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30 Times People Actually Got Revenge On Their Childhood Bullies And It Was Sweet Like Honey
Not all of us enjoy the satisfaction of getting back at those who called us names, laughed at our clothes, and just made our lives miserable when we were kids. But some of us do. And Redditor Marble_Trap wanted to hear from these lucky folks.
So they posted a question on the platform, asking: "How was your adult revenge on your childhood bully?" and it has received 1,340 replies, many of which detailed these exact experiences. From marrying their crush to simply forgetting all about them, here are some of the most upvoted answers.
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#1
A few of my childhood bullies have passed away to reckless driving or drugs. So revenge not needed.
After going to a different High School then my middle school bully, I was a year out of HS and going for a bike ride. Saw the middle school bully on his bike, going the opposite way. He yelled something to be a prick to me, so I ignored and kept on my merry way for about a mile. Until I noticed he was following me, fast.
I wasn't the same pushover I was in middle school, so I pulled over and waited, as he hopped off his bike and violently thrust his hand out-to shake my hand and apologize for ever being a d**k.
Basically said he used to hang with a bad crowd through middle school until senior year and he regretted a lot of stuff he did as a kid growing up. Asked me how my high school years were, what my after HS plans were and explained after his father passed away he had an epiphany-he was going to the national guard to get a way to help fund college, and wanted to become a psychologist to help kids throughout high school deal with harassment.
I talked with him for a good half hour and we parted on friendly terms. Ran into him a few times over the years and about 4 years later he seems to be on his way to achieving what he said and is very active in my hometown community.
Didn't need to get revenge, glad to see someone grow up and make something great of themselves.
Shelli PL 3 years ago (edited)
I love this. I had a similar happened when a female coworker bullied me for yrs for having a chronically Ill child and missing lots of work. My son stabalized over time. She married and had twins. Came to me bawling her apology bcuz now she gets it. I was glad to see it. We’re still FB friends…she had 3 more kids too! Women should support women dang it.
Rocky Mom 3 years ago
But it is initially sick of her to have bullied you over a chronically ill child, ever. She shouldn't have needed children herself to understand that is cruel.
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Mazer 3 years ago
Recognizing your issues is tough, actively pursing a victim to apologize is next level amazing. In my experience most people who recognize their issues only poke at changing with a long stick hoping not to have to feel the sting of the reality they once chose. Kudos to the OP for stopping to give his ex-bully an opportunity to make amends. Very cool on both parties
Sue Lynn Chan 3 years ago
Sometimes people may learn from their mistakes. Saying sorry has become rare since it’s hard to say it with emotion. Not all bad people are bad. You got to know their history and their nature first
13 3 years ago
A little? F*****g bawling over here. There's not enough of these. Not nearly enough.
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Norah Reilly 3 years ago
That's how it should be; kudos to both of you for maturing beyond the hurt.
Be Your Best Self 3 years ago
That's not revenge, that's a pass. Pinning him with your car against the guard rail while you explained, as he lay there there dying in agonizing pain, how you're going to be the hero that tried to save him and then seduce his wife, take all her money and then leave her....THAT'"S revenge.
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#2
A kid that bullied me in high school ended up addicted to crack or meth, not sure which. I saw him 10 years later as I was leaving a drive through and yelled his last name. He turned and I saw the scratch marks on his face and a big burn type gash in the middle of his lip. I asked him what had happened and he told me he got kicked out of his home. Instead of laughing at him or belittling him, I handed him the bag of food I just bought for myself as well as my cigarettes. He almost cried because according to him "never in a million years would I have thought that after all the s**t I put you through, that you'd help". I told him we were stupid kids and s**t happens. I visited him once a week and just talked with him and kept telling him to get off the drugs. I moved away a short time after that so I didn't know what had happened to him.
One day, I got a friend request from him on facebook, he kicked the drug habit and was working as a barista for one of those corner coffee shops. He is now married and living a life worth living.
At the end of the day, no matter how much grief he put me through, he was his own worst enemy and anything I could've done to him or said to him was nothing compared to what he did to himself. I'm glad he's better and living a better life.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
They may have helped more than they knew. Just having someone care is a big deal. Good share.
John Smith 3 years ago
You are a bigger man than me, After the daily abuse and hell my bullies gave me. I would have left them to rot.
#3
I graduated from high school in the '80's. I had grown up poor but when my mom remarried, she married a guy who did well for himself so when we moved into his house, I was a poor kid suddenly going to a school full of rich kids. One of them in particular was a girl who was really stuck up and such a b**ch. She had a very imperious attitude and generous parents while my mom, there was no way she was going to allow us to behave that way.
About 6 years after high school graduation I'd dropped out of college, was living on my own in a tiny apartment and working as a waitress. Of all people to show up at the restaurant and be seated in my section. I asked a couple of waitresses to take the table but they were busy. Finally I realized what I would do. I would take on the role of my life. Win an Academy Award. I went to the table and pretended I'd never met her before in my life.
She kept insisting I must remember her, right? She kept saying her name and I nailed the performance. "I'm so sorry, I just don't...no...I, uh...I'm trying. I believe you, yes, I went to that school but I am SO sorry, I don't remember you" and so on.
She was flabbergasted. I kept overhearing her say to the people she was with "I can't believe she doesn't remember me."
That day I learned that to be forgotten is, for some, the ultimate slap in the face.
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
I knew a girl like this, fake self confidence, fake friends but true bully. Years after I noticed her at the supermarket, she was about to talk to me (nicely, I guess), and I ignored her. The sad look on her face made me feel bad. I never met her again. This was the day I forgave her.
K Witmer 3 years ago
I do this every time I see someone I don't want to talk to. Just pretend I don't know them even if they call my name I pretend I'm not me lol
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
I've done this. Went back to visit my folks a few years ago and ran into some kid I went to school with. I didn't recognize him, and didn't feel like talking to him anyway, so flat out insisted I'd never seen him before in my life and wasn't who he thought I was.
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Memere 3 years ago (edited)
This is exactly what I have done, but not to this extent (wish I could tho!) - I moved away & don't go back, & don't allow them into my life. I was bullied by classmates from the age of 7 thru high school. Every 5 years after graduation, I get invites to the class reunion, saying "we'd love to see you, please join us". I ignore them, no response. Such a load of crap - not one of those people have ever kept in touch with me in any way in 50 frikkin' years, so why would I want to meet up with any of them? All they want is my money to pay for their party. Not happening, ever.
Forrest McCanless 3 years ago
In the Who musical Tommy, the lyric "Forget you - better still". It is the worst you can do
Leodavinci 3 years ago
"But I don't think of you." Howard Roark's response to Ellsworth Toohey.
HighNMightyBigshot 1 year ago
LOL! Did this to a guy who blocked me on an app bc I wouldn’t go home with him. Looked right through him, it was joy!
Skulduggery Pheasant 3 years ago
Often, rich children of successful, hardworking people, are so spoilt that they end up being the complete opposite of their parents.
#4
A kid that bullied me in high school(he actually gave me a black eye once and got suspended for it) messaged me on Facebook apologizing for everything he did to me back then. I told him it's ok you were just young and didn't know better.
I eventually got a drink with him one day to see what he was up to and he broke down on me. Started talking to me about his alcohol problems and how he was self destructive. He was getting kicked out of his moms place and had no job. Me being the sap I am offered him a job at the restaurant I was managing at the time. This was about 2 years ago
Fast forward to 3 months ago he is now a kitchen manager at the same restaurant and he asks me if I'd like to get a drink with him.
Dude bought me and my girlfriend a ticket to Colorado and told me he will never be able to pay me back for how much I helped him but he is at least in the position where he can try.
Colorado was fun. Got really really high
#5
I married my bullies high school crush
Milan 3 years ago
I like this short, straight to the point posts. I wish i had all the time to read other long posts 🤷🏼♂️
RandomHumanBean 3 years ago
saaaaaaaame. i have to skip all the long ones.
