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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@Cocolapew

Flying from NYC the woman in front of me put her seat back and refused to put it up when the food came around so I could access my table. Hostess comes over and asks her to put it up and got a mouthful of abuse. She had the whole row to herself and I said if she moved to the middle seat she could have her seat reclined because my DD was in the middle seat, and she was small, so it wouldn't matter about the seat being back. Still shouted that she wasn't moving. Then DD woke up, stood up on her seat and projectile vomited all over her. If she had moved she would have be in the clear. The hostess came over to help strip and clean DD up, there was a lot, and woman starts screaming that she needs cleaned up. The air hostess gave her a square of kitchen roll and pointed out where the toilets were.

That's a good one! Hopefully she'll remember for next time.

@Cocolapew

Flying from NYC the woman in front of me put her seat back and refused to put it up when the food came around so I could access my table. Hostess comes over and asks her to put it up and got a mouthful of abuse. She had the whole row to herself and I said if she moved to the middle seat she could have her seat reclined because my DD was in the middle seat, and she was small, so it wouldn't matter about the seat being back. Still shouted that she wasn't moving. Then DD woke up, stood up on her seat and projectile vomited all over her. If she had moved she would have be in the clear. The hostess came over to help strip and clean DD up, there was a lot, and woman starts screaming that she needs cleaned up. The air hostess gave her a square of kitchen roll and pointed out where the toilets were.

That's a good one! Hopefully she'll remember for next time.

I'm just waiting for a revenge on nasty strangers story to be a stranger being nasty story from the other side as it were.

Not a stranger, but the best revenge I ever heard was a friend of my Mum's years and years back. She found out her Husband was having an affair, kicked him out, and rather than cutting up his huge array of designer shirts and suits (apparently he was something of a flash Harry) she had them ALL tailored down to fit her.

Absolute genius. I remain in awe of her decades later.

Ooh! I had a friend who did that to her exes favourite, only expensive suit.

And she told the bailiffs where he parked his car.

A year or so later, when he was still messing her around, she may also have told his previous ex where his new job was

I'm just waiting for a revenge on nasty strangers story to be a stranger being nasty story from the other side as it were. Maybe I'll embarrass my younger self then!

I was bullied at school, a lot. I went away on a walking residential and 2 of the girls who bullied me went too. They made my life miserable during that week away and one day I took it out on a girl from another school. I just started shouting at her... she spoke odd, she looked odd, ate wrong, walked funny, smelled weird.. anything and everything. I don't think I held anything back but my hands!

She sat in total silence, big fat tears rolling down her cheeks and my bullies looked on, in shocked silence. I stodd there, angry, absolutely beside myself with fury.

And she stood up, hugged me, looked at them and said, loudly, "They really aren't worth it you know".

Many years later I found her on facebook. We are still in contact, meet up every now and then.

That is the most embarrassed, humbled and grateful I have ever been in my life - I am now in my mid 50s!

Sorry, should have pointed out that was her revenge on them... but it quite squashed the 13 year old me!

I was tailgated by a black cab on the A406 (i knew the road really well at that point in time) he was trying to get me to get out of the way so he could go flying off, so as soon as i could i nipped in allowing him to fly past the speed camera at the bottom of the ‘ramp’, how i laughed when he got flashed!

@CuriousaboutSamphire

I'm just waiting for a revenge on nasty strangers story to be a stranger being nasty story from the other side as it were. Maybe I'll embarrass my younger self then!

I was bullied at school, a lot. I went away on a walking residential and 2 of the girls who bullied me went too. They made my life miserable during that week away and one day I took it out on a girl from another school. I just started shouting at her... she spoke odd, she looked odd, ate wrong, walked funny, smelled weird.. anything and everything. I don't think I held anything back but my hands!

She sat in total silence, big fat tears rolling down her cheeks and my bullies looked on, in shocked silence. I stodd there, angry, absolutely beside myself with fury.

And she stood up, hugged me, looked at them and said, loudly, "They really aren't worth it you know".

Many years later I found her on facebook. We are still in contact, meet up every now and then.

That is the most embarrassed, humbled and grateful I have ever been in my life - I am now in my mid 50s!

That girl had immense wisdom at that age. Wow.

