when petty is your love language - REACTION

[@amyspeers8012]

My son’s high school choir teacher told us at his teacher conference that he should NOT study voice at university. She said, “He will never do well because he hasn’t had enough time with me.” My son graduated with a double major in theater and operatic voice. He sent graduation announcements to some of his favorite teachers as well as to the choir teacher. Here’s had a note saying he was so glad he didn’t follow her instructions. Whenever she was around, other teachers talked about him, how great his voice was and that he was singing with a local opera company…to rub it in.

[@leslieortenzi8875]

Sounds like the teacher was really JEALOUS! What a horrible person!

[@MisterNotlob]

My choir teacher asked me, in front of the whole choir, why I joined if I couldn’t sing? I was 9. I didn’t sing for a very long time after that. I’m still self conscious about it.

[@leslieortenzi8875]

@@MisterNotlob Do you sing in the shower at least? ETA That was pretty short-sighted too, considering your voice could change a great deal at puberty!

[@mycupoverflows7811]

I had a choir teacher like this. I quit music for a decade.😢

[@jmc_562]

Yeeeeesss!!!!! Best revenge ever is proving the people wrong! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Endorill]

My husband is a Civil War studies freak. He has many books, some from the 1800's, first edition. My daughter did a report using these books in her bibliography. Teacher accused her of a false list of books, claiming they are unavailable. The teacher called her a liar when she said we owned those books. My A student daughter was crushed and embarrassed. She told me and I promptly packed up our Civil War Library and dragged them to school. I walked her and the books into class and dropped them on the teacher's desk. "Re-check her bibliography.... now, please. She was all 'oh, my gosh, I had no idea. She was softly apologizing to my daughter. I said "Oh, no. You called her a liar in front of the whole class, so apologize in front of the whole class. " She sells real estate now. Case closed.

[@ohcaptainmycaptain4829]

That would be the type of mother I would be!

[@willow_alley]

Yassss mama!!!!

[@tarantulady8565]

I love you, mom!!!! You got 💯 on your mom assignment!😁👍

[@Endorill]

@@ohcaptainmycaptain4829 You have to be even handed to raise good citizens. I always told them, "if you are wrong, you will take your medicine, however, I will still have your back. If you are right, I will work like a beaver to get you justice.

[@Endorill]

@@tarantulady8565 I always got your back, baby. I love you bear loves its cub.

[@MissMellyDi]

The biggest bully my son ever had was his 3rd grade teacher. Woman was a menace. That was the same year she retired and on the last day of school he congratulated her and to her face said "I'm happy you can't be mean to kids anymore."

[@hannahhester8376]

Yes!! I love that!

[@7thlittleleopard7]

Man, that is gonna live rent free in her head for the rest of her life.

[@msmrsro]

I had a third grade teacher who, with her teacher buddy, were hustling bullies to me. They sucked. It was the mid-70s. Some people should just not be around children, or be teachers.

[@mycupoverflows7811]

We had a 2nd grade teacher where I taught who was absolutely AWFUL. One of the little girls drew her a picture that said "I love you even though you're mean." 😂😂 Thankfully she didn't last the year.

[@AmethystEyes]

Mine too! Did she end up becoming principal of the school?

[@jessicamarsh9779]

ONE of the pettiest things I’ve EVER done for my kids (had to think bc I ALWAYS back up my kids but I also make they are ALWAYS held accountable if they do wrong, I’ll be the first to admit they are kids & kids are NOT perfect). They had the BEST bus driver for years, then he retired and got a series of new drivers. We had this one lady, my boys at the time were 8 & 10, my daughter was 13. I was doing yard work when the bus pulled up, it was parked for a good 5 min before my kids got off. I thought maybe they were gathering their stuff (LONG bus ride, over an hour) so sometimes it takes a min to pick up their stuff & they ALWAYS make sure to pick up their garbage & since they are like the 3rd or 4th to last stop, they all help the bus driver pick up the bus (just to be kind). Well my daughter got off first & said “Oh mom your gonna be MAD, like REALLY mad”, then my sons got off, my youngest was crying. I said “what happened?” She had got up, went to him, grabbed him by both arms, was shaking him & screaming at him how she was gonna whoop his ass, he had bruises forming already from it. I was HEATED. The bus went down & turned around, so I went to the middle of the road & stopped that bus. She gave me the biggest sweetest smile “oh did one of the kids forget something?” I seen the rest of the kids, about 6-8 kids all looked scared to death, one kid crying. Me “No! But listen & listen CAREFULLY bc this is your one and only warning, if I EVER hear of you laying a hand on any of my kids or any other kid on this bus, I will get on this bus, pull you off it by your hair & beat the shit out of you right in front of all these kids. You NEVER lay hands on kids, EVER. You’ve been warned” She started stammering, I said “You had a lot to say to these kids but you don’t have S to say to an adult?! What?!” She said “I’m calling the cops on you!!!!” I said “Good! We’ll be sure to be ready when they get here”. 15 min later the cops arrived, after explaining what happened, they took pics of my sons arms (bruised good by now), took statements & said “Jessica, as a Cop I can’t condone what you did or said, as a parent, I would have said the same thing. We will forward this to the bus company & let them handle it”. Needless to say she was terminated IMMEDIATELY after.

[@foxbuns]

good momma ❤😊

[@allison4976]

Good momma and great police. Said as a cop but as a parent speech which really helps folks

[@Atlasintokyo]

Honestly you should not be working with kids if you can't control your temper around them and if you can't keep your hands to yourself because you should not ever feel the need to yell at or hurt a kid

[@alysonsylva]

​@@Atlasintokyoexactly! I was a daycare provider for 20 years in my own home and I occasionally got mad but I know better! You just don't hurt kids!!

[@krakenlynch910]

That wasn't petty but it was badass and absolutely righteous

[@destinimurphy398]

Being petty to an adult while making an entire group of childrens day so much better is next level. That man is a DADDY! WE LOVE HIM!

[@kari6222]

My niece always plays with this girl that lives next door. This girl never shares her toys and always rubs her new toys in my niece's face. Like: "look at my new doll, no you can't touch it!" She always makes my niece cry. One day after her B-Day she got an Elsa doll she has been wanting (I had overheard her Mom saying she was getting it for her days earlier). True to nature she came straight to my niece to rub it in her face only to find my niece playing with a bigger and better version of Elsa, she also had Anna and Olaf (that I got for her). She immediately wanted to play with my nice and "share". My niece without skipping a beat said to her: "You can't touch them, play with yours!" I was so proud of her, that she is just as petty as her auntie.

[@NSully7]

Auntie win!! ❤

[@Theshort-g5w]

She’s your mini me.

[@asanda.mkhize]

What was the little girl's reaction? 💀

[@angeldip5797]

Thats Not petty babes, that is *JUSTICE*

[@cheyennes7681]

That reminds me of when I was a kid I over heard my best friends mom talking to my mom about the gift she was going to give me it was my favorite princess at the time which nobody had heard of yet Anastasia. Her daughter lost S**t about it. So her mom gave her the toy and I got nothing from my "best friend" But A diffrent friend more then made up for a few years later. She found at a garage sale the dog from the movie. When you touched one of it's toes or back the ears would lift up. She remembered what that "friend" did and she was sweet enough to try and make up for something she didn't even do wrong. I still have it in storage somewhere.

[@MsWillowbayOrelse]

I didn't do this but my mother did. So when I was in middle school a teacher wrote for my mom, she wanted to inform her that I wasn't doing well in English. (My mom was a journalist in the Air Force) My mom had double checked my work, so knew that it had been done right. She sent me back to the teacher with the teacher's note marked in red, she made sure to show where the teacher had written sentences incorrectly. Then she wrote at the bottom "You might want to check your work before submitting it".

[@kirakotobuki9195]

LOL, that's hilarious. XD

[@sandycarroll7656]

A girl in my high-school was brutally dumped by her boyfriend through a handwritten note. She decided to be petty and gave the note to one of the English teachers, who corrected it with a red pen. The girl then gave it back to her now ex-boyfriend. 😂

[@shannap.lawnerd125]

I love EVERYTHING about this, and the reply petty too. 😅❤😂😂

[@Forbiddenjadetheonly]

😂

[@tandylynnennis9639]

😂😂😂🎉

[@Morelli-i4f]

Let me start out by saying, I require my kids to show all people respect. They are to say yes/no ma'am/sir, no ma'am/sir. Thank you. Please. My son is to hold the door for his sister's and any female (he now does it at school and says "ladies first" which I didn't teach him that). My girls are always to thank and appreciate their brother when he does a nice gesture. They are also required to clean up after themselves and care for the environment by not littering, etc. Now...my son had a lunch teacher yell at him because he got up to throw away someone else's trash at the end of lunch. So my son threw back on the table and floor (where he found it all). He walked away and saw her cleaning it up afterwards. He's 8 and on the spectrum and I never knew he had that in him. He said he was doing her the favor and trying to help the lunch teachers out by cleaning up what other kids didn't. He said he no longer has that desire because they are incredibly rude when they try to clean up and help them out. Proud of him for not being a doormat and allowing people to treat him like poo.

[@sapphymegatron6934]

That Dad is the WHIP. His son is going to grow up to be a solid human. LOVE IT.

[@miaranaldo7048]

Shout out to the father defending his son in the discreet way he did. That's a dad!

[@SandraHertel-u3b]

Brilliant, awesome dad.

[@bucketree]

One hundo ❤

[@susiejones3634]

That was genius 👏 🙌

[@AlaskanCookie]

God that dad was awesome. I love it.

[@LesleyHayes4]

That hit hard for me. My son had similar “friends” and his name is also Logan.

[@adventuresofohana1716]

I applaud that dad for making sure his son and his classmates had lots of fun. He's a hero to all kids who haven't been invited to parties

[@scoutlaceharding]

That dad was awesome! What kind of insecure loser do you have to be to, as a grown-ass adult, try to vent your anger at someone by making their nine year old feel left out? I love that his petty revenge also ensured that all of the kids had an extra amazing time.

[@theresawashington9309]

When my daughter was in elementary school her bully decided to hit her in the face HARD with a dodgeball during gym class. She claimed it to be an accident even though they were only about 4 feet apart and she smiled before she did it, there was a small altercation between the girls and they were both reprimanded. A couple of days later at a meeting with school staff they painted my daughter out to be the aggressor and recommended detention as the other girl was still claiming ACCIDENT!!! So my mom hit the one staff member in the face with her very heavy purse very fast and said "Oh I'm sorry, that was also an accident.

[@jennawebb4225]

What happened after?!

[@theresawashington9309]

@jennawebb4225 we demanded that they bring my daughter down because she was also banned from the Christmas celebrations, that the other girl was able to attend, which were happening in the moment. They brought her down, we left and had our own celebrations for the rest of Christmas break.😁 Also it was decided, off the record, that my mom "made a very good point"😀

[@jennawebb4225]

@@theresawashington9309 well good for you! I'm so glad your mom never took any of their BS!