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#6
Not me, but my 9 year old daughter has to deal with this girl in her class that is a bully to everyone, though she is especially mean to my daughter. Luckily most of the time, the kids all have her back (and she theirs). The teachers are aware of her issues and try their best, but she's sneaky.
My daughter is Type 1 diabetic, and this girl likes to tease her. She does lots of things, but is really mean about it. She told her that her feet will get chopped off (due to beetus) and other horrible things. One day, she was waving a big chocolate chip cookie in her face, telling her how she can't eat stuff like that because she's a freak.
My daughter had enough. She got up and slapped the girl across the face, and the cookie went flying too. She yelled "Leave me alone!" The whole lunch room went silent, the girl ran to tell the teacher, and the kids cheered.
She came home and told us because she felt badly about it. The girl told the teacher, crying of course, but several students also told the whole story. The teacher told my kid matter-of-factly, "don't do that anymore", and yelled at the girl and made her stay in from recess.
Since then, this girl gives my daughter a wide berth.
I do not condone this behavior, but damn it was hard to keep a straight face when we were telling her that it was the wrong way to resolve things.
LuckyL 3 years ago
I think in this case it was the right choice. She told her often enough to stop it, probably the teachers have told her to stop it. So at some point a slap in the face is absolutly the right choice.
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Donkey boi 3 years ago
I do condone this behaviour. Bullies belong on their a**e! That's where I always put them.
Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
I do condone this behavior. We need to stop taking children's power away and let them defend themselves to a certain degree.
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
No, violence doesn't solve everything - but it's the ONLY solution to some things.
Nunya Business 3 years ago
The visual of her slapping the bully and that cookie flying through the air made me laugh so hard!
Scagsy 3 years ago
My dad was so sick of me being miserable because of a childhood bully (age 5/6) that he offered me a crisp £1 note if I could bust his nose. I never built up the courage to follow through and claim the booty but this bully and me ended up being friends anyway, as we matured.
Christy Smith 3 years ago
I'd be bursting w/pride, and have to immediately do a high five, but that's because I am one massive petty asshole.
Lousha 3 years ago
I used to be a live in nanny to this 7 year old boy. He had a good time in his first school but after the family moved the new, really posh school was horrible. He was picked on every single day, a bunch of boys called him names all the time and actually hit, kick and pinch him, pulled his hair etc. The teacher who was a very young girl with a permanently fixed dumb smile did nothing to stop it because she didn't actually see the incidents. Of course they won't do it in front of her... So after a while the kid started hitting back and always got in trouble and was threatened to be kicked out because the school has a zero tolerance policy on violence... I was expected to keep punishing him for standing up for himself. Really hated that whole situation.
#7
After I finished high school a girl who bullied me relentlessly for years messaged me on Facebook saying a bunch of awful things (Facebook was new at the time -we all added anyone we knew).
I just screenshotted the messages and posted them to her wall.
Then a bunch of her friends messaged me asking if I was ok.
I got my revenge and didn't have to stoop to her level.
Josy Bannon 3 years ago
Taking away their power, which often is to keep their ugly side a secret.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
From what I can see, people don't seem to need to keep their ugly side a secret anymore. They actually revel in being total dickheads.
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Sidra Badar 3 years ago
Had a bully at school Worst of humanity Met on Facebook after a decade. I got my puberty glow, 2 Masters, Lecturership, Married to a handsome guy. She was still cheap Told her my achievements and blocked her
Marinella Marinova 3 years ago
There wasn't messages until 2008 actually. We all posted on each other's walls.
#8
Work place bullies count?
Worked at a place for 4 years with a backstabbing c**t viper of a bully. Would throw people under the bus, take credit for others' work etc...
Anyway, left the company for bigger better things and I'm now a lab supervisor at my new place. Guess whose resume gets plopped on my pile and went straight to the trash?
Jo Choto 3 years ago
Oh man, I would have TOTALLY brought this person in for an interview and just totally talk down to them and make them feel ridiculous.
DonS 3 years ago
Damn... that happened to me but the HR rep really want to interview her (and I knew she lied on her resume and that she was fairly incompetent). I was like the professionnal who ask the technical questions to the candidates. The face she made when she saw me... priceless. From her fake smile to immediate "doomed face". And I went and ask questions I knew she didn't have the answer for even though it was in her field of expertise.
Joey Marlin 3 years ago
Work place bullies definitely count. Mine wanted my job even before I was employed by the organisation. When I left he still didn't get it. Not even when my successor left did he get that job. For bullying me and a colleague he was given a final written warning and transferred to a different department but later had to came back and I was made his boss. He even tried using solicitor to get him out of that! His waste of money.
13 3 years ago (edited)
Why. Why straight to the trash? God you could have had so much fun with that. And yes, when it comes to bullying I am vindictive and unprofessional. It's what years of bullying has caused. That and the realisation that very few bullies change for the better unless they too hit rock bottom first. Zero hope for the human race. We are the disease.
Joseph Kastorff 3 years ago
Shoulda called her in for an interview, if only to see the look on her face and waste her time
Linda Roy 3 years ago
Hire her and make her life a living hell. If/when she complains, give her the biggest smile and say, "payback's a b***h, isnt it?"
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DragonflyGreen 3 years ago
Once, when I was interviewing for a position, I decided (after a LOT of thought) to tell the truth about why I quit a previous job. I let them know that my supervisor bullied me and tried her best to make me look like a terrible worker, even though I had proof that she had just deliberately instructed me incorrectly. Fast forward a year later - she applied for a position within the same company. I high-tailed it to the hiring manager and said "Do you remember, during my interview, when I told you why I left X job?" She said "yes, I do - I'm glad you were so forthcoming, you are doing a fantastic job here." I told her "Well, such-and-such applicant is the woman I was talking about. She would do great in the accounting department, as long as she doesn't manage anyone. If she manages someone, she is bound to do the same to them." My hiring manager laughed and said "That settles it - we won't be hiring her!" It felt so good...
#9
When I was a child, my parents weren't rich. Not impoverished, but definitely not people who could afford to throw money around. As a result, we spent probably 10 years worth of my childhood living in a mobile home park on the "rough" side of town. I remember one year we lived there, there were exactly 4 murders in the entire state. Two of them were in my neighborhood.
So in a neighborhood like this, of course, there are neighborhood bullies. One of them was named "Isiah", let's say. Over the course of a couple years, probably when I was around 13-14, he made my life hell. I couldn't go to the park playground for fear of Isiah being around, so I spent a lot of time lonely, bored, and scared in my own house. If I'd known about Reddit at the time, I probably would have spent a ton of time on it.
Fast forward damn near a decade. I've been a correctional officer at the state prison for a few years. Doing very well for myself, own a couple cars, bought my first house, and life is good. Isiah hasn't even crossed my mind since I was a kid. However, one particular day at work, they were short staffed, so they threw me into Segregation (aka "the hole", where bad inmates go to be punished) where I don't normally work. I go do a walkaround to check all the cells, and lo and behold, I see a familiar face in one of the cells. I check his inmate ID and sure enough, it's this piece of s**t from my neighborhood when I was a kid. I smiled and kept walking.
H Edwards 3 years ago
These stories are lifted from Reddit and barely edited.
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angry_waffle 3 years ago
segregation is literally torture. they have no human contact with others, nothing, for at least a day. and sometimes, the inmates aren't bad, they just annoyed a CO
Tom Lippert 3 years ago
I too had that experience. A d**k that pestered me at nco school relentlessly. I ended up A CO at Ft. Leavenworth. Who did I see? That s*****m. Murdered his wife. Down for the long haul. He made it to the show forensic files. Episode Army Of Evidence.
Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
"where bad inmates go to get punished" so you didn't do any maturing after elementary school. This attitude is why you have so many problems with repeat offenders.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Not all COs are d*cks and not all inmates are criminals. Generalizations over stuff like this is getting out of control.
