'Yes, I am 32 and egg a 16 year old kid's car': 25+ Petty people who got satisfying payback

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Nov 1, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

Being petty pays off. We all act a little bit petty from time to time, but some people really shine when it comes to thinking of the pettiest revenge possible. 

No one knows pettiness better than retail and food service workers of the world. When you have to grin and bear whatever your customers say to you, you quickly realize there are other ways you can get back at them. If you work at a coffee shop, you can give a cranky customer a coffee with way too much "room" for creamer, or you can wait a few extra moments so their drink is cold. Or if you work at a restaurant, you can try and sneakily give mean diners a smaller portion of fries or wilted lettuce for their salad. If you do it correctly, the customer might not even notice your passive-aggressive plan. Instead, they'll just have a slightly worse day---same as the did to you.  The possibilities are endless once you use your petty imagination! 

Check out these peoples' greatest petty revenge moments below. After that, check out this hotel clerk who was tired of telling customers why they didn't do things "like the other hotels do," so she made a list for them.

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    Food - 'We went out for pizza and this group of older teenagers were making fun of us... We spent all our change playing "Happy Birthday" on the jukebox 17 times and then left.' PREWEET
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    Human body - What are your stories of petty revenge?
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    Font - rVec one kid in 8th grade was being mean to me, so a couple days later i convinced him that my violin rosin was rock candy. he ate it.
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    Font - aannnnaabanana if a customer is mean to me, i slam their coffees down. I also walk slower when doing things for them, and give them the smallest cookies.
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    Font - RoflCopter726. I used to work at Best Buy in Geek Squad and usually the people working the closing shifts had to clean up their departments and such. We had just gotten a new manager who was an outside hire from Circuit City. He was trying to be a harda and flex his management powers by being a meticulous about cleaning during closing duties asking s like "Did you clean UNDER the registers and Windex and dust etc" about every little fu thing.
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    Font - A buddy of mine I was working with and I started our closing duties a little early since the store was pretty dead that night in order to be able to leave at a reasonable hour. We pretty much wrapped up 15 minutes after the store closed so we got the manager to do a walkthrough so we could leave. He's looking around and everything seems to be in order until he looks behind some signage on a shelf and runs his finger through picking up some dust. He has this S eating grin on his face and l
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    Font - My buddy and I looked at eachother and we both just knew what had to be done. We cleaned the entire department top to bottom, inside and out. Every drawer was emptied, dusted, wiped down, brochures organized. Every computer in the back was moved and the shelves were dusted and wiped, floors were vacuumed twice, top stock was neatly arranged, every inch of the department was gone over with a fine tooth comb, twice in some spots just to take longer. 10pm turned into midnight, everyone else
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    Font - Midnight turned into 2am and we were still going at it when he finally came out of the office red eyed and exhausted and said "Guys, let's go." "But we still haven't dusted under the counters and..." "Its fine, lets go." Buddy and I took our sweet time gathering our things and clocking out. We both were also off the next day and c manager had to be in early for a conference call so it made it all that much better. Every time he was the closing manager after that night he never gave us tro
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    Font - ScarletRhi Whenever I was at work I would keep an eye on some of the coins I had in my till drawer that weren't "legal tender" in my country. I would then give these to customers who were a to me in their change. Muahaha.
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    Font - The Purple Platypuses I work at subway, and if someone is ri de to me, I give them the ends of the tomatoes. haHA!
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    Font - 1470258369 When I was 10, we had to paint birds for art, I was pretty good at art but a girl copied my exact one, even though we had to do different ones and I was not pleased. So while we were cleaning up paint brushes, (the painted birds were placed nearby), I put her painting in the sink with the tap running, pretended it accidentally fell in there and walked away like nothing happened. I think she got the message.
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    Font - o Pvt_Donkey I have high school kids that park on my street every school day. Occasionally they will sit out there and smoke cigarettes, which is fine.. They are largely respectful of my property. I noticed this one kid always threw his McDonalds trash in my yard- I have caught him doing it a few times. Now I egg his car everytime I see trash on the ground. So far, I have done it twice, but haven't seen his car for a few days. Maybe he gave up parking on my street. Yes, I am 32 and egg a
