'[I had] them cut off service to her phone... in the middle of an argument': 20+ People who created ingenious methods of petty pay back

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 14, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

The pettiest thing this person ever admitted to was the time they "put a slice of bologna in [a] walkman CD player." This person wasn't the only one with a hilarious tale of pettiness to tell! 

U/bakedzitipie wrote to r/AskReddit, asking for tales of the "most ultimate petty revenge you've seen or been a part of." More than 9,500 comments rolled in, with people telling stories of petty revenge they got on their friends, roommates, customers at work, and family members. 

Reading through the replies, I was shocked to read how many people pay for pizza pies with exact change. Several different people had anecdotes of customers who loved to order pizza for delivery, then gleefully give the poor driver a massive bag of change. Maybe some folks just don't have anything interesting going on in their lives, and want to antagonize their pizza delivery guy. Or they're so low on cash that they funded their pizza order with couch cushion change. I, too, have scavenged my house for spare quarters to pay for a pizza with… but never handfuls of pennies like these oddballs do. 

Check out all these amazing stories of the pettiest types of revenge. Then, this guy got revenge on his own roommate — by costing him hundreds of dollars in red light camera tickets. 

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  • 01
    Font - Reddit, what's the most ultimate petty revenge you've seen or been a part of?
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  • 02
    Font - sorakoi Crossing at a busy downtown intersection, a very impatient driver waiting to make a turn honked at a lady pushing a stroller (she had the right of way). I slowed down, but the guy next to me straight up stopped in front of the car, then bent down to re-tie his shoelaces.
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  • 03
    Font - KVIIIwithan8 I used to work at a pizzeria. There was this one customer that everyone hated. She was rude as h complained about everything (every single order she ever received,, she found something to complain about). And she wasn't a normal customer, no, she would order essentially groceries from us by ordering disassembled sandwiches, for example she'd order a chicken sandwich but with all of the ingredients separate and in particular amounts, with cutlery, butter, a side of grated chee
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  • 04
    Font - bread (whatever the f that means), extra packets of ranch, you get the idea. But because it was all technically part of a "sandwich" she didn't expect to be charged for any of the extras and would complain. She also refused to answer the door when delivery drivers got there and instead would leave the money in an envelope (exact change, no tip) under the doormat and wanted the driver to leave the food on her doorstep. She also had weird specifications about where the driver could park (ne
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  • 05
    Font - didn't want them to announce their arrival in any way (no knocking, no ringing the bell, no beeping their car horns, they needed to be silent or she'd complain). Fing nightmare, this woman. And every time she complained, she'd try to weasel some free s out of us for next time. (Because of- fting-course she would!)
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  • 06
    Font - Anyway, one day she says she needs the driver to make change and she wants him to just leave the change in the envelope and not take a tip because "he gets paid already". So I tell my driver this and he says "ohhh I get paid, do I? No problem, I'll take care of it." He goes on the delivery and comes back pleased as punch, doesn't say a word about how he "took care of it". I get distracted, keep working, 10 minutes later I get a phone call. It's the crazy lady and she's FURIOUS because app
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  • 07
    Font - F king genius. I had to put her on hold so I could laugh. I get back on the phone with her and I said "ma'am, I think you'll find that pennies are legal tender. There's nothing I can do." After explaining that I am, indeed, the manager and the highest authority present, she got fed up and hung up on me. That driver is still a f ing king to me.
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  • 08
    Font - porcelainvacation My dad had an old truck parked on the back of our property that some kept stealing small parts from (cap, rotor, points, etc). We wired it to an electric fence power supply. One evening we heard a bunch of yelling and swearing and went back there and the guy left us some free tools.
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  • 09
    Font - 21 Alucard1886 I was dating this girl. Thought she was the one. So I gave her the keys to my apartment. I worked late for my job. I was just happy there was someone in my bed. when I got home at 2 in the morning. Came home one night, and she was awake. She confessed to using my apartment to cheat on me with 7 different people. So I packed her stuff up, she was still living with her mom anyways. So I lied to her, and said I moved to Seattle. I moved to Hawaii instead. 3 month's after being
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  • 10
    Font - called me from the Seattle airport. She flew out there to try and fix things between us. The dialog goes as follows Me: So you're in Seattle? Her: Yeah! weren't you listening? I came here to fix us. Me: oh...well that's bad. Her: what's Bad? Me: I'm in Hawaii!(then hung up the phone) (Phone rings I answer) Her: YOU LIED TO ME!! Me: huh, how does it feel? I hang up again. I don't know if that's petty, but to me was a good revenge.