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#10
Only three of them that I really know of. My elementary school bully and I eventually became close friends, and we're still close, gaming together online despite the distance, and our significant others are close friends now as well.
Another, a girl in high school who always treated me like s**t, I ran into years afterward at a coffee shop/night club/weird combo thingy. I hear my name called out, turn to find this living nightmare of my past, and was surprised when she threw her arms around me and gave me a huge hug. We caught up for a while, and I asked her why she seemed so excited despite all we went through. She apologized and said that she was a bad person for never giving people a chance, and was glad that we seemed to get along now.
The third... was a jock that had been pretty cruel through most of the middle/high school. One day, out of nowhere, he sits beside me in class during a project and starts asking me how I've been. He asks me if it hurt me when he'd call me names or push me around, and I was honest. Told him that of course, it did. He was quiet for a while and then apologized for how he'd treated me. Said that it was wrong for him to bully others.
A week later he shot himself in the head on the front lawn of his parents' house.
Of all the things I've done or not done in my life, I will always regret not going to his funeral. At the time I was confused and scared and didn't know what to think, but it still doesn't sit right with me.
So... really, no revenge here. We grew up and realized that life was way f**king scarier than anything we'd been through as kids. Not really on topic, I suppose, but something that I wanted to share.
Hugh Walter 3 years ago
Visit the grave/memorial and make your own peace, it will 'sit well' then.
Pete Simms 3 years ago (edited)
Don't let that regret bother you. You forgave him for bullying you because he was a kid, now you can forgive yourself for not going to the funeral because you were a kid.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Don't feel guilty not going to a funeral. I planned it out that I don't even have to attend my own. I avoid funerals whenever and wherever I can. Actually, I avoid all "occasions" whenever I can. LOL!
François Carré 3 years ago
Exactly on topic. Just by reading these stories I'm glad to see most of them are not really about "revenge", but more about people growing up on both sides - bullies and their victims.
kjorn 3 years ago
looks like he was trying to get excuse from all the mad thing he did in is past before going
Midoribird Aoi 3 years ago
If I were in his head (and believe me, I'm NOT, but I do suffer from depression), I would suggest he'd been brutally faced with the idea of how terrible he had once been to others, and made a point of going around, asking, and apologizing for being how he was. The validation may have sat too heavily on his mind, especially if he was already suffering from depression, and couldn't make himself forgive himself, much less convince himself that anyone could see him as having become any different from before.....sooo, if that's outlandish to you, remember that depression is the worst kind of clusterfuck rabbit hole to fall down into. In my darkest days, this is the kind of trail I'd find my mind tormenting along with....and again, I'm not that guy. And OP, you 100% did nothing wrong.
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#11
Well does revenge as a child count? When I was 11 there were two bullies who would mess with me all the time. They were a couple years older. This heavyset kid named Frank and his taller and meaner friend...I forget his name.
One day I was out riding my bike at a park. They had stopped me--one was holding up the front of my bike, while Frank was hitting me, trying to knock me off the bike.
At that exact instant my brother (6'4" 220lbs) was driving by. He quickly stopped the car and ran over.
He picked both of them up by their shirt collars, one in each hand, holding them each about a foot off the ground.
He said something like "You mess with my brother again and I'll bash both your $%$@% heads together, got it?"
He dropped them both. They fell, then quickly got up and ran away.
They never bothered me again.
At that moment I felt that, yes, there is justice in the world.
Yugan Talovich 3 years ago
My brother loved to fight. One day in the fifth grade I was walking down a street minding my own business. A junior high school boy was riding his bike the other way, crying. He saw me, circled back, and asked, Are you Peter's brother? I said yes (we looked alike). He punched me in the head, jumped back on his bike, and kept going. Kind of the inverse of your story :)
CultOfBambi 3 years ago
My bully *was* my older brother. He was a violent twat who nearly blinded me by smashing my head into a glass table when I was four, kicked me in the face so I lost a tooth -and so many other attacks over the years that I lost count. These days he keeps reaching out and no doubt wonders why I don't want to 'be friends' but since he can't even acknowledge what he did in the past was wrong I don't feel like I owe him anything. Since my parents are dead now there's no pressure to look past it for the sake of family harmony. He wanted to be an only child so badly and has finally got his wish.
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James G. Currie 3 years ago
Well, not YOUR revenge, but definitely a life lesson for those two!
#12
I worked as a newscast director for my local TV station a few years back. Part of the job was making show graphics (maps, full screens, OTS [over the shoulders], etc.) for each newscast, including for the local Crimestoppers segment. I prepped the mugshots of no less than three people who gave me s**t in school for air during my tenure there. That always managed to put a smile on my face.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
We had one guy in high school that was a prick to all the girls. A decade later, I was taking a Family Law class and saw him on the list of guys that had warrants out on them for unpaid child support.
#13
I arrested him in a stolen car. There's a video of it with me smiling the whole time.
#14
There was a popular boy in middle school who was a total douche to awkward, nerdy me. He'd call me names, talk to people within earshot of me about how ugly I was, and would try to physically hurt me during our P.E. class all the time. We went to the same high school, but I had no classes with him, so I pretty much forgot about him.
Well, a couple years after high school I ran into him at a bar. I'm a lot prettier and less awkward than I once was. He hadn't grown more than a couple inches since middle school, and the face that was cute when he was 12 did not handle the testosterone surge of puberty well. He was acting like a nervous teenager and kept saying "Wow, you really look different," while we chatted a little. He would also not shut up about how he was in the Navy and how awesome he was because he was "serving our country" and "protecting [me] from terrorists". He finally asked me for my number and I gave it to him. He texted me the next day asking me on a date and I replied "Lol, nah."
It wasn't my most shining moment of maturity, but it felt good to look down on that little bastard both literally and figuratively.
Scagsy 3 years ago
To give him hope before cruelly smashing it to pieces. Mwahahahahaaaaa!
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Christina Rosetti 3 years ago
I was super nerdy and unpopular in high school. A lot of people used to cheat off of me during tests and I was too meek to say anything about it. At our 10 year hs reunion Michael (who cheated off me a LOT) asks me who my date is (assuming I'm there as his classmate's date);and starts hitting on me. He had no idea who I was. I was so irate. I snapped back, "I'm the only reason you passed science and math for two years!" He started at my nametag for a while but still had zero recollection of me and he said, "So, can I buy you a drink anyway?" I just glared at him and walked away because I didn't want to ruin my dress by dumping my drink on him.
Christy Smith 3 years ago
Not your finest moment? LOL, it was petty as hell ... in other words, it was awesome.
#15
I forgot about them.
#16
I refused him a job at the company I worked at. Arrogant in middle school, arrogant at the interview, arrogant at leaving said interview without the job.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
He'll apply for social benefits with that same arrogance and without a dime to spend he'll continue being arrogant.
yeciye 3 years ago (edited)
And then he’ll get an arrogant wife, have arrogant kids and the whole cycle repeats. Arrogant people… (to be clear, this is sarcasm; perhaps he’ll grow out of it)
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I was heavily bullied in Middle School, and one time I actually ended up getting my knee cap, and surrounding muscles semi-permanently damaged from a piss-poor game of kickball. He couldn't hit me in the head with the ball like he wanted to, so he tripped me by a base instead. The following year, he tried to sexually attack me - IN SCHOOL - and got suspended for the rest of the year. Now, he's only 20, In prison for probably 20-30+ years for r*pe, arson, and theft - and has had I believe two children. His now ex, made a post on facebook that members from the prison manage to tattoo r*pist across his face. My revenge was done for me. Bittersweet.
Melissa Boatman Linebaugh 3 years ago
I think that the post is a little unclear, but my guess is he was actually forcibly tattooed as a rapist. Inmates detest rapists, pedophiles, and what they consider snitches. Being publicly labeled a rapist will ensure that he will never have a quiet night of rest or be able to shower in peace.
Melissa Boatman Linebaugh 3 years ago
Actually, maybe that was clear to everyone? Took me a minute so I wasn’t sure if anybody else got it too. But maybe it was just me.
