While most of us see revenge as a sort of cold and cruel settling of a grudge, people can be prettycomicallycreative with how they settle a score. After all, in this day and age, going scorched earth isn’t required to let someone know they messed with thewrong person.
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Ex was a “vinyl DJ”. After he basically treated me like s**t one night and we had a huge argument I got up during the night and took out vinyls and put them in the wrong sleeves. He had fair few hundred. Took me ages. I then packed my little overnight bag I kept at his and left. He was supposed to play a gig the next day.I heard he was RAGING 😂
I took his phone to the bathroom with me. he assumed I was reading through his messages with the other woman, but I just deleted every single photo of me/us together, my contact info, and removed myself from all of his social media, then handed it back to him, took my stuff, and left.
Sometimes, the pettiest revenge can be the most insidious. For example, justmovingsome items around. Interestingly, the Ministry for State Security (the Stasi) in communist-era East Germany would use a similar tactic. They would, for example,break intothe homes of dissidents and move the furniture around just a little bit.The idea would be to create asense of unease, without a clear perpetrator. After all, the person would notice at some point but be in a state of constant doubt, questioning if they simply forgot their own actions. It would also cause strain in relationships, as partners would blame each other for misplaced items.
Sometimes, the pettiest revenge can be the most insidious. For example, justmovingsome items around. Interestingly, the Ministry for State Security (the Stasi) in communist-era East Germany would use a similar tactic. They would, for example,break intothe homes of dissidents and move the furniture around just a little bit.
The idea would be to create asense of unease, without a clear perpetrator. After all, the person would notice at some point but be in a state of constant doubt, questioning if they simply forgot their own actions. It would also cause strain in relationships, as partners would blame each other for misplaced items.
Had been seeing a guy for 3ish months. I thought we were getting pretty serious. He’d spent nights & wknds at my place, we were (i thought) making plans to meet families/parents, spoke on the phone every day at great lengths, then one day I was completely ghosted. Blocked, blocked, blocked on everything. I was devastated. It took a few months for me to somewhat heal from this….Cue the “are we dating the same guy” page on FB for my city…I posted him anonymously & there were other women admitting to dating him until he ghosted them, etc. THEN, a woman commented that he was married to her coworker. She received all the tea and told the wife. Every month or so, I would repost him anonymously on various other AWDTSG pages in my & surrounding cities and multiple women were commenting that they were currently dating him & they would compare notes, etc. I found out he & his wife split, and he was now living in a city a few hours away & still doing the same to other women.I continue to post his photo every month or so just to blow his st up.Edited to add: I’ve since found his profile on here & fetlife. Anyone else wants to blow his st up, just let me know…
I emailed his mom to tell her her grown a*s son (30s) wouldn’t leave me alone after I ended things. Not a few minutes later he’s texting me upset I got his mom involved lmao
However, setting aside the horrific crimes of a secret police force, “petty” actions are often the most effective precisely because they are too limited to invoke any sort of hostile response. Calling someone out might not be as effective as justmaliciously complyingwith what they seem to want, since it forces them to acknowledge their own actions.
I took a picture of his family’s secret chilli recipe and his mother’s soup recipe. Both are considered family secrets. I make the soup every winter. I have also shared them with people.
I cut the tips of the pockets out of all his jeans. Just annoying enough to count, strange enough to subvert suspicion
It’s also a pretty subtle, yet effective way to make sure someone understands that if their behavior continues, it’s only going to getworse. For the stories here, centered around breakups, this “final act of pettiness” might also serve as a good form of closure. Sometimes dumping a horrible partner isn’t enough, it’s best to finish with that feeling that you gave them what theydeserved.
My then BF had a favorite Tshirt that he had bought overseas years ago. That shirt was wearing out, and although he had looked high and low for years, he was never able to find the shirt again. He loved that shirt. I mean LOVED. His birthday was coming up. I used to be a graphic designer, so I easily reproduced that beloved shirt and had a few made up in multiple colors for him, and one for me. Then I found out that he was cheating, and we broke up. I started dating someone soon after.Being petty af about what happened, I gifted one of those Tshirts I made to my new guy, telling him the story. We took a photo together of both of us wearing the shirts and posted it up on social media. The ex saw the post of us in the shirts and freaked. He contacted me asking me where I found the shirts?I told them that I had made them for his birthday, so alas…too bad, so sad…..but other than gifting one to my new BF, I had since given all of the rest of them to Goodwill. He was absolutely furious. I thought he might cry. So petty. So worth it.