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  • 11
    Font - underthetootsierolls. My mom & dad. This happened when I was in my late twenties. My mom & I were in the car. My dad called and they started bickering with each other. My mom got irritated, and hung up on him. He called her right back, and when she answered he hung up on HER! Didn't even say a word just waited for her to pick and and hung up. It was so petty and hilarious to see my parents acting like children. I couldn't stop laughing. They've been married over 35 years. I still get tick
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  • 12
    Font - Delivered pizzas about a week for my best friend's shop. Warned me about a few customers, but one in particular was always rude to the drivers and never tipped. Lucky for me, I got to deliver his order of a single calzone, maybe $6 or $7 total, and he tried to pay with a $50 bill.
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  • 13
    Font - All the menus and the website prominently said nothing over a $20 bill for deliveries, and he'd been their customer long enough to know that. But when I told him this while explaining how I didn't have enough change, he got extremely rude and was loud about how it's not his fault and that drivers should always carry enough money on them. So I did what any person in that situation should do, and told him not to worry about it, and I'd pay for the order. For those few seconds he thought he'
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  • 14
    Font - Of course he mf'ed me the whole time I was walking, but d wasn't the best tasting calzone ever. if that
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  • 15
    Font - Typingbutnotworking. My little brother and his girlfriend came to stay at my house for the weekend, and the girlfriend was super self centered and obnoxious. When they left, she forgot her clothes and toiletries because she left them sprawled all over my bathroom. About a week later, she and my brother moved into an apartment together. After he paid for the moving truck, deposit and utilities, she cheated on him with her ex and kicked him out of the apartment. This left him broke, homeles
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  • 16
    Font - In the days after the breakup, she kept calling and emailing him several times per day, demanding that he ask me to ship her clothes and toiletries back to her ("I mean, it's really important. It's my NORTHFACE.") My brother called and pleaded with me to ship them to her so she would stop having a reason to contact him. Being the loving sister that I am, I gathered up the Really Important Northface sweatshirt, shorts, underwear, shampoo, conditioner, soap and razor. I folded everything ni
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  • 17
    Font - and let her know that I hope all is well. The note was written in permanent marker, and the paper happened to be resting on the Really Important Northface when I wrote it. Unfortunately, the ink bled straight through the paper and onto the shirt. Also unfortunately, the shampoo, soap and conditioner caps were not tightly secured on their bottles, and the contents leaked out all over the clothes, further spreading the ink. The most unfortunate result, though, was that her razor didn't have
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    Human body - She received the package, and my brother never heard from her again.
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  • 19
    Font - tacsatduck Every year I go away for 2 to 3 weeks to work in a different location. One summer when I rotated through my usual supervisor took some time off. To cover the three weeks they brought in a person from outside of our group to supervise. I was working my a off, doing my work and what should have been the supervisor's work. We were set up in a temporary office, with no connections to the outside world. We had plenty of work to keep us quite busy though.
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  • 20
    Font - The supervisor's day consisted of playing solitaire all day on the computer and then yell for an hour at the end of every day that work wasn't getting done fast enough. Two and a half weeks in and I had enough. I deleted the shortcut for solitaire off of her desktop. Pandemonium breaks out, she lost her fing mind. I had to swear that I did not delete any programs from her computer, which was completely accurate. I watched her over the next few days I was there, do any and everything to ge
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  • 21
    Font - even tried to get AOL working on the machine so she could dial up and get it.
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  • 22
    Font - mustard_fox Sharing a holiday home with some friends and their 10 year old son started to be a pain. Not helping around the house and crying if he didn't get his way. His parents decided to just let him sit and watch YouTube on his iPad instead of disciplining him. So I logged into the internet router and would use admin privileges to suspend his device from accessing the internet. As soon as he got up to ask his dad for help I would reactivate the device so it seemed as if nothing was wr
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  • 23
    Font - CON livelytostito I mailed my s y ex- best friend an envelope double stuffed with glitter and a note saying "I know what you did". I wasn't referring to anything in particular, but she lies about practically everything so it was enough to mess with her for a while.
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  • 24
    Font - PabbstAndJazz Me and a few workmates were at an italian restaurant for a leaving party, when i had to go toilet. Came back and carried on eating my pizza. Turns out one of my colleagues poured the chili oil all over my pizza and that s set my mouth on fire, plus im not a big fan of heat anyways, so i basically had to write off a slice of pizza. Anyways, the guy
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  • 25
    Font - that did it found it hilarious, and since he covered his food in the same oil, i figured he'd have oily fingers from the bottle. "Youve got something in the corner of your eye Callum" His left eye went completely red and didnt stop watering for about 15 minutes
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  • 26
    Font - stanciat My roommate and her SO loved doing elaborate jigsaw puzzles. After I found out she cancelled our lease, leaving me 1 week to find a new place to live, I threw away 1 piece of two different puzzles they were working on. Before you ask, she was able to do this because I was 17, and not able to legally sign a lease.
