Never mess with an engineer! Having an engineer for a neighbor can be very useful in the right circumstances, but if you manage to frustrate them, things can backfire in unexpected ways. Here, we have a retired father who confessed to his kid about all the acts of petty revenge he has enacted on his difficult, noisy neighbors next door after they started hosting loud pool parties on weeknights regularly. Some of this pettiness ranges from launching debris over the property line to planting tree…

There is nothing like a feud between roommates over apartment temperature. No matter what stage of life you're in, you may very well find yourself living with someone who has a very different conception of appropriate inside temperature than you do. For instance, I am someone who needs a strong A/C on at night, and this proves to be an issue whenever I have to stay with my parents. This is primarily because my mother is petrified of breaking the A/C, so she copes by never using it even if there…

Much like the neighbors in your own home, it is important to have a good relationship with the neighbors in your place of work. Usually, those neighbors are other companies that reside in the same office building as your company, but some people have to deal with rather unexpected kinds of neighbors that are hard to come by. Imagine having a chemical plant as your work neighbor. Think about all the things you would have to deal with when sharing a neighborhood with a plant that deals with chemi…

There's nothing like a nice, peaceful drive on the road being upended by another annoying, entitled driver who thinks that their busy schedule is more significant than everyone else's. It's these unique individuals that can make one of the more solitary and restful activities for some folks unbearable. Personally speaking, I am not one of the individuals who thinks driving is a peaceful activity, nor am I one of the individuals who enjoys engaging in aggressive behavior on the road. My conflict…

Sometimes, the only way to get back at an annoying nuisance of a neighbor is to be petty. In this case , we have a neighboring family upstairs who refused to quiet their kids down after hours and who seemed to be absent parents most of the time. Despite various attempts at diplomacy on the part of the Redditor and his partner, the wife upstairs decided that the best way to shut down their noise complaints was to threaten to have her landlord father evict them from the building. The good news, a…

Sometimes people need to just keep their mouth shut. This might sound harsh, but it is seriously tiring to hear and read of people constantly complaining about things that they actually should be grateful for. Complaining is not the only option, and if people were simply civil toward each other, they would honestly get a lot farther in life. What there wouldn't be if people were nicer, are stories like this one. OP (original poster) sold his parents' home to these fussy buyers who complained ab…

In every high school, there are a handful of students who not only do the bare minimum when it comes to work, but they're also pretty lame when it comes to cheating. Look, no one is going to outright condone stealing someone's answers on a test, but if you're going to be the fool that does it, at least be less obvious about it. This Redditor figured out that his classmate had been stealing his answers for the past few exams and was starting to worry that his teacher would think that the wrong p…

Illegally reserving parking spots using heavy cinderblocks is one way to make a neighborhood enemy

Life can deal you some funny and unexpected hands. Sometimes, in the form of things that seem so unlikely that you'd consider it next to impossible, they become a reality. Yet, still, these things can happen, and these moments of happenstance can be defining. When this college student bought themself their first real phone in university, they were annoyed to find that their new phone number had previously belonged to someone who numerous financial institutions were trying desperately to reach.…

This construction crew was, unsurprisingly, up really early. They tend to do that: construction workers often begin their days in the early morning hours before the sun rises. The crew staying at u/cavelioness's hotel was no different: they were starting their days before the hotel staff could even provide breakfast for them. Next, this retail boss wanted his employee to add a major responsibility to their job, but that employee refused, writing, “ I got fired and cost the store approximately $…

Wanna know how long you can make a password ? Go ahead, guess. Apparently, in the various Google applications, you can make a password that's up to 100 characters long! Just imagine how long it would take to type out such an abomination of a password… Sentences like this one right here are exactly 100 characters long, typing that password is a chore! Now that you have an appreciation for the sinister art of making a super crazy long password, you can appreciate this now-deleted user's post to r…

This one goes out to all the folks who were picked on in school and who dreamed about the consequences for their high school nemeses. As some folks suggested in the comments section, perhaps this student took things a bit too far, buy I guess it goes to show that picking on other classmates is a dangerous game. One should never underestimate how they might get back to you, even if they are smaller and more shy. In this instance , the two students attended a school with a strict attendance polic…

Being the nerdy kid in school had its pros and cons. It usually meant that you were smart, and did well in school. You actually enjoyed reading books and had no problem doing homework or studying for tests. Yet being the nerdy kid also meant that you weren't all that popular, and we all know how mean kids can get when they see something they don't like. Luckily, popularity in school doesn't really get you that far in life, but being smart and actually succeeding in school does, and this petty r…

Tell us if you dare… what's the most purely petty thing you've ever done? Nearly one thousand members of the r/AskReddit community had some exceptional stories to share. From bad bosses to noisy neighbors to impolite customers , these people have gotten their well-deserved payback. As mentioned in the title here, one particularly petty story involves a couple going through a contentious split. The husband snuck over to his ex-wife's home in the middle of the night, armed with a shovel, and dug…

In decades past, getting constant phone calls was a real nuisance. I mean, it's still kind of an issue today, but at least now our iPhones tell us who's calling and if there's a likelihood the call is spammy. We now know exactly who's calling us, and the newest feature is that you can read a transcription of the voicemail someone is leaving you in real time! This is very cool and useful tech, and it would've dazzled people in the 1990s who were used to getting bombarded with phone calls . These…

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