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Is it payback on me for having left him for those six years? Are you waiting? What's going to happen at the sixth year? It's something that happened in high school, probably. Oh, okay. It probably goes way back. Yeah, there's a bunch of shit there. Oh, I'm sure. Maybe like one day you didn't give me a ride home or something. I had somewhere else to be. Tough. You really going to bring that up right now? One of his girlfriends that he had to make out with. God. These women, they just got to be made out with sometimes. How do we feel about vengeance? Revenge? I feel like it's probably not healthy, but I do love a good revenge tale. I love a good revenge tale as long as it doesn't involve me. Like, I don't want to be the one on either end of it. I feel like at one point in my life, I thought that it would be so satisfying to get revenge on people that wronged me. But I'm like, how much of my brain power and life am I spending thinking about this? I'm getting revenge on myself at this point. It's not worth it. I think what is the phrase? It's like, living well is the best revenge. Yeah. That's a good point. Being actually happy and moving on. Yep. I get that. It's fun to play out the fantasy of revenge in your head in certain situations. But it's like in L.A., the amount of times someone cuts you off on the road and you imagine, like, oh, how could I get them back? That's a great example. But it's like the safest and best option is for me to forget about this. Yes. Because most people own guns here. I mean, truly. I didn't even go there. Jeez. No, no. Actually, that is my brain. Whenever people talk about, like, oh, if I was on the street and someone bumped into me or said something rude, I would do this. I'd be like, I'm not trying to get killed. No. I'm trying to get out of there. Yeah. I'm trying to. I imagine the types of stories we're going to read today are a little bit more about the calculated revenge. Right. Not like intense violence. Probably more along the lines of petty squabbles, whatever. Yeah. I'm excited to hear the stories that I'm involved in. I am very entertained by reading them. Yeah. Have you ever taken revenge on anyone, Anthony? Taken revenge. Like maybe somebody messed up your Taco Bell order or something. No. Are you alluding to something? This feels. It feels like you're alluding to something. No. Yeah. You're not talking about the time I spit in your food, right? That's not. You're not. The time that you didn't know about. Information you just found out about. The time you just found out. I don't know. I mean, I don't think so. Okay. At least nothing substantial enough to have stuck in my memory. I'm sure there are little things like, I don't know. Well, if it comes back to you at some point in this episode, feel free to bring it up. Halfway through the episode, I'm like, oh, yeah. Oh, my God. I slashed your tires. Yeah. Yeah. All my revenge is specifically against you. Yeah. Well, you brought up fast food, and that gets us into our first story. Wow. Okay. Good segue, Ian. This first story comes from Petty Revenge. It was posted a couple years ago. They write, I got payback on an awful regular at my fast food job. Okay. Okay. So, I, a 19-year-old girl, quit my crappy job recently at a fast food chain that has a certain arch and remembered this story, which I thought was funny. Wendy's. Yeah. Yeah. The one arch. Yeah. Well, the W is kind of like. The Taco Bell. There's the arch. Oh, the arch. Yeah. Of the bell. Of the bell. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Some of the arches. They got to be more specific. Yeah. Unfortunately, this is a very true story. I know it's a bit ridiculous. We had these regulars that would come through the drive-thru nearly every day, and I was always the one handing food out the window. They were an older couple, and I was happy to make accommodations to make handing them food and drinks easier. However, it became increasingly difficult to allow their awful attitude towards me. For context, my branch of the restaurant was one of five in my town. Yeah. But the rest were 20-ish minutes away. We were the worst rated as we were small but extremely busy as a result and run by literal teenagers half the time. Lunch and dinner rushes were a mess as managers were more concerned with stats than actually running the place well. This couple would come through at our busiest time and order the same thing, shouting at the order taker, payment window, and me for how slow we were. Our small kitchen was unable to accommodate how busy we got, so wait times were often 300-plus seconds. It was supposed to be 120 seconds. Okay, so that's five minutes. Doing that quick math, yeah, five minutes. Five minutes. Now, okay, so five minutes. You're waiting five minutes at a drive-thru. That doesn't seem atrocious. That's not too crazy. But I think the thing is when you sit in a drive-thru, time goes by so much slower. It is very true. It'd be interesting. I'm never going to do this, but it'd be interesting to time it, press a timer. When I pull up to In-N-Out and the line's way down the road, it's like, how long is this actually going to be? I've seen some drive-thrus that have a timer. They