people earning themselves a spot in the petty hall of fame - REACTION

[@IsleofJaya]

My late grandmother once told me that my late grandfather had cheated on her and afterwards wanted a divorce. After they filed, he wanted her wedding ring so he could give it to the woman he cheated on her with so they could get married. My grandmother gave him the ring but took the diamond out of it. 🤣

[@LeeLeesBanter]

Priceless Petty!❤😂

[@deborahfrederick916]

Yesssss, Queen.

[@kathleenadams4978]

Sounds acceptable to me, considering. 😏

[@tatepearce7898]

yesss 😂 I love this for her

[@yvonneburns2786]

Well he just asked for the ring... 😅

[@victoriagabriella1103]

I had a highschool teacher who was very color blind. He was amazing! One of those teachers that's everyones favorite. He told us when we all met him early on that he was colorblind and answered any questions we had. Then lightheartedly he told us that his wife picks out his clothes for him each morning so that he'd match for work and that we'd know if she's mad at him. Basically everytime she was mad at him, it was so obvious bc she would either send him in the most ridiculously mismatched outfits or let him pick his own out. On those certain mornings he would walk into class, we'd laugh at him and ask, "Soo, What'd you do?" And he'd just knowingly & painfully ask, "oh man, how bad is it?" 😂😂😅 we absolutely loved being in on her petty game all those years ❤

[@ttthecat]

That is the most wholesome petty revenge story I have ever heard!!!🥹

[@-A-09]

This is the best petty revenge story for me 😂😂

[@amberlightrunner4696]

This is beautiful lol I can't even be mad.

[@chypearce8457]

My brother in law is color blind (as an electrician) he has to FaceTime my my sister so she can tell him what color wires he's looking at. She also works in a daycare so sometimes she has her kids help him with their colors

[@bettersecret1499]

I don't understand... my father is colorblind but it doesn't mean that they see in black and white so he doesn't see neon green for example but he KNOWS it's green because it's the same 'whatever other color he sees' that he has seen all his life 🤔

[@weirdasfluff]

Grandmas are the original Petty queens. My grandma had a gorgeous blue with purple flowers dress she loved and wore for special occasions/church, etc. My grandfather said he hated the color purple and she should just get rid of the dress. She was like fine. She kept the dress, boxed it for storage, but bought nothing but purple dresses until the day she died in the late 60s. Mom said she had about 50 purple dresses in various shades and the one gorgeous blue and purple dress that started the purple wars that my 16 year old mom inherited and altered to fit her and wore it to my grandmother's funeral. Never met Grandma but she's my freaking hero.

[@kellysong2256]

@@weirdasfluff I cannot adequately express how much I admire that woman 🤣 I'll bet Grandpa kept his mouth shut with his opinions after that

[@sonjebianca2483]

My parents had the craziest relationship. They weren’t happy unless they were fighting and fought to the bitter end, married 52 years when my dad passed. One of my favorite stories of my mom’s petty paybacks was after one of their morning fights, dad went to work with a sandwich she had made him. Before he could take a bite, one of the guys he worked with noticed a piece of paper sticking out of the sandwich and grabbed it. My dad dismissed it as probably a love note from my mom trying to make up for pissing him off that morning. The guys at the other side of the table burst out in laughter, though, because the note said, “I hope you choke on this, you bastard!” 😂

[@BrianAndresScott]

😅❤

[@JoaquinsMomma]

😂😂

[@erikarussell1142]

Lmaoooo

[@Emeraldwitch30]

Lol I'd have left the plastic wrap on the cheese in his sandwich lol.

[@jerseynurse6878]

Yes queen 🤴

[@paulabailey9700]

When my in-laws were first married, in Oklahoma in the early 1920s, they were living with his parents. When they sat down for breakfast one morning, my father-in-law didn't like the dress she was wearing and told her to go change. She said no. So he went over and tore the dress off of her expecting her to run from the room in embarrassment. She did not. When he told her to go put something on she said, "No. You took it off of me so you must want me this way." She sat there in her underwear for the entire meal! He never did that again. That woman was a spitfire until the very end. Love you Mama! Miss you.🥰

[@erikarussell1142]

What a class act. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Elenor Roosevelt. I will always look up to any iconic woman who defied the system. Any woman who Stood up to tyranny and remained graceful in refusing to let anyone take her integrity. 🫶🏼 what a queen.

[@snowwilliams5871]

Your father in law, as in her husband?

[@andyhenry2014]

My best friend did something similar to her ex. They were about to leave the house and she was wearing a mesh shirt with a black bra underneath, and her ex told her she was underdressed and to take it off. She said ok and took it off and walked out of the house. He was shocked! lol That day he learned not to ever try and tell her what to do or how to dress. Well, obviously the lesson didn't stick, which is why he's an ex.

[@darlenepowell9304]

What a POS she married!

[@ivania321]

what a punk

[@JenniferGermain-rb2xg]

my brother and cousin were staying at my grandparent's summer cottage. They were asked to help my grandfather with chopping wood and piling it. My cousin refused, my brother got in there to help. For dinner my brother and grandfater got steak and potatoes, my cousin got a hot dog. grandmother told him the meal was for the men that worked, hot dog was for the children that don't. Never forgot that and god love her.

[@hareleahcoinn4495]

My grandma had two infants and was cooking dinner when her husband came home and he said something about dinner not being ready and her being lazy, she turned around and knocked him out with the cast iron pan and ate dinner with the kids in peace and left him there all night. My grandma is Irish and scares everyone.

[@haileeking9767]

Holy crap your grandma's awesome

[@jm3384]

Ha ! I love your grandma, now I wish I was Irish.

[@Sujowi]

She could give lessons! Ninja pan technique!

[@taissalada]

My friend is first generation American Irish and told me years ago “I learned at a very young age not to lip off to my mother in the kitchen or complain about food”.

[@damaramcelrath-fatherree9732]

😂Damn! That should have come with a warning. 😂

[@tessalynn3]

My grandpa made the mistake of complaining about his food being cold after HE got home late. Grandma decided to let the dog have his literal place at the table and served the dog who was obviously more appreciative of her hard work and was there on time. Grandpa remained hungry that night and thanked grandma for dinner regardless of the temperature of it after that.

[@Kayenne54]

One woman told me that her husband rang and said he'd be late, and to put his dinner in the oven. When he got home (he'd been at the pub drinking, not working late) she pointed to the oven, where his ham and SALAD was being kept warm. I don't think they lasted long. Divorce on the cards when alcohol takes precedence over family time.

[@brittanydehaan9019]

I like this one. Filing this away.

[@liveyourlife510]

I love this.

[@erzabetf9544]

@@Kayenne54 Those men who’d rather go to the bar than go home … they don’t like their wives and families. I’m glad this woman realized that and moved on.

[@Wolf_Ma_Staaaaaaaa]

Your story made me remember the times mom (my mom not my mom’s egg donor) would make my step dad dinner and he would pull the whole “I’m not hungry” if he was mad. Mind you we also had two little dogs and two big dogs. She said fine literally dropped the plate next to him and the dogs had a feast. They were oblivious very appreciative of the food my mom gave them. 😂 I miss my mom all the time. R.I.P

[@danakissmgrits2624]

My great grandmother lived on a farm in Wisconsin with her husband and their 7 children. Great grandpa was a womanizing gambler and was usually just home long enough to get Gigi pregnant and then gone again, often for weeks or months at a time. Last time he left, without a word, Gigi sold the farm, moved the fam to Florida, purchased MANY acres and started farming. This was during the Great Depression. Gigi ended up with many more children (railcar kids), all of whom she put through trade school or college, depending on their leanings. 27 adopted children and their families showed up for her funeral, and people in that little town still occasionally talk about "Miss Alice". Never did hear from Great grandpa though...

[@madriley61]

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[@_.-Skitterbug-._]

Your great grandma sounded like an absolute badass

[@PaulaHughes-o3i]

That's such a beautiful story, what an incredible woman!

[@kaya_nori]

My grandfather was a pilot, my grandmother - a geologist (not a very "womanly" profession some 65 years ago in my country). He courted her relentlessly, promised to love her forever "for who she is and what she does". Eventually she agreed to marry him, and not 2 months later he started to say things like "Why don't you grow your hair, it would suit you better", "Why don't you buy more dresses, you look like a man with your haircut and all these pants and shirts" and, eventually, "Why don't you quit your job, I'll provide for all of us, and you're expecting already". So she said "And that's exactly why I never wanted to marry" and divorced him! She has continued to work in geological expeditions until she hit 70 and finally retired. He asked her to come back and promised he'd never try to change her again multiple times, but she wasn't the kind you can fool twice :)

[@ejcannon5897]

She sounds awesome and good for her for not caving to societal pressures!

[@erikarussell1142]

Good for her for getting out and never looking back!!!

[@SpicyPisces3]

Damn, when you think about it, you almost didn't exist! If she hadn't had put up with it as long as she did, she wouldn't have become pregnant. 😲

[@moonhunter9993]

Sounds like my grandma, got divorced and never looked back. Always provided for herself

[@Sujowi]

What a gal!

[@terrip8451]

My husband wanted me to become a SAHM. After much deliberation since I wasn't too keen on the idea, I decided to just do it. First week I would make sure dinner was ready when he got home. Friday rolls around and I wanted to make an extra special dinner. I spent two hours prepping and cooking a beautiful, delicious meal. He walks in with a sheepish puppy dog look and says, "I wanted pizza for dinner." He proceeds to order it and eat it. I haven't cooked for him since - 5 years and counting.

[@sommerw478]

YOURE DAMN RIGHT!!!! If you want pizza, pick up the damn phone! Shoot a text so you don’t waste your time on his dinner!!

[@Sar-ahG]

Took me a minute to figure out “Stay at home Mom” SAHM

[@Emeraldwitch30]

I love to cook and do alright at it(ex chef and all lol) but there are times where I dont feel like cooking. We made a plan when I went to part time so could depend more time at home near the kids. I cook so many times a week, and a certain nights are pizza or take out nights or go out to eat nights. If I spent all day cooking extra special meal and hubs went and got pizza. Hes sleeping outside with the chickens and eating pizza out there too! I do not blame her for being mad at all

[@chadb9270]

Stay at home mothers and prostitutes have the same thing in common. How they put a roof over their head. Objectively speaking, as a man, the prostitute is a better value.

[@annarosen9706]

Woot woot 😅

[@AprilDecember]

My grandmother's first husband walked out while she was pregnant with their 3rd child. Said he "didn't feel married anymore." Apparently he'd been using his family as an excuse not to get drafted (1940's, WWII), saying there'd be no one to support the wife & kids, etc. Well, after he walked out, Grandma contacted his draft officer, and informed him of the situation. The officer was so obliging... Grandma's ex got his draft notice on his birthday.