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  • 27
    Font - def_not_myself. 6 yr. ago Late and not as sophisticated as most, but I started in a new job 2 years ago and hated a guy that kept joking about me, so I got his phone number and announced his PS4 for sale for like 50$. Same day during lunch he was already nuts because of the calls. OFC he found a way to remove it, but it was nice to watch
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    Font - 9 Whosyabobby (23) I used to deliver pizza for Dominoes. It was my last shift and there was this house that was always rude (I called to asked what the house looked like and they said "I gave you the address" and hung up), never tipped, etc. I got to their house and they gave me a check for 1 cent less that what the total was. I said "I am going to need the extra penny". They grumbled off and took their time hoping I would give up but I just sat there holding the pizza. They finally came
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  • 29
    Font - back all pi ed off and gave me the penny. Note that they had no intention of tipping. They gave me the penny and I chucked it out into the street and left. They saw me do it. It was SATISFYING.
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    Font - Thenevermore52 During my Freshman year of high school I was in a biology class that was made up of mainly juniors. This one guy, who sat next to me, would always be a jerk to me during class. I always did well on the tests so he would always look over and copy the answers from my scantron. I'm pretty sure he didn't realize that I knew he was cheating off of me. Well one day I got fed up with this guy messing with me and cheating off of me. So the next test comes around and sure enough he
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  • 31
    Font - up and turns his test in and comes back to his seat. I looked him in the eyes and proceeded to erase my entire scantron. I then retook the test, this time marking the correct answers. The look of panic in his eyes was so satisfying. He ended up making a 2% on that test and never cheated off me again.
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    Font - [deleted] In grade school, I kept a bag of chips in the same pocket everyday of my backpack. This kid I knew would punch that pocket any chance he could for 5 days in a row. One day I replaced the chips with a bag of sewing pins. He never did it again. Sweet sweet justice.
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    Font - Irishzombieman You young'uns here might not believe it, but back in the early 90s, supermarket cashiers had to type every price in by hand. I was at a Vons in San Diego, walking toward the only open check stand with a single bottle of soda in my hand. Suddenly this hoity toity lady with a cart stacked to the top flew out of one of the aisles like a freight train and cut me off. "I'm in a hurry," she said, then looked away like she was annoyed that I'd been born.
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    Font - I looked at the cashier. He rolled his eyes and got to work. Five minutes later she's walking out the door and it's my turn. "You're good," says the cashier. "I put your soda on her tag." D that felt good.
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    Font - Torturi When i was a senior in high school, I was in a group English project with 2 other people. We had to read the assigned book, and over the course of a month or so we had several mini- projects to do before the final presentation. These mini-projects were designed so that each person would be covering a different section of the book, and they would all be combined for the finished product.
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    Font - The night before the first mini-project was due, I learned that neither one of my group members planned on putting any more effort into the work into the project than Spark notes and bulls. I ended up pulling several all- nighters trying to just get a passing grade. Fast forward to the day of our final presentation. We were going to be the last group to present, putting us after the lunch break in the middle of class. What I
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  • 37
    Font - hadnt told anyone was that I was going to the blood drive that our school was having during lunch to donate. I Go, donate, adn spned a couple minutes making sure im not going to pass out afterwards.
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  • 38
    Font - I come back to the classroom and find my group halfway through the prezi I had made for the presentation. Apparently they had been floundering, making s up on the fly, and making it very clear to everyone that they had never read the book or had any idea wht the f was going on. Teacher has her head in her hands. I walk back in, and my group says, "Oh thank god he's back." I restart the prezi, give the presentation and took my seat. Explain what happened to the teacher after classs. Got a
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  • 39
    Font - os couper I worked at a 50k+ tech company. I worked with a PM, Maggie, who mis- read my email and got her dates messed up. She scheduled a meeting for Thursday instead of Friday. When I told her she scheduled on the wrong day, she got mad at me, and emailed all my managers up to my vice president (4 levels of management) to say how much of a trouble maker I was It was her own fault for not being able to read. 2 years later, I have to work with her again, and I pretend like I'm all happy a
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    Font - 2 years after that, I quit and move on to a better company. I get an email saying that Maggie is applying to my new company and said I could provide a positive reference for her. I email the recruiter and blast all my 6 years of S on her and block her from getting hired. Take that Maggie, you f er. I never forget.
