Random Stories Of Satisfying Revenge From People Who Aren't Afraid To Get Even (16 items)

• (#15) Casual Gaming Gone Wrong

  From Redditor u/soccer--girl:

  My boyfriend and I play Zelda: Breath of the Wild together. I am a "Take your time and enjoy the ride" kind of gal, while he is a "Let's look up how to beat this game right now" kind of guy. Because his way ruins all the fun, we came up with a rule:

  No looking up spoilers!

  We were looking for a particular challenge (The Eight Heroine side quest, for my fellow Zelda nerds) for a very long time. Suddenly, my boyfriend said:

  "I did something bad… I looked up where to go. I'm so sorry. I just couldn't take it anymore."

  I told him it was fine, but that he could not tell me what he had seen. He agreed.

  I then excused myself to the bathroom and looked up the location as well. I then spent the next HOUR AND A HALF wandering SOOOO close to the location without ever making it there. I could see him squirming around in his seat every time I got close.

  When I jumped off the cliff the statue was built into, gliding down to the base of the statue and continuing on without turning around to look at it, I thought he was going to [burst]. He was clenching his hair in both fists and biting his lower lip trying to contain himself.

  That's when I caved and told him what I had done. He thought it was hilarious and told me about how he wanted more than anything to yell, "TURN AROUND!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!" We had a good laugh about it. He hasn't looked up a spoiler since!
• (#6) Bad Neighbors And Bad Sleep

  From Redditor u/Wild_Butterscotch977:

  The last couple years, the house next-door to mine was rented to a few 20-something dudes who would party and play loud music until like 4 am. The houses are pretty close together, so it was loud inside my house, even with all the windows shut, and it would keep me up most of the night.

  Doing it on the weekends was bad enough, but sometimes it would be on a Thursday, and I'd have to work the next day on just a couple hours [of] sleep. Needless to say, I was always p*ssed and petty when this happened.

  Now, my house has a wooden deck in the back, and it wraps around the same side of the house that faces these neighbors. It's a pretty old deck, and the nails work their way up over time, so periodically, I have to hammer them back in.

  When the AHs next door would party super late, I'd wake around 7 as I usually do (I'm incapable of sleeping in late, even after little sleep), and at 7:30, I'd get out my hammer and start hammering my deck nails in. About 10 feet away from two of their bedroom windows. I had lots of nails that needed to be hammered in.

  Sometimes one of the guys would scream out in frustration and it was very satisfying. I don't sleep, you don't sleep, dude.

  Fortunately, they moved away not too long ago. I like to think I had something to do with it.
• (#5) Turning A Bad Situation Into A Good One

  From Redditor u/Open_Wind5362:

  I am a hairdresser [who] rents a booth in a salon, as do all the stylists that work there. The owner of the salon is one of my best friends, so after closing the salon that I operated for 20 years, I joined her team and am really happy.

  I have a wonderful clientele with the exception of a few (which I’ll get to in a bit) and get along great with my co-workers, except one, [K]. She has a grating personality, and for the most part, I can just let her comments roll off my back. She doesn’t have a clientele, which leads to her having way too much free time, which she uses by pestering the rest of us while we are with our clients and butting into conversations that should be private.

  Recently I had two of my clients tell me that when they called for appointments, they were told that I didn’t have time for them and that [K] would give them a discount if they came in with her instead, but they would have to come in on a day that I wasn’t there, so that my feelings wouldn’t … get hurt. Well, that [is] a load of caca because everyone in the salon knows that if I don’t have an opening for someone when they call, they are to take down the name so I can call them personally to work them in.

  When I confronted [K] about those instances, she just shrugged and said that I was too sensitive, and besides I was too busy, so she was really just helping me out. Onto the petty revenge… I have a few customers that I have been trying to get rid of for years. You know the ones - they are never happy, always late, don’t tip, and generally APITB.

  I decided that if she wanted my customers so bad, I would feed her the ones that I wanted to get rid of anyway. So, when they had trouble getting in with me, I would tell them that I was booked out for months, but they would be really happy with [K].

  She told me yesterday that she didn’t know why all my [bad] customers were her problem now. My days are better, it’s a bit easier for my customers to book with me, and she is always in a bad mood for having to deal with unhappy customers so much of her day. Plus, a couple of my other co-workers have started doing the same.
• (#12) Welcoming A Colony Of Ants

  From Redditor u/Upwardspiral0:

  I'm living in a student apartment with two other students. They would always stay up until late, like 2 am, and make noise, constantly hurting my sleep schedule and also my ability to do well in exams. They would also always leave the kitchen full of unwashed dishes… They would deliberately leave the key to the apartment door inside the lock, so that I couldn't come in without ringing the bell and waiting for them to open the door for me.

