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Passive Aggressive ways people got revenge.

By ZarinePublished 3 years ago 19 min read

PASSIVE AGGRESIVE WAYS PEOPLE GOT REVENGE

Getting cheated on is enough to drive you crazy.

But what if you were cheated on, dumped,

and then told to pack your things and leave,

all while your partner was away on a work trip?

Well, that's exactly what happened to one man called Duke.

So, he decided to drive her crazy, quite literally.

After recovering from the brutal news,

Duke bought a load of tiny noisemakers.

They're incredibly annoying devices that make quiet,

barely audible sounds at random intervals.

Totally non-creepy things,

like children's laughter and odd scratching noises.

Then, before he left the house,

Duke sneakily hid these little noisemakers.

everywhere he could.

A few months passed,

and he was out with a friend one night when they asked.

if he knew any good pranks to play on people.

Duke started to tell them.

about the noisemakers when they suddenly burst out laughing.

Naturally, Duke asked why.

It turns out,

his ex and her new partner had only lasted a few months.

Apparently, they'd both been complaining to everyone

about weird, inexplicable noises they'd been hearing

around their house.

What's more, they often didn't hear the same things.

as each other.

Neither had any clue what was going on,

and after trying to figure it out for ages,

the new partner had finally

reached the only conclusion he could,

that they were both going insane.

Unable to stand it,

he bailed from both the house and the relationship.

And Duke's ex moved out shortly afterwards.

When his friend had finished telling him everything,

Duke was left grinning.

The only truly crazy thing

about the whole situation was how well his plan had worked.

Don't middle with me.

Occasionally, you'll meet people who are jerks.

for no reason other than, well, they're jerks.

Reddit user troubled neighbor met just such a group of girls.

while dining at his favorite restaurant,

back at the start of 2022.

They seemed fine at first,

sitting in the booth behind him

and causing no trouble.

After they left, one of them forgot their glasses.

The waitress quickly asked if he could go after them.

and return them.

Happy to help, he got up and followed them out.

They were in their car, so he tried to flag their attention.

But as he did so,

the two women in the front seats burst out laughing at him.

Then, they immediately hit the gas.

and shouted some kind of slur.

while flipping him the finger out the window.

Well, troubled neighbor suddenly didn't feel so kind.

Still clutching the pair of glasses,

he opened up one of the trash cans outside.

and threw them in, before heading back into the restaurant.

A few minutes later, and lo and behold,

the group of girls returned.

in search of the missing spectacles.

The waitress pointed at troubled neighbor,

and they came over asking where he'd put them.

His response?

"Oh, I put them in the trash outside.

after you gave me the middle finger."

The girls left without apologizing.

But then, a further few minutes later, they came back again,

asking which trash, he'd can throw them in.

Troubled Neighbor shrugged, gave them the finger,

and went back to eating his food,

which was probably made all the more delicious thanks?

to that sweet side order of revenge!

You know what tastes even better than revenge though?

Being the first to know about all my latest videos!

So, hit those Like and Subscribe buttons,

or I'll have to exact some kind of revenge.

Just joking!

Or am I?

Right, what's next?

Naughty Neighbors.

If you've ever been kept awake at night by loud,

anti-social neighbors,

you'll know just how annoying it can be.

But some people don't just sit and take it.

Oh, no, they strike back.

Like this couple,

who decided to exact revenge on the noisy people upstairs?

in a rather novel way.

(Feet stomping)

Ha, I wonder how they like those loud,

stomping footsteps at 4 a.m.

And then, we've got Canadian comedian Matt O'Brien,

who'd been suffering from the same problem.

That is, until he realized he could connect.

to his annoying neighbors' Bluetooth speaker

and play them a little something he made himself.

♪ Your music sucks ♪

♪ Your music sucks ♪

♪ Please turn it down ♪

The lesson?

Don't annoy the comedian downstairs.

that can both produce music and hack your speakers.

Nobody's taken it further than YouTuber Matthew BR though,

who invented his own special device?

to automatically take revenge if his neighbors are too loud.