have a timer, yeah. Have you seen that? There's some. I seem to recall, was it Del Taco back in the day? I don't remember. I mean, we used to go to so many fast food places. Because I remember seeing a timer, but I haven't seen it since Sacramento. I think they probably removed that shit. They're like, this doesn't need to be public knowledge. You don't need to know. This is private. But I think they move pretty fast. So they're operating at 300-plus seconds. Okay. Every time they'd yell at me for how busy we were, how slow we were, how their food would be cold, how it wasn't fair to make an old couple wait, and every time— Fuck off. Yeah. Wait with the rest of us. Weaponizing your age. And every time the man would ask for extra cream on his latte. If he didn't get it, he would become irate. I would do it for him because I'd learned to take the bullet for taking too long rather than deal with this guy. So much so, he would call me his creamy girl. Oh! Oh! No! With a shit-eating grin on his face, and every time I'd laugh but explain that it wasn't appropriate. On this day, I was maybe 16, 17. Oh, that's worse. Yeah, we were flat-out busy, 600-plus seconds, when the cream couple arrived. Oh, God. I asked them to pull into a bay, and we would bring the food out so we could serve the next customer, whose order was prepared. He went ballistic on me, refusing to move, shouting at me, slamming his hands on the desk. And I was like, "What the hell are you doing here?" I was like, "What the hell are you doing here?" I was like, "What the hell are you doing here?" This went on for so long, I started explaining to my manager the issue, who wouldn't take shit from the situation, and she phoned the police to remove the guy. This is usually enough of a threat to get the customer to go, but not this time. He said something along the lines of, Every time I come here, we have to wait, and my cream melts. And every time we come here, you're working. You are an awful person. I'm not the kind of person to take shit from people. You get the energy you give. But up until now, I had been forgiving. So I blurted out while he was yelling at me, So? Go somewhere else. It's called problem-solving, dude. He was stunned before lashing out again. Explaining this place was his only option, and there was no way I could make him go anywhere else. So I said, Want to bet? Latte and extra cream in hand, I poured the coffee all over the roof and window of his Fiat Panda. Oh! Edit to clarify. I was going to pour it out the window, but he was parked too close. As I was thinking about it, I realized that I could safely pour it onto his car window and roof and not burn him. LOL. I then asked him again to pull around, and his order would be ready soon, and slammed the window. I then promptly burst into tears out of exhaustion and hate, and began making my way to my manager to tell her my crime. The police turned up basically straight after. We explained what was going on while Cream Man was trying to open the window. They asked him to go and explained he was now trespassing if he didn't go. Long story short, the next thing I saw was this 70-plus-year-old man swinging at this copper before quickly getting put into the cop car, leaving his very frail wife. Still sat in shock, latte-less. Did this man deserve to get arrested? Probably not. Was it appropriate for me to pour coffee on his car? Maybe. Maybe not. You decide if I'm the asshole if you want. Either way, it felt good. Plus, I didn't lose my job. LMAO. Edit. That's good. Because I feel like some of these things that she did. Yeah. Directly on the windshield. But I mean, that shows that this manager's okay. Yeah. Yeah. DoorDash makes showing up for the people you love easy. Got you? Delivered. DoorDash. Order now. I was catching up with a friend, and I could just tell they were having a really tough day. You know that phrase, when it rains, it pours? Well, it was a tsunami of problems for my friend. We've all been there, where there isn't much you can do for your friend except just be there for them. I was racking my brain over how I could show a little love and try to make them feel a smidge better. Then, it dawned on me. DoorDash. I got them their favorite ice cream. Chocolate chip cookie dough. Even if chocolate chip cookie dough, ice cream doesn't solve the world's problems, I knew it would make them feel a little better. It makes me feel good giving to my friends and DoorDash makes it easy to make someone's day a little better. DoorDash offers more than just restaurants. They have retail items, health supplies, late night snacks, groceries, and more. It's your turn to make someone's day better. Maybe you wanna send a thank you cupcake to your mom or restock your roommate's snacks that you stole in the middle of the night. Or you wanna order from your favorite restaurant for date night. Whatever it is, DoorDash makes showing up for the people you love easy. Got you, delivered, DoorDash. Order now. Back to the show. Edit, some more of the crappy things this guy would do to explain my out of touch reaction. He would throw a temper tantrum if we were too busy to top up on his extra cream. If there wasn't enough cream, we would have to remake the drink. The coffee