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 😣

This is something I plan to do in the future, you are welcome to give me a pettiness rating,,,

I really can't stand food waste. We have a small under counter fridge, Whenever I go away for a week DH gets rid of the food from the fridge, mostly stuff that isn't out of date or a day past its date but is still fine. When I last went away he got rid of perfectly good cheese and ham, drives me round the bend.

So before my next trip I am carefully planning meals and using everything up, not buying too much, I can make a cottage pie with the cheese and sauces, clean the sink with the lemon juice,,
So when he opens the fridge on the day I've gone all he will find is a tub of margarine.
This may backfire as he will probably think 'Lana's done a good job of cleaning the fridge'. Don't worry, the DC won't starve, he's not one of those useless men I often read about on here, he'll just go out shopping for more.

I put DH’s dirty laundry that he leaves strewn all over the floor underneath the covers on his side of the bed and if I’ve done the washing that day, I don’t do that pile. Every night he gets into bed he has to move this dirty pile and does he put it in the basket as he should? Generally not, the pile just grows.

He also has an annoying habit of leaving drawers and cupboard doors open all of the time so I once filmed myself closing a drawer explaining that this is the close function.

When I was living in LA, after the sitcom I wrote had finished and I was bumming about with all my millions, I went into a terrible coffee shop called "Mocha Joe's", I didn't tip, long story short I had a big disagreement with the owner and so I therefore decided to open my own coffee shop, Latte Larry's, right next door.

Oh I love some light-hearted pettiness.

DH once threw out my Easter Egg because he thought it was an empty Easter Egg box (I eat mine half a shell at a time whereas he gobbles the whole egg down in one sitting).

I've slowly over the years got my own back by eating the last of something he was saving 'by accident' like the last piece of garlic bread that he was saving for mopping up the sauce.

Mwahahahah

Dp complained about me not opening the curtains a few times when I got up in the morning (winter time, 7 am...), I haven't opened them since

He also kept "joking" about me not emptying the bins either (which I did do actually he just thought the bin fairy did them apart from the once a week he did it). I don't do them any more, same with the tea bags, I WILL build a tea bag tower just to spite him. He's learning to keep his trap shut 😂

Sometimes though, people who want to dismiss your point do so by insisting your responses are ‘petty’.

For example, my STBEH would just leave stuff in the kitchen for me to clean up. Or put things near the dishwasher so I’d have to load it. One day, I came down (from yet another sleepless night with the baby) and saw that he had just left all the stuff he’d used to make his breakfast on the island for me to sort.

So I didn’t. Every time I cleaned the kitchen I just left his stuff and cleaned around it. He insisted I was being really petty. But I had had enough. I’d told him that I’m not his maid many times so I decided actions would speak louder than words.

Petty is his way of dismissing my annoyance at his sense of entitlement to my household labour.

The sister I dont speak to, tormented me growing up. Mentally and physically.
One thing she would always do was put me down for being small/skinny and having no boobs or hips.
Im sporty, shes not.
She would constantly tell me all men would find my body ugly, childlike etc.

She obsessively calorie counts now after children and weight gain.
If she visits at my parents, sometimes I purposely put on a crop top and flash my abs at her. She does be raging 🤣

When we were first together my OH went out all night and crawled in at 6am on a school night.. I hid the paracetamol....

My husband re homed an indoor cat years ago, at the time I made it clear the litter changing would be his “job”as I didn’t really want a cat.

A couple of years ago I had felt unwell for a few days and the litter really needed changing, he kept leaving it so eventually I gave in and did it. I then took the bag of litter and put it under the drivers seat of his car.

That night I felt more and more unwell, eventually I was given an out of hours appointment and the Dr sent me to A&E as I needed my appendix removed.

I had to stay in hospital for five days all in. When my husband came to collect me the litter was still in the car! He hadn’t used the car since I went to hospital so I had to tell him what had happened.

So my pettiness was pointless as the smell in the car made me feel sick all the way home from the hospital!

@Adeleskirts

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.

I didn't say the car was unsuitable, i said dp thought it was to small. I don't think it would have been to small for just me and dson, so perfectly suitable for what was needed. Your very lucky if you've been through life and no one has fucked you over that much that you want to do something just to piss them off, My sister is an evil, manipulative bitch and if me getting a car (which is hurting no one) pisses her off-even for a day, then it makes me feel just that bit better about all the shit she pulled on me over the years!

Gosh OP that's so childish sorry. Why would you spend money on a car that your sister who you don't speak to likes just to be petty.

Exh bought the dc tamagotchi when they first came out. When the dc quickly got bored of them he took them over and was obsessive interrupting meals and conversations to feed them. Every time he annoyed me I'd kill the tamagotchi by overfeeding them.

Mine is quite mild really. I once temped in the asset mapping department for a utility provider. A big part of the job was providing asset maps in response to contractors tendering due a new development. It was quite common for these requests to be last minute and our normal response time was 10 working days. Inevitably some applications would be last minute and our hotline would be subject to frantic calls urging a quicker response.

If someone rang and was polite and made clear they'd really appreciate our help in pushing theirs through we'd always do our best to help. Anyone who rang up effing and blinding and telling us if we didn't sort it within the hour he'd get us sacked ... well, their application was indeed swiftly located and put to the very bottom of the pile.

[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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My DH was treated horribly by his ex, and I got the measure of him when he wouldn't criticise her or do anything mean to harm her, because it would have reflected more on him than her. I couldn't be with someone who'd be that nasty, sorry, that would make them deeply unattractive. But I admire your loyalty to him, hopefully it's the last time he pulls a stunt like that, is all I can say. We do all live and learn, so maybe he's changed since then.

@daisychain01 well he helped her with her taxes, got her all set up in her new home and he never slagged her off so he's pretty amazing. 🤷‍♀️ I don't blame him for taking her favourite car though (she had another so she wasn't without).
In future, I'd recommend not making assumptions about someone from one paragraph on a forum 🤷‍♀️

DH’s ex wife was taking forever to sign the divorce paperwork. When it was finally getting to the end bit, we took the paperwork out, each farted on it and wiped it on our butts before carefully replacing it in the envelope for her to sign 😬 😂

I go on my ex-husband's Netflix account and watch loads of racy 18 programs, just so they appear on his 'carry on watching' section.
I hope him and his new younger/richer/wife get really pissed off and confused about how they get there.

@PickledOnionSandwich

DH’s ex wife was taking forever to sign the divorce paperwork. When it was finally getting to the end bit, we took the paperwork out, each farted on it and wiped it on our butts before carefully replacing it in the envelope for her to sign 😬 😂

That is so pathetic and gross, but also hilarious.

I’m conflicted because I want to judge you but I’m actually just laughing!

@Dustyplumber

I go on my ex-husband's Netflix account and watch loads of racy 18 programs, just so they appear on his 'carry on watching' section. I hope him and his new younger/richer/wife get really pissed off and confused about how they get there.

Fucking with people’s ‘recently watched’ lists is my favourite genre of petty revenge.

I used to work in a pizza place. Anyone being rude ordering a "hot" ended up with a thermonuclear version. To be fair they were probably all too pissed to taste it, but it made me feel better.

My ex best friend treated me really badly at a very critical time of my life and it impacted me deeply. It’s the type of thing i see other women go through.
I want to create awareness and help others through it. So I’ve created a new business around it. She doesn’t know yet, but when she finds out, I would love to be a fly on the wall. 😂
Is that petty?

1. Sounds like an idea starved journalist searching for tattle.
2. Fiat 500…?
3. Can we have sig files stating our words are not to be used by journalists.

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