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Best revenge stories?!?!?

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B3stS3rv3dC0ld · 15/02/2019 08:18

A little Friday fun............. what's your best revenge story?! Either on a partner or friend etc.

I've never actually "got revenge" on someone as I have a guilty conscience and I know I'd feel terrible afterwards!!! But always found other people's stories funny/interesting/imaginative!

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patchysmum · 15/02/2019 09:57

My husband cheated, he said the affair was over but he lied even on my children's lives. I found out he was still seeing her put everything he owned including clothes into bin bags and chucked them in the local canal

SukisKettle · 15/02/2019 09:58

Didn't a similar thread get taken down fairly recently? I think it was about petty revenge but it really went wrong with people admitting murdering pets and God knows what else and then it turned into a huge row? It was highly entertaining (not the dead pets but obviously) while it lasted Grin

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B3stS3rv3dC0ld · 15/02/2019 09:59

Atchiclees I was doubtful of your message when I first starting reading but thought hey maybe it could've happened!! (naive much ha ha) so when I read the end I felt a little silly!!!

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Giggorata · 15/02/2019 09:59

Moved away and ceased any contact with the relevant people, then went on to get myself on my feet, study, bring up my children, travel, do creative stuff and generally have a great life..
Sod off, Daily Heil. 😛

Blobby10 · 15/02/2019 10:02

My then 19 year old friend was so annoyed at being dumped by her boyfriend just before she was going to dump him that she 1. booked a skip to be delivered to his driveway (in those days you had to pay to have them taken away but not delivered) 2. Sprinkled mustard and cress onto the deep pile carpet in his room and watered it (when she went back to collect some clothes she had left there) 3. registered his phone number (no mobiles in those days!) with a double glazing window company so he got loads of sales calls for weeks afterwards.

Very mild compared to what can be done these days but it shocked the 19 year old me that she could be so mean!

MamTDM · 15/02/2019 10:04

I was horribly bullied by a really vile girl all through secondary school. Many many years later I was in Boots with a tall, gorgeous boyfriend and I saw her working on the tills. I'd not long passed my PhD, so BF and I just quietly went to her till with a box of extra-large condoms, for which I paid using my card with 'Dr. TDM' on it to make sure she saw my name, and breezed through as though I didn't recognise her. She practically threw the bag at me Grin I was shaking inside but damn it felt good.

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B3stS3rv3dC0ld · 15/02/2019 10:07

Giggorata Yes, make sure you look out for my upcoming article on The Daily Mail titled "Revenge stories from Mumsnetters" ... in fact why don't you sign up so you can get alerted the MINUTE it drops! Sign up to OK mag, BBC News, Reddit, LadBible... anything you read!

Keep a tab on your browser so you can refresh every hour! It'll be well worth the wait of............a flipping eternity Grin

I almost wish I was a bloody journalist just so I could give you some sort of satisfaction!

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AstralTraveller · 15/02/2019 10:10

A friend had a serial cheat for a husband. She used to roll into a ball the stuff she had back raked out of her geldings foreskin and put it in the engine bay of his car. The smell of this was enough to stop most women getting in his car at least Grin

spiderlight · 15/02/2019 10:15

@AstralTraveller That is....I don't actually have words for that! A whole new world of grossness. I might have to introduce 'stinks like a gelding's foreskin' into the family vernacular!

Juells · 15/02/2019 10:22

PBo83
Revenge is a waste of time and energy that could be used for self-improvement (which, ultimately, is the best form of revenge)

Life can be very unfair, people can become depressed by the fact that someone has shit all over them and they're powerless. Revenge feels bloody great in those circumstances.

81Byerley · 15/02/2019 10:26

My Mum was once dumped spectacularly in the poo financially by her husband when he ran off with a young floozy. She had to take on two other jobs to pay it off. One night she was walking to her 3rd job when he drove past in his sports car with the OW. The sports car she had helped buy, and which she still had a key to. That night she set the alarm for 3am, dressed all in black, drove to his house, opened the bonnet of his car, and cut every wire she could see, with her garden shears. Then she locked it up and went home for the best sleep she'd had since the split. When he phoned her apoplectic with rage she said "I don't know what you're talking about. I work 3 jobs to pay off the debt you left me in. how the hell do you think I've got the energy to do that? You should look around at some of your other enemies!"

Inaboatwithoutapaddle247 · 15/02/2019 10:29

When I was a nervous 16 year old, I was doing my mum's shopping in Tesco.
I was really shy and self conscious.
I had stopped in the aisle with my trolley to read the list my mum has written.
I heard a male voice behind me shout "EXCUSE ME!!" in the most patronising voice imaginable (i.e you are just an annoying kid blocking the ailse!! Let me past now!!).
I panicked and immediately moved my trolley to the side.
He gave me the filthiest look down his nose and strolled past without a word.

