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Pettiness is simply a precise specific benignant of revenge. It isn't the flashiest of retaliations — it's the tiny jabs, insignificant inconveniences, and annoying small pokes. It's the subtle things that marque the unfortunate wonderment whether it was done connected intent oregon if they're imagining it. Think pouring glitter connected carpet, adding crockery soap to shampoo bottles, oregon swapping DVDs into the incorrect cases.
1. "After my assemblage roommate moved out, she wanted her harm deposit back. After the flat manager had a handyman punctuation the outgo to regenerate the carpet successful her bedroom, which had a immense maraschino cherry foodstuff stain, I said she wouldn't beryllium getting her deposit back. She threw a acceptable and told maine that her lawyer — her dada — would beryllium contacting me. Fine. So her dada called maine and threatened me. After helium went disconnected for a while, it was my turn. I explained to him astir the foodstuff stain connected the carpet and however it got there. It was owed to his girl and her fellow having enactment with the cherries, lying successful the foodstuff and getting a body-sized stain connected the carpet. I asked him if helium needed maine to repetition the communicative for clarification. He said no. And that was the past I heard astir her and her deposit."
—Anonymous
2. "When my ex had a modular midlife situation and near maine for a way younger woman, helium promised that helium didn't privation thing from me. He said I could instrumentality it all. Then helium sent maine an 8-page Excel spreadsheet successful 6-point benignant listing what helium wanted. It turned retired helium wanted everything from the sardines successful the pantry to a pitchfork successful the shed. We besides had rather a postulation of committee games that helium wanted. So I took a fistful of pieces from each crippled and threw them out. I besides glued the Scrabble tiles connected the committee to work 'f*ck you and your troll.' So petty."
—Anonymous
3. "During our divorce, I went to prime up immoderate of my worldly portion my ex was astatine work. I unscrewed the ablution caput and slathered bullion paste each implicit the inside."
4. "I bought my ain location and rapidly learned why it had been for sale. My neighbour is awful. Her grandkids destroyed my spot and tried to vandalize my car. She would perpetually parkland successful my driveway oregon permission her trash bins connected my sidewalk. After months of this, I snapped. I fought backmost with 'mild inconveniences.' I parked astatine the extremity of my driveway, truthful she couldn't enactment her trash cans there. I played EDM with dense bass during the time against our adjoining wall. I ever stopped earlier quiescent hours, truthful her sound ailment was denied. She installed cameras to 'watch' me, but lone captured maine parking successful my spot...and gardening. Meanwhile, my Ring camera already had tons of footage of her nonsense. I got a motion that said 'My Neighbour Is a KAREN.' Other neighbours thanked maine for lasting up to her. She tried to marque a lawsuit against me, and during the hearing, aft the justice saw her videos of maine gardening, helium conscionable laughed."
—Anonymous
5. "I had a assemblage roommate who would devour each of our food, and would ne'er stop, nary substance however galore times we told her to. One day, I baked cookies for a friend's day and told her specifically not to devour any. What she didn't cognize was that I made 2 batches. One, I near successful my room. The 2nd one, I enactment baked laxatives into the cookies and near them connected the counter. After eating fractional the tray of cookies, not lone did she ne'er devour our nutrient again, she besides moved retired a week later."
—Anonymous
6. "During my divorcement proceeding with my cheating wife, the justice ordered maine to wage her a whopping $1. So...I sent her 10 checks for 10¢ each implicit 10 weeks. She cashed them all."
—Anonymous
7. "After my abusive ex spent 30 minutes yelling astatine maine for thing small, helium told maine to marque him a sandwich. I slathered the breadstuff with mayonnaise, had some my dogs lick the mayonnaise, past watched him devour it."
8. "I had specified atrocious roommates successful assemblage that erstwhile I moved out, I took a one-pound tin of crushed achromatic capsicum from the edifice I worked at, and sprinkled it generously connected the model sills, the baseboard, kitchen, bath and the bedrooms. It conscionable looks similar dust, but I privation I were astir erstwhile they started sweeping it up and sneezing up a storm."
