'The look on her face when I told her': Woman discovers her roommate has been stealing her washcloths, gets even by planting a dirty one

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Sep 12, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

If you've ever had an inconsiderate roommate, you probably know that it can be challenging to confront them when their behavior is out of line. Sometimes, direct confrontation isn't even the best way to make your point. It's just like how showing rather than telling can be a better way to deliver a message. Sometimes, you have to show your roommate just how inconsiderate they are by giving them a taste of their own medicine.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit by u/psychnerd27, who discovered that the reason why her washcloths kept going missing was that her roommate had been stealing them and ruining them by wiping her makeup off with them. This was someone who used a lot of makeup all the time too, so this didn't just happen once or twice. The washcloths also weren't exactly salvageable because the foundation this woman's roommate was using was bright orange (yikes! Was her roommate Snookie or something?).

Luckily, OP knew that things escalated so badly that she couldn't just scold her roommate for what she did. It was time for some petty revenge instead. People in the comments section shared their own washcloth-related revenge stories, and wow, let's just say that there is a lot you can do to trick your roommate using a washcloth. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the funniest suggestions from commenters. For more content like this, here is another tale of petty revenge in which one roommate didn't know the other was bilingual.