[@saschamayer4050]

Vicious! 👌

[@TheTewjr]

The pettiest thing I ever did when I was mad at my husband: he used to work second shift, so he'd get off at 10 and come home. I had dinner saved for him. I would heat it up and give it to him to eat while I stayed up late just so we could connect for a few minutes before I went to bed. All I asked him to do was to put the dirty plate and silverware in the dishwasher. One night he didn't do that. He just left the plate sitting there when he was done with it. I wasn't going to touch it so I ignored it and he did the same thing a second night. After the third night I refused to bring him his dinner any more; if he wanted it, he had to go to the kitchen and heat it up. But he STILL left the dirty dishes sitting there, even with me asking him to get them into the dishwasher.. After TWO WEEKS of those stupid dirty dishes sitting there, I had had enough. I welcomed him home as usual one night. He ate dinner while I sat with him and then I kissed him good night and went to bed. He never noticed that the dirty dishes had disappeared, and he didn't ask what happened to them. But he found out. Oh, yes, he found out: They were piled up on *his* side of the bed. He must have discovered them when he tried to get into bed in the dark. I have no idea how he reacted because I was sound asleep, but the next morning the dirty dishes were in the dishwasher. We've been happily married for 32 years. We have never, ever talked about what happened that night.

[@Catlover-jr4mj]

Really, OMG! 😂😂😂

[@cat_tizzoni]

Omg! You win!!! This is EPIC!!!!! 👏🥇🏆👏

[@b00ksrb3tt3rthanppl]

yesssssssss, slay queen

[@Awalsh147]

I've done this to my roommate lmao

[@danidevz1637]

I honestly thought you were going to say you were saving the dirty dishes and just straight up serving the meal on the dirty plates 😂😂 Thats a good story though haha! That's lovely though, that you've been together for 32 years 😊

[@mommarissa420]

My grandmother told me one time she had just pulled a 12 hour shift as a nurse and she came home and still needed to cook dinner for her, their kids (4 in total) and husband. All she wanted him to do was wash up some of the dishes so she could start cooking...he proceeded to whine about is saying he worked all day also and was so tired blah blah blah. Like she wasn't just up herself almost a whole day and night also working as a nurse...but anyways he finally did start while she went to change out of her scrubs. He yells to her that he's going out that he will be back by the time the food is done &he had gotten the dishes done. So she goes in ti start getting the food out and goes to grab a plate out of the dish drainer and every single dish was so greasy still she almost dropped it, so she picks the rest up checking them and so once she realizes he half ass did them and expected her to just do them right her self and cook for him as he left her there with the kids on top of all this. She proceeded to throw and break every single dish he "washed" making sure to leave a beautiful mess for him to clean up when he got back from where ever the he'll he just left to go to. So she rounds up the kids, leaves the meat out and dishes broken on the floor and takes off to go get dinner at a restaurant with the kids. I don't think she came back that night and just went to her mother's so she could get some sleep. But refused to come back until he apologized and cleaned up the mess..When she finally did return the mess was cleaned up but she just got tired of him treating her poorly and they got divorced sometime later. I can picture it from start to finish lol. No one deserves that after working super long hours and still being a mother on top of it. I don't see anything wrong with her response 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@dtb8663]

Your grandmother was a badass!

[@mommarissa420]

@@dtb8663 she still is!! Love her so much, she'll be 81 this year but tells these crazy stories about her life to anyone that will listen😂

[@queenbee3647]

My dad went out after work on a Tuesday to cash his check at the bar. Mom was home with five kids under 8. He showed up Saturday afternoon wanting dinner. Mom started screaming wanting to know where he had been. Dad ignored her and started reading the paper. Mom proceeded to smash every single dish and cup in our house. Before the night was over the paddy wagon came for dad. Shoulda took mom too imo.

[@joyparker3116]

Love your Grandma!!!! Strong lovely lady!!!!

[@mommarissa420]

@@joyparker3116 she really is! I live with her now, with my kids and family. She's 81 and still a has that spitfire personality all these years later! She won't let anyone just mess around with her for too long lol

[@Cathyb__93]

My nan told me that her and my granddad got divorced after years of him been an alcoholic and abuses. While they were together she said she knew what time he would be back from the pub and he always wanted his tea ready so she made him a cat food (meat)and potato pie. One night after he had physically hit her. She spent the whole day polishing the wooden floor and put the rug back on top, so as he came in demanding his tea drunk with one step on the rug he went flying across the room and landed in the fireplace and knocked himself out. 😂

[@sydneyprice2437]

My grandfather told my grandmother that she should mow the yard since she was a stay at home mom and had time to do it(she took care of 5 kids) so she bought a goat and put it in the backyard. Years later, he suggested she dye her hair because of a couple greys...so she dyed his hair black in his sleep. I aspire to be as unhinged as her❤

[@LeeLeesBanter]

Bahahaha!!😂❤

[@TheTewjr]

Legend!!!

[@saschamayer4050]

Finally a real role model!

[@meowinde]

A goat 😂😂

[@phaedon55]

my grandpa would never let my grandma drive or work outside the house. he complained that he wanted meat in every meal. she went out and bought a lot of meat, i mean a lot!!!. he was happy for about two weeks and the meat ran out. she said,' we cant eat for two weeks because all the food budget went on meat. don't you wish we were two income. she trained to become a plumber and he shut up. I love my grandma.

[@TheBaumcm]

Pretty hard to stand on those principles when your tummy is grumbling.

[@777chapstick]

My grandpa HATED the squirrels that got into the bird feeders right by his kitchen window because they ate all the bird feed. He would bang really hard on the window and yell at them all the time. My grandma always told him to settle down and stop hitting the glass or it would break. Sure enough, one morning when my sister and I were spending the summer with them, he hit the window so hard it cracked. The whole thing needed to be replaced, and it was a BIG window. He then griped about it for days. I guess my grandma had heard enough, because after a few days of his complaining she took my sister and me to the craft store and bought like three bags of these little resin squirrel figurines. She had us go all over the house hiding them wherever we could. We thought it was the funnest thing ever, so we were attaching them to lamp pull cords, putting them in his dresser drawers, his popcorn bowls, his shoes, all the cups in the kitchen, his pillowcase, etc. They were EVERYWHERE. He never hit a window again. He did keep yelling at the squirrels though! Miss them both.

[@eringrinde8177]

Our neighbor’s kids would repeatedly (like 4-5 times a day) kick their ball into our fenced yard, and proceed to come ring our bell to ask for it back. This went on for MONTHS. These neighbors called the police on us because my husband didn’t IMMEDIATELY return a ball one time (he was working from home and in a meeting). He had told them he’d get it later, forgot all about it and had the *audacity* to leave his own home for a run. The police showed up, talked to us for a bit, and mentioned that they told our neighbors that we didn’t have to “hop to” every time they threw a ball into OUR yard. And that the next time they were called out for something like this, they would be issuing a citation for misuse of emergency services. We haven’t heard a peep (or seen a ball) since.

[@jenniferthomas594]

My Abuelita owned a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico when she was younger(she’ll be 99 next week! Yay Abuelita!). Well she is the queen of petty for so many reasons but one particular thing that stands out; almost daily this man would come in and he was a total jerk. Demanding service and never saying please or thank you. At the time, it wouldn’t be acceptable for her to flat out turn him away. There was one thing this man would do every single time he went into the restaurant…he would always order coffee, add sugar, cream, stir with a spoon and lick the spoon which was followed by him complaining loudly that his coffee was too cold and demanding a new cup immediately. This happened countless times until one day, Abuelita had enough. The guy arrived for his morning coffee and went through the same routine. But this time my Abuelita took the cup and removed the spoon then she proceeded to place the spoon on the hot griddle in the kitchen. Waited a few minutes then grabbed the spoon with an oven mitt and put it back into his cup. She gave it to the man and waited for him to take out the spoon and put it into his mouth. When he did, he jumped up and yelled a few expletives in Spanish. He went to say something to my Abuelita and she said “Hot enough for you?” Smiled and walked away. From then on, he never complained about anything and spoke to my Abuelita like the queen she is.

[@EricaGamet]

Is your Abuelita taking applications to adopt a 50-something grandchild? I speak some Spanish but really need to brush up on my expletives and she sounds awesome! 🤣¡¡¡Feliz cumpleaños, Abuelita!!!

[@jenniferthomas594]

@@EricaGamet Haha oh yes, the expletives. It’s so funny now that I think about her last birthday party when she turned 80, she was drinking a bottle of rum while a mariachi dancer was giving her a lap dance and she was slapping his booty. 🤣😅😂 Thank you for your birthday wishes! I will share them with her.

[@donitawhite8111]

Wouldn't he have felt how hot the spoon was with his fingers considering she needed a mit to handle it? Seems unlikely that he would still put it in his mouth that hot but what do I know. 🤷‍♀️

[@jenniferthomas594]

@@donitawhite8111 This is the story I was told. Not sure what you gain by trying to pick it apart. It is kinda rude tbh.

[@jenniferthomas594]

@@anniegathers I surely will! She has Alzheimer’s Dementia but I know it will make her smile.

[@evastickler3298]

My late maternal great grandmother, Nani, was such a brat and we loved her. Didn’t matter if she had diabetes, you can take her candy away from her cold dead hands. I took my first steps towards her on my first birthday. She was lovely. Anyway, on to the story. So my mother is a hairstylist (and honestly acts like everyone’s auntie, friend, sister, mother, and uncertified therapist) and, as such, gets to know all her clients very personally. Well, one of her long-time clients was telling my mother about how her granny somehow managed to get into “Old Lady Time-Out” at the nursing home facility despite being the victim of some other old lady’s bullying and putting, of all things, a live frog down her blouse. My mother said that her grandmother, Nani, also lived at that nursing home and she was planning to visit her soon, so she’d do some investigation work on her client’s behalf. So! The day of the visit arrives and momma is ready to get the tea from Nani (because if y’all have ever worked in or frequented an old person living facility, you know they gossip and cause drama like a bunch of high schoolers). Well, turns out that tea was a bit more literal than we thought. Because Nani was also in “Old Lady Time-Out” despite some other old lady having dumped a pitcher of iced tea on her during lunch the other day (…or water…it’s been over a decade since I heard the story…we’re Okies so it’s probably iced tea). Knowing Nani, these events were connected. So momma did a bit more digging there to find the truth. Which went as such: Client’s Granny participated in this sort of bake sale that the nursing home did to raise money and give the residents enrichment. Nani threw some shade at Granny’s subpar baked goods, which is a significant insult in the grandma community. Slanderous even. Especially coming from a nanna that knows her way around sweets. So, in retaliation, the Granny confronted Nani later in the cafeteria and decided to relay her hurt feelings in the form of a pitcher of liquid onto Nani. Because Nani was a petty force to be reckoned with, she somehow managed to go into the garden, smuggle in a live frog, and give the Granny payback in the form of an amphibian entering her clothing without her consent. Thus, the two were both put in “time-out” by the facility. (I don’t exactly know what “time-out” entails since Nani somehow managed to finding the Granny to frog). When my mother saw her client again, she was eager to know if my mother uncovered the truth and caught the culprit who frogged her grandma. My mother, grimacing, admitted that she did, indeed, find the culprit, her Nani. While and after sharing the whole story, the two were laughing to tears because (a) it was absolutely in-character for their grandmas to act that way, and (b) truly, it does not matter how old we get, people will still act like petty dramatic teens from time to time 😂

