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To ask the worst thing you've ever done in anger?

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Dishwater123 · 20/02/2025 22:25

Getting this off my chest and asking what the worst thing you've ever done in the faint hope of feeling better even if I don't deserve it.

When I had just left for uni, many years ago, I was devastated to receive several insulting text messages suggesting my then boyfriend was cheating on me and they also layed into my appearence and personality. I was so very hurt that when I found out who it was I "hacked" (read as guessed) the password of the culprits email, found several VERY explicit sexting emails from not only my boyfriend but a few others...in my (admittedly misplaced) rage, forwarded all of the emails to her family and friends, including her dad and gran. I still feel super awful about it to this day and can see EVERYTHING that was toxic and wrong with it.

What's the worst thing you've done in anger? For the record I KNOW I was unreasonable posting in the hope of hearing about your misguided rage.

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LakieLady · 22/02/2025 16:59

A BF I was utterly besotted with shagged my friend. Said it was a one-off, he was pissed, yada yada... then did it again, same old excuses, but like a naive, lovesick twat I believed him.

One morning I had to go to work stupidly early, and took a detour to avoid a massive traffic jam. Went past her flat and saw his car outside, a bit before 6am, which was far too early for it to be a social call.

I felt sick, and pulled over, all tearful but also angry. I got angrier and angrier. Then I remembered that I had a bottle of brake fluid in the boot of my car ...... and that I'd picked up some paintbrushes on the way home from work, but not taken them indoors.

I painted the word "CUNT", in brake fluid, on the boot of his beloved Audi 100S coupe in letters approx 9" high.

It didn't achieve anything. They eventually married and are still together now, some 47 years later, but it made me feel better at the time.

I feel bad about the car though. The early 70s Audi coupe is now a classic car, and a thing of beauty.

Drylogsonly · 22/02/2025 16:30

Put toilet water in someone’s water bottle… after months and months of bullying… they were fine …

FutureFakingFucker · 22/02/2025 16:22

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What?! Don’t be so judgemental.

Most children are in foster care because they have been neglected and abused. They are traumatised and struggled to trust in adults. They often test relationships because they don’t trust in them. They are often left from their early experiences as feeling not good enough and have often learned problematic behaviour from the adults that should have loved, protected and cared for them.

What the foster carer did here was wrong. Utterly wrong. it was probably re traumatising and made things far worse.

To be honest, I’m glad the OP did that.

Mooselooseinmyhoose · 22/02/2025 16:10

I'm quite proud of mine..

Ex husband had, it turned out, more than 50 affairs. Most of them came out after we split.

Anyway.. found out about the last affair and kicked him out. Ended up paying for his rental house for a year up front to be rid of him and by coincidence the house was a few doors down from my close friend, mainly because she too was divorcing and it was a new build all rental estate.

Anyway he swore blind he wasn't still seeing this woman and he wanted to make it work. There was no chance of that but I was so sick of the lies.

One night about 7 weeks after he moved out when he "definitely wasnt" having anything to do with this affair partner woman, I had been on a night out to the theatre and dropped friend home around midnight (kids at grandparents). As we drove past his house, other woman's car is on the drive. So clearly he's still lying.

At this time, mostly for financial reasons, we still retained one amazon prime account so all his amazon echos and mine were on the same account we both had access to.

We were also due to take the kids to the panto together that afternoon.

So I set reminders on his amazon echos to go off at 6am at top volume.

Bing bong "I'm reminding you.. don't forget to send your whore home in time to go to the panto with your kids".

100 percent do not regret.

876543A · 22/02/2025 15:55

Not me, but a friend of mine had an affair and his wife found out and put every one of his electronics in a bath full of water.

PurpleFlower1983 · 22/02/2025 15:46

A few things with my horrible cheating, violent ex. I put his phone in a bucket of water after discovering yet another set of messages from a woman he was shagging, I also sent a video of him receiving a BJ from a girl I found out he had been cheating with.

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 15:35

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 22/02/2025 15:28

Surely you know what goes on in people's bedrooms. You wouldn't be naive enough to think your granddaughter was a sweet innocent virgin.

