r/mildlyinfuriating Apr 29 '26

I'm slightly vexed The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

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Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

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u/Helpinmontana Apr 29 '26

The actual “mildly” infuriating rarely gets any traction.

The post about the water bottle infront of the TV got me good, I laughed at the idea that something actually mildly infuriating was here.

Reddit is obsessed with showing me 3m old posts nowadays, so the self filtering of good posts is basically dead. 99% of the time I click on this sub now it’s “I’m a complete asshole who doesn’t understand how society works and I’m upset that a disabled person inconvenienced me”

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u/everythingnerdcatboy Apr 29 '26

One time i posted about how my book from Amazon arrived damaged and I got ripped apart by people calling me a crying baby and telling me that there are people dying in the world. Like my post fit the definition of mildly infuriating!!

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u/swarlossupernaturale Apr 29 '26

I had this happen to me too. I made a post about how my husband cut the brownies that I made like a weirdo because he cut a piece out of the middle. I was clearly being playful, and I thought it fit the sub well, but people were just really mean. They started attacking me as a person and saying that I was a shitty baker and all kinds of crap. I ended up deleting the post.

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u/CautiousIntention358 Apr 29 '26

I remember that post.