What was the pettiest thing you have done?
8Being petty can be fun. I usually don’t like to be petty, but if my brother ends up pissing me off to a certain point, I will do something bad and frame him, or bring us both down to punishment. What have you done, or if you think you are perfect, what was the pettiest thing someone else did?
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I worked for a large northern company that merged with a large company from much warmer climate. The southerners had moved up and began working with us. The usual wars from big mergers. Job cuts, job demotions, etc… We hated them and they hated us. One miserable February afternoon I was waiting at a bus stop for a bus home. One of the southerners was also waiting there. He was miserable. They hadn’t figured out and bought the right serious winter clothing. He was shivering and stepping in deeper snow with just light coat and dress shoes on. I wasn’t happy with the weather, but had fur-lined boots, serious coat/scarf/hat/mitts. He said to me " Is this as cold as it gets?" I knew perfectly well that it actually was way on the low side of normal, but calmly flatly replied “Nah, it gets lots colder than this.”
In college they charged me a $5 late fee for a missed dorm payment though I think I paid on time. They kept billing me for the $5.
At the time my mother did metal detecting and had collected a lot of fairly worthless pennies (she would always check for old or collectible coins).
So I got 500 pennies from her and put them in a small can. I went to the treasurer’s office (where you pay things) and presented the can that was nicely gift-wrapped with the bills they had been sending me.
The poor lady was like wait, we can’t, you can’t. And with the confidence of a 19-year-old college student, just said, No, It’s OK, really! And then walked out.
I didn’t get billed for the $5 again.
Back in my high school days, I had a part-time job at a gas station (this was when/where there was no self-serve). There was one employee who would stop at the diner across the street and get a big breakfast plate, bring it to work (late) and sit inside and eat for the first 1/2 hour of his shift, leaving whoever else was there to do all the work. He even kept a bottle of syrup there that he would pour over his pancakes/eggs/etc.
Well, the station also had a couple of service bays and we did oil and lube jobs, etc. So one day, I dumped his syrup out and refilled the pitcher with nice, thick amber gear oil. As you might imagine, he did not enjoy his pancake platter that morning.
(Fortunately, there were enough potential suspects that he never did know who had pranked him.)
@macromeh that’s good story. Was it the fine Vermont Amber Grade A gear oil?
EDIT hopefully no customer went away with an engine full of syrup….
Had a roommate whose brother had the college-rental house before us. Since that is how we ended up with it, he took it as we should be forever indebted to him and he could be the biggest ass in the world. It was a 7 person house; we were not all best friends, but we managed well as roommates. Except him.
Last month of the lease, 4 of us went to our banks and got our rent in one dollar bills. We lined a trash can, got a case of beer, and sat around wadding up the ones and having shooting contests. He had about 1300 crumbled one dollar bills.
Put on the Last DJ for 22 hours during finals week one year
@pakopako That’s very Petty!
Also quite Heartbreakery.
Well, there was this one time where my dog just laid in my lap for like two hours. There were head pets, and ear pets, and back pets, and foot pets… rinse and repeat. That’s got to be the pettiest day ever.
@capnjb Heavy petting!
I’m a woman from the south, of course I’ve done petty things. Some justified, some I regret.
Back in college when I worked at a grocery store. There was a regular customer that asked for everything to be doubled bagged. At this store, we bagged the carton of eggs and handed them to the customer instead of putting in with the rest of the stuff that the sacker would carry out to the car for them. I also double bagged the eggs.
@ironcheftoni But she/he probably liked that!
@Kyeh occasionally, she would say that double bagging the eggs wasn’t necessary but i did it anyway. This was in the day of paper bags only so we knew she was usung the large bags for garbage bags
@ironcheftoni Wow, nice pettiness!