[@eddavanleemputten9232]

OMG! “find the granny to frog” did me in! 😂

[@katharper655]

A Gramma-think about it-has had DECADES to figure out PETTY the likes of which has never been dreamt of before. My g'mere (Cajun for gramma) while being a very thin older lady had varicose veins on the calves of her legs which-forgive me gmere-even tho she had those tiny chickenlegs, had varicose veins like a garden hosepipe.Gmere and the wife of a Church elder were what I always silently called "Saintly Mortal Enemies"..mostly centered around THE MOST PETTY cr@p imaginable. One summer afternoon, gmere was gathering the eggs from her henhouse, scoping out which hen was gonna be Sunday dinner, when a copperhead snake under the wooden walkway crawled out and when gmere walked by, bit her on the calf of her right leg. She let out a scream..Granpere killed the snake....but I saw blood-quite a bit-puddled around where it had happened. Ran her to the hospital, where they administered the anti-venin and watched her. NUTHIN. NO illness; NO necrotic flesh except a tiny amount around the fang puncture. I told the doctor about the large amount of blood where gmere had been bitten and he looked at her legs very closely.Now, gmere suffered from high blood pressure, and other maladies. The Dr.admitted her, watched her like a hawk for 3 days, meanwhile consulting with specialists on varicose veins..other issues. GMERE NEVER EVEN GOT SICK. NOTHING. Fussed and complained she had work to do at home..yadayada. Took her home, praise Jesus none the worse for wear EXCEPT Varriolla(last name forgotten) gmere's lifelong mortal enemy, upon hearing of gmere's brush with Death, said at Sunday meeting that gmere was so awful the act of biting such a poisonous creature as gmere had killed that poor snake! Gmere responded by saying she was USED to members of that family...and wasn't one bit surprised at bein bitten by the snake...as the whole fam-damnily were of that sort. Granpere and Varriolla's husband went crawfishin', killed a pint of jug each, and settled the issue to the great relief of the Church. But NOT to Gmere and Varriolla.

[@PixieStix2000]

​@katharper655 thank goodness G'mere never got seriously affected by the bite. ❤

[@TheMaskedMommy]

Okay, who has the *audacity* to come on here and tell Charlotte not to make silly comments and tell random side stories!? My guy. That is literally why we are all here! To soak in the Charlotte-y goodness of funny accents and weird catchphrases and freakouts over internet drama! 😂🎉 Keep on being you, Charlotte, it's what we love and what make your videos so funny!

[@LeeLeesBanter]

Totally here for it too!😂❤

[@nef4588]

yes!!!!!!!!!!

[@CharlotteDobre]

SOME PEOPLE GET MAD ITS SO IRRATIONAL😂

[@anabltc]

why would I even watch the channel if it wasn't for her comments 🤣

[@sandracox4341]

What did I miss? Where is this dummy?

[@MrsWheezer]

Petty Betty here. Back when we first married, my husband and I shared cooking and laundry 50/50. We were late 20s (me) and early 30s (him), so we were both reasonably proficient at taking care of ourselves. However, my husband had a bee up his butt and constantly interfered in my cooking, adding stuff and criticizing my process. I told him, if it was that important to him, he can cook allll by himself. So I quit cooking. He does 95% of all the meals. 🤣 About 6 months later, he started in on how I did laundry. I told him, if it was that important to him, he could do it all by himself. So I quit doing laundry. He does 95% of all our laundry. 🤣 We’ve been married almost 25 years. He doesn’t criticize anything I do around the house anymore. 🤣 ❤

[@miriamvesela8461]

Is that.... Because he does everything now? 🤣🤣

[@MrsWheezer]

@@miriamvesela8461 Dishes and laundry! He hasn’t complained about how I clean the house. Apparently learned his lesson, lol.

[@miriamvesela8461]

@@MrsWheezer That's good that he's learnt his lesson 😁

[@MrsWheezer]

@@miriamvesela8461 I kept waiting for him to complain about how I clean the toilets. No such luck. 😂

[@anwarpine6797]

🙌

[@charlottereid9168]

My boyfriend would always critique the meals I cooked, saying things like, "I'd have put more (fill in the blank) if I had cooked this" or "My ex-wife made this so much better." I'd finally had enough of being compared (mind you, I was working full-time and doing all house chores while he worked odd jobs occasionally), so I said, "Oh, not a problem," grabbed his plate and threw it in the trash, plate and cutlery, and all. Then I grabbed all the leftovers and threw them in the trash, as well. After that, I pretty much only made enough food for myself haha! And when he decided to cook, I'd make comments such as, "My husband used to make this so much better because he would (insert details)" or "My mom used to...." - you get the idea. Needless to say, that relationship bombed!

[@MariaAlexandraR]

I died during the "...it wouldnt be....transformative..." *transforms into a box/car and disappears into the abyss* LMAO Charlotte - your editors are amazing! 🤣🤣

[@jcfreak2007]

My great grandparents were like this! 😂 My great grandpa was a top level engineer in the 40s, 50s, and 60s my great grandma was a top level housewife and had EVERYTHING down to a system from chores to kids to lunches, meal prep, you think of a stereotypical housewife keeping everything in tiptop shape back in those days, that was my great grandma! Well, when my great grandpa retired, he decided he was going to come home and start trying to control how she ran the house so she said, "OK! If you know how to do this so well, then go ahead and do it!" and sat down to read the paper... Needless to say, she was quickly back to running the house how she had been doing for forty-some odd years and he found other things to occupy his time other than interfering with her duties around the house! 😂🤣

[@hkrobertson]

I was mad about feeling unappreciated & was griping at my kids and my husband that they needed to do more around the house and that they didn't realize just how much I do. They just stared at me. I went on strike for 2 weeks. I acted just like them. They quickly realized and what do you know, my husband started getting everyone to do their part. From then on, I would threaten to go on strike again and they all got in shape!

[@ChildOfTheOneTrueAlmightyGod]

It worked for me too! I think it's important that every family member know EXACTLY what doing every single thing in that house entails! I have my hubby and four kids do everything...to my specifications of course, and they've been upholding their end of things around here. Don't ruin your kids ladies, bc they have to grow up and become an important part of another family one day!

[@jenniferzitting1886]

One time my brother in law got angry at my sister in law for buying something he didn’t like and he told her that from now on she wasn’t to “make a move” without him. She decided to take him literally! She woke him up to ask if she would get out of bed in the morning, she called him at work dozens of times throughout the day to ask if she could change the baby’s diaper, replace the toilet paper, etc. but when she had his secretary interrupt a meeting saying she had an emergency and then asked if she could change her tampon he relented and never told her she had to ask for permission to do something again. 😉

[@thevice521]

Malicious compliance is so tasty 🤭😭

[@YaramazYumurta31]

Yassssz!!! ❤❤❤

[@stephaniemccabe2219]

Bahahaha! The meeting and tampon part is absolutely amazing

[@Nicky19908]

😂

[@lisaseverance6785]

My Grandmother was a master at petty! My parents had been engaged for over a year...set the date, got the dress etc etc. My aunt, only a couple months before the wedding day, got engaged and said she had to get married before my parents. My grandmother was furious with her and insisted that no, they have been engaged and planning this for a year you can wait. Aunt kept pushing and then it came out that she wanted my grandparents to pay for their honeymoon. So my Grandmother set a plan in motion. They would pay for my Aunt's honeymoon but only if she waited until after my parents got married. My aunt agreed and when the time came for the honeymoon, she discovered that my grandparents and her youngest brother (who was 12 at the time) were also packed up ready to go. Turns out my Grandmother decided that if they were paying for this honeymoon, then it was a family vacation. So my aunt and uncle went on their honeymoon with my grandparents and my uncle in tow. LOL You should hear some of the petty things my mother did! I am from a long line of petty! LOL

[@Kaastengels]

What petty things your mom did? I wanna take notes

[@Wakilonzo]

Q

[@Wakilonzo]

Q

[@lisaseverance6785]

@Kaastengels oh too many little things to list. But one big one was when I was little. My dad came home from the bar with his shirt ripped somehow and drunk. (The shirt comes into play later.) The next day, we were supposed to go to an event as a family. But dad was too hung over. So mom sent us to play somewhere and proceeded to make as much noise as possible around my dad. We came back later to Dad showered, alert and ready to take us to the event. But that shirt...for the next 10 to 15 years that shirt hung in full view in the laundry room, unwashed and still ripped. My dad had to walk by it every day. It wasn't until they remodeled that room that the shirt was finally discarded.

[@amandaloel1782]

But the bridegroom is supposed to pay for the honeymoon...😂

[@brittanywickliffe6063]

Depression-era grandparents were the absolute pettiest ever. They did it well. Their creativity while still "staying nice" is unmatched.

[@nickitacocat]

My grandma had a friend who would keep her beloved husbands ashes with her almost everywhere. I think it was about 1 year after he died she found out he was having an affair when he passed. She found out who the woman was, walked up to her when she was at bat ina softball game and dumped his ashes on home plate. Said "here you go, you can have him" and walked away.

[@lisamelroy2855]

Now THAT'S petty!

[@melissabryanmills7733]

😂

[@brandim1441]

YAS!! Her friend was a gangster! I love it! 😂

[@fourlittlebirds6166]

Except in a lot of places, it’s illegal to dump ashes.

[@slsthewriter1299]

@@fourlittlebirds6166 Does it being illegal negate how petty it was?

[@deborahbox6190]

When I get aggravated with my husband, I fold his t-shirts, socks, and underware inside-out until I feel better. That early morning whisper of "WTF? AGAIN???" is so comforting!

[@LeeLeesBanter]

Bahaha!😂❤❤

[@LilThreat88]

That's pretty good!!

[@TheBaumcm]

My husband puts his underwear on inside out as it is but just the having to turn it all right side out is hilarious. Since he insists on leaving it inside out before laundry (I hate doing it and simply ask that he turn it right side out and zip or button but often “forgets”), I just leave it all as is and make him turn it out. I have even stoped folding his stuff because I’m not going to be bothered making it neat when he chucks in around in his drawers. Funny how now that he has to do it, all of his stuff stays nice and neat in his drawers.😂

[@nursenicole222]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@eileenhathaway1674]

@@TheBaumcm I asked my ex to put his laundry right side out BEFORE putting it in the wash basket. He will get it back how I found it, and I won't even hang a shirt that isn't right. He learned!

