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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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EndGoal · 15/02/2019 21:52

When I was younger my mum said either me or my brother had to make a cup of tea for the grown ups, I lost and had to do it and my brother sat giving me smug face saying he'll have one too. So I put salt instead of sugar in his and 20odd years later I still get satisfaction remembering face after taking a gulp of it.

makingmammaries · 15/02/2019 22:25

My friend’s colleague had bad BO. Friend hid some rotting French cheese in said colleague’s empty desk drawer, locked it and hid the key.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 15/02/2019 22:35

scarbados - that's inspired!

JiltedJohnsJulie · 15/02/2019 22:45

You clearly haven't ever read anything published by Wales Online. or our local paper.

gokartdillydilly · 15/02/2019 22:46

@Mummylife2018

My disclaimer stated it may or may not be true. However, if exMIL had texted me I would have said 'I don't know your grandson' and if she told me exBF had seen me in town with his child, I would have said 'Oh haha! That was my nephew'. Loved sowing that seed of doubt though. And I never had to say anything!

Al2O3 · 16/02/2019 05:34

Years ago I had a house in a trendy part of Bristol. One morning I woke up and someone had painted on my wall a five foot high picture of unicorns sitting in the House of Lords passing legislation. Because I was trying to to sell the property I immediately painted over the entire wall. The problem was I had to mix up lots of leftover quantities of different shades. The result was a colour that has never been invented before by man, woman or nature. Imagine my dismay when I learned I had just painted over a Banksy that would have made my house worth £1 million. My dismay was short-lived because that afternoon the chief executive of Dulux was passing by my house and saw my decorative concoction. Knowing it was a colour the world had long been waiting for, they offered me £1m for all my old paint tins with a down payment on the spot of £10 to seal the deal. My heart was immediately uplifted and I celebrated by purchasing 400gms of chocolate limes from the corner shop and even had some change left over.

sashh · 16/02/2019 06:28

I'm not sure if this counts but if we are talking journalists and revenge. No one can beat the people of Liverpool and their refusal to buy the Sun.

It's coming up to 30 years since that headline and I believe you can't even give the rag away on Merseyside.

To anyone on here involved in any way, I know I can't say much because of the current court case but you have my admiration.

NameChanger22 · 16/02/2019 09:23

There are quite a few people who have harmed me, but I just cut them out of my life and get on with living a happy life. Occasionally I've bumped into them, none of them look happy, that is revenge enough for me.

dayswithaY · 16/02/2019 09:48

A1203 I love your story, but you could have used your change to purchase some cola cubes in addition to the chocolate limes to make the perfect end to a perfect day.

WitsEnding · 16/02/2019 09:59

Happy to report that they are struggling to give away the Sun here in the far SW too. The shop chain they are using is McColls, should you be interested in not favouring them with your custom.

Purplecatshopaholic · 16/02/2019 10:07

Live a happy life and rise above it is my plan (husband has cheated and been binned). I love the Jersey story though... seriously trying to not do that to him (it would be so fun)...!

weleasewoderick22 · 16/02/2019 12:34

*I'm not sure if this counts but if we are talking journalists and revenge. No one can beat the people of Liverpool and their refusal to buy the Sun.

It's coming up to 30 years since that headline and I believe you can't even give the rag away on Merseyside.

To anyone on here involved in any way, I know I can't say much because of the current court case but you have my admiration.*

I'm not one for revenge, but I'm 100% behind the people of Liverpool on this one. I fucking hate the Sun

TopGearSorted · 16/02/2019 13:13

Their is no respect between us & the neighbours.

I like to keep the wood store overlooking their property full & beautifully stacked with wood from our garden whilst they are forced to buy in small expensive loads.

MitziK · 16/02/2019 13:17

I invited the Investigating Officers in, made them tea, brought out a freshly baked cake and happily chatted to them for over an hour, telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to all their questions.

I'm sure that it had never occurred to the ex that they might question his confident assertions/alibis/explanations for whatever it was they were investigating, as he was such a respectable Middleclass boy from a Good Family - although, just to be certain, I expect that he threw in a few nuggets of information about me being;

Borderline mentally retarded (his usual phrase, not mine).
Seriously mentally ill/demented/violent.
Benefit dependent, drug dependent criminal scum.

whilst still being convinced that I would still be so desperate to have him back, I'd lie to protect him at all times.

Yeah. That worked out well for him.

HazelBite · 16/02/2019 13:19

Many, many years ago I was recruited to work for a head of department of a very well known company.
I was recruited by this man to be his assistant (I had applied for a totally different job with the company) but this chap interviewed me and offered me the post.
When I started work there I became aware of "company politics" and that there was a problem with my "boss".
Within a few months he was sacked and I effectively had no post.
I was dumped on another department and that Manager made it very clear that she didn't want me working for her.
She made my life a complete misery, I was desperately trying to find another job, while she pushed me from pillar to post doing all the jobs no one wanted to do, being unpleasant to me. She would time me if I went to the toilet, and comment, I was the only one out of 60 staff that she treated like this and others were noticing and commenting.
I got a firm offer of another job so one day when she started on me I answered her back, she sacked me on the spot!
I started proceedings against her the company for unfair dismissal. The friends I had made while there told me about all the meetings she was having with the company lawyers, how they were questioned about her behaviour towards me etc. Apparently she was shitting herself!
Happily in my new job, I withdrew my application the day before the tribunal hearing, I had no intention of taking a day off from my new job to go ahead with it.
I just wanted her to feel some of the stress that she had caused me.

elQuintoConyo · 16/02/2019 14:12

Waaaay back in the early 90s, a friend* had been unmercifully dumped by her boyfriend who then fuckec off on a two-week holiday. She still had keys, so went in, phoned the Talking Clock and left it off the hook for the entirety of his jolly.

