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Gaslighting, mindfucks, call it what you will - what subtle ways have you messed with people? The pettier or more subtle the better.
( , Thu 16 Apr 2015, 14:58)
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I was the developer, he was the salesman, and we had a central London office more or less to ourselves, as the head office in San Francisco stayed out of our way so long as we kept bringing in business.
I used to make drinks for both of us - tea for me and coffee for him, from one of those really big tins of instant Nescafe - and so I naturally began wondering what would happen if I started gradually upping his dose of caffeine. To start with he had two and a half spoonfuls per cup, so the first week of this experiment I upped that to three, then three and a half the next week, then four... By the time I 'fessed up to what I'd been doing he was a manic, jittery mess who was drinking coffee with twelve and a half spoonfuls in each cup.
He's never let me make a drink for him since.
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( , Fri 17 Apr 2015, 8:15, closed)
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He used to have 2 sugars in his coffee but announced he was cutting down to 1.
After couple of weeks I put him back up to 2, then 3.
By the time I'd got up to 4 I noticed him having a sip then subtly not drinking the rest claiming to have let it go cold and going to make another. I got bored of that game.
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