Found out my ex was talking to another girl who I knew was a cashier at target. I don’t know if they had met in person but I purposely went to the register she was at. His face turned purple and his voice was cracking the whole time. I wasn’t rude to the girl, I just played it off and was flirty with him. I know she was caught off guard too, so I do feel bad about that. But he was s******g himself. It was so funny. But I say it’s really out of character for me so that’s when I realized, this isn’t healthy and removed myself.
Left my video game addicted ex, internet bill was in my name so I cancelled it the day I left
Not actually my relationship, but I was too hungover to help very meaningfully when we moved my sister out of her ex husband’s house, so I sat on the floor and put all his games, dvds and blu rays in the wrong cases.Months later my sister discovered that she was now in possession of his favourite game in the DVD box for Titanic, so that was a fun bonus.
He cheated on me while I was out of town and didn’t bother to pick me up from the airport when I returned. I had to get a taxi home where I sat alone in our apartment for hours until he “got done helping this girl with her resume.“When I confronted him, he admitted immediately that he slept with her and he “didn’t know which of us he wanted to be with” and asked for a few days to think.I graciously offered to let him stay in the apartment for that time while I went to a friend’s house. I called my parents that night. While he was at work the next day, my mom and I cleared the apartment completely. All of the furniture was mine, pretty much everything was mine actually. We left that apartment empty save for a pile of his s****y gym clothes and his a*****e cat. He walked in from work just after I dumped every picture of us in the kitchen sink.My mom even took back the pair of nice dress shoes she’d given him for the previous Christmas.
He cheated. I called campus cops and let them know he was growing on grounds (he really was). There went the law degree! The same law degree he had me doing all of the homework for him for. 🤷♀️
I found out my husband had been carrying on with his coworker for years. I had her street address because of Christmas cards. I sent her an anonymous glitter bomb for Christmas that year. He and I are divorcing. I’m sure she knew who it was from, but I never actually heard about it.
Found out my ex cheated on me with the girl he kept telling me not to worry about. I was so mad I intentionally went out of my way to be nice to them, always saying hi and asking how they are. 😂 the girl would walk away so fast and then pick a fight with him afterwards. I was so happy I ruined his day. They broke up shortly after.
He sent his very religious and conservative mom to come pick up his stuff. So I put it all in a bag and neatly placed the two brightly colored sex toys he’d bought me on the top for her to see.
My boyfriend left me when he found out that he got me pregnant, I shared this with my friends. They secretly filmed a video of how he said when they met that he was not ready to be a father and how his love disappeared after I got pregnant, my friend posted this video on various social networks, the most received almost 2 million views on TikTok. Over time, almost every person in our city saw this video, his mother called me to delete it because her sweet son was depressed
Found out my boyfriend was cheating with multiple women because he saved their Snapchat convos and something told me to check his phone 😂 in one convo he was debating whether he was ready “to fk her raw yet” and in another he had saved the girls phone number. So while he was at work I packed all my stuff and left the state. Not before I bought him a box of condoms and left a sticky note saying “for you and X until you’re ready to fk her raw” and texted the other letting her know he was up for grabs but that she’d be competing with about 3 other girls 😂
I stole his last bottle of this special imported hot sauce that he had his parents ship him internationally. He put it on everything and he presumably had to wait a minimum of two months to get a replacement.
after my boyfriend cheated on me and we broke up, I sent a $1000 venmo request for “therapy” (he paid it)
I had a bf who wasn’t sure he wanted to commit to me. Would love bomb me after leaving me, regretting his decision, then would be done with me a few weeks later. Rinse and repeat. We would both date other people in between, at varying degrees of seriousness. During one of our “off” times, he was trying to get back into my good graces but wanted to see what I’d been writing about in my journal. These are totally private to me, I never shared them with anyone. But he had hurt me so much, and he had no idea what may be within them (and I’m not sure why he wanted to read it so badly). So I let him. And just as I’d hoped he would, he happened to discover a comment I’d made about another guys p**is being …. Very lovely, so to speak. You want in my private thoughts? There you go. He regretted that decision too.
