Driver Gets Back at Mansplaining Colleague, Sabotages Friend's Plans

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 27, 2024 4:00 PM EST

Sometimes, the only way to get someone to leave you alone is to play the game for a bit and wait until the perfect moment for payback. This rideshare driver decided that his female colleague needed guidance, so he took her under his wing. At this point, it sounds like the intentions are well-meaning, but it gets worse really quickly. First, he started to give the Redditor tons of unsolicited advice about her eating. Big red flag right there! Then, he buys her a brand-new iPhone using his mother's money because he claimed that she would need it for work (of course, she had a perfectly well-functioning phone of her own). Then, he insisted that he turn the tracking on her device so he can make sure she is safe at all times.

That's when OP realized she could not let this go on forever. She agreed to help drive a buddy of his to the airport when he was already busy so she could meet up with him afterward and return the phone. As the day approached, the mansplaining stalker started making more and more demands about how his buddy preferred his rides to the airport. All of this started to feel less like a favor and more like a test, so that's when OP decided to stop giving into him. Keep scrolling below for the epic two-part petty revenge. When you're done, here's a story about a teenager who got back at his boss after his pay was unfairly docked.

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    "Forgot' To Do That"
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    r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/Fresh_Distribution54 12 hours ago I "Forgot" To Do That I drive for rideshare. Pretty sure we all know which one. While in the waiting lot, there could be hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of us and I would say maybe three of those are female. I am one of those females. So the lot can get quite interesting with a bunch of man who like to come over and tell us how we're supposed to be doing things.
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    This one guy comes over and I won't say he's a great guy but lesser of two evils sort of deal. Tolerable enough to talk to. (I'm not against men in general, just this particular crowd is not the best).
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    We talked for a bit and he eventually asked if I want to go get some lunch with him, sure why not. Especially since he insisted on paying because that's what men do he said. He proceeds to tell me the entire time how I can't have breakfast for lunch and I shouldn't eat carbs because I'm a woman and I shouldn't drink soda cuz it's going to make me fatter etc etc etc etc.
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    I barely tolerate it because I was listening to some tips and tricks from him on how to supposedly be more efficient and make more money. Spoiler alert: he was only actively working about a third of the time he claimed to be working and put more miles on his car than he also claimed because he only did airport and will always drive back empty-handed)
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    I saw him several days later and he literally went out and bought me an iPhone saying it was better than my android. Claimed no strings attached. I knew that was and refused to get rid of my Android but I was curious what the strings were. I kind of like to see these things long enough to see what the catch is.
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    Next day he starts demanding how I need to turn on the tracking so that he can always see where I am. He claims it's because it's my safety because as a woman I could get k doing rideshare and therefore he wants to know where I am all the time. Obviously I refused this.
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    Fast forward and fast forward and I keep missing him at the waiting lot because I was going to give him back the phone. But he's constantly texting me giving me these tips and tricks and tell me what days of surge but he's also be rating me if I'm not working 24 hours a day and be ready me for not being up at 3:00 in the morning and berating me for taking off one day of the week etc. I only didn't block him because I felt obligated to return the phone.
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    One morning he texted me about a buddy of his who took a lot of rides down to the airport for all this businessy stuff and how he would pay $100 for the same type of trip that the rideshare would only give me about 35 for and that he always tipped well and blah blah blah. I figured hey sure why not plus he said that he couldn't do it cuz he was taking another buddy to the airport at the same time so we will be at the airport lot at the same time which means I could finally give him back his phon
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    Over the next two days before the trip, he spammed the out of me suddenly changing his mind about things. Oh now his buddy needed me to be there an hour earlier. Now his buddy wanted me to have his car as a certain temperature. Now his buddy demanded that I have the car cleaned into your exterior right before picking him up. Now his buddy says that I have to buy fresh water bottles of smart water for him good now is Buddy says I have to go buy official receipt papers in order to write out the re
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    Cue petty revenge....and this one is a two-parter!! Petty Revenge Part One: Knowing that his buddy always left for the airport about 2 hours prior to when he needed to be, I kept acting like I was seriously going to pick his buddy up. I didn't. Didn't even read all the messages asking if I was on my way and why it was late and that I hadn't shown up etc etc. While I knew his buddy probably didn't deserve that, I knew that this would get blamed because he was the one responsible for the ride. I a
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    It was like the stages of grief. From to anger and it was bargaining in there and pleading and disbelief thinking I was just joking and I was actually there and all this stuff. Petty Revenge Part Two:
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    Did you forget I still had his super expensive iPhone? Here's the even better part. I don't know why but for some reason his iPhone account was under his mother's name. So while he apparently could buy new phones, he couldn't exchange or change anything on the account. I knew this because he had lost his old iPhone and he wasn't able to redeem the warranty or whatever it was. His mother by the way was not quite all there in the head and was unable to leave the house and go with him. I don't know
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    So I went to an Apple store a couple of towns away when I was over there and I claimed that I had found this lost iPhone. I told them I didn't know who it belonged to. They said no problem they would contact the owner. Except here's just the cherry on top of the icing. The only phone number registered for the lost or whatever was the one on the phone that the guy had previously lost. He never added the new phone numbers, even though you think Apple would have automatically done so, because he wa
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    I even asked the person at the Apple store what would happen if the only phone number on the account for contact wasn't usable or accessible. He assured me that as long as the account owner came in then they could look up the account and find the phone for them. Just to double double make sure I asked what if the account holders relative or husband or wife came in. They said only if they were on the account He wasn't This was about 2 years ago and I bet he still never got his phone back
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    FOREVER Vilehaust 13 hr. ago Claims men should own all, but uses his mother's name on an iPhone account. What a "winner" that is. 227 Reply Share
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    5p1n5t3rr1f1c. 13 hr. ago I would have bolted when he started giving advice on what I should eat.
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    TallChick66 13 hr. ago . I wish I could say that his behavior sounds farfetched, but I've encountered more than my share of like this.
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