Something sparked annoyance in me then.
I thought, right I'll play him at his own game!
I raced to the next aisle where I spotted him stood right in the middle it blocking everyone's path (just as I had been) and reading his shopping list!
My shyness went out the window, and my intention was to do as exactly as he had done and stop behind him and say "EXCUSE ME!!" in the same patronising tone he had used on me.

However, it didn't quite go to plan!
I charged down the aisle towards him a little faster than I had intended and couldn't stop!! My trolley hurtled right in to the back of his heel!!
"OWWCHHH!!!" he yelled, rubbing his heel, before turning round to see it was me.
I panicked and mumbled "I'm so sorry...."
He didn't say a word but looked rather embarrassed.

piscis · 15/02/2019 10:42

A friend of mine filled her boyfried's (who had cheated on her) car's keyhole with superglue. In her defense, she was around 20 when she did it.

StealingYourWiFi · 15/02/2019 10:47

My colleague got her revenge on her cheating exH in the best way Grin

He had an affair with a young colleague of his, they had an upcoming work trip together and his case was packed. His DW knew about the affair and confronted him the night before and told him that she would pack his bags for when he returned.

He went on his work trip to find all of his expensive suits 2 inches shorter in the arms and legs. His wife got them all altered before his trip Grin

4TeensAndABaby · 15/02/2019 10:49

The Daily Fail wrote an article which named me for something I hadn't done (Not criminal BTW). They didn't ask me for comment, and published the story anyway - seemingly taking the other persons (false) word without checking facts.
I got a shit hot lawyer and sued the pants off them Grin

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B3stS3rv3dC0ld · 15/02/2019 11:02

Mayyyyyyyybe I'm wrong but I'm guessing you also thin kI'm a journalist whose going to use these stories and so you're trying to scare me out of it??? Lol nice try 4TeensAndABaby!

Try being less cynical Wink don't you think that if I posted these stories (of which you'd easily be able to find literally just by searching the messages on this thread) it would then reveal my name a the top of the article and I'd have a fair few angry Mumsnetters after me??? Why would someone do that?! Use your common sense!

Also, if somebody chooses to post it on here they've already posted it on the internet it's available to billions of people anyway why would you get so upset at the idea of it being on a different website...it's still anonymous unless you actually use your own name!

Just take a chill pill and enjoy the funny posts! It's Friday... chill OUT! I would say I wish I'd never posted this but the smug-mums who think they've solved a murder mystery are equally as entertaining as those sharing their revenge stories!

Carry on Grin

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OrangeJuiceandLemonade · 15/02/2019 11:10

@B3stS3rv3dC0ld honestly it happens all the time.

It has got people into lots of bother.

2 really high profile cases I can think of are Gina Ford and a poster called Riven.

There was a massive fall out to both events (with differing results) but it really does happen.

OrangeJuiceandLemonade · 15/02/2019 11:13

Those are 2 separate links which show why people are reluctant to post stuff for it to be used onwards.

Burlea · 15/02/2019 11:16

I worked with the biggest bitch in the world. One day I brought in some cakes I'd made, these were individual ones. On hers I had really gone to town icing, hundreds and thousands with senna inside.

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B3stS3rv3dC0ld · 15/02/2019 11:19

OrangeJuiceandLemonade Wow so how did these articles happen?! One of them has a picture so surely the person on Mumsnet gave that to them?? How would they put all the info together including names etc!

Awful if it did happen just by the user posting on Mumsnet and being sussing out who it was and being sold.

I just don't understand why you'd give away that much info in the first place!

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LazyFace · 15/02/2019 11:22

OP can't be a journalist with this spelling....

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 15/02/2019 11:24

When my ex dumped me in spectacular style a few months prior to our wedding, I was given all sorts of excellent revenge ideas - my favourite was to put a rat in the water tank. I didn't though - cos you can only buy dead white rats, and that would have been a bit of a giveaway.

Thought about the cress, but took the carpets with me (house I was moving to had taken their carpets) - and considered the prawns in the curtain rail but then the fucker said something along the lines of "don't trash the house!" so I then couldn't do anything because I wasn't going to justify his low expectations of me!

I got the last laugh though - definitely have the better life! Grin

Juells · 15/02/2019 11:25

Gosh, I recognised the photo of the child in the Guardian disability link. She's the daughter of a writer that I'm a fan of, who writes under a different name. He's given up work and writes full-time, and looks after the little girl full-time, AFAIK.

BTW, that isn't spilling any secrets, he writes about her all the time in his blog, which is why I recognise her.

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B3stS3rv3dC0ld · 15/02/2019 11:27

LazyFace I'm not saying I have perfect grammar or spelling but surely it's not bad enough to actually warrant a comment on it?!?! Lol

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