25 Petty Things People Refuse To Let Go Of Despite The Passed Time

It’s easy to say, take the high road or forget about it, when something annoys you. Yes, it’s for your peace of mind, but in reality, certain things can be hard to let go of, no matter how small. These minor transgressions may be insignificant when all things are considered, but we are all only human at the end of the day and for better or worse, most people are blessed with strong memory capacity. Though time may heal all wounds, folks recently got together to recall some of the pettiest grudges that they’ve clung to for years. Scroll below to read all the trifling little details of unforgettable slights, insults and grievances people have held on to in some little corner of their minds through the decades. Now, finally, they have had the chance to unleash all that pent-up inner torment within the safe space of this Reddit community, which you can read all about in the gallery below. 

#1

Image source: terribletoiny2, KIBOCK DO/unsplash (not the actual photo) My best friend and I were going skiing post a night out. Hungover we decided to get McDonald's breakfast. Both got a combo and he ordered an extra hashbrown as well. The bag only came with 2 hash browns. He ate both and said they forgot mine. NO MAX THEY FORGOT YOUR EXTRA HASHBROWN. ITS BEEN 7 YEARS AND I STILL GET MAD ABOUT IT.

#2

Image source: anon, Anita Austvika/unsplash (not the actual photo) My wife when she was 18 (20+ years ago) had met a band at a concert and had asked them for a picture and a hug. And the lead singer responded "We only hug pretty girls sorry". He has been on my "on sight" list ever since I heard about it a decade ago. Especially since when she saw them, they were barely on anyone's radar and now they're pretty common knowledge. Edit: Apparently the common question is who so...Theory Of A Deadman. I'm sure he's matured alot, but I'm not dropping the grudge. Edit 2: well that's a lot of support! Thanks guys.

#3

Image source: AmphibianBig301, Getty Images/unsplash (not the actual photo) When my parents got divorced, neither of them wanted to keep our family dog that we had for 7 years at that point. (I should clarify, there was nothing wrong with her. She was a black lab mix, healthy, was as sweet as can be). I was 14, just going into high school, and I was begging my family to keep her. My sister and her husband wouldn’t even take her. We ended up having to give her away, and I sobbed for the entire day. Shortly after, my sister and her husband got a cocker spaniel instead, after telling me they didn’t want my dog because ,”well we don’t want any dogs in the house.” I honestly should be over it now, 10 years later. She went to a good home. But I’m not. ?‍♀️.

#4

Image source: Firree, John Tecuceanu/unsplash (not the actual photo) Cracker Jack removed the cool toy and replaced it with some s****y piece of paper.

#5

Image source: Major-Invite-9517, dotshock/freepik (not the actual photo) High school - Sophomore year: My Literature teacher has us make comics based on ancient Greek poems. My group got Iliad. We put a lot of research and effort in the assignment, only to lose points because the teacher was expecting to see the Trojan Horse (which does not appear in Iliad, but in Odyssey and Aeneid). Sure, I took the synopsis out of Wikipedia, but it was properly sourced. I even did check the original poem to see if the horse is there - nothing. Turns out my teacher was basing his view on Iliad on a stupid novelization that included the goddamn horse. Oh, and this very same teacher is one to fall hook, line & sinker into whatever b******t people share on Facebook, and still has no qualms about question Wikipedia. F**k you, José. F**k you very very much.

#6

Image source: expandandincludeit, Getty Images/unsplash (not the actual photo) In 5th grade our teacher only gave homework on Wednesdays. One Wednesday the end-of-school bell was going to ring soon and we all realized the teacher had forgotten. With maybe 30 seconds left before the bell would free us, a twatty suck-up girl named Sabina raised her hand and reminded the teacher it was homework day. I'm still pissed off about it. F**k you, Sabina for denying us our small victory. I'm 68-years old, btw, and it still chaps my a*s.

