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?

Just why? Do you hate him or something?

I lived in a shared house and I had bought lots of ingredients and new utensils for shrove Tuesday. Came into the kitchen to find one of my housemates and her boyfriend making their own pancakes with all my stuff. I had an argument with them and they weren't overly apologetic.
A few days later they were making lemon chicken but had left the chicken and cut lemons out and had left the chicken. I poured a whole bottle of vinegar in and over the chicken, and into the lemons.
As you can imagine it didn't taste good! How they didn't smell it when preparing it, I'll never know!

My story isn't really nasty, it was done as a joke. My foster father worked with a team of men, one of whom (John) liked really sweet tea. There was no issue over who made the teas, they were a happy team. So my fdf gets up to make the teas & a colleague joins him & they shout out to John 'How many sugars?', to which he replied 'Anything over four' without looking up from his desk. My fdf & his mate then piss themselves laughing putting 16 sugars in John's tea to see if he says anything. John gets his cuppa and drinks it paying no attention. Fdf and colleagues burst out laughing and tell John 'Do you realise what you just drank?' & he smiled and said 'Oh yeah, I thought it was a bit sweet'. I don't know how the chap didn't have diabetes. Looking back decades on, I'm surprised my fdf admitted to being naughty at work when he was supposed to be setting me an example. They were good foster parents. I was lucky.

Im pretty opinionated on FB and often get DMs from people who have taken offence at my posts. I just block and ignore them. I got a message out of the blue a few days ago from some random bloke asking why i felt the need to say i lived in a smokefree home on my FB marketplace selling pages. I knew where this was going, but replied saying its just standard selling practice. I got a huge long rant back saying it wasnt standard, im up my own arse, im a stupid girl ect.
I clicked on his profile and found his wife. Took screen shots of his rant and sent them to her. I then screen shotted her profile pic, sent it to him and told him i thought his wife would be very interested to know how he talked to random women on the internet. I then told him to have a nice day and blocked him.

When DC come back from ExH with a bag of dirty washing more often than not there will be clothes items of his mixed in. Items such as t shirts I send back the following time the DC are going there. Odd socks of his now go in the bin. I imagine he hasn't got a pair of socks that match anymore😂

A woman who has had issues with me always bought everything I liked from the charity shop.

it all started when my son pointed out a croc style handbag, and I said to him “oh I love it! I’ll buy it in a few days when I have the money”. (I had the money but didn’t want to buy it).

she bought the croc hand bag. I noticed every time I pointed something out and said I would buy it when I had money, she would buy it.

I started pointing out digital photo frames, scarves, ornaments… she would buy it to spite me.

I then decided to point out a chocolate fountain to my son. She bought it. Her husband met her with the car because this thing was big-ish. He sounded cross and was asking her why she was buying things they didn’t use.

she still doesn’t like me.

I do this too - repeatedly until they fuck off.

Why did you continue to tell her what you were going to buy?

@KimberleyClark not at all! I adore him. We have a silly, playful kind of relationship. Yesterday I made lunch and went to get a drink and when I came back, he'd poked his finger in to my sandwich. It sounds very childish I know and actually I would bet almost anything that he probably wipes his mouth on my towel.

I’m really petty to my nightmare MIL but she deserves it. As do her horrible DD’s.

I am a very good baker. I could go professional, and am thinking about it. I make them for my own family and friends. In-laws know this, they’ve seen them. When it comes to MIL or SIL’s birthdays, I buy a Tescos sponge cake or the like for a couple of pounds. If they come round, I buy custard creams. They always look really surprised. 😝

Also, I used to traipse round getting their Christmas presents, even though they didn’t buy me. DH used to give me a budget and I used to take £10-15 off it, add it up, then buy myself something and wear it when I saw them. Petty and childish.

Had a minor disagreement with DW on the way back from the shop. When taking the shopping in I took great delight in crushing the crisps that she had bought herself for treat. I'm talking absolutely crushed to bits so they were just dust! I then watched with glee when she opened them and was hugely disappointed that they must have been crushed in the shop 😂 I wore my petty crown with pride that day!
I did confess a few weeks later and we both laughed at my sheer pettiness 😂😂

@QueSyrahSyrah he didn't prefer making his own cup, if offered he would always accept a cup of whoever was making it. Just didn't want to be bothered reciprocating.

