'I put glitter in my friend's laundry': 20+ People share their funniest petty revenge stories

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Apr 29, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

The creativity these people showed while having their own petty revenge moment is so inspiring. When u/trexradar87 asked, "Reddit, what's your best/funniest personal example of petty revenge?," people delivered tons of hilarious stories of pettiness in the workplace, school yard, and more. 

These people who wrote their stories in reply to the post are extremely clever with their solutions. The college kid who pranked their friend by putting glitter in his laundry is a perfect example of a harmless prank with a funny outcome. Other people shared the various ways they wanted to mess with their coworkers, and they clearly put a lot of thought into doing what they thought would torment them the most — like changing the speed of their double-click to mess with them. 

Next up, this entitled influencer decided to inform this restaurant that because she was a mommy blogger, she'd be dining for free that day. 

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    Font - r/AskReddit Posted by u/trexradar87 Reddit, what's your best/funniest personal example of petty revenge?
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    Font - redman2532 Posted this previously.. My Ex cheated with a married man. He now lives with her. He is a POS.. but anyway, I still have login for her DVR. I logged in, erased all her shows, then recorded only the show "Cheaters." Petty, but it makes me laugh. Edit: Additional info. I also set the show to be manually erased and stop recording 3 hours after the show's end time.
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    Font - JoeySalamander A guy at work ped me off. I placed this Craigslist ad with his phone number. 2 free goats. Hablas espanol. He spent the rest of the day getting calls every 15 minutes or so.
    via u/JoeySalamander
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    Smile - spartan-44 Kid stole my water bottle. I opened it up and left it inside his backpack.
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    Font - reloadingnow Speeding up a coworker's double click speed and watch him squirm when his normal double clicking speed isn't working.
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    Font - [deleted] I once had a colleague I hated (he was very condescending and really arrogant), so I put an extra Bluetooth receiver in his computer for a computer mouse and kept the mouse in my drawer. I would just open my drawer and it would mess his s right up. Kept it going for like 2 months. He was about to murder the world when I thought I better stop.
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    Font - porcelain_queen On every email I send, I attach my name, company, position, etc. ALL the time people will respond "Thank you Sara"....but my name is spelled with the "H". I have started to reply to them leaving off a letter of their name. "No problem Rene" "Have a good day Jon". They probably think I am an idiot, but it is worth it to me.
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    Font - caca_milis_ When I was a kid I got the Sabrina the Teenage Witch "Handbook" - it was full of kiddie experiemtns and stuff and was pretty fun. My older sister had upset or annoyed me about something, so I tried out one of the 'tricks' from the book, you fill a cup with water and some corn kernels, put some tinfoil on top of the cup, the kernels eventually pop and it makes noise against the tinfoil.
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    Font - I put it under her bed, it takes a few days to "work", so I completely forgot about it, until one night I woke up to my two sisters whispering - it had popped in the middle of the night and she thought there was a rat under her bed.
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    Font - AR3Leatherworks Someone in my office would always crush lunches with his gigantic a lunch box. Either he ate bricks or lead, I don't know, but I always came to the office fridge and found that my lunch was in pieces. So, after three bouts of this, and numerous notes from myself and other colleagues, I carefully removed his lunch box, emptied the contents (a gigantic sandwich, a Twinkie, chips, some vegetable pieces, and a few other bits), and ran over them with my car. I carefully packed
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    Font - He kept his lunch in a cooler by his cube from then on.
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    Font - [deleted] When I was a kid my younger brother and I would go for extra Mandarin lessons after school. Then we'd take the bus back. He would never press the bell for the bus to stop because he knew I'd freak out and press the bell rather than miss the stop. So, one day when he was sitting on the bus but in front of me, I made sure to get off the stop before ours. I laughed my a off when I saw the bus miss not just our stop but disappear into the distance. Petty? Sure. But I was about 12.
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    Font - whereyouatdesmondo We were sitting by a pool once, and a woman stood over my wife and started spraying sunscreen all over herself and my wife. We asked her nicely to please move and she ignored us and kept spraying. When we left, I took one of her flip flops with me.
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    Font - 0124NN I was in a big meeting (50 managers/supervisors) and two high level guys made fun of my car (Subaru Outback) in their presentation. I had access to their personal info (phone #, address, emails) and sent it to the Subaru sales group, asking for a test drive/quotes/etc. They got spammed pretty well for a while.
    via u/0124NN
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    Font - sippistar Work related- My co- worker was always complaining and always lazy with his work, yet he got recognition for the simplest thing he would actually do. He also took credit for a full days work that was pretty much all me. I always got ignored. So one day, I came in early and I unplugged his Ethernet jack just barley to the point it looked like it was still plugged into his computer. For 4 hours he couldn't do any work. Meanwhile, I got my work done, and he couldn't take any credit
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    Font - Half way through the day, he left on break, I plugged it back in and bam, just like this it was working. By then, he couldn't claim my work, and I begun to get noticed more. :)
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    Font - im_your_boyfriend A guy owed me money, but I wasn't immediately worried because we had done transactions before. This was a transaction via USPS. He started dodging me, ignoring calls and messages and all, but stayed active on Facebook (just ignoring me and deleting my comments and posts). After three months, getting progressively more impatient, I had had enough. I got the notification to approve him as a member of a Facebook group I'm in.
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    Font - I approved him, then made a big post in the group putting him on blast for it, tag and everything. I then added his mom and sister on Facebook and sent them messages. Mind you, the guy is in his thirties. He messaged me about it, and things are getting resolved. If it slips again, however, I'm calling his work. Working for Amazon and committing mail fraud probably don't go well together.
    via u/im_your_boyfriend
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    Font - Vaugngoalie Put up a craigslist ad for a guy I couldn't stand. "Free refrigerator, runs great. Call between midnight and 4am."
    via u/Vaugngoalie
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    Font - MammerJam Not me, but my aunt once found out that a boyfriend was cheating on her. Instead of confronting him, she wanted to get petty revenge. She knew where he kept his hide- a-key, so one day while he was at work she spent the whole day at his house. She rearranged all the furniture(brought the upstairs furniture downstairs and vice versa). She also took all the canned goods in his pantry, steamed off the labels, shuffled them, and put them back on at random. This included the canned d
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    Font - Motherf er would think he was opening some soup and NOPE! Dog food. When she left she locked up, put the key back, and never spoke to him again.
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    Font - [deleted] In 3rd grade I was falsely accused by the hall monitor of talking during quiet time. Even after my dad came in and talked to the teacher she still punished me by keeping me from watching a movie and eating the cinnamon bread with everyone else. So the day before the class watched the movie and ate snacks, I unplugged the breadmakers right before we left school so no one would get any. I figured if I can't have it, no one can.
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    Font - MenudoMenudo I put glitter in my friend's laundry in university. He had pranked me the week before, and a week later was doing all his laundry at once. I went and got some glitter from the craft store, and put half a vial into each of his loads of laundry. He was fabulous for months afterwards.
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