to want (even just a little) revenge and want to hear your stories of revenge (sort of lighthearted)

[twentytwentythree]

Someone did something really horrific to me years ago - told his wife that I'd tried to sleep with him when I didn't. It led to an awful shitshow with a huge fallout amongst friends and could have had serious consequences as he contacted my DH almost every day as it all played out over a couple of months and tried to persuade him he was telling the truth (DH didn't believe him) and in general I've moved on and don't think about it all that much.

However, a petty and vengeful part of myself really wants some form of payback - it irks me that he could just do that, get away with it and (for a short time) upend my life. I don't suppose there's anything I can do at this stage is there? Has anything like this happened anyone and have you managed any form of payback to the perpetrator? I mean this in a lighthearted way, although it still annoys me that he could disrupt my life like this just by lying.

Glitter bomb greeting card? Always wanted to send one to my abusive prick of an ex

The writer Janet Fitch was so furious with how her husband treated her that she plotted to poison him. Then turned her very well-researched murder plan into the plot of a best selling novel instead. That's stylish revenge. She became a rich and famous author. Living well really is the best revenge.

Group of about 6 of us used to go out for meal at pub after work each Tue. We weren't all close friends, but we'd stayed at the same boarding house when we were new staff and not local to the area. After couple of months one of the lads met someone online dating and she started to come with us too. More the merrier in my eyes, he was obviously lonely and although a bit full-on she clearly liked him.

What we didn't know was that she was full on bunny boiler, had sadly had a few miscarriages only a few months earlier with her ex, and was just on a mission to have a baby. He'd bigged himself up to be a massive high earner and seriously exaggerated his job role when he was only a trainee. His parents were rolling in it. She thought she'd dropped lucky, he d didn't see it coming and she got pregnant on the 2nd date. Poor chap never wanted kids but his parents were very traditional so the wedding was booked immediately.

Now she had him caught but for some bizarre reason saw me as a threat, and so every week when the group of us went out she'd spend the whole night making digs at me. She kept implying I was a sex worker as that's the only reason she thought I could pay my bills. Nothing to do with me actually being a strong independent woman who was higher qualified that her baby daddy, and paid for everything myself by doing overtime. These jibes went from banter to actual allegations, and then she started making digs that I was jealous of her and wanted baby daddy for myself. Nothing could be further from the truth, just we were the only singles in the group until she came along.

As the wedding approached, they were clearly just after cash gifts and had made a few comments about how much money they'd make out of the day (as baby daddy's gutted but rich parents paid for everything). The greed and entitlement was astounding. I'd pulled her up on her jibes as me and she basically said I had to put up with it because wasn't changing how she treated me. Out shopping one day I happened to spot some paternity testing kits for FIFTY PENCE in Boots so bought one, which I wrapped up very very luxuriously, with sparkles and curled ribbon and chiffon. At the wedding when no-one was looking I gave it pride of place on the card postal box. It was the ONLY boxed gift as they'd made it very clear they only wanted money, but Bride was heard saying how expensive it was and how she was so excited she'd obviously got a posh present as well as cards.

So next day, they had a post-Wedding get together at her parents house, with both sets of families. And apparently she made a big thing of making everyone sit round to watch her unwrap the chiffon explosion, silver paper, curled ribbon and glitter gorgeous lux-looking present. And was greeted by a paternity testing kit.

No-one accuses me of being a prostite and gets away with it!!

Years ago I found out my boyfriend cheating on me. Obviously i ended it, and my housemate and I opened a bottle of wine to put the world to rights. We drunkenly came up with a plan to send him micro-condoms in the post (she had seen some in a joke shop).
Sobered up, forgot all about it but then she obviously ran with the idea and came home with some a few days later. I can't tell you how satisfying it was to write his name on the envelope and shove through the post box. 100% would recommend 😄
(With the caveat that it's something not harmful / life ruining).

Another time I had a very lovely friend who was a single Mum, with 2 kids, and useless abusive ex. She was really trying to better herself, upskilling herself to get better job, and trying to juggle work, childcare and a mother battling cancer.

She had a male friend who she'd known for YEARS and relied on him for things like car maintenance, odd babysitting, etc. It was TOTALLY platonic. After a run in with her Neighbour she was trying to make amends and the Neighbour stood in the street screaming that my friend was sleeping with this platonic friend in return for him fixing her car. My friend was so upset that all the street would believe this because of banshee woman and I was very protective because she was trying so hard to better herself and be a strong independent woman supporting her children. So I waited till friend went on holiday, went round at 3am and filled the neighbours exhaust pipe with expanding foam filler. They couldn't even think it was her because she wasn't in the country at the time.

There was also an incident with some local roadworks, a 3 foot tall stuffed chimpanzee and some fire lighters.It wasn't exactly revenge, just a cathartic opportunity to let some pent up hatred out.

But if I told you about it I'd have to kill you all. So we'll leave it there I think.

