'We spent over an hour chewing through 17 packs of gum': Girl gets petty revenge on bully by covering his truck's interior in gum

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Isabella Penn
Oct 21, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

This girl really let her intrusive thoughts win. And honestly, it was kinda worth it, even if it meant losing a friend in the process.

Alright, it's 1999, and we've got this unpopular girl secretly dating one of the cool guys from school. Awww right? Not quite. The moment they step back into school, he pulls a total disappearing act on her. Even when his pals are shamelessly body-shaming her, she's looking to him for some support, and the guy doesn't utter a single word. What a total snob, right? Well, she's definitely mad.

But she's not as mad as she's gonna be when that same bully decides to play a prank by sticking a whole bunch of gum in her hair while sitting behind her at a pep rally. I'm talking a massive amount of gum, like, she had no choice but to go for the head shave. High school is brutal, am I right? So, what's her move? She decides to serve up the ultimate revenge by targeting what really hurts her ex-lover. His truck.

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    Font - Posted by u/Bookslutforsmut 19 hours ago Let your buddy put gum in my hair? Enjoy your new trucks leather interior with the same. So this happened years ago but I was recently reminded of the whole thing by a friend who thinks I was too extreme even now over two decades later.
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    Font - The summer of 1999 I'd just gotten a new (to me) bike and spent everyday lazily biking through the wealthy neighborhood development our trailer was backed up too. Basically empty lots and woods with roads but very few had sold and been built on back then. I pretty quickly met Evan who was a year older and with parents who seemed to give even less of a s how he spent his time than my mom. We
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  • 03
    Font - began hanging out every day. We found an old abandoned shed and would spend most of our time there. Things turned sexual pretty fast. I was shocked as a fat girl this hot guy was into me and he seemed to really eat up any type of positive attention. So as you can imagine I was building romantic fairytails and he was encouraging whatever got him what
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    Font - he wanted. Such as assuring me he was in love and how sy/beautiful he found me. We for the span of a summer were deliriously happy. When school started back up he wouldnt acknowledge he knew me let alone that we'd been together. Even as an adult I hate how pathetic I feel at the way he treated me those
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    Font - first few weeks. He tried to convince me to have a secret relationship while also being pretty harsh about my never talking to him at school especially in front of his friends. I broke things completely off and stopped meeting him at all after about a month. His best friend was in my algebra class and sat right behind me which turned into a solid hour of him hissing insults
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    Font - and mooing at me. I wasn't being singled out he was just that nasty to everyone he could bully but I did make the mistake of looking to Evan for help or a reaction once in the hallways when the friend was saying something nasty. The teasing was about what you'd imagine "ohhh Evan watch out the piggy is hungry for your meat" etc.
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    Font - The following week I ended up on the bleachers in front of them at a pep rally. I kept hearing the friend sniggering and whispering behind me and I was determined to ignore them even when I felt him tugging my hair. Later a girl told me I had gum in my hair. It wasn't just one piece though it
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    Font - was dozens of small clusters stuck in clumps thoughout the back of my hair. I had a bit of a break down and used scissors to hack all my hair off. Like my mom had to take me to the barber an buzz it all on a one to even it out kind of hacked it off. I guess I really thought that would make Evan sorry because he'd always made a big deal about how soft and thick my hair was and how much he loved it. Now it was gone because he sat by and let his friend do this to me.
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    Font - That didn't happen Evan made sure to never so much as look at me again and when I went to the shed were we'd met before at one point to hide out from my mom (who was making my depres and hair thing into something I was putting her through) it had been burned down.
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    Font - The next few months were really awful for me. I found out Evan had gotten a brand new truck for Christmas. His parents might not be attentive but they had money. He also got a girlfriend who was pretty, skinny, and into purity culture. They exchanged those promise rings and she would not shut up about sweet he was about waiting for her. Virgins together.....forever until marriage yadda yadda.
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    Font - Meanwhile the few friends I had before distanced themselves because the teasing had turned to calling me a lesbian pyscho (except in much nastier ways) with my new haircut. The only real friend I had left lived one town over but he had a car so we hatched a plan. I started collecting
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    Font - gum and we basically stalked him for a month of weekends until we lucked out to find his truck unlocked outside the movie theater while he took his forever love on a date. We spent over an hour chewing through 17 packs of gum and covering his leather interior and carpets with it. My buddy even worked it into the radio and airvents.
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    Font - I wish I could say this made me happy or feel like we were even but honestly the fact that he never pointed the finger at me so he didn't have to go into the why of it took most of the joy out of it for me. It was huge news in school and even around town for a long time. I know he knew who did it but he never even tried to confront me about it. Perversely his friend my
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    Font - biggest bully that year did apologize to me a few years later and he confessed to being the one who put the gum in my hair. He even said Evan had tried to get him to stop after the first peice and my shaving my head really made him think about how awful he was to me. I hadn't even noticed his disappearance from my life then or in years after in my misery over Evan. He was shocked to learn
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    Font - about the secret relationship I'd had with Evan because so many guys had teased Evan about being a virgin with a girlfriend who wanted him to stay that way until marriage. Anyway I don't really tell this story to anyone in my life but recently a friend was discussing how stupid could a girl be to have a secret relationship. I'm
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    Font - not ashamed but it's still quite painful how many horrible things I was going through at the time. She seemed shocked that I feel no remorse and I think it's ruined our friendship but I just can't fake it. Anyway thats all I was reminded of it and thought I'd share and get a broader outside pespective on it all I guess.
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    Font - PennyArena 19 hr. ago You shouldn't have put gum in the air vents. That's prime real estate for tiny pieces of fish. That judgmental "friend" of yours can kick rocks. Something tells me she'll be in - if she hasn't already been in - a secret relationship she she'll justify as different because reasons.
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    Font - underhand_toss 18 hr. ago · edited 3 hr. ago Was the chewing gum in the guy's truck destructive and inappropriate and petty and fabulous? Yes, of course. That's how teenage drama works. I am here for it and for you standing up for yourself. If your friend can't see that, they can pound sand.
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    Font - Hetakuoni 19 hr. ago He just used you. I wonder how much the detailing cost to fix. Reply Share 174 Bookslutforsmut OP 19 hr. ago I don't know but his carpet had to be replaced entirely.
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    Font - Bored_at_work_67 - 19 hr. ago I don't know why you should feel remorse. I think that friend has never experienced the pain and loneliness we can experience in our teenage years. I'm a guy and didn't have a relationship until I was 20. If there had been a girl in high school who had a relationship with me but only in secret I would have 100% gone for it back then
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