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James G. Currie 3 years ago
And it's a revenge that will continue to burn for the rest of his term, and/or life... The only thing that cons hate more than a rapist is a molester! His life is garbage from the point that prison tat appeared!
#18
There was a guy who was popular but also a bully at my high school. I ran into him at a bar about 15 years after. He was super cool and the nicest guy ever.
I was talking with his wife and I mentioned the "bully" thing and she said EVERYONE she meets from his High school tells her that story. He even acknowledged it and apologized. Apparently he was going through a very rough time in high school and he had since learned a lot and life had calmed way down. It made me feel really good about not holding on to things like that.
Spittnimage 3 years ago
They always have an excuse for why they bullied people, but the real reason is just because they're mean.
James G. Currie 3 years ago
Or scared, or incapable of dealing with things in their lives and lashing out to feel better. Or, simply because they are cowards, and trying to prove they are not... Lots of reasons, some more valid than others, but can never outweigh the damage they can do. But, yes... for some, they are bullies, just because they are "Little Sh_ts."
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#19
I was pretty fat as youngster but people still found me attractive, this bothered my bully SO much that any time she could she would bully me about my weight ex. "Oh I love those jeans! How do you find them in your size?", taking sneak pictures of me in class and putting them online, or forcing me to kiss another girl at her sleepover then telling everyone I was a lesbian, It was great. Fast forward ten years, I'm starting a career I love, lost a substantial amount of weight and am living far away from my small town upbringing. I go home to visit my mother and who do I see walking around the grocery store, hair thrown up in a ratty headband, extra ~30 pounds on her hips and looking like a complete mess? I knew I could ruin her right there but I didn't, I simply put a big smile on my face and said "wow, motherhood looks great on you!!!". The fact that she had to trick someone into getting her pregnant after a drunken night at the local watering hole and now has four step kids before 25 makes me realize that her bitterness and hateful attitude has served her more revenge than I ever could.
Jacob Nunez 3 years ago
“HEY! DONT YOU GO BITCHING ABOUT LESBIANS THERE F*****G COOL” -me to the bully-
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
Hahah I used to get that a lot and every one of those bullies who called me ugly and baby elephant etc are feral welfare bleeding baby makers (you know the kind). I’d still not have the balls though to be as cool as this though and say that if I saw one 😆
April Stephens 3 years ago (edited)
Nothing like the classic grocery store run-in with an acquaintance. It always feels so surprising, even if it's not actually that big of a coincidence, to recognize someone outside of their "natural habitat" where you usually would see them!
Kelsey Hayes 3 years ago
I had a bully in high school who use to call me anorexic because I had a thigh gap. It was ridiculous because she'd see me eating all the time. I eat more than I did now than in hs and still have a thigh gap. I guess she went into sex work and has a bunch of kids with different dads.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
A lot of small towns this is very common. You're outcasted completely if you don't go. I only went sometimes and eventually only had a VERY small friend group. My crazy mom had a lot to do with it. I became an introvert and loner. Yea, it sounds messed up but the OP mentioning small towns life leads me to believe this is the reason why.
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#20
I bullied a kid in grade school because the cool kids in the grade above did it. Every day they'd do it. One day I decided to. On the way home from school, I knocked him down, threw his books, etc. I did this a couple of times. Then one day, I saw his mom waiting at the top of the hill for him. I felt so ashamed that I never did it to anyone ever again, and made a point to prevent it when I could.
I apologized to him years later. He was very well off and had a hot wife, which made me feel slightly better. He was cool with it but I would have been ok if he told me to f**k off.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
You were trying to be cool, and having done the deeds, you regretted it. You tried bullying behavior, but failed. You weren't a true bully in the literal sense.
Susan Alderson 3 years ago
I remember mimicking a girl at camp who had a speech impediment. The look the adult in the room gave me shamed me so I never did anything like that again. Glad I learned empathy at an early age.
H Edwards 3 years ago
Uh...you didn't keep it to yourself though? I don't love it when men objectify women, but calling someone hot is pretty mild.
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My bully hit on me at some bar years after he bullied me
I knew who he was immediately. But he had no idea who I was so he kept going.
Finally, I asked "do you know who I am?" And he said no. I said "I'm (so and so) and you made my life a living hell in elementary school and I want an apology"
His face dropped and he apologized profusely. Said that he was a huge a**hole in elementary school etc etc.
Not gonna lie, it felt goooood.
Dodo 3 years ago
Winona Ryder did this. Not being hit on but some girl who'd bullied her in school was fawning over her after she became famous. Winona just said 'you remember that kid you stuffed in a locker? That was me.'
aaaggg hhh 3 years ago
Not gonna lie, you got playyyyyed. Bullies always pull that same old story when they get caught years later. But they're still bullies. Just that they can't get away with the same sort of abuse in adulthood like they did as kids because they'd end up in jail instead of the school principal looking the other way.
Eleanor Ashby 3 years ago (edited)
A girl who pretended to be my friend tricked me by saying she was sick with AIDS and had given it to me at the school camp. I spent a sleepless, nightmarish night on the couch with the teachers, f****d up for the next 3+ days. At the 10 year school reunion I confronted her about it, and she said she couldn’t remember. I roasted her, telling the story from my perspective, til she was grovelling and asking for my forgiveness as a Christian. The wheel turned full circle, but I may have gone too far… I’m feeling guilty now.
#22
Turns out I was the bully. I felt terrible when I found out, everyone I picked on I had considered a friend. I thought of it as good natured ribbing and making fun of each other. One guy finally got his revenge when he told me I was the bully in high school and saw the realization come over my face. He forgave me, I still apologize to people as I run into them.
Mazer 3 years ago
There is a big difference between fun banter and being a bully by mean teasing.
Dodo 3 years ago
Not always. I consider myself to have been a bullied child. In my "friend" group all through school, I was the butt of the jokes, they'd point out the way I spoke or continually bring up the things I'd done that amused them. You ask any of them and I'm sure they'll say we were friends... Maybe to some people it would have been fun banter, but I had issues that meant I took it all hard.
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KatHat 3 years ago
This is a good reminder that the style of "joking" that relies on mean comments and "sarcasm" is usually not as funny as the person thinks it is, and often not funny at all. Be cautious using it, even if you think it means "we're all friends here" or "I only pick on you when I like you". It can still make people feel sh*tty.
Jeff Striks 3 years ago
This happened to me. Long story short what I thought was either playful banter or simply defending myself was actually incredibly toxic, bullying behavior that I learned from my family. They've normalized it for themselves and normalized it for my. I genuinely didn't know the difference. I've managed to rebuild several friendships since my fiance helped me get through it
Aliquid 3 years ago (edited)
There is a bit of irony in all the people trash talking this guy for not understanding this as a kid... being oblivious to how others felt. Yet when you say this, you are lacking empathy, and being oblivious to the fact that some people think and feel differently than YOU (i.e. just because it would be obvious to you that names hurt, it doesn't mean it was obvious to HIM). As a kid, nothing bothered me. People could insult the heck out of me and I would just laugh and say "Is that all you got? You forgot to make fun of my teeth". I don't know why, but it just didn't bother me, I was clueless and oblivious to the fact that some people were actually trying to be cruel and not just joking around. Being a self absorbed child, I figured that if I could easily laugh when insulted, others could too... and those that didn't were just being overly dramatic. It wasn't until I grew up that I stepped back and realized that other people think and feel and respond to things differently than I do. (which shows how the "do unto others" thing is BS when you think about it)
Tara Raay 3 years ago
Or because he was just an asshole as child… Some people are just truly bad, they enjoy hurting others. It’s what makes them happy.
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Being a confident, successful adult.
Just kidding, I'm faking it like the rest of you.
James G. Currie 3 years ago
As long as the bully doesn't know, that counts as a successful revenge! :)
#24
My best revenge was to just keep on being myself. This girl in high school would criticize me on everything, call me names and pick up fights with me for no reason. She eventually got kicked out of school.