machines could take two minutes to pour sometimes and would then complain about how long the order took. Often he would ask me to add like five packets of sugar to my coffee. Which I would happily accommodate for if we weren't busy. But I also would remind him there were like three pumps of syrup in there already. He would then complain it was too sweet and accused me several times of adding more sugar than he asked for. Remaking the drink would ensue. This was not the first time he refused to park up either. Sometimes he would. So it wasn't even that he didn't understand the concept like some didn't. But I was always happy to reiterate what he had to do. Worst of all, he would personally blame me if his service wasn't good enough. Even if I didn't have anything to do with the drive-thru. My best friend was working on my day off and he apparently started screaming for the pink-haired girl to apologize for ruining his order. I need my cream, girl. Where's my cream, girl? He was asking her to apologize for ruining his order when I was at home. I know I overreacted. I'll own up. But this is borderline abuse, LMAO. Okay. Wow. I don't think she's overreacting. This guy sounds insane. Yeah. I mean, like, it's funny because I thought at first, like, this sounded very much. like, the United States, but it sounds like it's the UK. Yeah. But I think, like, really, like, I feel like they're from the the customer is always right generation. Yeah. Where, like, they feel. Certainly in the States, that's, like, how old people, like, act sometimes. But that's, like, what was, like, hammered into them. Like, customer's always right. Customer's always right. And it turns out, like, that's not true. Yeah. But they have this, like, level of, like, I don't know, like, indignity about everything. Yeah. About, like, no, I know what's right. They're entitled to everything. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so confused by this behavior. I'm, like, someone serving you, like, getting things for you, making things for you. Like, I can't imagine. Yeah, they're from this generation that feels like, I paid you $10. I get to treat you any way I want. Yeah. Bro. Yeah. I feel like when it comes to revenge, like, for fast food employees, I'm kind of always going to be on the fast food employee side. Sure, of course. Of course. What a rigorous job. Yeah. And people are horrible to them. Yeah. Yeah. And I do think, like, it's really, it's obviously not Cream Girl's fault. But I think what the manager could have done, and this is what plenty of managers do do, is they just ban those customers. They say, like, you're being a nuisance. You're constantly harassing my employees. You're done. And you can just ban people from, I mean, I'm assuming in the UK, you can as well. But you can just say, like, no, you're not welcome here anymore. Is it hard to ban people, though? Like, to identify? Like, because he's just going through the drive-thru. I mean, this guy is such a regular. Yeah. He probably could clock it. But this sounds like a power trip for this guy. Yeah. Like, this isn't, like, he doesn't actually care about the latte. I think they go for the, they're bored, and they get the kick out of doing this. There's, like, some other emotional shit that he's not dealing with, and he's taking it out on someone else. Yeah. Yeah. Imagine going, I can't imagine going to a fast food, through a drive-thru, and being like, give me my cream. Yeah. Like, I need my, like, that's, I'm just begging them to spit in my drink. And they're going at the busy time, too. It's not sweet enough. It's too sweet. Like. I'm like, yeah, I'm like, dude, if you're this specific about your coffee, why are you going to McDonald's? Like. Bro, yeah, what? And I know McDonald's now is more, like, as expensive. Yeah. As any coffee shop. But it's just like, if you're going to be hyper-specific, if it matters that much to you, like, you can't, you can't expect that of fast food. Like, they operate on speed and getting you the stuff as fast as possible. Not precise orders, you know? Yeah. I mean, people love, people love their routines, right? And part of his routine is yelling at Cream Girl. Yeah. It's like, you love your routine, but you got to understand these fast food employees, like, they see the line that they're in. Yeah. But I think they cannot comprehend that these people are taking care of other people's orders as well. The lack of empathy is just wild. Yeah. Yeah. People really do dehumanize, like, the second people are in a service worker outfit. Yeah. Like, you're no, they're no longer human to them. I never worked at any food industry. Yeah, I never, I never did service work. But you did work at Chuck E. Cheese, so. And you were in the, you were in the mouse costume, so you were kind of, like, able to spy. People probably forgot that there was a person in there. You have so many crazy things. They're confessing. I mean, I feel like I probably experienced, like, the flip side when I was Chuck E. because I feel like the parents were never mean to Chuck E. No. It was, he got respect. It was, it was, it was the children that were fucking evil assholes. The children were evil. Yeah, always kicking my shins and pulling on Chuck