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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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Whitecovers · 06/12/2016 23:01

Only time I can remember is from when I was about 15 at a house party I could hear a girl slagging me off very loudly in the next room. So I sprayed her red coat (when we was young chavs our coats was a big thing ) with loads of bleach on.

MyPeriodFeatures · 06/12/2016 23:02

I can't believe the sanctimonious people on this thread 'ohhh I don't do revenge'

Bloody hell, petty revenge is sometimes the only way.

mortificado · 06/12/2016 23:08

Scrubbed my ex mil toothbrush around the toilet. I felt no guilt whatsoever. Until I had to live with her. Karmas a bitch.

BlueCaravelle · 06/12/2016 23:10

When I was a teenager I did some things I'm not too proud of. My boyfriend went off with another girl so I'm made calling cards for her ( I was 16)
My best friend went weird after she met a new boyfriend. He called me repeatedly saying he was going to rape me while she laughed in the background. I dodged a train fair and pretended to be her and gave all of her details to the guard as I said I had no money or id.

needsahalo · 06/12/2016 23:13

Revenge? I have a fantasy where I spend months letting the cheating ex woo me only to tell him at some suitable moment that a man like him could never have a woman like me (something he said to me on hos way out...but I have found the best revenge where he is concerned is being happy, managing without him and just being someone instead of the no one our relationship made me.

YelloDraw · 06/12/2016 23:19

Ballstowinplease
You threw away smthe guys passports because two silly girls did some coke when it was offered to them? Pretty harsh.

helensburgh · 06/12/2016 23:23

I maybe allegedly perhaps once didn't flush the used loo paper.

And I may have wiped around the rim of a mug.
A mug used by someone who had bullied me for 14 years .

HamletsSister · 06/12/2016 23:26

As a naive 18 year old, I got a job before Uni in a huge firm. Office work. There was 1 graduate who spent the whole time asserting his superiority, patronising us and boasting about his car. I suppose I didn't think about the horror of graduating and ending up filing alongside a load of teenagers.

But, he was obnoxious and his car was everything to him. Especially the gleaming body work.

So, we advertised it for sale at a very tempting price because, "bodywork tatty, hence low price" and his phone rang and rang for days. He knew it was us but in spite of desperate attempts, couldn't prove it.

ChasedByBees · 06/12/2016 23:37

Exactly what I was thinking Yellodraw.

llangennith · 06/12/2016 23:37

I'm far too lazy to plot revenge but if the opportunity comes up then I'm there like a shot. And I can be pretty evil however long it takes

Pipistrelle40 · 06/12/2016 23:43

Same as you BlueCaravelle. Got picked up by British Rail police for dodging a train fare so gave the name, address and phone number of a girl who bullied me at school for years. I/she was given a caution for this which must have given her some explaining to do as she was working for the police by then.

OvO · 06/12/2016 23:44

My only acts of revenge are when my DH annoys me so I jiggle his man-drawer.

That's not a euphemism.

His drawer is incredibly neat with a place for everything. So I just give it a wee jiggle so stuff slides just a little out of place. Just enough to annoy him but not enough for him to have proof someone has deliberately done it!

I feel no shame for this act of petty revenge.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 07/12/2016 00:17

When I first started working in DA services I had a boss who was the most horrendous bully I have ever come across.

So I spent 6 months keeping every single bit of evidence against her that I could inc but not limited to tapes of her on my answer machine calling me a fucking cunt and her hand written notes with very inappropriate orders on them and when I had gathered about 5 huge file boxes I went off sick on full pay for several months and used that time to make sure she would end up at a full monty employment investigation

smashyourglasses · 07/12/2016 00:38

I've become terrifingly good at this and take it all the way. They never expect me capable of such awfulness. I approve of you other revengers.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 07/12/2016 00:52

Revenge is Karma's responsibility.

cloudchasing · 07/12/2016 01:15

But sadly, karma lets you down....