With a microphone attached to the wall,

a nifty piece of circuitry, and two giant speakers,

our man created an insane technological contraption.

Any time the neighbors are loud enough to hit red.

on the circuit for 10 solid seconds,

the speakers blast annoying music.

back through the wall at them,

and it works surprisingly well!

- Our neighbors are playing their loud music again,

as you can probably hear.

So, I've got the system all set up here.

Now, admittedly the original video

features Matt blasting "Who Let the Dogs Out."

to his neighbors,

but I can't play that tune.

without the Baha Men taking all my ad revenue.

But you get the idea, right?

Either way, with all that loud music blasting both ways,

I can't help but wonder if there's a third neighbor hiding.

outside the apartment holding a baseball bat.

Carsin' courier.

One day in April 2022,

questionably named Reddit user, SaltyWet247,

was returning home from the supermarket.

with a heavy bag of groceries.

When he got to his apartment block,

a delivery man was stood outside with a parcel trolley.

Salty let him in first while he checked his mailbox.

But the delivery man got straight into the elevator.

and started riding it up before Salty had a chance.

to get in with him.

Considering Salty's apartment was on the 7th floor.

and he had all his groceries to carry,

this was pretty annoying.

But then, things got a lot worse.

The elevator stopped on the 4th floor.

and stayed there far longer than it should have.

Then, it went up to the 5th floor,

and stayed there for ages as well.

Salty realized that the courier.

must've been leaving his trolley.

in the way of the elevator doors

while he delivered the parcels,

thus, barring anyone else from getting in.

What's more, the elevator kept going up after the 5th floor,

and kept stopping.

Now, Salty was incensed.

Who did this guy think he was?

So, he decided to get petty.

After waiting until the elevator got all the way

to the 16th floor,

Salty suddenly started dashing up the stairs,

hitting every single elevator button on the way

until he got to his apartment on the 7th floor.

Then, he waited in the stairwell.

The elevator descended past his floor,

and by the time it got to the 5th floor,

Salty could hear the courier loudly cursing from inside.

as he was forced to stop for the third time in a row.

And it was only goanna get worse.

Yep, the only thing getting successfully elevated.

now was his blood pressure.

Get rot.

Over in California,

they're known for having some pretty wild parties.

But not everyone who lives there is so keen to get down.

Geologist Melissa Scruggs doesn't usually mind it.

But when a group of students next door stayed

up all night partying,

and for some reason, moved a giant rock.

in front of her car, she saw red.

Little did they know, you don't mess with Melissa Scruggs.

At 7:30 a.m.on the dot,

she went outside with her auto-chipper,

which is essentially a big, noisy automatic drill.

The students hadn't long been asleep,

and they were gonna be nursing

some pretty terrible hangovers.

So Melissa put on her headphones, turned on the drill,

and got to work, smashing the boulder to pieces

in the loudest, most aggravating way possible.

And it wasn't a quick job either.

She sent harsh, searing noise into her neighbor's house.

for an entire four hours!

That's one rough wake up call.

Finally, her work was done, and she relented.

Melissa didn't just get her revenge,

she absolutely smashed it.

Pooped out.

Nobody likes a school bully.

So, when one gets what's coming to them,

there's nothing more satisfying.

Well, Brazilian "Be Amazed" viewer Luckel used.

to be terrorized by just such a bully.

And oh, boy, did he give them what was coming.

The bully would routinely go around demanding food.

from the other students,

threatening to beat them up if they didn't hand it over.

Luckel had been the victim.

of this food thievery many times.

But one day, after yet another lost lunch,

he decided it was the last straw.

So, after returning home from school,

he did as all angry people would do.

That's right, he took a great big dump in the toilet,

put some gloves on, fished it out,

then slid it straight onto a popsicle stick.

Okay, maybe not as all angry people would do.

Anyway, he shaped the turd so it could pass as an ice pop,

then melted some chocolate in a bowl.

and gave it a good dipping to cover up the smell.

