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

[LadyCampanulaTottington]

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?

Found out my exH was seeing someone we both worked with so I took the padlock home he locked the gates with, he had to dash out & buy a new one, then put it back the following day, then I used to make hot drinks but ran the cloth around the toilet & floor before washing out the cups.

I was a young secretary at the time but to the main engineering boss and our office was having the filing cabinets re-sprayed.

I was appointed to see them turned around and had decided my boss was going to have the first ones for his office, while one of the junior clerks decided her area was having them.

ended up having a huge argument with the clerk and one of her male counterparts she brought over to move the cabinets. Later on the newly painted ones completely disappeared while I wasn’t there and I found them in the clerical area.

I thought that whole episode was pretty petty all round…

OK so this isn't mine but one I did happily partake in. When I was a kid, one of my sisters had this friend who's bf was pure evil, I'm talking abuse cheating, the lot. When she finally decided she had had enough she called us. We got the locksmith and then got to work on packing his stuff. We unpicked all his pockets and the leg bands of all his trs. Poured tobacco in his PS1 disc drive and plunged the controller in soapy water. We then filled all his top and jacket pockets with shaving foam. As an added measure right before we tied up his bags we emptied his "favourite hot dogs" into the bags and may have accidentally loosened the lids.
We then placed all his stuff out on the front garden and she came and stayed with us for a few days. We broke down laughing and told my mum who thought it was genius!

In my local supermarket there's a woman who's notorious for hanging around the reduced area. She waits for the person wigh yhe reducing gun and gets it before it goes on the shelf.We think she must have a takeaway judging on the amount of stuff she buys trolley loads of it. Anyway my friend and I were in before her I think they'd started reducing earlier. So we filled our trollies with all the reduced stuff if looks could have killed Then walked around until she'd gone and put it all back. Others got a look in that day.

Used to live in a block of flats with one parking space (mine) which I paid extra for but my neighbour would consistently park me in or steal the space. Got so pìssed off with this one night I squeezed several bottles of superglue into every lock on his car I could find. I don't feel guilty because that night he had parked across the empty parking spot. Wanker.

My colleague sounded like the character from Reservoir Dogs going on about how she doesn’t tip because she thinks wait staff should just get a better job. We all went out for Christmas, about 15 of us just before Christmas and the waiter worked his socks off. We’d paid for the food in advance so Ms Pink thought she’d be the first out the restaurant. She stood up and as she opened her bag to put her phone away I said loudly “great idea Ms Pink, everyone Ms Pink is collecting the tip” and she put £1 in with everyone else’s and the waiter was so genuinely touched and grateful for the £££. Ms Pink was very gracious and I had a petty sense of satisfaction.

1st h really irritated me one night before work. I set the sky channel to show wives with knives, and took all the remote controls to work with me.

This is the same as my most petty.

Im a school receptionist and left for a meeting in another school before my head teacher thought I should (I’d never been there before and didn’t know parking etc.)
when I got back I got told off. So I stopped working as soon as I arrived and sat in the break room until it was time to start. I also left the building during my lunch room which caused lots of problems as I was one of the first aiders. I never previously refused to do first aid during my lunch when I was there so me being off site caused the head lots of annoyance.

My dh has a really really annoying habit of striding off in front of me, while I trail dcs and bags and pushchairs when they were tiny. He knows it fucking infuriates me, but does it anyway.

We were in Ikea on sunday, in the showroom bit looking at desks and chairs, picked the ones we needed then attempted to find our way to the market hall. He strode off in front of me as normal, with no clue where he was going and not bothering to check me and ds were with him.

Me and ds were out in 2 mins, 10 mins dh was in there lost and furious. He phoned me twice and I just asked if he had asked for directions as I couldn't help 😁.

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Mine feels really lame and tame compared to some of these.

Messing with peoples food or drinks or toothbrushes isn't petty, it's fucking disgusting.

