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?

@WolfFleeceSpotter

You are an evil genius and I salute you.

Rockmehardplace

If DH is annoying me, I transfer £1 into his bank account with references like “uraw*nker”. Petty but makes me happy.

Love this

My friend’s EX writes abusive Refs for the bank transfers he sends her (occasionally), ie “FU money” etc etc. We think he’s a bit of a twat but I’m sure he gets some momentary pleasure from it

It was 2012, the Olympics were in full swing. A supposedly close friend of DP's (who he'd not heard from in 5 years) had an interview nearby so wanted to stay and have a catch-up.

The first evening was ok, he had to get up the next day. Friday night was another matter.

I went to bed at 11 to let them catch up. Fell asleep quickly. Was woken at 1 by DP who thought it was 'hilarious' to disturb me (suspect 'friend' was behind it). Then spent the next 3 hours listening to their drunken shouting over the radio. Twice I asked them to lower the noise, they would, but then it would get louder again.

I got up at 8 to find DP asleep in the lounge. I made him a coffee and put the TV on. Found a sudden interest in the Diving event and insisted on the volume being loud enough to wake the friend in the room next door. I was glued to the screen for hours (whilst MNetting about it). Both knew they couldn't complain.

I know someone like this in the local pub. Whenever something is going down on the local Facebook, suspect people in cars casing for burglaries etc he always says "Bet they were black/Asian/travellers". I am friends with a local police officer so I always say automatically "X says it was three white guys". knob.

Dh has a thing for turning off the kettle, along with almost all electrical appliances that don't need turning off, like toasters or blenders at night. They stay on all day and manage not to spontaneously combust.

If I'm annoyed with him I turn the kettle off every time I use it through the day and watch him waiting 5 minutes wondering why the kettle isn't boiling. It annoys me having to remember to turn it on despite years of this nonsense.

I don’t need to intentionally annoy anyone as I am sure I am annoying enough already.

Reading this makes me realise DH is doing it to me. I have preferred mugs in the house and often he will make my coffee in ones I hate and he knows I hate . This thread has been enlightening :-(

@FortunesFave

I have to say...at the risk of sounding po faced, I am genuinely shocked at some of the meanness of some of these!

Hiding weird, beeping gadgets! Twisting phone cords deliberately! Devices that turn off TV screens!

How bloody weird! It really is odd to derive pleasure from causing others discomfort.

You're missing the point that these incidents are reactions to similar incidents that upset us. The provoking incident may not be deliberate, like ours, but they are just as annoying.

A horrible, very annoying, thoroughly unpleasant woman at our livery yard.

Once, about 2 years ago I didn’t lock the tack room door when I left one morning. I saw her arrive and park her car in the car park so left it open for her, and left.

She has moaned endlessly ever since that I forgot to lock it and all our tack could have been stolen - I’ve explained a million times that I didn’t forget, I saw her arrive so deliberately left it open for her, but she still goes on about it

Ever since, when it’s just me and her up there, every time I’ve finished in there, I lock the door. It’s a bloody nightmare to lock and unlock and I skin my knuckles every bloody time, but it amuses me greatly.

I spent 2 hours tidying yesterday and asked DH when he would be home from work to help with a few tasks (like moving a heavy box), he told me to 'get on with it' so I sat down and left all remaining jobs for him to do once he got in.

Somthing about being TOLD to do something that Im already doing or was going to do just triggers me to refuse to do anymore, DH still hasnt learned that though after over a decade lol.

When my 24 year old brother complained that I hadn’t done his washing I took his dirty washing out of the basket and hung it up, without washing it first, so it looked like it’d been washed but was still dirty.

He managed to be able to do his own washing after that funnily enough.

@alloalloallo

A horrible, very annoying, thoroughly unpleasant woman at our livery yard.

Once, about 2 years ago I didn’t lock the tack room door when I left one morning. I saw her arrive and park her car in the car park so left it open for her, and left.