I think you might've already guessed where this is going.

Our hero then left the sticky brown mess.

in the freezer overnight to harden.

The next day came,

and Luckel packed the poopsicle into his lunchbox.

And sure enough, when lunchtime came,

the bully swagged his way over to Luckel

with a nasty gleam in his eyes.

Without hesitation,

Luckel handed him the frozen butt truffle.

The bully cackled, took a big bite out of it,

and immediately spewed everywhere.

Luckel burst out laughing, and the bully ran off crying.

Safe to say, Luckel was expelled,

but you can bet.

that bully didn't steal anyone's food ever again.

So, you may not be able to polish a turd,

but you definitely can cover one in chocolate!

Keyed colleague.

If you find a lost key with a phone number attached to it,

you call the number to return it.

to its rightful owner, right?

So, when Emelye McArdle, from Liverpool, UK,

found this one, she did just that.

But she was surprised to find out that the person.

on the other end was not happy to hear her voice.

It turns out, the key was part.

of an elaborate prank designed to get revenge

on its apparent owner.

You see, it didn't belong to Jeff at all.

It was actually a fake key with his number written.

on it to entice people like Emelye

into unknowingly nuisance calling him.

And whoever planted it had also planted a ton more,

all marked with different names but the same number.

Apparently, Jeff, or whatever his real name is,

had an old work colleague he didn't get along with,

so they'd gone about scattering the keys.

everywhere they could.

What's more,

it turns out the revenge prank has been happening all.

across the globe as part of a viral TikTok trend.

(Keys jingling)

I don't know what anyone did to deserve that,

but it must've been pretty damn bad.

I'd recommend trying to work things.

out face-to-face instead.

I mean, communication is key, after all.

Roomie retaliation.

When you're living in the same house as someone,

you're gonna have disagreements.

It's pretty much unavoidable.

Some housemates respond.

to these spats more passive aggressively than others though.

One guy lived with someone that had a habit.

of putting the toilet paper on the wrong way round.

So one day he told them to put it on the right way.

But when he went to the restroom later on, he found this.

Was that a bit of an overreaction from the roomie?

Quite possibly, but I guess you just have to roll with it.

Meanwhile, somebody else got revenge.

on their food-stealing roomie

by letting them know they'd left them a slice of pizza.

Only, it was...

Well, it was a slice with the slice taken out.

If you get what I mean.

Not gonna lie, I'd still have eaten it.

But of all the roommate disagreements,

couples are likely to have the worst.

One such couple had a tiff in 2013,

so, one of them decided to apologize.

by making the other a very special boxed lunch.

A delicious ham, cheese, and plastic sandwich!

Ah, yeah, it wasn't an apology at all,

just another passive aggressive screw you.

I know some people called American cheese plastic cheese,

but they don't usually mean it literally.

Shaming the scammer.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of scammers in the world.

I know I've fallen for a few.

But sometimes, they get exactly what's coming to them.

Like when one tried

to scam Reddit user drunken-black-sheep out of $1,500

of her hard-earned cash.

Sheep was in her mid-twenties at the time,

and in her own words,

has a soft, girly appearance and an eternal baby face.

Because of this,

despite her being quite knowledgeable about cars,

mechanics would always assume she was clueless.

Well, one day she was at a garage getting her oil changed,

when one of the mechanics gave her car a free inspection.

Afterwards, he solemnly told her that her vehicle was

in such bad shape that it could break down at any second.

To illustrate the point, he showed her the car's air filter,

which was filled with dead grass, dirt, and dead insects.

But Sheep knew her car was fine,

and she'd literally just replaced the air filter

the day before.

So, this goon had put all that crap in himself.

to try and freak her out.

Suddenly, a devious plan formed in Sheep's mind.

Rather than immediately calling him out, she played along,

pretending she knew nothing about cars and acting.

as upset as she could muster.

Then, she rang her dad, who's a mechanic,

and got him to play along too.

Everybody at the garage was watching now,

as Sheep cried down the phone

about how much money she was going to lose.

