Have you been "micro-petty?"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get excited. We're going to throw some cashier away from
petrol when it's an on hot smatom and sunshine forwards,
beat the bowers? Are we going to play? After seven
thirty this morning?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
We want to talk about a new trend that you
may not know is happening, but it's definitely happening, and
it's called micro pettiness.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Right, did you start it?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
No? I did not notice the trend happening people talking about.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
It a pioneer.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, okay, So here are the rules of micro pettiness.
So there's like three rules. The first rule is that
it's small and it's subtle, more subtle than pettiness.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
The second rule is is that it should not be
easy to detect. The only person who knows about the
micro pettiness is the person who's being micro petty.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
It shouldn't even be picked up by the person that
you're doing the micro pettiness too.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I would imagine after a while someone else in goes, hey,
I've noticed you keep doing this.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Maybe you know what I mean, Maybe it's a little
bit gas lightie. And then the third thing is is
that it shouldn't actually make the other person feel bad,
but it should make you feel good. Okay, So are
we here to celebrate this or as you said, it's
a bit gas lightly so we can't can't have both worlds,
can we. Well I'll explain. I'll explain an active micro pettiness. Okay,

(01:14):
then I'll explain what I do to be micro petty.
Because I realized that I do it, I probably haven't
even noticed, and then now you won't have noticed I
haven't done it to you. And then I want to
open up the phones and see if anybody else is
doing little acts of micro pettiness human nature. So this
is on a Reddit theme, and this is what someone does.

(01:34):
There is a girl at a workplace and there's a
guy that kind of annoys her just by him being
in the space. Okay, whatever it is about him annoys it.
So whenever she's sending an email and his name has
to be in the email, she uses a smaller font
just for his name, just for his name.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
So if that's going out to just say all of
us are there, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Is just a little bit tinier, just a micro bit tinier.
So to the naked eye, maybe he doesn't ever notice it,
and she notices it.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I think after a while people notice stuff about themselves
that he go, am I getting them?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Why is that small prince? But at first he might
not know, and he might be like, oh, okay, is
there something when because you know how AI now, if
you've written a name a certain way a certain amount
of times, it always goes that name definitely has a
capital letter, or that word has a capital or that's
spelt differently. My phone now knows that, you know, my
daughter's name is spelt with an ie, right, yes, So

(02:33):
even though I start to tie off it, it can
be a y or it can be an ie. It
knows ie right. So they could be like, oh, okay,
now here's my act of micropettiness. I'm kinda admit I
don't know if I want to know. So I've been
working breakfast radio a long time and most of my
friends know that I go to better around eight thirty.

(02:54):
If I get a text after nine o'clock, nine thirty, ten,
ten thirty, the girls group chat is going late. I
don't message back. Then I message back as soon as
I wake up at like four in the morning, and
then they're getting fifty and then I do that annoying
thing that's not just like the answer. I'll answer in

(03:16):
a few sentences and send them morning girls.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Send.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
That sounds like a great idea, and I'll definitely be there. Send.
Can't wait to see you send.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
You said it was subtly.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Is I'm like, sorry, girls, I was in bed, so
I message you now.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm up last night. I have a great day.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
So that is my act of micro pettiness. And that's
why you don't get it, because you know not to
message me. I'd be able to message you straight back.
So give us a call. Do you have a little
act of micro pettiness or have you been the receiver?
And now you're going, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I'm starting to think now I'm trying to wreck
my brain. Give us a call double five seven one,
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five seven one, one zero nine. What's your active micro

(04:15):
pettiness