@Robyn847
That's fucking hillarious. I would love to see the look on their faces

Im the scapegoat in a very toxic family (I’m nc)
i was also seeing a bloke who I really liked about 8 years ago
he was shagging his girlfriend with me on the side-I swear to god I didn’t know a thing about her
anyway,it all came out about her and pulled my self esteem up then I dumped his arse
4 months later,I met my dp-we moved away,bought a house and are blissfully happy together

it kills both my family and the ex-they both stalk my sm and the family have tried to smear my reputation both in rl and online-going as far as it message him with the most outrageous lies
he just laughs it off,ignores them and we get on with our day-I don’t care if anyone believes the bullshit-my real friends know the truth

the ex is now on his 5th girlfriend as they find out what a tosser he is underneath the lovebombing and gaslighting-he can get a lady,he just can’t keep one

its killing them all that they can’t break us up and that I’m happy

its the best feeling knowing I get up their noses without doing anything

@Robyn847 you are brilliant !

Buy him a lovely hat and send it with some head lice in situ.

I sent a glitter bomb thing anonymously through the post to someone that deliberately tried to cause trouble between DH and I out of completely unnecessary spite.

apparently it took 6 attempts of hoovering it up to get rid of it.

I got hold of her car keys while she was in a meeting, made sure there was no CCTV in that car park, we had several, and pissed all over the interior of her car. I then quietly walked back into the building and quickly put her keys back in her drawer. All the time making sure nobody saw me. She deserved more but that's all I could think of without it coming back on me. I was told she went fucking ballistic and started shouting at Security.

Believe me, it's not easy for a woman to liberally piss everywhere. You really need a willy to do that.

When my first H left me for my best friend I spent hours daydreaming about revenge. I wove a really convoluted plan and shared it with some of my colleagues. It became a joke among us and people would add suggestions to refine the plan.

In reality life has given me the best revenge. I'm happily re-married. We travel. We enjoy each other's company and we love each other. We actually accidentally live the life ex-H told me he wanted when he left. Meanwhile he married the OW and they make each other miserable.

Although I don't give them much thought these days I do have to say it couldn't happen to a nicer couple 😁

When I first started working, I was pleased to discover my new team would regularly go out for a drink after work.

We were a very mixed bag, couple of directors & salespeople on mega bucks, technical well paid staff and some really very low paid staff.

We bought in rounds but without ever discussing it, the highly paid people would buy a round much more often than the lower paid.

All except for one manager who by these rules should have been buying often and who never, ever paid for anything.

Over years, we started to notice and then started saying he could only stay for one then finally saying it really was his turn and he wouldn't be included til he had bought one. I happened to be buying and it happened to be a lunch time so only one round.

When I challenged him, that it really was his turn he claimed to be getting married that afternoon and asked me to buy him a drink to celebrate.

Ok, I cracked, included him in the round but decided to get revenge.

If you are still reading, thank you

That afternoon it was arranged that he would visit some clients in a company vehicle - not very usual for him but he never questioned the MD's request that he handle the job.

While he was gone, we decorated his car as you would for someone getting married. Most of the team joined in, we made a great job of it.

The next day he explained what a pain it had been to come back to the office late after everyone had gone home to find his car decorated.

His girlfriend had been begging him to marry her for ages so he couldn't go home with the car decorated so in the cold and dark car park he had had to wash his car and clean out the interior.

Don't remember him not buying his round thereafter. 😀

Book a nice dinner and babysitter for you and your husband. Take a bath and a moment to pity how the other person thinks and hope he gets better.

I was ghosted by a guy I was seeing for 6 months, his profile picture changed to him and some girl and he had blocked me on all platforms. I didnt go too mad but I did add his phone number to a lot of websites that I know have very aggressive marketing calls. You might be able to block me but you cant block every number I sign you up to fuck face.

Many years ago Someone I worked with spread nasty rumours about me and encouraged others to assault me . When I left I rang him up and blew a whistle as hard as I could down the phone . Apparently his hearing wasn't right for sometime . I also rang him in the middle of the night when I got up to feed my baby and put the phone down when he answered . Childish I know but he fucking deserved it .

The best revenge story I read about on MN was about a woman who'd been cheated out of her fair share of the house by her cheating partner. She put fish inside all the curtain poles. OW moved in with cheating bloke and they were plagued by the smell and couldn't ever find the source of it. It ended with them putting the house in the market but because it stank the woman who'd been cheated, bought it back at a reduced price.
Best bit is when the man and ow moved, they took the curtain poles with them!

I really really hope this story is true!

Teacher picked on DC at school. Went away, found their social media feeds, where they were "unprofessional" about the school and children. Printed it out and requested a meeting with teacher and head to discuss DC.
Placed printout on the table, teacher exits stage left, never seen again. Head teacher did a good impression of a goldfish....... However now have 'reputation' at school

Omg that’s brilliant! 🤣🤣

I removed every daffodil bulb from my exBFs garden one winter night after he'd been found dating another woman from Tinder. And the barbecue grill plates from his blessed gas monstrosity. He wouldn't have known until April 2020 when he may have decided to do a barbecue in that first lockdown and he was separated from his Tinder woman.

Oh please! Sounds amazing

A bottle of paint stripper, paintbrush and a late night trip to write some poetry on someones car.