Are you Petty?

Is anyone here petty? Be honest. It's easy to say that we should instead be focused on the bigger picture in live, but every now and then we can't pretend something doesn't annoy us. Do you like to get your own back on people over small things to prove a point? Do you like giving someone a taste of their own medicine? And do you prefer to do it in such a way that the other person will be wondering whether it was you, or whether it was deliberate? Do you like to bring up something someone said in the past at the right moment in order to point out how someone is full of sh1t? In any case, I think people are a lot more petty people out there than what we are led to believe. So it's important to recognise such behaviour.



Take myself for example - if someone bangs their car door into mine when parked next to me (pet hate), or parks terribly at my expense, I may leave a nasty note on their car! Here's a few stories of my own pettiness. Tell me if if you think it's mean, or if it's fair game. And if you do not think such behaviour is mean, then tell if you think it's immature?

Story of pettiness

Recently I had a disagreement with two rough ladies (no masks) who wanted to skip a Covid19 queue to get into our store. They pretended to misunderstand the queue system, and I had to explain clearly how it worked and that they'd to go back to the start. They tried to get me to re-explain it to wear me down, but it didn't work. The more reasonable of the two ladies said to the other "look we'll have to get back". The other turned to her and said (right in front of me) "over him?". She then asked to see a manager. So what I did eventually, was I pretended to call a manager with the walkie talkie, and had these two stand to the side. Then after about 2 minutes I did actually called the manager. He took quite a while to come out! The manager ended up letting them in, but not after a big argument which seemed to upset them quite a bit!

Story two

I used to work security once, and the staff were supposed to have their bags checked by me or a manager before going home. Anyway one day as this staff member walked past me, he said to two other floor staff "I'm just gonna have Eoin (manager) check it because it's just so awkward doing it with him". He could've at least realised that I was in ear shot.

A few minutes later I could see that he hadn't found a manager, and that he was coming back to look for me to do the bag check. So I walked away towards the back corner of the ground floor, and went up the fire exit stairs to the other section of the store. I knew that the girls in customer service (who he just made the remark to) would tell him which way I went. He presumed I was on the ground floor as no one uses that stairs. By the time he realised that I wasn't downstairs, he went back towards the front of the store in order to use the escalator to go upstairs... the only other place he thought I could be. But I'd gone into the camera room! From there I watched him looking for me for about 3 minutes before he gave up and left without doing any bag check!

He definitely realised what I was up to by the time he left. But he couldn't have been sure. I could easily have deniability if he confronted me. Just as he would have had deniability if I had confronted him about what he had said.