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To ask you for your small petty wins

224 replies

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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TinkyWinkyRainbowHead · 05/12/2022 21:50

I’m quite ashamed and embarrassed about this one but I’ll say it anyway. When DH sent his divorce paperwork to his ex-wife, she’d been such a super bitch that we decided to fart on them and wipe them on our unmentionables 😬 😬

Ibouncetothebeat · 05/12/2022 22:14

Oh goodness! Why are there always the warriors! There are plenty of things on here I think have crossed the line, or aren’t petty but simply bad judgements. If I don’t like it, I just keep it moving!! No one asked for opinions on if you think it was a good idea or not!

fedupofthiscoldffs · 05/12/2022 22:19

RockItLikeRocketFuel · 04/12/2022 02:33

Someone once cut me up in slow traffic and then claimed I'd gone into the back of them. There was contact but only enough to bend the bumper plastic, not actually break it, there was literally no visible damage to either car. CF tried to get me to pay them £150-odd by sending me a body repair shop flyer with a "quote" handwritten on it, so I decided to fuck them and their insurance premium over by claiming against them for a recent dent on my car that they didn't cause but was near enough to the contact area to be plausible in the circumstances.

That's not petty it's insurance fraud

RockItLikeRocketFuel · 05/12/2022 22:24

That's not petty it's insurance fraud

Yup.
Served the CF right though.

autienotnaughty · 06/12/2022 05:30

I realised one day that it always seemed to be me jumping up in an emergency- spilt juice, toilet help etc. my dh would do this thing where he moves as tho he's getting up then he looks at me , sees I'm moving and sits back down. Now when disaster strikes I'll look like I'm about to get up then I will reach for my drink or something . Watching dh face as he pauses mid air then realises he has to keep going is so much fun.

autienotnaughty · 06/12/2022 05:51

inthedeepshade · 05/12/2022 08:39

My DH is totally rubbish at loading our (admittedly crap) dishwasher. He always chucks stuff in willy nilly, overloads it, puts bowls and pans facing down on the bottom so that the water can't reach the top shelf and all the glasses and coffee cups come out filthy. I've tried to explain but he gets very annoyed with me, I suspect because he secretly thinks domestic chores like this are "beneath" him, although he'd never admit that.

Each time he does this I make sure to use a filthy cup for his next cup of tea.

I love the phrase "willy nilly"!! Your not the lady with the mug hierarchy are you?

inthedeepshade · 06/12/2022 07:05

I'm not but I am intrigued!

Brefugee · 06/12/2022 07:23

I'm interested in a mug heirarchy. (unless you mean me? i do kind of have one)

sashh · 06/12/2022 08:18

My brother never remember my birthday. I usually get a text message the day after.

There is also a back story about him buying me unsuitable gifts, I used to do a lot of arts and crafts but arthritis has slowed me down so I can't do things anymore. It's not just a 'touch' I cannot work, walk with a stick or use a wheelchair. So presents from him have included a colouring book one year and fimo another.

My brother's birthday is at the end of November so for the last few years I have sent him a passive aggressive advent calendar.

He was in the police, so I sent a pork scratching calendar.

He drinks coffee but his wife loves tea, so another year he got a tea calender.

I don't know if he has realised I am trolling him.

I went to the cinema one Saturday, there are a lot of disabled places but these is also a huge amount of ordinary spaces. Cinema opens at 11am so loads of space.

Well I went to park and there was a work van in the disabled space closest to the cinema. It had a phone number on it.

So I phoned the number and it was answered by a very sleepy and apologetic business owner. I went with my friend to sit on a bench and see what happened.

A couple of young men came out a couple of mins later, looked around and went back into the cinema.

So I called again, the business owner told me he'd told his employees to move and he would cal them back.

I then watched the two guys come out, one on the phones saying, "but there's loads of space" and was obviously being told to move it anyway.

sashh · 06/12/2022 08:20

Doesn't everyone have a mug hierarchy? Crap mugs for workmen, clean, perfectly useable but ugly.

Everyday mugs.

Favorite mugs for various people.

Least used, hard to clean mugs - a friend gave me a mug I love but it can't go in the dishwasher so rarely gets used.

Then there are cups and saucers, one set for coffee one for tea.

euff · 06/12/2022 08:22

No mug hierarchy which I paid for when the workmen left the other week with my nice mug. That'll teach me.

ChubbyMorticia · 06/12/2022 08:28

We always buy squeeze bottles of mustard.

In our early married years, I used to make my husband’s lunch. Whenever he pissed me off, I’d write curse words with the mustard in his sandwiches.

BabyFour2023 · 06/12/2022 08:57

sashh · 06/12/2022 08:18

My brother never remember my birthday. I usually get a text message the day after.

