To ask what small/petty injustices you’re still annoyed by years later?

[bumblenbean]

When I was 20 I spent 6 months in the States and for about a month stayed with my aunt (at her suggestion I might add!). She’s good fun but prone to dramatics and quite volatile. I was casually seeing a guy over there, who she met and who came round for lunch a few times. All good.

She went away for a week and said while away she didn’t want any ‘strangers’ in the house - fair enough! One of the nights the casual boyfriend popped round for dinner, all very civilised and he left about 10pm.

The day after she came home she came downstairs absolutely fuming and said her neighbour had told her I’d had a ‘party’ while she was away and that loads of randoms were coming and going into the night. Still have absolutely no idea why this woman would say such a thing, it was categorically untrue and I obviously denied it, though I said the ‘boyfriend’ had come round one night. She was having none of it, insisted I was a liar, had broken her trust/ could never forgive me and basically kicked me out on the spot.

20 years on I am still aggrieved by this minor injustice if I ever think of it 😆 - which I did this week as my aunt had a meltdown at my mum over something totally innocuous. I still wish I’d confronted the shit-stirring neighbour!

In hindsight, staying with my aunt was a recipe for disaster - she’s twice divorced and has since decreed she basically doesn’t ‘do’ cohabiting 🤣

anyone else as petty as me and still smarting from some random event back in the mists of time?!

Not being allowed in the netball team at grammar school (13) because I hadn’t played at secondary school (11-12) but had played at primary.

I was seven, in the school playground when there was a sudden storm - a group of friends and other kids decided to shelter under a tall tree - I told them all it was the most dangerous place to stand in a storm and they all laughed and mocked me relentlessly. It still annoys me!

During the second lockdown I bumped into a mum who had a child in my DC class. She told me she had seen my child was in school from the zoom calls and asked me what I had told the school to get a place I got the impression that she thought I had got a place through deception! I told her I was a keyworker and what I did but clearly she thought it beyond my skill set as she then she asked me how I got that job.
She’d done a couple of things before this, that I though were questionable but that conversation was the end for me. I still did pleasantries at the school gate but beyond that I had no time.