#7

Image source: anon, Mika Baumeister/unsplash (not the actual photo) During the pandemic I used to collect clothes and goods for the trash men where i used to life. I would leave them in the street anonymously and classified for them to take like clothes, toys, food, etc. would always try to make it every two weeks or so. One day i was walking my dog (he is big but super gentle and chill) and one of them just looked at my dog and asked me if he was a good boy and i said yes thinking he was going to pet him or something, he proceeded to try and slap and kick him and laughed. Obviously i blocked him from getting to my dog and started screaming at him, the other guys just laughed. My dog was crying and my neighbours saw all of this and told them off. Three weeks passed and they started asking around the block about the things someone used to leave for them to collect since they would be much help for them and they haven't seen anything for them in a while. I was just walking out of my building and over heard them asking my concierge, so i said "It was me, i collected that for you guys, it stopped the second you tried to assault my dog and thought it was funny", they looked like their eyes where about to leave their socket. They apologised, i said nothing so they went with "look, it's just an animal we have kids we need those things" so i said "It took me about a week to collect and clean things for you guys each time i left them there, i did it anonymously because i was always taught that charity with a name it's called vanity. You should always be respectful and treat people well not only when is convenient to you also don't ever feel entitled to people's kindness." Turns out i was the only one who did this in the whole county we where in. My neighbours all saw what happened so they refused to give them anything as well. I never collected anything for them ever again.

#8

Image source: am_i_boy, Getty Images/unsplash (not the actual photo) On my third birthday, I was gifted a tricycle. My then-8-year-old cousin rode it before I could and broke it before I even got a turn. I refused to acknowledge his name for like 5+ years after that. I would ONLY call him "the guy that broke my tricycle".

#9

Image source: GypsyInAHotMessDress, Getty Images/unsplash (not the actual photo) I had a barbecue for friends. Whilst inside preparing a feast, my friend’s children picked off all my green baby passion fruit, and unripe baby lemons, to throw at each other. Literally 100s of fruit wasted. When I came outside and nearly cried and told the kids off, their parents told me they were only playing, and just children, and to get over it. I am still not over it. They weren’t great friends or parents in hindsight.

#10

Image source: According_Mud9508, Luke Porter/unsplash (not the actual photo) The year was 2004. I had a kyocera phantom phone with a long standing game of tetris because the speed had capped out. We're talking somewhere around two years. I had a score in the bazillions (probably). While out to lunch, a friend picked up my phone and started a new game. Later she f****d my husband. I'm still mad about the tetris game.

#11

Image source: QuiteLady1993, Claudio Schwarz/unsplash (not the actual photo) Look this didn't even happen to me but my mom told me about a thanksgiving where her aunt took the crispy skin off the turkey and threw it in the trash because it's not healthy for you. I already didn't like this aunt but now ?.

#12

Image source: coldcactus1205, Frank Flores/unsplash (not the actual photo) My mom’s fully fluent in Spanish and stopped teaching me because my dad kept bugging her about how I didn’t need it. In all honesty I think it was him just trying to be petty and didn’t want his ex wife AND daughter being bilingual while he wasn’t

#13

Image source: itsyaboisknnypen1s, TMA Management/unsplash (not the actual photo) My brothers got to sit in my barbie blow up chair before me as a kid, and then it popped almost immediately. Still hurts. .

#14

Image source: PineappleAndCoconut, Adam Winger/unsplash (not the actual photo) My mom grew up in Germany. Speaks fluent German. She would speak German with her parents when we were little kids just so we wouldn’t understand. She refused to teach my brother and I how to speak it. Her excuse was we didn’t want to learn. As babies. You know. When you start speaking to your kids. It’s been over 40 years now and I’m still bitter about it. Because German is so damn hard to learn as an adult. Edited to add - maybe not petty per se. But something I’m mad about all these years later.

#15

Image source: DiscoLibra, Getty Images/unsplash (not the actual photo) Everytime around Christmas and someone mentions The Polar Express, I get reminded of the time a boy copied my art work in 2nd grade. We were to draw our favorite scene from Polar Express in art class, and the teacher was giving a present to the one she thought was best. He won, and I got a "talking too" about copying other people's work, even though he copied me!!

#16

Image source: Wackydetective, Anurag Sharma/pexels (not the actual photo) My brother always beat me at everything. Our parents got us Super Nintendo and I beat Mario before he did. Oh my god, he lost his s**t. My Dad could not stop laughing and when my brother would get a big head about games, my dad would remind him of the meltdown on New Years Day.

