People Are Sharing The Pettiest Things They’ve Ever Done To Get Back At Someone, And I Cannot Get Enough
“I tell him, ‘I’m here to pay off the remaining balance,’ and pour out 48 pennies from an envelope.”
Recently, I was feeling messy and decided to ask members of the BuzzFeed Community to share their stories of the pettiest thing they’ve ever done to get back at someone. The answers were super interesting — and I have to say, while some of these revenge stories were absolutely deserved, a few of them were not. But here, you can judge for yourself:
1. “I sent flowers on National Sex Workers Day with a joke card (that made increasingly loud sex noises and couldn’t be stopped until you tore it apart, revealing a glitter bomb) to my husband’s mistress at her place of work. In city hall. Had a friend go wait in the lobby. Highly recommend.”
2. “I was in a six-year relationship. We were arguing one time, and my ex admitted that she hadn’t loved me for the last two years of our relationship. I knew her email password, and I used her email to sign her up for a bunch of Scientology stuff and conspiracy theory websites.
“I then went into her games and deleted every single piece of data in all her games. Finally, I changed the password so she couldn’t recover any of them.
Evil? Probably. But… I sleep well at night knowing that [she] could never recover her 10-year-old Minecraft world.”
3. “My ex was terrible to me, but after we broke up we still followed each other on Instagram. One day I saw that he posted something about how this singer he liked had liked one of his posts, and he was so happy! So, I followed that singer, and they followed me back and DMed me.”
“So I unfollowed the singer, took a screenshot of the DM and a screenshot of the singer following me, and sent it to my ex asking, ‘Hey do you know this guy? I saw that you were following him and he just randomly followed and messaged me.’
He freaked out and asked if he could talk to him through my messages. I said hell no and blocked him.”
—Anonymous
4. “Did it last weekend. A neighbor put a huge VOTE FELON banner high across his driveway between two trees. It’s about a 40-foot driveway to get to his car gate. At 4 o’clock in the morning, I left 11 boxes of coconuts stacked up in front.”
5. “My ex-fiancé and I had a really bad breakup. His mother called me nasty things on social media, so I called her to leave her a voicemail. I left a list of reasons why I had to leave her narcissistic son and said I saw exactly where he got it from. I kept calling her and leaving her voicemails every time I would think of a new reason. She blocked my number after a few days.”
—Anonymous
6. “My ex-husband is allergic to cats. One day I found a small black kitten running alongside a road. I took her home and kept her, much to his dismay. She mostly stayed out of our room, but when he would really piss me off I would rub that cat all over his pillow. His eyes would become red and watery, his nose would run and he would sneeze. And he could never figure out why his allergies were so bad that day.”
—Anonymous
7. “I had watched my husband’s dog die slowly and he wouldn’t take her to be put to sleep until she couldn’t function at all. He let her suffer. I knew he would kick me out if I took her, and he controlled the finances.”
“Weeks later, he claimed that the vet had called and said they concluded that someone had abused her to death. He tried to convince me that I had done something to her.
I was so upset that she had been in such pain, and I hadn’t known she was injured before her life fell apart. I knew I would never do anything to hurt her, so it was really frustrating and scary to have my husband ask me if I had abused her.”
“A few days later, I found out he had been having an affair and had a child with his side piece. I left and took his dog’s ashes with me. He didn’t deserve her.”
“When I got the courage up a month later, I asked the veterinarian clinic if the story was true. It was all a lie to punish me for interrupting his time with his second family. We’re finally divorced and I still have her ashes. Thank you, side piece for my freedom!”
—Anonymous
8. “We’re in a concert band together, and they had a solo. They play saxophone, and reeds are very important for saxophones.”
“This person took the solo from someone who deserved it and was bragging about how they were better than everyone. So, I snapped their reeds when they weren’t looking. They messed up the solo terribly and got laughed out of the band. Maybe it was a step too far, but they had also made some very distasteful jokes.”
—Anonymous
9. “In college, my roommate really lacked empathy and was a HUGE religious prude. My sister ended up in the hospital, on the brink of death and I sat in our dorm surrounded by friends trying to comfort me. My roommate asked us if we could move so she could watch TV.”
“We didn’t, she watched it anyway and shushed anyone who tried to speak. So, when she went home for Christmas break I lost my virginity on her new rug. Never told her, obviously, but to this day I’m smug about it.”
—Anonymous
10. “In high school I was best friends with this girl, we’ll name her Kylie. Kylie found my nudes and spread them around the school.”
“After I found out, I reached out to her mom anonymously and told her EVERYTHING that Kylie was doing, from having sex to being called a nickname that her mom doesn’t approve of.
Her family is very religious, so having sex was a massive no-no. And then I went around telling all of the people she was friends with everything she’d ever said about them. Karma is a bitch, and eventually she made everybody hate her on her own.”
