Random People Describe Their Best Moments of Sweet Vengeance (33 items)

• (#22) Don't Cheat Two Times

  From Redditor /u/aeFoxbird:

  Some years ago (by which I mean two or so decades, roughly) my dad was at a several-day course to earn some additional qualifications for his job. On the final day, there was going to be a multiple choice test to actually pass the seminar. On test day, everyone got settled into place, and the teacher announced that he would not go easy on cheaters: You had one strike to be caught trying to copy off of someone else or use a cheat sheet, but if you were caught a second time, you would be immediately thrown out and your score made invalid. Now, this teacher was very old-school strict, and treating grown working people like unruly schoolchildren, and my dad does not like that very much.

  So my dad proceeds to take the test, and it goes pretty well! When he's through with the questions, there is just one left where he's not sure he's got it right.

  And he has a free strike, after all.

  So my dad... yells out into the class. Just calls out, "what's the answer to question 14?". Some complete bro elsewhere in the room yells the answer back. My dad fills in the sheet, gets up, walks to the teacher's desk, presumably tries to not trip on the teacher's jaw as it lies on the floor, hands in his test, and leaves the room.

  To the teacher's credit, he approached my dad afterwards with some... begrudging respect. I don't know if he changed his policy afterwards, or the tone in which he conveyed it.
• (#3) Teacher Stands Up For Kid With Cancer

  From Redditor /u/ConfusedContortion:

  So this happened years ago when I was in highschool, but I smile every time I think of it.

  My highschool had a policy that anyone who has missed less than a certain number of school days could pick one class they had an A in to skip the final. You could get a couple extra days for college visits, but otherwise it was very straight forward. Awesome policy, and we all loved it. One year, we had this kid who was in eighth grade and had been diagnosed with cancer. He spent allot of his year sick, getting treatment, going to the hospital, running to the bathroom to throw up, etc. Despite all this he finished the year with an A in his Spanish class. It was his only highschool class, so it was the only final he would have been able to skip. Administration was not going to let him skip the final because he had missed too much school. He and his parents asked them to make an exception, given the situation, but administration wouldn't budge. His teacher stood up for him, but was told this kid had to take the final no matter what. He had missed too many days and there would be no exception.

  The teacher said ok, but told her class not to study for, worry about, or exempt her final. Then, the first day all her students showed up for the final she told them to take out a piece of paper and number it 1-3 leaving one line in between each number. She then asked three questions along the lines of, "What is your name?" "How do you say yes in Spanish?", and "How do you say hello in Spanish?" Then she collected the final. Everyone got an 100 that year, and she became a legend. The kid has been cancer free for over five years now.
• (#31) They Printed 500 Blank Documents

  From Redditor /u/UrPokemon:

  My roommate and I attend a university where we are given 250 pages per semester to print as part of our attendance. Well, we hardly used it since we have our own printer, so we went over to the print room and asked them if we could have our ~500 pages. They said that the pages were only for printing and not a quantity of letter paper we were entitled to. So we said okay.

  We then went to 2 of the computers in the print room, opened word to a blank document, and printed our pages out. We then walked out with that thick stack of paper without being noticed. There has not been, and there will likely not be any fallout.
• (#12) He Asked For A Date From The Vice Commander

  From Redditor /u/PipsqueakPilot:

  When I was commissioned into the Air Force the officer who conducted the ceremony was a female 3-Star General. She looked like your typical short, fit, friendly middle aged soccer mom (Relevant to the story!). Extremely nice and personable, and an alumna of my university! At breakfast beforehand we were sharing a table, and she and my dad (A Lt Col at the time) we're talking. The general told a story of when she first showed up to a new base for her first posting as 3-Star. While running on the track a guy comes up and starts to run along side, asking if she had just got there, etc. It quickly becomes very obvious he's hitting on her, so she turns him down and mentions she has a husband.

  He is not deterred, and keeps on hitting on her. The man goes right on talking about how in shape she is, how good looking she is, how they should get together, etc. Also asking questions like, "Well is your husband at the base yet?"... "Are you staying by yourself in the TLF?" TLF being a fancy sort of hotel. He thinks she's a spouse, and figures she showed up to get the home in order before her husband arrives. He really wants to 'hang out', preferably at her hotel room. Nor will he leave her alone until she agrees to a date. Finally after about fifteen minutes of him refusing to stop badgering her she relents and agrees to meet up with him again. "Fine- I'll free up some time and we can talk. What's your name and number?"

  The harasser gives her his name and phone number. He's a Staff Sergeant many, many rungs down in the organization she's now Vice Commander of. Later that day he was ordered to report to her office, in service dress, at 0730 the next morning. Along with his supervisor, his First Sergeant, and his Commander. So basically his boss, his other boss, and his bosses bosses boss. She didn't say how the meeting went, but I doubt he enjoyed his date.
• (#25) She Can Only Book Over The Phone

  From Redditor /u/emmahar:

  A few years ago, I went to the doctor's to make an appointment (I had to go to the pharmacy next to it so thought I'd pop in instead of calling).

  Receptionist tells me they cant take walk ins (I didn't want an appointment then anyway), and can only take bookings over the phone.

  So I stood at reception, got my phone out and called the number for the phone right next to her. I made eye contact with her, the whole time, as she answered the phone, and booked me in.
• (#13) You Don't All Have To Leave

  From Redditor /u/RedWestern:

  I don’t know if this is necessarily an MC, but it happened to my Dad. He was one of the three partners at one of his former companies (about medium sized). One day, he and his company went to a company drinks. I don’t think it was exactly a company party, but it was more than an after-work drink at the pub.

  Anyway, the bar was serving aperitifs, and my dad asked for his without ice, as he hates ice tainting his drink. The landlord, who was behind the bar, refused, and said the ice was mandatory. So he served my Dad’s with ice. Dad accepted it, took the ice out, and laid it on the drain rack that goes under the beer draughts.

  The landlord ordered him to leave.

  My Dad was half expecting it, but asked him to repeat himself. The landlord once again told him to leave.

  My Dad said “Okay,” and started to leave.

  And his company all started to file out after him.

  The landlord protested “No no, you don’t all have to leave. Only he has to leave.”

  One of the other staffers said something along the lines of “Sorry mate. He’s the big boss. We all go where he goes.”

  So they all left and went to another bar.

  They had made a reservation at the bar they were leaving, but they hadn’t put down any deposit for it, and hadn’t bought any drinks yet. The aperitifs had been complimentary, so the Landlord didn’t even get paid for those.

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