Have you ever taken revenge on a person?

[AngryAmish]

What did you do?

How long after the fact was it?

How did it make you feel?

[kwassa]

1. Junior High

I took red jello, stuck it down the back of his shirt, and squished it from outside from my hand.

I ended up feeling terrible. He was my best friend.

I don't remember what I was mad about.

[kiraboo]

3. I would have done that too, if I'd had a personal encounter.

Retaliation by Jello. Pure genius.

[kiraboo]

2. As a matter of fact, yes... and recently.

I don't want to say what I did because it was a terrible, terrible act. The person against whom I retaliated was using me to build himself up, while lying to me, himself and another about his motivations. His bullshit has helped turn my life upside down, and his persistent bullshit had me lose my mind, quite literally, for a time. So: what did I do? Okay, I'll tell you. I revealed the lies! Every one, and to somebody who needed to know. I was graphic, I was detailed. And I was lied to in return... no surprise there.

How did it feel? Scary at the time because it is utterly unlike me. Immediately afterward... elation. Closure. I know I should feel ashamed. And I do, a bit. But after months of being jerked around and just TAKING it, I acted. And if was SO UPLIFTING. I swear I haven't felt better in months and months. Of course one result of my actions was absolute termination of any possibility of the liar in question ever caring for me in any way again. Which is okay because his isn't the kind of love I'm looking for.

I'm pure evil, but only once or twice a decade.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Back when I was a very young adult

I got revenge on a boyfriend who had cheated on me. We were at this party by a lake, and there was a portapotty. He had to use the facilities and I tipped it over with him inside.

I am evil.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

8. Oh, damn!

You get the prize!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[REP]

5. Not Revenge, Exactly...

Before I retired, I had the Job From Hell with a stupid fucking beast supervisor. I notced she had left her emergency blinkers on on her car.

I didn't tell her.

I laughed when I left that night and she was waiting for a tow truck to jump her. I have one of those battery pack jumpers like tow trucks carry, too. It felt fucking great.

[kiraboo]

7. Not revenge, just pure spite!

Laughing. Sometimes it's necessary for survival of the spirit.

[REP]

9. Spite Would Have Been Bashing In Her Nasty Face

My revenge is that I'm a retiree, and she's just a former employee.

[kiraboo]

13. Gotcha.

She deserves to suffer :)

[hfojvt]

12. taking revenge through inaction

It is ultimate to me. It does not involve an illegal or unkind action, like loosening lug nuts or slashing tires. Simply refusing to do something nice for somebody who does not deserve it after the way they treat you and you know that doing it will not change the way they treat you. It's like nature or fate takes the revenge for you.

[NMDemDist2]

6. i did once. I had a roommate who LOVED his vintage red sportscar

he claimed I owed him $38.87 for utilities that I had already paid

he continued to insist I owed him $38.87 in spite of my proving I had paid it

he INSISTED I owed him $38.87 and would call me at work to bug me about it

so I went to the bank and got exactly $38.87 in nickels and pennies and poured them into his convertible roadster sportscar, loose and with abandon








it cracked him up so much that even though our friendship had grown rather strained over the "bill" we are still close friends today. as he put it "That was one great nigyysoab"

nigyysoab = Now I've Got You, You Son Of A B***ch

[JackBeck]

32. Delete.

Posted in wrong place.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. I sanctioned others to do it for me.

During my black belt testing, a lower-ranking brown belt (in his late 30s, 6'1", close to 200lbs) decided he was going to kick me (17 at the time, female, 5'1", 110lbs) in the head as hard as he could. It was full-contact sparring, but not to the head. Very light contact to the head only. Anyway, I end up going airborn, spinning around, and landing crumpled up clear across the ring. After a few minutes spent rolling around clutching my head (he really hurt my neck), I got up and continued sparring, in pretty severe pain. A few hours of hell later, I was promoted to black belt.

Flash forward two years, Shithead Brown Belt is now testing for his black belt (and has continued to rough up women, but be a chicken when fighting those his size). Well, the large male black belts in the dojo approached me and asked if they had my permission to teach him a lesson for what he did to me at my black belt testing. I told them they had my approval. So Shithead Brown Belt had the ever living shit kicked out of him by every black belt there. He barely knew where he was, when he was presented with his blackbelt. Then, afterwards, I got to go up to him and said that he recieved a tougher testing (which is already 12+ hours of physical and mental hell) because of what he did to me at my testing and his general disregard for women. Guess what? He doesn't try to knock out the women in the dojo anymore.

[Xipe Totec]

15. You Rock!

And I mean it sincerely. :thumbsup:

[hfojvt]

11. I took revenge on an employer

Does that count?

It made me feel like dancing. :bounce: :bounce:

I did nothing either illegal or immoral. Simply quit going the extra mile. I was a temp, being paid to empty garbage and run tests every half hour. During start-up there was a computer problem. I let my co-workers with bennies try to fix it, until they gave up after an hour. Then I fixed it just to prove that I could. That one hour cost the company over $10,000 in lost production.

