The Wildest Petty Revenge Stories That’ll Crack You Up

Back in the early 90s, super slow checkout meant cashiers typed in prices by hand. At Vons in San Diego, some stuck-up lady zoomed past me with her towering cart, cutting the only open line. "I'm in a hurry," she said, then acted annoyed I existed.

The cashier rolled his eyes but took his sweet time checking her out. Five minutes later, she finally left. Then it was my turn.

That cashier winked and said, "You're good. I put your soda on her tab."

Ah, sweet, sweet revenge!

Pizza delivery last shift, this one customer was always rude and never tipped. So when they paid a penny short, I told them I needed the penny. They dragged their feet and finally came back, all grumpy, to hand it over. Guess what I did with it? Tossed it right into the street and walked away.

Yeah, they saw me do it. Satisfying? You bet.

Part-time pizza delivery guy here. One customer always pays with a heavy bag of dimes, nickels, and pennies - no quarters, just a ridiculously long coin-count. Drivers usually let it slide, but on a bad night I went full petty.

I told him I had to count it all before handing over the pizza. Sat down on his doorstep, counting coins for like ten minutes in fading light (had to ask him to turn on his porchlight).

He ended up a dollar over, tipped well, apologized, and probably never ordered again. Petty? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely.

A 15-year-old kid cuts the line at the supermarket. Sneaky me breaks his chocolate bar inside the wrapper when he’s not looking.

Later, I saw him on his bike, opening that bar. Half of it slipped out onto the pavement. He wasn’t thrilled. I laughed. Hard.

There was a kid in elementary school who jumped my table and tried to choke me out. I’d called him “cuckoo for cocoa puffs” earlier - because he literally talked about cocoa puffs and wore that shirt that day. Got suspended for ‘instigating.’

Fast forward to senior year - same kid’s stealing my design class work off the shared drive. For the final, I deliberately messed up my drawing and left it there.

He turned it in and failed. Served him well. Ten years later, still proud.

After my breakup with my ex-fiancé, the endless pointless texts got old. So, during an argument, I called her phone company and cut off her service - the one I was paying for.

Sometimes petty wins the day.

There was a girl on my softball team who bullied me and spread rumors. She wasn’t great at geometry and tried to buddy up to me to copy my homework. I let it slide for a bit, then handed her all the wrong answers.

Teacher never caught on, but she flunked the class. Priceless!

My brother’s girlfriend was super selfish. When they broke up, she obsessed over her forgotten North Face and toiletries left at my place.

Bro begged me to send it back to shut her up, so I packed everything neatly - and spilled dark ink from my note right onto the jacket. Shampoo and soap bottles leaked too. Plus, her razor left slashes all over it.

She got the package... and then vanished from our lives. Mission accomplished.

My wife kept little Godiva chocolates at work, but some sneaky overnight cleaner kept swiping them.

Fed up, she replaced the chocolates with identical-looking laxative versions.

Next morning? Several laxatives vanished, and the chocolate thief never touched her good stuff again. Sweet justice indeed!

Years ago, my unpleasant boss left his keys on his locker. One night, I filed down some teeth on his front door key. Next day, he freaked out about a broken door lock, costing him a fortune.

Same thing happened to his car key later. Rumor has it the office locker disappeared too - now part of some London building's foundation.

Oops.

A former coworker played Facebook all day while the rest of us worked. The boss did nothing.

I swapped her Internet Explorer icon for a trick: clicking it rebooted her computer instantly.

She thought she had a virus and complained endlessly. That icon remained on her desktop long after I left. Sweet petty victory!

While driving with my mom, they started bickering over the phone. Mom hung up on Dad.

Dad called right back and hung up on Mom without saying a word.

Their 35+ year marriage just hit peak petty! I laughed so hard, it was like watching kids bickering. Classic.

I worked with a PM named Maggie who basically couldn’t read a calendar. She scheduled meetings on wrong days and blamed me.

Years passed, I left, and she applied for my new job, asking for a glowing reference.

I emailed HR the six years of bad experiences I had with her. No job for Maggie. Karma is real!

A spammy scammer wouldn’t stop emailing me, no matter how many times I blocked him.

I replied “stop spamming me,” and got a response telling me to unsubscribe (which did nothing).

So, I put his email on *his* spam lists and signed him up for other spam. A few days later? Silence. Boom.

My friend Susie found out her boyfriend, Brad, gave her herpes - and a bunch of others too. Brad had been cheating while lying about being healthy.

We couldn’t just hide shrimp in his apartment, so we hid tons of rotting seafood and meat inside panels of his car during a triple-digit heat wave.

The stench grew worse and worse. Even feral cats camped out around his car. No one could figure out the source or buy the stinky ride.

Brad’s now famous locally as the guy with the horrendously smelly car. Petty revenge? Masterpiece level.

At a dead-end job with lazy management, I was doing triple work and the last person standing in my department.

I turned in my final timesheet without a hint of notice, starting my new, better job soon after.

Was it petty? Absolutely. Felt amazing. ‘Not my problem,’ right? Yep, exactly.

I gave my girlfriend keys, didn’t know she was using my apartment to cheat with 7 people.