Sneaked chocolate in the kitchen (IN BIG A (HUGE) MOUTHFUL) while DS was a toddler!
Our dearly departed Labrador used to catch me out!

I don't get the pettiness here@VanishingViolet?

When I was a teen my dad was quite aggressive and controlling-think not being allowed to speak at certain times, nobody allowed over, days of silent treatment-so as revenge is make him coffee and spit in it or put his toothbrush under the rim of the toilet. Little things! We have a good relationship now, he’s mellowed with age and I’ve toughened up!!

My bank overcharged me for an overdraft when I was a student. For the next 20ish years I kept 1p in the account, and ordered a monthly statement. Honestly, I'm still amazed it took them that long to close the account down.

When I was young and pretty an older and less attractive work colleague repeatedly made catty remarks to and about me.

Our firm had recently had a staff recruitment drive, using the faces of real members of staff on posters all over town. It gave me an idea!

To get my own back on her, I wrote a fake letter purporting to be from HR, inviting her to be the next "face" used on a poster campaign. She was so proud, she read the letter out in full to the entire office, and then (as directed in the letter) phoned the number of the HR manager. She then loudly and proudly spoke on the phone whilst everyone in the office listened.

Hahaha it was such a delicious moment to see her come crashing down to earth when HR told her they had not written her a letter and she had not been chosen!

Remembered another, which given my menopausal brain I may have already recounted
Office job with contracted hours, although many people did more, but it was fixed salary, and the contract said salary was for contracted hours. I often used to come in half an hour early or so, stay half an hour to an hour late several days and take 20 mins for lunch. In reality, the job was badly set up, and there was very little to do other than update a spreadsheet and call various departments for updates to the spreadsheet.
One day I got held up whilst out at lunch and my supervisor told me off when I got back because my phone was ringing when I was away from my desk.
From then on I arrived 5 mins before contracted start time, didn't do anything until 8.30 on the dot, took my full (as in my contract) hour for lunch and left bang on time. Still had very little to do.

I doubt if many of the more outlandish ones are true .

I have another!

My boss sacked me for "complaining about poor health and safety in the office" and replaced me with his wife. The truth was, she wanted to return to work after raising their kids and she fancied my job.

To get revenge, when I "cleared my desk", under supervision, I secretly kept the keys to the building. That evening I went to the office, let myself in, and removed a huge armful of some crucial, vital files, which I deposited in a huge wheelie bin a few streets away.

I then left the keys in a hidden corner of one of the desks (where they would eventually be found) and let myself out (they were not needed to leave the building or to secure it.)

I really enjoyed thinking of them tying themselves in knots trying to work out how I could possibly have taken such a batch of files without anyone seeing me.

The files, by the way, were all the details, including the attendee list and the record of payments, for several large, expensive seminars my firm was putting on, so losing them would have plunged them into a very serious crisis.

Served em right, though. Not ashamed at all.

In a crazed and angry rage I once smeared half cooked frozen chips and battered fish all over the glasses on the kitchen side knowing that DP would be doing the washing up shortly. It felt so satisfying at the time but even then I knew I wasn't exactly taking the high road...

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Are you sure he's not using your toothbrush to clean the toilet?

@NottsExile it felt like a petty thing to do as an adult who had told a toddler that no, he couldn’t have any more chocolate!

I went on a date with a guy, it was good fun. He said he wanted to see me again. That weekend I was away with friends, I sent him a text saying hope you're having a good weekend. That was literally it. He replied saying 'can we be mature about this and just accept that two grown ups had a good night and won't see each other again'

I didn't bother to reply and blocked him.

A good 10 months later I was working for the hottest club in town doing flyering and I saw him in the queue. I went along the queue saying hi to folk and he looked straight at me but blanked me. So I told the doorman that he was dodgy as hell and not to let him in. About 5 minutes later I could hear him shouting at the door man because he wasn't allowed in. Mwahaha.