What is the petty thing you have done you are secretly most proud of?
I understand you have grown a great deal since you have done something petty, and are now above such things.
Have you done something petty that felt unbelievably good at the time, so very good you can’t honestly say you regret it now?
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Yes. I know I shouldn’t have and I was being petty but still, I sort of felt they were deserved and I still do although in hindsight, they weren’t terribly helpful in terms of the ongoing relationship I have with the person concerned.
After I got into the relationship with my now husband, my ex decided he would cause trouble. I was entitled to a parenting payment because I had the majority care of our children and was studying full-time. However, you can’t get this payment if you are living in a de facto relationship and are being supported by the other person (fair enough!). I was living on my own with my children and paying my own bills. My ex contacted the welfare department and told them I was living with my then boyfriend and being supported by him. Consequently, I got a call and had to answer a multitude of questions about my living arrangements, how I paid my bills etc. It was very upsetting and caused me great stress in case they didn’t believe me. I was pretty angry.
So, I knew his ex girfriend knew his email password. So I sent him an email saying the welfare department had been in touch and found out my boyfriend was living with me and that they were going to take me to court and I was really frightened I would go to gaol and would be please, please look after the children if I was imprisoned. I really bunged it on.
Then I waited until I knew he had read this email and as luck would have it, he gloated to his ex girlfriend about how he had really got me! I gave him plenty of time to brag to all his friends about his coup. Then I wrote him another email telling him the first story was as much bullshit as the story he told the welfare department and called him a few choice names.
It didn’t help our relationship. It was petty. I shouldn’t have done it. Still, at the time it felt very good to do it.
Yes, I told a cashier that she short-changed me 12 cents, and told her she better pay closer attention to what she’s doing. She couldn’t argue back. I felt good about it, only because she was extremely rude to me and everyone else in that line that day——even telling a little kid in line “Put that back, okay??!” (the boy was only about 5 years-old——he pulled an Archie comic book off the rack, looked at it, and put it on the side of rack). I mean, to yell at a little kid who didn’t really know better. His mother was speechless. That’s why when it was my turn, and the girl short-changed me, I acted “petty” and gave it to her. Lol. Felt sweet.
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done, and I’ve done quite a few petty things.
I was at a movie last year, during which this extremely rude woman kept texting every freaking person on earth. Several of us asked her politely to stop and she kept sneering at us. I asked her to stop again, and she just turned around and gave me a dirty look.
So I calmly nailed her in the back of her head with a handful of my popcorn. She stopped after that, and although my action was childish and petty, several audience members laughed, several clapped and several turned to me and said “Thank you”. I did feel a bit petty, but at the same time I felt proud of the fact that I finally got her to quit ruining the movie with her phone glare.
Heh, heh. There is a stretch of property that is off in the woods behind our home where I take my dogs walking. It is an old abandoned road that divides two parcels of land. I have the owners’ blessing to go down there, he doesn’t care. But there is this old fossil of a fart that doesn’t like me going down there, he has the key to the lock that keeps the gate closed to all traffic down there as he is leasing the property on the other side of this road, and thinks he can run anybody out of there ( its Indian land). We had two run- in’s so far and the second one he sort of made a veiled threat against me if he catches us down there again. One rule of life, never threaten me. So the Indian cops get involved and they tell me this shit has been told he can’t tell anybody what to do as long as they are not trespassing.(No duh).
I keep a bottle of super glue in my, our pack in case I have to temporarily fix an injury.
This is where it gets all chuckly…The other day while down there walking I went up to that gate and squirted a shitload of super glue into that dick’s padlock key hole and anywhere else it would run inside.giggedy .The next time he tries to get that gate open i’m hoping his friggin key snaps off in the lock when it won’t turn.
Yes it was petty. But I’m pretty frikken tickled with myself.
@woodcutter That is so funny!! You devil you. I can see the old guy going “What the hell?!!” Then huff-puff, creak, creak, craaaack!!! “Oh geezus my fricken lock!!!” @#$%!! ” :D
@WillWorkForChocolate Yeah, i also got a text from her that day.
A guy in my apartment building always smokes his cigars in the elevated, which i don’t like.
So one time when i saw him ready to enter it (while i passed his floor) i pushed all nine buttons of all nine floors.