We met when we were in our early 20's. She started off nicely with the usual "how are you? What's been happening?" Turns out she hadn't even changed a little bit "oh yeah? Want to be a teacher? You'll probably make a miserable one! I wouldn't send me kids to your school! Ever!" That's when I realized that I was just so over her and her bullying and that there was just no hope for her to realize what she did was wrong. It gave me some sort of satisfaction....
Lyn Moffett 3 years ago
I know the majority of people blame bullying on the bullies home life etc IF they do have shitty parents or whatever that is NO reason to make others feel small or devalued. I don't also know they are hurting and feel the need to hurt others to make themselves feel better. That is no excuse I personally think that circumstances are not always to blame that some people just enjoy making others miserable.
Tara Raay 3 years ago (edited)
YES! So many people want to blame parents or mental illness. Some people are truly bad people! They know what they are doing is wrong and enjoy doing it. It’s absolute bullshit, but it’s the truth.
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Dina Simoné 3 years ago
If there is no hope that she can acknowledge her wrongdoings, how do you gain satisfaction from that? I understand that you can pity people who are not capable of evolving, (and I respect that mindset) but there is no justice or satisfactory ending.
adiiantryx 3 years ago
well OP got over her insecurity of believing what the bully said by realising that she didn't really care enough about her. We often listen to criticism from those who we think (but not necessarily always do) matter, so once you realise that they don't matter, you don't care anymore
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It's sad really. She was obviously a very unhappy person, and anything she ever said or did was only going to make her more unhappy. I hope she gets the therapy she needs in order to make the attempt at enjoying life a bit.
#25
I was bullied in my mid school with the cafeteria chefs son he would bother me for being muslim and sometimes throw pork on my face . I've gon to my homecountry and returned after 15 years turns out his parents died in an accident and he is now helping kids in a syrian camp I helped him in financial situations we're friends now
#26
Not my bully, but my best friend's. Kinda kept in touch with the entire high school class through Facebook once it came out. This a**hat asks if he can use me as a reference because we got similar degrees and ended up in the second field.
Adult him seems like a sham. It's all fake. My high school best friend moved to Europe because of this guy. He can't change that much. So I agree to meet him for drinks and see if he changed. 10 minutes into the meetup and he's telling me about cheating on his wife with girls right out of high school.
So, of course, I said yes. Only had 3 calls I guess before he caught on, but I made sure I told the truth. :)
H Edwards 3 years ago
He met the guy, realised he was still a jerk. Agreed to be the jerk's referee, but gave bad references to the people who called. Jerk caught on after 3 calls and stopped giving his number as a reference.
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#27
I never really got revenge but worked my arse off at uni and ended up working on movies, got married, had a kid and have my own house so that was revenge enough. That he didn't dictate my life.
I then found out that he was a school counsellor for unruly children and thought to myself, "he's turned his life around... Good for him"
Lp Johnson 3 years ago
Maybe. Although the vast majority enter such Serving fields to genuinely help, there are some who only have found new vulnerable people to exert power over.
Lisa Casserly 3 years ago
Its good to see that he had some kind of epiphany moment, and got his life right. And, they say that living well is the best revenge.
#28
I forgave him.
He tormented me throughout elementary school. He ended up sending me a message on Facebook about 2 years ago (we graduated high school in 2010), he apologized profusely and I genuinely believed him.
He's actually quite successful now and I'm really happy for him.
#29
Telling him he missed a spot when drying my car.
t-Grex 3 years ago
that joke shoulda made like a tree and get out of here
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#30
We became best friends.. Now we bully each other on a routinely basis
Scipio Africanus 3 years ago
True friendship is bullying(not really) each other all of the time
Béla Kun 3 years ago
My problem is that this is what is actually shown in tv shows and on the internet, and I never could understand that. Like in It's always sunny in Philadelphia, that show made me very uncomfortable and I could not understand how those characters would ever speak to each let alone stay best friends, and a lot of comedy TV show does that.
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lunar eclipse 3 years ago
Hahaha!! Me and my now best friend used to dislike one another. We both thought the other was a weirdo and avoided eachother
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
funny in middle school my best friend routinely criticized me and put me down. It was only for a few years, I think we were both true "square pegs" and it just made her better to dump on me. Being a military brat, that ended after I moved. Decades later she tried to get ahold of me via my sister and I told my sister to tell her not to bother. As I grew older the incidents where I was the butt or the goat or the stooge for her and the friends she aspired to have really started to add up. What's sad is that I turned down a position on the school paper that the teacher came after me to take, but I was so tied up in the mess of toxic friendship. gah.
bxttery_bxby 3 years ago
Y'all this reminds me so much of my own story. But, in this case, I was the bully. My best friend at the time didn't like my current best friend and she bullied her, while I did nothing to stop it. When the old best friend moved, I told the current one that I was sorry and I wanted her to be my new best friend (we were in like, fourth grade) Fast forward 6 years and we are such close friends that people think we are dating. Even though I've moved away and I go to a different school, we still talk all the time and we even almost actually dated before I chickened out. I love her so much.
cb !!! 3 years ago
i was tormented in middle school, and i got really sensitive to insults until i met my high school best friend. it's nice to know that the teasing finally comes from a place of love than from hate. she hasn't stopped teasing me about my celebrity crushes for years and years and i'll never quit teasing her about going through one of those embarrassing band phases when we first met.
#31
Not really a bully, but my turd-scum of an ex-girlfriend. She broke up with me after coming back from a trip and telling me at school the next day she cheated on me with some random dude she met online. We're both 21+ now, and she's got a three-year-old kid and still lives with her mother. Last month, I was at a Kroger buying flowers for my current gf (she's f**king amazing btw) and turd-scum is with her non-baby daddy boyfriend. The dude looks at me walking down the aisle with a nice bouquet of flowers and says "Hey maybe I should buy you some flowers like that guy is doing for his girl!" The look of utter shock and disdain on her face was f**king PRICELESS. Walked by her with the biggest smirk on my face. The best part was I was all fancied up cause I was about to surprise my gf with a date night. So I'm dressed in a polo and slacks, and turd-sh**'s chimney choker has his pants around his thighs and looks like he hadn't bathed in a week. So satisfying.
Dodo 3 years ago
Reverse the genders and tell me you'd say the same thing.
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Not direct revenge, but pretty satisfying just the same. I was pretty fugly in middle school and most of the high school. In middle school especially, these two a**hats used to pick on me - they'd push me around, sneak up behind me, and screech in my ear. Typical middle school bulls**t. The worst thing, though, was just after our sex ed class one day. We had been discussing ways to prevent r*pe. On my way out the door after class ended, I overheard them saying, "at least bkiddo22 will never have to worry about being r*ped haha". It was like a double whammy to me - not only were they joking about the prospect of me being r*ped, they were in the same breath joking about how ugly I was. I hated them so much. Fast forward to the past few years, and one of them is in jail for the third time for petty theft, while the other one has 3 different kids, none of which he wanted, and is living in a trailer. I feel bad for the gf and kids, but not for him.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
We had a guy in school that Cerebral Palsy. He was a nice guy and was always chatty with all the girls. One day, the school bully thought it would be funny to shove him so he'd fall. The bully never got the chance to laugh as at least 10 girls beat the living crap out of him for tripping him. He walked around the school with a black eye for days after. None of the girls got in trouble because no one would rat them out...probably because most of them had been victims as well. He never picked on anyone after that.
Fat Harry 3 years ago
I wonder if she means "3 kids with different women"?
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Hit a game winning home run off him to win our little league championship game. It was 20 years ago and still top 3 greatest moments of my life.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
I had a girl that bullied me. We were playing baseball during PE. She hit a line drive straight to me and, surprisingly, I caught it back handed and she was out. I think it surprised everyone else too. Especially since she played for the High School Softball team.
