32 Unbelievable Revenge Stories That Prove Breakups Can Lead to Epic Comebacks
Breakups—ugh, the absolute worst, right? Just when you think you’ve boxed up the memories, hit “block,” and braced yourself for a fresh start, there’s that cheeky little craving: the sweet desire to see your ex squirm a bit. Most of us chalk it up to a savage glow-up and move on, but then there are the folks who take it a notch higher—yep, petty revenge. And trust me, some of these stories from Reddit’s pettiest are so wild, they’ll have you questioning if heartbreak should come with a manual titled “How To Get The Last Laugh.” So buckle up—because these aren’t your run-of-the-mill breakup tales; they’re crafty, they’re messy, and oh, they’re so satisfying to read. Ready to dive in and maybe get a few ideas on what “closure” really looks like? LEARN MORE
Breakups can be rough, and sometimes, the pain makes us crave seeing our past lovers regret everything they put us through.
But while most of us move on by hitting the block button and having a spiteful glow-up, some people take a different route—petty revenge. At least these Reddit users did, and from the looks of it, their exes deserved every bit of it. Read their stories below and upvote your favorite ones!
Not an ex but we went on four or five dates. He broke it off with a post it on my front door. I saw him a few years later at a party and introduced myself when he came over and pretended I’d never seen him before, when he clearly remembered me. Nothing hurts an ego more than to be forgotten by someone you remember.
My ex girlfriend from many years ago came home drunk one night and started a fight. She ended up punching me in the face about 10 times and I picked her up and threw her out of the house.
I invited her to talk the next day but got no response. I came home to a completely empty house; she’d come over with her family and taken everything out. It was mostly her stuff, I moved countries to live with her, but I didn’t even have a pillow to rest my head on.
So the next day I went to the police to file an assault charge that got her teaching license revoked.
Way back in the day, my fiancé got himself a side piece. So, I got mad and then I got packing. I had time to think while I was packing and decided to place an ad in the newspaper that I knew his grandmother read religiously with a photo of him and the girl he cheated on me with and everything I knew about the affair. His grandmother called me to apologize and called him a disgrace.
Best part? I charged the ad to his credit card.
Not my breakup, my daughter’s break up. Her ex threatened to keep the kids after a visitation one weekend and she was scared and upset. I told her that he didn’t want them full time. He worked out of town, and he was a big on going to the bar and drinking. I insisted she go camping, out of cell phone reach for a couple of days. The next day he was calling me and demanding that I take the kids so he could get to work, he had to leave that night. I refused. After a couple of days, I did take them, but he missed a week of work. And he never did it again.
My ex was on crutches and called me to help her carry somethings across campus. I was still in the “I will make this work as a friendship” phase and I agreed to help her. She spent the first half of the walk across campus informing how awful I was that I had started dating someone else. When she insulted my new girlfriend directly. I calmly set the boxes I was carrying down on a bench and walked away from her. She had a total meltdown and screamed every foul thing she could think of at me. I just kept on walking.
So, back in the day when we used flip phones, you could set it to show a little message every time you turned on your phone. When my geeky programmer ex wasn’t looking, I set his phone to display “STARTUP ERROR 54EDGT4” (or some alphanumeric gibberish) whenever he turned it on.
He spent several weeks trying to diagnose the problem.
I got dumped about two months before Christmas (years ago).
As we were talking, my mind was jumping all over and I said “I guess I’m going to return the Christmas presents I already bought you then.”
I didn’t even mean anything by the comment, I was just thinking out loud.
But then she asked me what I got her – and I said “No, they’re being returned and we’re not together so I’m not going to tell you.”
Anyway, I heard later from mutual friends that this drove her crazy for awhile wondering what the gifts could have been.
Very small, very petty, and very unintentional revenge. But it did warm my heart to hear it drove her crazy lol.
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