[@kiwifreund]

My grandparents were married for 62 years. They had 8 living children (3 stillborn as well) and ran a very large farm. They were married "later," in their late 20's. When they passed away (grandma lived to 91, grandpa lived to 105), we found a postcard from grandma to grandpa from their courting days. Grandma had written, "Thank you for coming to church to watch me play [the organ]. I'm sorry I was so crabby." Little did grandpa know, he was signing up for 62 years of crabby!! :D When they would fight, grandpa would turn off his "ears" - his hearing aids - and grandma would get extra, extra mad at him!

[@lorag4664]

A friend of mine moved into a new neighborhood. Important to say, there was NO HOA. My friend put 1 pink flamingo in her BACK yard, with a privacy fence. She received a letter, addressed to OCCUPANT. Please keep your yard ornaments tasteful. Well I have to say, she idles at petty. THE GAUNTLET WAS THROWN DOWN. This was before internet shopping was a thing, but she enlisted her petty soldiers, and EVERY PINK FLAMINGO, large and small, where gathered. At final count she had, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE, flamingoes in EVERY PART of her yard. Some from her new neighbors.🤣😂🤣 She found out which neighbor, was the KAREN. The woman, would look in her yard through a crack in the fence. But she also had to DRIVE PAST THE FRONT YARD TO ENTER THE SUBDIVISION. My friend lived there for 10 years, needless to say, HOLIDAYS WERE VERY, VERY, PETTY FUN, for the WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD. 😂🤣😂🤣

[@ellorasg4525]

My grandpa cheated on my grandma, my dad was and still is the most petty man I know. He played the long game, became a successful Doctor and when he returned to act like the proud 'parent', my dad reminded him loudly in public how grandma was the one to raise him while the sperm donor cheated on her. Admittedly my sibling and I did not like our grandpa after hearing about what happened and avoided him as well.

[@TheHandle1990]

Sorry about why it had to happen. But your dad is the GOAT! I am inspired to be this petty

[@michellekeith5602]

Petty is at times just lack of maturity. But if it made you feel better hopefully it was worth it

[@CourierSixMojaveExpress]

​@@michellekeith5602 i like the way you worded this. Most times i dont feel better and end up feeling worse. At this point in time its water off a ducks back for me.

[@ellorasg4525]

@@michellekeith5602 it was. I know my Dad is happy without that man. I never met him myself and I hope I don't.

[@Elenavkuznetcova]

It is really sad that your dad involved you into this so you don’t have your relationship with grandpa. My dad didn’t have a good relationship with his dad. His dad started to drink heavily when he was 30 and my dad was 2. I really appreciate my dad’s attitude towards our relationship with grandpa. He never said anything bad about him when we were kids. My brother and I were the only grandkids our grandpa had. When my brother was born grandpa went to rehab facility and stop drinking. He was amazing with us. I am really glad my dad didn’t program us against him because he personally felt bad about him. Maybe a year before my grandpa died he finally told me how hard it was to be a soldier during WWII. He also told how he loved a woman but his parents organized his marriage with my grandma. Same thing happened to my grandma. It was unhappy marriage from beginning to end. It was Soviet Union and divorce was not an option. Grandpa started to drink as many others. I love my grandma but she is not an easy woman even to live with. The whole point is what happened between your grandpa and grandma- their relationship. You probably don’t even know the whole story. But you and your grandpa should build your own relationship. Don’t waste this opportunity just because your dad and your grandma hate this man

[@jamiesmiles8312]

The couch in the yard reminded me of one of our neighbors calling the city on us because our yard hadn't been mowed. It wasn't anything terribly high and we planned on cutting it that weekend (like most normal people). Because we have small/short dogs we do make a real effort to keep our yard cut on a regular basis. I think this particular time we skipped one weekend, so it was due, but not a forest! She is an older lady who does nothing but work in her yard all day long while my husband and I work during the week. Well...the city gave us 10 DAYS to "rectify the situation" or we would be fined. Although we had absolute FULL intentions of cutting it in two days (on a Saturday), we waited the FULL TEN DAYS before cutting it. Additionally, anytime we were on a 10 day "notice" we made sure to be outside "trimming trees or weed-eating," but not actually cutting the lawn. We continued to do this for every notice we received (about 5) until the calls stopped and she realized that she would get what she wanted much quicker if she just let us cut it when our schedule permitted. Haven't received a notice in about 4 years now!

[@amandaloel1782]

Maybe she carked it

[@LadyAdakStillStands]

Charlotte, we have a problem. One 20 minute video turns into 90 minutes of reading comments. I almost burnt dinner. Respectfully, AdakStillStands

[@wardiya3arbiya]

Same here

[@Ally.81]

Same 😅😅😅

[@credendovides20]

If someone is reading comments and wants a fun-fact: in Italy we do often put sugar in "Bolognese sauce". It's an old tradition to compensate for the acidity. At least one spoon for every 5 or 6 tomatoes. The USA Bolognese sauce and our "ragù alla Bolognese" are not the same thing, but in both are often traditionally added spoons of sugar. Especially in the North of Italy, people used to put sodium bicarbonate, but sugar became more popular in the last centuries. So your nonna would be proud nevertheless.

[@golden_leader9227]

​@@credendovides20 yes! As an italian too, i wanted to comment on that.

[@doriwilson6991]

😂🙋‍♀️ yeah I am guilty of getting lost in the in the comments.

[@kendradamm1428]

I love it when Charlotte goes off on a tangent, telling the story of how she got a free chair once that turned out to be full of dead mice, then forget what the point of the story was. As an ADHD story teller myself, I can relate. 😝

[@erikarussell1142]

Same

[@jacquelineess1141]

Mary Jane also does that to ya. Charlotte has hinted at it many times. :)

[@kaoutermouslimhaliba7145]

I thought she was going to suggest to take it somewhere where professionals would clean it before taking it home.

[@ambera7225]

​@@kaoutermouslimhaliba7145I was worried Charlotte was going to say that they found human or animal flesh

[@ivania321]

the smell uuuggghhhh

[@sparxravencroft]

Fun fact: if something is put out on the curb or in a trash receptacle out by the curb for pick up, it is considered public property and therefore up for grabs by anybody. Also, the best petty compliance I have ever done was at my job. Picture this it's 3 minutes until closing time (my McDonald's closes at 11). We have a lady come through drive-thru. I'm like welcome to McDonald's, what can I get for you tonight? She starts out nice and polite, gives me her order, then mentions needing a replacement for an item from a messed up order from a week ago. We have a log for replacement orders so we can know who needs what replaced. I ask her what her name is , who she talked to, and when so I can find her in the log. She tells me her name, says the date she "called", and that the manager she talked was someone named Lindsey or Leslie she wasn't sure. Well her name wasn't in the book anywhere and the managers she mentioned Lindsey never worked there and Leslie had quit a month prior. So I tell her to pull forward and we'll keep checking the book. She pulls forward (it's now 30 seconds to closing time) and the person in window tells her we can't find her in our book. He tries to explain to her that without proof of purchase we can't help her (this is policy). She starts getting rude telling the person in window to look again. He tells her we looked at every page and entry in the book and can't find her name. She demands to speak to the manager. So we get the manager. He tries to explain to her what she was just told we can't find her name in the book without proof of purchase we cant help her. She get even more rude. It is now 12 minutes past close. The manager closes the window and walks away before he loses his temper because she wasn't listening. So I just want to finish cleaning the restaurant and go home. I ask the manager if he wants me to just get her cashed out hand her her food and get her on her way. He says yes but try to hurry we need to do closing tasks. I say ok and go to the window. I open the window and she instantly starts demanding to know my manager's name. She's all what's his name ?! I want his name! Give me his name! I tell her due to safety policies I can not give her his name, however I do need $11.34 to get her cashed out and on her way home with the food she ordered. She keeps demanding the manager's name. I think I told her like 3 times I can't give it to her and that i needed $11.34 to get her her food and get her on her way home. She goes, "You need to listen!" At this point, I'm done with this interaction. I'm tired, I want to do my closing tasks and go home. So I cut her off saying "No, you listen, it's currently 11:14. That's 14 minutes past our closing time. I need $11.34 to get you cashed out so you can have your food and be on your way home. Because without proof of purchase I can't help you, and I can't give you the manager's name due to safety policy." She yells at me to "SHUT THE F-ING WINDOW THEN!" So I said "ok" and did what she said. I shut and locked the window. The look on her face was priceless. It said to me "the audacity of doing what I said and not arguing back." Petty compliance at its finest.😂 Stay safe and stay awesome 💜

[@sparxravencroft]

TLDR: had a lady come through drive-thru and order food then try to get free food. Plan failed so she got rude and demanded private information on the manager. Was told no help could be given to the free food, and no private info would be given to her. She gets told her total so she can get the food she ordered but no free food. Keeps demanding private info. Is told to either pay her total and take her food or leave the drive-thru because it's after closing time. She says to shut the f-ing window. So I said ok, shut the window and locked it. Look of audacity was my prize for petty compliance.

[@brendaokuda2158]

About 20 yrs ago, my husband & 2 sons sat down to eat dinner & I hear muttering. I look up & my husband goes, "Really? This again?" Mind you, I worked 60 hrs a week as a hairstylist, shopped for all the groceries, cooked every meal plus making lunches for them all AND kept a spotless house. Who did these people think I was? Martha Stewart? So, I politely got up from the table, took their plates & threw everything in the trash....including what was on the stove. The next day I went to the grocery store & bought about 60 frozen dinners. I continued to buy frozen dinners for 2 solid months. Then I figured, "I haven't cooked for awhile. Maybe they've learned their lesson." Nope. I spent my one day off making homemade lasagna from scratch only to have my husband come through the door & say, "What is that awful smell?" I proceeded to take said lasagna out of the oven & toss it into the garbage......& hand him a microwave dinner & repeated the process for another 2 months. It's been 20 yrs. Not ONCE has anyone said a word about my cooking since.....and I'm an excellent cook. Just a petty potato 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Y3w3lz]

Agree with everything but throwing the food away. I get it was to make a point but I would have finished the lasagna and taken it to the nearest fire station. They always appreciate home made meals.

[@brendaokuda2158]

@@Y3w3lz Yes. But at the time I was so mad that this never even crossed my mind.

[@Aintbovvered]

@@Y3w3lzooo, filing this one away for next time. Thank you.

