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What tiny things have you done to specifically annoy someone?

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FlyingSoHigh · 10/08/2021 23:18

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.Grin
Can anyone beat passive-aggressive cooked carrots?

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AnonymousCheerleader · 14/08/2021 08:32

I download stuff to my brother's Sky box from the Sky Go app. Not because he's annoyed me, just because I find it funny.

It's usually some reality TV show that he'd hate or something.

sashh · 14/08/2021 08:35

My carer and I are really good friends but we do wind each other up sometimes.

I have a habit of leaving cupboard doors and drawers open and it he finds it irritating.

He once walked into my bedreen to talk to me and then noticed that every drawer in the room was open but to a different amount.

I once asked him to check the bathroom because I thought there was a leek there, that is not a typo, there was a leak in the bathroom.

Then there was the Apam. During lockdown one of my friends couldn't get spam from the only supermarket she could walk to but I was getting deliveries so I ordered Spam for her.

When the delivery arrived I didn't put the Spam in the cupboard to remind me to take it with me.

Tis started a game of us hiding the tin of spam from each other.Far more amusing then it sounds.

sashh · 14/08/2021 08:47

there was nothing I could do to change the stopping distance between me and the car behind me

Actually there is.

Just add his breaking distance onto yours in front.

Then if someone 3 cars in front does slam their breaks on you don't have to, you can break more slowly and even though the tailgater is an idiot they are not going to just drive in to you.

MotherOfFrenchies · 14/08/2021 09:58

This is pretty evil, but fuck it I’ll share Grin When I was 17 I got my first job and the manager was a bitch to me from day one. I was shy and eager to please her but she’d always have something to pull me up on or something snide to say in front of customers.

She had this weird habit of shaking a bottle of milk like fuck every time she made a cup of tea, so one day I decided to leave the lid slightly loose so when she went full pelt with the shaking, the entire contents exploded over the entire kitchen and her Grin

00100001 · 14/08/2021 10:05

@MotherOfFrenchies

This is pretty evil, but fuck it I’ll share Grin When I was 17 I got my first job and the manager was a bitch to me from day one. I was shy and eager to please her but she’d always have something to pull me up on or something snide to say in front of customers.

She had this weird habit of shaking a bottle of milk like fuck every time she made a cup of tea, so one day I decided to leave the lid slightly loose so when she went full pelt with the shaking, the entire contents exploded over the entire kitchen and her Grin

🤣🤣🤣
Mybalconyiscracking · 14/08/2021 10:08

Used to put a tiny bit of glitter make up on DH’s pillow, so he’d go to work a tiny bit sparkly.

Ponoka7 · 14/08/2021 10:08

"She had this weird habit of shaking a bottle of milk like fuck every time she made a cup of tea"
It's from the days when the cream was on top and you either shook it into the milk, give it to the youngest in the house, or have it in a coffee.

Mybalconyiscracking · 14/08/2021 10:12

I also spent hours practicing Pac-Man secretly as a student, just so I could casually amaze and irritate my (frankly tit of a) boyfriend when he challenged me the 2nd time.

Yesitsbess · 14/08/2021 10:42

@Mybalconyiscracking

Used to put a tiny bit of glitter make up on DH’s pillow, so he’d go to work a tiny bit sparkly.
GrinGrin
Smallkeys · 14/08/2021 11:07

My partner works away he has got himself a bolt hole that he goes to once a week in addition to his work travel. I know he makes chile to freeze and eat at his visit. So when he was due home I had been out to lunch so neither myself or my child were hungry but I made him chile. Petty but I get brownie points for supplying the meal and satisfaction that he is sick of chile.

Bloodypunkrockers · 14/08/2021 12:19

@Smallkeys

My partner works away he has got himself a bolt hole that he goes to once a week in addition to his work travel. I know he makes chile to freeze and eat at his visit. So when he was due home I had been out to lunch so neither myself or my child were hungry but I made him chile. Petty but I get brownie points for supplying the meal and satisfaction that he is sick of chile.
I don't get it.

He likes chilli so you made him some?

sashh · 14/08/2021 12:29

Way back in the 1980s we had a ZX Spectrum and various members of the family would play frogger.

I altered the program so that when it was my name entered I would get points for every move where as everyone else only got points from moving forward.

WomanStanleyWoman · 14/08/2021 12:31

And what are you punishing him for? Having to work away?

Smallkeys · 14/08/2021 12:42

No I’m punishing him for the extra night he spends at his bolt hole leaving me to sort the family and I don’t get a day off or have somewhere nice to spend the night. :-)

Sadiecow · 14/08/2021 13:48

@Smallkeys

No I’m punishing him for the extra night he spends at his bolt hole leaving me to sort the family and I don’t get a day off or have somewhere nice to spend the night. :-)
By making him a meal he likes?
Lweji · 14/08/2021 13:55

By making him a meal he likes?