There is also a back story about him buying me unsuitable gifts, I used to do a lot of arts and crafts but arthritis has slowed me down so I can't do things anymore. It's not just a 'touch' I cannot work, walk with a stick or use a wheelchair. So presents from him have included a colouring book one year and fimo another.

My brother's birthday is at the end of November so for the last few years I have sent him a passive aggressive advent calendar.

He was in the police, so I sent a pork scratching calendar.

He drinks coffee but his wife loves tea, so another year he got a tea calender.

I don't know if he has realised I am trolling him.

I went to the cinema one Saturday, there are a lot of disabled places but these is also a huge amount of ordinary spaces. Cinema opens at 11am so loads of space.

Well I went to park and there was a work van in the disabled space closest to the cinema. It had a phone number on it.

So I phoned the number and it was answered by a very sleepy and apologetic business owner. I went with my friend to sit on a bench and see what happened.

A couple of young men came out a couple of mins later, looked around and went back into the cinema.

So I called again, the business owner told me he'd told his employees to move and he would cal them back.

I then watched the two guys come out, one on the phones saying, "but there's loads of space" and was obviously being told to move it anyway.

I don’t understand the pork scratching thing? Most of this is just weird.

BabyFour2023 · 06/12/2022 08:58

Ibouncetothebeat · 05/12/2022 20:39

@BabyFour2023 No, he’s quite good. He wouldn’t/didn’t wet himself in the time it took for him to pull over. I think the anxiety that he may wee in his car was what I was going for.

Well he wouldn’t of weed in his car, would he. He would’ve weed in his car seat. Again, just uncomfortable for your child.

Ibouncetothebeat · 06/12/2022 09:02

@BabyFour2023 And yet he didn’t. So I call it a small and petty win.

BabyFour2023 · 06/12/2022 09:12

Ibouncetothebeat · 06/12/2022 09:02

@BabyFour2023 And yet he didn’t. So I call it a small and petty win.

I’m gonna leave it now cus I’m taking from the thread but I don’t see how you feel this was a win in any way :/ you told your ex your child might have an accident and he didn’t…… oh well if you feel good that’s fine I suppose.

The mind boggles

CoodleMoodle · 06/12/2022 09:21

We were packing up our house yo move, and DH wasn't helping enough. So I took his glass of Coke and poured it out the window when he wasn't looking. We'd already moved all the food and drink into the new place, and so there was nothing for him to drink but tap water, which was revolting in that house. It was July Grin

Ibouncetothebeat · 06/12/2022 09:24

BabyFour2023 · 06/12/2022 09:12

I’m gonna leave it now cus I’m taking from the thread but I don’t see how you feel this was a win in any way :/ you told your ex your child might have an accident and he didn’t…… oh well if you feel good that’s fine I suppose.

The mind boggles

I’m going to leave it now…. But I just want to have my say on the matter first! 😅

Blinkingfairy · 06/12/2022 09:25

I work in a school office. When children come to the medical room and there needs to be a call home, I phone the dad first. The results are hilarious 🤣

Brefugee · 06/12/2022 09:49

I don’t understand the pork scratching thing? Most of this is just weird.

he's a police officer. Work it out?

the rest is hilarious, super super petty. I love it.

as for mugs: yep. the ones you can drink tea from, or the ones you can drink coffee from but not tea, the ones you can drink anything from, the bloody ones that don't go in the dishwashwer (i use those when I'm narked at DH too he always washes them because i won't, i didn't want them because they can't go in the dishwasher, so it's up to him).

Love the mustard curse words!

Hoppinggreen · 06/12/2022 09:50

Blinkingfairy · 06/12/2022 09:25

I work in a school office. When children come to the medical room and there needs to be a call home, I phone the dad first. The results are hilarious 🤣

I love this

sashh · 06/12/2022 10:59

BabyFour2023 · 06/12/2022 08:57

I don’t understand the pork scratching thing? Most of this is just weird.

One of the many names used for the police is 'pigs'

faw2009 · 06/12/2022 11:38

This makes me sound awful, but I was walking my son to school and 2 teenage girls were walking towards us. Blonde, pretty, short uniform skirts, tanned, thought they were the bees knees and giggling away, and I think it was at us. Well I had to make way for them as they weren't budging, and then one of them slipped

faw2009 · 06/12/2022 11:40

Slipped slightly. She tried to laugh it off but I had to tell her "You just got dog sh*t on your nice white trainers"

Ifnottodaywhen · 06/12/2022 12:13

I was queuing at lights down a hill. There were loads of us as it was school run time. Cars parked on the other side of the road. A man whizzed down past us all on the wrong side of the road, presumably thinking he could push it at the front of the queue when the lights changed. Then had to reverse back up the entire hill to let that lane of traffic come up. He looked suitable embarrassed. 😁