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How do you exact petty revenge?

82 replies

ShotsFired · 07/09/2018 19:31

As a counterpoint to the "irrationally angry" thread, what (very) petty revenge or microaggressions do you perform to soothe your annoyance?

For example:

  • I always click the sponsored link on google results for companies I don't like, because it cost them money each time.

  • I will deliberately walk slower back to my car in order to avoid giving my parking space to certain brands (and conversely speed up or signal a driver of an "approved" make that I'm leaving)

  • If someone won't use their words to simply say a polite "excuse me" in a shop, I will stay even longer. And even longer longer if they try and lean round me.

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SneakyGremlins · 07/09/2018 19:32

Your second point makes you a bit of a dick tbh.

DollyWilde · 07/09/2018 19:34

Hm. A ‘friend’ once signed up a particularly awful ex to every free sanpro offer she could find. He was at uni, so the idea of weekly tampons delivered to his pigeon hole in front of everyone was quite alluring (or so I understand).

Of course personally I’m of the live and let live philosophy Wink

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ShotsFired · 07/09/2018 19:37

@SneakyGremlins Your second point makes you a bit of a dick tbh.

Well, someone still gets the space, it's not like I remove it from the carpark when I go.

And I did say it was petty acts!

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Lidlbutfierce · 07/09/2018 20:01

This made me burst into laughter! They're not only funny but funny also because they are so INCREDIBLY micro that the only person who they have an impact upon is you?!
I'm wracking my brains to think of whether I've ever done this... I must have done... probably something along the lines of putting something in the bin when it's totally full/overflowing but balancing it on just so I don't have to be the one to empty it. I have done that.
I would love to hear more of them though!

EdWinchester · 07/09/2018 20:05

What? You don't let drivers of cars you dislike have your parking space? Why?

Tobuyornot99 · 07/09/2018 20:07

I deleted the record series link thing to DPs programmes after an argument then sat back and watched him rage. How I lol'd

DesperatelySeekingSnoozing · 07/09/2018 20:10

the company I worked for was bought by another company and I was made redundant. I'd typed up a bible for the woman who kept her job for al the logins, how the building worked, all the account details for various suppliers etc.
Changed the font to white just before I left and received a flurry of panicked texts from her the following Monday.

Her boss has told me to take the redundancy package that was offered because there was no way she was going to lose her job and if be wasting my time trying to compete. Not bitter at all Grin

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ShotsFired · 07/09/2018 20:18

What? You don't let drivers of cars you dislike have your parking space? Why?

Because I dislike their cars! It's their own fault for driving stupid vehicles...

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Dowser · 07/09/2018 20:57

I hate drivers who tailgate me with a passion.
I always worry I have to make an emergency stop and then get an idiot going into the back of me.
So, I’m on the dual carriageway , quite rural and this woman was sat right on my tail.
She was so close I couldn’t see her headlights in my rear mirror.

I was getting more and more annoyed. I couldn’t overtake the driver in front and shake her off because we were now in a 50 mph and the outer lane was closing.

Soooo
I let every driver in the outside lane get in in front of me. Every single one
There must have been about ten.

She was hopping mad. She Kept gesticulating to me to close the gap, so they couldn’t get in...I just ignored her.

I doubt the penny would have dropped.
Petty...much.

bitchwitch · 07/09/2018 21:03

husband used to order10 pizza's to be delivered to local nasty old fart.he was mean to everyone.

TheBigFatMermaid · 07/09/2018 21:11

I have hideous neighbours who insist on reporting us for things we do not do.

We take great pleasure in not ever seeing them, totally pretending they do not exist.

I know it makes them mad, as the things they are reporting have become more and more ludicrous! For example, the most recent one being myself and then 12 year old DD shouting abuse at them when they are tidying their garden. We have never done this. I told the HO when she visited that I knew they would have no evidence of this, as it hadn't happened. Oh, and continued to not give them abuse! Grin

I know, it is no kind of revenge, but the best kind of revenge is a life well lived.

