You shouldn't still be annoyed, but you are

[Simonlebonbon]

Do you have anything that happened many moons ago but still low key angers you to this day?
I'll share mine. This is lighthearted by the way, I'm not needing therapy to let this go or anything, I just thought I'd see if anyone had similar things happen.

Years ago my colleagues and I decided we'd take turns hosting a come dine with me night. One colleague attended the evenings but chose to not host, which was fine. Her name is Sally.
So my menu wasn't anything special but dishes I enjoyed cooking.
So my starter went down well (scallops and pea puree if you're interested) and then my main was homemade spinach and ricotta tortellini in a roasted red onion and red pepper sauce, I'd slowly cooked for hours. To be topped with fresh chili and basil with some homemade garlic bread. I even bought a really nice aged parmesan.
Anyway as my sauce is simmering with its fresh and lovely flavour I went to quickly check on my son who was a toddler at the time before I served up.
I went downstairs and smug fucking Sally is smiling like a Cheshire cat telling me she's added a special ingredient to help with my sauce.
It looked weird and smelt quite sweet so I wondered if she'd added something like honey but on no, fucking Sally had added over half of BIG bottle of generic brand tomato ketchup to the sauce I'd lovingly simmered for hours, with olive oil and all my fresh ingredients. Tomato bloody ketchup.
She was so happy about it, eating it and winking at me over dinner, telling the girls how she'd "fixed" my sauce. It was inedible. Destroyed with that sickly, vingeray taste.
The others were polite about it but nobody really enjoyed it.
My pudding was a lemoncello trifle which was also recieved quite well. Obviously though I lost out with my disgusting main course 😂
Sally for months after kept telling people how she'd fixed my sauce, I'm over it now but I did secretly want to punch her every time she mentioned it for the first few weeks.

I'm annoyed for you 😝

That’s really odd of her. Sounds like she has a screw loose.

Err did she bring the ketchup with her or did she raid your kitchen?

Where is sally now? What happened to her?

Many (24) years ago I went out for tea with colleagues, I was still fairly new to the area so didn't know very many people, so it was nice to have the opportunity to go out somewhere.

I'm very fussy, so pretty much had the cheapest item on the menu (Margherita pizza) and money wasn't great, the boss's daughter ordered steak, and then declared that we should just split the bill.

I think I am more annoyed at myself for going along with it.

Never trust a sally.

Yeah that’s so fucking rude

That's really really weird is she OK?

Found mine! CF!

Sally you idiot.

Did you drown her in the sauce? Fair enough if you did.

Oh that’s reminded me of a similar come dine with me thing.

5 of us as friends then one invites another to make up 6. Well call her Sally. She was diabetic, coeliac and allergic to fish. Oh and didn’t drive so kept asking for lifts.

So she wasn’t a group friend but then SHE DIDNT FUCKING HOST.

This was 15 years ago. It really annoys me still.

Actually it's a bizarre story, she dated another colleague who had just inherited a bit of money from his mother's passing. Spent it on refurbishing her home and then dumped the bloke. Then her landlord saw the work she'd done to his house which had added enormous value and then sold it so she had to be housed by the council. Then she got pally with a neighbour who was know as Frank, (he was a drug dealer, do you remember the advert talk to Frank? Well he took on Frank as a nick name, as in, talk to Frank, he's got you covered) and their house got raided. After that I've no idea but I still don't think it's punishment enough for adding ketchup to a sauce, I'd only feel vindicated had she had served prison time 😂

Fucking Sally's.

I'm livid for you! I hate the piss takers. Sharing the bill is a no no unless everyone's meal is similarly costed.

This isn't lighthearted but also no harm done but it still really really pissed me off at the time!

A woman crashed into me when I was taking my son to school, around 7 years ago. I ended up crashing into a lamppost and she had to move her car as it was in the road, I also didn't have my phone with me so couldn't take photos.

There was a woman driving behind her who said she was at fault and gave me her details as a witness. I left it to my insurance and heard nothing for months so assumed she had admitted it was her fault.

I put in a claim for my excess amount at their recommendation, the woman who crashed into me put in a counterclaim for a substantial amount (to me anyway)

The witness changed her mind about helping me so it was my word against the other drivers. The judge ruled that it was my fault as he couldn't believe someone would just drive into someone who was right in front of them so she got her bloody money and I had nothing!

I see the woman who was the witness on the school run now and still silently curse her to myself!

@Heartofglass12345 She's probably called Sally. In fact, they might both be.

Haha that'll be my new name for them. Also the judge can be a male sally. Honestly I couldn't believe he thought someone wouldn't drive out of a junction if there was someone waiting to turn into it. Really!!

Not so much angry about this as still bemused and irritated! Many years ago I relocated with then BF, now DH. There were quite a few new starters, all around the same age so we all hosted get-togethers for each other. Arrived at one woman's house, (she can be another Sally for this thread) about 7.30 and she was just standing vaguely in the kitchen with ingredients and recipe books out. She said I was thinking of making these, indicating the worktops.

Me and another guest looked at each other, rolled up our sleeves and ended up making most of the dinner. Sally did manage to roast a couple of chickens. We ended up eating about half 10 I think. One of things I made was baba ghanoush which I've never made before or since. I always associate with that night if I see it anywhere. The upside is my cooking companion is still one of my best friends!

I do think about it quite often and wonder what she was thinking would happen, given that she'd invited us all!

Oooh, OP, I am actually seething on your behalf

She ended up in the next sauce the OP made 👩‍🍳

I could be here all day with mine 😂

I once got on a bus to go to college and only had a £10 note. Apologised, but the bus driver loudly complained that I was taking all his change. I went and took a seat, thinking that would be the end of it.
He then loudly told every single person who got on the bus that if they didn't have the exact cash or a ticket already, he couldn't let them on because of "that one over there" as he jabbed his finger towards me.
I was 17, had ptsd from an abusive childhood I'd very recently fled from and ended up in tears.

I'm now 34 with a lot more life experience and want to let him know that I think he's a wanker 😁

I'm sure someone else has since informed him of that fact.

Sally sounds weird.

Oh there are so many....one though really annoyed me, colleague who was coeliac, to accommodate her we found a restaurant that wasn't the one we'd planned but did gluten free (this is over 30 years ago) and she pretended she was coming to the meal and then didn't turn up. She wasn't ill, she was at work the following day. It was obvious from her reaction that she was thrilled that she'd made us change our plans. She never had any intention of coming out with us but was too much of a manipulator to be honest about her.

Probably my first experience of working with gaslighting mad colleagues but sadly not my last.

In my current job we have a fairly new manager who is like this all the time. I'm fairly sure in ten or 15 years time I'll still be seething about their cfery but at present there is nothing we can do about it. We just have to wait for them to find another job and become someone else's problem or wait for them to offend someone really senior - though they suck up to senior people like their middle name is Henry....

OP / @Simonlebonbon

I'm pissed off on your behalf, no matter how long ago the ketchup incident was. At worst, a guest just simply don't do that to the host's creation in someone else's house. At best, the guest can ask if they can add ketchup to it, but even that is bad manners without actually tasting the cuisine first. It's just simple manners and ettiquette. I would have quietly dropped Sally from future meetups given the unanimous response from around the table.

My bigges woe was probably a (normal) nightclub from the late 90s that got taken over by a strip club. I was fucking livid at the time because it was my favourite club before it got taken over. I'm sure now in 2024 the venue wouldn't exist anyway even if it didn't get taken over, but it took me years to get over it. It's one of many reasons why I don't like strip clubs.