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?

Genius 😆

I use cotton buds to clean my ears out after showering.....because they say not to insert into ears on the box. I'll be the judge of where to put them thanks 😂

After reading this thread I'm going to buy a box of After Eights tonight and open them at 7.59pm.

Just to be a wanker.

My local coop has put the price of its compostable carrier bags up from 10p to 20p. I always use them for my food waste. I’ll often claim to have used 1 bag but secretly take a second.

This one tickled me - up there with 'regards' to sign off an email when someone's pissed you off

My last employer was awful to me over some necessary post operative sick leave (we got full pay for up to 12 months, but the triggers for absence reviews / disciplinary were ridiculously low). I had an OH appointment which they had organised and the doctor I saw as part of this agreed that the temporary minor adjustments I had asked for were more than reasonable. It was clear that he thought they were being very harsh / unfair, though he remained professional. As I left he said "I'll mark it down as a long appointment, so if you're going back to the office you've got another couple of hours yet". Cue me popping for a v nice solo lunch before ambling back to do a couple of hours work.

I'm perimenopausal and am getting the fucking RAGE at times with DH. He's generally a lovely bloke and we have a good relationship. However I've been flicking the Vs at him behind his back at home at times just to stop me swearing at him / starting an argument and he's usually not done anything that bad when I've calmly reflected later on

Related to the above point - I quite often mutter things like "no, thank YOU" and possibly some swearier ones when other people are definitely being pricks (like me moving aside on footpaths, holding a door open, basic courtesy stuff and not even being acknowledged)

My front door has large stickers advising knockers that I do not want to be bothered by religious groups, sales pitchers, charities or cold callers because my answer is no and I'm disabled so getting up to the door is a nightmare. When they ignore the stickers and knock anyway, I close the door and walk away without a word.

I do this too. It amuses me too when Sat Nav tries to redirect me after I've gone my way.

I've trained my DDs to do this, we call it Patriarchy Chicken

After bil complained about vegetarians "being uppity", every time he comes over for dinner I cook meat free meals.

I'm not a vegetarian but his judgemental attitude really annoyed me.

When writing formal emails at work, I always do "Dear Madam/Sir" rather than "Sir/Madam". If I have to fill in a paper form and there's a question about "gender" I'll cross it through and write "sex" instead.

And yes, Patriarchy Chicken is great fun! The look of utter bewilderment on men's faces when you don't leap out of their way is delicious!

Yes to ignoring read receipts on email. Always for unimportant messages too.

Lol I do this too! As a joke I bought some theatre tickets as Vicountess Coffeetree and now that theatre sends me all the bulletins. 😚

When my DS winds me up before school I give him annoyingly weak diluting juice in his bottle for school and sing 90s country songs loudly on the way to school.

When I'm driving and someone gets annoyed that I've let another car in I will very deliberately let in everyone that wants to join my lane.
Conversely if someone is aggressively trying to nose their way in front of me I will do everything possible not to let them in.

Genuinely what do you think the stickers will achieve?

Give a dissenting view?

Our local Aldi has a ridiculous one way car park. I just fuck it off and go the wrong way so I don't have to drive round it.

I used Princess once (as we thought it would amuse our young daughters) and I like to think the brilliant customer service was normal (for the company it was a very low value order). I'm guessing they didn't think an actual Princess lived on a random Army camp in the Midlands! 😂

Fair enough. I disagree with you but you're as free to give your opinion as I am.

Here's mine: sometimes I'll get some of my work done on a rainy Sunday afternoon, so that I can fuck around and go to Pilates on a Tuesday morning like a retired lady.

Not very rebellious but I love red arrowing Daily Mail article comments. I know it's completely unreasonable touching the poo and clicking their links bit it gives me such satisfaction I can't stop. Guilty secret I guess.

We nobility know how to keep a low profile.

I tell barristas my name is Anna.
On signs in lavatories: "wash your hands", "don't put anything but bodily waste and toilet tissue in the wc", I write please.

I lie about my life to hairdressers.