[@kellysong2256]

Good for you! I think I had the same husband as you do. I am a good cook (lots of people have said so), so when my husband kept whining about the food I made, I stopped cooking for HIM. I made just enough food for myself and the kids, so he was on his own. I NEVER COOKED FOR HIM AGAIN

[@typhoid666]

why do people stay with partners who obviously don't respect them

[@kneumann2949]

My stepdad told me off once for "leaving a light on" in a room when I wasn't in there, despite the fact that I was fully intending to go back into that room. He said it didn't matter. My mom overheard. To get back at him for being stupid, my mom proceeded to take every single light bulb out of the house- Including the one in the fridge. We lived in darkness until he acknowledged his mistake. That was fun.

[@thatonewitch]

How long did the darkness last?

[@susankaempfer8427]

That’s dedication.

[@kristygalbavy5253]

Lol! Old buddy of mine, one day, decided he would have a "white trash Tuesday" party each Tues evening. With that, he purchased a few old, used couches, and would place them on front lawn every Tues nite, for party. Needless to say, they were good times! The couches were put back into garage after each party. Neighbors got a kick out of it & some would even attend the parties. We all loved it! 😆 Good times!!

[@tarawells1553]

My mum was a server as a teen and a couple left the remainder of their change from the bill….it was 1p. She only realised when they were almost getting into their car so she ran as fast as she could just to catch him up, give him the penny and said “I’m sorry sir, it seems like you need this more than me” and just walked away. She said she pulled the best pity face for him like he’d just had crappy news Perfect petty is when you can really F someone off but you’ve been polite so they can’t do anything!

[@cshijinx]

My grandfather used to complain about my grandmother having really bad migraines. One day God gave him the worst migraine he ever experienced and my grandma looked at him and said "hmm must be a bad one" gave him an ice pack and said "come one it's just a migraine " which were his words to her when she had her last one. He never mocked her illnesses again because in his words "God and your Memaw dont like ugly."

[@AthayaDubois-ll8zh]

When my great grandpa and grandma were in their first year of marriage, he made a comment about "why did she do her hair like that when it looks so much better in the twist she does?" The next day my grandma gave him the brush and said that if he wanted to make comments about her hair then he could do her hair himself. Well, him being the stubborn man he is even to this day decided that he would do her hair. He still does her hair to this day (even though he is now 91). My grandma says that after three months of him doing her hair it had changed from both of them being stubborn and proving a point to genuinely enjoying the activity together. However if you ask her she says she was right because she has never had to do her own hair if she didn't want to for almost over 70 years, but he says that he was right because he never saw her hair in a style that he didn't like for almost 70 years and every time someone brings up something petty you can see them smile at each other from across the room.

[@nscan2]

My husband complained I was making too much spaghetti bolognaise (back in the beginning of our marriage when money was tight), we’ve been married 31 years now and I’ve never cooked spaghetti bolognaise again. When we were first courting I bought him a nice watch, he got the shits with me one day and threw it in the ocean, I have never bought him another watch to this day Back in the day when mum and dad were first married they had a wood fired stove. Dad hadn’t chopped the wood in a while and the rack was empty. He came home from work ready to eat tea and mum put a raw steak and raw vegetables on a plate in front of him. He didn’t say a word, just got up chopped the wood and filled the stove. Mum was so petty I’m proud of her lol.

[@angelahamilton1656]

My father was having an affair. My mum waited till he was in a drunken sleep and smeared mustard on his bits. He thought he’d caught something as he was so sore the next morning. He went to the doctors but never spoke to my mum about it. She passed in 2023 but had 25 years freedom after her divorce. She was the most amazing woman ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@SpicyPisces3]

I am so very sorry for your loss. I lost my mom 01/23/2023 and I am just this week coming out of my depression. (Thanks to a lot of trial and error with antidepressants. I had anxiety and depression before my mom died, but her death put me into "major Depressive disorder.")

[@ttthecat]

Thank you so much for sharing the wisdom of that brilliant and wonderful woman! My sincere condolence on your loss.

[@wardiya3arbiya]

❤❤❤❤

[@lindabirkes-lance8915]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Grandma!! My husband and I had been married for about a year. One night he said, "Don't make pork chops anymore." Next night, "Don't make hamburgers any more." This nonsense complaining continued till he hit everything I made. I said if he didn't want to eat what I made he didn't have to. So for two weeks I made a single serving of food and sat and ate in front of him not having any food. I WON! After that he learned not to complain about my menu choice and cooking. Petty early in marriage = No complaining for a long time.

[@LauraSchendel-ko1qk]

Once on a flight, a lady was complaining snd complaining to me that she didn’t want to sit next to a black man. I said OK and took the man up front to sit in First Class! She screamed at me saying “why didn’t you just let ME sit in First Class???” To that I responded, “In order to be seated in First Class, you have to have some.” Flight Attendants RULE! LOL!

[@catgrrrl5666]

😂❤

[@mommamia9948]

This was beautiful 😂

[@fabulousnewt770]

😅😅😅

[@OhTheShade]

I love this!!

[@liveyourlife510]

Love it

[@AuntieJensFamilyTrees]

My Mom is super petty! Always was with my dad. One of her favorite stories that she liked to tell was when Dad was backing up her gold Gran Torino with the matching fishing boat. She was trying to give directions and help and he told her to shut up. So she did. Even when he was heading toward the mailbox. She didn't say a word. Even when he hit the mailbox and scratched her car. He gets out and says, why didn't you tell me I was close to the mailbox. She just looked at him with a straight face and said, you told me to shut up, so I didn't say a word. And then he had to fix the damage done to her car.

[@golden_leader9227]

I love your mum.

[@mammadragon2463]

my late grandma LOVED Christmas and Christmas decor. my grandpa once made a comment about how she had SO MANY tubs of the stuff, that she needed to go through it and get rid of some (for context, my grandpa was and still is just as bad of a hoarder). granny was mad, but she obliged and ended up giving my mom 6 large totes of the decor. Apparently, it wasn't enough for Pawpaw. He said she needed to get rid of more and that, in his opinion, she shouldn't have more than 3 totes of the stuff... Granny donated some to a couple friends... and then went to Walmart and Hobby Lobby and ended up with about 4 more totes of Christmas decor.

[@Sofia-js4xp]

My grandma, who’s still alive, 91 yrs old and fitter than a fiddle, is fucking iconic. This spanish woman got married to a portuguese man (my grandpa), bc her sister’s husband knew him from work and they were introduced that way, and her sister wanted my grandma to come live close to her in Portugal. My grandma, who has a lot of suitors and wasn’t really that interested in settling down, bc she had her own work, her own money and liked her independence, was finally convinced to go for this guy since he made a lot of grand gestures in the beginning and she figured that her biological clock was ticking, so she might as well settle down soon kf she wanted to have kids (she was in her late twenties/early thirties). And also, ofc, her sister living in the same city was kind of s deciding factor. Well, she marries him, and they have 3 children together. My abuelita came from a pretty wealthy family and had always had a maid growing up, so when she came to Portugal she didn’t even knownhow to cook an egg, she told me that she remembers calling her parent’s house back in spain to ask her nanny how to to it. But my grandma has always been a go-getter, she was raised by a feminist father who told all of his daughters that they should work and be independent, and she put that same attitude towards learning how to do housework and take care of her children (3 sons). Well, things were pretty good in the beginning, but soon she noticed that my grandpa started to change (or show his true colours). As she tells it, she started to notice how different portuguese women were treated compared to spanish women in city she’d come from. In Spain, the husbands went to work and made money, but when they came home they handed it over to the wife, who managed the household. Well, in Portugal things didn’t work the same - she started noticing how women on the streets were always wearing clothes of lesser quality than their men. How her husband refused to ”give” her money to spend on clothing, school things snd even food for her kids. Finally, she had to resort to making jewelry and meat pies, anything she could sell at a food stall to get money because her husband refused to give her access to any funds, and she started to suspect that he was cheating, then got confirmation. Ofc she told him that she was leaving him, going back to her parents house in Spain, but back then the man of the household held all authority over the children, so he told her that she could leave, but she’d be doing it without her children - so, she stayed. (Apparently this happened to a lot of spanish women around this time, as my grandma tells it. They were lured over the border by portuguese men and then trapped by having kids with them, and most mothers can’t leave her kids). So, yeah, she stayed, and the night she found all this out she went to sleep on the couch - but then she thought, ”am I stupid? Why am I the one sleeping on this uncomfortable fucking couch? I’m not the one who’s done something wrong”. So she went to their bedroom and told my grandpa to go sleep on the couch. He said no. She said ”ok, this is what we’ll do then. We’ll both sleep on this bed (it was s big ornate bed, a wedding present from her parents and I think it had been their before they gave it to her), it’s big and we’ll both fit in it. But mark my words - if you so much as touch me with ONE finger, I’m gonna kick you off of this bed and then God have mercy, cause only he knows what I’ll do to you.” (My grandwa was and is a devout catholic, so she meant her words lol and he knew it). He never touched her again. She waited until her youngest son had left for college, then she packed her bags and left with only the possesions that could fit in her car. She drove to Spain, a new town cause her parents were dead and her hometown didn’t really feel like home without them there, and besides, she’d found work as a secretary in a beach town. There, she bought an apartment in a high-rise with the help of one of her sons (my uncle), and made a new life for herself. She’s best friends with her neighbour, walks down to the beach almost every day and the best part is that she can afford a better life because of my grandpa’s stupid pride. You see, my grandma is catholic, like I mentioned, and never wanted to divorce, or get married more than once, both because she takes wedding vows very seriously, but also because she’d just fuck8ng sick and tired of men and never wanted to settle down with one again, so she figured that divorcing or not didn’t matter to her cause she wasn’t ever planning on getting married again either way. But she’s a very practicsl woman, so she said that it went against her principles to innitiatena divorce, but if he wanted one she didn’t fuckng care either way, so if he put the papers in front of her she’d sign them, her concience clear in that she did her best to the bitter end. Well, grandpa wanted a divorce BUT he didn’t want to withstand the humiliation of living like a divorced man, so he told her that no, he wasn’t gonna give her any papers to sign. She shrugged and left. Well a few years later, when she was close to retiring, my grandpa was in a car accident. I’m not at all saying that he deserved it or anything like that, but perhaps karma has a way of making things right, because he’d been a heavy smoker and the car crash basically killed him bc of that (which, of couse, I wouldn’t wish on anyone, let alone him, that’s not the part that I think is karma). The part that feels like divine retribution for my grandma is that since they were never divorced, the government granted her the right to recive his pension as well as her own, as is the practice in both Spain and Portugal, I believe. So after all that she had to endure, at least she got monetary compensation in the end (which she saves, because like her father taught her, she doesn’t ever want to have to be dependsnt on anyone). This woman is so fucking strong, she’s 91 yrs old and in the last 5 years she’s broken 4 bones - every single time she gets upp, takes herself to the doctor, and even if her foot is broken she continues to walk on it because she says that the day she stops like everyone tells her to, will be the day that she dies. She herself says that she was born sith the damndest luck - that any time she watches a football game, her tesm looses, and resl life is the same - but, she was also born more stubborn than a damned mule, and that’s what serves her well. If she wants something, she ends up getting it, even if it’s out of sheer spite. I adore her❤️

[@amazinggrace5692]

Beautiful story. Love her!!

