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What's the worst act of revenge you've ever done?

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Clothears123 · 06/12/2016 15:47

I'll confess mine. Years ago I was in my 20's and flat sharing in London with Scottish girl. I was really worried as I thought I was pregnant and I confided in her. She swore not to tell anyone and I really believed I could trust her. About a week later a guy who was a mutual friend told me I wasn't showing yet! I was so angry and so betrayed. It was eating me up inside. Up to this point a lot of crappy stuff had happened to me and I always seemed to meeting people who basically treated badly and I always let it go and they would get away with it. This time though I'd had enough of being walked over so I decided I had to get my own back. This girl absolutely loved Mick Hucknell and Simply Red. She been to their concert and she had a cassette tape she played over and over again. I can't lie, I felt immense satisfaction as I opened the rubbish chute, tore the tape to shreds and then shut the chute and listened to it all tumbling down to the huge metal bins below. I tend to have a guilt complex but I have never ever felt guilty about this and would even admit it to this girl's face if I saw her again. I know if I hadn't have done anything it would have eaten away at me for years but it was very therapeutic to deal with it and let it go.

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Sparklingbrook · 06/12/2016 16:20

*much

fakenamefornow · 06/12/2016 16:22

I had an awful boss at a job once. He was horrible to me and picked on me non stop, really nasty.

I left that job an got a much better one. I would sometimes still see him at training or conferences, I was now senior to him and earned more, and he knew it. :)

PrivatePike · 06/12/2016 16:22

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HeddaGabbler · 06/12/2016 16:22

When I was at uni there was a girl in my halls who spat all over the crockery and kitchen equipment after a row with her housemates. Luckily I was in the flat next door!

humphreyandlinnea · 06/12/2016 16:23

No I haven't done anything like this, fortunately. Nor would my friends.

mrsmuddlepies · 06/12/2016 16:23

I always think about Michelle Obama. 'When they go low, we go high'. She is right I think, revenge takes you down to their level. Going high and rising above with dignity makes you the better person.

MollyHopps · 06/12/2016 16:23

I don't think out and out, obvious revenge is the best way of doing things.

I think that you can make Karma work for you though in certain situations, particularly in terms of bullying and others breaking your confidentiality. There are ways of ensuring they are dealt with without scrubbing toilets with toothbrushes

SouthofMaui · 06/12/2016 16:24

This thread has Daily Mail Rip Off Story Of The Day written all over it

Sorry but this is as boring as troll hunting. Any thread can be picked up by the DM. Make a DM bingo, that would be more fun.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 06/12/2016 16:25

When I was in p5 there was a girl in p7 that I really didn't like (can't remember why but I was very badly bullied so she may have been involved in that?)

Anyway, I was sat behind her in assembly one day, and she had really long bum length hair. For the duration of the assembly I tied wee knots into her hair.

I felt really awful after, and decided that revenge want really a good course of action.

Sparklingbrook · 06/12/2016 16:31

Good reminder though South for anyone about to post.

PrivatePike · 06/12/2016 16:33

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eatsleephockeyrepeat · 06/12/2016 16:34

I once did a job which involved myself and a whole room of my colleagues making multiple daily calls to businesses in Africa. One day I got one of those shameless "your distant relative has died in Niger, I am his solicitor, phone me now to claim you million US dollars" scam emails.

Now who can be bothered to call a scam-artist on the other side of the world multiple times a day saying his relative in England has died and to please read out his bank details to claim his inheritance? A whole room of people who phone Africa on a cheap rate all day for a living, that's who!

TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit · 06/12/2016 16:40

Fuck the Daily Mail

ConfusedintheNorth · 06/12/2016 16:40

I am known as "Cersei" amoungst my friends... and it's not down to an inappropriate relationship with a sibling. All of you chill people who can have people stamp all over there lives and just walk away I applaud you, I however can not.
The most comical incident, comes from a time an ex-employee decided to set-up their own company, and in order to try and attract more customers, absolutely trashed our company in every way possible. We're a small family business, and this was incredibly upsetting, luckily for us most people saw through him, but I was raging. I realized that, being the business mastermind he wasn't, he hadn't bought any of his new company's domain names... and I knew the social media link for a horrifically embarrassing video of him dancing, whilst incredibly drunk and in fancy dress... It still brings me joy to think about it!