#17

Image source: The_time_it_takes, Midhun Joy/pexels (not the actual photo) I went to Florida in 5th grade and got a deck of playing cards from delta. I brought them to school to show my friends and they disappeared from my desk at lunch. I looked evrywhere, asked all my friends, etc. Two weeks later the teacher is playing a math probability game and she hands out playing cards to everyone. wouldn't you know it she had my delta playing cards. I was salty then and still am. I still remember your a filthy thief mrs. Smith. It was 40 years ago.

#18

Image source: 123fofisix, Rachel Barkdoll/unsplash (not the actual photo) Back in the mid sixties, I somehow wound up at a school where I was the only POC. We were playing softball. I was just learning how to play,and was about nine years old. There was a play at second base that was being disputed, whether the runner was safe or out. Of course, the guys on my team were saying out, the runner and the guys on the other team were saying he was safe. So I quietly said that I thought he was out. Then a guy that was *on my team* said, " Nobody cares what you think. And nobody wants you here." That was close to sixty years ago. I still remember that kid's name and can still hear him saying that .

#19

Image source: apathetic_revolution, Polesie Toys/pexels (not the actual photo) When I was a kid and my cousin’s son was a toddler, he got into my Ninja Turtles action figures and chewed on their weapons. It’s been at least 30 years. He lives in another country so I’ve only seen him once since. I will always remember him as the little bastard who ruined my Ninja Turtles.

#20

Image source: LightspeedC83, Christopher Paul High/unsplash (not the actual photo) I was in the single board game shop in my town with my friends and one of my friends leaned on a shelf and broke it. I caught the shelf saving the majority of items on it and everyone, including the guy that broke it, said I had knocked the shelf over. Three expensive hardcover DND books were **slightly** damaged (I’m talking the corner was a little bit bent) and the store made ME pay for them. They were like $60 each. I’m still holding a grudge 6 years later.

#21

Image source: WoodySanchez, Darth Liu/unsplash (not the actual photo) 5 years ago I went to the local butcher’s shop for ground beef. The sign said $8.99 lb, which seemed a bit high. I asked the person behind the counter how much their ground beef was. Their reply “read the sign”. I said “ I see the sign, but $8.99 for a pound of ground beef seems a bit steep. I just wanted to make sure that was the actual price. They replied again, “read the sign.” I’ve never stepped foot in that butcher shop again and have been driving an extra 25 min to a different butcher shop ever since.

#22

Image source: longerdistancethrow, Getty Images/unsplash (not the actual photo) A girl in middle school having been convinced for a full 6 years that I drew on two fake moles under my left eye, every day from age 10-16, until one day she saw me during swimclass and went “omg they’re real?” Turns out she had been talking a little s**t about me and some other girls, cause she thought i was trying to be “unique” inspired by anime and markings some characters have. I cannot let go of how little of a life she must’ve had, and yes I still tell people that stupid a*s story, and yes, I make fun of her for it behind her back for it. (We’re not friends).

#23

Image source: FizzlePop13, Getty Images/unsplash (not the actual photo) My sister lied to my parents saying I ate the last two cookies and I got in trouble for “lying” to them. This happened when I was 7…..I’m 28 now…and I still tell her and my parents every chance I get that I’m still mad about that. ??.

#24

Image source: JustGenericName, Alexander Mass/pexels (not the actual photo) Rented a house that had an outdoor mini fridge by the built in bbq. Our utilities bills were outrageous in that house. Roommates, including my boyfriend, refused to unplug this fridge- that no one even used! "That's not whats making our bills so high". They mocked me for being so dumb! Now the same man literally researches the lowest energy lightbulbs because "Every little thing adds up". Every little thing, but not that outdoor fridge that sat in direct sunlight in the scorching summer, huh? Not that appliance? I will DIE with this grudge in my heart.

#25

Image source: pamplemouss, Giulia Squillace/unsplash (not the actual photo) Okay so 9-11 grade I had one Latin teacher. I started off with a C freshman year (in a class w mostly sophomores) and worked up to be the one everyone called to double check their translations. Senior year we got a new teacher. I was in a 3 person class of the people who’d stuck it out since we were freshmen in the sophomore class, and the new Latin teacher awarded the annual Latin seat to a senior a level below me. I AM TOTALLY FINE ITS BEEN 18 YEARS IM FINE.