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?

I always take extra sachets and pots of condiments from McDonald's (and others).

I don't even like mustard.

i just write "Madam" if i have to do anything like this (not much at all these days) even if i know a man will be reading it
I had so many "Dear Sirs" in my life I'm trying to even up the balance.

Oh, you’ve just reminded me, in our version of Miss Polly, the doctor is a woman!

I once got praised for it by a lady on a bus

I love this and I love the word punctilious. Don't see it used enough these days, it's perfect.

I have one manager who is really rude about once a week. Then she tries to be sickly sweet nice afterwards. I usually sign off kind regards to most colleagues. She only ever gets regards. Ha! That shows her.

Haha, my dad did this once at Center Parcs, called himself 'Sir', and we got free things throughout the holiday plus a lodge upgrade. It was weird.

When talking about hypothetical professions I always say 'she' as in 'you should see a doctor about that, she'll know what she's talking about'

Many years ago I was a receptionist in a big insurance office. One customer was an olympic sailor who was rather filled with his own importance. I always
pretended I had no idea who he was and made him spell out his name every time.

Had to go into the council offices the other day and was asked my gender, so said 'My sex is female'.

If someone is walking along- usually at speed- with their face glued to their iPhone I refuse to change my direction. They just assume everyone will make away for them .
I don't put myself in their path but I don't divert . The look on their little faces .
If I'm in a particular mood I'll say "Look where you're fecking well going"

If they cannot see or acknowledge a pedestrian , what if they walked into someone frail elderly or partially sighted ?

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.

If anyone beeps me at a roundabout because they don’t feel I am pulling out fast enough I count to 10 before moving even if the way is clear
I am actually a very good driver and not in any way hesitant but I will pull out when I consider it safe thank you very much

If someone tells people off for not RTFT, I purposely post without RTFT.

Driving the wrong way round Tesco car park

Yes, also this! I live in a small University city so constantly refusing to make way for large groups hogging the pavements or ones too busy on phones walking straight into me.

If I ever have to fill in a form that nosily wants to know my sexuality, and there’s a space for ‘other’ I’ve been known to put MYOB, or necrophiliac.

DH calls my car 'the wheelie bin'.

I refuse to call them McNuggets when ordering them at drive thru or the counter. I just call them chicken nuggets. I just don't like that they've put Mc in front of nugget.

@Robyn847 Oof, I like the cut of your gib. I did once shout loudly at the owner of a take away who posted 3 of the exact same leaflets through my door despite stickers aying "No leaflets/junk mail etc" and I made him walk back to me from down the street to retrieve his rag.

how is not shaving you legs not taking care of yourself? what a horrible comment. men routinely don't shave their legs, are they somehow putting their health at risk. taking care of yourself is eating well, cleaning your teeth, washing, etc. but hair on your legs - no one should care, it shouldn't offend anyone, it says nothing about personal hygiene or cleanliness. you obviously do care however - this is pretty evident from your very loaded comment, which says far far more about you than OP.

Not me but my dad, if buys anything that goes on the car eg bike rack or roof box etc and it's branded he places black tape over the brand so he isn't driving around "advertising" for them 🤣, he also does the taking a bag for life from another supermarket into the supermarket, I have no idea what he gets out of this but he seems happy about it 😆. Maybe retirement does this to you?

that's the point 🤔

If DP is annoying (I’m peri menopausal so everything is annoying) I’ll make him a cup of tea and put the milk in first.

Absolutely loving ‘patriarchy chicken’, that’s got to be the new ‘MN phrase’ 😄
I fairness, where I live people are unfailingly polite and its 50/50 when needing to step into the road to pass, male or female.

My small protest is at a local narrow point in a lane, which is only wide enough for 1.5 cars. I like to dominate my lane so that the other car always has to stop to let me through.

Sometimes I walk to the local shop without brushing my hair. A small rebellion, well, a lazy streak, you know when you've just got up to make a morning coffee and realise you need milk or something important like you have run out of gin, and your brush is upstairs, I just decide to embrace the look of wearing a bush on my head and hope a bird doesn't nest in it.