  I confronted them numerous times about this, and I got some disgusting reactions. I came to a conclusion that my best choice here would be to find a new apartment.

  So I have a few more days left until I leave, and this weekend I'm all alone in the apartment until Sunday. And I noticed an increasing presence of ants all over our dirty kitchen. As I said, they always leave the sink dirty with unwashed dishes, so ants started coming up lately and they are actually swarming the sink.

  At first when I realized that, I was like, “F**k this; I need to [get rid of] them.” But then I thought to myself, why would I care? I'm leaving in a few days. They can roam around all they want. And then I realized that I have the apartment [to] myself for the weekend.

  So I did something very kind towards the ants, but very evil towards my roommates. Instead of getting rid of them, I started feeding them. Every couple of hours I would leave them a spoon of brown sugar near the sink where they were all already gathered. I'm hoping they will grow a big colony :) Go ants!
• (#14) Say Cheese On Picture Day

  From Redditor u/Fangehulmesteren:

  I’m a photographer, and I’ve [contracted] for a school photo company for a few months at the start of each school year for a while now.

  This company sends out two photographers who work as a team switching off each day - one for group class photos and the other on portraits.

  A few weeks ago, I was out at a school with one of my colleagues, who is a highly competent photographer and makes a ton as one of our country’s most sought-after wedding photographers. Point is, she knows her sh*t.

  We had a 9th grade special ed class (the class for kids with ADHD and the ones who struggle in school because of home life, not the class for developmentally disabled students) come in with two teachers who both had bad attitudes, like photo day is a total inconvenience and not worthy of taking seriously. Which sucks because it doesn’t help the students enjoy it or cooperate.

  So my colleague was on group pictures and got their photo all set up, teachers rolling their eyes the whole time. Then when she started taking pictures, She says, “Say cheese!” Like she would with any other group. Different phrase, of course, in our language, but equivalent and as ubiquitous as “cheese!” in the US.

  Well the teachers… both immediately start chewing my colleague out for being “patronizing and belittling,” as they believe saying cheese is only for children. They felt insulted on behalf of their students, even!

  My colleague was … embarrassed to be yelled at in front of the students. She’s all in her head like, “I’ve been having wedding parties say cheese for years; have I been offending people?”

  Well, today I got sent out to the same school to take a staff photo. I get every teacher in the school set and take the first picture and yell, "Say cheese!” which the majority did with gusto, including those two.

  Then I said, "Oh no, I’m so sorry! I forgot, [the two teachers] don’t like to say cheese, they’re WAY too cool to say something so childish! Let’s go with something more adult - everyone say WHISKEY so [the two teachers] aren’t embarrassed…”

  Those teachers get an array of looks from deeply annoyed with them to simply puzzled. [The two teachers] look properly ashamed.

  Then the whole group yells, “Whiskey so [the two teachers] aren’t embarrassed.”
• (#8) Saying Goodbye To A Longtime Client

  From Redditor u/regan201937:

  I recently resigned from my job. I was just tired and burnt out, and my CEO kept pushing me hard, telling me to drive further, and that's just how it was. I was also moving house, and commuting to work would be another 30 minutes on top of 1.5 hours I'm already doing, so enough was enough. I got so tired that I resigned. I hadn't got another job lined up; that's fine, I was okay financially.

  As soon as I resigned, my CEO called me into the office 20 minutes later, and asked me to leave straightaway, escorted me off site… and wouldn't even let me say bye to people, touch my laptop, clear my desk - it was like I was being fired. It was so embarrassing. No one from work got in touch to see if I was okay, as he went 'round telling everyone he fired me and saying, "It went pear-shaped with her at the end, so I had to let her go."

  Fast-forward a few weeks…

  Well, I did find another job, with one of my ex-employer's clients that use their services to do their emergency training for them (first aid and fire training). And now I'm in charge of who we use as our contractors. My new boss said, "Well, we normally use your old company at a cost of $37,000 a year, but if you know another company that is better, then switch; I have no loyalty to them."

  Well, switch I have done. Muhahahaha.

  If my old boss hadn't treated me so badly, I definitely would have used their services, but treat me like that and say goodbye to a client.

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