But I, like all normal, reasonable people, wouldn't like to be forced to read explicit sexual messages someone had sent to her.

But then, having read your previous comments on this thread, I'm not sure I'm dealing with a reasonable person here.

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 22/02/2025 15:28

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 07:57

What, if you received sexually explicit emails that had been written to your daughter or granddaughter? I don't think many people would be okay with that.

Surely you know what goes on in people's bedrooms. You wouldn't be naive enough to think your granddaughter was a sweet innocent virgin.

oakleaffy · 22/02/2025 15:26

Biffbaff · 22/02/2025 00:58

He was obviously wrong for cheating but burning his diaries was so so mean!

Books are actually really hard to burn..That would have taken a lot of effort.

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cait967 · 21/02/2025 12:31

But this is actually a crime.

So what...

Anonym00se · 22/02/2025 14:04

When exH cheated I scratched ‘TWAT’ in foot high letters with a key across the bonnet of his Merc.

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 22/02/2025 14:00

When I was asked to move out of a rental property I planted 20kgs of corn in the garden and in the outside drains.

Snowhitesheis · 22/02/2025 13:55

The worst bullies are always the biggest snivelling little cowards. I 100% believe this story.

ChildOfTheRevolution · 22/02/2025 10:49

Newfoundzestforlife · 22/02/2025 08:04

You had him lifted against your car door by his throat...? The rules of gravity don't even allow that to make sense. Not to mention a woman lifting a man off the floor....

  1. Teenage boy, not man. Skinny, not especially tall. I was much bigger.
  2. I’d pushed him into the car and l slid him up the side of it. I don’t expect he was actually in the air, but certainly stretched and in his tiptoes at that point.
IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 10:43

Tara336 · 22/02/2025 08:49

I split up from a BF and in a fit of rage he sent private emails to my family (not pictures). It was devastating to be honest. I moved on with my life and tried to put it behind me. Ex tried to contact me several times and rekindle things because his new relationship (with his affair partner) wasn't working out (someone else didn't want to put up with his BS either).

I thought fine so you won't leave me alone and you think it's fine to send private emails to all and sundry? OK I shall return the favour and I forwarded all his emails begging for me to come back to his family and new GF and copied him in.

Low I know but Karma is a bitch my only disappointment is I didn't get to see the look if horror on his face when he realised what I had done

Now what YOU did is totally justified.

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 10:42

BountifulPantry · 22/02/2025 08:32

I wouldn’t be ok with it. I’d stop reading when I realised what was going on and then my main concern would be the “victim”. I certainly wouldn’t judge them and I’d put it behind me very fast. Everyone has a sex life.

Of course you wouldn't judge the victim. But no one wants to know about the sex life of their daughter or granddaughter. I think most people would be upset and angry that they'd had to read it, even just the first sentence or two, and rightfully blame the person who'd forwarded them the emails, who'd put them through that unpleasant experience.

I've got to say, I'm staggered at the number of people defending what the OP did. Even she's not defending it!

jeaux90 · 22/02/2025 09:05

Shagged my exes business partner. Grin no regrets.

nodeerinere · 22/02/2025 08:58

I collected all of my cheating exes fag ends from the garden (because they were still there despite me asking him constantly to pick them up) and put them in the black bags with his belongings.

TattedBarley · 22/02/2025 08:49

Years ago my boyfriend cheated on me, more than once. He left his account details logged in to my phone and I went snooping. He’d been messaging girls behind my back, receiving nudes, planning meet ups etc. I know I know my fault for staying after the first time. I collected up all the things he’d left at my house, work uniforms, personal items, photographs of us, gifts he’d bought me. Put them in a bag and poured bleach over them, wrote things all over his work uniform, cracked eggs over them, all sorts. Took it over to his, dumped it on the floor. He put me up against a wall. I left when he let me go, when I got out of the door he shouted after me sarcastically ‘love you’ and quickly shut the door behind him. I saw red, ran back and kicked the door. Apparently hard enough to take it off its hinges. Panicked and ran away. He got his friends to message me telling me they were gonna call the police, made me feel really bad. Probably rightly so. Nothing came of it though. It was a toxic relationship on both sides from the get go. Shudder with embarrassment when I think of it now.

