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To ask about your little rebellions?

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Sensibletrousers · 21/07/2023 09:33

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?

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swimminginthesun · 21/07/2023 22:27

maypoll · 21/07/2023 16:51

I signed up for an Audible free trial. At the time I was struggling with my mental health and forgot to cancel it for 7 months. They never sent any reminders or anything. When I realised, I wrote to them asking if I could at least have the 6 books I was entitled to (I had only ever ordered one) they refused. Now every time i get offered an Audible free trial for myself or another family member, I get everything I can out of them before cancelling at the end of the free trial. I always tell them why I'm not continuing with the trial and I have got my 6 books now.

This makes no sense. Why did you have to write to them to ask for the books? Why not just use the credits you had paid for and then cancel the membership?!

TheDogsMother · 21/07/2023 22:28

@mastertomsmum No. It's a function in Outlook.

JudgeJ · 21/07/2023 22:30

Namddf · 21/07/2023 10:10

I pick the most unlikely title on forms - think ‘Baron’, ‘Lord’ or ‘Reverend’ 😂

It’s a middle finger to the patriarchy.

My late husband used to do that to see which companies were selling on his data!

Echio · 21/07/2023 22:32

Callipygion · 21/07/2023 22:02

If you pull the top drawer out first, if there is something like a small plastic jug or bowl, it often ends up knocked over and full of water, and moving the drawer makes it wobble and spill out. So if you empty the bottom layer first there’s no risk of it getting dripped or splashed on.

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I think I'm going to carry on top-to-bottom in a new act of rebellion!

MaryWelly · 21/07/2023 22:32

DustyLee123 · 21/07/2023 14:36

I don’t have a gender, just a sex.

Rebelling against rights for minority groups? Could you have a cheeky bar of fruit and nut chocolate instead? Or a tinnie from m and s?

DemonicCaveMaggot · 21/07/2023 22:49

My entire family pissed me off one day so I went to Aldi and they had a watercress and spinach salad with fat free dressing for dinner.

babyproblems · 21/07/2023 22:55

PollyThePixie · 21/07/2023 13:34

I don’t understand this.

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@PollyThePixie KR: Kind Regards.. so Kind Regards, Kind Regards!

SocksAndTheCity · 21/07/2023 23:05

I've shouted 'can you keep moving through the station please' in an authoritative voice from the back of a crowd when there's a bottleneck in the tube tunnel/platform and they're all just standing there looking gormless.

They can't see me or that I don't work for London Underground, and it gets 'em shifted 😀

FlamingoCroquet · 21/07/2023 23:15

billycat321 · 21/07/2023 21:48

I go to church committee meetings wearing no knickers

I heard this inside my head in Alan Bennett's voice.
😂

Somewhereovertherainbowweighapie · 21/07/2023 23:17

Missingthegore · 21/07/2023 12:15

I wash and hide all the dishes in the break room that people think is OK to dump in the sink. I then come in super early once every 2 months and put them all neatly on the lunch table in a real passive aggressive move.

You are much nicer than me. I used to throw them in the bin. There were always a lot and it would mean working another half an hour which I wasn’t paid for.

Iolani · 21/07/2023 23:23

I walked down the aisle ( to get married) on my own and stood on the right hand side ( traditionally women stand on the left , the left hand side in the church is the devils side)

My title for my account at Go Oudoors is Lord Voldemort ( then my surname )

My SIL keeps turning up at my house unexpected, I answer the Ring doorbell and tell her I’m out when I’m actually in.

Somethingsnappy · 21/07/2023 23:24

McHot · 21/07/2023 15:03

If I comment on a MN thread and somebody comes back with a stupidly long and officious retort I just ignore that completely and reply to the person after them because I know it will wind them up pahahaa

Ha! I've noticed people doing this occasionally, and it always pleases me.

FrostieBoabby · 21/07/2023 23:27

If someone is tail-gaiting me when driving, I change down a couple of gears then lightly tap the break with my left foot, just enough to get the break lights to come on. When the man person behind shits themselves and slams their brakes on, I accelerate like hell.