She has moaned endlessly ever since that I forgot to lock it and all our tack could have been stolen - I’ve explained a million times that I didn’t forget, I saw her arrive so deliberately left it open for her, but she still goes on about it

Ever since, when it’s just me and her up there, every time I’ve finished in there, I lock the door. It’s a bloody nightmare to lock and unlock and I skin my knuckles every bloody time, but it amuses me greatly.

Cover the racist, xenophobic, Daily Mail reading, Tory voting, Nicola Sturgeon-hating MIL's house in SNP stickers and transfers, leave SNP branded pens and post-its all over. The stickers are usually in innocuous locations where she won't notice them, but passing traffic, neighbours etc will.

Even managed to sneak one on to the back of the car that was still there months later when they replaced it for a new model.

My DH's grandmother is basically Hyacinth Bucket. The first year I was invited to DH's family's Boxing Day shindig we were having a pretty innocuous conversation about cooking steak which segued into DH talking about the quality of steak we'd been able to get, fairly reasonably priced, in Asda.

GMIL tinkly laughed and said 'I'm sure you think it's fine as Ada's introduced you to it but you grandfather and I could NEVER eat it. Never mind Asda, we can taste Tesco...'

We don't shop at Asda anymore (for no other reason than we live closer to Tesco so that's where I get my regular weekly shop) but whenever GMIL visits and waxes lyrical about how amazing the food is on the basis she thinks it's M&S I get a ridiculous amount of irrational satisfaction knowing she actually can't fucking taste Tesco.

There's a definite feeling in the wider family I've dragged DH down to my level. He even uses voucher codes when we go out places now!

@Smallkeys

Reading this makes me realise DH is doing it to me. I have preferred mugs in the house and often he will make my coffee in ones I hate and he knows I hate . This thread has been enlightening :-(

You need to start telling him you love the hateful ones and vice versa.

We used to have really inconsiderate neighbours who would let their dog come in to our garden and never come in to clean the poo up. We had it out with them numerous times but nothing changed. My DD discovered one day quite accidentally that if she squeaked her new toy the dog could clearly hear it through our very thin walls and would go crazy barking and yelping. We had great fun moving it from room to room for quite some time.

@Disneycharacter

Dh has a thing for turning off the kettle, along with almost all electrical appliances that don't need turning off, like toasters or blenders at night. They stay on all day and manage not to spontaneously combust.

If I'm annoyed with him I turn the kettle off every time I use it through the day and watch him waiting 5 minutes wondering why the kettle isn't boiling. It annoys me having to remember to turn it on despite years of this nonsense.

My DH randomly switches things off too.

This has caused him to nearly burn down the house (when he flicked the switch to 'switch off' the already off oven) and to flood the house (swiched off the water so much he broke the valve because its not meant to be switched off daily).

Non of these things would happen if he bloody left the switches alone.

@Doublestar

Mine is when DH is annoying me (which is quite frequently lately) I deliberately put his laundry away in the wrong places. He then tells me patiently whilst he's rearranging everything where I've gone wrong..."the socks go in this drawer love" while I smile and go "u-huh, u-huh" like I give a shit. Then I carry on as I was. Poor thing doesn't realise I do it on purpose!

OMG! I do the exact same thing!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@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.

Oh you are beautifully evil.

My ex-manager was one of those annoying ambitious Company-Speak parrots that irritated far more people than just me. He was also incompetent and lazy. He would take any work or reports that I wrote for wider distribution and change my name for his so he'd get the credit for them (he claimed no-one would take it seriously otherwise).

So I wrote a report that referenced my personal experience in a way that was obvious that a woman had written it. Anyone who knew me would have realised it was my report.

I guessed he'd never read it himself before changing the name and I was right. Quite a few amused recipients commented on his evident sex change

whenever GMIL visits and waxes lyrical about how amazing the food is on the basis she thinks it's M&S - you don't casually mention the good deal you got, buying it in Tesco?

I enjoy being really friendly to a colleague I know doesn't like me. It makes me giggle inside to watch her being forced to smile at me.

coodawoodashooda

Why? Someone i know does this to me. I get on with it because i think she is pathetic and figure it is one of few ego trips she gets.

it works! 😂 😂