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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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StolenWillowTree · 07/09/2022 18:49

potniatheron · 06/09/2022 15:21

I worked in a local outlet of an extremely famous and widespread fast food chain. It was very common for people to come in and order the largest, most fattening combination of items on the menu (think extra large bacon double cheeseburger with extra large fried and extra large onion rings) and then loudly, carefully stipulate that they wanted a DIET coke, NOT a full fat one.

It was also very common for customers to be dismissive of or outright rude to me because I worked in a fastfood restaurent.

Customers who fell into the Venn diagramme overlap of the two above consisutuencies would always get given a full fat coke. And sometimes I would serruptitiously remove my plastic gloves and rub the edges of their burger baps with the dirty underside of my fingernail.

That's just a massively twatty and potentially dangerous thing to do, not petty.

There's no such thing as "full fat coke", both regular coke and diet coke have 0 fat. Regular coke has 40g of sugar while diet coke is sugar-free.

Plenty of people have medical reasons for avoiding sugar. Plenty of people avoid high sugar foods but are fine eating foods that are high in fat. For example chicken nuggets are high in fat but low sugar - a single can of coke has the same amount of sugar as four hundred chicken nuggets!

It's especially crucial for people with diabetes to know the sugar content of their food.

Secretly dosing people with a shitton of sugar when they've ordered something sugar-free just because they feel they've been dismissive is just evil and could make a diabetic person very ill.

honeylulu · 07/09/2022 19:15

I've posted this one before about my evil MIL. My husband had been married before (only for a year then his wife ran off with her boss). Several years later we are together but MIL still has a framed wedding photo on her mantelpiece. Apparently she hated the first wife so who knows why!

Husband politely suggested she should remove it but she refused. She just liked being difficult.

One day I snuck into that room when visiting, took the photo out of the frame and replaced it with one of my grandfather's dog. Strangely she got rid of that quite quickly!

Tinyscissors · 07/09/2022 21:16

DH ended his previous relationship a few months before he and I started seeing each other. His ex didn’t want to let him go as he had been providing a much better lifestyle than she could afford on her own. She had been using a room in his house to store all sorts of things that she didn’t have room for in her small flat and she was using this as an excuse to keep making contact with him.

She knew he was away for a few weeks, but still found it necessary to email him about an item that she couldn’t find in her flat. Maybe it was still in storage at his? DH always told me about her emails and this one really annoyed me because she had timed it to arrive on Valentine’s Day. He asked me to take a quick look to see if the thing she wanted was there since he would likely forget by the time he got home from his trip.

Of course the thing wasn’t there. So I brought a large suitcase of her stored clothing into the lounge and I sat down with a pair of cuticle scissors. I cut every third stitch in at least one seam on every item. There was no obvious damage but those clothes were not going to survive a trip through the washing machine!

She finally picked up all the stored items about a year after they broke up.

Johnnysgirl · 07/09/2022 21:19

Tinyscissors · 07/09/2022 21:16

DH ended his previous relationship a few months before he and I started seeing each other. His ex didn’t want to let him go as he had been providing a much better lifestyle than she could afford on her own. She had been using a room in his house to store all sorts of things that she didn’t have room for in her small flat and she was using this as an excuse to keep making contact with him.

She knew he was away for a few weeks, but still found it necessary to email him about an item that she couldn’t find in her flat. Maybe it was still in storage at his? DH always told me about her emails and this one really annoyed me because she had timed it to arrive on Valentine’s Day. He asked me to take a quick look to see if the thing she wanted was there since he would likely forget by the time he got home from his trip.

Of course the thing wasn’t there. So I brought a large suitcase of her stored clothing into the lounge and I sat down with a pair of cuticle scissors. I cut every third stitch in at least one seam on every item. There was no obvious damage but those clothes were not going to survive a trip through the washing machine!

She finally picked up all the stored items about a year after they broke up.

The utter nerve of you! Why would you take it upon yourself to do that? 🙄

Aubriella · 07/09/2022 22:34

Tinyscissors · 07/09/2022 21:16

DH ended his previous relationship a few months before he and I started seeing each other. His ex didn’t want to let him go as he had been providing a much better lifestyle than she could afford on her own. She had been using a room in his house to store all sorts of things that she didn’t have room for in her small flat and she was using this as an excuse to keep making contact with him.

