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?

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.

I also do this. My school age daughters dread bringing forms home to sign 😂

I tell Starbucks baristas my name is Pam.

I take my Fortnum and Mason's red canvas bags for life to Aldi.

I've played patriarchy chicken and found it wasn't the men who couldn't see me, it was the teenagers. If staring at a mobile phone, they would jump in shock that someone had not cleared the way for them. But the flocks of students heading to the local sixth form college were the worst. Boys and girls.

I wonder if you'd cause more or less trouble by using Aldi bags in F&M?

I always re use the carrier bags I steal 😇. Another thing, the price of the metro is ridiculous so I always give my day saver to another person when I’m done with it before they get to the ticket machine to buy one ..

This. I take pride in my appearance. I'm quite fond of my hairy legs. I don't smother myself in make up or dye my grey hair either...

I bring biscuits into my work for the vulnerable/challenging teens I work with. Otherwise they'd have nowt to eat. I'm told not to and do it anyway. A custard cream never hurt anyone. Plus, they're cheap, and have been coming out of my own pocket.

I have a collection of reusable shopping bags ranging from Aldi to m and s and use them in all the supermarkets I shop at. I didn’t realise it was an act of rebellion. I thought everyone did this.

I work in a school kitchen and we have been told by the powers that be that we are not allowed to wear a t shirt under our uniform polo shirt. Well despite being in a kitchen it can get quite chilly in winter so of course I wear a t shirt underneath my uniform. I’m not freezing my tits off for anyone and at my age I don’t need to be told what I can or can’t wear!

I also worked as a cleaner at the same school and one make teacher (in fact he was the only male teacher in the school)always had the messiest classroom, with pencils,pens,erasers and all manner of things scattered over the floor. Picking up after the students wasn’t part of my job and there was no improvement even after I pointed this out to him. Thereafter I always collected as much as I had time to from the floor and took great pleasure in depositing it on his table.

My little thing is - someone criticising me. Rather than defend myself, which costs me energy, just to say ok. The ~man~ person gets so annoyed.
Another one for unsolicited comments eg the person saying something you’re doing is annoying. Me “it’s ok to be annoyed” and continue doing it
As a daughter of a people pleaser my main rebellion is to say “so what” to most trivial shit

I also refuse to pay along with the stupid names they give to sizes of coffee cup.

I do everything possible to avoid any kind of diversity training

when Sudoku first became popular our company chairman did the Daily Telegraph sudoku every day. Whenever he left his office I would go in and place a random number 1 in his sudoku. About ten minutes after his return he would shout an expletive and throw his pen down in anger. He usually asked me how I had got on and I would show him my completed sudoku. This went on for about three years and he never found out that I was sabotaging his sudoku or that I was using an online cheat to complete mine.

I love this

I know someone who has a cochlear implant and if she thinks you are talking BS she looks you dead in the eye and switches it off 😂

When cars come close and flash at me I assume that there’s something very wrong with my car and I slow down rapidly and continue as slowly as I can, preferably at 10 mph in a single lane road with double white lines or lots of on coming traffic.

I love this 🩷 So funny 🤣
Why is there no like button on Mumsnet?

i like that one

Audible credits don’t expire if you have an iPhone but cannot be carried over if you have a different phone.

To coin an old MN cliche, reading this post has boiled my piss. How dare they do this?

But I must admit to being fascinated by queue etiquette. Being tapped is not a thing that's happened to me, ever, even though I do maintain the habit of keeping a respectful distance of those in front of me. Others often don't - they shuffle about 2mm behind the arse of the person in front and huff and tut when they don't do likewise. More than one of them has actually walked into my back because I didn't shuffle up to the person in front of me in a similar manner.

Do they actually think this will get them served any quicker?

Polite witty riposte like yours is probably the least confrontational and best response, but I have to own making uninvited physical contact is one thing I will not tolerate so amicably. If it ever happens to me I'll turn on them and loudly and forcefully tell them to keep their hands to themselves.

Given the connotations here, and the likely conclusions of others in the queue, I wouldn't mind betting they'll think twice before doing it again in future.

TheWorldIsRound · 21/07/2023 14:51
If I find a vehicle parked where it shouldn't be, I pull up one of their windscreen wipers.
This made me chuckle😄

Hard to believe these are adults allowed to look after children.

Not me, sunshine. I'm childfree!

This reminds me of how I would often use a red marker pen to cross out apostrophes on market signs, they drove me mad, The butcher where we used to live would ask me to scan his notices for errant apostrophes, I told him When in doubt, leave it out, not as noticeable if they're missing.

Hahaha @JudgeJ you seem to apply the same approach to full stops 😂

@meatbaseddessert Best comment 😂