I dated a guy who it turned out that he was cheating on me, after I found out about the betrayal, I started dating the guy he really hated. For me it was amazing, not for him
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Found out my “boyfriend” was cheating on me. I was the other woman lol. He had a girlfriend of 2-3 years. He told me she found out and is mad but she isn’t breaking up with him so it’s okay if we keep seeing each other cuz he can’t stay away from me. He asked me to go on a date with him. We went to the zoo. He paid. I told him I wanted all the upgrades. Feeding the animals, the little zoo movie theaters, the novelty cups, everything. It ended up being like $200. Then we got dinner. Ordered the most expensive thing. Said I didn’t like so I ordered something else. He paid. $200. Then we went shopping. I wanted “matching shoes because it’s so cute” he paid. $250. The whole night cost about $700-800. He dropped me off and I blocked him. He’s tried to reach out to me on various social medias. As far as I know they recently got married.
This is a fun one, my ex broke up with me in a text while I was at work. He said I could still sleep on the couch till I found a new place. I told my boss I was leaving to go move out. I packed up all of my stuff in the middle of the day without telling him I was leaving. The petty part comes in when I decided to take some extra things. You see we had gone grocery shopping the day before at two different stores he paid at one and I paid at the other. I took all of the food I bought which ment taking the hot dog bun but not the hot dogs ( he bought thoes) all of his favorite pickles, the ice cream sandwichs the toilet paper. I took the batteries out of the remotes as I had just replaced them. I got a screaming phone call at 6 pm that night when he got home and figured out I was gone.
He cheated on my birthday and left me at home while he was out trying to meet up with someone. This was after I moved to his country to be with him. I then cut holes in the armpits of all his work shirts and to give him false hope of ones left untouched, I sneakily sprayed bleach in hidden spots. I then took all groceries and toiletries I had purchased since he refused to go 50/50 on household items even though I paid half the rent and car while making way less. Getting a text a few days later saying “ You took all the toilet paper?!!” still has me cackling like Yzma.
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As I was packing up my stuff, I found an opened box of condoms. We didn’t use condoms, were together for a while. I made small holes in the packages, careful not to get the actual condom, and soaked them in jalapeños juice. Wiped them off & placed back in his hiding spot.
My ex cheated on me, after he left, he left me to pack up his stuff. My cat peed in the suitcase that was sitting out before I had a chance to pack. Not my fault I “didnt notice” 🤷🏻♀️
I loved this one. It wasn’t spectacular, but it was oh so good. I’m a widow, hubs died earlier last year after a year long fight with cancer. Got a bad case of widows fire last summer, had sex with a longtime friend for a few months. It was great, but he wanted a relationship and I’m nowhere near ready for any of that nonsense. Anyway, dumbass took me to lunch, then told me he didn’t want to play with me anymore. I was fine with that, but my face must have said something else because he popped off with “You’ll be ok, you’ll get over this” I looked him in the eye, laughed and said “Of course I will, I’ve been through much worse and recently.” You should have seen his face. He was insulted, I loved it.
I broke up with a guy while he was getting a tattoo on his chest. He couldn’t follow me out. It was an ugly tattoo anyways.
He cheated and his parents encouraged him because he complained to them about how terrible I was (while he was the sadistic abuser). After the breakup I block him on everything and move on with my life. Two years later, I met the love of my life and posted pics online—the next day he leaves me a voicemail DEMANDING I call him back in a threatening tone.I text his mom and told her to tell him I never want to speak to him for the rest of my life. Then I text his best friend and said the same thing. I was later told he was shocked I moved on at all and went into a deep depression over it, went to therapy due to his depression. It was validating to say the least.
He dumped me and moved out. He came back a week later for his things, he was moving in with the girl he had been zooming while we were together. I happily pushed all his s**t into his trunk and then told him I had given his dog away.Please note. He had acquired this Golden retriever 3 months before. Never walked her, taken her to a vet or cleaned up a single one of her messes. I was moving out of state and found her a good home, that would actually care for her. He was pissed but couldn’t really say anything.
He was a very macho southern Baptist who had a thing for back door play. His. Couldn’t come without it.He made some despicable decisions and I ended it with him. I thought I’d be nice and give him his toys back, since it would be embarrassing to go out and buy them himself. Loaded it all up in a big garbage bag and went to his house. He happened to be out at just the time we agreed I’d be there, an hours drive from my house. His brother was there so I left it with him.