She knew he was away for a few weeks, but still found it necessary to email him about an item that she couldn’t find in her flat. Maybe it was still in storage at his? DH always told me about her emails and this one really annoyed me because she had timed it to arrive on Valentine’s Day. He asked me to take a quick look to see if the thing she wanted was there since he would likely forget by the time he got home from his trip.

Of course the thing wasn’t there. So I brought a large suitcase of her stored clothing into the lounge and I sat down with a pair of cuticle scissors. I cut every third stitch in at least one seam on every item. There was no obvious damage but those clothes were not going to survive a trip through the washing machine!

She finally picked up all the stored items about a year after they broke up.

Sorry, but that’s not petty, that’s borderline Single White Female territory.

Sunshineismyfriend · 07/09/2022 22:43

StolenWillowTree · 07/09/2022 18:49

That's just a massively twatty and potentially dangerous thing to do, not petty.

There's no such thing as "full fat coke", both regular coke and diet coke have 0 fat. Regular coke has 40g of sugar while diet coke is sugar-free.

Plenty of people have medical reasons for avoiding sugar. Plenty of people avoid high sugar foods but are fine eating foods that are high in fat. For example chicken nuggets are high in fat but low sugar - a single can of coke has the same amount of sugar as four hundred chicken nuggets!

It's especially crucial for people with diabetes to know the sugar content of their food.

Secretly dosing people with a shitton of sugar when they've ordered something sugar-free just because they feel they've been dismissive is just evil and could make a diabetic person very ill.

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I agree.
This would be disastrous for my type 1 teen. She would have worked out how much insulin she needed for her meal and injected appropriately and then not knowing she had a ‘non-diet’ Diet Coke her blood sugars would go incredibly high and make her feel awful, probably
ruining the rest of her day.
How irresponsible of you!

iamjustwinginglife · 07/09/2022 23:09

Tinyscissors · 07/09/2022 21:16

DH ended his previous relationship a few months before he and I started seeing each other. His ex didn’t want to let him go as he had been providing a much better lifestyle than she could afford on her own. She had been using a room in his house to store all sorts of things that she didn’t have room for in her small flat and she was using this as an excuse to keep making contact with him.

She knew he was away for a few weeks, but still found it necessary to email him about an item that she couldn’t find in her flat. Maybe it was still in storage at his? DH always told me about her emails and this one really annoyed me because she had timed it to arrive on Valentine’s Day. He asked me to take a quick look to see if the thing she wanted was there since he would likely forget by the time he got home from his trip.

Of course the thing wasn’t there. So I brought a large suitcase of her stored clothing into the lounge and I sat down with a pair of cuticle scissors. I cut every third stitch in at least one seam on every item. There was no obvious damage but those clothes were not going to survive a trip through the washing machine!

She finally picked up all the stored items about a year after they broke up.

Wow-you utter nutter!

lightisnotwhite · 07/09/2022 23:12

It’s very twatty to replace Diet Coke with regular Coke. Indeed twatty and dangerous to mess with anyones food or drink.
Its also twatty to point out “full fat” Coke has no fat. It’s an expression based on the fact no sugar Coke is named Diet Coke, obviously.

StoppinBy · 08/09/2022 04:44

phishy · 07/09/2022 08:07

So mean

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Not compared to all the shit she's done to us kids over the years lol.

Given she wasn't upset about it and just assumed I'd gotten stuck I'd hardly call it mean,

bunnytailbreakfast · 08/09/2022 10:18

DH of 11 years has just left me and his babies for a "happier and easier life" elsewhere.

He's left most of his clothes here and seems to be spending money on new ones and dating new women.

Last week he fell short of the payment he agreed to make toward the mortgage/children, so I've sold some of his clothes on Vinted.

This will continue every week that he doesn't pay what he has agreed until there's nothing left.

stopitleaveitgetdown · 08/09/2022 10:21

@bunnytailbreakfast good on you!
So sorry your DH has done that to you

Johnnysgirl · 08/09/2022 10:22

bunnytailbreakfast · 08/09/2022 10:18

DH of 11 years has just left me and his babies for a "happier and easier life" elsewhere.

He's left most of his clothes here and seems to be spending money on new ones and dating new women.

Last week he fell short of the payment he agreed to make toward the mortgage/children, so I've sold some of his clothes on Vinted.

This will continue every week that he doesn't pay what he has agreed until there's nothing left.

Not petty at all.

