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Good revenge stories about nasty strangers

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BananasBananas · 02/07/2020 22:54

We need some good revenge stories to lift our spirits after reading about all the random acts of nastinesses on here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3953798-to-ask-if-a-stranger-has-ever-been-nasty-to-you?msgid=97985195
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Qwicky · 04/07/2020 13:42

I agree with PP, the excuses are shaky, at best! Which can be said for a lot of these stories You could have simply driven out of the space and gone via another bin in the car park. Approached correctly you could have been close enough to toss it out the window.

I think there is definitely a certain type of person who immediately think up disproportionate malicious solutions to minor inconsequential inconveniences.

Thisismytimetoshine · 04/07/2020 13:42

In a 200 space car park you couldn't possibly have been trapped by a single car parked beside you, it couldn't happen.
And you were able to guzzle a McDonald's meal, but would have been sick from the smell of the paper bag?
Get away, you were an arse and you know it.

rwalker · 04/07/2020 13:43

Got on train all pleased with myself got a seat a table put my drinks bottle on table wedge my phone up directly in front of me watching film though headphones .
Woman next to me without a word swiped my bottle crisp and phone right to the end of table . She then got out a full smelly buffet for herself taking most if not all of the table .
Train full and at next stop I know it's the wrong term but can only describe as a tramp got on FILTHY and stunk to high heaven .Waved him over and gave him my seat the smell was grim and she was sat tucking into her dinner .
Had to stand the rest of the way but worth it .

Jazzled · 04/07/2020 13:47

Pretty sure you could have found another word to use there 🙄

toomanyplants · 04/07/2020 14:11

Not exactly strangers, but if not seen them for many years.
Two horrid school bullies, made my life an utter misery, really wicked cruel girls, to the point it was just easier for me to change schools after intervention just made it worse.
So I left school and in a bid to boost my confidence my mother entered me into local beauty pageants. I won a few and one of them had a prize of a years gym membership in my town.
So I'm getting publicity photos taken (this is way back when swimwear was acceptable for these kind of things) wearing sash etc
Who comes in... my old bullies, seriously fat, looking meaner than ever.
To add to the poetic justice one of them went flat on her face on the treadmill, making the biggest bang ever.
Revenge was sweet.

Namechange2020onceagain · 04/07/2020 14:12

In the 4th year at school and was waiting in the hallway to get into a classroom. Another sex pest pupil was making vile remarks about my body and went into some detail. I just stood there with a smile and waited. Our Head of Year was standing behind him and heard everything. She gave him detention for a week and he had to learn about equality and how to not be a pervert. Lovely Grin

TaighNamGastaOrt · 04/07/2020 14:20

Several years ago, my mum and I were returning from a camping trip in her converted camper van/people carrier.
We stopped for a BK and parked up to eat it in a quiet corner of the car park with several spaces either side of the van.
Enjoying grub when a wee lass in a Clio races up to park closely beside us. No problem.
She gets out, bangs her car door against van hard enough to make it rock. Then slams door and stalks off, flicking hair. Mum opens window and politely says excuse me, you just hit my van.
Wee lass shrieks obscenities at us, she didn't touch van, we're lesbians and c**ts.
My usually calm mum loses her shit, opens van door and slams it into her car. Then shuts door and goes to me 'ah, shouldn't have done that'.
Wee lass shrieks further obscenities, calls police, gets her pals to take pics of our van, tries to open van door to 'kick shit out of us'
We just eat our burgers. Eventually she calms and demands insurance details. Mum gives them happily as she says to silly wee lass it'll be worth paying for any damage if it teaches her a lesson.

After finally getting her details (I don't want to give you MY details), we drive off chuckling. Mum knows two wrongs don't make a right, she just reacted to being abused.
Safe to say we never heard from silly wee lass again! I saw on her FB her dad had banned her from using the car!
Silly lass works in my dentist, I always make a point of being super nice to her.

garbagegirl · 04/07/2020 14:29

When I was a teenager i was verbally abused and groped by much older men on various occasions. I remember being sniped at by girls to make themselves feel better too. Guess they saw an easy target.

