How petty are you?

[OMGjustpickaname]

Just curious, what's the most petty thing you've done and why?

I recently bought a new car.
I wanted a specific make just because I knew it would piss off my DS as it's what she has always wanted ( we don't speak)
I didn't get it in the end, as dp said it was too small ( I personally would have still had it, but he was paying sooo...) I'm still annoyed that I didn't get it though 😣

[quote Houseofvelour]@daisychain01 😂 omg some people on here need to get a grip. My husband is genuinely the loveliest person you could meet and in the 7 years we've been together, he's been nothing short of incredible thanks.
She cheated on him and he was angry so he took her car in the divorce 🙃 I've done a lot worse after being cheated on 🤷‍♀️
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But to be fair it wasn’t petty it was nasty. His ex wife had saved up and bought that car for herself so he wanted to hurt her. Understandable as she hurt him by cheating. But it was beyond “petty”…

@daisychain01

So you married someone who was so petty they took away a lump of metal (which is all a car is), just to spite another human being. Can't you see that with his mindset, your husband has the capacity to be equally mean to you and/ or any children you have. Just as well you're attracted to small-mindedness, hopefully it won't backfire on you.”

She cheated on him.

You don’t come across well in OP

Is this for real? No, probably not

I had a boyfriend when I was 16. I worshipped the ground he walked on, thought he was amazing. Anyway, he dumped me for another girl. I was heartbroken.

A few months later he decided he wanted me back. Being the fool I was, I trotted off back to him. But I knew it was likely to happen again, and I wasn't about to let myself be trampled on with no back up plan.

So I shagged someone he knew and disliked. Multiple times.

When the inevitable dumping happened it was ridiculously satisfying to say 'ok never mind, I shagged so and so anyway...'

I don’t think I’m petty at all. As a pp said life’s too short.

I hate pettiness! I know I must have done something but I can’t think of it. That’s so ridiculous op. 😂

Love the Toblerone story

DH has a really annoying habit of primly coming out and saying "Dials come and speak to me indoors we don't need the whole neighbourhood to hear everything in our lives" if I call through from the garden (all our neighbours are 50 yards away at least and he was only just inside the house).

Last summer I was trying to tell him that a friend who borrowed our jet washer said it doesn't work, he pulled the above trick and sounded so condescending that I chose not to repeat myself, he will have a nasty surprise this year when he goes to use it.

@JanuaryJones22

Years ago, popped round to my parents, DB was still living at home (maybe 18 at the time). Mum had just arrived home with the food shop and unpacked a bag of the bakery cookies - you all know what I mean. Clearly I was like 'ooh can I have one'. When DB pipes up 'f off hands off I asked for those' like the spoilt shit he still is! Cue 2 mins arguing at which poiny Mum sides with him and tells me I can have Harribo instead.

As I'm leaving later, everyone is sat in sitting room 'no no don't see me out' goes out via the kitchen door and and thinks I'm having one of those cookies...slipped one in my handbag....
But then out of sheer badness as I was almost out the door, crept back in, took the 4 remaining ones and took the biggest bite out of all of them in a pile together and put them back.

Then when I got home sent DB a text saying 'and I wiped a bogey on one but you'll never know which'

Will satisfy me into old age that 😌

Love this - I'm on your wavelength.

Decades ago I was working in a restaurant in Cornwall, very close friend had returned from traveling so I was talking to him on public phone in phone box - there was only one in the village.

Hadn't been talking very long (minutes) when young adult son of well known local family opened the door and shouted 'how long you gonna be?' I said I didn't know and he got in grabbed the yellow pages and threw it at me.....

Well, couple of days later, said son was at the bar ordering lunch....I was on bar lunches....he'd ordered jacket potato and garlic mushrooms; these are done fresh to order with butter.....so while I was frying them off, I didn't swallow any saliva...that's a good 6/7 minutes. Plated up lunch and as the frothy, garlicky butter mushrooms went on top, so did a mouthful of spit.

Still satisfies me to this day.

If DH really annoys me, I clean round the bathroom taps with his toothbrush, always makes me feel better.

When I was 17 my boyfriend at the time dumped me in a really cruel way. So I shagged his best mate.