The mechanic could barely contain his smug delight.

But then, out of nowhere, Sheep's expression changed,

and she started laughing.

The mechanic's smug face quickly turned to shock.

Then, Sheep put her dad on loudspeaker.

He was laughing too.

Taking the air filter in her hands,

Sheep told everyone.

how she'd only replaced it the previous day,

so, the mechanic must be a lying scam artist.

She continued laughing, thrust the filter back at him,

and told him to clean it out so she could leave.

Now, everybody, including all the other customers,

we're laughing.

Everybody other than the mechanic, that is,

whose face had gone completely red.

Without another word,

he took the filter and did as he was told.

And after re-installing her clean filter,

Sheep rode off into the sunset.

Now that's what I call car-ma.

Taking out the trash.

If you've ever worked in a kitchen,

you'll know everyone's gotta pull their weight.

or the whole operation can go up in flames, very literally.

Well, Reddit user elena247 works in a kitchen.

with one co-worker who apparently didn't know that,

or more likely, was just lazy.

The co-worker would routinely come in late, hungover,

or not at all.

And when she did come in,

she'd bring her own dirty dishes with her.

and dump them on the side to be washed by someone else.

As well as that,

she'd leave half-filled mugs of coffee lying around

until they curdled.

Then, when she was reprimanded about it,

she'd dump them by the dishwasher too.

After weeks of cleaning up the lazy co-worker's mess,

Elena finally reached the end of her tether.

One day, she came in to work and was greeted.

with a big pile of gross, stinking dishes by the sink.

Well, Elena knew exactly whose they were.

So without a second thought,

she gathered them all up and threw them straight.

into the trash can with a satisfying smash.

It's safe to say,

the lazy co-worker stopped bringing her dirty dishes

in after that.

And hey, as well as being forced to clean her own dishes,

maybe she cleaned up her act while she was at it.

Bedroom banter.

Everyone loves a trip to the beach, right?

Even if you don't like sand,

what's not to love about sun and sea?

However, I definitely don't want any of that in my house.

So, I can't imagine how the owner of this bedroom reacted

after he got back from vacation

and found his roommates had transformed it into this.

The guy in question had won the vacation.

and gloated about it for months,

much to his roomies' annoyance.

So, they decided he could stay on vacation forever.

I can't lie, it might be petty as all hell,

but the sheer amount of work that went

into this is undeniably impressive.

And come on, it's definitely tidier

than it was before.

Having said that,

there's no way all that sand is gonna be efficiently tidied.

from that room.

I wouldn't be surprised.

if these guys were still finding the stuff all

over the house in the years that followed.

Was it worth it?

I don't know.

Regardless, it was an outstanding effort.

Cough it up.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic

made wearing face masks the norm, back in 2013,

it was odd to see anybody wearing one.

unless you lived in Asia,

where they've been used publicly for years.

Reddit user Nashiwa didn't live in Asia,

and sadly, she'd recently been diagnosed.

with multiple cancers.

The chemotherapy had left her weak

and mostly confined to hospital,

but on the rare occasion she was allowed out,

she had to wear a mask to protect herself.

Well, on one of these rare days,

Nashiwa was out at her local mall.

and had sat down on a bench to relax.

Suddenly, a young teenage boy came over to her.

and started making fun of her for no reason whatsoever.

Though, making fun is putting it lightly.

He told her she had the plague,

that she was putting everyone else at risk,

and even went as far as to say she should go and die.

Oh, boy.

Seems like a nice kid, then.

Incensed, Nashiwa stood up,

which only encouraged the little brat to get closer?

and square up to her.

But just as he was within inches of her,

Nashiwa lowered her mask, coughed twice in his face,

and followed it with a small "Oops".

The effect was immediate.

The boy went pale as a ghost, his mouth hung agape,

and after a few seconds he ran away.

Nashiwa sat back down and relished in the moment.

Despite the mask,

there was no masking the sweet feeling of revenge.

Carpark chaos.

