The Daily Bulletin · No. 009 · 18 June 2026

Ten Grievances Maintained Longer Than Strictly Advisable

Ranked by duration over advisability

A grievance has a natural lifespan, after which a reasonable person sets it down. The grievances below were not set down. The Collection ranks them by the ratio of their duration to their advisability, and acknowledges, in placing one of its own at the top, a conflict it cannot pretend to resolve.

1. No. 1 · The Standing Entry The Maple Milk grievance. Twenty-five years and counting. (See the record.) Maintained well past the point of advisability, and then past several further points, until a museum became the proportionate response. It is the longest-held grievance in the Collection and also the Collection's founding document. The Collection is aware of how this looks and has decided to look like it.
2. A slight at a wedding in 2009.The couple has since divorced. The slight endures.
3. The friend who never paid back fourteen dollars.It was never the fourteen dollars. It was the principle, and the fourteen dollars.
4. A comment about your driving, made once, in 2017.You are a good driver. You will prove this until you die.
5. The sibling who got the bigger bedroom.Square footage measured in childhood compounds with interest.
6. A teacher who pronounced your name wrong all year.You corrected them in September. You stopped correcting them in October.
7. Something a coworker said in a meeting that they have entirely forgotten.You carry it for both of you now.
8. The neighbour's tree.It knows what it did. It continues to do it, seasonally.
9. A grudge against a sports team for an event that occurred before you were born.Inherited, like a watch, and worn with the same pride.
10. This list, which someone will hold against the Collection, fairly.The Collection accepts the grievance and adds it, in advance, to the next one.

Bulletin No. 010 will rank ten objects deaccessioned by consumption. The first was a pint and is gone.