Spread that message far and wide. You think you can save money by treating workers as 2nd class temps? NOT IF THE TEMPS FIGHT BACK!!! Put that in your bottom line and smoke it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Yes, on several students.

I was the target of a few clever practical jokes in my day. Instead of taking it personally, I simply told the pranksters that I'd get them back before the school year was over. They'd spend the rest of the year worrying about how I'd do it. Sometimes they'd skip the last day to avoid me. That sometimes was good enough. There was one real prankster who I did this with and I ended up getting him back on the first day of the next year. Back then you used to get your class schedule on little cards from the office. I connived the secretary to give this kid his card with all the right classes, but with all the wrong classroom numbers. He spent a good part of the first day roaming the halls, with the vice principal (also in on it) giving him crap about it.

It was all in good humor, of couse, but I'm not sure if you can get away with that kind of thing nowadays.

[Mojambo]

16. Shared a room with my brother for many years

Constant back and forth.

I used to take a salt shaker and pour salt in between the sheets of his bed just about every night.

Little prick.

[Jade Fox]

17. Not exactly revenge......

I've been refining a method of....let's call it: "Here's Your Energy Back, you SOB".

When someone has done me wrong I meditate, focusing on releasing all of their energy from my mind/body/spirit, and visualize that energy returning to them. That way I am simply returning to them what is theirs. It is remarkable how often it seems to work really well! And it is very enjoyable to watch that person experience their own crap.

I call it F--k You Forgiveness. :evilgrin:

[kiraboo]

20. Wow. Fuck You Forgiveness.

I like it, but I don't think it would be very satisfying in cases where you have been grievously wronged. For other, minor offenses though, what an interesting notion. The thing is, I almost never get angry at the small things... not for long anyway. And the grievous wrongs are few and far between (knock on wood).

[shanti]

18. no can do

karma takes care of all that!

[radwriter0555]

19. I did once, in a totally passive aggressive manner, but it sure was fun

to watch.

I had a nasty roommate. She shorted her lease and decided to bail out, and I was really glad. She just wasn't a nice person. I can't stand mean people, you know? She was very narcissistic and turned very nasty after she and I had gone to a nice bar in Beverly Hills and I got all the attention while she didn't. After that, she just went nuclear on me... it was freaky.

Anyways, she gave notice and because of her snarky behavior up to that point I let the toilet paper run out (I had my own stash), didn't re-stock my shampoo and used a LOT of hers; let the dishwasher soap run out, let the laundry soap run out, and worst of all, turned off the tap to the washer. Now... on that washer, when you turn off the tap (right in plain sight) and turn the washer on, it makes a HUGE BANG sound. If you don't know from washers, you're sure you broke it. So... she had loaded in her clothes, put the liquid soap in, turned the dial and BAM! She had a washer filled with soap covered clothes and she was sure she broke the washer. She never said a single word.

That was my first and only revenge on anyone. I've since let the universe take care of bullies, rudies and republicans. I've been lucky enough to have a lot of great things come my way in life, and I really try to make sure I do nice things for others and I am never, ever mean to anyone. So I always hope to be treated as I've treated others. It doesn't always work out that way, but the universe works in its own way, I suppose.

[norml]

21. That their house burned down probably has nothing to do with...

my putting a curse on it, though it did happen shortly after.

Sorry about that.

[Skittles]

22. I bought a boyfriend some tires

when we broke up and he still had not paid for them I asked several times over a few months, then I went to his rural house and shot out all four of his tires. When he screamed WHAT THE F***!!! I told him, THERE, NOW WE'RE EVEN, WE BOTH GOT NOTHING.

I found it quite satisfying, and his housemate laughed his ASS off.

[Jade Fox]

28. LOL!

Good for you, SKittles.

[Ladyhawk]

23. Once in my entire life, two or three years ago.

I did it immediately and felt ghastly for doing it even though the person deserved everything he got and more. I only did it because my other way of operating--being a doormat--hadn't ever worked. Revenge didn't "work" for me because my conscience is too tender. I'm not sure where to draw the line between seeking revenge and being a doormat. :shrug:

My revenge was purely rhetorical. It involved being banned repeatedly and subsequently setting up new accounts to get access to a forum, which shall remain nameless. It involved some pretty brilliant psychological warfare on my part, but I stopped sooner than I had planned because the process was killing me emotionally.

[WCGreen]

24. Back in the 70's....

They use to prescribe sopers to heart patients...

Well, this girl I knew and her friend were hired by my mom to clean the house every Saturday...

They got into my dad's pills and the one took a few Nitro pills thinking they were sopers...

I had asked this girl out the year before and she first said yes and then stood me up...

So I had an axe to grind...

Now Nitro pills, if there is nothing wrong with you, are relatively harmless...