#34
Aged 22-ish, I was working as a clerk at the local Jobcentre (Employment office; i'm in the UK). I got to see two of my ex-bullies come through as customers. The first one even had a baby in-tow, with no sign of a partner. I didn't say as much as I word, never did anything about it, was always polite and respectful... but seeing them avoiding my eyes and pretending they didn't recognise me was about as sweet as can be.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Letting go of all the opportunities to rub it in? "So what's your education? " "Hey, that's funny. Looks like we were class mates... I don't remember you though..."
#35
I got bullied pretty badly in middle school, mostly the topic of abuse that I'm a guy that plays the flute, sometimes other things, but mostly the flute. I'm not really into revenge, it's petty and doesn't really get anything done. However what I did get to do was hang out with a whole bunch of chicks 5 hours a day for marching band in high school. Revenge no, but I certainly was not gay like the bullies implied. Which honestly if I were why would it matter.
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
It matters to people if they get talked s**t about. Gay isn’t the problem, being subjected to bullying is.
Jacob Nunez 3 years ago
Why would it, you hung out with the opposite sex enough of a win for gay me
Carol Emory 3 years ago
My husband was in drama in high school. He was a big guy and didn't really get dates, but he always hung out with the girls and they would always unload on him about how horrible their boyfriends were. He said that one of the girls felt so comfortable around him, she did a full undress change of clothes in front of him without realizing it. He said that the boyfriends thought he was trying to steal the girls away and even challenged him into fights over it..but he refused to fight them. I was the lucky girl who saw him for the kind person and loving husband that he is. You missed out girls..should have been paying more attention to his qualities in high school.
#36
We ended up fighting in front of a crowd. I beat him and he stopped being a jacka** bully to everyone after that.
Nunya Business 3 years ago
Sometimes a good ass whooping is the only way to get your point across.
#37
They got a huge full back tattoo - the ugliest tattoo I have ever seen. I saved the jpeg on my desktop and named it REVENGE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH and I look at it occasionally if I get sad.
#38
When I was 13-15 years old, I was bullied a lot by the boys in my class for being flat chested. I didn't even fit into a AA cup bra and they made me aware of that by calling me names/calling me a boy/calling me ugly etc. Then something magical happened between ages 16-18, and when I turned 20 had E cups. Hormones are the best revenge.
GoodWolf 3 years ago
I was insecure about my small chest for years and years into my adult life because of mean comments, media, you know. I didn't magically grow E-cups, but just imagine - it doesn't matter. At all! Some like it, some don't and I never have to wear a bra :)
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
I'm jealous. I was a C/D cup before I had kids and had some really bad back problems from it. Now that I've had kids and am middle aged I'm down to B/C cup (I'm always inbetween sizes) and wearing a snug fitting sports bra takes care of a lot of it. I wish I didn't need the bra- that'd be freaking awesome!! People are ignorant, you're perfect.
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Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Oh E cups are not fun either. Huge boobs may attract men but they hurt your back, they are hard to find bras for ( and to say nothing of any shirt with buttons), make exercise difficult and then droop. I actually wish I had a much smaller chest. Would make my life easier.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Had a friend that was the opposite. She had D cups in the 6th grade. Boys teased her all the time saying she was hiding soccer balls. It stopped after she punched one of the boys in the mouth knocking out a front tooth and cutting her hand. She never went to our middle school. I think her parents transferred her to another district.
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
Would have liked to read: suddenly found my tiny boobs really cool and to this day enjoy all the pros of them. But, hey, enjoy whatever boobs you have now!
Jacob Nunez 3 years ago
Hey just remember (I’m probably gonna get downvoted a lot but f**k it) “every size makes my wood rise” (sorry)
#39
I have tourette's syndrome and was bullied relentlessly in early grade school. One day in the winter I had had enough, so I threw a jagged block of ice at my bully's face. Knocked some teeth out and he needed stitches. I almost got expelled. Worth it.
#40
Bumped into him at a bar. He apologised for bullying me. I didn't remember him
#41
There was a fat a** that always use to bully me in high school. He was bigger than everyone else so he would use that to his advantage to intimidate people. He would bully me and pretty much anyone who he thought he could get away with. Fast forward to a couple of months ago... I see him on Facebook. Fatter and balder than before. Which, that itself made me happy. :) But I see him posting on his FB wall about his new job and trying to solicit business. Scrolling down his posts I see that he is constantly posting political bs along with filthy language etc. So, I emailed his company with a link to his FB page and said that I was offended and would not do business with a company that has employees like that. A couple days later I see that under his "workplace" section on the about page was blank. I think I got him fired. Not gonna lie, feels good.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 3 years ago
Dude advertised the company he was working for on FB and used the platform to solicit business. He also published political views and language that a company would, presumably, find offensive in someone representing the company. I'm not sure why everyone thinks this is an over reach or outrageous. Of course, I also don't get why people film themselves committing crimes, post them on social media and then wonder why they got caught either. They are both 2 peas in the same pod as far as I'm concerned.
Memere 3 years ago
I agree, 100%! As the old saying goes, "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime". The bully's alligator mouth got his rat's ass wiped out, lol. (another saying from 'back in the day')
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The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
The way you refer to him as a fat a** makes me think that bullying was not all one way.
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
So he bullied you as a kid and had different political views, so you blackmailed his company who were stupid enough to fire him over something that wasn't work-related? The world today, my God!
Sean Glynn 3 years ago
Just playing devils advocate here, but perhaps it wasn't blackmail as much as informung the company of their employees foul language and possibly disturbing political views, and the fact that it WAS work related because the op stated that the bully had posted information about his job and was trying to drum up business on his foul-language filled social media. It sounds more like they informed the company about their name being associated with this guy and the company decided to take action.
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#42
Cup final. He was in net for opposing team. Scored a goal past him from 30 yards out. Ran past him celebrating looking him straight in the eye.
#43
Not so much revenge, but I got an insane amount of satisfaction from seeing that they all lived up to the expectations set out for them to become single, unwed mothers by 24.
Bernice O'Leary 3 years ago
why is being a single mother a bad thing...? sounds like the women failed and that's why they are single...
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
If it's not by choice, then it's probably not a good thing, I'd imagine.
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ChariotLee 3 years ago
Some girl I couldn't stand because of her ridiculously poor life choices got married at 18 and was divorced at 20. No surprise to me, her family, or literally anyone who knew her.
#44
Living well truly is the best revenge
#45
moving away from the rather depressing town and making a relative success of my life. Suck it, kid who hasn't thought about me for 20 years.
#46
I was bullied for a lot of things, primarily for being overweight and being nerdy. A lot of my bullies are now also fat, or have noticeably put on weight, while I've started losing. One of them is a drug addict. One was arrested on child pornography charges. One is in an on-going custody battle and his ex's family are rather...violent. Others just made bad moral choices, such as becoming a gold-digger, drinking regularly, or just continuing to harbour ill feelings against me.
#47
Me and 2 friends peed in a balloon and bombed him outside school. He didn't touch us again.
#48
I have not taken revenge at all, I have moved away and left it behind as much as I could. Now I just watch him waste his life from afar with a content smile and see how not having education is kicking his ass, he is losing friends and eventually will end up alone. Not that my life is so amazing, but I am doing better than him.
#49
I witnessed her husband cheating on her. The revenge bit is that now I look down on her facebook posts of "how happy they are"..
Mamabear76 3 years ago
This is exactly like what happened to a friend turned bully that I dealt with. We were very close for years and then she turned on me, we were both dealing with some bad stuff in our lives, she turned on me to take the light off of herself, anyways she and another so called friend made my life hell at work to the point that I quit a job I loved. Well her husband is a cop and cheats on her every chance he gets. He even tried to start something up with me and I was very tempted at the time, but did not follow through. Just seeing her "I have the best husband" BS on Facebook over the years gives me peace of mind knowing that her husband basically screws anyone he can behind her back is satisfying enough. Here's looking at you, Nicole!