The guy who lives opposite us doesn't even try to park his car sensibly outside his house. We both park on the street and we always make sure that we don't park directly opposite him to make it easier for cars to get past, he never considers this and will often park directly opposite us and usually no where near the pavement so it almost looks like he just drove up the street and just stopped. It's really frustrating because when he does this, cars can't get past and they'll beep like mad until someone moves their car (mostly us!).
Anyways, someone clearly thought they could fit in the gap and ended up scraping up the whole side of this guy's car and lopped the wing mirror off and smashed rear light. The car drove off and left no details which was shitty, however if you park like a twat, twatty things will happen!

Not a stranger but a work colleague. Basically I was the manager. This particular individual was part of my team and although he could be a bit of a PITA on the whole he was okay - you just had to know had to handle him. Anyway he was a bit of a drama llama and got himself the staff union rep (no one else wanted it). Not a problem - I supported this made sure he could attend the extensive training, valued his role and provided opportunities for him to develop.
Anyhow, he ended up creating a right shit storm for some of his colleagues, who hid it for good while - until one of them blew up and had a right go at him publicly. Absolutely not on - they colleague was very apologetic - brought it to my attention. During my enquiries i became aware of his behaviour and deemed the best way was a (minor shake up) everyone doing the same job just moved people into different office space for the greater good of the whole team (same building, same floor - literally 30 feet away from previous desks)
Well the drama llama is having not if it, storms out , goes sick, uses the Union card to try and get me in the shit.
I only wish I could have been in the HR hearing when to seen his face and the Unions Head honcho when all the statements where read out detailing his sexist and bullying behaviour that his colleagues had submitted having had enough of his shenanigans. Apparently it was a picture

Years ago when I worked at Morrison’s on the salad bar. I don’t know if they still have them, but we filled big bowls with salad. One was a carrot and peanut one. One lady used to come every Saturday and pick all the peanuts out (using the tongs), every last one. One day we saw her coming and quickly took the bowl in and brought a fresh one out with about three peanuts in. Bit rotten of me really.

Another was when I was working as a nurse we had this really horrible man as a patient we later learnt he had been sent to prison.

Years ago me and DH had been to the Metro centre and this car was driving like a right jerk on the A1 cutting people up, speeding and acting dangerous. We got a couple of miles down the road and he had been pulled over by the police.

In Australia, at a regional event near a country town, get back to our car and find the battery flat, we'd left our lights on all day by accident.

Everyone is leaving the event, we're trying to flag someone down for a jump start. A beaten up van of yahoos drive past giving us the finger and a mouthful as they think our predicament is funny. Not long after a guy helps us out and we're on our way.

15 minutes later we pull up at the last lights in the town before the highway and who should be pulled over to the side with smoke billowing out of the engine but our yahoo mates from earlier. Unlike our flat battery which can be sorted quickly, their engine was toast and they were stuck.

Almost all people at this event would have been heading back to Sydney, which was 4 hours away. And it was early evening on Easter Sunday. I hope they enjoyed their extended stay.

@CuriousaboutSamphire what a lovely, kind and mature girl. That made me tearful for you and her.

I was walking down a street and on the other side of the road was huge dog doing a massive poo on the grassy bank. The owner waited on the bank for the dog to finish then just walked off and left the pile there.

Only 2 or 3 steps later he nearly skidded down the slope as he stepped in a different pile of dog muck, then spent the next ten minutes wiping his shoe on the grass.
I gave him the slow, loud hand clap from the other side of the road and walked off grinning.

The second pile was probably his own dog's from the day before.
Never have I seen Karma so instant.

I was about 18, sitting on a bench waiting for my boyfriend who was late and this pervert guy came up to me and started harassing me. At first it was just smutty words but then it progressed to him waving his penis in my face. I felt really intimidated so I got up and walked into the off licence and stayed there til he had gone.

My boyfriend finally turned up and we went to the pub. A few hours later the pervert comes in (alone). Luckily for me I happened to know the bouncers very well indeed. I told them and pointed the pervert out, they went over like a flash, picked him up and dragged him out of the pub and gave him a very stern talking to and barring.

Only hope he learnt a lesson and still remember this so clearly and often wondered what I could/should have done differently.

sergeilavrov said:
"I used to do trains a lot, and got sick of seeing arseholes avoiding anyone non white after big incidents. I seem to attract them near me, a white female. Luckily, I work in CT and so I just get all my Arabic notes and terrorist literature out. The colour really drains out of them grin."