Iolani · 21/07/2023 23:30

MaryWelly · 21/07/2023 22:32

Rebelling against rights for minority groups? Could you have a cheeky bar of fruit and nut chocolate instead? Or a tinnie from m and s?

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@DustyLee123 isnt affecting any minority groups. What she is is her business.

sheworemellowyellow · 21/07/2023 23:36

coronafiona · 21/07/2023 12:02

Ryanair once charged me over £400 to check an empty laptop bag in the hold. They wouldn't let me have my small cross body handbag and laptop bag in the cabin. So I had to take my laptop out of the bag and check the bag in while carrying the computer.
I have never flown with them again and never ever will. Wink

You’d have been better off leaving the laptop bag there and buying yourself a new one at your destination!

IfLoveBelievesInMe · 21/07/2023 23:37

MaryWelly · 21/07/2023 22:32

Rebelling against rights for minority groups? Could you have a cheeky bar of fruit and nut chocolate instead? Or a tinnie from m and s?

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Minority groups? How is saying they have a gender not a sex anything to do with minority groups ?

TheWeeDonkeyFella · 21/07/2023 23:38

prayforthecottransfer · 21/07/2023 22:25

If someone has pissed me off quite a bit in the year I squash the bow on their present at Christmas.

One of my relatives came over when I had a 17 day old baby and they had covid but didn't tell me. I was absolutely fuming when I found out so since then, I've squashed their birthday bow, Christmas bow and will do for the foreseeable.

That's awful (of them), I'd be wiping their bow on the cats bottom.

pastypirate · 21/07/2023 23:41

I ignore all the requests to add my pronouns to my email sig.

Screamingabdabz · 21/07/2023 23:45

pastypirate · 21/07/2023 23:41

I ignore all the requests to add my pronouns to my email sig.

Rebellious, courageous and sane. Thank God for pronoun resistance. ✊🏻

Jifmicroliquid · 22/07/2023 00:00

I put the plates in the dishwasher at an angle. To do it straight I’d have to open it fully and pull the drawer out, which sometimes causes the drawer to ‘drop’ and requires effort to put it back on its roller. It’s far easier to put it in lopsided to avoid all that nonsense.
The other members of my family go mad at me for it.

Wanderingfree32 · 22/07/2023 00:08

When my DH pisses me off, I cook myself a nice fried egg sarnie. He hates the smell of fried eggs!

Athlebad · 22/07/2023 00:09

If my DS has been particularly obnoxious, I go to the small stash of treats I have for him and eat one. He doesn't know he's missed out, but I do 😈

OdeToBarney · 22/07/2023 00:09

LosingTheBelly · 21/07/2023 14:09

Hah!

Every year my firm has to answer a diversity survey for our regulatory body.

We have 4 people in my firm.

One of my colleagues every single year answers 'Prefer not to say' when it comes to age; sex and ethnicity. On purpose. First year I thought she was being a dick. (A preferred not to say her sex dick). Now i think it's funny.

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Was about to post similar! I refused to complete one this year. It's optional, but the firm made it sound like it was mandatory. I know it isn't and I don't feel the need to share my private life with the office manager, so I didn't fill it in even when she sent reminders. Felt weirdly smug about it.

tulippa · 22/07/2023 00:15

I do patriarchy chicken when out running but only with male runners coming in the opposite direction. It's even more fun when there's two of them.
I'm also passively aggressively rebellious with some work emails. I'm normally pretty efficient when responding and will reply straight away when I can. There are four people in my organisation who I put a 24 hour exclusionary zone before replying because they've been completely ungrateful when I've dropped everything to help them in the past. They probably don't even notice because they have no self awareness but it makes me feel better.

TreesWelliesKnees · 22/07/2023 00:17

Maireas · 21/07/2023 22:13

Oh dear, don't confess that about wfh!

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Haha, sorry! Yes, I should clarify I'm self employed and have no boss. It's more to protect a bit of me time from demanding family members.