To ask you for your small petty wins

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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.

Brilliant! im going to use this in future

When I was 17 (a long while ago) I worked as a waitress in a local pizza restaurant.

I had a table of very bitchy women that I was serving. They were being very nitpicky and we're making my night miserable. I honestly gave them the best service I could as it was very quiet.

They paid for their bill by card and left quickly. They had purposely left me a tip of a 2p coin and drew a smiley face and wrote a sarky comment telling me I had a shit job on the receipt. They left laughing.

When cleaning the mess they left on the table I saw one of them had left a giant bunch of important looking keys on the seat (car key, safe keys etc). I took the keys and flushed them down the toilet. Didn't even think about it - just did it.

5 mins later one of the ladies comes back in stressing out. Flipping the restaurant upside down looking for them saying she would lose her job because she had lost them and it also had her company car key attached with no way to get home. She was crying and shouting in hysterics.

I watched it all unfold, smiling.

If you read my post you will see that I do pay it. Our town is a target for money making by the metropolitan council who screw us for every single extra penny while putting next to nothing back in. The amount of money they waste is scandalous and this is my bit of passive resistance.

A bloke at work used to wind me up, so I would go in to his reports and insert things in them to make them a bit wonky

I was in Spain earlier this year and had sat on a sun lounger after removing the towel that was there. About two hours later the woman came back to claim ‘her seat’ and I refused to move and screamed in my face. Anyway, I sat there for at least 90 minutes reading my book with her giving me daggers. As I left, I have her a cheery wave and shouted loudly ‘bye…I hope you get your cellulite sorted soon’ 😆

How rude of them...why people are such wankers to waiting and retail staff l will never understand.

*gave her

I will also be using this!

On a similar level, I once had a particularly horrible boss who treated me like shit so every time we had a bank holiday Monday I made a point of saying 'See U Next Tuesday' as I left on the Friday. I know that it's commonly known what it can mean, but didn't bother trying to get to know me and just saw me as a polite, mumsy little woman so wouldn't have thought for a moment that I'd mean something sweary. But I and colleagues who also thought he was one knew

I have a meeting with my manager tomorrow that could be tricky, so I'm noting this for potential use!

Cousin insists on having her DChildren christened. She isn't religious, doesn't take the children to church but insisted vehemently that they were to be christened. She had a few too many wines at a family gathering just before the christening of her eldest child and confided in another cousin that she has no interest in religion or ever taking the children to church but she thought it was a brilliant way to get some money and gifts. Each of her DC were gifted a bible by myself and several other family members as their christening gift after that conversation.

I know! It was one of my first jobs as well - luckily I used the experience to my advantage and now I don't let anyone get away with that kind of behaviour.

If I see it happening when I'm in a shop or restaurant and someone's being rude I always intervene and stick up for the staff 😂 the staff can't say anything but I sure as hell can haha

Years ago I ran out to the bin man with an extra bag but he refused to take it as my bin was full. My neighbour was on holiday so I said if I pop it in there will you take it he refused.

About a month later the bin lorry couldn’t pass me unless I reversed, I had right of way, same bin man was shouting at me to move. I wound my window down and said no you wouldn’t take my rubbish bag the other month so I’m not moving my car.

Totally petty and he probably couldn’t remember me but I felt a ridiculous amount of satisfaction.

My ex was a violent aggressive bully, we had an argument once and he kicked my car and caused quite a bit of damage. (Wasnt the first time he had caused my property damage)I gave him 24 hours to pay for the damage or told him I would report it to the police. He refused to pay and told me I wouldn't dare report him, so I plucked up the courage and reported it. He received a caution, fast forward a few years and he tried to join the police force but wasn't allowed because he had a caution on his record.

How very petty

I would imagine the person dealing with the FOI sees it as a small win that you're the one paying council tax to fund them providing you with that information

This made me laugh out loud 😅

I was on the bus home from the doctor with baby DD who was snuffling.
Older woman asks what's the matter, and I replied she'd just had her immunisations and wasn't too happy.