I moved everything in the bedroom a half inch to the left
Not my story, my grandmas. When she found out my grandpa was having an affair she smashed all of his car windows and dented his car with a pool cue.
I️ got cheated on and the guy went ahead and got engaged to the girl he cheated on me with three weeks after I️ found so I️ fake a pregnancy just to ruin their happy special time and she freaked out horribly and everyone called my phone calling me names (his best friend, his own mother) but I’m like oh…it’s okay if he cheats on me and goes on and has a happy little life while he leaves me to pick up the pieces of my broken heart? Oh no…oh no no no, not on my watch! I️ changed my number after that.
My most petty moment was the first and last time I lived with a man I was in a relationship with. When we started dating he had the WORST bed and sheets I’d ever seen. When we moved in together for some reason it was like pulling teeth letting me put on newer sheets I owned…. he preferred his. Eventually we bought a bed set “together”, which was a three week back and forth as he kept deciding he’d only put in $50 max but he had these crazy requirements. 🤪 I just wanted it to be done, I was emotionally exhausted so I bought a bed set that met his crazy standards and color requirements and spent almost $400 on them and when we broke up, I saw he was using the bedset still… I was not letting that go… so I stripped the sheets he was using at the time. Took em home, washed em then I donated them to charity. F**k him if he thinks his sheets should stay luxury while he acts like trash. Hehe no regrets.
I helped a friend leave lemon wedges all over her ex’s place. They don’t smell bad as they rot and attract flies.
The day I left my now ex husband -I went thru all his socks and threw away one sock from each pair, then rerolled them so they looked like a full pair.Threw some glitter on our bed. Not quite enough to notice but enough to make it a headache once he did notice.I’d already thrown away work uniforms on and off for him refusing to put them in a hamper, but he had some new sets from work brought in so I went thru and tossed them into the trash with the sock mates and left him only one shirt and one pair of trousers.That bag was loaded into the vehicle I would be leaving in so I could dump them near the airport which was 40 miles away.Crawled under the house and shut off the water main.Left windows open (in January) and the heater was cranked to full blast.
My ex and I were both petty after our breakup. He mailed back every photo he had of me, I recycled all his love letters because he didn’t believe in recycling.
Long distance bf decided he was going to cheat while I came to live with him for the summer. Nothing made sense since he broke up with me out of the blue and I was trying hard to figure out wtf happened after 6 whole years. It was my first real break up so I was a mess.Turns out he cheated with some girl who was in the same internship class as him. He confessed a few months later when he tried to salvage our “friendship”, after the fact. But karma got him, as he ended up getting herpes from the girl. Sweet revenge all on its own.
Long story leading up to it but he accused me of sleeping with our roommate so I said f**k it and did (we had already broken up but I didn’t wanna throw him out onto the streets) while he was in the room next to us with paper thin walls.
I still had keys to the house we shared. So when he went out of town for work I’d go check the mail and make sure the sump pump was working (at his request) and I would also turn down the hot water tank just a little.He never said anything to me so I don’t even know if he really noticed what was going on. But I took great joy thinking about him losing his s**t that his showers were getting colder and colder.
i stole the lighbulbs from the house when i moved out
I was nice to him as he was preparing to move out. I gave him things (furniture, towels, dishes, etc.) and even picked up a few things for him (dish drainer, salt & pepper shakers, foil, etc.). He got to the point where’d he ask questions so meekly (“Would it be ok if I took….?") to which I always said yes. Then he moved on to having panic attacks when he was in the house if I was home. Took him 4 months to move all of his c**p out because he could only come over if I wasn’t there.
When we separated, we made a promise to each other that we wouldn’t date until we were no longer living together. Then, I found out when I went out of town for a weekend he not only went on a date (breaking our agreement), he had also cleaned up the house we shared planning ahead in case he brought her home.I made a tinder account, found him, matched, he hit on “his match” and “she” shot him down.
I refused to let his brother in the house to help him move, there wasn’t any reason for him to be there. I threw thirty dollars in unrolled pennies at him, it would have been more but I didn’t have time to go to the bank. I exposed him as a liar and a cheater to all the important people in his life. I proceeded to ignore him so hard that he doubted his own existence.
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