[@simsgirlgem]

Hey clearly it’s an accident as granny said

[@icerose21]

Fun Fact: abuse/desecration of a corpse (yes cremation remains count) is a felony even under the vaguest of legal definitions such as "to treat a corpse in an offensive manner." Edit: Also fun fact, Human remains don't qualify as people or property; they are in a legal grey area. Typically, courts view them as "quasi-property" and the next of kin are recognized as having the legal right to the remains for the purpose of providing proper burial.

[@willyougamewithme5391]

He has the Chinese word "sin" tatooed on the back of his hand.

[@troy48842]

I should just stop watching Charlotte, but I tend to enjoy the videos, not usually her reactions to them. I don't get how some of these things she laughs about and just thinks are people getting harmless payback for a wrong against them. The ones of people who would knowingly desecrate the ashes of someone's loved one for petty revenge aren't good people. I don't get the laughing about it. It's truly disgusting. I guess that's why I do watch her to remind myself that while there are many good people out there, bad people still exsist.

[@icerose21]

@@ruthsimpson8436 The "fun fact" makes me a pick me person?

[@SHADOWING_3749]

Awww, we can tell you're projecting insecurities😊​@ruthsimpson8436

[@canadianmom9404]

Fun fact, when you get the ashes, they are your property and you can do whatever you want so it’s actually not abuse or desecration… but you would know that if you decided just to Google a little bit more

[@amberlong5498]

My daughter is a special education student. A few years ago, she received a new aid, let's just call her M. My daughter was happy that this new aid was one of the ladies from our church, and expected to have a great school year. Soon however, she started coming in with bruises on her arms and in tears. I asked her what happened and she wouldn't tell me. Eventually I demanded to know, and she told me that M had grabbed her arm's, shook her, and called her mean names. When I tried to talk to M, she promptly told me, " The only thing wrong with your child, is that you wont let her grow up!" -wrong and multiple specialists would agree, as would her doctors, and medications- so I tried to talk to the principle. They "assured" me that my daughter must be confused because M had been a teacher for decades, and would never.. then they practically banned me from the school. I called the teachers board and CPS and reported my concerns. This resulted in M grabbing my daughter ( in 2nd grade at the time) and yanking her into a dark class room where she started to shake her and cuss her out...until the lights flipped on. A class has been in there watching a movie, and she was reported. The school does not call me, but once my daughter gets home, I hear about it. So, I drive her back to the school and demand to speak with the principle. For the next hour I get to hear apologies and assurances that this is unprecedented, and I demand that he apologize to my daughter for not believing her. Then I get the satisfaction of commenting on the bottom of M's pink slip, and filling out a report for CPS to investigate the school. My daughter was relieved and happy to prove she was not lying, and I took her for ice cream.

[@ScarlaPhi]

Tenure needs to be ended holy fucking crap

[@joettebaumann-cr2xl]

Bullies pick on those who can not stand up for themselves. Please say the "church" has heard abot this. Please.

[@forgotmyname4807]

This is not even petty, you're just doing the right thing as a parent

[@justtryme2020]

I’m embarrassed to admit I did the pettiest thing I’ve ever done for my child, but here goes anyway. When she was in 2nd grade, she had a male teacher who she was so excited about getting but when I say this dude had no business working with children, it’s an understatement. He had one of those area rugs from Walmart that was either a US map or a roadway with cars driving on it that he was oddly obsessed with and he would berate the students if they even tripped over it. Remember these were 7 years-olds! Around September my little girl comes out to the car and busts out crying. The school had taken soap out of the bathrooms that year and I couldn’t stand to think about her eating with dirty hands so I had clipped a hand sanitizer to her backpack. Apparently the cap had opened and the clear alcohol gel had dripped out on his rug. He flipped out and banned the whole class from hand sanitizer, yelled at her about being so “careless” and made her stay after class and scrub it out of his polyester rug. I started plotting and held my anger back until the end of the school year. When she went in the classroom to get her stuff I went with her and had concentrated food coloring (from my cake making side hustle) in my pocket that I dotted all over the bottoms of my shoes and walked all over that rug🤦🏻‍♀️. This was over a decade ago and I’m not proud of it, but it was the pettiest thing I’ve ever done for my kid.

[@therealameliabedelia7821]

Wait wait wait- THEY TOOK SOAP OUT OF THE BATHROOMS?!?!?! WTF?!?!

[@justtryme2020]

@@therealameliabedelia7821 Exactly! How disgusting is that? The teachers would give every kid a squirt of hand sanitizer before lunch as if that was the same thing as washing their hands?

[@justtryme2020]

@@therealameliabedelia7821 They did it because they said the kids were making a mess with the soap🙄

[@sarahkinsey5434]

@@justtryme2020 In elementary school we were told not to use the hand sanitizer dispensers in the classrooms because it messed with the flooring. Most if not all classrooms had sinks though

[@justtryme2020]

@@sarahkinsey5434 What kind of flooring did the school have that hand sanitizer messed up😂? I thought all schools had that same generic 12x12” tile? This classroom didn’t have a sink.

[@inescarolinegomes4942]

My mother is a doctor, and also a teacher and a supervisor for interns at the hospital. When I was a kid, I'd break my arm in a really silly fall. Got to the ER, in the hospital she works, the 'doctor' glance at the X-Ray without barely looking at it, don't look at us even once, and tell my mom in the most patronizing tone that is nothing wrong. Let's just say he is not a doctor, got reprobate so many times he didn't qualify anymore. Did not even know it was possible, but never doubt a petty mom.

[@ariannamartin7230]

As the only kid in class not to get invited to a birthday party one year...the embarrassment, sadness and feeling of being excluded or not good enough is visceral to this very day. Good on that dad, for real.

[@ugaladh]

I was the only kid not to have a part in the 4th grade play ( multiple classes of 4th graders). I knew it was unfair. I got over it. I'd been through worse at home. However, I think being excluded from a birthday party would be worse as a little kid.

[@Nanner823]

Thankfully that's not allowed in many schools now, as far as elementary. Whole class has to be invited unless it's a boys or girls only type party. I wasn't invited all the time. Seeing those people as adults makes me happy I wasn't invited, at least I had real friends.

[@Autheil]

For me it was being one of the only few girls that never received anything for Valentine's Day I went to a highschool with over 4,000 students. I also didn't get asked to prom. I'm married now but I hope if I have kids they don't go through the same things I did.

[@Autheil]

​​@@Nanner823I'd probably hate it more if it was an obligation to invite me. I never really cared though because I had my ex best friend at the time and I was always invited to her birthday party.

[@FukaiKokoro]

Same. The lead mean girl in middle school did this to me. She invited the whole class except me. Also when I was 12 I had my only birthday ever. Because growing up we didn't have much money because my deadbeat dad refused to pay child support. Anyways no one showed up except one girl and the first thing she said to me is " my dad made me come I didn't want to be here" it was totally devastating. Her dad was a pastor. I wanted to run and cry.

[@marianatraductoraargentina]

"we dont have to like each other but we can be civil" if only more adults knew that

[@allisoncastle]

Including the guy with the ashes. But that’s just hilarious apparently.

[@dinasilva9263]

Exactly. I think the same. The world would be a better place.

[@paulagoeringer9466]

If only more adults were capable of that.

[@BrianAndresScott]

💯 agree

[@sanwal05]

@@allisoncastle i mean she did say it was a lil too mean.. and the case abt father included the kid being left out.. different cases

[@SoullessGinger1313]

OK in the cremation story, the real villain is the place that charged $5000 for a cremation when it usually costs $500 to $1000,

[@anerodvenify]

nah.. is the guy making up that story, making his family suffer even more and disrespecting a dead person. If you cannot assume that expense, better say no. tbh

[@jennycono]

I was thinking the same thing. We paid $700 to cremate my aunt. This is nonsense.

[@heatherduke7703]

I think it must not be true anyway because otherwise it would be pretty monstrous all around. Hopefully it’s just satire

[@jennycono]

​@heatherduke7703 it has to be. Lol

[@czech_depressive_poetry]

Maybe she picked out expensive urn...😂

[@catgrrrl5666]

That dad... just beautiful, glad he made his kid feel included even though that mother did not! ❤❤

[@paigealbers3783]

My kid (6th grade) had a horrible bully of a teacher. So our joke at home was “I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one” At Christmas that year we gifted the teacher a little potted cactus. The teacher was not in on the joke, but the fact that it sat in the classroom window the rest of the year made him feel better.

[@sandragarner2912]

I want to put that on a T-shirt.

[@nicolemarkham1145]

@@sandragarner2912 I have a t-shirt that says that. Got it years ago! 🤣

[@darlenea653]

The fact that the party mom thought she could tell the lil boy he could not play with his friends, in a public place, is outrageous. Dad gets the father of the year award from me 🎉

[@MerryAnne2598]

When my daughter and I went to the bridal store for her FINAL fitting a few days before the wedding, they had taken her mermaid bridal gown in one inch more than necessary in each seam. I had made ALL of the bridesmaids dresses and I was not happy. The lady assured me it would be fixed and we could pick it up the day before the wedding. I looked her in the eyeball and said, “We will be going to lunch, and when we get back, we will be picking up her dress with correct alterations.” My daughter had never seen me with such controlled anger. That dress was perfect when we returned two hours later for the truly final fitting. Don’t mess with my kid or me or talk down to me when YOU messed up!

[@LovelyLady1111]

Yay mama for stepping in! :)

[@BrianAndresScott]

Don't mess with mommy bear ever

[@jessicaclark7130]

Ahh! An inch in each seam! Nice job mom!

[@MerryAnne2598]

Yes! An inch in two seams equaled FOUR INCHES for a size 4 dress! At 5’8”, she was so tiny! I was afraid the holes would show from the wrong stitching, but it looked fantastic as did my daughter on her wedding day. This was a well respected bridal shop where I had bought my own wedding dress 28 years before.

