at 20mph does not have the same effect as 50mph...

Good grief, some people really shouldn't be driving if you are missing that! You are spectacularly missing the point 😂

@AlanThePig did he ever actually get find anything in there?

Oh I'm not missing the point at all. You know that you can't do anything about creating a stopping distance behind you - that a tailgating driver will continue to tailgate you if you drop your speed to 20 or whatever random speed you decide to do, and probably more so? And whilst it might not do quite as much damage, it will still cause damage? I had a tailgating driver go into the back of me when someone decided to step out in front of 3 cars in front of me at that speed it still caused thousands of pounds of damage, but there was nothing I could do to change the stopping distance between me and the car behind me - not sure why you're not getting that, but as I said, there are all sorts of idiots on the road. No damage to the front of my car because I had kept my distance.

there are all sorts of idiots on the road.

indeed

And whilst it might not do quite as much damage, it will still cause damage? oh that's ok then. You should read Mark Twain

@alltheemptyfields, you are of course continue to drive how you see fit, but dismissing RAC advice as unsafe is a really weird take

*entitled to

is missing from my first sentence 😆

by slowing down when someone tailgate me to reduce the damage if they smash into my car?

Yes, I will carry on doing just that. As will most people.

My in-laws are very pretentious and call their toilet the "powder room". When I'm there I make a big point of saying I'm just going to use the "loo"!

@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!

Love this

@alltheemptyfields

by slowing down when someone tailgate me to reduce the damage if they smash into my car?

Yes, I will carry on doing just that. As will most people.

You’re making no sense whatsoever. You’re more like to cause an accident if you slow down to some arbitrary speed. 10mph you said upthread - what a stupid thing to do. Just follow the RAC advice and the roads will be a better place for it.

I don’t care what you do @alltheemptyfields.

But I think dismissing RAC guidance as unsafe is ludicrous. Or maybe they should be consulting you? 😆

Instead of blaming me, why don't you blame the tailgaters?

Guessing people slowing down when you glue them irritates YOU for a reason

And maybe you should read the guidance properly too...