#50
Got taller than him. Got better looking than him. Got in better shape than him. Got overall bigger than him and trained in MMA for 2 years to learn how to fight. Have a hotter wife than him. Make a lot more money than him. Best revenge is doing well for yourself.
Dodo 3 years ago
How? If it's all true, those are benchmarks of success in Western society.
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#51
Guy who bullied me in middle school, had his full ride sports scholarship taken away for looking at porn on his phone.
Davo gifman 3 years ago
Lost a scholarship for looking at porn? What kind of porn; child porn?
#52
Girl I played travel fastpitch softball with used to bully me and another girl for being tomboys and being nerdy. She was a talented pitcher from a hick town who thought she shat gold but her personality was 100 % grade A s**t all the way through. Plus she thought she was hot when in reality she was a fish-eyed horse face. She ended up going to a D1 school, acted like she always did, got kicked out, and then went to a new school to start over again. Did this a few times until she wore her welcome out everywhere. Last time I heard she was living in the same town that thought she was hot s**t with a boyfriend who isn't going anywhere either. Meanwhile, I'm a consultant making bank and my other friend is now in vet school. We got our revenge by being better people and kinder souls.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Referring to someone as a fish eyed horse face isn't terribly kind.
James Tartaglione 3 years ago
not going to lie, the fish-eyed horse face made me spit my drink
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Writer of this doesn't sound like a kind soul at all. She sounds like a bitch.
#54
I had my bullies approach me on Bonfire Night when I was about 17. They came and said how sorry they were that they made school horrible for me etc. I told them to go f**k themselves. I persevered and became quite popular in school while they faded into obscurity for being d**ks.
#55
I didn't, the universe did. It wasn't exactly protracted enough or abusive enough to be called bullying, but: when I was 11, I had a friend I went around with and she tried to introduce me to her larger circle of friends. This one girl who was basically the alpha female would not stop ripping on me for not being cool enough. She threw fits about how 'f**king uncool' I was because I went to drama class instead of other, 'cooler' hobbies. She went on and on about how I was uncool because I didn't go to the same cafe they went to. Fast forward a few years, she ended up a teenage mother.
#56
The girl who was cruel to me at every opportunity? Her husband cheated on her and they're divorced. Ordinarily I'd feel badly for someone in this situation, but she was so unbelievably nasty, it just makes me laugh.
#57
Going to college. He lives in the bad trailer park in town and has been arrested for a robbery last year
#58
I gave him decaf latte before he left to go to his high powered Wall st exec job, haha, he's going to be tired around 11!
#59
I wasn't really bullied growing up by the way, but I do have a story. Guy who bullied my cousin and even brainwashed his then-girlfriend and turned her against him was paralyzed from the neck down in an accident and will never have use of his body again. My cousin told him right to his face that he got what he deserved.
Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
Complete lack of humanity. Forgiveness is the most important aspect of a persons character and this illustrates why.
#60
I was only bullied once by one guy In a one off ocasion. Its ok though I stuck it to him when I bought Megaman 5 from him for only $10 in 2002.... Now that s**t is worth BANK
#61
Living the good life - all of my bullies are losers now, the kind of people they would bully actually. I think seeing me forces them to see that, making them even sadder and more pathetic. So the real answer is living the good life and being a smug a**hole.
Nunya Business 3 years ago
I think you give yourself WAY too much credit. When they see you they probably don't even give you a second thought . . . But believe what makes you feel good because you are your number one priority and they aren't your problem anymore.
#62
He became a traffic cop. I work for a very high end auto OEM. Went home the other week with a very flashy car and guess who is working the inspection sticker check point? We didn't acknowledge each other but I know he recognized me. He looked pissed. I was pretty happy about the whole thing. He even had to pull me too the side because the way we register our cars they don't have inspection stickers.
#63
She tortured me for years as a teen. Even broke my nose at one point. We moved away when I was 16. I stayed in touch with one friend and her family. The bully ended up marrying my friends brother. Years later, my friend gets married in Vegas and her whole family is there. Including her brother .... minus his wife (my bully) Yup. F**ked the snot out of my bullys husband. The next day, we did a group photo at the "Wee chapel of Love" and I sat right next to him, leaning towards him, with a giant grin on my face. That pic is on display in three family homes. I love, love, love that she sees it whenever she visits.
Amanda Nolting 3 years ago
Ah yes. She bullied you so you became a homewrecking whore. Good on you.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Acting like a prostitute and being proud of it to get revenge on a bully is what I would call a pyrrhic victory.
Amanda Nolting 3 years ago
Lol at least as a prostitute she'd have gotten paid. No no, she slept with him and got "revenge".
Load More Replies... Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago (edited)
Garbage human! You stooped to her trashy, unethical level. Instead of anyone learning and growing she gave it up to feel a warped sense of vindication.
#64
So I have a friend who sometimes "catches up" with my high school bully and gets his new number. My friend gives me his number and then I spend the afternoon signing him up for gay dating sights and some weird craigslist s**t. I'm told he has had to change numbers about 20-30 times in the last 3 years.
smugdruggler 3 years ago
Yeah, this. Swapping places with them is nothing to be proud of.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Using anything gay as a negative is pretty homophobic. Pretty childish and ugly.
#65
My sister's bully was on cheerleading with her and constantly bullied sis. She was one of the shorties so she got tossed in the air, sis was short too but a bit bigger so cheerleader was always on about that.
One day at practice when she came down and they didn't catch her. Broke her neck and paralyzed her from there down. Sis went to visit once after, and she still tried to bully her over being chubby. Still. Sis told her to enjoy being a talking head and quit cheer.
Ember 3 years ago
These ‘Victims’ end up being cruel bullies themselves but don’t see it. What a very sad situation.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Do you really expect that victims of bullying show compassion and empathy towards the persons that made their life a living hell? Young people commit suicide because of bullying. Do bullies ever show compassion and empathy towards their victims? Perhaps years later, when the damage has already been done and the victims still have the scars.
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Tami 3 years ago (edited)
Yikes. My best friend in junior high was bullied by a girl who thought she was really hot s**t and gave my friend a hard time for being rather dowdy looking. Then the bully stopped coming to school one day. When she came back a few months later we saw that her face was disfigured with scars and learned she'd been in a terrible car accident. She was nicer after that. Funny how things work sometimes.
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
Jesus, there is contentment in simple revenge and then there is "I'm glad that your a paraplegic and that your life will now be an eternal struggle."
Load More Replies... Nunya Business 3 years ago
I like the feel good stories better. Some of these people are horrible human beings.
#66
Was bullied from elementary to high school by an increasing amount of students only due to ones opinion, it started small and ended up by me in my grade 10 trying to end it all.. got things resolved and 3 years outa highschool now I am friends with (not all) most of them and the majority of them have apologized for being so quick to judge without getting to know me. Idk what it is but most people get a bad rep on me for no reason then when they know more about me over time we become friends. Currently own my own business now as of recently and sold two cars to people who still hate me for no absolute reason, I made sure to install a hidden toggle switch that will turn the right or left blinker on an off, he recently got a ticket and b**ched about it all over fb about how cops are jerks. No harm no foul just 90$ outa his pocket and more in mine when he brings it back to get "fixed".
Fat Harry 3 years ago
And if he decides to go to a different garage, they'll find it.
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Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
Calling BS - this isn’t a story about bully revenge. It’s flex on knowing about shady toggle switches for car lights?????
#67
I was about 10 when this neighborhood a**hole tortured me... The final straw was when he took a down powerline and whipped me in the back with it while I skated by him rollerblading. He left welts and it hurt for days.
About a week later I biked to his house knowing his parents were at work still, so it was just him and his sister's home.
He had archery set up in his backyard and I took his bow and arrows. I waited behind a tree until he got outside and shot that little motherf**ker with his own s**t right in his chest and then went for his face. While he was doubled over I kicked him and spit on him and told him if he ever came near me again I'd kill him. And I meant it. With every fiber of my 10-year-old being.
After the day I knew what I was capable of and was never afraid of anyone again.