I lied and said I moved to Seattle.

Three months later she calls from the Seattle airport trying to fix us.

Me: "I’m in Hawaii!" *hangs up*

She freaked out and I loved every second.

One summer, a called-in supervisor sat in a temp office playing solitaire all day.

Fed up, I deleted her solitaire shortcut.

She flipped out and spent days trying to get it back - even attempting to set up AOL dial-up to download it.

Best petty moment at work ever.

My uncle runs a stone business. FedEx once showed up early, took off before boxes were ready, ruining delivery.

Next day, uncle pretended the forklift was broken and didn’t help the FedEx guy.

The FedEx guy had to haul heavy boxes across the warehouse himself - sweaty and exhausted.

Score one for petty revenge!

College roommate always played my Xbox, wouldn’t share, and had friends over to party.

I had the router admin password and blocked his Xbox’s MAC address from connecting.

He spent hours calling support and was baffled.

I even did it remotely while away once. Petty? You bet.

My roommate hated sharing our clock and taped over it.

So I started stealing one sock from each matching pair every week.

She never caught on but got super annoyed with all the missing socks.

Sweet slow-burn justice!

Neighbor’s dog kept dumping in our yard and they never cleaned it up.

I put a flaming bag of his dog's poo on his porch and rang the bell, then hid.

He answered. Meanwhile, I… well, had an affair with his wife for the last 3.5 years.

Now that’s what I call ultimate petty revenge.

When my sister talked smack to me in front of friends, I got creative.

I slid a slice of bologna right inside her Walkman CD player.

Inspired by a TV show, done for laughs, and she never saw it coming!

Started a new job and didn’t like a guy joking about me.

I announced his PS4 was for sale cheap.

The next day? His phone blew up with calls.

Eventually, he got it taken down, but the look on his face was priceless.

While visiting my dad’s startup, the CEO’s toddler picked up dog poop and licked it.

My dad cheekily told her to give her dad a kiss next.

Petty and horrible. I can’t decide which.

A broke roommate got a bank teller job but missed rent payment.

She promised to pay us back but bought new work clothes instead.

She lost her mandatory work nametag and panicked for hours.

Little did she know - someone had it the whole time. Priceless rent revenge!

Juniors mostly in my bio class, one guy sat next to me and kept copying my test answers.

I finally gave him wrong answers on purpose.

He scored 2%.

He never cheated off me again.

I had a chip bag in my backpack that this kid kept punching for 5 days.

One day I replaced it with a bag of sewing pins.

He punched it once and stopped immediately.

Sweet, sweet justice.

As a kid, I misdialed a number and got cussed out for being a telemarketer.

I was stunned but didn’t hang up.

For the next two weeks, I and my friends called that number constantly at all hours.

Be careful who you yell at, people might prank you forever.

After a nasty divorce where my ex cheated and lied, her birthday came up.

I bought her a necklace with a big red 'A' on it, for Ann.

The kids gave it to her, and she wore it everywhere.

Most people knew what it meant. Petty and perfect.

My friend got a 7-pound fudge care package but had to leave on a long mission.

He asked bunk mates to save it. They ate most of it.

When riding with them later, lactose intolerant, he ate Oreos and milk, then smelt the vehicle with a horrendous fart.

Vomit everywhere, plus the guys paid him back for the fudge. Sweet revenge.

Sister and I applied for a summer job.

I dropped hers off, but the office was closed, so I drove home.

She got mad and said she’d drop off hers only.

Parents forced her to do a second trip to deliver mine too. Petty side defeated!

I had a high school rival, so I ‘sabotaged’ him harmlessly.

My favorite trick? Emptying and flipping his pencil case inside-out, then carefully refilling and zipping it “closed” with the zipper pull on the inside.

He never figured out it was me.

Dad wanted trees down so he wouldn’t have to rake leaves.

Mom loved the trees.

Now Dad refuses to go on Europe trip until two specific trees get chopped.

Mom won’t let him. For years now, the trees stand tall - and so does the petty standoff.

Our old truck on the property kept losing parts to thieves.

So we wired it to an electric fence power supply.

One night, a lot of yelling and cursing later, thief left us tools.

Electric fences? The ultimate anti-theft petting.

My friends’ shipmate bailed on them before a trip.

Annoyed, I swapped out his shoe sock with my three-day-old ‘alone time’ sock.

He smelled it, wore it all day, and was grossed out.

He eventually disappeared from our lives. Perfect revenge.

Borrowed cousin’s hoodie without asking.

Cousin was mad when he found out.

I made a petty remark about his brother’s substance use.

Family drama, testing, punishments, and years of no contact followed.

Petty revenge, but not worth the fallout.

At a busy intersection, an impatient driver honked at a lady pushing a stroller.

I stopped right in front of his car and bent down to retie my shoelaces.

Countdown to driver’s full-blown frustration!

My wife came to bed loud after binge-watching.

I couldn’t sleep, had a 6am flight, so I flew my helicopter right over our bedroom a few times.

She called me a jerk, but I was just getting even.

Sorry neighbors, it was totally worth it.

As a kid, my stepmom constantly made me fetch water.