Definitely a friend, not me at all.

But having lived with a PA mother who'd do shit to my dad throughout their marriage, I just cannot get on board with revenge.

DogInATent · 16/02/2019 14:25

Not my story. But Frozen Sausages takes some beating as a means of revenge.

spinabifidamom · 16/02/2019 16:34

Last year a former so called friend shunned me actively. The best revenge is to basically hide your feelings and make out everything is fine and under control. I also stopped inviting her to parties and balls in my apartment. I moved on with my life.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 16/02/2019 18:12

Auslander

That is GENIUS!

I just wish I had access to the homes of all of the people who have pissed me off over the decades.

peanutbutterandbanana · 16/02/2019 18:15

I once had a tosser of a boss; this was well before days of internet. I grassed on him for doing something very underhand, so he fired me. I bought a whole load of magazines and spent a good few happy hours cutting out and posting off forms from adverts asking for information on hair loss, erectile problems, incontinence pads, breast augmentation, counselling sessions, gawdy ornament collections etc etc. Sadly I never got to see him open them, but I do hope that he was bothered for years by junk mail in the days when junk mail situation was excessive (now it's mainly junk email).

If this is published in the DM I doubt he would get to read it as he was a lefty.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 16/02/2019 18:24

Your mum is brilliant Byerley

SchadenfreudePersonified · 16/02/2019 18:26

Those giving the fiancé a hard time in Nancy's story, I think you would have judged him more if he went ahead with the marriage that he didn't want. Better to break up an engagement than a marriage. It's not like he left her at the alter on the wedding day.

I can't understand why, having broken off the relationship, he was going to follow her to Jersey.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 16/02/2019 18:44

As you were re: my last post - I've just re-read Nancy's posted realised that I had TOTALLY misunderstood what she was saying.

My fault - duck brain.

(But I think she was cruel - I know she was hurt, but even so . . . )

spam390 · 16/02/2019 19:56

I got revenge on a very nasty co-worker who bullied me as I couldn't speak Welsh. (Not actually BEING Welsh seemed to be my greatest crime!) She used to ONLY speak Welsh when I was around and would actually switch to Welsh when I entered the room ! Anyway, I had to leave my job suddenly due to a home crisis, and when a work collection was being put round to buy me a leaving present, she said, and I quote it exactly as it was told to me " No way am I giving any money ! I didn't like her when she was here, so why on earth would I want to help buy her a leaving present ? I'm just GLAD she's gone! Ha Ha !"
I was a bit upset, but ignored it as I'd left anyway. A month later I was having coffee with an old workmate who told me my nemesis was leaving her post to work elsewhere. I asked if she would be kind enough to give her a leaving gift and card from me at her leaving party and she agreed, but was confused. A week later I gave my friend a card and a lovely silver pendant necklace (both open so she could see them) and asked if she could wrap them and give them at the party. She did so and later I received a lovely card from the bully, apologising for being so horrible to me and asking me to forgive her. I never replied, but 6 months later I was visiting the area and met up with my old boss, who told me my bully was often seen in town, and she always had on the necklace from me. I laughed and said "GOOD!" , she asked me why I had been so nice to my bully, and I finally revealed what I did......... The card said "Hope you get what you deserve" , which I really did ! And on the reverse of the pendant I'd had engraved "I'm a racist c**t ! in Gaelic ! LOL. Apparently she STILL wears the necklace, and that happened 15yrs ago ! So I definitely got my revenge! LOL. :)

spam390 · 16/02/2019 20:16

Oh, and another time, when I was working in London as a controller for a car company ( good gig, with 4 nights on then 4 nights off , 12 hour shifts and paid cash at the end of the week) I was told by my boss that as the day controller had phoned in sick, I would need to stay on. "No problem" I said, foolishly assuming she meant " stay until I get another controller in" Noooooo, she meant ' work another 12 hour shift and THEN still do your planned 12 hour shift that night!!!! A 36 hour bloody shift !!! I did the Olympian shift as 1. I was planning to hand in my notice in 2 weeks anyway, as I was planning a year long trip round the world with my boyfriend. 2. She had attacked a drivers car with a hammer a month previously (seriously deranged woman !), and I didn't fancy her doing that to me ! Sooooo, I didn't hand in my notice as planned, I simply stopped coming in and didn't answer the phone. About 2 months later, I sent her a postcard from Hawaii, saying " I'M having a WONDERFUL time ! How are you???". My old co-workers told me she was incandescent with rage for a month! LOL You get what you deserve in life I think :)

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