You don't have to be an awful person to want revenge. Sometimes, a person might do you so dirty that you even derive some joy from getting back at them. Interestingly, people would much prefer to retaliate for wrongdoings sooner rather than later. "People prefer a 'hot-and-ready' form of revenge, instead of a cold, calculated and delayed approach to vengeance," Researcher David Chester, Ph.D., said.

One netizen wanted to know other people's stories of satisfying revenge. They asked: "What's a petty revenge you're gladly proud of?" And people shared all kinds of tales, from stealing Tupperware container lids from an ex to more serious pranks in the workplace. Read people's answers below!

Bored Panda got in touch with the Redditor who posed this question, u/Jimbobsausage. They kindly agreed to have a short chat with us about what prompted them to go to r/AskReddit and ask for some petty revenge stories. Read our conversation below!

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It When I was 7, my brother tried to play that age old prank on me where he offered me a soda that he had previously shaken up. Somehow, I felt that something was off and instantly guessed the real reason he was offering me that soda. Ah, intuition.

I accepted the soda and, when he wasn’t looking, did the ole switcharoo with his soda and mine. I drank from my new soda and watched him open the tampered one.

Mwahahahaha.

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There's a personal story behind why the user u/Jimbobsausage decided to ask other Redditors for their petty revenge stories. "I felt that I've been done wrong by someone in the past and [devised] a plan to gain some revenge but chickened out." The Redditor wanted to read some stories from people who had something similar happen to them but did go through with their plan.

However, the netizen says they didn't expect this level of pettiness from other Redditors. "Most of the responses were way more petty than I expected," they added. Regarding their unfulfilled revenge story, the Redditor tells how they chose to leave it up to karma. "For me, to exact any type of revenge would mean that this person must've screwed me over to the point I [had] no choice. Thankfully, that urge is on the low of the spectrum. But I'm satisfied with life taking care of the revenge however that may [happen]."
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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It Went to give a guy a 10% raise. He said that’s what you give a janitor. I told him great idea, so I rescinded the raise and walked over to the janitor and gave him the $ increase the other employee was set to receive ($10,000) annually.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It I worked Comcast technical support. I had a customer that was so rude and nasty to me over the phone I spent the next 8 hours of my 10 hour shift constantly resetting his modem and cable boxes. It felt so good.

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The Redditor tells Bored Panda that, generally, they try to avoid any kind of drama and situations where either they or someone else would want some petty revenge. "I try to be friendly to everyone and distance myself from those who are sketchy," they add. And to those who are contemplating whether or not to pursue revenge, the netizen says: "Choose peace and throw your anger to the universe. Whether or not that person gets their karma should not affect your peace anyway in the slightest."

As a fellow non-confrontational person, I have to say I agree with u/Jimbobsausage. However, that doesn't mean I can't admire the revenge plans these Redditors carried out and the never-ending creativity of the Internet. And how about you, Pandas? Have you ever gotten back at someone in style? Share your stories with us in the comments!
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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It Stayed in an AirBnB in Lausanne for 3 months and when I got there it was absolutely filthy. Rotting bananas in the fridge, bins not emptied, layer of dust all over the place.

The agreement I had signed beforehand said to "leave the apartment as clean as it was when you arrived" so I went out of my way to stop cleaning the place two weeks before I departed, I made sure to fill up the bins and I even bought bananas to leave behind in the fridge.

When the guy gave me a bad rating I replied with before and after pics and wrote that I had merely fulfilled the agreement.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It Back in high school, I was around 14 and sat very close to the classroom door.

One day, someone knocked, and I opened it without thinking. The art teacher got mad and told me not to do it again because she didn't give me permission to open the door, asking if I thought I was the doorman.

I was shocked because I didn't think it was a big deal.

Thirty minutes later, there was some knocking again. I waited for the teacher to tell me something, and she did—she told me to open the door. I simply replied, "I'm not a doorman; come and open the door yourself."

She sent me to the principal to get a reprimand, but I didn't get any.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It Built a FB page for my job since they desperately needed one. However, I did it under my personal FB account. Several years later I quit following a long history of abuse and toxicity. I still owned their (very active) FB page so I deleted it.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It When my ex boyfriend and I broke up, he moved out and packed everything that was his. I later realised that he had taken all of my Tupperware lids and just left the containers. As annoying as it was to be left with lidless containers, I was in awe.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It When I was 19 my then girlfriend sent a tape of her cheating on me with an acquaintance. I was devestated so I sent that video to her parents. She wasn't allowed to leave the house after that lol.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It I was a teller at a credit union years ago. A customer came in and started barking orders, acting as though I was her assistant rather than just someone to take deposits. The whole time she name-dropped the credit union board members, the CEO in particular. I just kept my head down and took care of her transaction. As I finished, I told her I could tell the CEO she said hi if she wanted.