[@llamathedrama1454]

Someone should make this either a book or a movie

[@stonerified]

That was a lot to read but SOOOO worth it lol

[@Christina_Mai]

I adore her too!!!

[@b00ksrb3tt3rthanppl]

SHES FUCKING AMAZING!!! MY NEW IDOL

[@EscapeReality94]

Our family has a rule when it comes to get togethers. 2 adults serve all the children their food. Than everyone gets their own food (eldest to youngest) we been doing it this way for decades. Its efficient! Well a family member middle aged got married and they wife always came over looking like something was stuck up her butt. She also always demanded her husband to bring her her food. Oh! I should also mention, we would put all the animals out side on the closed off porch with some food of their own so they didn't get in our way. Okay so i think it was the 3rd time that the woman came over. She obviously demanded her meal. (And i mean obviously if someone wants to get you some food that is absolutely fine! It was the demanding that made us all mad.) But yeahh so the husband looked embarrassed and went to go get her food. My grandma cut in and said, "no no no no i will get it for you hunny!" My grandma took her time making up the plate. Once she was done she took it, walked right passed the wife who was reaching out, went onto the porch and left the plate out there. The wife said, "uhm wheres my food?" My grandma said, "i put your food out where all the other [feamale dogs] are supposed to eat." And then walked away. The husband soon after divorced her and is now happily married! 😂❤

[@TheBaumcm]

God bless your grandma😂. She’s out there doing the Lord’s work.

[@EscapeReality94]

@@TheBaumcm ABSOLUTELY! 🥰

[@lauraburt1113]

Omg a chance to share this story. My mom was the petty wife and my dad clapped back and made her head explode. It's been like 30/40 years and she's still mad at him about it and he's still very slyly proud. They had some kind of fight and my mom threw a pork chop at him at the dinner table. My dad, not wanting to give her the satisfaction, said nothing. He just picked up the pork chop and ate it without a word. Her head exploded right off her shoulders she was so pissed at him for the lack of reaction. If pork chop is said around them she grumbles about it under her breath and glares at him and he just smiles all sweet like he doesn't know what's going on. 🤣

[@sabrinabellefeuille6377]

Everyone at my mom's, husband's job always knew when my mom was mad at him. She would do all his laundry and iron all of his clothes. He worked at a higher executive job. He was color blind she would mismatch his tie his socks and his shirts and his pants, but he never knew until his office would laugh and say "oh is Linda mad at you?"😂 My mom is gone now but Tim and I still communicate and miss her very much❤

[@jazmin9817]

When my grandma found out my grandpa cheated on her, she drove all the way to his mistress house and dropped off my four ants and my dad (he is the youngest and was two at the time) telling them “to have fun”. She didn’t came home until the fifth day with divorce papers and a lawyer. When asked what she did in those five days, she just tells me “ life is a buffet and you get to try a little bit of everything”. 😏

[@ellingtonlilly]

i am in love with lawn couch lady!!! I have a little set up outside where i live (no HOA though and in a small place so not the same sitch') and my neighbours have started leaving extra additions and complimenting 'my office' and bringing me lil gifts from their home garden when they pass by and chat and its a friggen gem to have all this sweetness. I started making homemade dog biscuits to share with all the people passing by with their pups and its gone over unimaginably well and just....all this to say; outdoor furniture is f'n DOPE

[@Curlysmurph]

My mum and dad were married in 1960 and the first time my mum made chops for dinner, my dad asked why it wasn’t cut off the bone and cut up, like his mother used to do for him. My mum basically said that she wasn’t his mother, she was his wife and if he wanted to eat, he’d have to cut his meat himself. He never asked for ‘help’ again!!

[@MrsDonnaE]

In 1995, as a newlywed, my husband commented several times that my cooking wasn’t like his Moms. After 12-14 hours of prep and cooking at Christmas, because we couldn’t go home to family, I served everything my Mom would have… and he didn’t like it. Any of it. I’d forgotten egg nog, even though it was never served in our home and he did not mention it until that day. Well, it’s 2024 and he still cooks…

[@Kayenne54]

Yup. Don't like how I do it, the job is yours.

[@ahtamclovin]

My daddy (murdered by his girlfriends husband, but that’s another story) told my mama she didn’t make his scrambled eggs 🥚 like my granny,his mama, did so she and my aunt took the plate 🍽 into the kitchen and chopped up the eggs and brought em back NOW they were right, I like my eggs the same way scrambled chopped up with mayo, daddy has been gone since I was 5 nature over nurture 🤷🏼

[@MrsDonnaE]

@@ahtamclovin As I read your reply, I got the giggles. My Great-Uncle, (thank you LadyKris3345) was run over by a horse & buggy, being driven by his girlfriend. She believed he’d been cheating… I laugh way harder than I should every time I recall reading about it. We are a hot-tempered people 🤣😂🤣😂

[@LadyKris3356]

​@@MrsDonnaEgreat-uncle. The brother of your grandfather is your great-uncle. 😉

[@catgrrrl5666]

👏👏👏❤

[@KGrommon21]

My dad was coming home from work one night (he was a mechanic, saw a woman broken down on the side of the road and helped her get back on the road) and my mom LOST it. The shop was already closed and cell phones weren’t a thing back then. She stood in front of the window in our dining room waiting for him to come down the driveway. As he’s coming down the driveway, she grabs dinner, walks outside, and makes eye contact with him as she throws it on the ground for the dogs…… God rest her soul, woman was next level petty and absolutely NUTS. 😂💀

[@Scarlett.Granger]

My grandpa once told my grandma he wouldn't eat her selfmade bread because she hadn't learnt to be a baker, but the baker had, so he would eat the bread from the bakery. She told him he could then eat only the bread from the bakery because she wasn't a professional chef either so he shouldn't have to eat what she cooks.

[@ahtamclovin]

I had a friend who told me a story she made fresh bread for her family among other things but her son complained about the other kids at school having “real” bread for lunch, 🥪 as in store bought

[@Scarlett.Granger]

@@ahtamclovin bruh fresh bread is amazing. Also tbh my grandma's fresh bread is at least as good as the one from the bakery.

[@janelorenzen3770]

@@ahtamclovinMy mom baked the most heavenly bread, and while my dad and I sat down to eat it hot from the oven, she would open up a bag of store-brand white bread. I asked her why she was basically eating polyester batting instead of her fresh bread, and she explained that her family didn’t have much money, and only the rich kids got store-bought bread. For as long as she lived, that cheap store-bought bread was the very taste of luxury to her.

[@zeldapeax8311]

​@@janelorenzen3770I'm surprised she would like the flavor better..?

[@janelorenzen3770]

@@zeldapeax8311 It tasted fancy and special. To her.

[@shawnsisler3743]

My grandpa went out with his friends shortly after grandma had their first child, he didn't come home for three days. It was late February, very cold, but he thought if he brought home and ice cream cone and she took it, everything would be fine. Yes, she took that cone, then she proceeded to bop him on his head with a rolling pin, knocking him out. Then she dragged him out onto the sun porch, which was a cold room in winter, lay him on the day bed, covered him with a few quilts, and left him. 3 days later he stumbled into the house and she says, "Oh, I thought you might be dead and was waiting for the dr.". This was in the early 1930s and doctors made house calls on rural homes. Grandpa was very well behaved from that day forward...lol She was a tiny terror, but she was my spirit animal.

[@MissiSen199]

My grandad would always complain there was never enough of jam on his soda bread. So my Nan started putting a whole small jar of jam on his soda bread until he apologized. When he asked for a wet towel to clean of the jam stickiness, she gave him dry toliet roll as the tissue would stuck to his fingers. He apologized 3 days later. 😂😂😂

[@peachesnmulder]

My mom's neighbor, who we will call Batty Patty, across the street complained to the city about a small detached shed my mom had. While it was technically against bylaw, the property was bought that way and therefore the bylaw didn't apply. When the neighbor called the city again they came out, spoke to my mother and then walked across the street to speak with BP. They noticed her carport was not up to code and she was told to remove it. She refused and was paid a visit by the city every few weeks. One day the cops attend with the city and was told if she didn't remove the carport the city would "detach" it for her. She moved.

[@ccurren]

I love that nickname!!!! 😂😂 "Batty Patty," lmao such a Perfect name for a crazy Karen.

[@erikarussell1142]

The same thing kinda** happened with my property. The garage was too close to the alley for the towns comfort, but because of the way the property (almost 200 year old home and farm land) was divided and sold, there was nothing they could do. Well, while it was between owners just before my fiancé bought it, they leveled the garage, and since then, they’ve denied any building of any kind on our property for the last 6 years. So bogus. But there isn’t much we can do since we are the new kids in a very old very very veerrrry small town. It sucks, but I’m trying to get more involved with town meetings and city council etc.

[@peachesnmulder]

@@erikarussell1142 absolutely get involved. See who you need to talk to and rub shoulders with to get permission to build.

[@erikarussell1142]

@@peachesnmulder I’m trying. But as the new kid, it’s super hard. There is just over 100 people here. It’s so small if you spit while going through town, you will miss it. It’s literally 3 blocks wide and 5 blocks long. And the narrowest part of town is what’s off the highway. I tried so hard this past year, and I got invited to things (which was a huge leap) but they didn’t allow me to get involved and they took none of my ideas or gifts for the fall festival. I didn’t even get chosen to volunteer. Instead they all claimed no one wanted to volunteer and boo hoo. Lol whatever, Ik it’ll take time, but seriously, I’ve been trying for five years. I’m not giving up any time soon. As stubborn and petty as they are? I promise you, I’m younger, I have more patience for your games, and I WILL win. Lol

[@abbynormal3068]

@@erikarussell1142 💪😄

[@thunderpants3500]

"I'm sorry for recording you farting in your sleep and setting it as your custom ring tone-" I thought it was something worse but her attitude matched his behavior!~🤣 What a perfect couple!

[@privateaccount2056]

not my grandparents, but my parents. My mom used to make homemade biscuits from scratch and my dad made a comment years ago that they were like hocky pucks. (they didn't rise properly one time while they were baking.) My mom has not made them since. She also refuses to cook now after cooking dinner every day for the last 32 years of their marriage and now he cooks and makes enough leftovers we eat throughout the week. She rarely cooks dinner now and I think it's hilarious. She stopped cooking because he got a new fancy grill and made some comment about her not doing anything while he works all day. Serves him imo XD

[@pamhuffman4529]

I've told this story before, but it's such a great petty grandma story so I'll repeat. One year my grandmother arranged a dinner party. She invited her best friends, grown kids, and went all out making a really nice dinner. When it was done she pulled out a beautifully decorated cake. "Oooh, what's the occasion?" Her best friend asked. "My birthday," grandma replied. Mom said grandma was the only one who enjoyed the cake.