@MRSHINYSHOES Ya I know!! Here in a bit I might go out there to see if it’s a different lock now. If it is, Then I know it works fist bumps, ho yeah!
@rebbel OOOhhh you are an asshole! I gotta remember that one,of course i can use the old stand by and fart in there
@woodcutter Hehehe. If you do see a different lock now, then you can laugh even louder, and “know you somehow had a hand in that….like “hmmmm, now how did that happen I wonder? Geez, that’s a pity ol’ Charlie.” (Now you’re bringing the devil out in ME). :D
When I was 16 my girlfriend had a male friend that had a thing for her. He had recently moved away to go to college, so they mostly kept in touch via phone calls and snail-mail. I had met him, and although we didn’t ‘get on’ very well, I thought he was a decent guy on the whole. I came to find out that he called me an “asshole” behind my back, and would pester her to dump me so he could be with her, etc. When I came across some love letters he’d sent her I decided I had had enough. I gathered up the love letters, burned them and then mailed him the ashes along with a note telling him to back the fuck off.
@FutureMemory one time on a school trip overnight I bought every girl on the trip a rose from a street vendor EXCEPT the girl who broke my heart. Something like 4 dozen. I got the girls sharing a room with her a dozen each.
@woodcutter I’d love to see how you would react when you ARE drunk and find out he’s got a new lock!! Hehe…
(You’re just like the boy who once tried to cram two potatos into the exhaust pipes of my BMW. Luckily I caught the kid——and his two buddies—- before there was any damage.)
Up date- The lock is still intact and no tire tracks going in. But i know he has cattle out there so I was somewhat concerned for them. Further on down the road I saw his tracks where he did an end run and had to get permission to use the good neighbor’s road in, (they merge further on in). Since I saw no evidence of a busted off key in the lock i came to the conclusion he couldn’t get the key in the lock. Since these two men aren’t exactly friends it’s probably eating his lunch having to ask permission so he’s going to have to figure out a way to remove that super lock asap.
For a quick second I started to feel the precursor to the feeling of being a dick myself. But since I have a short span of attention that quickly went away…that and about that same time, I was yelling at my dog for eating a piece of cow shit off the ground.
that super glue is some badass shit
@MRSHINYSHOES A Beamer huh? Well, in all honesty, I can sorta understand why he did that, just sayin
Aww nuthin. Just don’t let me near a hummer with a gas can and a book of matches. now that would kick ass
@woodcutter Lol. As a kid, you must have been like one of those boys who tried to potato my BMW! You little devil you! Hehe.
When I was a kid I don’t remember seeing any BMW’s. Mainly Bentleys, Jags, and those horrible stinky diesel Saabs…and Vega’s. Vega’s…I hate them too.
hmmmmmmm…....all of the few blowups I have had have been well deserved in my mind. nothin petty about it!
I just told off a creepy person. Sort of a bully here on Fluther.
@MRSHINYSHOES when I was a kid my friend’s dad managed a fish and chip shop and the owner was horrible and we didn’t like him. He drove a BMW and we used to stick snotty tissues up his exhaust…
I got two weeks of paid vacation for free because my supervisor assumed that clicking “approve” on my request for time off form would automatically trigger the process that would deduct the time from my accrued vacation.
Mainly, I did an excellent job of keeping my mouth shut, and I felt I deserved it because her boss and my internal client were such a-holes who made my job impossible.
Lobbing M&M’s onto the unsuspecting soft heads of passers by neath my bedroom window.
I’m particularly proud if they’re wearing a hat & my shots land in the rim ;¬}
@Bellatrix You naughty kids! Just like the boys I caught! ;)
@MRSHINYSHOES There’s just something cool about messing with expensive cars. It’s not logical but still cool non the less.
@woodcutter Oh my! Should I protect my well-shined black leather men’s dress shoes too? lol
@MRSHINYSHOES the shoes are probably safe, unless we are out in the woods drinking a lot of beer.
@woodcutter Oh my! I can only imagine….a little beer, a little drunk…Yikes, I hope you cut only wood my friend, not shiny black leather. lol
@woodcutter Yeah, you’d probably resort to the good ol’ super glue, right? lol
@MRSHINYSHOES It would be super something but not glue, think…. recycled Budweiser
@snowberry woodcutter and I are probably the most opposite, but we do share a few things in common that many other people don’t, like mischief, acting devilish, and partying all night! Lol. ;)
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