@sergeilavrov - aren't you worried that you are perpetuating terrorist stereotypes with Arabic notes and terrorist literature?

Not a stranger but:

A colleague was playing the big man in a meeting with some clients. Pulls me in and demands I sort coffee for everyone. It’s the sort of office where if you want coffee for a meeting you either do it yourself or pre book it. However I’m not going to argue in front of clients so off I trot to make coffee.

We’re limited on cups (part of the reason behind pre booking catering for bigger meetings) as we’re essentially a half finished building, so I find enough ‘work’ cups for all the guests and for the couple of on-site folks in the meeting I locate their own cups (we all brought one in). Mr Big has plonked his cup in the sink so I use that.

It turns out Mr Big is also too self important to wash up his own cup. He pops it in the sink chucks in a bit of washing up liquid and the magic fairies do the rest. Except I don’t know this. So I serve him a delicious cup of coffee and fairy liquid. Oops.

@OhDearMe2019 No, not at all. They’re scared due to their own stereotypes, and ultimately it’s coming from a white woman which at least teaches them not to judge on race. Plus, I’ve never killed someone on a train journey Next time hopefully they’ll sit next to the minority that they no longer associate with terror due to the colour of their skin or their decision to wear the hijab.

One slightly smarter guy realised I work in CT, and started asking if I would kick an individual off a train. He got a really dull lecture until he ‘went to the toilet’ and escaped.

@OldCow1

Years ago on the tube, someone got up to offer a seat to a pregnant woman and a guy shot past her and sat on the seat. When people looked astonished he winked and said "it's a tough world." At the next stop, the guy sat next to him grabbed the guy's briefcase and through it out onto the platform. As the guy flew out after it he said " yep, it's a tough world"

Best one yet classic

Sitting quietly reading in the pergola at the Hill garden in Hampstead while an exhibitionist lurking in the bushes behind the boundary railings tried desperately to get my attention with half-whispered pleas, ducking into hiding when anyone came along the path.

I don't know if my careful oblivion was exactly revenge, but it afforded me much amusement.

I'm not sure it counts as revenge but in secondary school, a group of kids targeted my friends and i. They'd trip us up, call us freaks and frigid, nerds and ugly etc.

When i was in my late 20s, i went to a house party which turned out to be one of the main culprits sister. She was lovely, told us to drink what we liked, that we could help ourselves to the spirits despite her brother buying them and refusing to share. Said brother and his 3 mates (what was left of the old crew) didn't recognize my best friend and i so spent hours flattering us, bigging us up and flirting. We spent that time chatting to his sister, ignoring the compliments and after she left to go upstairs we swiped a full bottle of vodka and gin from the boys stash. It gave me great pleasure to turn them down, we did mention they'd been nasty at school but they claimed it was just banter and 'look at us now'

That made me chuckle @hagsrus0! I’m amazed at the lengths to which these fools go to attract your attention when you’re trying to read.

@segeilavrov Not a revenge story, but you made me think of my no2 son. He's a chef in very diverse city. We live in an incredibly "undiverse" town. When he gets the train/coach home to visit he amuses himself noticing all the people who carefully avoid catching his eye or sitting near him -he almost always gets a seat to himself, and it is totally due to his appearance. He "looks like a terrorist" apparently !
That said, I do sometimes worry about him, if some bigot ever "reported" him, as he sometimes has his chef's knife roll in his bag terrorist black backpack
It is weird just how much people do stereotype without any thought at all though.

Years ago, i struggled on a bus with my three DC, all under 4 yrs old. It was a very hot day and i was stressed and tearful. The fare had gone up and i was 20p short. A man waiting behind me threw an absolute wobbly about how stupid i was. The driver kindly waved me on. The man kept on the whole journey into town.....i shouldn't have had 3 DC if i couldn't afford them etc. I saw him later, on the High Street, after going to the bank and shops. Took a bar of warm, soft Dairy Milk from my bag, opened the wrapping, squeezed it in my hot hands to melt it and approached. I slipped the mushy chocolate in chest pocket of his cream shirt and patted it hard, saying "a gift, from me". Then calmly carried on walking. Tosser.