'He had to re-stack half the woodpile': Teenager finds the worst way to stack a wood pile to get back at father

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 26, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

If a teenager wants to do something, they'll find the most creative ways to do it. 

Teenagers are simply unstoppable. Whether it's their parents, guardians, or teachers telling them not to do something, they can't be deterred. Things feel extra dramatic to them at that age: if they can't go out with their friend group, some teens act like it's the end of the world. Missing out on a group shopping trip because they're grounded is cause for a full-scale meltdown. 

For u/Quitthesht, being denied a night out with their friends was cause for some major irritation. Even though they'd told their parents days in advance that they wanted to see their friends, their dad decided on the day of that it was time for the teen to organize the woodpile. Dad dumped an entire trailer's worth of wood pieces in the driveway, and told his teen to stack is before going out with friends. As you can imagine, this teen was quite unhappy to hear that. They decided to maliciously comply with the request, which you can read all about down below.  

After that, read about some eye-opening thrift and vintage shopping experiences, like one person who couldn't believe that the "local thrift store decided… to use staples for clothing tags." 

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    Have to stack firewood before I can go see my friends? You got it. Many years ago when I was a teenager I made plans with my friends to go out for a night. We planned this several days in advance and I'd told my parents what we were going to do.
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    However the day of, my dad came home from work for lunch and dumped a trailer load of pre- cut firewood in the driveway and | told me I needed to stack it all. I reminded him that I was getting picked up in a few hours and would be gone the rest of the day/night, he told me "You're not leaving until all that wood is stacked nicely and out of the driveway!"
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    'Nicely and out of the driveway' eh? Okay. He left after that and I began my work. I grabbed the key for the front door to the house first and then started stacking the wood... in front of the back door. (our front door isn't used very much to the point that my parents don't even have keys to it on their everyday keychain, so I was blocking the back door)
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    I stacked it up to my chest and wide enough that it couldn't be squeezed past to get to the door. Then I went in through the front door, grabbed my stuff for me and my friends waited for them and had a fun night. Came back the next morning to find half the wood pile re-stacked on the other side of the pile.
    via u/Quitthesht
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    I was fully expecting to get my chewed out but when I got inside I saw my mum who chuckled and recounted what happened. Basically my mum and dad both got home at the same time and saw what I'd done, she was laughing, my dad was fuming, he told her what he'd told me to do and she ripped into him for dumping the wood on me a
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    few hours before he knew I would be leaving with friends (she was I because I'd done the also right thing by her for telling them about what we were doing/where we were going and him doing that to me might discourage me from telling them in future).
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    He had to re-stack half the woodpile to get to the door and thankfully wasn't upset about it the next day.
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    LD50_irony Ha! Good on your parents. for reacting reasonably!
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    EricsGirl325 I was waiting for him to say he stacked the wood in the house. Hahahaha
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    havereddit So glad you woodn't back down on this MC
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    Johnny_893 Your mother is a saint.
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    Tom_Marvolo_T... Great bit of MC, and full props to your parents for their reaction.
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    Arokthis The really dumb thing about this is not having the doors keyed the same so you only need one.
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    rpaynepiano Love it! Well done! Mum:.... Dad: 86 86 Mum: whys this wood here? Dad: *story* * Mum: thats what you get for being a ! Now restack it properly!
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