[@Anonononon]

I had a teacher pick on me in the first grade because my stepfather was black. Literally. I missed out on a school years worth of recess over minor infractions, my work constantly graded harshly (ex. Things being spelled correctly but not proper use of capitals/lower case letters FIRST GRADE) and not letting me go to the bathroom to the point I went to the bathroom on myself. Mom had enough and went to board of education. I got the rest of the school year off (mostly because I was terrified of her) and she was absolutely forbidden from teaching younger kids in our county. She was strictly high school after that

[@canadian_american84]

My son has learning disabilities (ADHD). The last year of secondary school (High school) The school specialist told my son he would never be able to graduate because they dont think he is ready to do some interships (special school program for kids with learning disability) so i told my son to not waiste his time with that lady anymore and he found him self a job where he works for 26+$/h in a shipping company...its been 2 years now and i sended that lady his T4 slip because i knew he was making almost the same amount as her...and told her that i wanted to thank you for always believing in him

[@LegitAF]

I love this!!!!! 😂❤

[@jscho8674]

Well done, Mom! ❤

[@tamaraspencer4024]

ADHD is not a learning disability. I have ADHD and I scored in the top 3% in the country on my standardized tests and my oldest son does as well. He also has autistic tendencies. His first grade teacher told me that he would never be able to take care of himself and would be dependent on me or a care taker for the rest of his life. He was inducted into the Honor Society before graduation for having the highest score in his criminal justice class. My son was happy to let them believe he had a learning disability because he was a kid and it got him out of homework, but mom knew it was a load of BS so I switched his school and made sure his new teachers knew that I knew better than to believe that ADHD automatically equals learning disability and I had receipts to prove it, the same proof I provided to the other teacher that she blatantly ignored because she was lazy and just wanted to drug my child, my diagnosis and test scores, including my perfect score on the military entrance exam, first person in the state to have ever received a perfect score in history. My point is, don't let the limitations others put on your children become their reality. If I had done that not only would my son not be where he is today, but I would have never been able to serve because people will also tell you that ADHD cannot be controlled without proper medication, I have never been medicated for it and my children were only medicated for less than 2 years and ONLY during school hours, the rest of the time they were learning productive coping strategies and how to use their ADHD to be able to multitask like no other, just like I was taught when I was young. Thank God my mother found the one doctor who didn't believe in medicine as a cure all and knew that teaching someone how to manage is better than having them dependant on pills. Thanks to him, I have lived a normal life (even serving in the military which is something that doesn't happen and to my knowledge I am the only one who has ever been diagnosed with ADHD and served, because I was never medicated) and my children are living normal lives too, as well as will their children if they have ADHD. 🙏

[@beobabygirl9048]

The meanest girls in high school becoming a behavioral teacher has the same energy as bullies becoming nurses

[@Awalsh147]

No freakin doubt!

[@elliedean2431]

My thoughts exactly 💯

[@julies7622]

Or bullies becoming cops. All of it is unhinged 😅

[@WhitSomething]

OMG 💯! Today's nurse's (at least in Canada) are always the mean girls and bullies from high school! I think they choose that profession to be their sheep's clothing! They want to have tje appearance of being caring people to mask their real personality!

[@shell6829]

My mom is a nurse and I can 100% confirm this.

[@anniesmith3853]

Pettiest thing I have ever done for my children that I can recall is upon taking them to a hands-on children’s museum, we were super excited because there was a traveling scooby doo exhibit (all three of my daughters are obsessed with scooby) there ended up being a few schools there that day for field trips. That’s no big deal my kids love everyone so they were equally as excited to see other kids even though the kids were at least 4-5 years older then them. When we went into a room were the children need to interact with the toys/exhibit an older kid walked right up to my four year old she said “hi I’m (insert name)” and he laughed ripped the building materials out of her hand and ran off. There were two parents and a teacher with chaperone name tags on watching the whole ordeal and watched as my four-year-old ran up to me sobbing and did absolutely nothing. I comforted my child and told them we could move on to another room and come back to that room. Once we had moved on, we’re playing with one another and we’re happy when the school group moved onto the room we were in I loudly announced “all right. Girls were going to move onto another room until the school group leaves. “ And when my oldest who is six asked why they had to stop playing I made eye contact with said parents and teacher and said “well the older kids don’t seem to wanna share any of the things with you girls and seeings how the chaperones aren’t doing their job and keeping the children in line and making sure everything runs smoothly. We will move on and be the bigger people and come back when they are done“. I heard two gasps and got a glare from the teacher. I’m too passive aggressive to say anything directly to them, but made sure to do the same thing with each exhibit they arrived too if we were already there.

[@ItzCatYall]

​@AllUserNamesAreUsedTruth. And when you confront them, they're quick to play victim.

[@kristinesmackahoe8945]

One teacher scolded my daughter for saying that a certain problem was “easy” (she scolded her for small petty things like that ALL THE TIME) So I taught my daughter to say “it’s easy” in Spanish and French, which she gleefully used in class. Teacher was NOT happy at the end of the year when she was told what those phrases actually meant.

[@erinmustain319]

Was she saying it to the other kids?

[@wrecklaw]

One of my teachers in high school told my parents she knew I wasn't going to graduate. I was ALWAYS an honors student and graduated with a 3.8 GPA. I ended up switching to online school halfway through high school and happened to run into that teacher after graduation at the grocery store. (oh also her husband *WAS* the principal... but that's another story). She walks up to me and just asks "so did you even end up graduating?" and I, appalled at the sheer audacity, look her in the face and cheerily tell her that I did thank you and I graduated salutatorian actually, with honors! Her face was priceless and her husband was trying not to laugh at her lmao.

[@amberwilliams8783]

My son's gifted teacher caused me to bring my petty out passive aggressively. My son was given a packet of papers to work on in class over several days. His gifted class is one period per day. And NOTE: it is NOT a graded class. He lost the packet and told his teacher and asked if she could give him another copy. He told her he would stay in at break and during his study period to redo the pages he did and do better to keep up with it. She told him "copies cost money, and I don't have the money to print you a new packet. You should've kept up with it." And threatened him with in school suspension for asking for another one. My son told me about this and I sent a letter with a 5 dollar bill in an envelope. I told her how sorry I was to hear that she couldn't afford to copy a 20 page packet for 1 cent per page (my best friend is a teacher at the same school and told me it was not even out of their pocket to make copies and the cost per page). I said I was happy to pay for his new copy of the pages and any other copies that other children may need, and she could contact me if she needed help paying for copies in the future. She sent a letter home with the 5 dollars included with just a note that said she copied the new pages for him and he was such a bright child and a joy to have in her class with a "sorry for the miscommunication". No mam, you communicated just fine and so did I. Don't f*** with my kid because you're lazy and rude. ✌️

[@mb1mb181]

One day when my daughter was in kindergarten she dropped a glue stick and it broke. I got a note home from her kindergarten teacher informing me that my 5 year old had “destroyed school property” and that she was going to have to pay $2.50 to replace it. This was not the first note I had gotten home from this teacher, and up to that point I’d been able to cut her some slack. (She was very young and it was her first year teaching, and she was clearly trying to do a good job). I also knew from other parents that their kids were getting notes home over equally minor things too. But that day the teacher had also scolded my daughter in front of the class for breaking the glue stick, to the point that when she came home from school she cried and told me she had been bad at school. Bad? For accidentally dropping a glue stick? Enough was enough. The next morning I put 250 pennies in a baggie, with a note at that said “lighten up.” Never got another note home after that. And as an update, the woman turned out to be a truly good teacher, who taught for many years at the school. Just needed a little experience under her belt. :)

[@foxbuns]

period❤

[@elodiejones7727]

Exactly!!

[@chrismazz75]

I love that the basket of oranges was an actual good gift.. The Orange Lady has the choice to either throw out a very nice gift in front of everyone, or share the oranges with everyone and she can watch everyone enjoy them. Win win.

[@anachacon1470]

In the 4th grade, my daughter's class had to do a report on the country their families are from. Ours is Mexico. My father had these amazing tomes filled with history and background. Her teacher gave her a C because according to her, my daughter fabricated her report. Now, said teacher did NOT specify how the kids were supposed to get the info, just that they needed to research for their report. This is also before computers were a big thing. I marched over to the school with my father's books dropped them on her desk and told HER to do HER research before giving my daughter that ridiculous C and afterwards apologize for calling her a liar. The next day, my daughter came home with the books and an A-, said her teacher begrudgingly apologied. An A- because her name and date were on the wrong corner. Teacher ignored me the rest of the year. Good grief.

[@diegogriff]

The lady that left that child out of the party was awful. That dad handled the situation in the best possible way and made sure all the kids had a great time. All those kids were friends and that’s what should matter, not whether or not you’re bffs with the parents.

[@Paperscrapper]

I used to invite one of my kid's friends to here party every year, even though I did not like her mom. She was a sweet kid. Eventually her mom told her they couldn't be friends or some nonsense. Broke my heart because the little girl told her why they couldn't play together anymore. 😢 I suspect mom forgot to tell her not to repeat that part. I comforted my kiddo.

[@dwanhartner3095]

Proud Petty Parent here- our old school counselor told my son that he wasn't college material and he should just work at the local grocery store (nothing wrong with that). Well, my son applied to several colleges and was accepted to all. Now, he is on scholarship and plays trumpet in the marching band, and is on the dean's list. He also was inducted into the National Society for Leadership and Success. I do have her personal e-mail I emailed his name for being on the dean's list and his induction invitation. So, yes I am very petty. Don't ever tell a kid they are not worthy of achieving their dreams.

[@raetime2350]

Absolutely! Even if a teacher dislikes a student (it happens) you should never EVER let it show or your personal bias. If you do that or take your anger out because you’ve had a shit day - whatever the reason they said that to your Son - they are in the wrong job. Think of the damage that can cause. Disgusting.

[@AR-ch4zc]

I do think that college is not for everyone, but telling a student that they aren’t college material is just mean. Did she respond to your emails?

[@dwanhartner3095]

@@AR-ch4zc, she has not. And I agree college is not for everyone, everyone has a different path and deserves the best encouragement and opportunities presented to them, whether it be directly entering the job force, joining the military, going to a trade school, community college, or going to university. Whatever they decide they deserve all opportunities and 100% we are behind you no matter what.

[@Fancy1986]

My high school guidance counselor was that way with me. But she actually refused to send my transcripts to all of the schools I applied too. (Seriously I was asked why I applied and they never received them). She only sent them to the worst of the state schools. Which I got into worked my ass off and transferred the next year because and sent all my success to her. This counselor also was in charge of the yearbook committee and proofed everything before printing. She put my last name in wrong in my senior year book and changed my quote that I submitted. Like seriously completely different last name next to my senior photo but she wasn’t thorough enough to change it in all the activities I was in just half

[@Katrn30]

You were not petty, that was a horrible thing to tell a student. Good for your son to prove her wrong!

