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Revenge is best served cold

229 replies

yesrevenge · 05/08/2025 13:30

Yes! I got my revenge. MIL ignored something which was very important for me and Dh. I didn’t show my annoyance then but hoped to somehow pay back. The situation came two months later and I didn’t need to do anything. I am the only person who could have prevented it happening but I did nothing. She must feel same as I did.

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Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 05/08/2025 16:24

The OP is a professional safe cracker. She recently carried out a job, only to be grassed up by MIL.

She's currently out on bail and has planted evidence in MIL's backyard, and has just tipped off the police.

PollyannaNibbs · 05/08/2025 16:27

Well this is most unsatisfactory

I think that's the point of the post.
Like the "I know something you don't know" taunts in the playground.

XiCi · 05/08/2025 16:27

hoarahloux · 05/08/2025 16:12

Ooh, are we playing a guessing game?

She forgot your anniversary. Two months later DH forgot her birthday or another significant event for her, you could have reminded him but didn't. Now she's upset.

Im laying my bets on this one!

Funnywonder · 05/08/2025 16:27

Nah, too much excitement for me. I’m off for a lie down.

MargolyesofBeelzebub · 05/08/2025 16:32

viques · 05/08/2025 16:18

Good one, but not right.

What really happened was this. OP had arranged a special secret outing for a family member , including MiL, to celebrate a significant event. Deadly secret . MiL let the cat out of the bag , hence the OPs fury. Event went ahead but the surprise element was lost.

Fast forward to when the need for revenge has festered in OPs heaving bosom like a volcano. OP and Mil are at an upmarket soft play when MiL spots a favourite celeb that she has had a secret crush on for years. “I’m going to go and say how much I love XX and how much I have enjoyed following their career,” announces Mil, “ Do I look OK.”

OP smiles sweetly and nods, ignoring the lettuce stuck in Mil’s front teeth. MiL gets up to go to the favourite celebs table where they are sitting minding their own business quietly having a cup of coffee.

To OP’s joy she notices that as well as the lettuce teeth MiLs skirt has caught up in her knickers. MiL goes across, gushes over celeb who is polite but clearly not thrilled.

MiL turns to return to her own table still smiling her lettuce smile, and OP sees the celeb not only clock the skirt /knicker situation, but grab their phone and take a sneaky picture of the MiLs predicament. “Oh, XX is lovely,” says MiL, “ I really feel we made a connection.”

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Hmmm... I think it's that OP asked MIL to go to the petshop to buy pets for her kids, and MIL ended up buying two "male" hamsters. Except they were opposite sex and OP ended up with a load of hamster babies on her hands.

Weeks later, MIL finds a strange furry creature in her garden and takes it in, with the intention of sending it to a rescue centre on Monday when it reopens. OP realises it's a tribble and advises MIL to feed it something she knows makes it multiply excessively. MIL wakes up the next day surrounded by pesky tribbles!

GAJLY · 05/08/2025 16:34

Notonthestairs · 05/08/2025 15:38

I think this belongs on FB.

Yes 😆 🤣

OnceAlmostAuburn · 05/08/2025 16:34

Okaaaaaay.

Fairyliz · 05/08/2025 16:36

Oh come on op please tell I’m invested now. I promise I won’t judge you I partial to a bit of revenge myself.
Perhaps you could DM me?

legsekeven · 05/08/2025 16:38

Fairyliz · 05/08/2025 16:36

Oh come on op please tell I’m invested now. I promise I won’t judge you I partial to a bit of revenge myself.
Perhaps you could DM me?

Or just start a new thread saying what actually happened. I’m sure people would be on your side

layingwoody · 05/08/2025 16:39

Fairyliz · 05/08/2025 16:36

Oh come on op please tell I’m invested now. I promise I won’t judge you I partial to a bit of revenge myself.
Perhaps you could DM me?

do not fall for this it’s the sil 😂

Rosscameasdoody · 05/08/2025 16:39

Fairyliz · 05/08/2025 16:36

Oh come on op please tell I’m invested now. I promise I won’t judge you I partial to a bit of revenge myself.
Perhaps you could DM me?

I tried that. Tumbleweeds …………………….

WellerUser · 05/08/2025 16:40

Someone waited four years to get their “revenge” on me for something that I still don’t know what I did. Nearly ruined me financially and emotionally.

My revenge?

  • Living a brilliant life,
  • being ridiculously happy,
  • particularly in my wonderful marriage (she came to my wedding),
  • being delighted I am not a petty revengeful person like her,
  • denying her the pleasure and joy of my wonderful and kind friendship, and
  • knowing that she will never be happy because whatever nasty pettiness caused her to try to ruin my life will never leave her until she learns to love herself.

The best revenge is always to live well.

Pollqueen · 05/08/2025 16:40

It's actually, revenge is a dish best served cold

Rosscameasdoody · 05/08/2025 16:40

Fairyliz · 05/08/2025 16:36

Oh come on op please tell I’m invested now. I promise I won’t judge you I partial to a bit of revenge myself.
Perhaps you could DM me?

Say hello to SiL everyone !! 😎

XWKD · 05/08/2025 16:41

You sound like a psychopath.

Skybluepinky · 05/08/2025 16:43

Bet she is waiting for your hubby to see you for what you are!

Aintgointogoa · 05/08/2025 16:45

🙄 anyway, just to be petty but to clarify : the saying is 'revenge is a DISH best served cold'. Otherwise it makes absolutely no sense. Not unlike your OP, OP.

ByOpenBlueGuide · 05/08/2025 16:46

Bloody pointless if ur not going to elaborate

BySassyGreenPanda · 05/08/2025 16:47

Soubriquet · 05/08/2025 15:26

God this is pointless

My best revenge came via my dog. My old dog was never fully potty trained. If he wanted to pee, he did it.

Well, one day my FIL caught him weeing on the floor, so he put him outside and threw a cup of water on him.

When the dog was allowed back indoors (I was out at the time), he immediately went over to my FIL’s VERY EXPENSIVE sheep skin coat, and pissed all over it Grin

At least he's stopped peeing on the floor. Mission accomplished. There's no pleasing some folk 😂

PinkFlloyd · 05/08/2025 16:53

I've read some pointless shit in my time, but this takes the biscuit...

Mrsbloggz · 05/08/2025 16:56

yesrevenge · 05/08/2025 15:09

MIL doesn’t know I am part of what happened. She probably suspects and I want to leave it like that.

Good luck & make sure you keep it zipped!

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 05/08/2025 16:56

Kubricklayer · 05/08/2025 15:37

OP YABVU for not including a diabolical laugh on any of your posts....

Mwahahahahahahah!!!!

🤣😂

DeathBecomesMe · 05/08/2025 17:03

XiCi · 05/08/2025 13:32

You sound awful

Doesn't she. A very sad, resentful, bitter woman.

OneNewLeader · 05/08/2025 17:07

Revenge is petty, thriving is lethal.

sonjadog · 05/08/2025 17:07

I reckon it is something like that she forgot their wedding anniversary and then when her birthday came around and the OP realised her husband had forgotten instead of reminding him, she didn't and he didn't get his Mum anything. Something trivial and a bit pathetic like that.