46 Times People Chose Petty Revenge And Didn’t Regret It

Didn’t feel like revenge. Just a very painful victory and a lot of pity honestly..

What happened? My ex wife left me and the children for her “lover” a dude from her past.

Fast forward two years later, my current partner is not only a complete and total “upgrade”, she’s just a better fit for me overall.

The ex wife pops by our place every week to pick up the kids and spend time with em. She has grown to be quite close to my partner, she shares her life troubles (still the same issues, no growth, no introspection), my current partner being the mature, stable person that she is gives her advice on how to move on.

She’s still stuck in the past, forever reminiscing the time when she was once my wife, and had my full attention and love.

She no longer has either, and man, she has spiralled hard. Revenge no longer feels necessary. I won convincingly, crushed it even. It’s not even a joke how my life has significantly improved since she left.

My partner is privileged beyond imaginable belief and she’s humble, caring and affectionate towards me and my kids. So yeah, what else could a man dream of after a bitter divorce from a betrayal?

Sometimes I catch myself being internally “mad” at my ex for making me prove myself.. the feeling is like, “you tested me in this manner and now I’ve gone and done and built something so significant, you can’t ignore it”..

Ultimate rub in my exes face that’s for sure.

Ex and I were organising a large event. A month or so before the event I caught him cheating and we broke up, so the rest of the event organisation is on me. Event comes, is a complete success. Ex has to watch me constantly receive praise for the organization, as well as pretty much has to jump when I say "Frog". Finally he has to see me get a big applause by all attendees and he gets to win a prize for skills that I have a big part in him obtaining. And me handing him said prize. I'm not a vindictive person, but it felt so good.

Meeting my former bullies at the reunion. They didn't recognize me. The glasses wearing, fat, acne ridden nerd had turned into an attractive woman while they got old and wrinkly.

Fiance cheated on me.

I dropped contact and never looked back.

My doing that destroyed her mind and self-worth.

This one’s kinda mild, so it being revenge is debatable.

There was a popular kid in my middle school who wouldn’t stop siccing his friends on me. Looking back, I’d say it was partially on account of my race but also because I was a nerdy kid. One day I was in a s****y mood and he thought it would be a good idea to taunt me. I finally had enough and threw him to the ground and he got in trouble for it. I still feel lowkey proud of myself for that.

In many cases being the better man isn’t as satisfying as returning the favor.

Just before a trip to Hawaii with my BFs fam and the ex GF invited by his sister, the ex sent him a card detailing how happy she was to be with him again on vacation and how she still loved him and couldn’t wait to be together again. He ripped it up and tossed it I fished it out, taped it back together and mailed it (along with the envelope for postmark proof) to her live in BF. Boy, did the sh*t hit the fan halfway through the trip.

Walked away from a relationship and told her to keep the ring. Literally left her standing there in a mall and I swear I could feel her watching me walk away. I'm pretty sure it broke her because after a little Facebook stalking she hasn't had an actually serious relationship since, and now she's a single mom.

Edit:. She's also occasionally posted one of those cryptic "The one that got away" memes and I'm 90% sure she's talking about me. Maybe don't cheat next time dummy.

He was a work place bully and morally bankrupt. It eventually came to light and he was fired from his supervisor position. I now hold a position above what he had and am a company darling. Cleaning the problems he created took some time, but that’s done as well.

Worked w/ an Advisor for a few years who wasn’t a nice person. Owned his own firm, great at what he did, just a horrible man.
Fast forward a few years- a client I had a great relationship with recalled that I previously worked at that firm- guy was trying to get into their country club & their private elite business only breakfast club as well.
He asked my personal opinion of the guy.😬Needless to say he didn’t get in & I heard through the grapevine he was really upset about not making it🤣

There was this kid at school and he'd always take my lunch and I hated him so much because he'd always pretend he didn't take it an no one had ever seen him do it.

One day I purposefully put peanuts in my sandwich (He had a mild peanut allergy) and when he saw it he thought it was a normal Ham and Cheese.

The kid was okay but he didn't take my lunch after that event.

I blocked them and I didn’t tell them that they were blocked on my phone. They couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t answering.

I bought a cheap security camera. Well, actually it was a dummy camera that looked real but it just had a blinking light powered by a AA battery. My asshole neighbor piled pillows in his window for 2 years
because he thought I was spying on him.
I got 2 years worth of chuckles for 10 bucks.

I’m not someone who seeks revenge. But there’s one particular woman I truly despise—my ex-girlfriend, whom I was with for five years. She brought a child into my life, a boy I loved like my own. While I was away on a trip with him (she said she had to work), she cheated on me.

Afterward, she completely cut me out of his life. She told me I wasn’t good for him, saying all sorts of things to justify it. One day, when he was eight, he showed up at my door, saying he missed me. He also told me that she’d been saying things about me that simply weren’t true, just to make herself look better for leaving.

I’ll never forget the moment I called her while he was crying and begging in the background, saying he didn’t want to be with her and wanted to stay with me. That phone call felt like my personal moment of justice. I still remember it vividly. I haven’t seen him since.

I forwarded a cheating exes mail- to Siberia.

Back in high school, I quickly became enemies with a girl and I can’t even remember why now.
All the cool kids were going to a party on the other side of the lake, and I refused to even go because she would be there.
All the party kids from town had to take the last ferry back across the water.
She was drunk, and fell off the ramp between the boat and the pier.
Everyone was in hysterics about it at school for at least the following week.
Apparently a ferry man had to go find a long pole and drag her out, drunk and bedraggled, in front of dozens of teenagers.
I didn’t have to do a thing, she got my revenge upon her for me!

Depends on the revenge. For me, success is the best revenge and I have done it many times, proving someone so wrong, its beautiful.

Last girl, wasn't happy that I didn't finish school, she graduated as a pharmacist and works at a hospital, and at the time I was a Video Game Tester, the money wasn't anywhere near great, especially after Covid and the inflation that happened here in Poland. She kept pushing me to do school (High-School), but I do not really like the idea honestly, or more, I don't like being said what to do.

Well, 3 months after we decided to split due to some other reasons as-well, I got a new job. I am in Pharma-Marketing right now, and still didn't finish school haha! I see that as a great win for me,

She has studied for a such a long time to get into Pharmacy, meanwhile I am the one creating all the instructions and promotional materials for d***s that she reads everyday.

None.

Revenge is petty, takes up space in your mind and heart, and is useless. The best "revenge" you can give is just moving on with your life and being happy. Why continue to waste energy on the person?

As far as I'm aware, spending time on getting revenge means the other person "wins." Because you're still upset over them, still thinking of them, still spending time on them, and still making moves that are around/about them.

They worked at a gas station and one really cold night I went by and dropped a liter bottle full of water in the trash can. The next day when I went by I saw the bottle laying down by the curb, I know that when the pulled the trash bag out the bottom ripped out halfway to the dumpster and they had to clean up the mess.

Revenge is seldom worth the efforts. Say you embarrassed someone after they embarrassed you. Then what? Unless it’s sports then it’s worth it. Pinning a competitor in wrestling within a minute after they tried an injury move. Even that’s not worth mentioning compared to a Warsaw Pact Collapse.

These thugs were playing hoops outside my frat house, dunking on the rim and being douchebags. told them to leave, they didn't leave. couple of my frat brother come outside, one of the thugs sucker punches my friend. 3v3 brawl ensues. one of the thugs goes to his car and pulls out a stickball bat... wacks me across the back with it. ate it like a champ... they run to their car and get away. i get the plate #. dad's a cop, he runs the plates. now i know where they live.... to be continued.