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

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LadyCampanulaTottington · 03/09/2022 08:51

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?

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oakleaffy · 05/09/2022 23:01

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.

That's a very lovely thing to have done..I think one can ''buy'' {Very long lease} a Plot, and it can stay empty if the purchaser wishes.

NottsExile · 05/09/2022 23:04

@VanishingViolet Fair enough 😊

britneyisfree · 05/09/2022 23:07

Family member in the 80s (before I was born) put her in laws passport and visa in the bin. It meant he was stuck in the country for a while (which wasn't nice for her) but meant when he left he couldn't come back. He was gone for about 5 years by which time she had divorced his relative and never saw him again.

He was always coming back and forth before that. Staying for months at a time.

DoveOfPiss · 05/09/2022 23:08

In the mists of time before smart phones, my XH put a tracker on my phone one day when I'd forgotten to take it to work. It was so he could spy on where I was going. Anyway I clocked on to this after coming back from seeing my family and him asking how they were (I hadn't told him where I was going).
Me and my friend, along with half her family and most of my old friends around the country, took great delight in sending my phone around to each other for about 4 months!! And I got myself a new phone. Arsehole was so confused 😂

NottsExile · 05/09/2022 23:09

@britneyisfree How did he manage to leave your relative's country?

oakleaffy · 05/09/2022 23:10

Years ago, my sweet innocent elderly dog and I were walking down the road we lived in then.

A man with an ''Aggressive'' breed said ''Can't you see I've got an {Aggressive breed} , f&cking walk on the other side of the road''

I replied ''I'll walk where I like {We were close to our house, like a couple metres away}

The bloke took the chain off his dog and said ''Go on {Dog's name} and out poor dog was attacked.

She3 screamed and screamed most pitifully, and it of course needed veterinary treatments.

I found out where this bloke lived, and with a tin of dog food in my hand, peeled back the ring pull to expose the ragged bit of metal, ''Scarred'' his vehicle.

I thought..You wanker..my dog is scarred for life, your bloody car will be, too.

I delighted in seeing the rust in that scratch, and wasn't remotely sorry.

Wished I'd thought of calling Dog warden,

Dog was euthanised a few years later by RSPCA.. A tragic case. Not the dog's fault. Dog used to be left hime alone while owner went off 'Partying'

Topazmumma · 05/09/2022 23:18

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.

I would have taken HER to be put down!

Dontpeeonthecat · 05/09/2022 23:21

I live in a terrace and have one particular neighbour one side of me.
We are sort of friendly, as in we've been in each others houses for coffee and gone grocery shopping together if I'm driving etc but not besties. Shes quite loud and obnoxious and a drunk. Her and her fella get drunk and have blazing rows at 3am in the street .
She's recently ghosted me for no reason that I can think of except mind games.
Anyway, on one of these coffee mornings she had asked for my WiFi password so I gave it to her.
She's a bit of a ponce, never has money, always borrowing stuff but depending what it was, sugar etc I would give it if I had it. (Not anymore I'll add)
Internet has been running slow for a while now so my petty is, we logged everyone off it, changed the password and only given the new one to my children.
Next day she's asking if i changed it, so she's clearly been using it as its situated next to out shared wall. 😄

FetchezLaVache · 05/09/2022 23:25

My DSIL was dumped from a great height by a bloke who'd had a book published - it was a bag of shite, really - so as petty revenge, loads of her friends and family bought second-hand copies from Amazon so we were entitled to review it, which we did with great honesty and enjoyment.

VanishingViolet · 05/09/2022 23:32

@NottsExile 😊

Wibbly1008 · 05/09/2022 23:40

What an amazing thing to do , hats off to you for that one! Your sister would have been proud 🥲

Wibbly1008 · 05/09/2022 23:41

ShhDoNotTell · 03/09/2022 10:06

I think you’re amazing. 😍

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Agreed. Above post went too quick …

Splodgerbodgerbadger · 05/09/2022 23:49

While staying with our in laws once my FIL behaved like a knob head. They had these remote controls for turning their lights on so I took them home with me.

newtb · 06/09/2022 00:01

Very agressive separation and divorce from an abusive xh. In removing some of my things from the house, I may have inadvertently taken a table leg that belongs to an Ikea pine table. May or may not still have it in my cellar. My last year of studying on a grant, he spent my first term's grant on a made to measure 3 piece suit. May have accidentally taken the waistcoat. He needs to lose about 6st to wear it again.

britneyisfree · 06/09/2022 00:49

Oh I though of one of my own.