His parents came to my house and talked to my grandpa who knew what was going on and held it down for me, I didn't get in trouble for it.
As an adult, I obviously handle conflicts differently but that is my best bully revenge story.
Suutashi 3 years ago (edited)
😨 Someone please tell me this child used blunted practice arrows, otherwise he could have killed that other kid. Edit: I just checked the Reddit post, and holy crap, he's claiming to have used real arrows to shoot his bully. That's taking things way too far.
Nunya Business 3 years ago
Yes, and I can assure you he was not whipped by a "downed powerline".
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Kaspar Kristiansen 3 years ago
Even though bullying is never okay, it's easier to forgive when it's children. They can still grow and learn, as evidenced by several examples above. Adults should know better, and bullying as an adult shows the real personality of the bully.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Didn't get revenge but made peace with one of my bullies. I worked as an insurance rep for a company that provides insurance to banks to cover uninsured motorists for loans. I had one client whose name I recognized as a bully from elementary school. I called her about her insurance and then asked if she was the same person. When she said yes and I told her who I was, she apologized for treating me so badly and then commented how her jaw hurt for 2 days after she tried to fight me and I clocked her in the jaw when we were 10 years old. We had a good conversation and we parted ways. It felt so good to get that closure. I wish more bullies would do that. Most just shrug off and say "We were kids, no biggie." Not to you maybe, but it was to me. Apologies go a long way in mending old scars. I have a new respect for her now.
H Moore 3 years ago
Well nothing terrible happened to my bully, they never apologised, didn't have a bad life and karma is bulls***t
Lsai Aeon 3 years ago
One day not all that long ago, I was at a convenience store, just grabbing a drink and a snack. I stepped back from the soda fountain and literally bumped into a very solid person. I turn around to apologize and immediately recognize one of the many that bullied me relentlessly from 6th grade up, who is now a cop. I cold clocked him. It took him a good minute to react and realize who I was. He smiled, apologized, and said "I deserve a hell of a lot more than that, seriously, not only am I sorry for standing too close just now but for all the sh*t I did to you, let me at least buy your snacks" So yeah, I cold clocked a cop and got away with it.
Kyndal T 3 years ago
A group of girls attacked me, high school. Because I was pregnant. Slammed my head into a locker and kept hitting and pushing me. Miscarriage. Shocker right? Few years later, one of the ring leaders gets a job where I work. I mention to one of my older coworkers that I might quit because of it and she asks what happened with that girl. This coworker was nice to me so I told her in great detail. The notes in my locker. Threatening texts. Rumors they started. The miscarriage. She got really pale. Then I joked that it was just because I couldn't afford an abortion every few months like she could. This girl bragged about getting abortions all the time and her rich dad. Coworker got real pale and then we left work. Next day, that girl apologized and cried a bunch. That was her mom. I accepted her apology but when she wanted to be friends? I told her that I would accept she was sorry but never forgive her. I married that boy who knocked me up and we've been together 14 years next month.
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 3 years ago
Played in the band in High School and a specific bunch of guys liked to bully me about it. Beat me up once in a while. Viet Nam war came along, and I played Rock & Roll with the Navy Band. Two of the bullies went to Viet Nam and died.
deathrose 3 years ago
I was accused of being a bully once whole in high school. I had heard a rumor about a girl in my class being pregnant. After sitting on that for a couple minutes I decided to tell the girl that this rumor was out there. I figured that since I would want to know if there was a rumor about me that she would like to know also. Nope, she accused me of being a bully and told a teacher. I clear everything up with the teacher and admin pretty quickly without having to get my parents involved because I was a good kid.
Reynard 3 years ago
Fùck bullies. I don't care about some of these stories of 'redemption', they leave lasting scars on their victims. I was relentlessly bullied when I was young and it messed me up. I've gone through years of therapy because of them. They robbed me of my childhood, took away my self esteem and my security. Years later I'm still trying to recuperate those things. My life is a struggle with anxiety, depression, and PTSD because of these a55holes. There is no excuse for physical and emotional torture. If I read an obituary of one of my bullies, I'd celebrate.
KombatBunni 3 years ago
I had one of my bullies send me a message on facebook to apologise for what she did. I just said it was too late and to f*ck off, then blocked her. I’d join you celebrating if I read that any of mine had died too.
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Kaspar Kristiansen 3 years ago
Even though bullying is never okay, it's easier to forgive when it's children. They can still grow and learn, as evidenced by several examples above. Adults should know better, and bullying as an adult shows the real personality of the bully.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Didn't get revenge but made peace with one of my bullies. I worked as an insurance rep for a company that provides insurance to banks to cover uninsured motorists for loans. I had one client whose name I recognized as a bully from elementary school. I called her about her insurance and then asked if she was the same person. When she said yes and I told her who I was, she apologized for treating me so badly and then commented how her jaw hurt for 2 days after she tried to fight me and I clocked her in the jaw when we were 10 years old. We had a good conversation and we parted ways. It felt so good to get that closure. I wish more bullies would do that. Most just shrug off and say "We were kids, no biggie." Not to you maybe, but it was to me. Apologies go a long way in mending old scars. I have a new respect for her now.
H Moore 3 years ago
Well nothing terrible happened to my bully, they never apologised, didn't have a bad life and karma is bulls***t
Lsai Aeon 3 years ago
One day not all that long ago, I was at a convenience store, just grabbing a drink and a snack. I stepped back from the soda fountain and literally bumped into a very solid person. I turn around to apologize and immediately recognize one of the many that bullied me relentlessly from 6th grade up, who is now a cop. I cold clocked him. It took him a good minute to react and realize who I was. He smiled, apologized, and said "I deserve a hell of a lot more than that, seriously, not only am I sorry for standing too close just now but for all the sh*t I did to you, let me at least buy your snacks" So yeah, I cold clocked a cop and got away with it.
Kyndal T 3 years ago
A group of girls attacked me, high school. Because I was pregnant. Slammed my head into a locker and kept hitting and pushing me. Miscarriage. Shocker right? Few years later, one of the ring leaders gets a job where I work. I mention to one of my older coworkers that I might quit because of it and she asks what happened with that girl. This coworker was nice to me so I told her in great detail. The notes in my locker. Threatening texts. Rumors they started. The miscarriage. She got really pale. Then I joked that it was just because I couldn't afford an abortion every few months like she could. This girl bragged about getting abortions all the time and her rich dad. Coworker got real pale and then we left work. Next day, that girl apologized and cried a bunch. That was her mom. I accepted her apology but when she wanted to be friends? I told her that I would accept she was sorry but never forgive her. I married that boy who knocked me up and we've been together 14 years next month.
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 3 years ago
Played in the band in High School and a specific bunch of guys liked to bully me about it. Beat me up once in a while. Viet Nam war came along, and I played Rock & Roll with the Navy Band. Two of the bullies went to Viet Nam and died.
deathrose 3 years ago
I was accused of being a bully once whole in high school. I had heard a rumor about a girl in my class being pregnant. After sitting on that for a couple minutes I decided to tell the girl that this rumor was out there. I figured that since I would want to know if there was a rumor about me that she would like to know also. Nope, she accused me of being a bully and told a teacher. I clear everything up with the teacher and admin pretty quickly without having to get my parents involved because I was a good kid.
Reynard 3 years ago
Fùck bullies. I don't care about some of these stories of 'redemption', they leave lasting scars on their victims. I was relentlessly bullied when I was young and it messed me up. I've gone through years of therapy because of them. They robbed me of my childhood, took away my self esteem and my security. Years later I'm still trying to recuperate those things. My life is a struggle with anxiety, depression, and PTSD because of these a55holes. There is no excuse for physical and emotional torture. If I read an obituary of one of my bullies, I'd celebrate.
KombatBunni 3 years ago
I had one of my bullies send me a message on facebook to apologise for what she did. I just said it was too late and to f*ck off, then blocked her. I’d join you celebrating if I read that any of mine had died too.
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