[@daisy9910]

I hope she ditched those fake friends?

[@dainahir]

NOBODY remembered her birthday?? Thats insane

[@missnaomi613]

@@martina21953 do something nice for yourself, within your means. Whenever it is, have a happy birthday. 💖

[@dainahir]

@@martina21953 I would tell my kids that it would make me happy to celebrate with them, but if thats not the case, you can have fun on your own doing something you enjoy, maybe shushi and wine for dinner or watching a maraton of movies with a lot of snacks and sweets

[@jeanams07]

​@@martina21953 I have learned if I want my birthday celebrated with people who care about me in a way I will truly enjoy, I plan it myself. A lot of people don't like celebrating their birthday for one reason or another, and often assume others are the same way. So the best way to get the birthday celebration you want is to plan it yourself and invite all your loved ones. Or at least ask your closest loved ones to plan one for you. They may just assume for whatever reason you don't like celebrating your birthday and that is why they never have done anything for you. Also it is never too late to make new friends who really care enough to make it a priority to celebrate your birthday with you.

[@jaymersp]

My grandfather cheated on my grandma. When she found out she moved in with his best friend of over 30 years, began a relationship with said best friend.Brought him to every family event. Brithdays, holidays, bbqs.

[@ttthecat]

LEGENDARY!!!🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@doriwilson6991]

Grandma is a gangster 😂😂

[@derekg5563]

@jaymersp: It looks like she did that not out of anger, but out of happiness: happiness that she was given the green light to do that, which she apparently really wanted to do and maybe was waiting to do and eventually got the perfect chance :)

[@TheBirdPerch]

Grandpa had a fling, he's a fisherman so he is always on his boat. He always bring this chocolate woth him, but he doesn't like sweets! Grandma is already doubtful. Grandma caught him, they never separated but grandma still put those sweets on the table day and night for everyone to see and eat. Just to remind grandpa about it. But now its a tradition. She died last 2020. Gone but never forgotten.

[@CraftySprig]

My grandpa was a self-diagnoser. My grandma loved chocolate to the point that she always stashed it so no one else could find it. It was hers. My grandpa one day decided that he was "allergic to chocolate." She moved her fancy box of chocolates from their secret spot to smack dab in the middle of the kitchen table where my grandparents spent most of their time. She was so happy to have them there and eat them in front of him lmao.

[@muddygirl8819]

My dad during a fight told my mom he didn’t appreciate her bringing him coffee in bed in the morning. She never served him another cup of coffee again, even if he was sitting 3 feet away at the kitchen table. She would make the cup of coffee for him if she was getting one and leave it on the counter by the pot for him to go get. 😂

[@kaeilia]

Not my grandmother, but my mother. When my parents first got married, she would cook for him and he'd get home and say "It's good, but mom makes it like [insert whatever]". My mother replied with "Fine, then she can make that for you." He started running out of meals for her to make before he finally learned to shut up... Funny thing is, because of this, he learned to cook on his own and now cooks 99% of meals when the family gets together XD The training is real!

[@chrismichaels462]

My grandfather had a habit of slamming his coffee cup on table when he wanted more coffee. My grandmother replaced all the cups and mugs with Styrofoam cups. 😂

[@saschamayer4050]

My husband would die. He hates Styrofoam and the noise it makes. I just hope it will never come to this, for his sake... 😄

[@LynnMcbeth-hp4tb]

I have so many petty stories from working as a server for over 20 yrs but this is one of my favorites. My first serving job was in a popular Italian chain restaurant and I had this couple that had been rude, demanding, complaining and just all around horrible the whole time start to finish. They pay and left me PENNIES as a tip. I eye is twitching am about to lose it. Then they have the NERVE to demand, they didn't ask, for fresh bread sticks to go! Dude when I say I snapped, I mean I had a complet break down. I smiled " Absolutely, be right back". I went to kitchen made sure I grabbed the freshest, hottest breadsticks put them on an insulated bread bag and proceeded to pound ever loving crap out of it! I then removed the flattened breadsticks and put them in a new bag. I also dropped a couple of ice cubes in before I sealed it...oops. returned to the dinning room handed them the and with nicest, sweetest smile said Enjoy! The looks from my coworkers was priceless, I had lost my mind. Never got in trouble for either.

[@marissadecruz4525]

Another story (happened very recently) - My mother went out of her way to buy a cake for my grandma’s birthday. However, my grandma yelled, screamed and berated my mother for buying a cake no one asked her for in the first place. My mum took a deep breath, took the cake and put it right in front of my grandma. She then proceeded to light the candles and roused the rest of us to sing, “Happy Birthday” to my grandma (complete with hand clapping and hand stomping) as loudly as possible. My mum then ended the birthday song by shouting, “Jesus, save us”, to which my grandmother finally (and grudgingly) admitted defeat and blew out her birthday candles. 😂 P.S. Thanks for brightening my day with your videos, Charlotte!

[@RONINPUNKtachi20]

I got a petty story from my grandmother 😂 I’ll forever remember this. So when I was born, my grandparents (both from my moms and my dads) were coming to the hospital to see me. My grandmother from my dad side was making her way out when my grandfather was trying to get in. For a little context, my grandmother and grandfather (from my dad’s side) are not together and they don’t like each other. They had a very messy relationship but they were both there for the support of my dad. So, my grandfather ( my dads side) was having a hard getting inside the hospital because they weren’t allowing him in unless my dad was there to confirm. (None of them had phones, it was 1991 and he lied to the nurses saying that he was my mothers dad) when he saw my grandmother, he pointed her out that she knew him. the nurse had asked her if she knew my grandfather, she gave him the most passive face ever before saying to the nurse “I have never seen this man before” and walked away. He didn’t get to see me until later that day, my dad was mad but my mom was laughing about it. I love my grandmother lol ❤

[@nyneeveanya8861]

My dad was in the military and was ocd about “A place for everything and everything in it place”. This was to the point where every nail, screw, and bolt had its own bottle and position on the shelf. He always kept the phone on the upper left corner of his desk. My mom’s pettiness…she always answered the phone on his desk even though there were four phones in the home and would move the phone to the middle of the desk just for pettiness. Dad even asked her once why she didn’t put it back. Her reply…because it bugs you. He never asked again just moved it back. His revenge… all spices in alphabetical order instead of by usage. Mom…who keep messing with the spices. Dad…me. Mom…why. Dad…because it bugs you. Both had their own systems for things that drove the other around the bend. But they loved, laughed, teased, and supported each the until dad passed and mom still cared until she joined him.

[@blanchekonieczka9935]

Was helping friends move to a new apartment. We loaded the truck, dropped off the first load at the curb and several of us started taking boxes and furniture into the new apartment. As we were unpacking boxes my friend's husband went out to bring in more furniture. Returned laughing. There were people looking over the furniture and discussing getting a truck to bring it home. They thought it was left outside for people to take. Friend's husband explained and they all had a good laugh. One man started helping to bring the furniture in.

[@bluebirdonmyshoulder5633]

My grandfather cheated on my grandmother. She packed up and moved out while he was at work and was unaware that she knew about the affair. She only left him a coffee maker, a bowl, a fork and a small frying pan in the kitchen. He called her complaining that he had to drink his coffee out of a bowl 😂

[@melissabryanmills7733]

😂

[@sandracox4341]

🤣

[@icarusbinns3156]

It was actually my granddad who was petty! Turns out, I get my (severe lack of) height from him. Grandma was at least six inches taller. It came from his height being stunted due to lack of food when he was a prisoner of war, 1943-1945. And grandma liked wearing high heels. So she always looked extra tall (we are a short family). She made the mistake of commenting on it. Once. After that, she could never find matching high heels in her closet! RIP, Granddad Maurice

[@teacupmagick7030]

My favorite petty moment as a cashier was when this family of grown adults was incredibly hateful and disrespectful, talking about how slow I was because they were in a hurry, making rude remarks and just talking crap. It was instant karma my friends, because it ended up that they needed change, and I had to call a manager to bring more change up...all for some pennies. They kept belittling me, and even had the AUDACITY to ask if I had change that I could just give them so they could be on their way. Right 😂 because I'm gonna go out of my way for you after you were jerks? Haha, think again, Karens and Kens! 😂 I made them wait for their change. It was only like 3 cents too. Sucks to suck! Bahahahaha.

[@Peaceful_Zen_Life]

When I was a waiter at Chili’s, there was a table with a 16-year-old girl and it was her birthday. She was there with her parents and her friend. And let me preface this with the fact that I’m an extremely patient and respectful person and this girl ordering me around like I was her personal slave. She wore my patients down to zero and at the back of the house I actually called her a bitch, which I would never do normally. And I told all the waiters that I wanted to do the stupid birthday song we have to do, but I want everybody to come with me and to sing as if they were singing to their own personal table a.k.a. at top of their lungs. And I literally got everybody but one person to come with me, because that one person had something else to do first and didn’t make it in time. The 16-year-old girl slowly went from being Caucasian to completely red. Her father thanked me and I gave him a wicked smile and said you’re welcome and he knew I didn’t do it out of kindness.

[@colleens1107]

Oooh revenge that can’t be complained about. MY WAITRESS SANG TOO LOUD is not going to get her in trouble. Kudos

[@Peaceful_Zen_Life]

@@colleens1107 lol thank!

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

Perfect Beat. 👍🏻🩷

[@sommerw478]

Maybe ten years ago my husband always begged me to make a certain type of cookie. The recipe calls for four cups of flour which is hard to mix with so little wet ingredients. I left a little flour out for better texture and he flipped! We had company over and he went on and on about “You made them wrong!! It changed the texture!! You have to blah blah blah”. Even my BIL said “your wife made cookies! They’re cookies! Shut up!” Ten years later do you think I even once have made those cookies for him. NO.

[@BrianAndresScott]

😅❤

[@sommerw478]

Awwwwwww Queen Charlotte ❤️ me

[@Stephanie-cl4fu]

Wow, he is an a-hole. He can do them himself then.

[@ameliecarre4783]

If he wants cookies, and he knows how they should be made, he can make them himself right ?

[@psuedonymph882]

Drop the recipe, sis! Then you can let him know that the whole internet is enjoying them without him.

[@twoweirdoswithkiddos7970]

My grandma was the calmest person. She served her pettiness with a smile and pure "kindness". It was so "kind" that my grandpa never exactly knew how to respond. LOL. It was so much fun to watch growing up.

[@robertdean2004]

My mum was Italian and she would always put a little bit of brown sugar in her bolagnaise sauce. When I asked her why she told me the sugar neutralises the acid in the tomatoes and helps prevent burping.

