To ask what is the pettiest thing you’ve done?

LadyCampanulaTottington · 2022-09-03T07:51:14+00:00

My petty crown that I wear with pride is when confronted (or rear fronted?) by a car driving up my arse, I slow down and if they don’t back off I continue to drive as slow as legally possible just to make a point. Even if you haven’t acted on it, what’s the pettiest thing you’ve considered doing?

TroysMammy · 03/09/2022 08:55

If my DP has done something to annoy me I wait until he is in the shower and then run a cold tap for a short blast. This makes the shower water get hotter. Not enough to scald but enough to make him turn the temperature down which by that time the cold tap is off he's having a much cooler shower.

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LadyCampanulaTottington · 03/09/2022 09:09

@TroysMammy ah it’s the little things 😁

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Notaderrysgirl · 03/09/2022 09:12

A work colleague of mine (who I didn’t like very much) had a plastic barbie plate that she was oddly attached to. She would use it all the time. One day she dropped it and it broke and she was very upset. She then found the same plate on eBay and placed a bid for it. I decided to bid against her to drive the price up. This stupid plastic plate went up to £35 before i stopped and let her win the auction. She still talks about the “mystery bidder” who was also so desperate to buy the plate. Yes I am sad and incredibly petty.

KyaClark · 03/09/2022 09:21

Notaderrysgirl · 03/09/2022 09:12

A work colleague of mine (who I didn’t like very much) had a plastic barbie plate that she was oddly attached to. She would use it all the time. One day she dropped it and it broke and she was very upset. She then found the same plate on eBay and placed a bid for it. I decided to bid against her to drive the price up. This stupid plastic plate went up to £35 before i stopped and let her win the auction. She still talks about the “mystery bidder” who was also so desperate to buy the plate. Yes I am sad and incredibly petty.

This is brilliant.

My friend and I fell out just before we were due to go home from a holiday. She had bought herself a new teddy which she left in her seat to travel home with so I moved it to the boot. The whole journey home she was convinced she'd left it behind and was so upset.

We were 10.

thefoggiest · 03/09/2022 09:23

Living in a huge shared house with tumble dryers that nobody ever fucking emptied of water or cleaned out of lint. In the end I just tipped out a tiny amount of just enough water to be able to dry my own clothes without emptying the whole thing.

MyPurpleHeart · 03/09/2022 09:34

Had an employee (long since fired) who was a chronic-play-the-system sicknote. Scheduled appointments for the doctor/optician/physio/collect a prescription every Friday without fail at 3pm so she could go early and not come back. I'd well and truly had enough of this and was performance managing her because of this and high levels of absence.

Started making her work longer during the week to make up for her absences.

She pre worked this time off one week announcing that she was going at 3, we finish at 5. At 2:30 I let the whole office go home early and enjoy their weekend :) her face was a picture. I can still hear the echos of 'it's not fair!' as she stormed down the hallway to go home

Carrieonmywaywardsun · 03/09/2022 09:42

SIL kept staying at our house for days on end for no reason. She'd do all her washing here then go home with half our fridge and cupboards in her car. So I stopped her white wash and put in her red hoodie so she had pink clothes. And she was vegan so I only bought non vegan food for weeks. (That was difficult but worth it). I also started cooking meaty strong smelling food and swapped vegan products like toothpaste to non vegan ones. It worked

RicherThanYew · 03/09/2022 09:43

My former colleague was a rude, nasty and entitled individual who would ask people to make them tea by literally emailing us with the word "tea", or better yet, clicking their fingers and saying "tea". When I was making a round, I'd always add a shit tonne of milk to the dry teabag and extra sugar.
The biggest petty thing I ever did was when my sister died, she was 35. Her biological father destroyed the flowers that were put there, even the ones left by her 3 children, he owned the grave so h3 could do this and he said he would never give permission for anyone to leave anything there. It has been years and the plot has nothing on it, no cross or headstone, it's blank. I bought the plot next to her and paid for a headstone aswell, he went fucking batshit, but her kids have somewhere beautiful to lay flowers now.

Had2Be · 03/09/2022 09:47

@RicherThanYew That is not petty at all. It’s a great solution to an awful situation. I hope you and your sisters children are doing ok.

Shlomping1234 · 03/09/2022 09:48

My ex used to like a drink in the evenings. If he pissed me off, I used to shake random cans before going to bed. Then lay there giggling when he'd open one and hear him swearing when it exploded over him 🤣
I also pissed in his running bath once 🤣

ShhDoNotTell · 03/09/2022 10:06

RicherThanYew · 03/09/2022 09:43

My former colleague was a rude, nasty and entitled individual who would ask people to make them tea by literally emailing us with the word "tea", or better yet, clicking their fingers and saying "tea". When I was making a round, I'd always add a shit tonne of milk to the dry teabag and extra sugar.
The biggest petty thing I ever did was when my sister died, she was 35. Her biological father destroyed the flowers that were put there, even the ones left by her 3 children, he owned the grave so h3 could do this and he said he would never give permission for anyone to leave anything there. It has been years and the plot has nothing on it, no cross or headstone, it's blank. I bought the plot next to her and paid for a headstone aswell, he went fucking batshit, but her kids have somewhere beautiful to lay flowers now.

I think you’re amazing. 😍

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LadyCampanulaTottington · 03/09/2022 10:40

These are brilliantly satisfying.

@RicherThanYew sorry for you loss, what a twat of a father she had.

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Cornettoninja · 03/09/2022 10:44

Incredibly tame but used to really satisfy me, a particularly nasty manager at an old job had a name that could be spelt with or without an ‘e’. I always spelt it wrong in emails because I knew it irritated her.

