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?

So, you're raising children to actively discriminate against men and hold the default belief that ALL men are inherently misogynistic in some way, despite the fact your actions negate any possibility of confirming whether the man in question would move out of your way by themselves.

You're the reason our children are so messed up and there's such a divide within society between men and women. You're promoting hate to a young child.

Audible credits don’t expire as long as you have an active membership and you can roll over up to 6 on a standard membership. You don’t have to spend them in the month you get them.

You are in good company... Bill Bryson is proud to do this too!

It's lighthearted

My former line manager used to go out of her way to undermine me in a variety of different ways. I am a lawyer and we time record work in 6 minute intervals which then influences our pay and bonus etc. She used to go into the system and change my time recordings for example, which meant it looked like I was not doing the work and had a knock on affect on what I could bill. Senior management knew she was doing this by the way, but they were weak bastards and did nothing.

So my password was fuck off [her name] you bitch.

All well and good until I was on leave and the big boss had to call me to access my computer for something. With a totally deadpan voice I told him my password expecting to be bollocked. Instead he fell about laughing.

(Eventually she got fired for fiddling something else. After I left though sadly as I would have enjoyed watching that.

I was sat at some traffic lights once and the person behind me was using their mobile phone. When the lights went green I refused to move until they put the phone down.

Will drive just under the speed limit when arseholes tailgate me. Deliberately put stuff in the wrong place in the fridge when dh annoys me, he's very particular about what goes where.

No, but it was obvious goady bollocks

Can't help but agree - the "patriarchy chicken" subthread in here is pathetic.
Have long been aware that SOME (stress only some - a small minority) folks of whatever gender use their kids in prams as some sort of battering ram to exercise/exorcise their own complexes/issues with others. Or they think that the rest of humanity should throw themselves in the gutter in homage to the fact that they have done that rarest of things, produced offspring. In fact what they are doing is being plain aggressive. I live in london - famously crowded/rushed and find that the vast majority of folk are well able to negotiate their way around each other on pavements/getting on buses/tubes/trains etc by simply reading each other/being polite and nice as they approach each other/interact.

I like to race the satnav. If it says I'll arrive at 945 I'll arrive at 944.

I don’t pay for shopping bags I just don’t scan them at the self checkout. As there is an option to add them on at the end I always have that as my comeback if anyone asks. Nobody has ever noticed. Prices are high enough and I’m not paying to advertise your shops mate !

That's not minor rebellion that's theft

I take my own bags
Usually I try to take one from Aldi it in sainsburys , Waitrose if in tescos ....that's objecting to the advertising

Good for you !

I agree. It is theft.

Our TV is currently on ITV, on mute

We have no interest in watching football, but wish to add to wonans sports viewing figures

i can't be the only one who finds this bizarre in the extreme.
Or are you joking/sending up the thread?

That was mine! And - I feel guilty…?

Mines is really petty... my MIL would always comment on how we dressed our daughter when she was a baby. Wanted her in dresses with ruffles, bows, frills etc. I would make a point to dress her in the plainest sleep suit if I knew we were seeing MIL.

If she was really pissing me off, I would dress DD in an outfit the FIL had bought for her. (MIL & FIL are divorced) her face was always a picture when I would say really breezily that I wasn't sure who bought us it, I think it was FIL.

Is it though?

Afaik it's a 'charge' not a price. So if you take one without paying you're not stealing. Rather, you're refusing to pay a charge. Which is civil rather than criminal isn't it? So not theft, but breach of contract.

Which is presumably why no one's been prosecuted for theft, for using carrier bags.

I never pay for them. It's quite easy in the days of self checkout and self scan etc. Never had an issue.

Well, if there's a charge for an item in a shop, I would pay for it. It's obviously not free.
I didn't realise others routinely didn't pay for bags. I thought being charged for something and paying for it were the same.

I wouldn't take a supermarket bag without paying, but I bring my own shopping bags.

I've never seen anybody I've been with do so either, because I think most people realise that this sort of thing is another contributing factor to the prices going up for everybody as well as the plastic waste. You live and learn.

There was the time I did this. I'm a wild woman 😆

Indeed. Less an act of rebellion that one of dishonesty, I would suggest

Yes, me too. I'm not "Miss Dirt" or "Mrs Dirt" and never will be, I'm "Dr Dirt" thankyouverymuch!

Maybe that’s the case now but it wasn’t then. I wrote to them and explained everything but they weren’t prepared to help at all. I’m sure you’ll argue I’m wrong and you’re right but I was there and you weren’t!