—Anonymous
11. “I slept with my ex-best friend’s boyfriend because she told me that I was too ugly to get a man.”
—Anonymous
12. “I hated my dad’s at-the-time girlfriend. She was petty and mean and homophobic and just all-around cruel. At one point, I took her purse and microwaved it so that all the makeup would melt… not my proudest moment, but it felt pretty damn good.”
—Anonymous
13. For me, this was petty. My sister-in-law, to put it as nicely as I possibly can, is a very opinionated piece of work. She accepts no responsibility for her words or actions, yet has physically and verbally assaulted those who she deems have wronged her in some way.”
“A few years ago when I was pregnant, my husband and I chose to not find out the baby’s sex. It angered her to her core. Why? Couldn’t tell you. But it really pissed her off.
What she didn’t know was that every little comment, every time she begged me to tell her if I had a thought one way or the other, every time she rolled her eyes or shook her head, absolutely fueled me to wait until the delivery day.
It wasn’t easy on my end — I’m super Type A and like to plan — but knowing that this was the one way I could be petty and no one could say anything absolutely carried me through. I’ll definitely do this for the next pregnancy; it was fun to be surprised but knowing that it gets under her skin so much is the real treat.”
—Anonymous
14. “I always felt my then-girlfriend was taking me for granted; I was paying for dinner, movies, anything. She just started becoming lackluster and distant. So to recoup some of my money, I started liberating a 20 or 50 dollar bill from her purse during our dates, whenever she would go to the bathroom.
“I went from taking her to restaurants to taking her to fast food. This was the late ’90s or early 2000s. I just finally ended the relationship after maybe liberating just shy of a thousand dollars.”
—Anonymous
15. “I REMOVED THE TABS FROM ALL THE ZIPPERS OF ALL HIS PANTS.”
—Anonymous
16. “My last semester of graduate school, the finance office computer system had a glitch that prevented my loans from appearing in my student account, which was run by a different office. I was assured this wouldn’t be a problem. Classes start, and one day, there’s a hold on my account.”
“I call Student Accounts and [am] told I need to pay to get the hold lifted. I tell them to contact the Graduate Financial Aid office. They are not allowed to do that. So, I contacted the graduate office, and they said they would take care of it. I called Student Accounts back and got the hold removed.
I repeated this process again about a week later, and then again another week later. I go to both offices in person. Get the same ‘Sorry, we’ll take care of it’ answer from Graduate and ‘not our problem’ from Accounts. I ask to see the person in charge, but am told he can’t talk to students. I repeat this basically every week until it gets close to graduation and my professors can’t enter my grades and I can’t graduate.”
“I go back to Accounts, in person, and explain the situation again as if it is the first time they’ve ever heard about it and am told, again, it’s not their problem. They cannot contact the Graduate office to fix it, and I cannot see the director.”
“I do lose my cool at this point and say this is BS. My advisor has tried to help, but he keeps getting stonewalled, so he tells me to reach out to the Dean of Students. I call, expecting not to get anywhere, but she actually answers the phone and listens to my story.
She says, ‘I’ll take care of it.’ The next day, the hold and late fees on my account are gone except for $0.48. I technically shouldn’t have to pay that amount, but I think, no, I’m tired of this nonsense.
So, I go into the Accounts office and ask to speak with the director, who does see me this time. I tell him, ‘I’m here to pay off the remaining balance,’ and pour out 48 pennies from an envelope. He looks and me and says ‘Are you serious?’ and I say back that it’s not my problem and leave.
Next semester, Graduate Financial Aid and Student Accounts are combined.”
—Anonymous
17. “My ex-husband drove the car belonging to the woman he was cheating on me with to Mother’s Day. He proceeded to fight with me and took a swing at me when I was holding our 23-month-old…”
“I handed the baby to our next-door neighbor and picked up a bat and knocked out all the lights, mirrors, and half the windows of her car before he backed out the driveway as fast as he could go.”
—Anonymous
18. And finally: “I always want to get along with neighbors, but this one neighbor who lived across the hall drove me crazy. She would constantly phone me at all hours, knock on my door and talk and talk about nothing, would lie… Anyway, she said she liked Stephen King books, and I thought if I lent her a few it would keep her busy and away from me. It didn’t.”
“My doctor had told me my blood pressure was getting dangerously high and to reduce stress ASAP; my petty action had to happen now. I told my neighbor I had joined a book club online and they were doing King books right now so I needed my books back… when she gave them to me I blocked her phone # and didn’t answer the door when she knocked. Within a week, my blood pressure went back to normal… Whew.”
—Anonymous
Were all of these deserved? Or did some people go too far? Let me know down below And if you have your own (deserved!) petty revenge story to share, feel free to do so in the comments! Or, if you prefer, you can check out this anonymous Google Form. Just please don’t confess any actual crimes.
Who knows — your story may end up in an upcoming BuzzFeed article!
