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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
Post away!

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StillCoughingandLaughing · 04/07/2020 02:11

That's interesting @StillCoughingandFarting - you made a very passive aggressive comment to me previously asking why I bothered responding to a ~deliberately offensive~ user on mumsnet (under my previous username). As you said then, why care so much about someone else's opinion.

Given that you seem to have confused my current username with my previous one, to which I lost access after the data breach, and that you’ve also changed usernames since then, I’ve no idea how you expect me to respond to this. You’re obviously still angry about this unspecified comment, but I don’t know what I’m supposed to do about that if you don’t even share what it was.

Monty27 · 04/07/2020 04:24

Still loving this thread. Grin

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 04/07/2020 05:11

I remember getting on a train a while ago - quiet train, plenty of seats, not many people at the station. It was a really hot day. Just as I had put both feet on the train, as it were, someone shoved me really hard in the back, hard enough to shove me forwards. It was a real shock and quite painful. I turned around and there was a woman behind me with a massive smirk on her face. I said "What did you do that for?" and she said "Maybe you won't shove your way to the front of the queue next time.". There wasn't a queue at all - she and I were the only people waiting for that carriage and the doors had opened right in front of me. Anyway, she sat down opposite me and kept looking at me and smirking and I noticed she was wearing a passcard and lanyard round her neck. I stood up to move to a different seat and as I passed her I just paused and leaned forward a bit, then said "Oh, you work for [company], do you? You probably shouldn't wear one of those if you're going to assault strangers on public transport."

No more smirking after that Grin but I didn't actually report her - I just wanted to see the smirk fall off her face!

Gobbycop · 04/07/2020 08:59

Some people here should realise that two wrongs don't make a rightshock
Some people are absolutely equal or even worse to the ones they "took a revenge on". Bloody hell

They aren't supposed to, sometimes it's about making people think about and regret their actions.

Like a time I was attacked by someone at work (hazard of the job)
I was uninjured, they ended up in hospital with a broken rib. I've boxed my whole life.

The wanker also had pay me 100 quid compo 😂

Don't feel sorry for him, he'd just smashed up his wife for the umpteenth time.

AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter · 04/07/2020 09:03

Some people are absolutely equal or even worse to the ones they "took a revenge on

I think the lesson here then is: be careful who you piss off.
Just dont be a dick and you'll be fine.

Its the equivalent to picking a fight with a much smaller man only to discover he's actually a black belt first Dan. If you hadn't picked the fight in the first place, you wouldnt be in this mess eh?!

tmh88 · 04/07/2020 09:08

This is so identifying but I don’t care, my waters partially broke in Asda the day before I was induced! A woman who worked there took me to the front of a queue as it was close to Christmas and rammed to check out my shopping and leave.. the woman behind me was almighty pissed off at this calling me “scum” “too young to be a mother” she was taken out of the store, when she pulled away saying she’d leave herself she fell literally flat out on the floor. I cried and the cashier was lovely and gave me tissues etc! And I did get a lot of congratulations from the queue I was in too! Grin had DS the next evening.. which was not a good birth but by that point I had completely forgotten about that woman and I do laugh about it now!

FreedomIsNeeded · 04/07/2020 09:42

I live on a long road with a slight hill at the end. Often because of the amount of parked cars its only wide enough for one car.

I approached the hilly bit and could see a bus waiting to come up the hill. Cars blocking one side, so stopped. Rude, shouting man behind me obviously couldn't see the bus so drove past me swear out his window.

Rude man then sees bus and has to reverse back past about 8 cars... and back past me because I wasn't nice enough to reverse for him.

Still makes me smile.

Witchofzog · 04/07/2020 11:42

@MyNameHasBeenTaken why didn't you just take your litter home with you? Yes she blocked you in but it doesn't sound like it was done with any malice. You were out of order throwing your rubbish into her car. Horrible story.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/07/2020 12:08

8misskitty8

THAT . . . is CLASS!

Well worth the effort of a bit of detective work (hope you shredded his letters though to hide the evidence as strictly opening someone' else's post is illegal)

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/07/2020 12:20

why didn't you just take your litter home with you? Yes she blocked you in but it doesn't sound like it was done with any malice. You were out of order throwing your rubbish into her car. Horrible story

I thought that was a spiteful thing to do, too, Witchofzog.

@MyNameHasBeenTaken could have asked the woman to move her car a bit when she first parked - probably the woman didn't even realise she was too close. Possibly if @MyNameHasBeenTaken hadn't been massively pregnant, the car wouldn't have been too close . . . The woman probably hardly glanced at her and didn't know she was pregnant.

I'm also curious as how @MyNameHasBeenTaken managed to haul her pregnant bulk out far enough to put rubbish though the sunroof, when she couldn't get out far enough to walk to the bin.

Surely the space required would have been about the same for both of these actions?

I think it was a nasty thing to do.

