24-year-old man uses his sister's towel to clean the sink’s countertop in revenge for her boyfriend always leaving it wet: ‘I just get her towel and dry the sink (and floor if he lets it get wet too) with it’

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Jul 16, 2026 1:45 PM EDT

The type of revenge only you know about

I don't know how I feel about this story because I think an innocent person is paying for somebody else's mistakes. The resolution here is clear: What should be drying the countertop should be one of the boyfriend's belongings, but I don't think the brother is seeing things clearly. Sometimes, these types of petty revenge work for soothing an underlying emotion, and not necessarily for communicating something, and that kinda restores the balance of the universe: nobody gets significantly hurt, and the resentful avenger derives pleasure from his minimal revenge; it's a win-win!

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    The brother taking care of every household chore

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  • My sister's boyfriend is a manbaby so I dry our sink with her towel

    I think this is genuinely the pettiest thing I've ever done in my life and I just have to share because I feel kinda joyful doing this.
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  • Me (24) and my sister (28F) live together in an apartment our parets bought for us.
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  • Currently, my sister is doing her medical specialization and barely stays at home. This is an important detail, because ever since she started the specialization I'm the only one doing all house chores.
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  • I don't really mind doing all the chores, specially because she barely stays at home, but one thing I expect is, if I'm doing all the chores, the house organization and cleanliness should be respected.
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  • But here is the thing: my sister has a boyfriend (27F) who ia a manbaby. He sleeps in my apartment about 3 times a week and EVERY SINGLE TIME HE USES THE SINK HE LET'S EVERY SINGLE INCH OF THE
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  • COUNTERTOP WET AND IT ME OFF SO MUCH. Like, I genuinely don't know how he does not know how to use a sink, but every time I go to the bathroom after ge
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  • uses, the whole coutertop is so WET?????????? HOW??????????? And sometimes, the FLOOR IS WET???????? Anyways, I tried to civic rout and talk to my sister, just yo ask her to tell him
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  • to dry the countertop after he uses it. But for some reason my sister said used his ADHD as an excuse to why she won't talk to him about it's because "he will just forget about it".
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  • Well, since I'm already stressed enough, every damm time i see that wet a countertop, I just get her towerl and dry the sink (and floor if he let it get wet too) with it. I won't bother getting a cleaning rag to dry it too because
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    The brother cleaning every inch of the countertop after his sister's boyfriend uses it

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  • The only thing I have to say about the brother’s attitude is that it’s weird that he communicates with his sister’s boyfriend through her. I think, if they are living under the same roof 3 days a week, he can totally walk up to him and tell him he needs to dry the countertop or measures will be taken. What measures? You ask; well, maybe putting a sign next to the countertop that reminds him to do it, maybe being super annoying and knocking on his door every time it’s wet, I mean, things he can’t ignore.

  • that's too much work. Her towel is already there so I might as well just use it. She doesn't know about it and would probably get ped off if I told her lol. I just don't care. Like I said, I don't mind doing all the
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  • housework since she is always at the hospital, but I expected my work to be respected at the very least.
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  • Also, the boyfriend doesn't have a towel of his own for me to use and he doesn't live with us, he just sleeps here some days.
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    The brother's reaction every time he sees the wet countertop

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  • iAmManchee Why is he round when she's not there? He can't be a visitor if the person he's visiting isn't even there. Does he have no home to go to??
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  • Background-Parking-2 You should use his things to dry the mess, not your sister's....
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  • And yes, the sister shouldn’t be paying for this; if her boyfriend stays there three days a week, he has to have something of his own there- a sock, a t-shirt, something. If NOTHING I listed before, not the talking, nor the sign, nor anything works, he should definitely go for his t-shirts. If nothing works, he should ask his sister not to invite her boyfriend over when she is not around; problem solved!

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