ThoraGruntwhistle · 06/12/2016 16:41

It's a real shame that nobody wants to post any good stories anymore because the DM 'journalists' steal them instead of having to think. It'll spell the end for this site.

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Clothears123 · 06/12/2016 16:43

I wholeheartedly do agree - I am in no way recommending revenge it's the best way as I don't believe it is. Petty revenge is petty and serious revenge is much worse. There are better ways but we sometimes have to learn by our mistakes.

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YelloDraw · 06/12/2016 16:47

ConfusedintheNorth ooh that is good!

Maryhadalittlelambstew · 06/12/2016 16:54

I honestly cannot believe I just read that. Telling a family you are pregnant in order to upset them is emotional abuse in itself. All you managed to achieve with your "revenge" was lowering yourself to his level. My nan used to tell me two wrongs don't make a right, I can't believe you actually feel good about yourself for that.

You must be so proud.

WaggyMama · 06/12/2016 16:55

Weekend city break with DH and then young DCs. Two blokes in the next room who were part of a stag party staying at the hotel. First night they came back with their mates and some women they had picked up, shouting and banging down the corridor. Then they put load music on and started shagging. After 30 minutes I knocked on their door and asked them to keep it down as we had small children, but the bloke just told me to fuck off.

I was livid

Next day reception were useless. That evening the stag party appeared at the bar in fancy dress, loud and ready for another night of disturbance.

I stuck a piece of paper in their door keycard slot-thingy.

They returned at 3 in the morning, loud and inconsiderate again but this time they couldn't get in their room, ha ha ha. The night porter couldn't get in with the master keycard either. They were shown to an alternative room but all their stuff was still in the room.

They looked very hungover at breakfast the next morning!

Chipsandonionrings · 06/12/2016 16:55

When I was 19 yrs old - a million yrs ago I was bullied by a colleague and was too young to stand up for myself. I used to be in tears most morning with the prospect of seeing him.

As the token girl I often had to make the tea - very male dominated environment. So I made him a brew and after he finished it I asked him sweetly if he enjoyed it. I told him I had taken his cup to the toilet with me ( I HADNT!!) But he thought I might of. I then warned him if he continued to be a cock then he would need to watch out. I never made him tea again or put up with his nonsense.

GettingitwrongHauntingatnight · 06/12/2016 16:59

You don't need to seek revenge, it will come round abyway.

littlesallyracket · 06/12/2016 17:03

LOL at how sanctimonious some of the replies on here are ... particularly the ones that suggest they consider themselves terribly serene and mature while simultaneously bitching at the OP.

Jiggl · 06/12/2016 17:04

I subscribe to the theory that the best revenge is your own happiness.

MrsGuyOfGisbo · 06/12/2016 17:05

I subscribe to the theory that the best revenge is your own happiness.
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Bluntness100 · 06/12/2016 17:05

Only once. My husband not long after we moved in together kept chucking my stuff out it I left it lying around. Silly things like nail polish or whatever, I'm not actually messy. It made me crazy and i Told him to stop. Blazing arguments kind of thing, He kept on and so I told him if he ever chucked something of mine out again, I'd cut his favourite jumper up, it was cashmere, and then about 20 odd years ago cost well over a hundred pounds and was a gift to him from his mum.

So One day i had left a work contract on the dining table as I'd needed to rush out for a stamp, came home and spent ages looking for it, in tears,he comes home and says he had chucked it in the outside wheelie bin. It literally could have got me fired if it was lost or ruined.

So I went upstairs, got the jumper, came down, got the scissors and cut it in half right in front of him. He couldn't believe it. Told him an item of clothing goes every single time he binned something, one for one, so do it again at his peril as his suits were next. And I wasn't kidding either.

He never binned anything of mine again. Genuinely, he never ever did it again.

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