Good revenge stories about nasty strangers

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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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I wonder if people feel their car is less likely to be broken into if they're next to someone else's

Herd immunity.

I am visually impaired (this is relevant.). One day I was catching a train which was really full. I found a seat and sat down but because I can’t see I didn’t realise it had been reserved from the next station.

At the next station people got on and off, and about five minutes after we pulled out a woman showed up with the train manager and loudly said “there she is. She’s sitting in my seat.” I will point out at this stage that had she told me the seat was reserved I would simply have apologised and moved but she’d insisted on going to the train manager to complain.

The train manager said to me that the seat was reserved. I immediately apologised and got up and he said to the woman, “there you are madam, there’s your seat, I’ll just take this lady off to first class.

alternative
lots of people go straight to the train manager now if someone's in their seat as many people are aggressive if you ask them to move or flatly refuse to.
If you're not very good at confrontation it's by far the best option.
Always good when you get an upgrade!

@SchadenfreudePersonified

"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)"

That's not what that poster said though.

"I live next to one of the big Royal Parks in London which has been really busy the last few weeks and we’ve had lots of antisocial behaviour. I was chatting to a neighbour outside as I was about to walk my dog one evening. A car of three young women pulled up and they got out of the car and proceeded to go behind our garages and use them as a loo. I get that there’s limited loos around, but the loos in the park are actually open now. Besides - they just arrived so surely should have gone before they left to travel here. They left used tissues and everything, really gross.

I went on my dog walk and when my dog did a poo, I picked it up in the bag and had an idea. Dropped the poo back out of the bag and onto their car windscreen. It was a bit of a soft poo so not sure how they’d clean it off"

They went behind garages for a wee by the sound of it, I don't believe 3 young women are shitting together as a communal activity, it doesn't happen. No, not nice to wee behind garages but very different to shitting in the street as you suggested happened. That OP threw HER DOGS shit on their windscreen, she didn't pick up human shit from the street as that hadn't happened.

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

The poster of this anecdote said it happened late at night, so it may simply have been safety in numbers, especially as the other driver was a woman. If someone dodgy is hanging round in a dark carpark, they're less likely to grab you in sight of another driver.

@ WhereILiveIsWhereIStay she was obnoxious though. Really aggressive in the way she spoke. And I had a guide dog, she couldn’t possibly not have known that it was likely an oversight on my part.

But it was the way she essentially raised her voice above everyone else in the carriage, so I’m guessing she hadn’t been all that polite to the train manager either.

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

I find it incredibly unlikely that the hiring manager who would have the successful candidate reporting to them, would know zero about the person applying for the job. Interviewing is expensive and time-consuming - and even more so if conducted via a panel - so it seems pretty basic to have conducted some kind of screening and vetting beforehand?

This thread is certainly bringing out the wannabe Enid Blyton tendencies of some (not all) posters!

Bless.

@AlternativePerspective

Why are you @ me? I haven't made any comment about your post.

And I had a guide dog

That's such a depressing snapshot of modern 'manners'. You'd think that people (who are fit enough to stomp up the train to find the conductor) would be offering seats to people with guide dogs, not turfing them out of them.

@SchadenfreudePersonified I checked up on this (opening old tenants letters) the actually law is that you shouldn't disadvantage/use the information to the detriment of the recipient ie using the info to open bank or get loan etc - but trying to stop endless mail when its coming to the wrong address is fine - technically pp was just informing the sender of the new address - & that apparently is OK
& its the only was to stop debt collectors ( I have checked the legality of this in the past- its blinking common in rented property!)

@Tappering

My former senior manager asked me what I did in my last line of work and was surprised at why I didn't apply for a more senior position when I told her, so it does happen.

It really is not implausible that you wouldn't recognise the candidates by their name and job history without meeting them first.

so I’m guessing she hadn’t been all that polite to the train manager either
you're guessing?

@Panicatthegarden ,
I have worked in many bars and have had this many times , it's even more annoying if you actually have your hand out waiting for the money,
I too took pleasure in putting the change in the biggest beer puddle I could find

A few years ago I was driving a minibus full of kids. Hubby was in the passenger seat. Came down a slip road,was just about to join the traffic on the main road when a lorry came thundering up the outside of me,forcing me to slam my breaks on. I nearly shit myself and a lot if the kids were screaming. We knew where the depot was where the lorry was heading, hubby took the reg number and rang the depot. Spoke to the big boss there,told him he'd soon have one if his drivers coming in- gave the reg number-and told him what had happened.
The driver list his job before we even got home! He could have killed us all.

