Page 9 | To ask you for your small petty wins

OgdensGoneNutFlake · 2022-12-03T08:03:11+00:00

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.

ReleaseTheDucksOfWar · 06/12/2022 12:20

A young, very pretty couple of women in an expensive top-down convertible were swinging by us quite fast into the car park and very obviously laughed unkindly -at- us, tired out parents.

They were so busy looking at us and laughing they forgot to notice the fairly high raised stones that separated Entrance and Exit on the road and drove onto them. Hard. Judging by the really awful scraping and screeching noise I suspect they might have ruined the sump.

Brefugee · 06/12/2022 12:31

For reasons i couldn't attend my brother's wedding. They knew i wouldn't make it when they set their date, and despite our parents asking them to change, they just wouldn't so i couldn't go. All good (i didn't even get a bloody invitation which annoys me, tbh)

It's nearly 30 years ago, and i do occasionally see them, and their DCs but i never ever send them a card on their anniversary, and I'm ever in a conversation about how great their wedding was, i just say "no idea i wasn't invited" and change the subject.

I doubt they even notice but finally my mum has realised i do it and is a bit upset that it niggled me so much. Ho hum.

Fillystine · 06/12/2022 12:32

My father in law complained to my husband that I always write from me, husband and son in that order on birthday/christmas cards (it never occurred to me to write the order any differently, rightly or wrongly). This year I have made a special effort to write my husband's name in LARGE CAPITALS, then my son's name, then mine underneath in teeny tiny letters. I am petty and it makes me smile every time I think about it. I doubt he will even notice.

longtompot · 06/12/2022 18:36

@Fillystine I always put my name first for my family members and my friends and dhs name first for his family members and his friends. I also put the name of the person I know firsthand writing them, so my sister and then her dh or my friend and her partner. I did this subconsciously but only realised properly a few years ago!

BessieSurtees · 06/12/2022 18:51

@longtompot it is a rare thing if I write out a card for my DH but I would write his name first. I write cards like you do for our friends, my family etc and when they arrive they are invariably written my name first from my side and his name first from his side.

ErinAoife · 06/12/2022 19:16

Most petty win is when ex husband asked me to pay for half medical bill for my son which I did. My son afterwards told me that the bill was under ex husband name instead of my son. Contacted ex husband I asked me to refund me half of what I paid since he was going to claim against his insurance and will get 50 % back so it was fair that I get half back as well. Told me he never thought of claiming and he will transfer the money back to me if claim was successfully. He was mad that I discover the bill was at his name but next day I got my money back

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OgdensGoneNutFlake · 06/12/2022 19:29

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.

This. I am doing this. Brown sauce curses on bacon sandwiches for ever.

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Saracen · 06/12/2022 22:52

Fillystine · 06/12/2022 12:32

My father in law complained to my husband that I always write from me, husband and son in that order on birthday/christmas cards (it never occurred to me to write the order any differently, rightly or wrongly). This year I have made a special effort to write my husband's name in LARGE CAPITALS, then my son's name, then mine underneath in teeny tiny letters. I am petty and it makes me smile every time I think about it. I doubt he will even notice.

😂😂😂(The person who goes to the trouble of writing the card surely gets top billing in the credits, surely FIL must accept that!)

Saracen · 06/12/2022 22:53

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 🤣

Excellent. I am so happy that you do this.

sashh · 07/12/2022 02:18

I don't think this is petty but is amusing.

My aunt lives in Australia, the system of paying child support is/was different, this was in the 1980s. I believe there was a set amount and he was paying the minimum.

Well my aunt noticed her ex was paying the child support a day later each month, imagine Jan paid on 1st, February, paid on the second, March the third etc.

But she made her plan for when the payment would be a month late.

She didn't have a phone number for him, but she did have a work fax number.

So when the payment missed, she sent a fax to his work place outlining the amount he should have paid for his two children and how many days late it was.

He wasn't happy, but he paid up.

poefaced · 07/12/2022 04:50

BT11 · 04/12/2022 21:08

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.

Whilst I applaud the sentiment, I feel sorry for the restaurant owner, a giant bunch of keys would have clogged up the toilet / plumbing.