E.'s tooth. Oof. You got revenge one time. But I think. I don't know if I can say that. Yeah. When you killed those five children. Yeah. And stuffed them in animatronics. I might have thrown them into the dough maker, you know. But, I, I mean, like, the only thing that, like, some adults would get really angry over at Chuck E. Cheese was we had a one alcoholic drink per person rule. Oh. Because they didn't want drunk parents there, obviously, because they drove their children to Chuck E. Cheese. It's kind of crazy that they could serve alcohol there in the first place, right? Yeah. It's insane to me. Yeah. Yeah. So they would have, like, that you could have, like, one beer or one glass of wine. And some adults would get really angry about that. Fuck. That is so embarrassing. They're like, how am I supposed to have fun with my kids unless I'm drunk? That's really embarrassing. Like, that's one of those moments you got to be like, huh. Yeah, reevaluate me. Something going on here? Yeah. Like, OP, it almost doesn't seem like OP got revenge as much as there was just a reaction. That's just, like, a human reaction to some crazy incident. This guy's calling this 16-year-old his creamy girl in front of his wife. I think she's allowed to dump a latte on his Fiat. Like, I think that's fine. I mean, I love that she didn't get fired for that. Oh, that's great. Yeah. That's really great. The, he comments on this. Someone said, the dude was sexually harassing you with the creamy girl bit. On top of that behavior and his constant verbal harassment of a minor, he should have been banned long ago. But to answer your question, no, you're not an asshole for standing up for yourself and telling that creep off, especially when he was already told to leave at the threat of the police being involved. Good on you. Someone said, no, the customer is not always right. And yes, he and his car deserve to be creamed. Well, well played and touche. Someone said, what is a flat, what is a flat panda? I feel old. Fiat. Fiat. They wrote flat. OP says, it's a car model. They're fairly old now and small. His was early 2000s at best. Someone said, yep, it was definitely my age. I don't have my glasses on and read flat, not Fiat. Flat panda. No, honestly, a flat panda. This makes me think any video I see of fast food employees getting vengeance on customers is always great. Yeah. There's a clip of a guy like getting, like getting really mad at the employees at a Taco Bell and he leaps over and squares up to this Taco Bell employee and he throws a punch. The Taco Bell employee dodges it and perfectly knocks him out. Hell yeah. And I'm just like, hell yeah, dude. I'm like, this is my pay-per-view. You know the Waffle House executives are watching like, we need that guy. Dude, the Waffle House video forever ago where someone threw a chair and the employee, she catches it. Yeah. The coolest thing ever. Like, what are you doing? Like, no. Anyways, our next story comes from Andy. Am I the Asshole? Supposed to only like a month ago. Oh, we're heating up. Am I the Asshole for humiliating my ex's new girlfriend in front of our friend group? Okay. This is probably pushing it. Okay. My ex's new girlfriend. In front of? In front of our friend group. Oh, our friend group. So it sounds like her and the ex are still in the same group. Okay. Yeah. Here we go. Posting from my inactive account because I have some friends lurking in my main one. I, a 22-year-old woman, broke up with my boyfriend, who's 24, around eight months ago. We decided to mutually call it quits and parted on pretty good terms, which is good because we just so happened to share a friend group. After a rough patch, I decided to start taking a bit more care of myself. Eating better, going to the gym, going to therapy. The shift was pretty evident, both in my attitude and the way I look. My friend said I looked much happier and healthier and I began gaining confidence little by little. Now, I am a guy and I'm a huge nerd. I play D&D Weekly. I have thousands of hours in Stellaris. And, most relevant to the story, I like to cosplay as a hobby. Most of my old cosplay involved characters that didn't show their face or body too much. Hornet from Hollow Knight, Mono from Little Nightmares, et cetera. But since I'd been feeling more confident, I decided that for the big con in my city, I'd like to try something different. A friend convinced me of going as Viper and Chamber from Valorant. So for the past six months, we've been pouring most of our free time into the cosplay industry. to cosplays. Three weeks ago, I sent a picture of me wearing the cosplay to the group chat, asking for feedback for the final details. My ex immediately DM'd me, asking me to please not wear that cosplay to the con because it might make his new girlfriend uncomfortable. Oh, fuck off. What? Bruh, you're too hot. Yeah. You're way too hot. Please not be hot. I asked what it was. I'm afraid of being horny in front of my new girlfriend. I asked what about it would make her uncomfortable, but he refused to elaborate. I knew he was dating someone new, but I didn't know she was coming with us to the con. I tried to explain to him this was the work of months, and I couldn't just throw it all away just because