She went on a monologue about 'well, your first mistake was getting her vaccinated,' 'My friend's children were never vaccinated and they've always been healthy,' etc etc.

I replied (truthfully) that my grandmother had had polio as a child and was paralysed for life, so I'd take the vaccines, thanks.

Such a small thing but normally I wouldn't have said anything and would have been annoyed at myself after!

👌Quality!!!

I was late to school when I was 13 after my bike was stolen and a horrible teacher yelled at me and humiliated me in front of the whole year group assembly, he yelled for so long and even called me a 'pathetic little girl' when I looked upset. Looking back at it it was a massive overreaction and there was no need for it at all.

I wasn't naturally naughty but it made me feel better to do random petty shit to annoy that man for the rest of the year.
I moved his wheelie chair so it was leant too far back and hid the handle so he couldn't fix it.
I swapped the lids round on his whiteboard pens constantly so he always started writing with the wrong colour.
I hid his black biros but left loads of crayons around the room and in his drawers.
I took the rubber foot off of one of his table legs so it was always wobbly.
I stole all the spare pushpins off the noticeboards, and then started half unpinning the displays so things fell down all the time.
My desk was near the door where he hung his jacket and during a lesson I used a seam ripper from home ec and made holes in the bottom seams of his pockets.
I took the batteries out of the clock on several occasions.
I flipped his roller blind over the top of the roll a few times so it would never open the whole way.

I dont think he ever knew anyone was doing that stuff to mess with him and he never seemed to suspect me, but I felt better every time he would get annoyed at something that I had done. He was always cursing the dispplays that fell down.

DH pissed me off at the weekend so I gave DD the better, juicier steak.

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My MiL is a PA narcissist. She would often ‘forget’ a dc birthday when they were younger, and always just one so that it was noticeable by them. Now the dc are older I dont remind them that it is her birthday and so they dont email her. DH isnt bothered about birthdays (probably because of how many times she forgot his when he was little) so he doesn't remember. She always get FIL to email DH late afternoon on the day of her birthday to ‘remind’ him, but DH never thinks to nudge the dc. Every year I get to take a deep breath and let go of some of the hurt she has caused me and dc over the years by the rolling out of the karma that her behaviour created.

That's awful, I hope you're ashamed

When we sold our first house, the buyer was well known to our estate agents as he bought a lot of property to rent out. All through the process it felt like the estate agent was acting for him and not us. They kept saying he was going to pull out if we didn't move into temporary accommodation and sell to him before our new house paperwork was completed (less than 5 weeks to complete). Then they day before we signed he wanted to drop the price by 10% (late 90s). We refused and it all worked our but it really annoyed us.

On the day we moved out I dropped the keys off with the estate agent and asked them if they needed anything else from us. They said they didn't, so I left it at that.

That evening he went round and set tge alarm off, which I'd set on leaving. The estate agent didn't ask for the code so I didn't leave it with them. He had to pay the company to come out and reset it. I have no regrets!

Driving on a really wide road in Ireland, doing just slightly above the speed limit, and this woman in a people carrier comes tearing up behind me. On this particular road, its got a hard shoulder and its normal that you'd pull over and let someone past. Always works well.
However she was being more than slightly aggressive, dangerously tail gating, swerving, shaking her fist and in my rear view mirror i could see she was shouting. This happened so quickly there was no need for her to be so angry. So i didnt move over. Her rage continued for another minute until the other side was clear.
She overtook whilst glaring and shouting at me. I just waved and smiled.
30 secs down the road and theres flashing blue lights that have pulled over the people carrier.
The sheer look of hatred from her when i waved and smiled as i went past was beautiful...

Oh and another one....i used to work at a very posh golf club as a waitress, and some of the guests were so rude.
One man kept clicking his fingers and saying oi to get oir attention. When he did it to me i ignored him. He continued for another minute whilst getting louder
Eventually i turned round and said oh sorry you mean me. He said yes.
I pointed to my name badge and told him I had a name. He went bright red and physically shrank back in his seat.
His guests all smiled.