This will out me to anyone that knows me irl.

I was heavily pregnant with dd (20 years ago) and her dad was due to come and pick me up from work so that I didn't have to get the bus home in the snow.
5 mins before I finished, I had a message from reception saying I would have to get the bus after all cos he was going for a drink with his mate instead

So when I finally got home, I made him a delicious spaghetti bolognese that was 1/3 mince and 2/3 catfood. Oh how he enjoyed it, hours later in his drunken stupor.

Same ex - he was an abusive alcoholic, by the way - I spat in his beer, peed on his flannel, and sprinkled pubes in his sandwiches for work.

Don't even care

GardenGeek · 07/12/2016 01:30

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Rainbunny · 07/12/2016 01:40

The best revenge I've ever had (the only revenge I've ever had in fact) was to live well and prosper!

I haven't had much cause to think of revenge in life but I will admit to some petty, very shallow satisfaction when I consider the way the lives of some of the bitches who bullied others at school have turned out. They tried but mostly failed to bully me, however they made my friends' lives miserable, they truly were awful people. Each and everyone of them is stuck in crappy jobs in the same crappy part of the town they grew up in and frankly look their age and then some. I graduated from Oxbridge, travelled and lived in several countries and make a very good living as does my DH. We have a really good life, regularly eat at great restaurants, travel overseas several times a year and I'm able to spend time and money taking care of myself at the gym, my tennis club along with hair salon and monthly spa visits and I can afford nice clothes, so yes I look and feel great compared to those vile bullies.

I know how awful this sounds and I would never admit this in RL, not even to my DH. I really don't go through life thinking I'm awesome and special I promise, it's just when I read or hear a news story about bullying etc... that I secretly enjoy thinking about that.

CheshireChat · 07/12/2016 01:42

OvO I love that!

StrangeLookingParasite · 07/12/2016 03:53

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

Nice to believe but it really doesn't happen.

Love yours, GardenGeek. So much fun.

And oh, the smelly, smelly sanctimony from some people on here. How extra-saintly of you.

SlottedSpoon · 07/12/2016 04:55

Another one who has never gone in for revenge either. Not that I am instantly full of forgiveness and at inner peace with myself over things - I'm not. But actual acts of revenge are not my style at all.

The few people I feel have fucked me over have often seemed to get their own karma in a way, and knowing that has been enough. Not that I even believe in Karma, but it has seemed that it has worked its magic in my case.

And I agree about the best revenge being your happiness.

user1477282676 · 07/12/2016 06:29

I never have. I couldn't live with the guilt. Even people who've been mean....I'd not be able to lower myself to destroying or hiding things.

My friend hides her husband's favourite t shirts when he's been annoying her. I think that's awful.

SailingThroughTime · 07/12/2016 06:53

My revenge was unwitting.
I was thevonly person in the year not invited to a classmate's 18th birthday party. It hurt like fuck because I really couldn't work out why.
Fast forward to the first Christmas holidays from uni. She'd failed her A levels and had to stay at school to resit. I went into a local shoe shop and she was doing holiday work there. I had forgotten about the party and was chatting as if nothing had happened - all friendly and lovely. When I left the shop I remembered the party thing and how hurt I'd been and I was so glad I'd been lovely in the shop as it was a much better revenge really

MrsTrentReznor · 07/12/2016 06:53

My boss had come onto my mum (She had previously worked there too) and when she rejected him, he started a campaign of hate against me.
I was 16 and it was my first job. I cleaned a betting shop on my way into college.
My first task when I got in was to wash up the staff cups, the final rinse was always done in the betting shop public toilet.
My mum also doctored his trading figures and reported his treatment of me to the area manager.
I'd quit out of frustration by that point (he was really, really nasty to me leaving notes about my mum on top of the bins I emptied etc.) and I got offered my job back.
Didn't take it.

Bettersleepoutdoors · 07/12/2016 07:02

Karma is full of shit.
Loving this thread.

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