If you drive a car and you ever wrong someone, watch out.

Because it seems there's no more popular way of getting back

at somebody than messing with their precious automobile.

You can help yourself by not parking like an idiot though.

In other words, like this guy,

who made the mistake of parking over two spaces at once.

In case you couldn't tell,

that's a whopping great dumpster.

that someone's plastic-wrapped to the vehicle.

And whoever owned this car made the same mistake,

though their punishment was arguably worse.

Someone managed to literally flip this little smart car.

over onto its side so it only took up one space.

More effective than flipping the bird, I suppose.

But car-related vengeance isn't just reserved.

for rogue parkers.

When one man had the bright idea of cheating

on his girlfriend,

she paid him back in a rather novel fashion.

That is, by investing in an absolute goldmine's worth

of sanitary towels

and completely covering his car with them.

That's one almighty effort, period.

Where there's a will...

As sad as it can be, death is a natural, and inevitable,

part of life.

But if you've worked hard,

by the end of your life, you might have a good amount of cash.

to leave to whoever you want.

Reddit user GamerNerd93's grandpa had prepared early.

for the eventuality and written his will way back in 1998.

The house he owned with his wife was to be sold.

along with all their possessions,

and the money split three ways between Gamer Nerd's father,

aunt, and cousin.

It makes sense,

as all three were raised by the couple from birth.

The problem was, ever since the will had been written,

Gamer Nerd's father had demanded that the lion's share.

of the money go straight to him.

Why?

Well, he didn't have a reason,

other than greedily claiming it was rightfully his.

Anyway, jump to March 2022

and the greedy papa had made the 10-hour journey.

to grandpa's house just

to start up the age-old argument again.

By this point, everyone was sick of it.

So, ol' gramps decided to take action!

Gamer Nerd got a phone call while his dad was still away.

It was gramps,

informing him that the will was now being split seven ways,

to include Gamer Nerd and his sisters as well,

meaning far from getting the lion's share,

his dad is now getting a whole lot less than before.

Zing!

It just goes to show, where there's a will, there's a way,

of getting the perfect passive aggressive revenge.

Trashin' the trasher.

All right, settle in.

Because if you think you've heard some wild tales so far,

nothing compares to this one.

Reddit user donut_clouds lives in a quiet neighborhood

in Pennsylvania, USA.

Or, at least,

it was quiet until his super trashy neighbor moved in.

By super-trashy,

I'm talking blaring terrible music at all hours,

smoking while nine months pregnant,

and being a general nuisance.

Worst of all though,

she started throwing her trash bags.

over into donut_clouds' yard!

Which is bad enough on its own,

but the neighborhood's garbage policy

requires all trash be put into a special purple bag.

or it won't be collected.

Well, donut_clouds' neighbor, we'll call her Suzie,

didn't want to pay the small amount extra.

for the purple bags.

So, the bags she yeeted

into donut_clouds' yard wasn't even being picked up.

When donut_clouds confronted her about it, she just laughed.

And the cops didn't care either.

So it went on for months,

with donut_clouds having no option

but to buy twice the number of purple bags

to wrap up Suzie's trash as well as his own.

But it couldn't go on forever.

It was a relatively cheap neighborhood,

and donut_clouds knew that although he owned his home,

Suzie only rented hers.

A devilishly devious plan began to form.

Donut_clouds got the number for Suzie's landlord, rang him,

and offered to buy the house next door.

for a cut above its market value.

The landlord jumped at the offer.

So, the very next thing donut_clouds did was walk up

to the fence Suzie so loved throwing her trash over,

and handed her a big, fat eviction notice.

Oh, Suzie didn't like that.

But no matter how much she protested,

she couldn't argue with the law.

31 days later, and Suzie was gone,

while donut_clouds

had just netted himself a whole new patch of land.

Damn, he really took out the trash in more ways than one.

All right, then!

That's just about all the petty vengeance I can handle.

for one day.

Which was your favorite?

And do you have any stories of your own to share?

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Zarine

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