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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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JustWalkingTheDogs · 21/02/2025 09:33

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Were you married to my ex boss?

He was an absolute tool and told us once on a works do (he was really pissed) that his ex had stabbed him in the back - literally. I don't condone violence but I can completely understand why she did it and she has my upmost sympathy.

queenMab99 · 21/02/2025 09:32

I wanted to cut all the sleeves off my cheating husbands shirts and his only suit, as I had seen in a film. However my financially prudent self just couldn't, so I cut all his shoe laces down the middle of his shoes, as the most cost effective way to inconvenience him.

Wiseplumant · 21/02/2025 09:28

Slept with my cheating ex,'s Brother and best friend within 12 hours of each other. Long time ago.

PaintDecisions · 21/02/2025 09:28

Ref the Dogs Trust one - I have zero remorse about this.

My neighbour is a real piece of work. Her father bought her the home for her and her two kids because she kept getting evicted from her rentals due to her behaviour. He renovated it before she moved in, and within 2 months she had trashed every surface, every carpet, soaked the whole house by running over the bath for several hours (and claiming it was a water leak), and it's regularly filled with dog and cat piss and poo.

The elder kid was taken by SS 2yrs ago after we had to call 999 because she was battering him in the street. She used to stick him out the back door for hours (aged 7 with cerebral palsy and SEN) when she couldn't cope with him, which I only found out about afterwards from another neighbour who had been making SS reports for months. She apparently signed him over voluntarily in the end. He's not allowed to see her without a chaperone and comes about twice a year with his foster mum.

The younger child is still there - we're all waiting for that poor kid to be the next victim.

Anyway, nutty neighbour has some medical issues and she is regularly in hospital for extended stays. Kid goes to elderly grandparents but the dog stays in the house with a dog walker popping in once a day. That's it. RSPCA don't care as it's "adequate". The house gets saturated between visits and every time she comes home she has to pay for a deep clean of the place before SS and carers come round again...

Then we found out during her last hospital stay that she had now got a new dog which was too nervous to be walked and was stuck in the living room, terrified of the dog walker and had never left the house. A rescued Balkans street dog she was fostering. It took me a couple of days to track down the organisation she got it from and tell them what was happening. Long story short, it took three weeks but the dog was taken off her and she's no longer allowed to foster.

Unfortunately she's now added a new cat into the mix even though one died emaciated (I suspect untreated kidney disease) recently and the other is practically bald (never seen a vet).

I am watching that woman like a hawk. Her elderly dad is absolutely exhausted and I really feel for him - he's given her everything he can and she ruins or wastes it all.

So in anger, I got someone's dog taken away and contributed to their kid being taken into care. No regrets.

NovaF · 21/02/2025 09:27

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Are you flirting with me?!😉😘

MrsMiniver1942 · 21/02/2025 09:25

Katemax82 · 21/02/2025 08:20

I've done worse but the 2 things that spring to mind are
Age 19, we had a new dog and my 7 year old stepson had recently moved in with us. He wound me up massively so in temper while cleaning up the dogs shit I threw the bag angrily out the back door, which hit the wall of the adjoining house and exploded! Wasn't very funny cleaning that up...
Secondly and far far worse, aged 40 i went on my husbands leaving drink for his job he had been in 22 years...I had too much and one of his mates bought me a whole bottle of prosecco in the last round before leaving instead of a glass. I puked in the taxi home...all over the driver

A 7 year old stepson at age 19?

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Dishwater123 · 20/02/2025 23:09

Thank you. I ca understand why I acted the way I did, but retrospectively my ire was aimed at the wrong person. I've learned very much so to rise above.

I would have been devastated I your situation, canceling the flights was absolutely uncalled for. I hope you managed to get your holiday. Anxiety is crippling but no excuse to ruin everybody's good time.