SwelteringInTheHeat · 04/07/2020 12:24

SchadenfreudePersonified, I agree. It doesn't even sound like that poster WANTED to get out of her car, anyway. So why not drive away and dispose of the rubbish at home?

FrenchBoule · 04/07/2020 12:26

To me moral high ground goes out of the window the moment somebody wants to screw me over.
Some people deserve shit treatment in return .

ToriaPumpkin · 04/07/2020 12:36

A taxi driver was driving right up my arse on a 60mph twisty, windy road near where I live. We'd come up behind a cyclist but due to the many blind corners there was nowhere to overtake for a few minutes. As soon as I saw a sensible gap I accelerated, then spotted the taxi driver had already pulled out so I slowed down and pulled put a few seconds later instead. I always gove cyclists a wide berth but have this ome extra space after noting the taxi coming very close to his front wheel.

Not one minute later I came up behind him again, behind another cyclist, with a wee red car between him and the cyclist. He went for a gap that was too small and barely avoided causing an accident with the car coming the other way who slammed on the brakes.

Unfortunately for the taxi driver I knew the driver coming the other way and I have a dashcam, so the footage of him overtaking two cyclists in a dangerous manner within two minutes and nearly taking the front end off my mate's car were forwarded to the taxi company.

calmcoolandcollected · 04/07/2020 12:37

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.

hashtagbollocks · 04/07/2020 13:01

I was so cross! I ran after him caught him up grabbed the back of his jumper so that he turned round and pushed the whole kebab intoo his face

jesus. You basically punched him in the face?
WTF is wrong with people?
You're lucky he didn't deck you

Thisismytimetoshine · 04/07/2020 13:07

pushed the whole kebab intoo his face
How random Confused. Could have ended badly too, as it's technically assault. How do people walk around carrying that much anger?

calmcoolandcollected · 04/07/2020 13:10

Why do random people think it’s perfectly acceptable to comment in women’s appearance?

hashtagbollocks · 04/07/2020 13:12

myname has been taken
I don't understand why you didn't just drive off and bin the rubbish at the next opportunity. There's always loads of bins in the car park. Would have taken you about 12 seconds

Louisesp82 · 04/07/2020 13:15

I used to work on a perfume cou te. At Christmas we did a promotion for a huge box of Elizabeth Arden make-up at a very good price. A lady asked me to reserve one for her, which I did.
When the last returned she marched up to me and abruptly told me her name. I just looked at her, trying to register what was going on (if she had prompted me with letting me know there was something reserved for her, it would have been no problem)
A second later she said 'I knew you'd forget', and marched out of the shop.
Ended up buying the set for my Mum as a Christmas gift 😁

MyNameHasBeenTaken · 04/07/2020 13:21

Thanks coolcalm.

Yes. Imagine a 200 space car park.
About 50 spaces are full near the cinema and 2 food places.

I took the furthest corner away from any of the buildings deliberately.

I was reading my book. Heard a car parking near me but didn't pay much attention as it's a car park.

2hen I did look up at the end of my page, I saw a woman walking to the cinema direction, I assume it was her car as there was nobody else around.

I would have taken my rubbish home, but would have been sick from the smell. Bad pregnancy. As soon as i had finished eating, the smell of any food was awful.

My perfectly reasonable plan was to eat and read in peace. Then take the 10 mins to walk across 2 rows of spaces to the bin.

Recover! (Hip and back damage, ok sitting, agony standing) then go home to bed.

Woman was not in her car to ask to move.
So, fuelled by hormones, I opened my window and threw my paper bag of empties in to her car. Her roof was open.

It was all bagged. Nothing leaking or messy.

When she got back, she would have just found a paper bag on one of the seats .

The mean part of me wanted to go and buy her a nice milkshake. But that would have been too nasty.

hashtagbollocks · 04/07/2020 13:27

I would have taken my rubbish home, but would have been sick from the smell. Bad pregnancy. As soon as i had finished eating, the smell of any food was awful
so why not throw it in another of the bins in the car park?

And the woman wasn't asked to move by you? So might have just accidentally parked too close, no malice in it.
You were nasty and odd

hashtagbollocks · 04/07/2020 13:30

So, fuelled by hormones
cracking excuse by the way.
Somewhat akin to a man asking if your bad mood is due to PMT

where2begin · 04/07/2020 13:33

@MyNameHasBeenTaken all you had to do was reverse out of your space and drive a little bit closer to the bin?

Witchofzog · 04/07/2020 13:39

@mynamehasbeentaken but it's ok to make her car stink of food that she hasn't even consumed because it makes you feel sick? It was a total dick move and not one you should be proud of. You should have opened your window for fresh air, chucked the rubbish in the back and disposed of it when you got home. Hormones are no excuse - sorry.

calmcoolandcollected · 04/07/2020 13:41

It’s also a dick move to park so close to another car, the driver can’t exit.