My father in-law waited until both of my parents passed away to become a dick. Now he talks bad about me to people and smiles in my face. Only reason I know about it, is because my niece and nephew pulled me to the side and let me know.
I hope & pray for my sake that he never needs to move in with us when he gets older, cause that shit ain’t happening.
But, is that petty of me ?
I had a teacher who despised me and belittled me at every turn. He was a petty tyrant. Years later he was arrested for molesting students. I enjoyed reading about it.
I was in middle school at a friend’s sleepover. Her parents were very strict, her and her siblings got pulled out of public school to go to a Catholic school (were homeschooled in high school), and they scared the hell out of me.
Anyway, it was probably like 11pm at this sleepover, and her mom hesitantly let us watch the Disney movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. I laughed at a part, and even though her parents were awake, they came into the living room to scold me for being too loud. Not long after, I took a drink of water, got a little strangled, and started coughing.
They called my parents after 11pm to come pick me up because “I couldn’t behave.” They had no regard for them being asleep and having jobs to get to early in the morning, they wanted me out for laughing and coughing in the span of about 10 minutes.
My parents never let me stay the night at her house again, and are still pissed at them for doing that almost 20 years later.
When I was like nine or ten, I was rollerblading home from my mom’s work, right? And I’m heading down 4th Street, and I find something like 16 dollars on the ground–a ten, a five, and single–just laying there on the sidewalk next to some outdoor seating at a cafe.
Being the obnoxiously nice kid that I was, I pick it up and kind up look around, wondering if anybody lost their money.
That’s when the lady in the weird sweater vest comes around the corner. We make eye contact and I tell her I found this money, and she goes, “Huh. Let me see it.” And my naive ass is like, “Oh yeah, that makes sense. She’s a *grown up*, she can sort this out.”
She looks around, hands me the single back, puts her finger to her mouth in a shhh! gesture, THEN SHE JUST FUCKS OFF, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.
Humblebrag incoming, sorry
I was easily the best student in my class in High School, especially when it came to Maths, Physics, Chemistry and the like. I was one of the fortunate ones to whom that stuff came very easily. However, I was pretty shy and didn’t really participate in class, I just aced every test.
My classmates obviously knew I was great at these subjects, so they’d often come to me for help instead of going to the teacher. Most teachers couldn’t really give less of a fuck, but there was this one cunt… it’s been a while so I can’t remember her name, but she taught Geometry. She came determined one day to expose me apparently, and she drew a very convoluted problem on the board and gave us 5 minutes to solve for some angle.
It was the kind of problem that would take me 20 minutes at the very least and that the rest of the class would probably find impossible to get through. Yet as soon as the 5 minutes were up, she ordered me to get up on the board and solve it for the class.
I asked for a little more time, but she insisted I got up so we could “do it together”. I didn’t really have choice, so I stood up, walked towards the board, suffered silently for a few moments trying to think of how to approach the problem, until she finally relented and gave me pointers on how to solve it.
After I did (under her instruction), she sent me back to my seat and told the class that if they have any questions, they should be coming to her. I obviously got super angry and was on the verge of tears for the rest of the class.
I got her back later that same month though; she had parked her car in a bit of a hidden space, so I pissed on her door handle. Which I guess is even more petty than what she did to me, but fuck her.