22 Petty Revenge Stories That Are So Wild, My Jaw Literally Dropped
Recently, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us their pettiest revenge stories. Here are the wild results:
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1."When I was in the hospital, my ex made me sign him up to a porn site that he had to pay for. When I split up with him, I changed the password and signed him out of all devices, and he’s still paying for it now 2 years later even though he can’t access it! (He is a complete technophobe so he has no idea what to do!)"
2."When I found out a boyfriend had cheated on me, I washed, dried, and folded his underwear like I usually did. But I added one short little step to the routine. Before folding his underwear, I dabbed IcyHot on the inside of every single pair of briefs he owned."
—Anonymous
3."My best friend stopped talking to me when she started dating someone new. Not out of the norm for her, but this time I'd had it. I started using her phone number at the pump for her Kroger fuel points. Then on to Walgreens. I'm gonna keep going until this bitch calls me back or she's points poor."
—Anonymous
4."In 2015, we were living with a friend whose husband was the WORST, passive-aggressive, petty jerk in the world."
"The last straw was when my 1-year-old twins and 5-year-old daughter were sleeping at 6:30 a.m., and he knocked as loud as he could on the door to the bedroom which we are all sharing. And before I could even open my eyes, he burst in and started shouting at the top of lungs about the trash bag not being IN the actual can, then he slammed the door closed and left the house. My twins were TERRIFIED, all three kids were in tears, and after all that, it turned out he was the one that didn't put the bag in the can. That was just one thing, but it was the last straw."
"So one day, while he was gone, I wrapped his Xbox 360 in a soaking wet towel, drowned his Xbox controllers in the sink, then ran them through the washer and dryer with the laundry, and before he got home, I put everything back in the exact place it was."
"I cannot explain the level of satisfaction I felt when he couldn't figure out why his game system wasn't working. Christopher, if you're reading this, I want you to know it was me."
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5."In grade school, this kid who used to bully me would cheat off my tests and quizzes, so I started circling the wrong answers on the test packet, knowing he was looking."
"But on the Scantron (which was what was fed to the machine which gave you your grade/results), I would put the right answers. I don't know what his scores were, but they definitely couldn’t have been passing."
6."My abusive ex was yelling at me, telling me how stupid I was, etc., then had the nerve to tell me to make him a sandwich."
"I said sure, put some mayonnaise on some bread, called my two dogs into the kitchen, had them lick the mayo off the bread, made the sandwich, then took it to him. He ate it, and I felt very satisfied."
7."My boyfriend in college would ask for oral sex multiple times a week but refused to kiss me afterward until I'd brushed my teeth. Not once did he return the favor, so after I'd give him oral, I would brush my teeth with his toothbrush. I got petty satisfaction every time I saw him using his toothbrush."
—Anonymous
8."My sister lived with an abusive boyfriend for several years. He had a habit of getting drunk and picking fights, and his most common thing to say when he would finally leave after picking a fight was to threaten that he was going to go sleep with one of his ex-girlfriends. My sister started using his toothbrush to clean the toilet to make sure that if he was cheating, they could both enjoy the scum they deserved."
—Anonymous
9."My ex ruined a meal out with my friends by being rude and moody all night, so when I got up for work at 4 a.m. while he was still sleeping, I put every towel, tea towel, flannel, etc. in the washing machine and turned it on. When he got up for work, he didn't notice and only realized when he got out of the shower that he had nothing to dry himself with."
"When we broke up, I also locked all the windows in the flat and took the keys with me when I left in winter. He didn't find out the keys were 'lost' until six months later when there was a heatwave."
—Anonymous
10."As soon as we moved in together, my then-boyfriend turned nasty. He would purposefully humiliate me in public, would threaten to cheat on me if I didn't have sex with him, blew up my phone while I was at work constantly, and was extremely angry when I wouldn't reply because he was bored of being home alone while I was at work."
"He was still a student at the time (failing), which basically consisted of sitting around all day playing on a games console. Never saw him do a single bit of work. When I finally broke up with him, I moved out without him knowing and made sure to cancel all the TV, internet, gas, electricity contracts, and subscriptions as they were all in my name, and he'd already told me that if I ever left, he wouldn't be paying for it. Got an upset phone call from him that night moaning that the house was empty and the internet wasn't working. God, that felt good."
—Anonymous
11."I found out that my boyfriend of 16 years (we'd been dating for half of my life!) had been cheating on me with someone from his past."
"I told him not to come home until I was ready to see him. During the time he was not home, I went through all of his things, trying to piece everything together, and discovered he had a secret Facebook account that he used to communicate with the girl. I immediately changed his security settings in Facebook to be set to my contact info (phone number, email, etc.) and changed his Facebook password. I also changed all of my passwords and security answers to my accounts so he couldn't gain access to them when he realized what I had done. I continued to read through their Facebook messages and determined that this girl 100% knew I existed, knew we were living together, and yet she still continued to have a full-blown relationship with him. So I pretended to be him and messaged her that I found out about her but we were going to try to work things out and that their 'relationship' was done. Of course, she eventually figured out I was the one who was messaging her and told my boyfriend. He kept trying to log in and recover his password, and as suspected, he tried to log in to my email and recover my password, but he was never able to recover the account. I ended up packing my stuff and leaving. A few months later, I started getting texts from my ex saying that he missed me, loved me, made a mistake, and really wanted to see me. I ignored his texts, but he kept sending them almost daily for weeks. Meanwhile, the girl he cheated with seemed to be making it a point to post pictures of them together, say how they had been together for a while but were just making it public, saying how in love were, etc."