If I understood it correctly, by making the same food he ate all the time he was away.

Lweji · 14/08/2021 14:11

@sashh

there was nothing I could do to change the stopping distance between me and the car behind me

Actually there is.

Just add his breaking distance onto yours in front.

Then if someone 3 cars in front does slam their breaks on you don't have to, you can break more slowly and even though the tailgater is an idiot they are not going to just drive in to you.

Exactly. That's my reasoning.

I also tend to brake quite hard at zebra crossings, if someone starts to cross unexpectedly, and, before I come to a stop, I let the car slide forward a bit (there's enough space) so that anyone following behind too closely doesn't actually hit me.
I tend to do similar when approaching a traffic jam. Brake harder then move slowly to braking distance. I notice that a few people do similar.

SailYourShips · 14/08/2021 14:12

@ChilliChaos

Next door used to go out all day and leave their dog barking in the garden. One night it was raining and I threw a whole box of oxo cubes over the fence and they melted into the grass. Their dog wrecked the garden searching for the smell.
I hope the poor dog wasn't punished for wrecking the garden.

If they were the type of people that would go out all day and leave their dog barking, then I rather think they might be the type of people who would punish the dog for wrecking the garden.

They didn't know it was you and your stupid prank that had forced the dog to wreck the garden, so they would simply blame the dog.

But I'm sure it seemed funny to you and you had your revenge so who cares if the dog is the one who ends up paying for it.

Sadiecow · 14/08/2021 14:16

@Ponoka7

"She had this weird habit of shaking a bottle of milk like fuck every time she made a cup of tea" It's from the days when the cream was on top and you either shook it into the milk, give it to the youngest in the house, or have it in a coffee.
My brothers and sisters used to argue over who had the top of the milk, I was the youngest but hated it! Envynot envy!
MaMelon · 14/08/2021 14:26

Just add his breaking distance onto yours in front.

Then if someone 3 cars in front does slam their breaks on you don't have to, you can break more slowly and even though the tailgater is an idiot they are not going to just drive in to you

It doesn’t work like that. 3 cars in front, all of us behind him with the correct stopping distance meant there was no damage to the us. The car behind me was driving too close and too fast so went into the back of me. No amount of stopping distance between me and the car in front would have prevented the car behind me going into the back of me.

Anyone, as I’ve already said, the RAC advice I posted explained what to do if you’re being tailgated. Looking in your rear view mirror and slowing down/speeding up to wind them up is not a recommended strategy for dealing with them for obvious reasons.

Pombearsforthewin · 14/08/2021 14:30

@SailYourShips That story of chucking stock cubes into a neighbours garden has been doing the rounds on Reddit and other sites again this week, but with someone from the USA posting about it, only they called them bouillon cubes. I’d take the post on here with a pinch of salt….

SailYourShips · 14/08/2021 14:35

Thanks, @Pombearsforthewin. I was upset by the story and glad to hear it's a lie.

Madge55 · 14/08/2021 14:44

I used to work in a doctors surgery. One of the female doctors was a bit superior, thought she was a step above us minions and treated us accordingly. I have travelled a fair bit in my time but dont go on about it. Anyway this particular Doc was on weekend break to Rome. Knowing she would love to have the opportunity to brag about it, I asked her if she had had a nice weekend away. She then went on a ramble about how wonderful it was and that really I should try and go sometime as I would learn so much and enjoy it too. So I piped up 'ugh yeah i know I've been twice, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.' Her face said it all. It was a small and petty victory but lordy it gave me no end of pleasure.

JustLyra · 14/08/2021 14:47

My ex was desperate for our girls to be girly girls. He wanted them dressed in frilly dresses and the likes, but neither of them were into that at all (other than a few short phases).

He rather rudely told me - in front of his family, my family and some friends at an event - that he wasn't happy with me 'dictating' what the girls wore when they went to his days out. So I suggested I let them choose their own clothes and he snidely replied that it would be good parenting to allow them to express themselves so I should.

So I did. Two four year olds with complete free reign of wardrobe makes for an amusing sight of a morning.

I think it was the day he collected one in half a pirate costume, spotted trousers, one welly boot and one trainer with the other in a spotty top (matched her sister's trousers), striped shorts, striped tights and the other welly and trainer when they were going to the zoo that he "suggested" I may have been right about suggesting appropriate clothes for occasions as they were going to a wedding the following week.

Of course I told him not to be silly and that he was obviously right and I had no intention of stifling their creativity... Funnily enough that was around the time he actually bought them some clothes for his house. Can't imagine why.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 14/08/2021 15:23

My DMum disliked the words Bikkie/Peckish/Pressie/Snack
We were not allowed to say them

So DDad and I used to sit there .....
"I'm a bit peckish"
"Me too, I fancy a snack"
"Bikkie"?
"Haven't got any , I wish someone would bring some as a pressie"

I was in my 20s (and Dad was old enough to know better Grin )