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?

@ActonSquirrel where did Amima say that she told her DH that she couldn’t hear it?

[quote SycamoreGap]@ActonSquirrel where did Amima say that she told her DH that she couldn’t hear it?[/quote]
As if that matters?!

She has been doing it for 10 years not revealling the source and that is just evil.

I highly doubt she is walking around the house looking for it with him.

One class mum who thought she could bulldoze all the parents into doing things her way got the full eye rolling, face palm, ostentatious watch glancing, “can’t you just send us a link?” treatment from me.

Everybody else knew I was putting on a show just to annoy HER and enjoyed it. Bulldozer mum was so confused that nobody wanted to join her hate campaign against me.

Three years of entertainment.

My mother in law can be really unkind, we went to iceland with her recently (the place not the stop) she was particularly nasty to my husband one day, I did most of the cooking on our holiday. That night I made two slightly different meals that looked the same, our meal was lovely, hers was really hot and had loads of coriander. Shes a bit funny about hygiene, so she wouldn’t taste ours when we all said our dinner was mild and she sadly wouldn’t let us taste hers.

Me and my husband can both be quite petty and stubborn and some really small things annoy us. So we’re often in an unnofficial competition of who can be the most petty. But “babes” is my go to, it really really irritates him “Yeah whatevs Babes” and hes like a moth to a flame!

Some of these are brilliant. The telephone cord and bank transfers are my favourites!

I once had to work for a client who complained to my boss that I wasn’t friendly enough to him and his team. I was in my 20s and has done a perfectly good job but think he wanted me to be some simpering wench rather than a capable professional woman. I had to travel from London to their offices in Manchester to work for them and the next time I went, I was so excessively friendly to the team that they invited me on a spontaneous night out and insisted that he let me expense a hotel so I could stay in town. No one invited him.

DH spends time in his shed in the back garden. I am often on MN on my laptop - when I hear him coming in I grab laptop and shoot through to another room before he can .... suggest I make him a cuppa (because obviously what I'm doing is of less use than what he is doing / moan about something that he's working not working / moan about anything else / make a sarky comment about me sitting about ....... heh heh heh.

@ Madamemonk

You are a bloody genius! Others would have crumbled! I bet you gave him sleepless nights!

My FIL is rude, a bully and a racist. He loves dates so I buy him a box for Christmas from a local Arab owned store. The ones that announce in huge letters on the box that they are from Palestine.

@Amima

I have a tiny gadget the size of my thumb that beeps and chirps at random intervals. Its sole purpose is to annoy people. The sound is short and irregular so the gadget is difficult to locate. When DH annoys me I turn it on and hide it somewhere. Been doing it for ten years and he’s never found it yet. He was particularly puzzled when we moved house and the mysterious chirp came with us!

Why? That's not a little thing designed to annoy. That's not fun or interesting. I think it borders on cruel. Can you imagine a lawyer or a judge being told that someone deliberately did this? And for 10 years? How is this funny? Funny for a day, for 10 years though? No

When Game of Thrones used to be on TV, I would read up on the episode synopsis beforehand and then blurt out spoilers that appeared in that episode five minutes before it begun to annoy my partner. The few times I did that to him, were deserved!

The telephone cord one and the bank transfers one are awesome amusing. Some of the others though seem really vindictive.

I can't think of anything I've actually done. It never occurs to me.
But I am thinking it should. But I would probably cross the line accidentally.

@ActonSquirrel but it’s not gaslighting is it? And it isn’t permanently switched on.

Some of these are good-the phone cord thing and the carrots. In our house, though, we just say we’re annoyed rather than thinking up secret ways to wind the others up. These seem more like things to do when you can’t be honest-like bosses or mils for example, or your partner/immediate family.

Sycamore gap, gas lighting by its very nature is intermittent

Throughout our childhoods, my older brother was bullying towards me and my parents weren't interested in hearing about it. One thing he used to look forward to in the mornings was the creamy top of the milk on his cornflakes, so for years I used to get up early, go to the fridge and shake the milk to disperse the creamy top. Yes, is was a slight revenge but it was a little thing that made my childhood a tiny bit more tolerable.

[quote SycamoreGap]@ActonSquirrel but it’s not gaslighting is it? And it isn’t permanently switched on.[/quote]
It is gaslighting

She knows what it is and for 10 years deceived her husband for her own amusement

Poor man.

I agree the chirping, beeping device for 10 years is horrible. I would leave my DP if I discovered he'd done this to me. I would also question my relationship if I was the one taking pleasure from being this mean and annoying for so long.

@KineticSand

I agree the chirping, beeping device for 10 years is horrible. I would leave my DP if I discovered he'd done this to me. I would also question my relationship if I was the one taking pleasure from being this mean and annoying for so long.

Exactly.

People (well sycamore) want to split hairs over whether it is gaslighting but even if it isn't it is disgraceful.

I would leave them too if I ever found that out.

@GreatAuntEmily

DH spends time in his shed in the back garden. I am often on MN on my laptop - when I hear him coming in I grab laptop and shoot through to another room before he can .... suggest I make him a cuppa (because obviously what I'm doing is of less use than what he is doing / moan about something that he's working not working / moan about anything else / make a sarky comment about me sitting about ....... heh heh heh.

It just sounds like you're a bit scared of your husband to be honest

Some of these are downright nasty. I mean really nasty. Especially the one with the "chirping noises". Poor bloody husband, that it cruel. If mine ever knew I was doing something repeatedly to annoying him, out of spite, he would be beyond hurt. That's because it's cruel behaviour. Shame no one taught these people it's a reflection of something deeply unkind and disturbed about themselves.

Also the ones with doctoring someone's food to make it hotter knowing they won't like it and saying theirs is fine.

Again gaslighting and being a cunt also

As a teenager I worked in WH Smith. When the revolting pervy men used to sneak in furtively to buy their top shelf mags, and come to the counter, I used to smile sweetly, hold the mag up high above my head and say VERY loudly "would you like a bag for this Sir?" Every single time . Joyous

And for the very annoying people asking over and over "where are the diaries please?" A; "over there madam, just under the giant sign that says 'diaries' "

A life in retail was not for me.

@StoppinBy

My hubby and I each have different cutlery that we prefer to use. When I give him his cutlery I often give him the ones he doesn't like but purposely put them in his plate so they get dirty and he can't put them back and get his preferred ones

But he could put them to wash and get the ones he wants 🤷‍♀️

Jings - what a lot of spoil sports

These remind me of the twits