"So I logged into his Facebook account one last time, posted screenshots with time and date stamps of the texts he sent, sent them to the girl, waited to make sure she read them, then as she was typing back, I immediate deactivated the account, blocked him and his family from every social media platform, blocked him from my phone, and moved on with my life."
—Anonymous
12."I slept with my ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend."
"She was (and is again now) my best friend. I’m straight and so is she. But that was one night that was rather good petty revenge. Me and my friend laugh about it now."
13."I had been in an open relationship for a few months, and he and I decided it was time for him to meet my friends."
"I invited him to a Fourth of July party at my friend's and booked a hotel room. After weeks of planning, he texted me two days out saying he couldn’t come because he wanted to go to his friend's party in NYC. I bitched him out about how the hotel was non-refundable, so he sent me over $100 for it. It was refundable. I pocketed the cash, and we haven’t spoke since."
14."When I was in high school, one of the players in a section urinated into a cup and left it in a sealed room (the sousaphone room) over the weekend. By the time we got to school, the room was pretty ripe."
"In those days, you could get 'skunk oil' which was REALLY good and smelly. Somehow, some of this oil made its way into the instrument and case of the culprit...which was ideal, because you CAN empty a cup, but you will NEVER get the scent out of the lining of an instrument case."
—Anonymous
15."My roommate created a lot of drama for my other roommate and I."
"She called the cops on us because we tried to have a discussion with her about her attitude. She called the cops again a week later because she thought we had dumped gasoline all over the garage to 'suffocate' her. (A gas can had spilled. That's all.) So when she FINALLY decided to move out, I put an open can of tuna under the hood of her car. The garage and her car REAKED. Fuck you, Kate."
16."I'm a freshmen in college. My first roommate came to our school from out of the country, but I have all the appliances needed for a dorm room (fridge, microwave, printer, etc.)."
"A bunch of girls in our major (it was a residential college living situation) and I were all becoming fast friends. We spent movie nights together and studied and just hung out. I thought it was amazing, and I was so happy to have found my group of people. Fast forward four months later and we're all coming up on the end of the semester, finals, holidays, the whole shebang. I went home for a long weekend to set up a holiday job and came back the week before finals. No one would talk to me. My roommate would make small talk, and that was it. Long story short, I learn that everyone in our friend group hated me and only invited me along to keep my roommate as a friend and not to alienate us as we still had to live together. This was 8+ girls for FOUR MONTHS inviting me along out of obligation and discussing how much they dislike me behind my back. Finally, with the 'relief' from me being gone for that long weekend and the stress of finals, they cut me out abruptly with no warning."
"I immediately moved out without telling anyone as my roommate didn't deserve to know after everything and I couldn't even stand being in a room with someone who would allow this to happen. When I left, only her comforter and a poster were left in our room. I took all of her stuff out of the fridge to spoil overnight while she was out partying and getting wasted. Sorry not sorry."
—Anonymous
17."Our neighbor's tree hung over our yard. It was HUGE and would drop so many leaves and flowers and acorns in our yard, and its shade kept encroaching on the amount of sun our yard had."
"And they were assholes about it. So one night, I drilled a hole below the dirt line into the roots and poured a gallon of bleach into it. It slowly died, and THEY had to finally pay for the dead tree to be removed because it was a hazard."
—Anonymous
18."When I was in high school in mid '00s, my friend worked at a kiosk in the mall. We were VERY unpopular. One of the most popular boys saw my friend working one Friday and convinced her to give him a blowjob in the mall bathroom."
"Despite having a girlfriend, he told everyone at school the following day, and my friend became even more of a laughing stock. Also, the girlfriend was mad at my friend but not her boyfriend? Anyway, obviously, everyone kept asking me and my friends if it was true. So I always confirmed the story, going on to say it really ruined my friend's weekend because the guy had such a small 'member' and it was a letdown of an experience. The rumor of their encounter was shut down within the same day and no one ever spoke of it again. Last I heard, he still lives in his parent's basement. "
—Anonymous
19."One of my neighbors almost hit me with his truck after running a red light while I was crossing the street in a crosswalk. Pretty recognizable truck with a USAF veteran decal on the back that parked in my complex. Later that night after having too much to drink, I went and peed all over his driver's side door and door handle. Woke up the next day realizing what I'd done, felt a little guilty but also felt justified."
—Anonymous
20."While working as a building maintenance engineer at a mall, I encountered a business owner that was not only unethical but extremely privileged. After one encounter, he went to the mall manager and, through lies, got me in trouble. I went to the sporting goods store and bought a bottle of skunk scent that bow hunters use to mask their own scent."
"The directions call for one drop to be placed in each direction as the scent is quite powerful. I took the bottle to the jerk's car, a nice Benz, and emptied the contents in the air ducts along the windshield. We never saw that car again."
—Anonymous
21."Told my ex, who used me both sexually and emotionally during our relationship and then came up with the lamest excuse to leave me, that I had an STI and that he had to be checked."
"I didn't have one and I know it was childish, but knowing he had to lose two afternoons at the doctor after he made me waste that time of my life sure made me feel like things got slightly more even."
22.Last but not least: "My first job was at a an old school pharmacy with a soda fountain. This kid used to come in everyday right at closing after we'd cleaned up. He'd get a banana split every time and always leave a mess."
"One day my co-worker and I decided we'd had enough and hid the bananas. He came in as usual, and left crying when we lied and said we were out. I kind of felt bad until the next day when he showed up, and brought his own banana just in case we were out."