PlentyOFool · 07/12/2022 05:38

You really live up to your name eh?

PlentyOFool · 07/12/2022 05:44

Fillystine · 06/12/2022 12:32

My father in law complained to my husband that I always write from me, husband and son in that order on birthday/christmas cards (it never occurred to me to write the order any differently, rightly or wrongly). This year I have made a special effort to write my husband's name in LARGE CAPITALS, then my son's name, then mine underneath in teeny tiny letters. I am petty and it makes me smile every time I think about it. I doubt he will even notice.

I would do this. But I'd have to a fucking legend such as yourself to have thought of it first.

Brava 👏🏻

BT11 · 07/12/2022 08:29

poefaced · 07/12/2022 04:50

Whilst I applaud the sentiment, I feel sorry for the restaurant owner, a giant bunch of keys would have clogged up the toilet / plumbing.

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Surprisingly it didn't! I was very worried about that. I worked there for ages after and no one ever said anything 🤷🏻‍♀️

autienotnaughty · 07/12/2022 11:30

inthedeepshade · 06/12/2022 07:05

I'm not but I am intrigued!

I did a post last year about things your other half does that annoys you. This one lady posted about her husband lack of respect for her mug hierarchy! There was photos it was very funny. She said (in regards to him using her favourite mug) "I saviour that cup and he just uses it Willy nilly" it really tickled me.

autienotnaughty · 07/12/2022 11:32

Brefugee · 06/12/2022 07:23

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

Have you ever posted about it?

Brefugee · 07/12/2022 11:32

only vaguely in this thread

Stuckundersleepymoon · 07/12/2022 14:18

I lived with an awful bully when I was 19-20 as a student. She used to spend loads of time doing jigsaw puzzles on the kitchen table. One Saturday morning I was on my way out to my weekend job and saw my opportunity... Took a single piece of puzzle and threw it in the bin on the way to the bus stop. She probably had no idea it was me as we lived with 4 others but it did make me feel so much better.

anyoneanyoneanyone · 14/01/2023 19:13

Mutua ugh autocorrect

anyoneanyoneanyone · 14/01/2023 19:13

Or jessy from little mix...

Veryactivenymphomaniac · 14/01/2023 19:31

I was once charged an extra pound for a 'slab of tangy cheddar' in a cheeseburger. This was probably 25 years ago. It was actually a floppy kraft slice and the misrepresentation of it on all 3 accounts really annoyed me. They really fobbed me off at the restaurant so I reported them to trading standards.

They had to reprint the menus throughout the entire chain - to 'a tangy cheese slice'.

They've gone bust now.

Frumpymumma · 14/01/2023 19:48

Years ago i was a littlewoods clubbook customer. I always paid in full over the counter with the slip on the statement.
I paid 3 days before the due date. With cash in full.
Following month i had interest 1.13 added and late payment if i remember right it was £10
I rang and said i paid x date and had the stamp to prove it.
Nope apparently that didn't matter. Buy out of Goodwill they removed the £10 but couldn't possibly remove the £1.13
So i emptied my copper jar. Stuck 113ps to thr slip with half a roll of tape. And some double sided carpet tape for good measure. But ensuring my account number was visible and the amount. And sent it.
A they would have had to pay for incorrect postage because of the weight
B there was no way they were getting that money off easily

I then closed the account

Veryactivenymphomaniac · 15/01/2023 13:59

Frumpymumma · 14/01/2023 19:48

Years ago i was a littlewoods clubbook customer. I always paid in full over the counter with the slip on the statement.
I paid 3 days before the due date. With cash in full.
Following month i had interest 1.13 added and late payment if i remember right it was £10
I rang and said i paid x date and had the stamp to prove it.
Nope apparently that didn't matter. Buy out of Goodwill they removed the £10 but couldn't possibly remove the £1.13
So i emptied my copper jar. Stuck 113ps to thr slip with half a roll of tape. And some double sided carpet tape for good measure. But ensuring my account number was visible and the amount. And sent it.
A they would have had to pay for incorrect postage because of the weight
B there was no way they were getting that money off easily

I then closed the account

Pure class

inloveandmarried · 15/01/2023 14:14

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.

Love this. Spot on.