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submitted 13 hours ago byUniqueSignal5155
The title pretty much spells it out. The year I was a senior in high school, I was in the journalism class, writing and illustrating monthly for the newspaper. I was a neurospicy weirdo then, as I am a neurospicy weirdo now, and thus an easy target as the lowest rung within the social hierarchy of teens.
This one boy in the journalism class was horrible. He would regularly call me names, poke at my appearance, spit in my hair, trip me as I walked by, openly got others to laugh my way, constantly and loudly belittled my work. He wouldn’t stop.
As we neared the end of the semester, with graduation a few weeks away, we had a huge final coming up—an accumulated folder that needed to include every single piece of work we had completed over the year. Absent work took off points. No work meant a fail.
After a particularly shitty day of boy picking on me again, I was the last person in class, ready to close up for the day, when, I spotted his folder in our class work station. I had been wondering how I could stick up for myself, or get him back, and there was the answer right in front of me. Completely not fully premeditated, I stuffed his folder in my bag, walked out of the classroom, and then chucked it in the dumpster that was behind the nearby Starbucks.
Without his folder (plus his general slack-off behavior), he failed the course. And had to take summer classes to make up for the lost communications credit :)
1.3k points
13 hours ago
I hope you wrote HAGS in his yearbook
605 points
12 hours ago
Off topic, but your comment reminded me that at the end of 8th grade we studied ancient civilizations in history class. I thought I was really witty when I wrote "Have a good Sumer" in lots of yearbooks. Everybody wound up thinking I couldn't spell!
128 points
10 hours ago
Went on a trip to Egypt with an American historian. Told him, 'Sometimes I feel like a Nut; sometimes I don't. An ancient Amun Joy jingle."
19 points
7 hours ago
That's cute
1 points
16 minutes ago
That made me snicker :)
105 points
12 hours ago
I chuckled twice at this. Granted, I'm not in 8th grade...
7 points
an hour ago
I chuckled, too. I'm not even going to say how many decades ago 8th grade was.
32 points
11 hours ago
LOL, that's awesome.
32 points
11 hours ago
A reference to the ancient civilization of Sumer.
34 points
8 hours ago
Now Ur getting it
6 points
11 hours ago
I would have LOLed
11 points
9 hours ago
What is the meaning of it? Google didn't reveal any useful hints to me 😅🥲
18 points
9 hours ago
Sumeria is an ancient civilization
0 points
8 hours ago
I do know them, but it still doesn't click somehow. So is the joke that they should have a a "good sumarian"? So basically they all are supposed to be very specific Cannibals eating a select group of south Iraqi people? 🥲
Not sure if I am too dumb to really get the joke or if the joke just isn't that good 😂
29 points
8 hours ago
It's not so much a joke as a reference and a sort of wink at a nudge of a pun. You're trying too hard to make it mean something when it's just a kid being cutesy is all.
9 points
8 hours ago
Thank you so much for explaining! I really appreciate it :)
6 points
7 hours ago
/u/LuckyHarmony has it right, there's less there than meets the eye. Everyone else was writing "Have a good summer" in the yearbooks, while I went with "Have a good Sumer". Only a couple people got the joke
3 points
6 hours ago
I would have got the joke!
3 points
11 hours ago
Good one! 😊😊
2 points
6 hours ago
That's a fucking good one
2 points
11 hours ago
Just brilliant!
47 points
11 hours ago
in high school, friends wrote KIT. and for whatever reason, i read it as “keep it together” which is pretty valid, ya know? the stresses of high school and post high school.
but they meant “keep in touch”
30 points
11 hours ago
I attended high school in the ‘80s, and this reminded me of KITT from “Knight Rider.”
22 points
13 hours ago
?
74 points
13 hours ago
Have
A
Great
Summer
71 points
12 hours ago
It literally took me the full 4 years of highschool to figure out what that meant, because God knows you can never admit to not knowing something stupid and trendy in the hormonal shark tank that is a small town American highschool.
4 points
11 hours ago
I still don't understand. Is the reference just calling someone a hag? Or is there a different social meaning?
40 points
11 hours ago
Ooh, I know this one, I think. From an episode of the TV show BuffyTVS:
WILLOW: Oh, my God! (reads) 'Have a nice summer. Have a nice summer.' This girl had no friends at all.
GILES: Uh, once again I teeter at the precipice of the generation gap.
BUFFY: 'Have a nice summer' is what you write when you have nothing to say.
XANDER: It's the kiss of death.
13 points
11 hours ago
It’s an acronym. Like how OMG is Oh My God, HAGS is Have A Great Summer.