One time though in my 20s I had joined my sister on a day out to a local theme park with our kids. Her son has a cerebral palsy and we like to celebrate the anniversary of his first steps (at one point his doctors said he would never walk)

So, I am in a queue with my daughter and nephew for a ride they wanted to go on and out of nowhere the teenage girls behind us start taking the piss out of me being fat. I am fat but they were being very nasty. I said nothing. They kept being nasty. My daughter asked me if I was ok. I smiled at her, winked at my nephew and said nothing. The teenagers kept on being nasty.

After we rode the rollercoaster and had met my sister at the exit of the ride I watched the teenagers go back to what must have been their parents unpacking a lovely picnic lunch. I turned to my sister and asked if I could use her sons disability for revenge purposes. My sister laughed in a wtf way and said err ok...

Then I approached the family and told them that their darling offspring had spent the queue time taking the piss out of my disabled nephew. The Mum started having a go at the girls and immediately packed up their lunch and told them she was so sick of their bitchiness that they were going straight home. The teenagers got very upset but couldn't exactly say "shes lying, we were being horrible to her because shes fat"

I don't even feel slightly bad about it. My daughter and nephew thought it was hilarious and I hope it taught them that they don't have to be an easy target like I was when I was younger.
If someone is mean, I see nothing wrong with playing dirty. Hopefully the next time those teenagers were tempted to be mean, they thought twice about it...

LadyLindaT · 04/07/2020 14:29

All I can think of now is the episode of Frasier with the "etiquette lesson".
"I mean, who am I to draw the line at the acceptable level of force? Because the next person moves a little farther, and the next person, a little farther still, until we finally end up with scorpions flying through the mail like Christmas bundt cakes!"

tigerwhomadethetea · 04/07/2020 14:40

I worked at the post office for a few years and there was one arsehole customer who was always rude and aggressive.

He was fuming that he missed the collection because he arrived two minutes prior to and the line was huge.

In a rage after raising his voice, he threw his money at me which ricocheted off the glass and I had great pleasure in watching him go and pick up every single coin off the floor Grin

He just looked so ridiculous and several other people in the line were sniggering.

SwelteringInTheHeat · 04/07/2020 14:57

@garbagegirl

When I was a teenager i was verbally abused and groped by much older men on various occasions. I remember being sniped at by girls to make themselves feel better too. Guess they saw an easy target.

One time though in my 20s I had joined my sister on a day out to a local theme park with our kids. Her son has a cerebral palsy and we like to celebrate the anniversary of his first steps (at one point his doctors said he would never walk)

So, I am in a queue with my daughter and nephew for a ride they wanted to go on and out of nowhere the teenage girls behind us start taking the piss out of me being fat. I am fat but they were being very nasty. I said nothing. They kept being nasty. My daughter asked me if I was ok. I smiled at her, winked at my nephew and said nothing. The teenagers kept on being nasty.

After we rode the rollercoaster and had met my sister at the exit of the ride I watched the teenagers go back to what must have been their parents unpacking a lovely picnic lunch. I turned to my sister and asked if I could use her sons disability for revenge purposes. My sister laughed in a wtf way and said err ok...

Then I approached the family and told them that their darling offspring had spent the queue time taking the piss out of my disabled nephew. The Mum started having a go at the girls and immediately packed up their lunch and told them she was so sick of their bitchiness that they were going straight home. The teenagers got very upset but couldn't exactly say "shes lying, we were being horrible to her because shes fat"

I don't even feel slightly bad about it. My daughter and nephew thought it was hilarious and I hope it taught them that they don't have to be an easy target like I was when I was younger.
If someone is mean, I see nothing wrong with playing dirty. Hopefully the next time those teenagers were tempted to be mean, they thought twice about it...

Why did you have to lie, though? Could you have not said that the girls were being horrible to YOU? I don't understand why you had to say they did something they didn't, when what they did was bad enough.
Daisyhut · 04/07/2020 15:16

A few people on here need anger management.

hashtagbollocks · 04/07/2020 15:24

Why did you have to lie, though? Could you have not said that the girls were being horrible to YOU? I don't understand why you had to say they did something they didn't, when what they did was bad enough

I thought this.
There's some very odd people on this site

Tappering · 04/07/2020 15:48

No way would you as a hiring manager have no idea who you were interviewing. Even if names were redacted from CVs you'd still have a good chance of guessing it was your former shitty colleague, from their work history.

xsquared · 04/07/2020 15:57

No way would you as a hiring manager have no idea who you were interviewing. Even if names were redacted from CVs you'd still have a good chance of guessing it was your former shitty colleague, from their work history.

