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?

I sent screen shots of a ex-friend slagging her "friends" off to me to the friends.

In my defence, she had gone around telling people (even people I didn't know) my private business that I obviously didn't want going around.

A good friend’s child has treated my child appallingly at times. I’ve had to back away from the friendship because she ain’t accept it.

I gave her now 9 year old child another chance thinking they’d grown up and invited them for tea. They were so rude to my child again, rude to me and my other friends children. When they left and I told my child they’ll never have to see them again I found the child had left their new toy they’d been showing off with, knowing my child doesn’t have as much as they do. The new toy is now on its way to the charity shop 😄

I was at an airport going through security. A woman several people behind me barged through and pushed her way to where the trays were coming out through the scanner. She literally grazed the side of my leg as she pushed in to take her stuff out of the tray on the belt all the while shout-talking to her friend in another queue.

She was in such a rush she left her passport and boarding pass in the tray (it had been under her laptop). I picked it up and called "excuse me" she looked over her shoulder and said "I am in a hurry. You are all too slow" and went. I dropped her passport and boarding card between the two belts so it disappeared under the machinery. What a shame.

I felt a bit guilty as I thought she was probably rushing for her flight - but I saw her later having a glass.of wine and smiled to myself. Bitch that I am.

How bloody spiteful. That's a child you are talking about.

When my nasty neighbours were on holiday during the heatwave I put their refuse bin back in their front garden so it wasn’t emptied. Stinking rubbish wasn’t emptied for another 2 weeks after that.

A customer who would always come in the middle of a busy lunch rush and want to 'customise' (for lack of a better word) his coffee. So "only half a shot, just take it out halfway" or "pull it out when the hot milk starts and put in cold" or "hot water from the tap, not the machine" kind of thing. No idea why, I really think he just wanted to make things difficult for us and slow down service. A couple of months ago he asked for tea. I made the weakest, shittiest 'tea' you've ever seen, popped a lid on, handed it over with a smile. Have genuinely not seen him come back in the shop since!

When my ex (a chef) moved out to go and live with the other woman I packed all of his bags for him. Everything was packed neatly and tidily, clothes all clean and ironed etc. and his best pans were absolutely spotless, I took great pleasure in scrubbing every single bit of non-stick coating off them before I boxed them up.

In last couple of years before divorce from alcoholic ex DH.
He used to hide his drink around the house while pretending that he was not drinking anymore.
After he was asleep I used to empty almost all of the contents of a bottle down the sink and put it back.
Don't know if he thought he had drunk more than he thought he had or if he realised but he could never ask me as then he would have had to admit to the bottles being there!

Back in the Dark Ages, I had a student holiday job in an old fashioned (even then) supermarket, where not only would your shopping be packed for you, it would also be delivered IIRC free of charge.

There was one particularly unpleasant regular customer - a very autocratic old woman who nearly always came in with a white box of cakes from a bakery - and spoke to us all in her super-cut glass accent - ‘Maynd may cakes!’ - as if we were dirt.

After several encounters with the ghastly old hag, when once packing her shopping in a cardboard carton for delivery later, I managed to surreptitiously squeeze a pot of cream halfway down the box, hard enough that it’d leak all over her shopping.

I then smiled very sweetly as I said goodbye.
IIRC this would have been right at the end of that holiday job stint - if she’d come back to accuse me I’d have been gone. 😂

I think I would have taken more pleasure in shouting “but I have your passport!” And seeing her face.

I knew I’d get this! Yes it is spiteful! I have put up with his nastiness for years, he’s 9 not 2. The new toy was probably worth £5 and he took much pleasure in showing it off to my child and their friend. He gets new toys all the time. It was at my house a good 2 months before I found it in the cupboard, that’s how little it meant to him that he’s not even noticed it’s gone missing. It was good for that particular day for showing off he’d got something new.

@Thisbastardcomputer this is your current husband, not an ex? If your marriage is down to acting like this towards one another I don't understand why you are still together .

a few people on site had taken to pegging unsuspecting people for a laugh

<snort>

Oops 😂Not in that way...

I don't like this one.

Horrible.

Small office, just five people. We would take it in turns to make tea, one guy wouldn't make it for anyone so he was then excluded from the tea rounds. So, if he put the kettle on and walked away, someone would turn it off. If we made tea and there was enough milk for him to make his, we would throw it away, he'd then have to go and get more from the shop.

Might have been easier to be a team player and just make every fifth round of drinks.

That isn't petty, it's bullying. It isn't actually his job to make your tea if he doesn't want to. Leave him out of rounds by all means but the other stuff is just nasty. What a horrible 'team.'

Yeah, I agree. You're not just 'excluding him from tea rounds', which would have been reasonable. You're persistently sabotaging his attempts to make his own, which is fucking bullying.

It could've been a gift shop where items are 20/30 quid a pop. What a strange thing to pick up on and disbelieve.

I worked in a hardware store and could easily have had several hundred pounds of stock in a single box. Drill bits for example. Very small, 30ish each and small enough that they came 20 to a box including the cardboard display thing. Could easily get 3 or 4 boxes worth in an average bin.

Not me but a relative of mine found out her ex was cheating. On moving out she bought 2 packs of prawns & very carefully sewed them into the hem of curtains 🤣🍤
Took him weeks, several professionals & a heck of a lot of money before he found out what was causing it!

I puzzled some people are more bothered about the tea round than the psycho who made gay bondage sex cards for a bloke who was a bit of a dick meaning he was inundated with unwanted calls. THAT is much more bullying than using the last teabag or emptying some milk out.

Well tbf I'm finding it hard to believe most of them..

Same.

Exactly!