[@Myhomeeating]

I grew up next door to an Italian woman. She was the closest thing to a grandmother I had. She always put just a pinch of sugar in her sauce to neutralize the acidity. It doesn't make it sweet (I hate sweet sauce).

[@golden_leader9227]

Was about to comment on that. Here in Italy it's pretty common to balance the acidity of tomato sauce with some sugar :)

[@Dollgirl4896]

My italian godmother taught me the same thing

[@kerbearlynch15]

My granny worked in a shop called Austin's in Derry city when she was a young teenager. One night before closing she was asked to clean and wax the flooring. The next day the manager told my granny off telling her she didn't clean the floor properly. My granny apologised and said she'll try her hardest that evening at closing time. The next morning as the manager was walking into the shop they slipped and fell flat on their back, because my granny REALLY waxed the floor to the max!! Lol there was more things my granny done that were beyond petty but that had to be the greatest she ever done in her lifetime!! 😂

[@kimhamson1165]

In 2014 my neighbor's tree fell on my house during a tropical storm. Thankfully the fence between our homes took the brunt of it, I only had minor damage to my gutters. So, since the tree was mostly in my yard it was my responsibility to remove it. My insurance company was very backed up ( big storm, lots of damage, and it was the 4th one that month). I didn't push them too much as I knew there were people with trees in their living room, mine was in the yard. My neighbor called the city on me within days. So after seeing the warning stuck in my door I called the city inspector. He explained I had 30 days before I'd actually be cited. I finally got an adjuster out there a few days later and got my check. Contracted a tree guy to come on the 30th day. The contractor said we can be there in 3 days. Nope. On the 30th day of the warning (I just told him the date) or I'll find someone else. So if my neighbor hadn't been obnoxious, I would have taken care of it as soon as feasible. Because of his impatience he was unable to get his fence rebuilt for an additional 2 weeks, and I made money on the wood from the tree, lol. Don't mess with the quiet ones. They're always thinking.

[@thekmonkey101]

My grandma always cooked for my grandpa & he always added more salt before trying the food. That made her mad & he always refused to try it first. So she seasoned all his food one day with rock salt & served it. He added more salt & learned his lesson that day 😂

[@THEATERLOVER14]

My grandparents were married when she was 15 & he was 18. One of the first meals she made for him included biscuits. He took one threw it on the floor and said “they don’t bounce like mama’s do.” She never made biscuits for him again. 😂 They were married over 60 years.

[@melissasheppard6674]

my grandparents were married 62 years. they loved each other. my grandfather was the type to joke around and torment and one of the best men I knew. and my grandmother said once, when she was still living, that her biggest regret was never learning to dance.

[@CuppycakeWillow]

I once made a from scratch lasagne for my ex husband. I made my own pasta and roux-based white sauce and red sauce with fresh herbs. I spent about 5 hours making this dish that I'm sure all Italian Nonnas would be proud of. I set a plate in front of him and without even tasting it or complimenting me on my efforts, that MF asked for some Helmans mayo on the side. There are other reasons why he's an ex, but that's one of the things that had me thinking twice.

[@teresamanley6825]

My ex asked for ketchup when served mine, I mean WTF!!!

[@CuppycakeWillow]

@@teresamanley6825 we're both better off without them, I'm sure your lasagne is awesome!

[@teresamanley6825]

@CuppycakeWillow Absolutely, much better off! I'm sure yours was even better, all that time and effort must have been mouth-watering good.

[@saschamayer4050]

That reminds me of a date I had many years ago. We were going to some kind of medieval festival but by public transport because we both didn't own a car. I had made snacks because the food there was okay but expensive and I didn't have a lot of money at the time (young and broke). So I got there in my fancy medieval getup and with a heavy picnic basket full of self-made snacks. My date asked what it was and I told him. That little brat refused to taste anything I made because there where tomatoes, herbs and spices in it. Not because he's allergic. But because "he hates veggies and all green food". Well, at least I knew then that it wouldn't work out between us two. When I told him he was baffled and had no idea why.

[@evelynsart8123]

My Father made the mistake of telling my beloved petty Mother that ties (as in neck ties) were not appropriate gifts during their first Christmas together. My father got a tie for every birthday, fathers day and christmas until he passed away 59 years into their marriage. And being petty extreme, she got all four of us kids to give him ties for these present giving occasions too.

[@saracantrell7071]

THAT'S FANTASTIC. It's one thing to say "I prefer other gifts" or "I have enough ties, but thanks so much"...but to say they're "not appropriate gifts"? Nah, that's a sure fire way to get them all the time, haha.

[@wardiya3arbiya]

Ties nightmare 😂 or he grow into love ties gifts

[@lisam8105]

Childish.

[@sandralouth3103]

When my husband died my DIL made a tablecloth from all his ties. It is beautiful.

[@taleandclawrock2606]

That does sound kind of excessive. But maybe he really deserved it, and that was how she reminded him not to complain when someone tries to do something nice for you. 😅

[@CheshireLover343]

I think the pettiest thing my maternal grandma has ever done is to her late husband’s parents. They were really abusive to her and they bought a family plot before they died and my grandma has the remaining four plots. They were also incredibly racist so my grandma sold the plots right next to her mother-in-law to a Vietnamese couple. She always looks so smug when she tells the story.

[@abnmp7865]

Had a friend whose grandparents bought 6 plots for them and their two kids + spouses. Grand ma died and was buried in plot #1. Grandpa died and his wish was to be buried in plot #6 so he wouldn’t have to be next to her for eternity. 😂😂😂

[@myhubbyislouisvuitton4218]

People leave items outside of their house in the UK too! I always love to see it. It reminds me of how sweet humans can actually be.

[@jadeinthewoods]

When my grandmother was alive, she told me about how my grandfather hated pork, swore he couldn’t stand it and wouldn’t eat it. Then she said, “but he doesn’t know that I’ve been cooking pork all these years, telling him it’s beef and he can’t tell the difference.”😂 Apparently he does like it.🤷🏻‍♀

[@melocoton7]

my husband in a moment of insanity asked me why I haven't washed any clothes. We both work full time. I didn't touch the laundry for WEEKS after that. He got the message and is the king of laundry now 🤣🤣

[@wasabiwilson6219]

I was once staying with my grandparents during the summer for my birthday. My grandmother was trying to talk to my grandfather about something, and he wasn't happy with her because she had told him his lawnmower was a POS, and he TURNED OFF HIS HEARING AID! 🤣🤣🤣

[@josephinetijerino]

My brother lived with my grandparents during his middle to high school years. He secretly smoked cigarettes during high school since our grandparents were strict he did not want them to know. My grandmother caught on because the smell is pretty obvious. She always cooked us a nice lunch and one day it was time for lunch and he had no plate. He asked about it and she said “oh you’re still hungry? I thought you might be full from all those cigarettes you’ve been smoking” the look on his face. 😅

[@lji_btrfly]

My mom told me that not long after they got married, my dad complained about how she did his laundry. So she said if you don't like the way I do it, do it yourself. She NEVER did his laundry again.

[@violetlight8138]

I did this with my second husband. He always complained how I did it so I let him do it himself since he was so much better at it.

[@Jazzy-yp5dl]

My dad use to gloat about how our dog ((gift to my mother so really it was her dog)) loved him the most. Each time he'd say that to someone round, my dog would be in his lap. My mom would look over, pat her lap and the dog would bolt to her lap and settled back down, nuzzling into her. My dad could never get the dog to come back to him, he hated it lmao.

[@ThatGingerHannah]

I don’t know if this was petty or whatever but I managed to get my boyfriend while I was in middle school to break up with me because I was done with his crap and wanted to test a theory. When I was teen, I had low self esteem and extremely dependent on the idea that having a boyfriend was important. My boyfriend at the time was a guy I had been in a relationship with on and off for years. He would get mad at me for random reasons and break up with me for basically no reason. For example, he broke up with me at a dance because I was “acting weird”…I was dancing…at a dance. How is that weird? He didn’t like my personality and wanted me to essentially be submissive to him but I didn’t know that at the time because I was clueless and desperate for a relationship, even if the person was literal trash to me. We weren’t together for a while and he had just asked me to take him back. I was in 8th grade at the time, so 13. He said that he had changed, blah blah blah, same crap, different day. I was apprehensive but decided to give him another chance. Immediately after I took him back, I felt this uneasy feeling and regretted my decision. I get home, call my nana and talk to her about it. I tell her that I didn’t want to go to school the next day because I needed a day to just rethink my priorities because clearly my priorities weren’t in the right place at the time. She asks my mom for me if I could stay home the next day and my mom said I could but had to do chores, which I was more than willing to do so I didn’t have to see him. I spent the entire next day cleaning, jamming out to break up music (because angsty dramatic teen) and crying. 😂 but most importantly, scheming.. The next day, I get to school, get some breakfast with my friends and he comes up asking where I was the day before. I told him I was sick (of him 😂). He asks me if I was okay and I answer coldly saying I was at school so obviously I am okay. He looks at me completely confused over my sudden change in behavior. I was never allowed to be upset in front of him and if I ever was, even if it wasn’t about him, he would dump me. Never noticed that until that point. I ask my friends if they wanted to go to where the snacks and sodas are and they agree to go. He asks me if he could come and I tell him no, just the girls. Adding to the fire. I’m sitting in the student union, where we have snack and soda machines, with my friends and they ask what is going on. I tell them how I had a plan to get him to break up with me because I wanted to test a theory. If he really has changed then maybe he won’t react the same way by breaking up with me when he senses even an inkling of apprehension or “I’m acting weird” in his words. Crazy? Maybe. That’s what my friends thought until this happened… His cousin walks into the student union and tells me that he told her to tell me that “I was acting weird and that it is over.” Bingo! Theory has been proven and I honesty felt like I was on cloud 9 because I didn’t feel like I was the crazy one for once. He always made me feel crazy and would even call me crazy. When in reality, he was manipulating and trying to control me to be his idea of a perfect girlfriend. Quiet, small and submissive. I remember the looks on my friend’s faces and I smiled replying, “You can tell him that I am crying my eyes out and wishing we could have stayed together. Please emphasize that I am crying my eyes out.” I honestly think that last part was definitely me being crazy but I was living in the moment. She walks away to give him the message and not even a minute later he comes marching in, completely upset and glaring bullet holes into my smirking face. He asks sarcastically, “you’re crying, huh?” And I reply with, “like a baby.” He growls and stomps off. That was the last time we ever got together. After that day, he hated me and I was perfectly fine with that. He would try to flirt with me from time to time but I would pay no attention to him and that would drive him crazy but I didn’t care. He didn’t have control over me anymore. ❤

[@kristipearce4819]

I love this story! Such a satisfying ending! I’m reliving my grade school days vicariously through you! 😂

[@dr.groddtande4392]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 WOOO!!! my little middle school heart is exploding!!!

[@arlenedavis5770]

Good girl!!