Is the panel involved in the shortlisting process though? Also, don't assume they've read your application either.

StillCoughingandLaughing · 04/07/2020 16:08

Plus it surely would depend on where you’d worked previously. If it was Tinpot Agency Ltd., they’d only had one receptionist in ten years and the CV said ‘Ten years on reception at Tinpot’, then yes, you’d know who it was immediately. In my last job there were nearly 60 people with my job title. I wouldn’t know who an interviewee was from that info alone.

oldspaniel · 04/07/2020 16:11

Years ago my husband, kids and I were parking in a very muddy car park to go for a walk on the moors. The car next to us was also parking and the woman passenger was making signs at us to move over or something. I can't remember what she thought we were doing wrong but her gestures and manner were really rude. We piled out of the car and she was still grimacing at us which we ignored and then she tripped over, she couldn't stand up because it was so slippy, her companion kept trying to help her up. I had to get back in the car because I was helpless with laughter, my husband thought about helping but he couldn't stop laughing either. She was caked in mud from head to toe, my children were laughing hysterically too. Oh dear, I feel a bit bad now and actually thinking about it she was probably trying to park in the dry area.She was literally covered in wet mud, still makes me giggle 25 years or so later.

jackdaw141 · 04/07/2020 16:14

Here we go....

viz.co.uk/2014/09/26/meddlesome-ratbag-autumn-leaves/

hashtagbollocks · 04/07/2020 16:15

Oh dear, I feel a bit bad now and actually thinking about it she was probably trying to park in the dry area
yes, she probably was and was wondering why the twat next to her wouldn't move slightly so she could.
She'd have thought you were even bigger twats at being in hysterics and encouraging your children to piss themselves at a grown woman falling over.
way to go parenting

Thisismytimetoshine · 04/07/2020 16:19

@oldspaniel

Years ago my husband, kids and I were parking in a very muddy car park to go for a walk on the moors. The car next to us was also parking and the woman passenger was making signs at us to move over or something. I can't remember what she thought we were doing wrong but her gestures and manner were really rude. We piled out of the car and she was still grimacing at us which we ignored and then she tripped over, she couldn't stand up because it was so slippy, her companion kept trying to help her up. I had to get back in the car because I was helpless with laughter, my husband thought about helping but he couldn't stop laughing either. She was caked in mud from head to toe, my children were laughing hysterically too. Oh dear, I feel a bit bad now and actually thinking about it she was probably trying to park in the dry area.She was literally covered in wet mud, still makes me giggle 25 years or so later.
This is a shitty tale. Shame on you, encouraging your kids to laugh at someone falling over, like gormless gobshites.
hashtagbollocks · 04/07/2020 16:25

to the people who have had less than positive responses to your "hilarious" tales of revenge, do you see now that you were shitty or do you still ( worryingly) think your response was appropriate?

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/07/2020 16:47

By the way @MyNameHasBeenTaken’s story was written, it seemed the woman parked very close to her in an otherwise empty part of the lot. That is pretty obnoxious.

Loads of people will park next to a parked car. I've always found it odd, but not obnoxious.

Perhaps that was the best lit area of the car park? Or the nearest to to toilets or whatever.

Didn't merit someone's rubbish through the roof.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 04/07/2020 16:50

It's some kind of herding thing parking next to a car on an empty parking lot

hashtagbollocks · 04/07/2020 16:55

*It's some kind of herding thing parking next to a car on an empty parking lot8
yes it is. I don't do it but I wonder if people feel their car is less likely to be broken into if they're next to someone else's/ More chance of car thief being disturbed or something.
whatever the reason, there's no excuse to drop greasy food wrappers onto their car seats.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/07/2020 17:01

I like the one's best where Karma intervenes eg - a seagull poos on someone who has been obnoxious; or a courteous but crushing retort is offered (like the one to the Dr who had rung his now extension number 47 times . . . )

Those are sweet, sweet revenge!

(Though I confess that I was impressed by the woman who saw someone leave sh*t in the street, and picked it up with a dogpoo bag to put on their windscreen - that served them right, as it's a filthy thing to do)