Lazy arse!

I was 25 years old and found out my fiancé of 5 years had been cheating on me. We were due to be married in 3 weeks. I kicked him out and was, obviously, in a bad place. It took me about 6 months to pluck up the courage to start online dating and I chose 3 of, what I thought, were my best pics and matched with a guy. This was 2005 so before the current trend for filters and photoshop. The photos were 100% me! Spoke to this guy for weeks and we got close and arranged to meet. We met up and within a few minutes of being there he looks me up and down and says he’s sorry but I don’t look anything like my pics and that I’m bigger than he thought (I was a size 8/10 back then). He then just walked off and let me there. I can’t tell you how badly it ruined my confidence. I was already in a bad place due to my ex and this just made it worse. I left it for a few weeks but then went back online and saw this guy was back on the dating site. I made a fake profile and used my cousins pictures (with her permission) and spent a few weeks chatting to the guy. Arranged to meet him at a local restaurant and me and my cousin went to spy on him while standing him up. We watched him for a while, he sent many messages to me asking where I was. He stayed about 1/2 hr before leaving! I left it until about 10pm to text him to say I’m sorry but I had turned up to meet him but when I got there he didn’t look like his pics and was much shorter than he said and not as attractive as his pics. I’m not proud of it now but it made me feel a lot better at the time.

So excluding him from the round is totally fair.

Ganging up to sabotage when he was then making a cup for himself is bizarre bullying behaviour.

Love this! What a horrible man he was! Hope you found love in the end

Chasing clouds 😂

I don't really do anything petty because I am far too outspoken, if I have an issue about something or with someone people will know about it.

I worked in a department store in the audio and tv department. When I was on the tills, if a customer was horrible and buying a DVD player with the leads I would sneak ily
out a hole in the bag just belong enough for the lead box to fall out

I was once queueing in my local shop, hands full, when the local dowager swept in with her companion/help, like something out of an Agatha Christie play: a more unpleasant woman you'd be hard-pressed to find, mark you. And, as she entered, she bellowed to the woman with her that they had to get some pickling vinegar. Probably had a housemaid they wanted to preserve.

I was just level with the last container of pickling vinegar, and managed to hook it off the shelf using only the strength in my little finger and a shit of a lot of will power.

Best £3.76 I ever spent.

@dentydown
I assume she meant that she was pretending to want them so that the lady would buy them. Things that were not particularly nice and no one would really want.

I may, or may not have done similar

At a festival many moons ago two girls wearing colourful bandanas took it upon themselves to walk up to the front before it began to throw sweets into the crowd. Some of our mixed group tried to get their attention but they ignored us.

Later in the evening we ended up sat behind them and I remembered I had some clothes pegs in a bag, as a few people on site had taken to pegging unsuspecting people for a laugh. The point of the louder girl's bandana was in reaching distance, so I managed to sneakily attach a peg in a different colour to it. I noticed her friend point it out at the end and she had no idea who had done it.

* I* saw the car was not local (I'm in Switzerland and each canton has its own license plates). So I drove carefully at the speed limit for a couple of km, while the twat is getting more and more agitated, flashing lights and shaking his head. Then I pulled into the slow lane. He goes roaring past...and is flashed by the speed camera all locals know to avoid. In Switzerland, this will be very, very expensive.

Love this! And the perfect punishment for the crime...

@QueSyrahSyrah well I don't think I need you to police me , or tell me what I should or shouldn't have done! Made us laugh though!

He could've of course complained to the boss, would t have got him anywhere other than being told to be part of the team, don't take and not reciprocate.

@Notaderrysgirl you're lucky she didn't drop out , you could have ended up paying £35 for a Barbie plate 😬

When i split up with an ex many years ago i squirted washing up liquid in the deterergent draw of his washing machine. Would love to have been there when he put a wash on.
Also he was very fussy about his cd collection being in alphabetical order so i took the cd,s out and put them in different cases but put the cases back in their usual alphabetical order.