Cheating ex loved a suit. He had one that he'd gone on about being special as it had four buttons down the arm not 3. I removed one from each sleeve. Then I decided to do each one of his suits and removed a button from them all.

Then I took all his favourite polo Ralph lauren T shirts and used a cotton bud to dip bleach in different places and left everything perfectly hung up. He was SO confused 🤣

britneyisfree · 06/09/2022 01:18

WeeOrcadian · 04/09/2022 11:11

I don't know if mine is petty but it made me deliriously happy.

My egg donor is toxic and I cut contact with her a few years ago.
She has never met my DC, nor do they even know that she exists.
She's the kind that will martyr herself, just to say that she's helped / done X Y or Z.

We happen to both be in a swap group on FB and I'd offered some stuff in there. She PMd me offering me what I'd asked for, no mention of the swap. I ignored the PM, left it on unread.

Fastforward and she's left the things she'd offered me, with a relative, with the message "these are for Wee, she'll understand".
I took them.
Then drove to her house and left them on the step.
I suspect she actually bought at least one of the things, she tends to 'buy love' but she can fuck off, I wouldn't ask her for anything if she was the last person on earth.

She's the biological mother of your child. This could end up being a dangerous game or have I completely misunderstood....

britneyisfree · 06/09/2022 01:55

@NottsExile he was here in the uk. I believe he was sent home in the end as he had to admit he had no docs. Took him years to sort himself out and be allowed to visit again.

I know he came back as I met him when I was about 15 and he gave me a fiver for Xmas. I was told the story after that. He never knew what had happened.

MyMumSaysALot · 06/09/2022 02:14

I used to work for an elected politician. Everything I said or did during working hours was a direct reflection on him so I was always very polite, very helpful to people.
This one day an older lady called and said ”Yeah gimme the number for the such & such.”
No please, no nothing. Extremely rude & entitled & demanding.
So I gave her the number for the county aging committee. No doubt she yelled at them for not being who she called. She never called back & I never heard another word about it. Old hag.
Be nice to the people who are trying to help you!!

blackheartsgirl · 06/09/2022 02:42

Got made redundant from a really shit place, that were awful to work for, they’d done me out of wages and decent redundancy money.. so on my last day I nicked the expensive, industrial extension lead that powered 2 machines and my heater. I still have it. The lead in it would go round the world twice, it’s brilliant.

things went walkies all the time in the place so no idea if they suspected me.

blackheartsgirl · 06/09/2022 02:45

britneyisfree · 06/09/2022 01:18

She's the biological mother of your child. This could end up being a dangerous game or have I completely misunderstood....

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I took this to mean the posters mother not the biological mother of posters children going by the context of the post.

I could also be wrong of course..

k1233 · 06/09/2022 03:16

I was dating a guy. I got a lecture at his parents place that I wasn't allowed to turn the lights on as every time I was over apparently the spotlight out back was turned on. Up to that point, I'd never touched the light switch. I innocently asked which switch was the spotlight, so I didn't accidentally turn it on. Yep, every visit after that I would flick that bloody spot light on. They were weird people - I got in trouble for getting the bath mat wet when I got out of the shower, reading the paper etc

StoppinBy · 06/09/2022 03:48

My Mum and I have had a strained relationship for a long time.

One day I popped in as I went past her house but she wasn't home, she lives on an acre and has a long front yard which happened to be pretty soft from all the rain we had had. As I left I purposely spun my wheel so that it left a massive set of wheel tracks in her yard.

She just assumed I'd gotten a bit stuck in the soft ground Grin

Gilead · 06/09/2022 04:29

Signed my name on random pages of all his first editions.
In my defence, in twenty five years he’d cooked three meals (one being jacket spuds), never done the schoo run, didn’t know how to use a washing machine and wouldn’t let me out.

CanadianJohn · 06/09/2022 05:00

Several years ago I was in a group for aspiring writers. I didn't get along with one fellow... he didn't like my writing, and I didn't like his. Eventually he self-published a book of short stories, which got a scathing review in the local newspaper. Every year for several years, I sent him a copy of the review... on his birthday.

(Footnote: he eventually became quite successful as a novelist. I remained a nonentity.)

bloomtoperish · 06/09/2022 05:06

My friends flatmate was really nasty to me once, so I put some wee in her mouthwash - ust enough so she would be swishing piss round her mouth every day, but wouldn't be detected