This is the best thread ever! I’ve laughed out loud at some of these.
I’m quite a petty person. As OH finds out when he annoys me! These are long, apologies but my favourite acts of pettiness!
Years ago, OH got a speeding fine and I was absolutely furious at him. That same night I was attending a function at our rugby club, where my very favourite player (who I might have had a tiny crush on) was attending. Said player was doing a charity raffle and if you bought a ticket he asked for a contact number to put on the ticket stub in case said ticket won. So I gave him my phone number of course. When I got home that night OH was being all nicey nicey and asked had I had a good night. Oh yes, said I. *said player* asked me for my number..!! I didn’t give context but his face was a picture
My mum pulled a great one on an ex friend of mine. When we were 18, we went off to different unis. She went to study Tourism and I went off to study a Combined Honours degree. She was always boasting that she was going to get a first class degree and a plum job with the BBC and I would end up unemployed as my degree was stupid, as was I, and I would never pass. She ironically got kicked off the course at the end of the first year for failing all her exams. She was unable to hold down any kind of job and ended up long term unemployed. I did my nurse training but after I got ill I changed careers and went back to Uni where I got two undergrad degrees and a Masters. In the meantime I got myself a decent steady job in the Civil Service.
A few months ago my mum bumped into her and her insipid husband on a coach trip. I’m told from mutual friends that she liked to boast she was married and I was ‘still single’ As I had been engaged a few times but never got married. We stopped speaking before I met OH so she assumed that because she had Only ever seen my maiden name on Facebook she assumed wrongly I was single. So ex friend, being nosy, asks mum ‘have I got a proper job yet’ Mum likes to boast about my academic achievements and said ‘oh yes, she’s working. She’s just graduated from uni for the third time, she’s got two undergrads and a Masters degree.’ Ex friend didn’t like this and huffed and puffed before she said ‘oh but I’m married though, she’s still single’ My mum, apparently looked puzzled and said ‘no, she got married two years ago, she’s been with her husband for years’ Ex friend was so annoyed she never said another word to my mum
I like to think that was some petty revenge for her meanness to me.