Just last night I was awake all night listening to DH snoring, then up at 7- he doesn't work. So I 'forgot' to feed the cat and left the bedroom door open...

Many years ago i was waitressing in a hotel and a customer was so rude to me, belittled me and was totally condescending towards me.

Anyway took his order to the kitchen and when his meal was ready to be served i promptly spat in it. I enjoyed watching him tuck in !!

When my sister left her abusive twat of a dh, she snuck back and appropriated his vintage wines. (He had slashed her wardrobe to ribbons) she and her friends steamed off the labels and posted them to him from all over with little notes. “Made coq au vin with this”. “Took it to a party” “gave it to my sister, she said it tasted like piss and poured it down the sink” etc.

Life is too short for people who think "pettiness? Nah, life is too short"

There is always time for pettiness. I have found my tribe.

I don't think it's petty as such but when DH invariably is due his man period and gives me the 'I have to do everything around here' shite, like Kevin the teenager, I go on strike. I make sure his clothes are separated from the washing pole and left behind, his plates and cups get piled up on the kitchen side and there isn't enough food for a portion for him come dinner time. NOW tell me that you have to do everything.

Yikes. Some people are mistaking pathetic or psychotic with petty.

I’m not sure that’s petty op, that’s just really sad that you’re so consumed by her that you would even buy an unsuitable car in the hope it upset her.

DH used to open his bottles of beer and leave the top in either the drawer or on the counter. I even bought him a bottle opener that caught the tops but he still left them on the counter to be 'cute.' So every time I found one, I put it in his shoes/hood/pockets.

He puts them in the bin now.

Ooh another thing. DH also always nicks the cheese i grate for recipes. This makes me inexplicably irritated, even though it's not a big deal. One day I grated some potatoes to make some rostis. Watched happily as he took a big mouthful. Pahahahhaahahaha

When my ex bf and I broke up because he had fallen out of love (assured me there was no one else - later found out he had cheated for the majority of our 2.5 years) and I went to drop off my key the day after to the flat he was there with two(!) girls. You can guess what they were doing. Well I saw red and ended up deciding that everything me or my family had bought for the flat was coming with me. All dishes, cups, cutlery, kettle, toaster, microwave (which still had his previous nights dinner leftovers in it) all came with me. All bedding, towels, decorative bits - yep, in my car.
The petty bit was taking up MY vinyl flooring in the kitchen and because I couldnt lift the carpet I had paid for in the bedroom I just cut a big hole in it right at the door.
Felt much better straight away.

@Houseofvelour

Not me but DH. Many moons before I was on the scene, he'd been married to someone else. She'd always wanted a certain car and after years and years of saving, she finally got it. When she ran off with someone else and he filed for divorce, he made sure he got that car just to piss her off and named it the Spite-mobile 😂

I've always admired that level of pettiness 😂

Ha. I like that. He'll still be the arsehole according to some though, if he had cheated and she'd done this people would think it was funny.

"So you married someone who was so petty they took away a lump of metal (which is all a car is), just to spite another human being. Can't you see that with his mindset, your husband has the capacity to be equally mean to you and/ or any children you have. Just as well you're attracted to small-mindedness, hopefully it won't backfire on you."

Did you miss the part that said the wife ran off with another bloke?

@NomDePrune

Just last night I was awake all night listening to DH snoring, then up at 7- he doesn't work. So I 'forgot' to feed the cat and left the bedroom door open...

I would do this. It is v satisfying.

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

When my sister left her abusive twat of a dh, she snuck back and appropriated his vintage wines. (He had slashed her wardrobe to ribbons) she and her friends steamed off the labels and posted them to him from all over with little notes. “Made coq au vin with this”. “Took it to a party” “gave it to my sister, she said it tasted like piss and poured it down the sink” etc.

I bet it was a stab to his heart every time he received one of those labels. I hope she's well shot of him now. 🌹

@peachescariad that is revolting I hope you’re joking.

Not exactly petty, but this satisfied me greatly.

DS is 28 and we have an amusing relationship. I recently went into WhatsApp and created a group called 'Fuck' I then added him into the group. I then left the group.
What remained was a WhatsApp entitled "FUCK" and underneath were it's list of participants which just said "YOU".

Chuckled for hours on that one. Even he admitted it was a whole new level for me 😂