Listening to XFM yesterday, they were doing this thing where people were talking about revenge they had taken on their exes (ex's? exs?). It bordered between hysterically funny and cringing at the same time. Fortuantly I was trialling a new way of syncing radio with my iPod so I got a good chunk of the segment. Unfortunately, my experimentation wigged out so I didn't get the end of the segment. Although I suppose 8 mins is more than plenty.
Revenge of the exes [2.1mb 8m39s]
I'm not a particularly vengeful person. I would love to do something really mean to get people back, but I'm just not that kind of person. I tend to take things out on myself not others. And I'm normally not one to hold a grudge (although I did manage not to speak to someone in my class at school for 3 years when they stole the girl I was trying to date).
I guess the worst I have done was trying to not pay Lexy back £100 that I borrowed on the night things all went wrong. Which in the grand scheme of things turned out to be more petty than vengeful.
How about you lot? Any revenge stories in the closet?
1. Matthew
Wow, I just read that post you linked to from 2001 re Lexy and the £100, and it was so long and took me so long to read and was kinda complex in it’s reasoning, that I’m too tired to think about posting a reply to this one. I’m exhausted. Zzzzz…
2. Damo
Only one to speak of in public, several that will never reach the light of day. I played rugby for a few years and one of the players on my team stole/appropriated my girlfriend (making her watch me play rugby every week probably made her think about binning me). Anyway, i steamed for a few weeks and started thinking of ways to get even. In the end, I ended up playing against him (I had switched to another club by then), and we had a bit of a ding-dong battle all afternoon. Cut to 10 minutes before full-time, cut to a ruck and cut to me seeing his arm outside the ruck, (I am ashamed as I type this now) I end up stamping on his arm as hard as possible and accidentally breaking it in full view of the referee. I was sent off, he was carted off to hospital and about 2 weeks later the lady in question dumped him for somebody else. I feel bad about this now.
3. Pandammonium
This didn’t start out as a deliberately spiteful act, but it turned into one. The look on his face. Classic.
We used to go to this dire club that usually played The Pogues each week. I used to like dancing to them (I know), but he refused to dance to them, so I started dancing with this other bloke instead, who fancied me a lot. He hated me dancing with the other bloke. He used to get so jealous. After we split, I was at the same club, dancing with the other bloke to The Pogues, then we started snogging - he was hideous, but I was pissed and free and single - then we pulled away, and who should be standing at the edge of the dancefloor, glaring in our direction? You guessed it. So I snogged the other bloke again. Hee hee.
4. annie
Not a personal one, but when working in a company with an evil wig-wearing boss who had a habit of sacking people without warning, we found lots of chopped-off hair down the back of the filing cabinets. We reckoned it must be some sort of voodoo spell thing left by a former worker with a grudge.
5. Coop
Yeah - this girl split up with me once so i shagged her mum instead.
6. Gordon
Well I can only add various “fuck you, I’m shagging yer pal” stories, none of which I’m proud of, shameful really.
7. Adrian
Gordon, you? I never would have thought it.
Although how you managed to shag the pal, I have no idea. I thought friends drew ranks in after a breakup.
8. Lori
I signed a guy up for loads of junk mail once, and put a personal ad in the local paper for him… asking for blokes. Well, he did dump me (without telling me!) for a 16-year-old called Melody.
Oh and I returned another guy’s CD that I borrowed, only in rather small pieces. Was pointless, but it made me feel better.
9. Lexy
Any chance of that £50 you still owe me then ? ;)
Lexy.
10. Adrian
I dunno. Depends. Was I really in the wrong?
11. Lexy
I suppose the words “I guess the worst I have done …” and “petty” implied you had realised that you were in the wrong not to pay me back.
But dont worry, I was not being serious about the £50 !!
Worst I have done is concoct a fictitous charachter online to seduce a boyfriend who I suspected was picking up girls online and cheating on me. It turned out he took the bait hook, line & sinker so went one stage further and sent him on ficticous date about 2 hours drive away on a sat night …. oh and then kept sending him texts saying running late to keep him waiting in the pub ! All texts send from Lycos so he had no number to ring back. Then I rung him and he told me bare faced lie that he was out with his mates in his home town !
Needless to say I did not see him again. Despite his pathetic grovelling attempts to make me change my mind.
Lexy.