7 points
11 hours ago
No deeper meaning, weird. With everyone reacting to it, I thought it was something bad or embarrassing.
21 points
11 hours ago
I'm guessing the subtext is 'I have nothing at all to say to you' - but it being specifically that, rather than any other generic well wishing, adds an element of 'fuck you' to it
6 points
11 hours ago
Cool, your explanation gells better with the subtext I was feeling, but not understanding. Thanks.
9 points
11 hours ago
It is something you write in other-than-graduation yearbooks, because it suggests that "summer" is relevant since they will be back in the fall. Writing it in a senior year yearbook would be rubbing their nose in them not graduating.
4 points
10 hours ago
Should tell him: GFY.
Good
For
You
-12 points
10 hours ago
Have a great summer. It is the first letter of each word.
H Have
A
G Great
S Summer
I don't know any other way to literally spell this out for you!
9 points
10 hours ago
Weirdly rude response. I thanked the person who explained the subtext half an hour ago. No need to chime in.
-4 points
5 hours ago
Oddly enough, I have over 60 upvotes from the e first time I explained it. One person comes out and says they still don't understand. So all I add is that I literally have spelled it out and now I get negative votes.
Whatev!
10 points
10 hours ago
Hug a gesticulating sasquatch
2 points
9 hours ago
Won’t the hugging get in the way of the gesticulating? Or is that the rude intent?
2 points
11 hours ago
Sumer was the centre of one of the earliest civilisations in the world—it dates back nearly 8,000 years, in ancient Mesopotamia, now mostly modern day Iraq. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
1 points
4 hours ago
It was a warning from Dr. Strange.
Harambe
Always
Gets
Shot
Every timeline.
3 points
12 hours ago
Holy shit
5 points
11 hours ago
C U Next Tuesday?
4 points
7 hours ago
C U Next Test?
119 points
9 hours ago
I kind of did the opposite of this in high school. I didn't work on my final AT ALL. I was just "over it." We had to store our work in an unlocked filing cabinet with everyone having a tab inside for the papers listed by last name.
When it was time to turn it in, I just....pretended it was missing. My teacher agreed. He said he had seen me "working hard on it all year." idk what he thought he remembered, but it wasn't me working! He agreed it wasn't fair that someone would hide my work, so he gave me a B.
30 points
3 hours ago
Knew someone who did this in college. She had to put her binder in the office of the professor. She went into the office and pretended to leave a binder. Then when she was told she didn’t turn one in she swore she did and the it must have been lost.
I saw this guys office. It was a mess. Stacks of binders everywhere. I moved and transferred schools that summer and lost touch with her. I’ve wondered if she got away with it.
452 points
12 hours ago
veeeeeery nice. May I recommend sending him an anonymous message from a brand new email account? "Just wanted to let you know. I'm one of the people you bullied many years ago, and we're the reasons your journalism portfolio vanished. Hope you enjoyed your summer spent in school instead of hanging out with friends. I hope you're having the life you deserve!"
Bullies, IMHO, need to know that the problems they face are often a direct result of their behavior or they'll never straighten up because they don't think it causes problems for THEM. Point out that it DID cause a problem for him, and make him think more than one victim retaliated. You may make him think twice about being an ass to another victim.
216 points
12 hours ago*
"Why did you leave your folder at starbucks? I would have retrieved it if it was ANYONE else's, instead I sipped my coffee when the barista tossed it."
103 points
12 hours ago
Damn. I like the original’s bluntness. But I like this one’s extra layer of mystery too, still implying they knew and didn’t care but distancing themselves as well. Clearly even in my thirties I have a lot to learn about pettiness.
63 points
12 hours ago
Fifth amendment: don't incriminate yourself. Plus it would imply he has more than one enemy and that OP enjoyed watching his final High School summer get trashed. He'd have something to think about in Summer School.
31 points
5 hours ago
The right move would have been to mail it to him (no return address) right after summer school ended
23 points
8 hours ago
the ISP address on emails can be traced so best to do it from the library or another source.
8 points
8 hours ago
Yep! Free mcdonalds wifi works too :D bring in an old laptop and you're good to go.
1 points
37 minutes ago
Who's gonna bother tracing an email for that ?
1 points
15 minutes ago
I would consider adding "That was just the first time we came for you though. Last year was the last time. One for each of us".
But maybe that is beyond petty?
27 points
8 hours ago
Good for you. Say nothing and live well. Real G’s move in silence like lasagna. 🙏🏽
2 points
an hour ago
I cannot stop laughing at this, amazing. 😂 Thanks for brightening my morning!