[@roxas896]

My beautiful brown skin daughter came home, early from her high school upset because her cheerleading coach screamed at her for not wearing the proper gear (white bra and white panties) under the white uniform. She said she tried to explain why she couldn’t wear white underwear, but the coach cut her off, said she was talking points for not having the proper white underwear, and told her to leave. I went straight up to the school, walked, into the gym and surprise she was screaming at another student. I asked if I could speak to her. she said to come to her office. I smiled and said “oh no, it won’t take long, right here is fine”. (I wanted to talk to her in front of witnesses, and also in front of the same audience that she likes to scream at). I kindly asked her why they were required to wear only white undergarments. And I stressed ONLY white undergarments. She replied “so the underwear wouldn’t show through the white uniforms.” I smiled and said, “may I show you something?” I pulled out a white square swatch of material and a brown one, laid them both across my brown arm, and then put my arm inside of my daughter’s uniform. The white material showed through easily, but the brown material was undetectable. I said to her, “My daughter was trying to explain to you that, as her skin tone was brown, brown undergarments would be work better with the white uniform.” And then I gave her the squinty eyes death stare, gave her the squinty eyes death stare, gave her the squinty eyes, death stare…. I said “So…if she chooses to continue with cheerleading, after today, she will be wearing her skin-tone color undergarments that don’t show through with the white uniform.” I looked at the other girls, and apologized to them for interrupting and then I thanked the coach for her time. When she got home from school the next day, she told me the girls were saying your mom is so awesome.

[@DYLANJJK94]

And white for any one else.. wtf and was it spankies or actual underwear? Bc if it was underwear… WTF O_O

[@She-wolf3636]

How did this crazy lady of a coach not but that together right away? That boggles my mind.

[@ayvi8850]

Wearing skin toned underwear under white clothes was a game changer.

[@cmoore7669]

Love the "squinty eyes death stare" x3!

[@roxas896]

@@DYLANJJK94 It was underwear. Thanks for you comments

[@smokeymoreno4478]

Boy I have a story for you. This happened to me when I was in elementary school, I believe I was in the 3rd or 4th grade. I had a fight in the restroom with six other boys hitting me, a teacher heard the commotion and interfere, most of the boys ran out but two of them. The teacher grabbed my hand and took me to the vice principal’s office. The teacher told what she saw and then I told them what actually happened. They called my dad down to pick me up. A little back story about my dad is that he worked for the school district and knew just about everyone at all the schools he went to, he was basically a mailman for the school district. Back to the story. My dad came in saw me and I could tell he was like “what did you do this time?” Look. He sat down with the vice principal and she told him her story of what happened. My dad came over to me and asked me what happened, I told him the truth and my dad knew I wasn’t lying, my dad asked the vice principal if she knew about the other boys who were attacking me and she then said, “well yes but because of how big your son is-“ my dad cut her off and I will never forget this, told her “you lied to me about what happened to my son, you knew it was more then just two boys hitting my son, you know I’m good friends with the superintendent right?” She nodded her head, my dad continued “you better hope that I don’t tell him about what you did here with my son” my dad took me out of school and got me ice cream, I came to find out that the vice principal was fired and my dad had a smile on his face.

[@Atlasintokyo]

Bc why tf are you lying about the situation and not reprimanding the ones who hit the child? Your size doesn't mean anything bc you still were 6 vs 1

[@gideonstupke2257]

That dad is a great father! I loved how he used kindess in a petty way against the karen and gave the kids a time of their life. That was awesome!

[@thesparkster]

Yeah, that was great. Not the reaction the Karen was hoping to get.

[@weekendnomad5038]

Two boys were bullying my daughter. I called the principle so many times, wrote emails.. to no avail. We put her in kickboxing. One day I get a call that she kicked one boy in the groin and side kicked the other in the stomach and that she would be suspended. I WENT TF OFF .. (in a calm tone) threatened to file charges and sue the school. By the end of the conversation principle was apologizing to me . 😤 Idk if this is “petty” but this is one time that I went to bat for my child against the school system lol

[@letaviabryant8599]

Yes

[@quickglitter451plays2]

Good I’m glad you went off on the principal and if you didn’t put her in kickboxing they would of done something to her

[@Bingpot24]

Similar thing happened with my son, school rang me trying to suspend him for defending himself. Lets just say, he sure as shit wasn’t suspended.

[@samanthasowell9307]

I did something similar. My 5 year old son was being bullied by 3 different girls. After various events, like them throwing bark in his face, or smacking his glasses off his face, taking his shoes off while he's climbing up the ladder ect ect... they got him into a corner and while he was trying to get away, choked him with his hoodie strings on the ground. I was shocked. I was NEVER notified of it, though i was eventually told after a few days AFTER it had happened. My son had said he was bullied again, so i had reached out with no response. I didnt know he had been choked at that point! I wrote scathing emails and called the school, saying I'd been trying to discuss his treatment and that I needed to KNOW what was being done about it, because this last time? Was extra out of line! I'd been trying to contact her for weeks. Asphyxiation means death. I always tell my son to be gentle with girls ect. I let the school know that I told him to punch, kick, bite as hard as he could, pull hair and do whatever it took to defend himself when there's multiple people on one person. They knew he was being bullied. They never took it seriously but after having a meeting with several school counselors, the teacher who finally got back to me (who I honestly think dislikes my son), and the principle I at least had a clear view of what was being done to protect him at school. I was told by 1 teachers assistant that my email had HAD serious repercussions for his teacher that was elevated to a district level. He hasn't been bullied since, but there's not much else that can be done for a teacher with tenure.

[@MoteOfDust430]

The ashes… yup petty prince deserves his $5K. He could tell is cousin that he is replacing her ashes but doesn’t necessarily have to actually dispose of his “good” auntie; just motivate the repayment. Just hang on to those ashes till you are reimbursed!!

[@turquoisesnowflake4613]

I'm so here for the dad who gave those kids the best party so his son didn't feel left out and to show up that mom. Like, no one was hurt, kids got an amazing afternoon of fun, son didn't feel left out.

[@avepbellon]

He’s amazing! He reminds me of dads (parents and parental figures in general) in my small town who showed up and showed out for all of the kids in attendance, not just certain ones. Yeah there were shitty people, but I specifically remember the adults who genuinely cared about all of us kids, especially in these group settings. Parents who held their kids accountable for how they treated others, parents who treated us like kiddos should and not just little subordinates.

[@DeborahWalkerXOXO]

The issue is if your child becomes too close to certain children things can rub off and no one wants certain things to hinder their children's lives. His views? Probably VERY hindering.

[@cait8480]

@@DeborahWalkerXOXO what do you mean?

[@DeborahWalkerXOXO]

@cait8480 r4c!5m, h0m0ph06!4, s3x!5m. Homes where that is the norm tend to bleed out into the community. He was at the school saying some THINGS and he has M4G4 in his handle? He was definitely saying some THINGS, that I wouldn't want my child to get involved with. I need my children to stay out of jail, not get accused of s3xu4l 454ult one day. Just be a normal person who believes in decency and being good. For real.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

I'd like to see the mom's face once the other parents started doing what he was doing

[@Datura981]

My mother was Queen Petty. One time when she got tired of us not doing the dishes, she took them away. Like, they were not in the house for several weeks until we'd "earned" them back. We literally ate out of our hands for weeks. Canned pasta and soup was right out. That's just one example. 😅 This same woman, when she left my dad, she took every light bulb but the entryway. She left him 1 dish/cutlery of each type. She took every extension cord, battery, AND smoke detector. All the hangers. All the paper towels. All the toilet paper but one roll. Dad was a jerk but not like that... she was just next level crazy. 😆

[@sewathome]

Your Mum and mine are reading from the same playbook 😂 She used to take our internet modem with her to work if we didn't do our chores and plug it back in when she got home IF we had done our chores that day. And when my parents got divorced she used some "creative wording" to make it sound like my Dad would have to pay loads of money if he didn't willingly sign the divorce papers, but she confessed to me actually she would have had to pay everything if he hadn't signed. If I even said I didn't like a meal she had cooked she would take it off me and I had to go to bed without dinner no shock I was underweight until I was like 20 years old.

[@Oreos_mommy]

I once got a note from my son's teacher complaining that his penmanship, while was neat, was too small. So I got a red sharpie and proceeded to correct her spelling and punctuation. Then I wrote a note at the bottom telling her that when she learns to spell and use proper English she could complain about my son. Never heard from her again.

[@shelleyg1836]

that would be something i would do too. LOL school definitely didn't like me when my 2 middle kids of 4 were bullied. i volunteered for 10 yrs to shut that shit down in a hurry. and I'm a 6 ft tall plus size gal so when i tell u i intimidate the kids into behaving. the teachers loved me esp on school trips but principal not so much because i challenged her every single time. no way i was putting up with that crap.

[@iteachlit]

As an English teacher who has 162 high school sophomores, I have a slightly different take on this. While it was pointless (and petty) for the teacher to complain to you about your son’s handwriting, it really is difficult to read the handwritten work of so many different students, especially when many are nearly illegible or tiny. Encouraging him to write bigger would definitely have been a better approach, but I don’t think the teacher was wrong to have an issue with it. (I’ve had students write so small that the letter “o” didn’t look like a circle.)

[@SkagsOfficial]

I used to have a teacher like that too but she never told my parents, I just started writing smaller and smaller as the school year went on, your son should do the same 😂

[@BlessedBe70]

I have a friend who sent her sons spelling homework back to school corrected because the teacher was petty and picking on her son. We live in Australia and use English spelling and the spelling homework was in US spelling.

[@bobkat1007]

@@BlessedBe70 I love this, and I love being Australian, we really are the epitome of petty 🤣🤣

[@joiedevivre2005]

When my son was in elementary school, I had late stage breast cancer. As a result, I became an advocate for cancer patients & was active in almost every breast cancer event in our state. My son would usually go with me. At one event, he got his hair colored with bright pink temporary spray on hair color. His middle school had a policy against "non-human colored hair". We washed his hair when we got home & got most of it out. There were still traces of it when he went to school, but you had to get REALLY close to see it. I got a phone call from his school while I was in a meeting regarding a breast cancer charity, demanding I come pick him up. Thinking he was sick, I went to his school only to have a woman with very obviously bleached blonde hair with black roots, drag my son out of the principal's office by the arm & inform me (in a very condescending, snarky tone) that he was suspended for the rest of the day for "having hair color not found in nature." I took my son's hand, looked her up & down in a very obvious way, smiled a very fake sweet smile & replied, "And exactly where in nature would YOUR hair color be found?" And yes, I filed a complaint with the school board (with pictures) & the suspension was struck from his record. That woman was not employed in the school office the next year - don't know if she was removed or left on her own for some other reason, but she was gone.

[@AB-mx1de]

Yes!!!

[@JayMich29]

👏👏👏

[@1tommyday]

COMPLETE NONSENSE!! Former teacher of 25 years here. That school had nothing better to do???

[@larry01902]

When I was in High School we had a rule, NO HATS IN CLASS. One boy lost his hair during chemo, so he was allowed to have one. The boys class got a new substitute teacher for a month. The sub told the boy he didn't care if the kid had cancer, NO HATS. The sub took the hat and said the kid could have it back when he talked to the students father about the student learning respect. The sub didn't realize the father was the head of the schools English Department. The sub was replaced the next day and put on a city black list.