@ hashtagbollocks does it matter? She was certainly rude when she addressed him when she showed him the seat, so no, actually I don’t have to guess. She was rude to the train manager...

Had she actually just said to me “excuse me this seat is reserved” I would simply have apologised and got up.

Some of these are quite hard to read, others are brilliant examples of instant karma.

I once had an employee who continually bullied me. She slagged me off all the time and worked really hard to undermine me whenever she could. The root of it was that I joined the team after her as her new manager. Before that she reported to the department head directly and when I was appointed this changed as she was now my direct report.
Anyway she confided in my other team member that she had lied on her cv previously. Think positioning yourself as director in a very glamorous industry when she was actually an intern. This lie opened tons of doors for her as you'd expect.. team member told me as she didn't like how she'd behaved towards me.
Fast forward and I'm working in a different industry. She applies for a role in the business and is shortlisted. She had no idea I now worked in that role.
I'm not interviewing for this post but having been shortlisting, pointed out to my colleagues the discrepancies in her application which had ensured she got the interview on paper so she could be asked to clarify her actual experience in more detail at interview...
She didn't get appointed.

Before my partner and I got together we were friends and he worked as a bouncer. Tells me one night about a regular girl who got seriously drunk, caused a scene and he had to put her in a cab and send her home.

Few days later I'm on the train home, a girl is sitting a few seats in front loudly bragging to her friends about fooling the bouncers with fake ID at pub he works at, and slagging off the bouncers who I can tell is my current partner by the description.

I spent the train journey texting him everything she said. Needless to say her fake ID was rigorously checked next visit and she never got in again

I knew a lady A who was seeing a bloke who had a long term partner.
Another friend B had offered to have a meal out with A as a treat on her birthday.
A had turned B down and had gone on about how C bloke was taking her out for a special meal.B thought A had sounded a bit smug and having a dig because B had been single for a few years.
A phoned B on the evening of her birthday asking if the offer was still open because C had stood her up.
B said sorry she had made other plans

I worked in a high street bank about 15 years ago. We shut at 4pm and had automatic doors. 4pm came, automatic mode was turned to manual. We finished serving the last customer, doors were opened to let him out when another customer barged in. We called that we were closed, she didn't hear, a few people shouted over to her, she still couldn't hear so someone went over to her to tell her that the bank was now closed. She threw an almighty strop, ranted and raved about how ridiculous it was that the bank would close at 4pm (I presume she was compensating for the embarrassment of having misheard us tell her we were closed), on and on she went. She closed with a 'well, you can all just fuck off!' and stormed off toward the automatic door expecting it to open. But it was still on manual and she had to stand with her nose to the glass, vibrating, until someone walked from behind the counter over to the door to open the door. Made our day.

Fresh out of university, I had a job to which admittedly I wasn’t very suited. After around 6 months, the nice elderly director left and his deputy took up the position. He immediately put me on a sort of probation, telling me I was doing badly, but not helping and changing the goalposts constantly. He would have fired me, but instead I left. A few years later, someone I’d worked with at the company contacted me (because she remembered how vile he’d been to me) to tell me the happy news that he’d been forced to resign because he’d been found to be having an affair with someone else in the company. Best of all, the two of them had been made to tell everyone else the reason for the sacking in a company meeting. Karma sure bit him on the arse!

A vile little shit put a video on Facebook of him buying a hamster from the pet shop and giving it to his cat to torture and kill. I found another video of him sniffing drugs on Facebook after having a good look through his account.

I emailed both videos to his employer (whom he’d not been with very long and was proud he’d passed his HGV tests to work for them) They responded that they’d dismissed him from his job.

@AlternativePerspective

I am visually impaired (this is relevant.). One day I was catching a train which was really full. I found a seat and sat down but because I can’t see I didn’t realise it had been reserved from the next station.

At the next station people got on and off, and about five minutes after we pulled out a woman showed up with the train manager and loudly said “there she is. She’s sitting in my seat.” I will point out at this stage that had she told me the seat was reserved I would simply have apologised and moved but she’d insisted on going to the train manager to complain.

The train manager said to me that the seat was reserved. I immediately apologised and got up and he said to the woman, “there you are madam, there’s your seat, I’ll just take this lady off to first class.

Nice one!