a girl I'd never met felt uncomfortable about it. In the end, I wore it to the con, and it was a huge success. I tried to keep my distance from the larger chunk of our group because my ex and his new girl were with them, but we did spend a good part of the day with them. Throughout the whole thing, the new girl kept making snide comments at me and laughing whenever I got asked to pose for pictures. Everyone looked uncomfortable, but nobody said anything. After leaving the con to have dinner, though, another friend asked the new girl if she would like to try cosplay as well. Her answer was, why would I need more attention from guys? I already have a boyfriend. I'm not a slut. Oh, my God. I snapped and told her to stop acting like a pick-me bitch just because I got attention all day. She started to cry immediately. My ex steps in, asking me to apologize. I tell him I'll only do it if she apologizes for the way she's been acting around me all day. More and more of our friends start to join the screaming match, and it gets so bad, we end up getting kicked out of the restaurant. Oh, my God. It's been five days, and my ex is threatening to leave the friend group if I don't apologize. I honestly wouldn't care if he did, but some of our friends are asking me to do so to stop him from leaving. Should I cave? Am I the asshole? Oh, my gosh. Oh, girl. I kind of want to see. So, Viper and Chamber. Do you know that character? I don't. They don't play Valorant. They must be hotties. I don't play Valorant. I can only assume. Yeah. Similar to Overwatch type of vibes. I wonder if there's one. They gotta be baddies. Okay. There are two? How do they dress up as two of them at once? Is it one character? One day, they probably dress as Chamber. One day, they probably dress as. Okay. Oh, okay, okay. But they are not. They're like a fully covered costume. Like, it's not like. Yeah, but the. I'm guessing which one is Viper. Has very form-fitting. Yeah, sure. Not that it matters, right? I think for cons, you're allowed to. You're allowed to dress up as whatever you want. You can be as slutty as you want. Who cares? But I'm just thinking. I'm, like, picturing what's the situation here. The ex's new girlfriend is clearly super insecure. Super insecure. And that comment is calling OP a slut. She's like, Why would I want to be a slut? And if you think this is about you, then you're a slut, I guess. Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm not talking about you. I'm just probably talking about sluts. And if you think it's about you, then I guess you are one too. But, like, I just say. That's crazy it got into such a screaming match that they got kicked out of the restaurant. I love that. I love that the whole friend group got into this. What if the restaurant owner is like, Hey, I'm kicking you out. Not because you're causing drama. I don't like Valorant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just get out of here. Right, yeah. He's like, No, Viper Mane's got to get out. That is. I think that's so embarrassing on the boyfriend's part, too. Oh, yeah. Like, you'd be like, Hey, like, no, that's my ex. Like, we're not. Yeah. And for him to ask her, it's like, Hey, you're not dating. You're completely separate people. Like, you don't get to dictate what she wears to a Comic-Con convention. Yeah. Like, that is what these are for. People go to cosplay. I feel like this is very, like, young brain behavior. 22, he's 24. Yeah, like, very early 20s or something. Because I feel like by the time you reach a certain age, you're like, Oh, why am I putting all this energy towards something I don't like? Like, if they truly didn't like her, why are they so obsessed with her? I also just, like, wonder what this ex told his new girlfriend about his ex, about the OP. There must be something that's, like, really setting her off, though. Like, I agree. Like, maybe he said. Maybe she was, like, prying do you still have feelings for her? And he's like, I don't know, maybe. Or maybe it was some weird. Or, like, because she's apparently, like. Changed her look? Yeah, she's changed her look. Maybe he said something about it. He's like, wow, she looks, like, really good now. Yeah. That maybe set this girlfriend off. I mean, it's also. You have the element, like, of they are still friends, right? He's still friends with his ex, which is totally fine, but some people, clearly, like, in the case of this new girlfriend, are uncomfortable by it. Because they're just like, what if he wants to get back with her? And that's the first day that they met, too. That is true, yeah. Yeah, that's true. So awkward. Is it the first day that they've met? If I'm the new partner, I'm going to want to definitely, like, make some good impressions. Like, I'm going to want to, like, show up as my best self in front of everyone. And they're just, like, starting fights and being really petty. See, I think I knew at a young age, like, I know they're young, but I knew that I'm, like, being insecure about someone's ex is, like, such a red flag. Yeah. That I'm like, your best bet is to be chill and not make a big deal about it. Or if you're going to say something, say it in private. Yeah. Be like, hey, like, I feel uncomfortable about this