It wasn’t aimed at the wrong person. She was the one not only revealing your bf’s cheating (WITH HER) but saying a load of crap about your looks and personality! He should have had a similar ‘punishment’ but she was hardly innocent - she obviously hated you and she could have been done today for sending malicious correspondence!

Don’t feel too bad - she wrote those thing, they weren’t made up and she chose to send them to somebody in a relationship and then make his gf upset with the things she again purposefully wrote. She deserved bad karma, as did he.

Kingbomb · 21/02/2025 09:21

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TheBlueUser · 21/02/2025 09:20

After a long day at work, I arrived home at 10pm to find one of my housemates had eaten the dinner I had cooked earlier so I had food when I got home.

All flatmates knew this was my dinner as they had been in the kitchen when I was cooking it. This was after a few similarish incidents.

I had 4 flatmates, 2 boys and another girl. I knew it wouldn't have been the girl, so I messaged her asking her to find out who it was. I knew they were all at a pub quiz together.

She told me they laughed when she asked and said they shared it because they only wanted to pay for a snack at the pub so didn't want to be too hungry.

I knew they would be home around 11:30 after the quiz was finished. So at 11:25 I went to both of their rooms and poured two big jugs of water over their beds. Then I opened two can of sardines and stuffed the contents under each of their beds (low to the floor so they wouldn't think to look under it).

NovaF · 21/02/2025 09:18

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B…dat u?!

Kingbomb · 21/02/2025 09:13

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CurtainsCurtain · 21/02/2025 09:13

stampin · 21/02/2025 09:12

I'm a bit grossed out by some poster's actions.......

I think quite a few of these are entirely fictitious. In the spirit of ‘I told off the guy watching tv loudly on his phone and the whole bus burst into spontaneous applause!’

UnderHisEeyore · 21/02/2025 09:13

Ex fiance in my 20's was sleeping with my work colleague and gas-lit me for months. I finally found out from his friend (when drunk) and kung-foo kicked his wing mirror off on the driveway before telling him he had to leave. I left my job and we sold the house. Was a huge life change and you never fully get that innocence back.

Kingbomb · 21/02/2025 09:12

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stampin · 21/02/2025 09:12

I'm a bit grossed out by some poster's actions.......

LilMagpie · 21/02/2025 09:11

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I didn’t wee on anyone’s sleeves lol

MrsMiniver1942 · 21/02/2025 09:09

Sent birthday, valentine and Christmas cards to a man who had been playing me for a fool (he was married, which I didn't know at the start) to his house with a fake name on them as the sender. He turned out to be a massive player, sending pictures to loads of women, so it could have come from anybody.

Kingbomb · 21/02/2025 09:09

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If they had hurt you badly then you were justified.

LilMagpie · 21/02/2025 09:07

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Did you mean to @ me or someone else? I thought mine wasn’t too bad compared to some of the others 😅

Kingbomb · 21/02/2025 09:06

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Only4nomore · 21/02/2025 09:05

My mum had an affair and for weeks after I gave the affair partner mulitple flat tyers

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LilMagpie · 21/02/2025 09:03

I was in a house share and nearing the end of a year abroad when I got news that my best friend had died unexpectedly. I scrambled for last minute flights home and found someone to take over my room. I told my landlord the circumstances and that I had found someone so no rent would be lost to him and without any sympathetic words or condolences he immediately told me he would be keeping my deposit for leaving at short notice. Not a huge amount of money, but still my money.
I saw red and threatened to smash the house up (extremely unlike me but I guess grief is a beast). I didn’t smash it up but what I did do was make several extremely long international calls on the house phone, knowing that bills were included in my rent. For the next week, I encouraged some backpacker friends to visit and use our phone to call home. I was determined that if I wasn’t going to get my money back, I was going to make damn sure he wouldn’t get to enjoy it either. I hoped he’d enjoy receiving his phone bill a month later, after I was long gone.

But I did leave feeling kind of guilty, because on my last day there he had a change of heart and turned up with my deposit in full and an apology 💀