[@LAoMARAo]

​@@FirstnameLastnamesThis is about adults getting power trips and bulling kids, not about school rules. Schools are for learning not for physically standing out, why would you put self estem on superficial things like hair color? Also is toxic and those are kids, also they are kids they get influences by their piers actions , so no is not a good idea to let them "express themselves" whatever that means by a hair color. How about they express themselves by being just them that is more than enough

[@leighlilly7588]

I called my daughter's principals boss after a very heated argument where she made a ridiculous report that had the cops show up to my house and she was withholding info that they were legally requured to tell me. For reference, my daughter has moderate to severe autism and is non verbal and the info they withholding was needed for medical reasons. I also got a teacher fired for lying on their application about their experience with kids on the spectrum. The school now fears me 🙃

[@ansleybailey9133]

Yess!!! As someone on the spectrum I've seen first hand how most schools treat autistic kids. It always makes my day to see someone push against that.

[@Theshort-g5w]

As they should. Every school should have a healthy fear of parents not the other way around. Our schools have stepped out of their place and parents need to shove them back into it.

[@Theshort-g5w]

We’re talking about a person. You don’t get to own a person. 😂 This so weird. He kidnapped his auntie. 😂

[@aliciadupuy9228]

Ppl only do their job when the boss is watching

[@sarahashley5783]

I loved that one at the end! That dad should get an award for being a good dad!

[@iamgazz2756]

Not me (I don't have kids), but a friend of mine. Her daughter (9/10ish) was always being picked on by the neighbourhood kids - she has a noticeable limp from a car accident when she was younger, and they tease her relentlessly about it. Whenever she (mom) brings it up with their parents, she is dismissed as being whiney and too overprotective. She lives in a neighbourhood with an HOA and they have certain requirements for holiday decor - in this case Halloween - from the ornaments you could use right down to the candy you gave out. They're doing pretty well, so it was a higher income neighbourhood and they expected "the good stuff" by way of candy. On the list were Ferrero Rocher (divine, but pricey). She, being the compliant neighbour that she is, bought a shitload of Ferrero Rocher chocolate balls and she and her daughter spent the day carefully removing the wrappings, and replacing the chocolate with a Brussel sprout and then carefully wrapped them up again. They then spent Halloween couching, watching movies and pigging out on really top-quality chocolate, while unsuspecting brats were carting the produce section around in their little baggies. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when they got home and opened them up! The HOA send around a snarky group WhatsApp blast to the members stating how disgusting whoever gave them out was to ruin their children's Halloween. Oh boo-hoo. Stop being whiney!

[@kimberly_erin]

Trick or treat!

[@boudicca272]

She's amazing. 😂

[@tiffanymims8691]

As a person who works in the death industry, cemetery sexton, I just want to say that the funeral homes do not weigh the remains or record how much they cremains are left of the person. It is perfectly legal to dump cremains out, or scatter them, as long as you have the property owners permission to scatter them. As far as the man holding the cremains from his cousin it is perfectly legal. Even though she would have had to sign off on the cremation since he paid for the services he got the cremains. If the funeral home didnt get paid they would have held the cremated remains until payment was made and after a determined amount of time (set forth in the contract) they could dispose of them (often in the trash) if payment was not made.

[@Amf809]

I don’t understand pls help is simpler words pls

[@angycat4262]

If you pay you own even if it's your auntie's ashes, what he's doing is legal​@@Amf809

[@johannag.5484]

That's really not a universal truth. Where I'm from, you're not allowed to keep cremains, scatter them, or dump them. Human remains in whatever form need to be interred in graveyards, even if they're in urns. Alternatively we have forests that meet the regulations of graveyards, where people can buy a plot under a tree and get buried there. Throwing away pieces of the cremains would be SO illegal here. There are serious repercussions for that, with very high fines or up to three years in prison.

[@shadelings]

@@Amf809 Go back to school, mebbe?

[@Aloysius_OHare]

That is what I'm saying!!! But he says he didn't scatter the ashes nor replaced her ashes. He paid for it, pay him back!

[@tiabeanie9136]

The teacher from the first story reminds me of my grade 5 teacher. I had just been told by my mother and grandfather to get the f**k out of their house and never come back. I arrived at school in tears and barely able to breathe. This man had the audacity to yell at me for 'disturbing' the class and sent me to the office as a punishment for crying. He never bothered to ask why i was crying. Thankfully my wonderful principal did. The next day i got a full apology from that teacher. I never did accept it.

[@TurnahCrew]

My pettiest moment was when my daughter was in year 5 (so about 10years old) wore a reindeer headband to school in November as she was excited for xmas. Her grinch teacher told her off and was like "certainly not! It is way too early for xmas take them off". So on the last day of school for the year I wrapped my daughter entirely up in wrapping paper. Her arms, around her skirt, her legs, her shoes, her shirt, her ponytail, everything but her face. She went to school like that and I followed her into the classroom to video her teacher's reaction. She actually laughed. I hope that helped her be a little less grinchy in the future

[@singbluesusan]

I had gone over the allotted amount of days I could miss in high school because I was very prone to get strep and I got chicken pox at 17. The school called my Mom and she said yes she is sick and she is at home. Then the principal said I have been reported as truant so my mom got me out of bed got me dressed and took me to the school we marched into the office she stormed into the office she said look at her do you believe me now? The shade of white that the principal and vice principal turned was priceless. We never had problems with excused absences after that.

[@TheBaumcm]

If you have an illness, they should be creating a 504 plan to accommodate you so you can get instruction and still get credit for your “seat time”. It is required by law.

[@singbluesusan]

@@TheBaumcm Oh Hunny this was 1990 and there wasn't much care given at my school.

[@wizardsuth]

In Canada you could be charged for intentionally bringing someone with a dangerous communicable disease to school, and the school officials could be charged for insisting you do so. The Canadian Quarantine Act has teeth.

[@BROOKEZ12]

My moms love language was petty, mine is food. One day we went to a new doctors office and the nurse that called my name said loudly for everyone to hear. "Your son can come right this way" and me and my mom were co fused because im a girl. And the nurse repeated it. 3 times before i worked up the nerve to tell her im a girl. And the nurse said" oh, really? Because you look like a boy." And i will never forget that. I wasnt still small, i was a late tween. My mom looked this B up and down and just said loudly for everyone "well, you look like your pregnant" BECAUSE THE NURSE WAS FAT! AND I LOVE MY MOM!

[@MerryAnne2598]

Wow! That was TERRIFIC! No excuse for bullying, especially a child!

[@Epodmusic17]

I'm sure someone had to call a code for that nurse after that shot was fired. 🤣🤣

[@aylabennett4569]

The "oh really?" got me. Like you don't know what you have in your own pants... But your mom's response was on point! Lol

[@syn67501]

My daughter was told by her 5th grade teacher she was on the fast track for fast food when she graduated. She will soon be addressed as doctor. She already plans to hunt this teacher down to tell her this when she has the title

[@stampandscrap7494]

She will just say that "I inspired you to try harder" I had a teacher like that

[@umeinui]

@@stampandscrap7494 All she needs a jumbo Thank You card. And remind of her what she said and how it made the daughter feel, she'll get the message and maybe feel some of the embarrassment she caused that child.

[@jenlovesgreen]

​@umeinui no no, a "get better" card would be so much better😂

[@vickymitchell9095]

I love this dad who includes everyone and treats the kids great!!! Bless him!!!!

[@elizabethallison5756]

I would have written in the card to the Orange Lady: "Now you have plenty of oranges, so you no longer have to pick them out of the trash."

[@rickmossop3733]

There were some weird people during covid. Any authoritarian tendencies were magnified under the auspices of the greater good, even if the rules made no sense.

[@Amf809]

This is great

[@kaylinsnyder14]

I will never understand how some people think it's okay to take things out on precious babies. I get that it was 9 year olds they're still babies they don't deserve to be drug in the middle of grown-up business. You leave babies out of it. Good on him for noticing it right away and for playing the petty card but also still doing it with class❤

[@irenemaiden3204]

This was years ago. I had been drooling over the coffee ninja when it first came out. My husband told me had gotten me one for xmas. Xmas Eve comes around and there's nothing under the tree for me. He said he'd left it at his mom's house so I wouldn't use it before Xmas day. Xmas day comes and there's no coffee ninja under the tree. There was actually nothing under our tree for me. I spent over 1,500 on him that year. He then had no choice but to tell me he never bought it so I cut all the toes off of his socks. I did that for a year. Everytime he bought new socks the toes came off. I never got my coffee maker but he hasn't lied to me since. 😂😂😂😂

[@jackiegeihs9303]

He didn't get you anything!?

[@laurynbeautiful5335]

Right, like what?​@@jackiegeihs9303

[@laurynbeautiful5335]

Please tell me you told him to kick rocks! How awful of him!

[@KeepItKrissy]

When taking light bulbs remember the fridge and unplug anything that has a clock or light coming off of it. That way it looks like a power outage.

[@pambroughan]

I lived in a duplex, the mother n teen daughter screamed fought often. I could control their TV in one bedroom......woke up one night around 1:00 am to screaming. TV was on, changed it to " the haunting" . Ha they immediately stopped screaming, I heard the teen say " omg I'm never sleeping in this room again " hahahaha problem solved. Going on 3 yrs of peaceful sleep

[@tacobelle6680]

With the cremation story, its one thing to hold onto the cremated remains until she paid back in full, thats fine. Its another for him to say hes going to dispose of her remains a little at a time, thats heartless and so wrong. It went from petty to straight up unhinged.

[@rouka120]

He really was a monster like everyone was calling him. I really hope he was lying for clout because that is HORRENDOUS behavior. If he really loved his aunt he wouldn’t be tossing her into the wind.

[@sherrymcdonald6594]

I totally agree, this should not be a part of a petty video it's just cruel if he cared about his Aunt he should have been more respectful.

[@poppy7599]

And burning THE BIBLE. Like yeah it might be her favorite book, but you think auntie is going to be okay with him BURNING THE BIBLE 😳

[@phillyphan1225]

How about just put them in another urn to show your cousin but don’t actually do it? What idiot loans $5k out!?

[@ayanna101]

Yeah. He is sick and awful! WTH an evil human.

[@immortalsofar5314]

"Imagine the biggest bully in school being, like, a teacher." I don't think we have to imagine it. Thinking back, I'm sure we all had at least one or two that made you wonder why on earth they ever got involved in teaching in the first place.

[@sleepyspacegremlin]

It's shocking how many adults are so mean to kids.

[@TheJuliet316]

Same here.

[@MyOwnPersonalFantasy]

4th grade. Ms. Cleaver. What a bitch. I'll never forget how she made me feel. I hope she got a new career.

[@emilypatterson2027]

The schools I’m Pampa, Texas were full of teachers who were hateful jerks when I was growing up.

[@selinesbeau]

I had a note to skip a class once and the teacher was refusing to let me go. I just walked out. Never heard about it again.