GrandTheftWalrus · 08/09/2022 23:27

My dh nearly died from a diabetic coma and if someone messed with something as simple as his drinks I'd be raging and getting the person sacked at the very least.

TheWheeledAvenger · 09/09/2022 17:28

Its also twatty to point out “full fat” Coke has no fat. It’s an expression based on the fact no sugar Coke is named Diet Coke, obviously.

A lot of people aren't well educated about nutrition, though. There are definitely people who think non-diet coke has fat in it or don't realize the difference is in sugar content. When I worked fast food there was a lot of mocking of customers for buying high fat food with low-sugar drinks. People just don't think. The poster said she punished customers for purchasing high fat food with low sugar drinks which indicates she doesn't realize they're different things.

Sunshineismyfriend · 09/09/2022 19:45

GrandTheftWalrus · 08/09/2022 23:27

My dh nearly died from a diabetic coma and if someone messed with something as simple as his drinks I'd be raging and getting the person sacked at the very least.

Wouldn’t blame you at all! I’d do the same if something like that happened to my teen daughter. Life as a diabetic is hard enough without people being twats!

Somethingneedstochange · 09/09/2022 21:15

Revenge is sweet 😂😂😂

Somethingneedstochange · 09/09/2022 21:24

It is i don't think I hate someone enough to give them food poisoning that kills them. Ecoli, campala bacta etc.

ghostyslovesheets · 09/09/2022 21:27

I got obviously cross when my boss came in with fruit (being all healthy) rather than cake on his birthday - I was, as they say. 'fummin'

The next day I came in to find a chocolate chip muffin with a candle in one my desk!

ghostyslovesheets · 09/09/2022 21:30

also at work - when I first started we where all quiet young and we had 'ship' based nicknames - the captain, the skipper ettc I used to get so het up over people putting wet spoons in the coffee, not taking things off the photocopier etc that I was awarded a certificate naming me ' Chief Petty Officer' - I still have it 26 years later

FoolishMortals · 09/09/2022 21:43

ghostyslovesheets · 09/09/2022 21:30

also at work - when I first started we where all quiet young and we had 'ship' based nicknames - the captain, the skipper ettc I used to get so het up over people putting wet spoons in the coffee, not taking things off the photocopier etc that I was awarded a certificate naming me ' Chief Petty Officer' - I still have it 26 years later

I love this!

ghostyslovesheets · 09/09/2022 21:47

thank you - I was mildly insulted but also very proud!

lightisnotwhite · 09/09/2022 21:50

TheWheeledAvenger · 09/09/2022 17:28

Its also twatty to point out “full fat” Coke has no fat. It’s an expression based on the fact no sugar Coke is named Diet Coke, obviously.

A lot of people aren't well educated about nutrition, though. There are definitely people who think non-diet coke has fat in it or don't realize the difference is in sugar content. When I worked fast food there was a lot of mocking of customers for buying high fat food with low-sugar drinks. People just don't think. The poster said she punished customers for purchasing high fat food with low sugar drinks which indicates she doesn't realize they're different things.

People mocked those buying fast food with a diet drink not because they confused fat and sugar but simply because it’s a drink marketing itself at weight loss ( it’s called Diet Coke) with high calorie food and therefore it’s an easy joke to make.
NB I realise many including me m buy it because not as a weight loss drink but they prefer the taste or can’t have 8 spoons of sugar in a cup.

PenCreed · 09/09/2022 23:02

I worked with someone over a decade ago who was a total cow. She’s subsequently had several books published, one of which was our book club choice earlier this year. I made sure I borrowed it rather than buying it.

WiddlinDiddlin · 10/09/2022 03:31

Um, yeah, i can factor in the calories and sugar of a bacon double cheese burger and onion rings... if I don't have any other carbs that day it just about works.

Some snotty arsehole who has judged me as being rude and decided to try to give me food poisoning and and a hyper could finish me off!

Someone the other day thought I was being rude and taking the piss with the way I spoke to them - in fact I was having a hypo, struggling for words so speaking slowly and trying to enunciate clearly because if I don't.. i sound absolutely pissed, which tends not to go down well either!

I don't think attempting to injure or make someone seriously ill is really justified simply because you think they were rude!

User112 · 10/09/2022 04:20

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.

That’s very unlike Indian moms with a male child. Also, they can’t ignore that one night stand woman 😊