She smirked and said, "Oh, you know him, do you?"

I smiled and said, "Yes, I'll see him at dinner tonight. I'm dating his son."

She blanched, grabbed her stuff, and darted out the door. As I suspected, the CEO didn't even know who she was until I explained who the deposits were for.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It Years ago I lived in a six plex with my ex. There were three people (one man and two women) who recently moved in above us who all worked in the restaurant industry. Almost every weeknight they’d come home at 2:00am and proceed to BLAST their TV which was located above our bedroom. One night I finally had enough and went upstairs to knock on their door. The man answers and I proceed to ask him why his TV is so loud. He then informs me that it’s probably the SUBWOOFER. I ask him if he could turn it down and he responds with something along the lines of,

“Well, after a long shift we all like to wind down and watch a movie. Turning off the subwoofer would decrease the quality of the experience.”

I asked if he was serious and he just stared at me blankly. So I went back downstairs and informed my then gf of what happened and we devised a plan. All she had to do was take my dog to the office with her the next day. Little did the neighbours know that I had a full DJ setup ready to go with two KRK Rockit 5 monitors.

I woke up at 5:00am to take my dog out for his walk and get ready for work. I then proceeded to make a playlist full of the most annoying songs I knew and put them on a constant loop. Songs like Hamsterdance, Friday by Rebecca Black, Cotton Eyed Joe, Crazy Frog etc. I set everything up so all my gf had to do was hit play on her way out at 8:00am, which she did.

Never had to deal with the subwoofer again.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It I stained my wife’s brand new white tennis shoes one time. When I woke up, I found she had taken one shoe lace from every pair of shoes I own and frozen them in a block of ice..

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It Playing the long game. I was "the weird kid" in high school. Bullied, threatened and pretty much a social outcast.

Fast forward to getting sent pictures of my 30th high school reunion. I did not attend. Everyone was hugely overweight. I am still very fit. Most of them were balding, and I still have all my hair. Still happily married. Not rich, but doing alright.

Living well is the best revenge.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It I bought my grandparents house after grandma passed away. My moms brother and sister, and their spouses were all money grubby and were big mad I paid appraised value instead of the overinflated price they were hoping to get if they’d put the house on the market. Needless to say, tensions were high. During this time my bro was getting married and he still invited the aunts and uncles who were being jerks to me. I was in charge of sending wedding shower invites, the stamps I chose were a mix of animal pictures. People I liked got horses or bunnies or cats - the “family” got rats and snakes. Small, but made me feel a tiny bit better.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It My boss kept leaving his favorite coffee mug in the break room sink, despite a sign asking staff not to do so, for the housekeeping staff to wash. I was friends with the housekeepers and resented this. So I hid his coffee mug in the back of a cabinet in the mail room and then pretended to help him look for it. It stayed there for years.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It I got on friendly terms with a bunch of door-to-door Jehova's witnesses. They were still visiting my abusive, atheist step-father's house years later.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It Was staying in a shared dorm at a hostel in my mid 20's. My roommates were a group of really inconsiderate people who'd talk at full volume at all odd hours even when it was very visible that I was sleeping. The morning I had to leave was immediately after a night on which they'd been partying and went to bed late. I set an alarm on my phone for 6am, with the most annoying tone I could find, locked it inside my locker in our room and went to an external bathroom for a nice long shower at 5:55am.
45 mins that thing rang at full volume in my locker before I returned, woke everyone up. I just had to apologize for "forgetting" to turn it off.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It A former employer (a small cafe) fired me for something that never happened and since their business broke so many health and safety rules (no hot water, dirty conditions etc) I decided to anonymously report the business to the council and got them closed down for weeks so that they could resolve the issues before reopening.

I didn’t get them closed down entirely sadly, but I love that I cost them so much money.

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18 Times People Concocted Such Perfect Petty Revenge They Just Had To Share It Parked in a public parking yesterday and this lady slams her door into my car as she gets out. Pretty standard mistake, all good if she says sorry BUT she looks at me and then makes a face, turns around and starts walking away.

What do I do?

Smash my door into her car. She noticed. So satisfying.

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