Saggital · 07/09/2018 21:25

Lighten up Sneaky and Ed. This is posted in Fun & Games, its Friday night and OP is having a bit of fun.

caribari72 · 07/09/2018 23:00

My "D"exH...
(After I'd gathered enough affair evidence)
I took random buttons from his work shirts - not EVERY one cos that would make it obvious.
I would lie in bed at 6am listening to him curse "stupid shit cheap uniforms" and rage about till he found one that was ok, all the while getting later for work and the colleague he was shagging
Years later I caught him IN THE ACT with an old school friend at a family party ...
I often recreate those mornings in my mind.

Flashingbeacon · 07/09/2018 23:04

I have a policy of not using a company if they didn’t give me a job. For the most part it’s pretty easy, obscure engineering firms etc. Getting trickier as the NHS and Highways agency said thanks but no thanks.

Isentthesignal · 07/09/2018 23:10

When we were students we waited for a Mercedes or preferably a BMW and then pressed the button at the oedestrian crossings - I still have the same prejudice and I never let them out of s junction.

flowerythorns · 07/09/2018 23:18

One lady has designated her own chair in the office. No she didn't pay for it, and it's not from occ health.

She has a sign on it saying not to move or alter it.

I alter it when she's off. I never sit in it, just give the backrest lever a little kick.

She's horrid.

Largepiecesofcrookedwood · 07/09/2018 23:36

If DH has pissed me off I put all his socks away in his drawer without pairing them.
Normally I would leave them on the bed after SockGate and he will lovingly sort them into pairs. If I shove them all wiggledy piggledy then he has to pull them all back out. The thing is he can't complain as it would be patently ludicrous to moan at me for actually putting his laundry away for him

TiredPony · 07/09/2018 23:38

I am the nicest person in the world to people who try to get a rise out of me. It pisses them right off.

BlackeyedSusan · 07/09/2018 23:48

I once ensured that I washed only odd socks of ex's after he let dc spread poo in the clean washing (about 4 loads waitng to be put away) because he was not supervising her when he should have been. he had to go to work in odd socks for months. told him I did not have time to search through pooy washing for pairs of socks.

toomanypillows · 07/09/2018 23:51

A down-the-road neighbour once complained to the council (anonymously) about the noise our dog was making. (Eventually we were informed it wasn't our dog because two weeks of the dates she had given, we were away on holiday WITH the dog)
Council even set up a noise pollution test over three days and nights to check for noise and found that not only was our dog not noisy - there were barely any dogs barking at all.
Anyway that wasn't good enough for her and she rather spitefully posted an anonymous note through our door (with cut out newspaper letters) threatening us with all sorts if we didn't shut our (not loud at all) dog up
Fortunately another neighbour had caught her on CCTV posting the letter, which is how we knew it was her.
So we signed up to a bunch of freebies/giveaways/competitions for items relating to dogs and dog food - one of the best outcomes was a month's supply of dog food which was delivered to her door.
She hasn't complained since .. (although we did also pass the letter and the CCTV footage to the police)

Gormless · 07/09/2018 23:57

A particular hatred of mine is getting long, ranty emails from work colleagues when they feel the need to give me their opinion on something they dislike (and about which I can usually do nothing). I take great pleasure in answering these 1000 word epics with the shortest answer I can get away with. The best was just one word (‘noted’) in response to several screens worth of moaning Grin

Isentthesignal · 08/09/2018 00:00

@Gormless - my sister goes that - she answers “sure” although no one is sure what she means st all - it’s so bloody vague and annoying.

Isentthesignal · 08/09/2018 00:00

Sister does that

HelenUrth · 08/09/2018 00:08

Caribari, in tears laughing at your buttons tale.

A fun one for people using Windows computers is to take a screenshot of someone's desktop, set that as the background, and then delete one or two of the app icons. Apparently it works best if the most popular icons are left in place.

DiscoDown · 08/09/2018 00:49

I hate being tailgated too. Once, I was driving down a 2 lane motorway and was overtaking a lorry. A car got right up my arse and flashed me to get over WHILE I WAS OVERTAKING. Sure, where would you like me to go, into the lorry or into the central reservation? Hmm The road was quiet so I slowed down to the same speed as the lorry so the fucker was stuck behind me, and didn't finish overtaking til he backed right off. Really petty, but so satisfying. I'm also really good at being both really polite and completely unhelpful to horrible people at work.

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