—Anonymous
9. "When a feline I was dating was fired from the spot we worked at, I went and bought a container of unrecorded crickets and acceptable them escaped successful our bureau portion nary 1 was there. It was awesome! I tin inactive perceive the chirps successful my head."
—Anonymous
10. "I erstwhile had an aged mediate schoolhouse teacher who made my beingness a surviving hell. She was truthful mean to maine that I ne'er got implicit it, adjacent 20 years later. Fast guardant to then, I was successful an airdrome bath successful my location city, and I conscionable walked retired of a stall wherever I finished the past of the toilet paper. I was washing my hands erstwhile I saw my mediate schoolhouse teacher locomotion past maine and into the stall. I don't cognize if she recognized maine each grown up, but my bosom dropped erstwhile I saw her. I heard her recognize determination was nary toilet insubstantial successful the stall and called retired to me, asking maine to walk her some. I conscionable smiled astatine myself successful the reflector and walked out. There is nary 1 other successful there."
—Anonymous
11. "My roommate, who was graduating from instrumentality school, did not wage her stock of the telephone measure for respective months (back erstwhile we lone had landlines). I cancelled the telephone enactment portion she was applying for jobs truthful that nary 1 could telephone her for interviews. She moved retired soon thereafter."
—Anonymous
12. "When I was successful mediate school, determination was a lad who hated the principal. Every twelvemonth astatine immoderate point, helium would interruption into the schoolhouse bureau astatine night, propulsion immoderate toilet insubstantial around, past interruption into the principal's bureau and instrumentality a dump connected his desk. Everyone knew it was him, but determination was nary proof. This was earlier CCTV and cameras."
—Anonymous
13. "I destroyed each acquisition an ex ever gave me, enactment each the breached and torn-up worldly successful a box, wrapped it up nicely similar a acquisition and near it connected his doorstep. He astir apt thought I was leaving him a 'let's marque up' present."
—Anonymous
14. "My ex stood maine up for a Friday meal day and hadn't returned location by Saturday morning. A communal person informed maine that helium was distant astatine the water for the play with different woman. I recovered a spot to unrecorded that morning, called a moving company, and packed up EVERYTHING, including each of his stuff. I near a azygous rotation of toilet insubstantial connected the staircase on with a goodbye note. He returned location Sunday nighttime and called everyone, trying to find me. But I, and each his belongings, were gone."
—Anonymous
15. "I attended assemblage successful NYC successful the aboriginal 1990s. For immoderate reason, my tuition outgo was disconnected by 4 cents. Yep. FOUR CENTS. So the assemblage withheld my schedule. I had to hold successful enactment for implicit 5 hours to wage the bursar successful August heat. When I FINALLY reached the window, I paid... By slamming down 1 penny astatine a clip and sliding it dilatory to the bursar without breaking oculus contact. Then another. Then another. Then the 4th and last penny. The pistillate stifled a laughter and asked if I wanted a receipt. Of people I did! To this day, it still pisses maine disconnected erstwhile I get calls asking for donations."
—Anonymous
16. "I had an obnoxious manager who made our lives hell. When helium near for home, I would deposit my banana peel oregon a tuna tin successful his bureau trash tin to marque it reek the adjacent day. Friday nighttime deposits were other special."
—Anonymous
17. "I had a fling with a joined man. He went backmost to his wife, truthful I threw his wedding set — which helium near astatine my location — into a lake."
—Anonymous
18. "I erstwhile moved successful with idiosyncratic who turned retired to beryllium an incredibly problematic partner. I super-glued her chamber doorway unopen 1 day."
19. And finally: "My aunt moved crossed the state with a fellow erstwhile she was young. The breakup was messy, and she wanted vengeance. So she packed up her car with everything she owned and left. But first, she took the costly leather overgarment she bought him that helium loved, and chopped disconnected the sleeves with an aged brace of scissors, and near it connected his bed."
—Anonymous
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