[@jordansanmiguel2740]

As a mother of 2 elementary aged kids, i can honestly say that mom was a lot nicer than I would have been. My gift basket would have been the trash can out of the bathroom with the trash still in it and I would have put a big Orange right in the middle of it and wrapped it in gift wrap! My thank-you note would have said thank you I felt like this was very fitting!

[@slsthewriter1299]

Imagine being in a pandemic, the cafeteria has rules so that the virus wouldn't spread or something, and because a student threw something away without asking which goes directly against those rules, you go and pICK SOMETHING OUT OF THE TRASH TO MAKE A POINT.

[@3llevate]

I know, it's attempted murder at this point.. she was probably an anti vaxx anyway and just thrived on the military rules

[@wiggilytaco7570]

Talk about having behavioral issues 😂

[@goodcitizen-ft9bg]

No she made the little girl go pick it out of the trash and hold it

[@slsthewriter1299]

@@goodcitizen-ft9bg 1) No. She clearly said that *the woman* took it out herself and put it back in the girl's hands. 2) How does this nitpick in any way disregard the major point of my comment? Buzz off.

[@aliciadupuy9228]

Just tells u how much was tyranny vs science

[@twiggygrl84]

Back in '96(I think) my middle school was trying to go fully into uniforms beginning the following fall. They came at us with this info within the last month or so before summer break. Teachers were getting a barrage of upset questions every day until they announced an assembly (open to parents) with only a few days left in the year. The timing of such a thing was sus. The vague wording on the flyers was sus. And the absolute dismissal of questions was super sus... No one wanted uniforms. Half the student body couldn't afford the things they were calling for and we were literally prepubescent children trying to discover our awkward selves in the late 90s... You can imagine the emotions bubbling up. So assembly rolls around and very few parents are there. My mom was very excited to attend though. We get through end of year awards and announcements and at the very very end they shoehorn in talks about the uniforms. They blather on through expectations and where to buy clothes and then come to where they're obliged to ask if anyone has questions. Mom raises her hand and stands up without waiting to be recognized. Then she belted out, "Are they mandatory?" The students inhaled in unison, the vice principal starts stammering, "Well.. well......uh..." Mom asks again, enunciating hard this time, "Are. They. Mandatory?" VP gives a meek, "no"... Mom thanks her and walks out, patting my shoulder as she leaves. The uproar was as loud as a cafeteria full of sixth graders could possibly be. We were all so relieved. The staff were sat on stage just red-faced and we were just dismissed. They didn't even try to follow that up. The assembly was held grade by grade and they obviously didn't volunteer the info for the other groups... But the whole school knew by the next day and my mom was a hero. The next year started with a handful of kids in uniforms and some half hearted attempts to boost compliance through incentives... But my mom had become a substitute teacher while she was also going to school for a criminal law degree. Between her dgaf attitude and willingness to fight against administration, they dropped everything relating to uniforms by the end of that year. Mom was a badass. Everyone loved her and I miss her very much

[@tatiannalee689]

Awesome mom! 🙌

[@thecraziestcrayon]

As someone in school to be a teacher, I couldn't comprehend treating a student like that. Telling the girl that she needs to ask first was enough. Giving her back her trash was just plain rude. Most likely she did it to make the girl ask before throwing it away again. Lady on a power trip. Some people shouldn't work with kids

[@beingbeckeroni]

And a BEHAVIOR “SPECIALIST” at that! My jaw was on the floor.

[@bgoldschmidt2583]

@@immovableobject-o6j Some places that teach "behavioral studies" really just teach how to force kids to act in a "neurotypical" fashion. It's basically just teaching people how to abuse others.

[@LadyTanda]

11:46 YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DUMPED ANY OF YOUR AUNTIE'S ASHES OUT!! I don't care how mad at your cousin you are, you're disrespecting the rest of your living family and the memory of your auntie. You weren't being petty, you were being an AH.

[@melissavalentine6731]

Had a teacher that had an entire petty class (though everyone wishes they had gotten the chance to participate she was so aweful). Her entire 5th period class got up and walked out to spend the period in the library regardless of her complaints. When the princepal reviewed the situation he found her to be so lacking as a teacher that he moved her to a library position and when she couldn't do that right she was let go. So thank you 5th period.

[@trinityzapata8905]

wow, i’m curious, what was she doing (or not doing) that caused that big of a unanimous reaction? 🫢

[@nilahprincess433]

Please tell us what she did to make everyone react this way

[@porcelina956]

Kudos to the dad for making his son not feel excluded and the other parents at the party. Great parenting.

[@BettyVeronica2.0]

That Dad handled things perfectly! 😊 People should never blame the child for something the Dad did. Well done, Dad!

[@staceyhunt6769]

We took my kids on holiday (Only way we can see family properly as it's hard for my kids to travel) over my daughters birthday and Father's day. She turned 5. We asked who was free when so we can do our best to accommodate. For her actual birthday, she very simply wanted a picnic with her grandmother and some of her young cousins. Knowing already who was at work and who's kids were in daycare, we asked the people who might be able to come. Evening rolls around in comes a slew of VERY passive aggressive messages from SIL, DIRECTED TO OUR 5YR OLD about how offended she was not to be invited and how she "Hopes everyone had fun without her". This is the same SIL who a few years before fed my vegan, autistic then 4yr old meat and dairy and left him refusing to trust food from anyone but myself and his father. Yes, we had fun without you. And a GREAT time with the other people who we saw at other times who were not invited that day because they were busy. We also had to leave early because my neurodivergent children couldn't cope with it for that long (First holiday in years, they lost their routine, their safe spaces etc. We were prepared for this and it was fine). 3 guesses who took it personally. 🙄

[@LilBitSyko253]

When I was a kid, the nextdoor neighbor kids were teasing my sister and me with balloons. My mom took the balloons and popped them. She said "now you don't have balloons either". I will always remember. I strive to keep that level of petty in this world. 😂

[@katelizabeth7264]

Damn I bet those shity kids had shity parents that were not happy lol 😂😂

[@fanfiction4thewin149]

Not only did that one dad be petty he didn’t take it out on the Karen’s kid! He elevated their birthday while making sure his son was happy yet showed everyone he is awesome and better then her

[@korab.23]

That man is a hero. "Those kids went thru covid together." That broke me.

[@aquaromo]

It was amazing to me that they didn’t even plan it? Like he just randomly decided to take his kid to that place on the same day she planned the party? That just made it ***chef’s kiss*** for me because karma 😂 🤌🏼

[@ruthrudd1]

I never had to be petty on my kids' behalf. They did great on their own. My oldest broke the nose of the bully who attacked her (self defense, and the bully was stupid enough to attack my girl in front of teachers), and my youngest smacked a kid in the face with her house keys when he tried to steal them from her. His mom got involved, and requested that we come up to her house for a chat. We showed up there, and I was ready to throw down on my daughters behalf, but turns out she wanted her son to apologize to my girl. Win.

[@annbise4091]

In middle school, my second child was told to remove her braids because other students felt they were cultural appropriation. So i braided her hair again the next morning with feathers and bone beads. We walked into the school and asked for a assembly where i showed her Native ID and proceeded to teach all the students about Native culture and the consequences of assumptions.

[@selinesbeau]

Virtually every culture on earth has some form of braiding. Good grief.

[@bonsaikitty29]

The irony of her reaching into the trash and giving her the orange back when the whole concern of her getting up was due to covid 😅

[@TheBaumcm]

Be careful taking what a child says, especially at that age, verbatim. I had a high school student who made it sound to his mother (my colleague) that I was making fun of him for being adopted. He didn’t include that he had said he was lazy because it ran in his family, and I told him that would be like me saying I was white (Indian) because I am also adopted and it runs in my family. His mother came at me at our teacher in service and I asked what exactly he had said. I asked if she was aware, first and foremost, that I am also adopted. When I disclosed the full nature of the conversation, it took a lot of the bluster out of her.

[@bonsaikitty29]

@@TheBaumcm that's true. I was just basing it off what was said.

[@DorksidertheGreat]

When I was in like the 5th grade or so my teacher had picked me out to be her bullying victim. Being little I never told my mom cause I thought I was overreacting or that it wasnt that bad, but some other kids told their mom, who then told mine. Welp the same day she found out my mom bulldoszed in there and demanded a meeting while I just kinda hung out in the office. We could hear my mom tearing into the teacher and principle with all her 5'3 "I teach in the prison system and am unmedicated" rage. I still remember how the secretary was scared and just lookin at me as I happily chill. When the principle and teacher came out of the room they where shaking and I got icecream. It was a good time. Lol

[@memorywhole366]

I bet that was good ice cream!

[@DorksidertheGreat]

@@memorywhole366 it really was. Life at home wasnt so great lots of times cause of the whole "teach at a medium security prison and am unmedicated" thing but I always knew my mom loved me and would burn a building down for me.

[@shellymartyn9818]

My petty death story: when my bio dad died, uncle and grandma tried (I repeat) TRIED to blame my 14yo brother. I (as the eldest child) was the benefactor of his belongings (he was not a rich man). I made sure they were legally not allowed on the property, and my little brother helped me sort dads belongings. We made sure to put aside ashes and special objects that they wanted. So now, whatever objects of dads they have is out of the kindness of our hearts, even though they were ugly and rude. It's been nearly a decade and I am still ignored, but know deep down that they can't remember him without thinking of us.

[@TheBaumcm]

And that is how you do it. The point of being petty is to not lose your soul in the process but address the injustice. Cousin wasn’t being petty, but evil. Petty doesn’t mean disposing of her ashes. Petty would be posting a scripture a day to the cousin about money lending or taking aunty for a ride and posting pics, or saying things like your mom likes me better.

[@tatiannalee689]

​@@TheBaumcmhe had it, up until the last minute, that was just plain evil and absolutely uncalled for.