Tara336 · 22/02/2025 08:49

I split up from a BF and in a fit of rage he sent private emails to my family (not pictures). It was devastating to be honest. I moved on with my life and tried to put it behind me. Ex tried to contact me several times and rekindle things because his new relationship (with his affair partner) wasn't working out (someone else didn't want to put up with his BS either).

I thought fine so you won't leave me alone and you think it's fine to send private emails to all and sundry? OK I shall return the favour and I forwarded all his emails begging for me to come back to his family and new GF and copied him in.

Low I know but Karma is a bitch my only disappointment is I didn't get to see the look if horror on his face when he realised what I had done

BountifulPantry · 22/02/2025 08:32

IButtleSir · 22/02/2025 07:57

What, if you received sexually explicit emails that had been written to your daughter or granddaughter? I don't think many people would be okay with that.

I wouldn’t be ok with it. I’d stop reading when I realised what was going on and then my main concern would be the “victim”. I certainly wouldn’t judge them and I’d put it behind me very fast. Everyone has a sex life.

BountifulPantry · 22/02/2025 08:30

Mine now!

I threw a uni housemate out!!!

She stole straighteners and iPod and something else big, perhaps a hard drive from another housemate.

The housemate she stole them off was really scatty always losing things so we did think that perhaps this was just her losing items. But the more time went on the more suspicious I got.

There was one day when the thief housemate left her door open and on her bed were the three missing items. I got my digital camera to take a photo as evidence!

I was furious! As students we were poor and I mean rice and butter for tea at the end of term poor. The scatty housemate in question worked 2 jobs all summer to afford uni. These items meant a massive amount to her at the time. The thief housemate targeted scatty housemate because she calculated that she could get away with it. I was raging.

I then told my other housemates. We got together and booted her out very unceremoniously and I was so so angry!

sashh · 22/02/2025 08:26

Newfoundzestforlife · 22/02/2025 08:04

You had him lifted against your car door by his throat...? The rules of gravity don't even allow that to make sense. Not to mention a woman lifting a man off the floor....

Emotions can do strange things to our bodies. Adrenaline is a powerful drug.

I went to uni with someone transitioning out of the fire service. He said if you have a mother who believes her child/ren are in a house that is on fire it can take two bulky fire fighters to hold her back.

Newfoundzestforlife · 22/02/2025 08:04

ChildOfTheRevolution · 21/02/2025 22:24

Not my finest moment.

late 20s and I was then, as I am now, alternative looking. DD was about 6 and every night I’d park on the school car park and cross paths with a pair of lads who were probably 18 or so. They collected another child, presumably a sibling.
every night without fail I was met with abuse. ‘Fucking goth bitch’. ‘Weirdo’ ‘Sweaty Cunt’ etc. This began to happen whilst DD was with me. I steadfastly ignored but after a month or so it was escalating with them walking behind me right to my car. I spoke to the school, they did absolutely nothing.

One night we were heading back and I’d just unlocked the door when DD said she’d forgotten her lunch box. She turned to run back and fetch it and suddenly my usual chorus was behind me. DD was out of earshot by this point and I snapped. I told the biggest he should come over here and say those things to my face, to which he swaggered over, mouthing off. I genuinely don’t know what came over me, but in seconds I’d thrown him against my car door and had him lifted off the floor by his throat whilst telling him if he ever spoke to me like that again I’d break his fucking neck.

When I snapped out he was almost in tears and his parting words as he scuttled off down the road, as an adult male, were “I’m telling my mum!”

He stopped pick up after that. Never did see his mum, which was a shame. Scared myself in that moment but it was a culmination of months of abuse I think.

You had him lifted against your car door by his throat...? The rules of gravity don't even allow that to make sense. Not to mention a woman lifting a man off the floor....