To ask about your little rebellions?

[Sensibletrousers]

I’m sitting here about to get changed for Zumba and I want to wear shorts but my legs aren’t shaved. I will be wearing shorts anyway. It’s a little rebellion, a tiny “up yours” to the man.

I have always found little ways to rebel (recovering people pleaser) that don’t actually hurt anyone so that I don’t have one massive rebellion and ruin my life one day!!

I also don’t share food, even with my kids, and am unapologetic about it. It’s now a family joke.

What little rebellions do you enjoy?

When my dh has annoyed me I wait until he's in the shower and put the washing machine on so his water goes cold - oops

Sometimes I 'forget' to put sugar in his coffee

Petty but satisfying

If you send a meeting invite (that is not obviously super important) early in the morning tea time or lunch time or worse Friday afternoon I will automatically decline. there are enough working hours to have your non important meeting in the rest of the working week.
if you copy the whole world (that are so not needed) on your non important email I will click just reply to you
if you send you non urgent email one day and then send an email next day following up on your non urgent issue (while I am fire fighting more shite) I ignore and delete. I will reply to your original email when I can
If you send me a wedding invite addressed to me and my husband using the same surname I will out your presumption I use married name and write my maiden name in block black letters. have the manners to find out my proper name and even more manners find out my address instead of being lazy and sending it to my parents address. I took the time to find out your address

I do this too! Also for songs- “five little monkeys jumping on the bed, one fell off and bumped HER head”

Tell the JW’s I’d love to talk but I’m late for my transfusion . First time true but the response was sooooooo good.

If I get an annoying cold caller , I tell them "Oh that's my doorbell my Sainsbury delivery has just arrived " and put the phone on the table till they hang up

I once dangled a coldcaller who was trying to sell me a facecare system ( first week "free" then a billionty pounds a month after ) she was reading from a script and didn't pause for breath.
Kept telling me it would act on my dermis .
I told her only a medicine could do this not a cosmetic so was this a medical product?
Still rattled through the script
Asked her about the animal testing policy ..still rattled on.
I had to do the 'someone at the door' and she rattled on and on.
"Madam are you still there ? Madam....we can offer you a Free Trial..."

Most doctors are female now - certainly over 50% of GPs are - so this is less of a rebellion than it used to be (but I do like it!).

I might try it with actual male-dominated professions too. 😎

If I return something I always blame my imaginary sister, if there's a door to door salesman selling some trade..I say we don't own the property and we rent, if I don't want to do an activity i will say I have the wait in for a delivery

Generally I let people go ahead of me at the supermarket if they only have a few items.

But once i only had enough to make dinner and a hungry DS with me who had asked me for every single item next to the cash register. I'd said no to everything about ten Nos in total.

And then a young man behind me, who only had lemons, asked to go ahead.

I said No on principle - I'd already said no about ten times to my son, and the young man clearly hadn't been listening. He asked, which I found a bit rude and pushy given I only had about five things myself, and I had a whingey kid with me and it was clearly dinner time.

So he got told No for being clueless and thinking him and his lemons trumped my dinner cooking.

He looked stunned! It was hilarious.

But you should do it bottom to top! So if there's any residue water or dirt on the top rack it does drip on the clean dishes at the bottom when you disturb the top rack

My DH does this just to rebel or to bait me, I'm not sure which but it gives him pleasure either way. I have rules on what goes where & what order you fill the cutlery basket in. But they're just sensible, to make sure everything goes in with no empty spaces. I know he's been in there when the small bowls are where the big bowls go, or the teaspoons are randomly scattered. Aargh!

Make up fake business names whenever I get a scam caller.

My go to is ''Hello Barbecue Bill's Mortuary Service, you kill'em, we grill'em''.

It usually ends the call pretty sharpish because they think its a business line.

So he got told No for being clueless and thinking him and his lemons trumped my dinner cooking
@zerofuchsgivenTBH
It's a bit harsh taking your frustration with your DS pestering you out on a random person asking if he can go ahead with his lemons. Surely "No sorry I'm in a hurry" would have sufficed rather than being rude

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My fave coffee name story is the barista saying, "I've got a coffee for Aragorn son of Arathorn".

Every year all the local children's football teams have an end of season ceremony. It goes on for several hours and is one of the most tedious events I have ever had the misfortune to attend. It's a fundraiser really, so you have to pay for the privilege of losing your Saturday and being really really bored.

I send my son but me & my husband don't go any more. Even though I am very grateful for the coaches etc. and they are all amazing people, I just can't do it.

I wouldn't even consider not shaving as 'a rebellion', I just don't bother anyway.

When asked for my name in coffee shop I say “you can call me the Doctor”

I jump out and cry “hahh” at cyclists riding through the busy pedestrianised street which has been redesigned by the council with a designated bike lane (empty of pedestrians) next to it. No success yet

I've told my parents and my DCs school I work fulltime when I actually work part time, so they don't constantly call me for help.

2 days a week I'm back in my pyjamas and watching netflix at 9.30.

I stare pointedly at people who are unnecessarily loud in public.

I do quite a few of these.

I don't move out of the way for men (unless someone is obviously having trouble walking), or for large groups sprawling across the pavement.
I don't shave my legs
I use 'bag for life' for any shop in any other random shop
I move the small pallet things on supermarket shelves to get to what I want when the nicer stuff is underneath
I don't follow the IKEA arrows
I don't mow the lawn until August or September

In my old job, having been reprimanded (no idea why) for my desk phone ringing when I had gone to buy a sandwich to eat at my desk, I religiously went out to lunch for the full lunch hour every single day after that.

I do this too.

I also give the wrong date of birth for things where my age doesn't matter (e.g loyalty cards) but they want it for marketing. I always make myself at least 90, as it's not about being coy about my age.

After living for a year with my ex, ds's dad, during which time he refused to let me have any say in the decor, and his house was all white matt walls, dingy brown curtains and brown polyurethane carpet - bleugh - I came close to drinking neat gin for breakfast..

Then we left, I bought my house, and my hall is three walls pale yellow and one wall bright daffodil, and my kitchen has one bright turquoise wall. And sunshine. Don't need to keep the lights on all day. Open windows. Fresh air. Thank Christ for that!!

He hates it. 😊

I was using my Lidl cloth bag in Sainsbury's self checkout and the machine kept going wrong. The assistant told me it didn't like my bag.

ermmm there are actually signs telling you how to do this