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  • 41
    Font - nyc_gypsy Roommate in college was disgustingly messy and a raging b When I had the flu once, I had left a blanket and sweatshirt in the living room to keep warm. Woke up to a text along the lines of "You're a disgusting pig. The apartment is a disaster. Get all of your belongings out of the living area or we're going to have a problem." And honestly if she had nicely asked then fine. And if she weren't insanely messy then fine. But she had to go full out b.
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  • 42
    Font - She had forgotten that I had provided all of the furniture for our apartment. Couch, table, TV etc. All "my belongings". So, while she was in class, I called up some friends on the football team that occasionally helped people move for spare cash. We loaded up every single piece of furniture onto their truck and just parked it a few blocks away on the street.
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  • 43
    Font - Cue my roommate coming home to an empty f king apartment. Screaming at me and calling me names. I just told her I was following her orders and I moved out "all of my belongings". She was dumbfounded and really had nothing to say. Obviously brought the furniture back hours later. But certainly proved my point. Tbh that's only one of many petty points I had to make to that bi
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  • 44
    Font - Slightly Askew_ When me and my ex fiance were having a bunch of arguments after we broke up, I got tired of her constantly texting me about nonsense so I called - insert phone carrier- to have them cut off service to her phone that I paid for in the middle of an argument.
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  • 45
    Font - A girl on my softball team bullied me and spread rumors about me to the team and coaches. We were competing for the same position. She was in my geometry class and tried to buddy up to me because I was good at geometry, and she wasn't. So for a while I let her copy my homework, then one day I gave her all the wrong answers and turned in the right answers for myself.
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    Font - thr33beggars. I occasionally deliver pizza as a part-time job. There is a customer that tends to pay with a big bag of change. I don't mean a bag full of quarters, I mean a bag full of dimes, nickels, and pennies. Since his meal typically costs about $20, the bag usually weighs several pounds. It is a total pain to count out all of the change, so typically drivers will just assume that he has the correct amount, and leave. Usually, he has just enough or maybe a few cents over. I don't thi
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  • 47
    Font - Usually, he has just enough or maybe a few cents over. I don't think it is an innocent thing either, as he usually gives the bag of change with a seating grin. It is such a pain, that most of the drivers know his address by heart, and avoid going to his house if at all possible. I was having a bad night, and by the luck of the draw got this dude's house. I remembered reading a post on r/pettyrevenge involving someone paying in a checkout line with a bag of change, and I knew I could use a
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  • 48
    Font - his house, and left the pizza in the car. I rang the doorbell, and when he answered I saw the large bag of change in his hand that I knew would be there. He asked where his pizza was, and I said "New policy, sir. Gotta count it out before we can give out the pizza." So I sat down on his doorstep and started to count out all of the change. At one point, I even asked if he could turn on his porchlight, because I was having a hard time seeing. He did end up sitting there while I counted out
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  • 49
    Font - up pennies to give him his change back, when he said that I could keep the rest as a tip. When I gave him his pizza, he sheepishly told me sorry and then shut the door. The whole situation was incredibly awkward, and to my knowledge he hasn't ordered pizza from us in a while. Oh well.
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  • 50
    Font - JayOHare A horrible former coworker always claimed she worked way more hours than she actually did, and when she was at work she just browsed Facebook all day. The doctor/owner was very hands-off and just let her do whatever she wanted (despite me going to him with proof), so I decided to take revenge. She was not computer savvy at all, so I removed Internet Explorer from her desktop and installed an
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  • 51
    Font - identical icon that, when clicked, would instantly restart the computer. It was so satisfying when she would forget and click it, losing anything that she was working on. She would always grumble and complain about the "virus" on her computer. I started a new job about three weeks later, and when I left it was still giving her problems.
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  • 52
    Font - Kevin Steak My sister said some pretty means things to me in front of my friends when I was younger. So I put a slice of Bologna in her walkman CD player. I got the idea from Cory in the show That's so Raven.
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  • 53
    Font - badawfulperson This was my best revenge. I went through an awful divorce. My ex- wife cheated on me, told lies about me and all throughout the divorce I took the high road and was there for my kids while she disappeared off the face of the earth. Her birthday was only a couple of weeks after the divorce was final. As the kids were young I was a good guy and purchased several presents from the kids to her. Among the gifts I
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  • 54
    Font - bought a necklace with a big red A at the end. Her first name is Ann. I had the kids give that to her and she wore her scarlet letter all around town. Most people in our town knew what she had done and some even were aware of the necklace. Yup, I made my adulterous ex-wife wear the scarlet letter
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