KyaClark · 03/09/2022 10:48

RicherThanYew · 03/09/2022 09:43

My former colleague was a rude, nasty and entitled individual who would ask people to make them tea by literally emailing us with the word "tea", or better yet, clicking their fingers and saying "tea". When I was making a round, I'd always add a shit tonne of milk to the dry teabag and extra sugar.
The biggest petty thing I ever did was when my sister died, she was 35. Her biological father destroyed the flowers that were put there, even the ones left by her 3 children, he owned the grave so h3 could do this and he said he would never give permission for anyone to leave anything there. It has been years and the plot has nothing on it, no cross or headstone, it's blank. I bought the plot next to her and paid for a headstone aswell, he went fucking batshit, but her kids have somewhere beautiful to lay flowers now.

Why was he like that?!

iklboo · 03/09/2022 10:55

Mine is so tame!

Our local Cons club had a 'no women in the vault' rule. The bar was between the two so I'd always stand with one foot on the vault side. I was asked to move it once but I said 99.9% of we wasn't in there so, technically, I was in the room I was supposed to be.

randomchap · 03/09/2022 10:58

I repaired a family member's computer. it was completely riddled with viruses and malware. Took a good few hours to fix.

I didn't get offered a single drink, he didn't thank me and was just generally rude while I sorted it.

Before I left, I wrote a little script that made it loudly beep at random intervals and made sure it ran at start up. Just a few times a day but enough to be massively annoying.

Blankscreen · 03/09/2022 11:05

I used to own a house with my ex boyfriend.

He earnt a lot more and was very stingy.

We were having some carpet done in the sitting room and I couldn't really afford to buy I had to pay half £260.

Anyway we broke up about 2 month later (no surprise there) and he bought me.out the house.

The day we completed I decided to take my half of the carpet and underlay with me. Slashed it down the middle of the room rolled it up up and left it outside on the front garden for him.

I also turned the boiler off at the mains. He'd never taken any interest in knowing how to sort it etc.

Apparently he had a to get a plumber put to switch it back on. What a cock

knackeredagain · 03/09/2022 11:07

I changed the Netflix password so my ex would have to pay for his own account

Iwantcollarbones · 03/09/2022 11:09

Ex-mil was a vicious sneering bitch to me and my dc. Exh moved her in as she was ‘lonely and aging and needed help’. She overtook the house and, irritatingly my chest freezer (brought before I married) with her food hoarding obsession. When I left H I took the freezer with me leaving her contents on the floor where the freezer once stood. I didn’t even have space for it in my new home but given that she had tried to take my perfectly healthy dog to be put down as ‘she has allergies’ I figured she can go fuck herself.

Orla32 · 03/09/2022 11:15

Not me ... but a family member ... her exH was abusive. He drove her out of their home. She went back to get some of her belongings and pissed in the kettle. 😭👏🏼

CraftyClara · 03/09/2022 11:24

Many years ago I had a male flat mate who would never do any of his washing up, assuming one of the two women in the house would do it. We resorted to disposable plates and cutlery instead. He used everything in the house and the entire kitchen was piled high with his dirty dishes.

His mother was coming to stay with us from India. He was out when she called, to say her flight had been changed - she was now arriving early in the morning rather than the evening. I knew he was planning to spend the day finally clearing up the kitchen, but as we’d had to put up with his shit for so long I told him she would be arriving on the Sunday instead of the Saturday.

Saturday morning came, doorbell rang at 0730, there she was with her suitcase. I offered her tea, we went into the kitchen. She saw the mess and said “This is my son’s mess, isn’t it?” She stormed upstairs into his bedroom (where he was asleep with his latest one night stand) and dragged him downstairs to do his washing up. She also made him clean the kitchen and wash the floor, and cooked us all a fantastic meal that evening. He never left his washing up again.

MargaretThursday · 03/09/2022 11:26

Dh knew someone who always had to be the best at everything.
One Christmas he came round, looked at our cards and said "is that all the cards you have. We've got four times as many, but of course everyone wants to be my friend".

Next year the day he was cming round near Christmas I found the last year's cards which we for some reason hadn't recycled.
Now the dc were at primary school where almost everyone sent cards to most of the form, plus friends in other forms so they alone would get 100 cards. Normally they put the cards in their own room, so I suggested they brought their cards down, and I put up the last year's cards and for good measure added any spare cards that I hadn't sent yet.
The house bristled with cards.

So he came in and immediately opened his mouth to repeat how much more cards he'd been sent... Then I saw his eyes just taking it in and he closed his mouth again and never has said it again. 🤣
Unfortunately he still boasts about everything else, but never about cards.

Dadaya · 03/09/2022 11:39

I applied for a summer job in a shop which was advertised with an hourly wage. But they paid me a monthly salary the same as the other staff (they took the annual salary and divided it by 12).

Long story short, I ended up about £100 worse off than if they’d paid me on an hourly basis as advertised, and when I complained they said it was tough. So I threw hundreds of pounds worth of stock in the bin. Cost them a fortune. I didn’t take any of the stuff. Didn’t want it. I binned it out of pure petty spite because they were scamming me out of my wages and I thought one way or another you’re going to pay that £100.

mamabear715 · 03/09/2022 11:45

Loving these!! :-)

TenRedThings · 03/09/2022 11:57

Not my petty but my neighbour who has bought a small patch of wasteland she'll never use, a good 200m away from her house through woodland so you can't even see it. This is so that once a week, when I pop over to see another elderly neighbour ( who first one doesn't like) she can stop me taking a short cut ! She's already put a line of twigs across the path to stake her claim. This is the same neighbour who has a right of passage directly in front of my house !