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

• (#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!
• (#1) Continually Calling The Wrong Number

  From Redditor u/Stunning-Island-7792:

  Something like 25 years ago, I had a landline in my bedroom.

  About three months after I got it, I started getting calls every day for the local golf course. I told them they had the wrong number and hung up.

  Some people would call back over and over, insisting that they were calling the number on the card. So, I hopped on my bike and headed to the golf course, took [one] of their cards, and discovered that they were indeed showing my number.

  I talked to the manager, who insisted it was their number. I asked him to call it, but he refused… probably because he knew he’d end up talking to my parents. No resolution.

  So, I went home, and for the [next] couple years, I accepted every single reservation that called me, no matter what time they wanted. Their reviews were… not great, and most were complaints about the reservation process.
• (#3) Don't Mess With This Grandpa

  From Redditor u/Swimming-Bite-4019:

  I was told this story a couple times. This happened about 50 years ago. Some kids in town thought it was absolutely hilarious to drive their trucks […] into everyone’s trash cans on trash night. Obviously this would cause everyone’s trash to go everywhere and make a huge mess. This happened once to grandpa, and he was firm … it [would] never [happen] again.

  So the next week, he put the trash can at the road and put several cinderblocks at the bottom, and then filled the rest of the trash can with water. Just for size comparison, these are those bulky, big black trash cans that last forever. So, he set his trap and waited.

  That night, a loud bang was heard. The guy’s truck was basically [wrecked] on impact. It never happened again lol
• (#13) Enjoying Complete Silence On The Bus

  From Redditor u/leathebimbo:

  This was a few years ago on a 13-hour [bus] trip... These people were listening to music loudly… It was driving me nuts, so I tried politely asking them to use headphones. They refused because they had kids, based on the claim the kids needed [to be] entertained. So I told them to give the kids headphones. This led to me getting cussed out, which led to a heated argument.

  Another passenger started listening to music loudly just to [annoy] me at this point. I tried to get the bus driver to enforce the rule that says headphones are required to listen to music on the bus. He threatened to dump me on the side of the road instead.

  I kind of hit my limit at that point and decided to share my misery with the whole bus. I said, "Okay. Since we're not enforcing the rules about not being noisy and using headphones, I'll just sing." Now, it should be noted that while I don't have the best voice, I am a trained vocalist from childhood. I can at least avoid sounding like a cat... If I want to. I didn't want to.

  I launched into a very loud, hoarse, and off-key rendition of “The Song That Never Ends.” It took one sing-through for the [person] to put headphones in. It took a couple loops before the whole bus was screaming at the other passengers to either put in headphones or turn off their music so that I would shut up. We rode the rest of the way in blissful silence.
• (#9) Just A Silly Job With Silly Perks

  From Redditor u/littleredbird1991:

  So I work in technical theater as an assistant stage manager. There are a couple of theaters in the area, but the tech community is rather small, so we all know each other. I work for a smaller theater, but I know a few people who work at the largest theater that hosts the traveling Broadway shows.

  These shows are really popular and hard to get tickets for if you aren’t a season ticket holder, and season tickets can run about [$]1,000 per seat for seven shows. Tickets are normally about $150 for an individual show but can go up significantly if they know the show is going to be popular. The husband of one of the directors that I work with is on the board of the theater and sometimes can score good seats at a discounted rate.

  This season, Aladdin is coming to town, a show my future mother-in-law has been dying to see. She asked me if I could possibly get her and a friend a seat so they could go see it. I called in a favor with my director, and she managed to get two prime seats. Since her husband is on the board, she gets a discount, so the tickets ended up only being $75 for the two seats. I reserved them in my name with the understanding that FMIL will pay for the tickets.

  Fast-forward a couple of weeks and FMIL invites me and my fiancé over for dinner. Dinner goes well, and I end up in a conversation with FMIL and FSIL about housework (idk why). FSIL is a teacher, and she is married to an accountant, so she said that [she] and her husband try to split the chores 50/50. FMIL thought that was fine and asked how fiancé and I would do it (we don’t currently live together). I said, “Probably the same, ya know, 50/50.” FSIL agreed, but FMIL gave me the stink eye.

  I asked if there was something wrong, and she said ,“Well, fiancé works full-time and you don’t, so I don’t see how that’s fair.” I told her that I do work full-time, just not at a 9 to 5 like fiancé. FMIL then laughed at me and said what I did wasn’t real work and that it was just a “silly side gig,” and that maybe if I got a real job, I would know what [it's] like to really work. Then she changed the subject.

  This p*ssed me off because I am very proud of the work I do. It may not be a 9 to 5, but I love my job. It is my dream job, and I do make enough to cover my expenses. It actually takes a certain amount of skill to properly stage-manage a full-scale production.

  So, enter pettiness. I called up the box office for the large theater and told them to cancel the tickets. They were in my name, so they gladly canceled them. I then texted FMIL and told her if she thinks my job isn’t real, then the side perks aren’t real, so the tickets were canceled. I then shut off my phone.

  The next day when I turn on my phone, I see several missed calls and about a dozen texts from FMIL. She is fuming because her friend is coming into town specifically to see this play. I called back and told her she might still be able to get seats if she called the box office. She ended up getting seats, but they cost her $150 each, and they weren’t as good.

  Hopefully she’s learned not to insult someone and still expect to benefit from them.
• (#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!

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