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21 People That Abused The Smallest Amounts of Power

17.

There was a woman on the HOA that lived across the street from us. She decided that there was too much traffic on the street in front of her house in the morning, so she decided to put up an official-looking sign stating that no one could turn right at the stop sign in front of her house from 6AM to 3PM. Mind you, people were turning right at that corner because there was an elementary school located on the street behind her house & many people needed to drive there, but she didn’t care, it was “disrupting” her & she wasn’t going to allow it. However, I also needed to turn there to get out of the neighborhood for work, so one night a few days after she put up the sign, I stole it. She put it up again, I stole it again. She responded by selling her house.

18.

I had this one teacher who when she would have to leave the classroom, she’d pick a random kid to stand at the chalkboard & watch the class. No one was allowed to talk or get up until the teacher came back. If you talked or got up, your name went on the board & you’d lose 5 minutes of recess. One day she picked this one kid & he gets up there & he was the worst. If he thought someone was going to talk, he’d put their name on the board. They didn’t have to do anything, & he’d put their name on the board & cost them 5 minutes of recess. He then offered those with their names on the board that he’d take their name off before the teacher got back if they held their breath until he said they could breathe.

19.

I had a babysitter lay out a bunch of rules including words we couldn’t say. Not bad words mind you but ‘shoe’ was one of them, and I specifically remember being sent to my room without dinner for saying it. My brother ended up busting me out and we locked her out of the house.

20.

Boss went on vacation for a long weekend. Acting boss (who’s only responsibility was to sign the time cards on Friday) decided to send an email to the staff, outlining the changes he was going to make to the boss’ existing office policies. As a senior guy, I called this acting boss and read him the riot act. The other coworkers found out, and as a result, I didn’t have to pay for lunch for a month.

21.

My elementary school had “recess duty” in which adults who weren’t actually teachers would watch the kids play to make sure they’re safe. Every single one of them was on a power trip. When they supervised lunch, they would turn off the lights & demand complete silence from a room full of 1st through 3rd graders. One of them got mad at a kid for sneezing, or during the silent time she would say “NO SNIFFLING!” & extend the amount of time that we had to be quiet as punishment. She wrote me up for “yawning in her face” when I was across the room.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.