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    Font - Midnight turned into 2am and we were still going at it when he finally came out of the office red eyed and exhausted and said "Guys, let's go." "But we still haven't dusted under the counters and..." "Its fine, lets go." Buddy and I took our sweet time gathering our things and clocking out. We both were also off the next day and c manager had to be in early for a conference call so it made it all that much better. Every time he was the closing manager after that night he never gave us tro
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    Font - SuperPowers97 One time my brother ate my last popsicle, and I was really off about it so I waited until he was in the shower and took all of the towels out of the bathroom and hid them. He was all wet and there was NOTHING he could do about it. Myeheheheheheh!
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    Font - ManElegant I had a work colleague who was brought in by management on a large scale project and was effectively given the green light to do whatever she wanted. This chick got drunk off the small bit of authority she had and made people's lives a misery. She absolutely hated my boss and was trying every trick in the book to make his life a misery. My job would take too long to explain but I was effectively a go to guy for quite a few aspects in the office so I knew I was safe. but she was
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    Font - What she didn't know was my partner had moved home to Oz and I had kept it a secret that I was going to follow after a few months. Life was ticking by but this f she beast pig dog was driving me up the wall. My hours were being increased the work load was phenomenal. I asked her to get some one else in for me to train as I needed time off from time to time and always refused in the most passively aggressive way imaginable. Anyway the date had been set and projects were coming to a head wh
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    Font - already). I went up to my head boss and informed him of my decision and the reasons. He offered to get me a visa for my partner and her old job back if I stayed (helped my ego as I was wondering was I at what I did as I S was getting so much s from this woman). I refused saying I'd need to leave in a month and needed two weeks off. He wished me well and understood my reasons. All my references were sorted everything wrapped up. The beauty of this was my other managers who were involved in
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    Font - A big meeting was taking place later that day and off she goes delegating like a champ to everyone bossing them all pushing people's buttons. Then it came to my turn, I made a point of asking her was there any scope to get some one in to help as I'm slammed as it is. Usual dull tone response yourself of go basically. ok, no problem. She starts to outline everything that's going and all the sI'll have to do. The expectations were crazy and her last sentence was. "so you'll have to all that
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    Font - No, I don't think I will. Her face twisted and she snarled at me. What do you mean you won't do it? Like I said. I don't want to do it so I won't. In fact I quit. I'm moving to Australia in four weeks and I'm taking two weeks holidays before I go. So you. Her face dropped, she was lost for words. She was scrambling saying I'd have to train someone. I took out a copy of my contract and said my responsibilities were clearly defined and I would honour those ones. As she hadn't updated my con
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    Font - to my objections of the hours I was working and her refusal to train anyone else. My bosses at the table were loosing their s trying not to laugh in her face. Walked out with one manager getting up to pat my back. Possibly told her to get f once or twice more and this is what she had coming to her. All of her projects got f over so other managers were able to crucify her. She also got hauled up for the over working and refusing help. And the best part is when the head honcho heard he came
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    Font - had no idea what had been going on) and she walked by and heard him saying it to me. The whole office knew what I did and everyone was delighted some one her over. I went back to visit at Christmas and people still came up and said how happy they were I did it.
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    Font - intensenerd I found out my wife was cheating on me, so I kicked her out and sent her packing back to Missouri. She emailed me asking for her wedding dress so she could marry the guy she cheated with. I hung the dress in a tree, burned it, and sent it to her the unholy remains in a ziplock bag.... Postage Due.
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    Font - + limecat I work in a movie theatre, and anytime some a parent is being a d, I ask loudly if they would like to add any candy to their order, knowing their kids are going to beg them for it.
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    Font - + [deleted] My teacher was being a so I switched total b the caps on all the sharpies. I didn't choose the thug life.
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    Font - My former employer is a well known pizza joint that treats its employees terribly. I left and took another job and for a couple years afterwards I will still make large online orders for pickup that I never intend to get
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    Font - Strixis When I was in preschool, this kid Luke told the teacher I was scribbling while we were drawing. I put legos in his shoes.