[@ParadoxicalPoetry]

One of my favorite comic book characters said "fool me once, shame on you, try that ish again and I'll publish your unofficial biography, sign you up for every calling service in the country, and train your dog to pee when the phone rings. " 😂😂😂😂

[@Mother01]

Here's my (f., 42) petty parent story (I'll try to keep it short): When my son was little, I always took him to the playground when the weather was good. We usually met other parents there with their children. While my son ran over to the children to play on the slide, I sat down with the other parents and we chatted. Everything was as usual. Well, at least for the first 30 minutes after we arrived at the playground. Then my son came to me crying and told me that there were two younger children who were throwing sand at every child that reached the bottom of the slide. My son got sand in his eyes because of this and so did the other children who used the slide (they were all literally covered in sand). My son pointed to the two bullies and I watched them for a short while. I now saw for myself how they threw sand at each of the sliding children. Their mother sat directly behind the two boys. She was reading something and didn't look up for a single second. I went to the two boys and told them to stop throwing sand at each child immediately or I would have to talk to their mom. They just laughed and threw sand again at the next kid who came down the slide. Then I got angry and a little louder: "You'll stop this IMMEDIATELY!" Their mother also heard that and suddenly snapped at me: "Don't yell at my children! You don't have the right to do that!...What do you think of talking to MY children like that?..." and so on . I interrupted her: "If you had just looked up from your book for a moment, you would now know why I spoke to your kids!" Then I told her what I had seen myself and that as a mother I expected her to teach her children how to behave even when they were on a playground. Then she said to me: "I raise my children in an anti-authoritarian way! I let them do what they want and they learn by themselves what others are willing to accept and what they are not." I couldn't believe what I had just heard, but she went back to her book and let her boys carry on as before. And again one of the sliding children got a load of sand thrown in his face and the two brats burst out laughing. I asked the boys' mother if she really didn't want to do anything about this behavior, but she didn't even pay attention to me. She acted like I was air. Now I was really pissed! I bent down and took sand in both hands. I went over to her and threw the sand forcefully into her face. Because she didn't see me coming (because she had her eyes in her book instead of on her boys), she was very surprised and jumped up. She cursed and yelled at me about throwing sand in her face while she tried to shake the sand out of her clothes and hair. I had to giggle because now SHE was really pissed: "How dare you throw sand in my face!...." I just said: "I was raised anti-authoritarian!" and went back to the other parents, who were applauding and laughing. The end of the story: She packed up her things and left with her sons (they weren't seen much at that playground after that). Our children were all covered in sand, but it was still too early to head home for a bath. The playground had a water pump and because the weather was so nice, we stripped our kids down to their underwear and had them wash themselves a little to get at least some of the sand off. So it was a lovely afternoon with lots of fun for our children and us. Playing with water in summer is always fun, even if you're an adult. 😉

[@letaviabryant8599]

Wow that petty

[@johannasegard737]

Being anti-autoritarian is one thing and this isn't it. This is a woman who couldn't care less about doing her job as a mother. From what i understand being anti autoritarian is talking to your kids to tell them how it's quite mean what they are doing and they should behave better so as not to be d***s and ending up dying alone! This lazy ass mom couldn't even be bothered to look up what it actually mean it seems. Don't have kids if you're not willing to put the effort in, seriously! Those are not your childhood dolls, children are their own human being with feelings and thoughts, they need attention and boundaries.

[@I_love_all_the_animals]

@ Mother01 That woman’s sons were committing assault against every child in whose face/eyes they threw the sand. It was her responsibility, as their parent/guardian, to prohibit them from breaking the law and hurting other children and to teach them right from wrong. 💯 She was most definitely in the wrong for her lackadaisical parenting, and letting her sons get away with that deplorable behavior, and I fully support your decision to throw sand in her face (although that was also you breaking the law and assaulting her - she totally deserved it, and so did her boys, if you ask me). I hope 🤞🏻 your child was okay 👌🏻, as sand in the eyes 😫 is not only very painful, but can cause severe damage to the eyes 👁and harm one’s vision. I also hope the other children who were victimized by those brats were okay. But that other mom gets no sympathy from me, whatsoever! 🙅🏻‍♀ Shame on her *and* her kids! 👎🏻 It’s kids who do stuff like that and take pleasure in it and have no consequences for their actions who grow up to do far worse things. 😬 That is scary, that that clueless mother was completely fine with her kids hurting multiple people, and she did not see fit to stop them or correct their abhorrent behavior. I think, she has no business being a mom, based on this example of her parenting skills (or lack thereof).

[@PurpleSkie]

Good for you! Sounds like something I would do. 😂

[@Mother01]

@@I_love_all_the_animals No one was seriously harmed and we were able to completely clean the sand from our children. (As I wrote, we all had a lot of fun after all.) It may be that it was childish of me to react this way to this mother's inaction, but somehow I just couldn't help it. I was bullied really badly as a child and teenager. So bad that a classmate broke my ankle and growth plate during a school trip when I was 14 years old. I had to have emergency surgery and spent 7 of the 10 days of the school trip in the hospital. I was lucky that the doctors allowed me to go home with the class (by train). Yes, children who are allowed too much (or forbidden too little) can later become really bad people. (Certainly not all, but still too many.)

[@Goldphool]

My son had an emotionally abusive teacher in kindergarten. Unfortunately, I learned the heard way it's true that parents don't find out until it's too late. I found out when he was in 1st grade when he was terrified to disappoint his online/homeschool teacher when I was homeschooling him during Covid. When he was should have went to 3rd grade we moved and be entered a school that had a school counselor and she and ALL the teachers was made aware of his history (this school is AMAZING -one of the best in the state). The counselor started preparing my son a month before school started... the FIRST DAY of school after he finished eating he (naturally) stood up and walked to throw away his trash. The lunch lady "yelled" at him. I say "yelled" not because I do t advocate for him but because his experience was so traumatic he feels any admonition is yelling and I doubt anyone at that school would risk that behavior while multiple teachers are working in the same location. After prepping him for going back to school he was terrified and hurried back to his seat and put his head down and tried not to cry then did cry when they went to the bathroom. 😢

[@esmeraldaweatherford1822]

That’s actually a thing it’s called “administrative bullying”. I experienced this as a child and so did my four kids. Thankfully I’m the parent that will be at the school the very next day to hold them accountable. It’s bad enough with bullying from the students but when it comes from the administrators it’s pitiful and unfortunate. Kuddos to this fellow mom. ❤👍👏😊

[@TheBaumcm]

You should also know that for every administrative bully, there are about 10 kids who like to make stuff up and get adults who actually hold them accountable in trouble. It happened to me, and many of my colleagues. I had all my ducks in a row so they couldn’t do anything but it doesn’t stop them from behaving like this. Both situations are solvable when the parent and teacher behave as the mature adults they pretend to be, with the student’s best interests in mind, to address the issue.

[@naomikatepp]

I had a teacher do stuff that was so ridiculously over-the-top. It was automatically assumed that I was lying. And then she put red ink swastikas on my holocaust project. My mom knew that’s not some thing I would even consider lying about, given that I’ve worked on it with my grandmother, who lost siblings. She finally started believing me, but yeah, this was a well repeated teacher at an academic magnet school. That was the cream of the crop of a fairly large city, and she still did shit like that to me.

[@dmcdgd]

I love a petty parent standing up for their kid! I got bullied relentlessly in school and my mom unexpectedly got me off the bus one day in like 5th or 6th grade to find me crying and my bullies surrounding me waving my belongings they stole and my mom went up one side and down the other (verbally) at my main bully she knew and were pretty sure he needed new pants after. He left me alone after that

[@MsJuani1969Wiggins]

I love how that dad handled the entire situation and king mentality to him❤❤❤

[@bennywithoutjets]

I had a friend turned squatter in my apartment. She stayed over one day, secretly started getting her mail delivered to my house and never left. She just stayed hauled up in my bedroom. I had my brother come over and disconnect all of the power outlets in the bedroom so she couldn’t charge her phone, her laptop or watch TV. Long story short, she started spending her time else where. ❤

[@faunaunforgiven]

The pettiest thing I did for my child was start a riot of preschoolers which created pandemonium for staff and created a rule change for parent drop off. The preschool was split in two buildings, the children who paid for preschool pulled up in a line of cars and staff collected each child from their car, lining them up in front of the free preschool and then escorting them all as a group to the other building. The staff called them "first class students" and the free preschool kids, "second class students". Every morning we had to wait in the weather with our kids and watch the "first class" be collected and delivered to their building, and then they would open the doors and let the "second class" walk themselves into the building that they were standing in front of. The first class had their own drive, so the parents could have pulled up in front of their own building and each building was literally one hallway with the classes and bathrooms in the middle. There was literally no way any child could get lost or go missing once they were in the building. There was no reason to make our children wait for all the other children, and similarly we asked if they could at least wait under the awning so they weren't standing in the weather. The paying parents sitting in cars in the line just waited for someone to collect their kid from their Lexis or BMW, while we, "working class people with name tags" had to find a place to park, walk our child up and wait to be let in. I was one of very few white people in the second group, so I made a stink because I walked the black father standing next to me flinch and tighten up when the staff refereed to his son as "second class" and I felt everyone get tense and knew that they all weren't going to say anything. I immediately started off with, "oh no you are NOT calling our children, 'second class' and voiced the anger of all of the parents standing around. A couple of them thanked me because they "didn't want to be THAT guy" and so I began my campaign. Over 2 weeks I made a problem everyday, ranging from being a "karen" and asking to speak to someone in charge and started asking if they could let our children be under the covered portion of the walkway. After a few days of this my son said, "i have to go potty" and i got them to let him and the others in. Within a weeks' time all of the children started Sparta kicking the gate to demand to be let in as parents cheered them on. My kid and I were not going to let this go and we created a problem every single morning until the policy changed. Suddenly the "second class" who were no longer called that, could just be let into their own building while the staff collected the spoiled rich kids. At the end of the year, our preschoolers were great at taking care of themselves and getting to wear they needed to go and the other class couldn't do a single thing without the teacher coming to help them. It took the whole staff of preschoolers to get the rich kids to behave, and our kids went back to being awesome kids.

[@ALL_that_ENDS]

19:00 the sound effects of Charlotte drinking made me laugh, spill my coffee and stub my toe... That's comedy gold, gold Jerry. Gold!

[@LoveyBicki]

(Mortician here to give some fun facts)… as far as cremation goes, some religions require final disposition to take place within 2 days (but that’s usually for burial not cremation) … Also, withholding ashes from someone is a form of holding someone for ransom (big no no) Also, Also, crematoriums usually weigh people BEFORE cremation (for the retort aka where the cremation takes place) not typically after the cremation process (adult cremains typically weight around 5lbs) -- feel free to ask questions folks ❤

[@BN10496]

Meh it's his auntie and he paid for it. She can have it back when she pays. He should definitely keep them safe though

[@LoveyBicki]

@@BN10496 lol not my pony, not my show. Just wanted to inform people from a professional standpoint.

