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?

😂😂

Genious!

I don't do the pronoun thing at all. Nothing wrong with using their name

A man in a new flashy camper van got pissed off at me on the motorway. We were in the fast lane and I had to slow down because another driver wanted to drive at 60. He kept flashing his lights at me wanting me to move in like I was holding him up…. But I had already passed him several miles before and he was higher than me so he should have seen the car in front.

I gave him the finger and showed him how to drive. My car is a tiny 1.2 and he was in a much more powerful and newer camper… but he couldn’t keep up… though he desperately tried because he was furious.

I am aware this isn’t the most mature thing to do… but I do get pissed with the amount of cars (and mainly men) that try to bully me because I'm in a little car!

Also in no way am I jealous because I have my own motorhome 😂

This is the best - I now aspire to this!

I sometimes drop a fart on the train. 😯

I always pop a Mirror on top of the S*n stack in the supermarket. I can never resist rearranging the herb/spice jars in Tesco so they spell out a rude word. If I have a money off voucher that I won't use, I stick it at the front of the display for that item. If I've bought a Dayrider ticket (unlimited bus rides all day), I nip across the road when I get off the last bus I'll use that day and give the ticket to someone at that stop.

A man who I used to work with was an annoying prick, so sometimes I would disconnect the cable on his phone from the base ( the cable between the base and the receiver ) so when his phone rang, he would answer it, but the phone would continue to ring.

I poo on work time.
Paid pooing makes me feel powerful.

Omg I do exactly this too! I use “she” as default now for all animals, bugs etc in the wild and I’ve noticed my DC all do it too without thinking. It’s annoyed me since I was a kid myself that animals and strangers (eg. a driver you can’t see) were “he” by default. Small acts of rebellion!

I've always done the book censoring thing. When it was always a 'he' or it had sexist content but otherwise a lovely book (think Burglar Bill), for example at the end, Burglar Betty gives up burgling and marries Bill. Bill opens a bakery. I changed it to 'Bill and Betty opened a bakery together'. I really think it matters! @OmniPocket I used to do that exact same thing with that book as well! Now kids are teens, have those early energetic efforts made them less influenced by sex stereotypes, hmm, maybe? not sure. It was all part and parcel of grinding my teeth when people would say 'ooh she's a real little girl, isn't she/he's a real little boy' based on some momentary behaviour.

I hadn’t used the credits in the month they needed to be used so they had expired. I asked if I could have the unused credits but they wouldn’t let me.

We have a house font that we have been told to use by our employer when writing emails. I do not use this font.

I love you…

I'm adopting some of these! I regularly smile nicely at drivers who have blocked the road/been reluctant to give way, while at the same time mouthing 'you twat' or ruder words. I also reword children's books when reading to my friend's kids. And I once (keep forgetting to do this) took some superhero t-shirts off the 'boys' clothing' rail in M&S and mixed them in with the pink and frilly girls' stuff ... Must do this more often 😈

Oh, and it's bottom drawer first. Every time. Can't believe all these people doing it wrong!

And that's a censoring offence?

Ex dp doesn't pay any child maintenance. If an item of his somehow makes its way into the dc's stuff (because he lives in utter chaos) I throw it in the bin instead of returning it.

I use different swear word insults as part of my work log in password, which has to be changed roughly every month. Though then I sit there trying to remember if we are on "nobhead" or "youbastard"

Towards the of my relationship with exh I would make myself a cup of tea then empty the kettle so he could not benefit from my boiled water. I would also spray his aftershave out of the bathroom window a few squirts each day and throw away his socks so he couldn't find a matching pair.

Where I live there is a road of posh houses with a big sign saying Private Road, No Turning, so I always like to turn there. Very petty I know.

I run my own business so don't have company wide policies on pronouns. I do some freelance work with a company (who would find it really hard to replace me with over 15 years of niche experience) who are very into pronouns on emails. So I sign off my emails to them with Four Chimneys, xx chromosomes. Nobody has ever said a word.

When the DC were small I changed every animal in Dear Zoo to female. In other books I varied it because I have a DS, but Dear Zoo annoys me.

Last summer we were walking on a national trail and found a large caterpillar on the path. I moved it to the side for safety. I used the pronoun she while explaining to two men. "How do you know it's female?" "Would you have asked me if I'd said he?" Small things like that matter.

I turn the toilet roll round at my brother's house every single time.

I think you may have emailed me 😂

This I like.

Re: the email pronouns @FourChimneys .
We are badgered at work to add them. I have refused. The line manager asked me if I needed help adding them (mediocre male manager).
I decided on hag/crone which he found unacceptable. I may well go for xx chromosome so thank you for that 👍