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    Font - [deleted] I used to work at Subway. We would always have this regular customer come in and complain about every little thing such as "not enough tomatoes on my sandwich", etc. I knew she was a regular and I knew who she was, but everytime she would come she would only bring in her check book, not her purse. I, being the model employee, would purposely make her go back out to her car for her driver's license (which she would dig for for ten minutes), and come up with 2 phone numbers while
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    Font - sean488 I rubber-banded a co- workers desk drawer so it would slam shut when he opened it. I intended to p him off. I did not intend on breaking his finger. Score for me?
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    Font - ISlangKnowledge An ex-friend of mine is a very talented musician and he wanted me to design him a website. So I did just that. I, being what I thought was being a good friend, quoted him $500 for the whole thing PLUS 2 years of free updates. (Anyone who does any kind of web design for a living, knows that this is basically f gift with a silk bow.) I paid for all the hosting and the domain up front for 2 years, designed the whole thing and uploaded his website. Then I tried collecting my m
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    Font - broken down. After 6 months of trying to collect money and being out roughly $200 that I had put a down for the hosting and domain fees, I finally decided to take his site down and replaced the home screen with this. Please note how long it's been since this thing was ordered. The domain is mine for another 5 years. I know it's petty, but I figured it was cheaper than taking out a full-page ad in the local newspaper.
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    Font - He didn't even notice it was down until months later when I got a phone call at 3 am and several threats via text. Once my girlfriend read them, she kind of panicked and made me go to the police to file a harassment complaint. He tried to contact me about a year ago and apologized for making threats at me and offered to pay me to get his website up and running but, once again, asked if I could do the work up front and he was "good for the money"... Because I hadn't heard that one before..
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    Rectangle - F This website has been removed because payment was never received. Cale PAYMENT HAS BEEN PAST-DUE FOR MILLISECONDS 438 DAYS 866 HOURS 02 MINUTES 08 SECONDS 32
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    Font - cyu12 Woman came into the frozen yogurt shop where I was working. She let her bratty kid run around. Mildly annoying, more annoying was that she let her kid disrespect and walk all over his grandma who was with them. She was also really r de and talked down to all my staff. When she went to the bathroom the kid jumped up on the counter and stuck his hand in the toppings. So
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    Font - I gave him an entire cup full of M&M's. When she came back from the bathroom her little was in a frenzy with the candy. Boy was she ped, but the little monster went into a complete rage when she took the candy from him. It got so bad and shameful that she had to literally drag him out.
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    Font - Some a at a bar told me that he hated smooth adult- contemporary rock. So, I went to the jukebox and just played "Free-Falling" and "Last Dance with Mary Jane" for an hour I literally got "Petty" Revenge.
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    Font - Chefbexter My sister and I were about 13 when we went out for pizza and this group of older teenagers were making fun of us. We didn't want to start a fight, so we spent all our change playing "Happy Birthday" on the jukebox 17 times and then left.
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    Font - NowInOz I had a falling out with a housemate and decided to move out. He informed me that he would not take a check for the balance of money I owed him (final months rent, my share of the utilities, etc.). SO I paid him the $300 or so in cash. A big pile of $1 bills, all crumpled and dumped on his counter during the lunch rush at the deli he owned. Made him count it out and write me a receipt. Take that your smarmy b
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    Font - 97 Well this was several years ago when I was fresh out of high school. Previous to this day (several years prior) myself and some friends went out for pizza, and our one friend Frankie wouldn't pitch in for a tip. All we asked for was a dollar or two. He was the only one with a job and had a stack of 20's in his wallet. I let him know I'd remember this and that he'd regret it. Well fast forward, we're at a concert in downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was for the NHL draft and they had a free Y
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    Font - didn't have any money and actually had to "borrow" a two liter of soda for the ride down from our friends house. We decide to go to a restaurant before the show started and ended up trying out BD's for the first time. We sit down and Frankie so kindly asked if we'd at least buy him a drink because he was very thirsty. Our other friend had barely any money so he had to refuse. Frankie turned to me and with the biggest puppy dog eyes begs me for some money. "Frankie... Remember a few years
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    Font - Pizza Hutt? I told you I would. So no, you can't have any money from me. If you wouldn't be such a d good things would happen to you. I'd of bought you a meal, but no, you brought this upon yourself." He was pretty ped at us the rest of the day, but I think our friend shared a Gatorade with him after the concert was over. Sweet sweet revenge.
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