I’d dip my glass in the toilet bowl to fill it since it was closer.

She never knew.

Later, my aunt fed my dad dog food meatloaf for 30 years without him knowing.

Petty? Hauntingly so.

College roommate called me a pig who never cleaned.

While she was out, I had friends move *all* the apartment furniture a few blocks away.

She came home to an empty place and freaked out.

Apology came later - but the point? Made.

In a group English project, my teammates relied on SparkNotes and did no work.

The night before mini-projects, I pulled all-nighters to cover it alone.

On final presentation day, I donated blood during lunch, then aced their presentation solo.

Teachers fine with me, but 90% sure my slackers failed.

Younger brother had a girl stalking him and leaving creepy chalk drawings.

She TP’d our house and harassed him in school.

Brother came to me to plan revenge.

I called her school and got her barred from prom. Priceless!

A brat on a school bus harassed younger kids and girls nonstop.

I collected detailed reports from other kids.

At a meeting, I read the nasty stuff he said and got him banned from the bus.

His dad’s turned beet red with horror. Petty win!

After breaking up, my ex wasn’t on the lease but insisted I move fast.

While she was gone, I secretly removed all the toilet paper from the bathroom.

She was annoyed. Mission accomplished.

My friends and I pranked each other by sending fake plant stand pictures pretending to be real.

On my wedding day, a giant plant stand appeared in my guest room.

She bought, flew, reassembled, and left it there.

That friend won the prank war hands down.

Roommate’s girlfriend moved in, refused to pay rent or utilities.

She wrecked dishes, left food in the bedroom attracting mice.

Worst of all - she used my makeup, giving me pink eye.

So, I pissed in her shampoo bottle.

No regrets at all.

I used to flip my friend’s cigarettes upside down in the pack.

He’d light the filter end by accident and cough like crazy.

Sometimes he did it multiple times a night.

Petty but hilarious!

Girlfriend’s iPod got remotely locked - it was stolen.

Original owner freaked out and threatened my 17-year-old GF.

She found the iPod destroyed, hidden in a parking lot.

Masterclass in petty revenge.

My 12-year-old brother shoplifted chocolates until caught.

Grounded for six weeks.

At Christmas, he refused to give a gift to the stockroom manager who reported him, yelling, "Rats don’t get gifts!"

We laughed hard. Grounded again.

After breaking up while we lived together, ex dictated how I could hang with her friends.

She wanted me to respond to every text.

When she told me to move out fast, I gave a week's notice but kept withholding toilet paper.

Sometimes petty is the easiest way out.

Spotted a lady’s purse on top of her car at a stop sign.

I rolled down my window to tell her.

She shouted about playing her music loud.

Even with my window down, I couldn’t hear a single thing.

Roommate taped over the shared clock “because she didn’t want to share.”

In response, I stole one sock from her sets per week.

She never guessed it was me but grew super annoyed.

Petty and hilarious winner.

My ‘best friend’ ditched me for a new group on a trip but talked trash about them behind their backs.

She forgot an expensive camera in our hotel room.

I hid it and let new roommates get blamed.

She freaked out and kicked the ‘others’ out.

Never told her the truth. Petty win!

At a work party, a colleague poured chili oil all over MY pizza.

I waited until he ate his meal, then gave him the world’s spiciest chili oil.

He spent 15 minutes suffering.

Spicy payback is the best payback.

Someone said mean stuff about me on Snapchat.

My sister’s reaction? Told the school about weed found in the girl’s locker.

Ultimate petty revenge!

Teacher and workaholic mocked me.

We took his jeep and parked it tight between two cars repeatedly.

He couldn’t get out.

Sneaky, harmless, and hilarious.

Husband annoyed me.

I unplugged his phone instead of mine, so he didn’t realize it wasn’t charging.

I took my fully charged phone, and he blamed himself.

Petty and brilliant.

Rude pizza customer tried to pay for a $7 calzone with a $50.

I didn’t have enough change and told him.

He got loud and rude.

I said don’t worry, I’ll pay.

Then I ate his calzone. Priceless!

Turned off co-worker’s middle monitor.

She and several people scrambled for six hours trying to fix it.

Called IT, replaced cables, ordered new monitor.

I finally just turned it back on.

Best petty moment at work ever!

My parents saw a lady being rude and racist to a steward at the airport.

He stayed calm and wished her a nice day.

My mom asked how he handled her.

He smirked, "She’s going to Rome, but her luggage’s going to Paris!"

Epic revenge!

Friend bet $10 he could make a tough basketball shot.

I paid him in 1,000 pennies.

He had no pockets and carried all of them in his shirt.

Pure petty gold!

Customer kept switching service between himself and his son to dodge bills.

I told him final bills must be paid, no exceptions.

He tried to pay half, I refused.

He tried to fool me with son’s account.

I flagged account and blocked service until full payment.

He came back, paid whole bill.

Sister kept turning up the furnace without asking.

On a cold night, I flipped the breaker to the furnace.

She woke up freezing.

She got mad; I got the last laugh.

Roommate yelled at me for not helping clean.

I stopped helping entirely for a week.

She apologized.

Petty? Yeah. Effective? Always.