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To ask you for your small petty wins

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OgdensGoneNutFlake · 03/12/2022 08:03

Reading another thread about house prices and I wondered AIBU to ask you for your small petty wins in life?

Not those big, long-con revenges that require loads of planning, just the small moments when the universe served up someone or something what they deserved?

I can't think of any that aren't quite outing at the moment but I'll have a think.

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inappropriateraspberry · 04/12/2022 19:05

FirewomanSam · 04/12/2022 14:51

Always gives me a chuckle when I’m driving at the speed limit or just under it on some of the country roads near me, and some twat in a big car is right up my bum swerving back and forth desperate to overtake, finally overtakes at the first possible opportunity, and then I catch up with them 2 minutes later stuck behind a tractor.

Same! I wonder where they think they're going to get to so fast in the lanes.

Iamclearlyamug · 04/12/2022 19:15

tillytoodles1 · 04/12/2022 18:53

I used to be an office cleaner, but due to flexibility hours a few of them would still be working. One guy was particularly rude, throwing paper and missing the bin on purpose knowing I'd have to pick it up, leaving his coffee cup on his desk so id have to take it to the kitchen, just small stuff but basically you're only the cleaner type of stuff.
One day I was cleaning the men's toilets when he came in and had a piss right in front of me even though he could used another toilet.
After that I used to wipe his mug out with the cloth I'd used to clean the toilet seats. Did I care? No.

PLEASE tell me you told him on your last day 🤣🤣

missintolerance · 04/12/2022 19:22

Used to get DH a Bastard Burger (yes that was it’s actual name) when he annoyed me. I would grin away to myself every time he took a bite. He never knew.

tillytoodles1 · 04/12/2022 19:28

Iamclearlyamug · 04/12/2022 19:15

PLEASE tell me you told him on your last day 🤣🤣

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No, I would have cost the cleaning company their contract. It amazes me that people think cleaners are stupid though, the big boss had his office on the top floor and had keypad access, but we had the code and there was always confidential faxes on his desk.

MadameMackenzie · 04/12/2022 19:32

Nocaloriesinchocolate · 03/12/2022 09:24

This didn’t happen to me but I took great pleasure in it. NArrow country lane, about 2 miles long with many bends. At one point it was blocked at one end by cones and notices saying road closed. At the other end it was blocked by a solid concrete barrier at a roundabout.. I was driving past the concrete barrier end when I saw a white van reversing furiously (you could tell by the driving that the driver was furious) and having difficulty because of hedges. He had obviously decided that the road closed notice didn’t apply to him and negotiated the cones at the other end. Made my day
Signed, a horrible person

I don't get this?

Greenpolkadot · 04/12/2022 19:34

I was quite ugly at school,greasy hair , shy awkward nhs specs. Spotty,.Several boys would take the piss out of me,calling me ugly duckling. It would drain all my confidence,.and make me feel ashamed,

Years pass and we all change dont we, I am doing my nurse training and while on the surgical the chief culprit came in with appendicitis.
Even in pain he tried to chat me up.So I told him who I was and how we knew each other, his mouth dropped open. And it was wonderful watching him cringe with embarrassment when I had to give him a genital shave

dizzyupthegirl86 · 04/12/2022 19:44

Used to have a boss who decided he was far too important to make his own drinks. I used to have one first thing in the morning and that was it, but he still decided to put in place a rule that all the office had to make him a drink at least once a day. I’d get in for 8.30, he didn’t get in til past 9am. Used to take great pleasure in making his coffee at 8.30 so it would be cold when he arrived, but he couldn’t say I’d not done it.

sometimes he’d have no sugar, sometimes he’d have three. Sometimes a teabag would fall in accidentally. Sometimes I’d use a manky old spoon covered in someone’s yoghurt from the day before.

Santoo · 04/12/2022 19:55

NippyWoowoo · 03/12/2022 10:01

Had about £5/6 on an Oyster card. Had a really horrible morning with rushing around transport and when I got to the other end, it was gone. Must have dropped it. Furious with myself. Staff let me out.

I wasn't able to report the card as lost and apply for a new one because the balance was now in negative (due to penalty charge of a tap in but no tap out recorded). It was a rough time financially and really couldn't afford to lose even a few pounds.

Kept an eye on usage to see if someone had found it and pocketed it instead of returning it. Took a couple of weeks but eventually I saw that someone had and had made one more journey with it (for those of you not familiar with Oyster cards, you're allowed one journey once you go into negative before needing to top up again).

So I waited them out. Another few weeks go by and finally, they topped it up. Nothing much, about similar to what I'd had on it before I lost it. And BAM, never hit a 'report lost' so fast (thus rendering that card useless).

I received my new card with the balance on it. Yes I paid £5 for the new one but it was a Petty Payoff

I've always handed lost Oyster cards in, I hate that people are so dishonest.

Beautiful.

PeaceJoySleep · 04/12/2022 19:58

Bog · 03/12/2022 08:58

Oops posted too soon.
I told my wife's half sister what happened and no doubt she has told their mother.
What she doesn't know is that I didn't actually tell her the truth as I knew that would happen and I don't think they have any right to know how my wife died as they didn't care about her when she was alive.

