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?

Just wanted to add, given the op, when you reach menopause you no longer need to shave your legs or armpits - you have to shave your chin instead

There is no care benefit to shaving your legs !

Indeed it may be harmful - more likely to get skin infection

I am afraid to confess my up yours moment when I decided that i wasn't about to reverse to a passing place when I could see the guy in the other car was much closer to one. I just pretended I was incapable of finding reverse

If DH has really pissed me off I make rhubarb sorbet with his rhubarb plant (he wants it all for crumble).

Brilliant!

Mil thinks that women should do women's work and men should do men's work. So when she comes round dh cooks and I heave something heavy around.

There’s times I buy a can of coke and some chocolate in work and eat on the way to collect the kids but dump the rubbish into a bin near the school whispering ‘they’ll never know’ as I do it. Not apologising.

Ps I love this thread and everyone on it!!!

I do the read receipt thing too.

I put milk in my tea first.

Even though the dog gives me the stare for around 45 mins before dinner I make him wait. He is not my master although I did give in tonight

I got a tattoo on my back shoulder age 44. It's to honour my Mum. I like the fact it's there and 90% of the time no-one knows for some reason. It's a traditional style too not modern/floral. I know sounds weird...amongst my sisters I'm often called the boring one (I'm not I just don't drink much anymore because meno issues and like seaside walks ect) they were all really shocked, probably to do with that.

please someone tell me what dot jones said😂

If you pull out one drawer at a time there's no difference as there's nothing underneath for the water to spill onto.

But I'll concede, I can see a logic. Can't change me now though, it was a very discombobulating experience!

I don’t pay parking tickets and other arcane motoring ‘offences’.
When the bailiffs came round to clamp my car OH sawed it off.
nothing happened.
Im 60 and I’ve gone feral.

My next door neighbour, has a large family that visit every Sunday. They all have cars so 5 cars in total, their drive is for 2 cars. The remaining cars park in front of their house and mine! If I have visitor’s there was no where they can park. So every Sunday I park one of our cars in front of my house so when my visitors call they can park on my drive!

School policy is that we must mark in red. I mark in pink and sometimes in purple.

I do my husband's washing and folding of clothes when he has left it far too long. He HATES my "folding" as he is ex army and I am definitely not. If he procrastinates too long then he can deal with my sub par laundering skills :). Even the threat of my amazing folding skills has him picking up the basket and turning the machine on haha.

Ooh, I do this too. Sometimes pull out a book or my phone.
If it’s really impossible for me to reverse (eg another car behind me) I get out of my car and offer to reverse their car for them as they clearly find it a bit tricky.

Solidarity sister ✊

The misogyny was coming from inside the house with that poster! Also beautifully illustrating that it literally is still rebellious to not shave my legs, in 2023. Whilst missing the point of it being a quiet, personal rebellion- I don’t go around actively showing people my spiky shins!

I also look great (most of the time), just not for the male gaze 😘

Many years ago when DC was a baby and had just started at nursery when I finished mat leave there was a very officious traffic warden covering the roads around the nursery. I usually had my 20p for the meter, but one day I got fined (my one and only fine in nearly 40 years of driving). A few weeks later I needed to swap two 10ps for a 20 coin and a school boy swapped. Then the traffic warden came out of hiding, saying I nearly got you again! My small rebellion was to have a big bag of 20p coins and feed the meter for other parents that were about to get caught. The warden suspected me but I just used to smile and occasionally wave.

I once spelt someone’s name incorrectly in an email, entirely my fault because I’d got the spelling of their name confused with a different spelling of the same name when I was firing out emails.

They replied as expected to the email but changed the size of the font of their name in the email signature to size 72.

Still makes me laugh now.

I’m grateful of all the solidarity!

Once, when DH and I had had an argument, I took the teabags to work with me so he wouldn't be able to have his morning brew 🙃

You've gone and ruined a perfectly light-hearted thread. Milk first, my god. I'll fetch the pitchforks!

I think the main difference would be you wouldn't get SPF in a night cream.

Ooh if I ever had that happen to me this is the kind of thing I'd desperately wish I had the nerve to do!

I often leave my knickers off under a long summer's dress on a warm day.

Some absolute madness about scattering plastic cutlery on beaches and putting dirty nappies in the recycling bin.