'Petty revenge on my own truant son': Mom stages epic prank to force son to stop skipping school

Author image for Ben Weiss
Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 13, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

A mother has to do what a mother has to do. This woman shared her story via this thread on Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit, and let's just say that if your child has a bad habit of skipping school, you should definitely be taking notes right now.

 

This woman's son was a good student when he was in high school, but he just absolutely hated going. Meanwhile, his single mother had a full-time job and was at her wit's end after countless attempts to correct this behavior. In her state, parents of truant children could be subject to jail time, so this was getting very serious very quickly. 

 

What happened next was a plan that only a mastermind could concoct. With the involvement of a friend's fiancé who just so happened to be a police officer, this Redditor was able to get her son to grow up in an instant. Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about an entire department that got their boss fired.

Advertisement
  • 01
    Furniture - "Petty revenge on my own Etruant son"
    via Ivan Aleksic
  • 02
    Font - Petty revenge on my own truant son About 10 years ago, when my son, J, was 16, he decided he could just pick and choose when he went to school. He was a really good kid in general, and made decent grades - he just REALLY hated school. I was a single mom with a career and had to leave for work before it was time for him to catch the bus, so usually I wouldn't even know when he skipped. When I finally figured out there was a problem, I tried everything you could imagine to make sure J went
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 03
    Font - It was a rough time in our relationship, as sometimes I wanted to wring his neck, but he was a foot taller than me and built like an ox ;) In Texas, if a child doesn't attend school, the parents can be held responsible, up to and including jail time. Eventually I got a notice from the city that further truancy would result in charges. I was freaking out and showed it to J. He was completely dismissive of it and said lots of parents get these notices but nothing ever happens. So the proble
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 04
    Font - One of the women on my team at work was engaged to a local police officer we'll call G. G would occasionally visit the office and have lunch with the team so we were all friendly. The next time G visited I asked him for a favor in exchange for a case of beer. He agreed to help.
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 05
    Font - I waited for a day that I knew I was skipping school and called G from work. G then went to my house and bagged on the door yelling "Open up! Police!" My son answered, at which point G gave him a fake warrant for my arrest for failing to make J go to school. My son told him I was not home, so G told him to pass me a message: he would be back to arrest me in the next few days. G then left and called me at work to tell me it was done.
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 06
    Font - Now this next part, I actually feel bad about. My son absolutely fell apart! He called me crying, barely able to speak, squeaking out that the police had come to the house to arrest me. He apologized over and over. When I got home, he was a shaky mess and white as a ghost. He couldn't even eat dinner. It was my original intention to tell him when I got home that I had set him up, but after seeing how upset he was, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I thought maybe I had gone too far. I jus
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 07
    Font - The next morning J was up and dressed early and there was zero argument about him going to school. And it went that way all the way through to his graduation. I finally confessed to my son just last year that I had staged the whole thing. Luckily he's grown up enough to realize it was done with his best interests in mind, but he was still pretty pissed! In the end that case of beer was one of the best investments I ever made.
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 08
    Font - cabird78 +2.11 hr. ago I guess you could say J got schooled that day. 2.3k Reply Share
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 09
    Font - _-TheRealDeal-_ 11 hr. a . And that's how you parent your kids when they're being holes bravo 1.7k Reply Share
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 10
    Font - Whitino 10 hr. ago Yep. Good move on OP. The kid needed to be taught a lesson, and you succeeded in doing that without anyone getting hurt in the process. T 455 Reply Share
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 11
    Font - PrincessButterqup 10 hr. ago My sister was having truancy issues due to mental health issues. Our school took my mom to court to try to get my sister taken away from her. Luckily, the judge was furious at the school. 546 Reply Share
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 12
    Font - katmcflame 9 hr. ago My husband is a retired cop, & those "success stories" - the troubled kids who straightened out after he strategized in various ways with their parents - are his favorite memories. I'm glad J turned out well. 162 Reply Share
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 13
    Facial expression - Be Fast Fee517 12 hr. ago That is a heartwarming petty revenge story ↑ 283 Reply Share
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 14
    Font - D JIRA TheLastPastry. 10 hr. ago This is a story mom used to tell my younger brother and me about our older brother who is 10-12 years older than us, I forget our age gap but I'm close to 40 now.
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 15
    Font - Anyways when my older brother was in high school he was notorious for not going to high school but my mom never new because 1) he would clear the answering machine before she got home and 2) our address on file was incorrect and letters sent home about his absence never got to my mom. We'll one day my mom wanted to play a joke on my older brother and just said the school called is there something you want to tell me?
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 16
    Font - Well my older brother thinking he was caught told her the truth, that he would miss a few days of school every week. Well that shocked my mom and I never asked what his punishment was but she gave the school a ear full and gave them such a hard time that she was able to get him back in school to graduate because apparently it had gotten to the point that they said he could never catch up with school work and he would just have to repeat the grade. Mom fought tooth and nail and may have th
    via u/HelpIHateTexas
  • 17
    Font - Probably would have been better if she had just let him repeat the year as punishment because he never did learn a lesson nor learn how to take blame for his mistakes later in life but that's a story for another day. Reply Share 216
    via u/HelpIHateTexas

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

pro revenge school FAIL revenge petty revenge reddit thread Reddit mom
Scroll Down For The Next Article