But I didn't tell her that...

I got all upset, told her she was in serious trouble...

I faked a call to the Free Clinic and said she should eat burnt toast and drink some warm milk so that the pills would be absorbed or she would puke...

It wa nasty....

But I got my revenge...

We laughed about it at the 15 year reunion...

She was a good sport about it...

[LostInAnomie]

25. In high school...

... one of my friends liked to walk around and kick people in the back of the knee when they weren't expecting it so that they would fall down in the hallway. One day he did this to me, and with my knees being bad in the first place it caused my knee cap to slide to the side and pop back in place. This of course was VERY painful and caused me to yell many expletives at him, but since it happened to me quite often I walked it off and finished the day.

For the next week he laughed at me and how much pain a little kick to the back of the knee caused me. I told him that he had better expect some revenge coming his way when he least expected it.

A few months later when I was at a party and I see him talking to this girl that I knew he had been trying to get with for a couple of months. I walked up right behind him and said "Hey Josh!". As he turned around I dropped down and punched him so hard in the nads that he puked on himself right in front of the girl.

If it had been anyone else he would have tried to kick their ass but he knew he had it coming. We still laugh about it to this day.

[scoey1953]

26. sorta like this??

Damn, Samurai were so cool...

or like this...Kendo style



"Dance, sucker dance!"

[Guy Fawkes]

27. Tomorrow...

Three O'Clock.

(Be sure to answer the door)
:evilgrin:

[1gobluedem]

29. Yes, on the boss who fired me from a PR job

She had no reason to fire me at all except she was insecure and I was getting too much positive attention from our VP. She fired me on a Friday morning then, like a major idiot let me come back to the office alone to clean out my cubicle. I had created a database and program for incentives for franchisees that tracked their progress towards awards; it was only on my computer as well as a newsletter header and archived copies of a newsletter I wrote for franchisees. I copied everything I had created for the company onto a disk, then dragged all the hard files into the trash so when she went into my computer on the following Monday there was nothing there.

I never heard from the company asking if I had copies so I assume she never told them because they would ask her why she let a fired employee clean out her office with no one from the company there to watch.

I still see her around town very occasionally and just laugh evilly inside about doing that to her. I've never regretted it.

[Crazy Dave]

30. When I was a little kid I used to (serious)

But not in my adult life unless it's payback for a joke or prank.

[MissMillie]

31. Not since I was a kid

because that's what kids too.

When you grow up you realize that what goes around comes around, and you don't have to waste your energy on revenge because eventually, the person who has wronged you will get what they deserve.

No point in placing your energy on negative things. Be a positive light force in the world. You'll end up feeling much better about yourself.

[In_The_Wind]

33. No, I haven't.

[JackBeck]

34. I've wanted to get this off my chest for some time now.

I threw a brick through an ex-boyfriend's window.

Years after we broke-up, he was still spreading crap about me that wasn't true. After years of blowing him off, I couldn't take it anymore, and late one night...

It felt really good, but it still can't stand that he I stooped so low.

[XemaSab]

35. Yes

I threw this dude's keys in the sewage ponds.

I felt a lot better afterwards.

[jrandom421]

36. Did it good the first time

Crazed clueless coworker was doing her best to get me fired, because she thought her husband could do my job, and she did it finally by conspiring with others. What she didn't realize was, that by getting rid of me, a huge number of vital network and infrastructure projects and process would come to a screeching halt, as well as my expertise in troubleshooting and support. Add to the facts, that all the processes and prototypes I had been working on were my property, NOT the company's, as well as all the notes and documentation (as per my employment contract). I packed up all my stuff, answered all their questions about what was mine, by pointing to my contract, and left.

3 weeks later, I get a frantic call from crazed clueless former co-worker, begging me to "come in and help fix major network problems." My first question was, "What's it worth to you?" She said, "WE NEED TO GET THINGS WORKING! NOTHING IS GOING RIGHT! YOU'VE GOT TO HELP US!" I pointed out that my severance agreement was such that it dissolved any and all claims each of us had on the other and the separation was complete on the day we signed the agreement. I noted that I had a consulting business, and I could be brought in as a consultant, quoting her a fee of $650/hr plus mileage and expenses. She whined, "Why are you being so mean?" I said, "Because you publicly stated that Tim could do my job better than I could. Let him fix it."

Company went out of business 4 months later, mainly due to continuing network and infrastructure problems that totally trashed the accounts receivable and accounts payable databases and all the infrastructure backups. Crazed clueless former coworker and her husband were essentially pinned with the blame of the company's demise, and no one in the region in that industry will ever hire either or both ever.

I'm doing a thriving business in a different region, but they're still stuck there. She's doing office work, and he's freelancing web pages. Quite a come down from Assistant Director of User Services and Senior Network Engineer.

And the most fun parts of it all were that it was totally legal, and I didn't have to do a thing!