They don't have the right to know how she died Confused

Splodgerbodgerbadger · 04/12/2022 20:02

At the Metro centre a few years ago there was a man driving round the car park far too fast and dangerously. Then he came screaming past us on the motorway. About 15 mins later we passed him on the hard shoulder as he’d been pulled up by the police.

MadameMackenzie · 04/12/2022 20:04

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Remainiac · 04/12/2022 20:10

Whenever I get a parking ticket I pay it immediately so it’s £25 rather than £60, then submit an FOI request to the council asking for details of how many parking tickets have been issued in that particular place and how much money the council has made from them. I do this knowing it costs the council around £300 to respond.

Auntpodder · 04/12/2022 20:14

If he’d explained that after my first very polite question, of course I would have understood but instead he tried to put the blame on me. Also, if you’d read my post, you’d seen that his child thoroughly enjoyed enjoyed the kids area. Therefore I’m not sure what point you are trying to make.

MyBuggyIsOutToGetMe · 04/12/2022 20:15

When I was learning to drive, I stalled the car at some traffic lights on a practice drive with DM. By the time I’d got everything sorted the lights were back to red and the car behind was honking a LOT. Despite visible L plates.

I put my car into reverse to make the lights come on and sat and watched him crap himself. Repeatedly. He couldn’t go anywhere as there was another car behind him. Then pulled off nicely and smoothly when the lights changed.

It must be over 20 years ago but boy, was it a satisfying moment.

Auntpodder · 04/12/2022 20:17

I think that poster’s post has already been deleted. Sorry for clogging up the thread!

wendywoopywoo222 · 04/12/2022 20:23

Sat at the front waiting for the red traffic lights to go green. Waiting for ages and ages. Cars Beeping behind me. Three cars pulled out of the queue and whizzed past me into the roadworks. Only to come back round the corner backwards a few seconds later. I suppose I could of reversed but I didn't. They had to reverse back past me and into their original places. Made me chuckle for ages.

Brefugee · 04/12/2022 20:35

If DH annoys me I hang his clothes on the line with the old manky clothes pegs, and I keep the nice new pegs for my clothes. Very petty and he would never notice, but I do and it makes me feel better.

my absolute favourite level of petty

if my DH annoys me, if i make us a cup of tea (well mug) i always make his in a horrible chunky teracotta one instead of a lovely glazed china one, because he says it tastes better from a china mug (i agree)

Sprat12 · 04/12/2022 20:40

Remainiac · 04/12/2022 20:10

Whenever I get a parking ticket I pay it immediately so it’s £25 rather than £60, then submit an FOI request to the council asking for details of how many parking tickets have been issued in that particular place and how much money the council has made from them. I do this knowing it costs the council around £300 to respond.

Oh this is beyond wonderful

beatsin8s · 04/12/2022 20:43

Sprat12 · 04/12/2022 20:40

Oh this is beyond wonderful

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I disagree. If you've parked illegally then pay the fine, don't take it out on councils who are stretched enough. It affects the little people if they have less money for communities, no one else. Park where you're allowed to or pay the fine and stop being entitled.

PathOfLeastResitance · 04/12/2022 20:50

There was a woman moaning on Facebook that people were driving down her road and she would prefer it if people could use the parallel road.
Guess which road I still drive down 4 years later.

Hoppinggreen · 04/12/2022 20:51

beatsin8s · 04/12/2022 20:43

I disagree. If you've parked illegally then pay the fine, don't take it out on councils who are stretched enough. It affects the little people if they have less money for communities, no one else. Park where you're allowed to or pay the fine and stop being entitled.

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It’s pathetic and very very childish.
You only get a ticket if parked illegally so just bloody pay it, or even better stop doing it

Giggorata · 04/12/2022 20:55

If any of my managers or colleagues at work were arsey towards me, I'd just end the conversation with:
There
We
Are,
Then.

beatsin8s · 04/12/2022 20:57

Hoppinggreen · 04/12/2022 20:51

It’s pathetic and very very childish.
You only get a ticket if parked illegally so just bloody pay it, or even better stop doing it

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Exactly. Loving the other stories though!

BridasShieldWall · 04/12/2022 20:59

Agree with comments on the parking ticket /FOI anecdote. Pathetic and wastes money.

MenaiMna · 04/12/2022 21:04

Saracen · 04/12/2022 00:51

My heart used to sink when my bus to work or home from work was being driven by The Idiot. Bad tempered, impatient, and heavy on the brakes, he always made me feel carsick on the long rural route.

One day he was involved in an accident. I had a very good view from the top deck. He really gave the other driver what-for, then collected my contact details as witness. He was completely sure he was in the right.

I was delighted to receive the form in the post from the bus company asking for a statement about what I'd seen. I explained how the bus driver's road rage had been a key factor in the collision. (The bus driver had sounded his horn and screamed while accelerating toward a vehicle which had just cut him up. The alarmed elderly car driver slammed on the brakes and the two collided.) For good measure, I mentioned that the bus driver had form for it and described a few previous incidents in which he'd been lucky to avoid causing a crash.

That's not petty. That's HEROIC! Star