[@destineeryan6773]

​@@LoveyBicki Question on it being considered "holding for ransom". Would it still be considered as such, considering HE paid for her ashes while not being next of kin? Or does him being the one who executed and paid for that service give him a leg to stand on in terms of withholding? Also, funeral homes may cremate when requested before payment, but often won't release the ashes to you without full payment either (in my experience), so wouldn't that also amount to "holding someone for ransom?" Just curious if the funeral homes I've interacted with are doing something illegal, or if this rule only applies to private citizens, and in what cases it would apply to a private citizen. (Though it wouldn't surprise me if the experiences I had with my funeral home were illegal, as they made my Dad sign my Mother's death certificate and put down her SSN, and in his grief he accidentally wrote down his own SSN and was considered legally dead for about 7 months. I only found out YEARS later from a mortuary worker I knew, that in our state at least, my father signing the death certificate and writing the info like SSN is highly illegal and something they were not legally allowed to have him do, because of the exact issue than ensued). To be clear I fully believe this guy is cruel, out of line, and should've just set up a payment plan or taken her to small claims court (him talking about 'wasting his precious time' is ridiculous, if he feels that strongly about a few days in court and missing work he could include the wages he'd be missing for those court dates as part of what he wished to be reimbursed for by his cousin, OR he should've refused to help with the payment altogether if he wasn't willing to go to court, considering he didn't expect to be paid back before he ever had the service paid for. Seems purposefully vindictive if it isn't rage bait). Plus, getting rid of the ashes of an Aunt he claims he loved is BEYOND out of line, legally and morally-but I was just wondering about the details of the law for curiosities sake. I've considered the mortuary field heavily, though I'm not currently in school for it, but I find it interesting to see where lines are drawn legally when it comes to corpses in the hands of next of kin vs other family members, funerary businesses vs private citizens, etc.

[@moyasatterwhite4019]

I had my husband cremated, his idea, and I still have him in the spare room closet, in the bag they gave me with the American flag because he was in the Air Force for five years! He would approve as it only cost $1500 and he was a tight wad.

[@JustxAxLittlexMemory]

The guidance counselor at my grade school tried to convince my parents that my brother had schizophrenia when he was like 8. When the school made her stop talking to him, she tried to stalk me and my friends for awhile too, but the school made her stop that too. I didn't realize how weird it was until I was an adult.

[@lm9327]

Apparently in first grade we were given a religious assignment in school, where the teacher would read out a statement and we had to write our answer yes/no. It was something along the lines of what it means to be truly alive. I was a literal child: no matter the question, I answered along the lines of: that would suck, but my heart would keep beating, so I would still be alive. Apparently the teacher sent the assignment home with me and asked my mother to review it with me and " explain why I was wrong". My mom did, in fact, go over the assignment with me. After which she wrote a formal letter to the teacher saying, while she personally would've answered the questions differently, my logic was flawless and should be respected. Also a polite version of "WTF is this assignment anyway? And why are we penalizing kids for using their judgement on moral judgement questions?" I never had any issues with that teacher ever again.

[@sydneymitrecic]

Okay, the dad who made sure his son and his friends has the best day at the trampoline park was ao wholesome! Petty, of course, but in the best way. Plus, the other parents joined in! Makes my heart happy

[@chacon.mark199]

I feel bad for the birthday kid too because that kid probably didn't have a saw in posters son not being invited. They are all friends, mom probably told her son some bs lie as to why is friend didn't come. Good on all the other dads that pitched in and helped posters kid feel included too! Gold Medal for best dad goes to poster for sure ❤

[@blueyes1238]

in middle school I had a teacher who failed me on an art assignment (this was kinda the last straw) my picture was 3d. Colored and shaded beautifully. She failed me because "the background isn't colored in" I had been struggling with this teacher. She tried to teach middle schoolers like they were in college and I had her for 3 classes. So my dad ended up going in and basically ripping her a new one. From then on she was super nice to me.

[@shadowmatrx]

I had a similar experience. A teacher ripped me a new one in the hallway. During a class she asked me to step out & accused me of cheating on my science fair project. She said "she knew me, new my work and knew what I was capable of" and basically she thought my mom did the project for me and said she was gonna make sure I couldn't compete. Well, joke was on her as my mom had had an affair and run off w/the guy so she definitely was not around to complete my homework for me. I HAD been a bit lazy on my project though as it was a repeat from a prior year at a different school; but, to make it new again I compared and contrasted my results from the 2 projects. My mom hadn't done it for me then either-- I am actually quite smart all on my own. I was super embarrassed. I cried off and on until another teacher sent me to the nurse who called my Dad to come get me as by then most people were aware that the teacher had yelled at me for like 10min in the hallway. My Dad was super pissed and had a chat with the principal. When I returned to school, I received an apology from the teacher, and I got 3rd place in the science fair and got to move up to the next level. That teacher tried her level best not to talk to me afterwards. I still wonder what he said and what was said to her. It's funny bc he was not often a good parent, but that day he really was.

[@fabiennevdk7045]

8:24 I lost it at “burn her little by little” 😂😂😂 Imagine: “Sir, the cremation of your aunt’s toes is complete, bunions included. We are awaiting your payment. We have her ankles scheduled for next week.”

[@3llevate]

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@SandraHertel-u3b]

Pretty sure it’s illegal to get rid of part of all of the ashes.

[@DeadStar8183]

😂😂😂

[@SuperLumianaire]

That guy is evil. He does not need to disrespect the dead.

[@jamieweatherwalk2752]

​@@SandraHertel-u3bpeople dump ashes all of the time ...in the ocean, in the woods, etc. Probably not supposed to do it, but when has that ever stopped anyone.

[@Kaidly]

For the lightbulb lady: You can just tweak the bulbs so that they arent connected enough to turn on, so he replaces perfectly good bulbs, and throws them out himself. You dont destroy anything, you dont steal anything, and you can claim you heard something buzzing like a bulb about to burst and wanted to be careful.

[@blondiiijustheretobrowse5762]

It's a long story for a small petty victory I take my 2yr to playgroups. Theres this one kid, only child, that i have no patience for. I understand every child is different and everyone learns at different paces, but when the childs parent saw the horrid behaviour, they simply said "oh, its easier letting them just do what they want" (the organisers dont like them but cant ban them) This kid, about 3, always snatches from kids and takes over activities, or cries until he gets what he wants, or other kids are scared off/removed by their parent. Most parents do their best to have their kid/s avoid them, including me. I felt bad at first, but it's sadly a natural reaction to move away whenever they approach. Roughly 2 months ago, me and my 2yr were at an activity not far from the kid, but they were pretty occupied, so I wasn't worried. There was a new mum who didn't really know (the other parents try to warn new comers to be wary of the problem pair, we call them. ) most of the regular kids know to avoid the problem pair but this new mum and baby were really friendly and were trying so hard to play peacefully, but the problem kid was never happy unless the baby was upset. They followed the mum around a few minutes after changing activities. They came to me and my child. The 3yr kept snatching from the baby(1ish) and one toy they snatched, they threw by my 2yr. She may be 2, and a girl, but she has 3 male cousins, 2,4,6 and she knows how to play rough when she has to. She grabbed the roller pin (playdough activity) and began to play. Mr 3yr saw. He went for it, but my girl ran off. Shes quick and sneaky. The 3yr realised he couldnt catch my girl, stopped and began squealing crying. Of course his mum asks me to get the pin roller for him, since she hates seeing him cry like that. You queens know what I did. I told her it was just easier to let my girl go and to do whatever she wants. It took every nerve in me to say that to her face, but I dont think anyone's given her, her own treatment. Since then, she somewhat tries to teach her boy to kinda share and chill. Stay petty ❤

[@lunar.mermaid]

Honestly she needed to hear that. You did great ❤

[@K3ndraRaE]

The prettiest thing I've ever done 😂 A girl at work kept calling in and leaving work earlier leaving everyone else to pick up the slack for months I was 6 months pregnant having to close most shifts because she'd mysteriously have to go emergency etc. I signed her phone number up to recieve health insurance quotes. To be fair she kept calling in "sick" just trying to help a girl out 😂. Legend has it she still is getting calls 3 years later! Stay petty potatoes!!!

[@CrusifoxMedia]

As someone who was often not invited to parties, the last story makes me feel happy the kids still had a good time. I grew up in a single-parent household and we lived in a small town and my class size was only 14 people myself included. Everyone knew everyone and all the parents would throw class-wide parties for their kids every year and would exclude me on purpose every time. Not getting invited to 13 parties a year for 8 years straight stung like crazy. I didn't understand why or even know what I could have possibly done wrong to just be shunned like that... Years later as an adult, my mom told me why. One of the parents got into their head that autism was contagious and they convinced every parent the same (this was in the 90's by the way. Autism wasn't widely understood or well-known in that time) the kids picked up on this attitude and excluded me at school too. It was a crappy, lonely time when there was no reason for it to be like that at all.

[@zapbutton8553]

Oh my, people can be so stupid. I hope you left this behind for good! Just know you probably did not miss out on the kids raised by those people, lol...

[@willow_alley]

How awful. I’m so sorry you dealt with that.

[@sharim]

I’m so sorry you were treated so badly. I’m sending these thoughts to everyone who mistreated you: lost cellphones, flat tires, bad batteries and animals that crawled up into their engines and died on the hottest day of the year. Petty is what petty does!

[@CrusifoxMedia]

@@sharim Thanks. I don't really feel as angry towards the kids who excluded me as they didn't know better at the time. A few reached-out and apologized as adults when they realized what they unintentionally did. But the parents had no excuse. My mom would try to make the most of things on my birthday and we would go have dinner and see a movie. Which built up my love of cooking and cinema 💜

[@sharim]

@@CrusifoxMedia I’m glad you’ve forgiven the innocent parties. It does no good to carry negative feelings. I still stand by my sending petty annoyances to the adults, who should have known better!

[@WhereTheBeaversLive]

Not necessarily petty, but, my son was getting bullied in elementary school, grade 6. I went time and again to the teachers and administrators to please do something. Nothing was ever done. On one particularly bad day of bullying, I picked up my son, who was in obvious distress. I told him to pack up his desk and that he’s never coming back. The look on the teacher’s face was priceless. We spent two weeks doing homeschool….and he went into highschool in a much better place.

[@SimsfanCrystal]

Petty parent story: My daughter is autistic, and she self-soothes in public places by making strange sounds, singing a little bit, and rocking. We were at a restaurant, sitting in a booth. In the booth behind us is an older woman. Amelia is making her noises and rocking, and this woman keeps giving my daughter the stank eye. Amelia isn't being loud or disruptive, the noises can't be heard over the sounds of everyone talking in the restaurant (unless you're right next to her). Eventually this woman mutters (but loud enough so I can hear) to the person sitting across from her about how I should discipline my daughter better, so she doesn't disrupt people in public. This lit my momma bear fuse. I turned to woman, and loudly asked her "Did your mother teach you to be inconsiderate of disabled people? Because you seem old enough to know better." The look on this womans face was priceless. She had a "well I never" look on her face, rolled her eyes at me, and told the lady sitting across from her that she was ready to go.

[@libbyjensen1858]

The last dad telling his story is a GEM!!!!

[@jessicadelgado390]

Live in Texas and my son's teacher (who is Hispanic) told him flat out that he didnt really go to Mexico. It really upset him ecause basically told him he was a liar in front of his friends. So this past sping break while in Mexico I took plenty of picture and printed them off on my little personal printer and sent them to school with him this morning to show his friends and yeah, his teacher.

[@Serial_Designation_N_REAL]

The dad towards the end is the best. The kids deserve better And he is the better person, not so much petty.