‘What’s the pettiest thing someone has had a go at you for?’ – 22 arguments of truly impressive triviality
12.
‘My sister when she couldn’t find any other reason to have a go at me would yell at me for breathing too loud.
I had undiagnosed asthma but she was also an irredeemable c***.’
–HatOfFlavour
13.
‘Walking down the street, there’s a woman in front of me with her grandson, who’s on a bike. Can’t get past them as they’re taking up the entire pavement. As I stepped onto the quiet street to overtake them, the wee boy asked why he couldn’t take his bike onto the street. The woman glanced at me, then said aloud to her grandson, I’ll get hit by a car and it serves me right for walking on the street. Couldn’t help but give a loud chuckle when I heard it.’
–Auld-Northern-Lights
14.
‘My girlfriend once had an interaction with a woman who told her she should carry around a bottle of antibacterial spray to clean up after our dog who had just peed on a lamppost.’
–DoctorDR5102
15.
‘A security guard who yelled at me for filming a buddy on my phone in a shopping centre car park who said ‘I mean you could be filming this for Al Qaeda! I know you’re not but how am I supposed to know that?’.’
–padman6
16.
‘Worked with a guy where we traveled a fair bit. Stopped at the services and i bought a Yorkie bar. Guy went sulky and quiet for hours after I finished the Yorkie. Asked him what was wrong and he had a go at me for not offering him a chunk of the Yorkie bar. Literally thought he was joking so I said I’d give him a chunk of my apple. He got even more agitated. I got another job a month or so later.’
–ScienceComfortable85
17.
‘When I worked at a supermarket when I was younger, a customer complained that there were seagulls in the carpark and they’d shat on her car. Told her I’d have a word with them which she didn’t find funny, but I was leaving that job soon anyway so walked away laughing.’
–Hovisandflatfoot
18.
‘My husband’s entire family fell out with me because we asked his sister to not invite a whole family of extra people we’d never met before to our bonfire night family get together. It was so bizarre, like our marriage somehow gave them rights to decide who entered our home and who we catered for. I had absolutely no idea who these people were!’
–bbbbbfreestyle
19.
‘Everyone reacts with incredulity when I tell them that a man told me to stop read my book because the protruding eye on the cover my copy of The Vivisector was disconcerting his daughter.
I was in Costa coffee waiting for my train and he wouldn’t let it go until I’d folded the cover under so it wasn’t at all perceptible to his daughter. I received a harangue on public decency and the effects of horror on teenagers.’
–VelvetDreamers
20.
‘Whistling. ‘Hey mate, that’s the worst whistling I’ve ever heard. It’s terrible’.’
–nacnud_uk
21.
‘Someone threw a fit because I underarm threw my rucksack on the backseat of his car.’
–Significant-Bed375
22.
‘I have the neighbours from hell. Last year they started complaining to the council that my grass was too long and extremely unsightly (it was maybe 4 inches tall.) The reason it hadn’t been cut? I nearly died and was in hospital.
Council got back to them real quick and doesn’t even bother with their bs complaints now.’
–violetfirez