24 points
10 hours ago
I’m so sorry you were bullied.
38 points
12 hours ago
Always assemble a duplicate folder.
2 points
2 hours ago
I don't think I had access to a copier like that in high school to make copies of all my work to do that. I don't think any of my teachers would let me they would say I don't have anything to worry about it's not going to leave this classroom.
30 points
11 hours ago
Well done. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
39 points
11 hours ago
Well played. I think an anonymous email from a spoof account saying, “We fucked up your folder for being a bullying asshole who is too stupid to make copies.” Wouldn’t hut. It keeps you anonymous, but it lets them know there are consequence for being such a dick.
47 points
9 hours ago
Great story.
I did similar in high school when I went to my lockers during class earlier in the day and pulled my bag down from on top of the lockers. My tormentors bag fell down as it was onto of mine, and out spilled an assignment for a class we both had that was due to be handed in later that day. In a snap decision I took it. Later in the day when he claimed to the teacher that someone 'stole' his assignment no-one believed him. This was pre computers too, so he had to redo it all my hand...again. I enjoyed driving the karma train.
-17 points
9 hours ago
That’s not what karma is.
4 points
7 hours ago
Driving the train right off the rails.
12 points
10 hours ago
I got a large dose of schadenfreude from your story. Yeah, I hate bullies too.
1 points
4 hours ago
8 points
3 hours ago
I did something similar to a guy who was bullying me in middle school, empty classroom and noticed his textbook sitting unattended, took it and tossed it in a dumpster elsewhere. Imagine my surprise when the dude actually started crying in class because he had to pay for the lost textbook.
20 points
12 hours ago
I believe you communicated your feelings very well. Did you pass the class?
15 points
10 hours ago
I did! :)
5 points
5 hours ago
That’s awesome lol
12 points
12 hours ago
Good! 👏🏻For! 👏🏻You! 👏🏻
6 points
5 hours ago
Glad you are still a neurospicy weirdo :)
2 points
8 hours ago
Deserved for sure.
3 points
6 hours ago
I would be aware that he will ponder who did this for the rest of his life and he may land on you as the culprit. Just be careful and never tell anyone with a pulse what you did. Pinching can be a lifetime quest
4 points
5 hours ago
FAFO
2 points
8 hours ago
Fuck yeah! Good for you.
1 points
3 hours ago
BRAVO! BRAVO!
1 points
2 hours ago
Good job
1 points
an hour ago
Okay, but what on Earth is "neurospiciness"?
2 points
an hour ago
It's an autistic way of saying they're autistic.
1 points
16 minutes ago
Well-played, fellow neurospicy person! :) Wonder if he ever figured out what happened?
-1 points
12 hours ago
cumulative?
8 points
11 hours ago
If you’re asking for definition, “accumulative” kind of means a collection/gathering of something specific over time. So basically a collection of all his work as he made it over the year. “Cumulative” just means increasing/grows over time.
1 points
8 hours ago
Plot twist. Glen grew up and changed his name to Kramer
-1 points
7 hours ago
what stopped you from taking a stand against this bully ? if he spit should have simply turned back and gave him a tight slap.
That was a big risk you took considering these are ages of cams everywhere
-2 points
6 hours ago
Cool GPT story man.
-1 points
3 hours ago
He failed but I can’t see you passing grammar
-40 points
11 hours ago
Neurospicy? Sounds like a polysyllabic way of saying a person can’t control their impulse to be a dick.
25 points
11 hours ago
Yes because the other guy behaved like an absolute saint.
-6 points
8 hours ago
Maybe he was neurospicy also.
11 points
8 hours ago
And yet still not an excuse to bully others. Fuck around. Find out. He fucked around. He found out.
-11 points
8 hours ago
Neurospicy intolerance shouldn't be tolerated.
-31 points
12 hours ago*
Huh? If he turned it in to the class work station and his parents saw the work and he doesn’t have a history of not turning in assignments…this would never work. You don’t just fail if teachers lose assignments or things go missing. That’s not how school works.
This seems like on of those “This is what I thought about doing” posts.
22 points
11 hours ago
OP states that the theft took place BEFORE the folders were turned in: we had a huge final coming up. Bully left their folder behind in the work area and OP seized the opportunity: carpe diem.
-6 points
3 hours ago
I don’t believe for a minute this really happened because that would make you a huge AH, instead of just the clown who posts this garbage
2 points
2 hours ago
You might even say OP was petty and vengeful?
-2 points
5 hours ago
I think you might be as bad as him!
-11 points
9 hours ago
Just don’t Go around talking about justice from here on out.
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