situation. I mean, even if it's irrational, like, that's how you have to handle it. You don't go and make rude comments to them, to their face. I think that takes a level of emotional maturity and vulnerability to admit when you're feeling threatened or jealous. Because I think when you do that, it's admitting that you are the one that has the work to do. You know, if you say, hey, I'm jealous of your ex in your life, it's like, oh, I have work to do on myself to not be jealous. It's not the ex's fault. It's my fault that I'm feeling jealous. At least that's what it sounds like in this situation. This girlfriend, too, her comment is really messed up because it's not just insulting the OP. It's insulting potentially a lot of people in that situation by saying, why would I, like, in regards to would you ever do cosplay? Right. They go, oh, like, they're basically saying anyone who does cosplay is a slut. But you know that she's not saying, you know that she's- I know that she's not, but it's still just like- She's saying this directly. She's saying this directly about OP. Yeah, 100%. And everybody in that situation probably recognized that, including the ex. And she probably, I don't know, maybe she also felt maybe a little jealousy that the OP was getting all this attention at the Comic-Con, like making these snide little quips and stuff whenever somebody asked to take a photo with her. I think that stuff is like, it's cool, like you've spent all this time on a, on a costume and people want to share that enthusiasm and take pictures of you or take pictures with you. It's funny though to be, like, it's funny to be jealous of that when it's like, yeah, because they're at a convention where dressing up as cosplay is the point of it. So yeah, they're getting attention because they're doing that. But I also believe, like, I see what you're saying because people who get jealous and aren't clocking, like, the irrationality of it. She's jealous. It's like, yeah, yeah, because they're doing the thing that people do here. This episode of Reddit Stories is sponsored by Small. We've talked about our favorite dinners all the time on this channel, but what about my cat's food? They deserve the best meals that are not only healthy, but tasty. Small's fresh cat food is protein-packed recipes made with preservative-free, 100% human-grade ingredients you'd find in your fridge. 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Comments, I'll apologize after your girlfriend apologizes for implying that we, the people cosplaying, were sluts. Short, sweet, and to the point. Let's see his hypocrite ass respond to that. I'd also tell your friend group that is your stance. It's the most fair for everyone involved. Someone said not the asshole, so it was perfectly okay, for her to bully you all day, but the second you clap back, which anyone would do after being called a slut, she's suddenly the victim and you have to apologize? No. She shouldn't give if she can't take. She started it. It's not your fault that she's so ridiculously insecure that she has to tear you down to feel better about herself. It's not your fault. She's immature. Lastly, someone said not the asshole. Keep in mind, you are 22 and this is probably not your forever friend group. If they want you to go against your values to keep the peace, don't. You're not the one in the wrong. Yeah, I mean, early 20s, you could keep a lot of those friends, but you should not devalue yourself for your friend group or minimize yourself. I will say, the ex, I don't like that he is trying to control the dynamic of the friend group. He's like, I'm threatening to leave if you don't abide by my girlfriend who I'm bringing into the fold. It's like, hey, this is the friend group. You guys have to operate as your own. Yeah. I feel like there is still room for a level set Yeah. Of like, hey, you know, bring everyone together, bring all the parties together and be like, hey, like I reacted this way because what you said was really hurtful and the actions that you did throughout the day also hurt me. I'm sorry I, you know, reacted in this way, but there was hurt there from things that you did. And so I think, I think there's, there's a way out of this and there's a way to, you know, preserve the friend group if, if, if they, if the OP wanted that. Yeah. It would require, it would require both parties to be on board with that sort of like level set. It would require a lot of work. I, I think OP should probably talk to the other people in the friend group first. Yeah. About the situation, because if they're all there and witness all this, it's tough, man. Man, when you're in a friend group and two people start dating. And then they break up, it's like, all right, like that's on them to manage that. I, if, if I was. That's why Anthony and I have never dated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it would, it would just be like really tough. We didn't want to risk that. Yeah, it would be really tough. Yeah. Tough choice. If I'm like the friends in the friend group, I'm pissed at this guy. Yeah. Because I'm like, hey, like you are doing the thing that breaks up friend groups. Like, I'm sorry, man. Like, this is the situation. You got to navigate this. He's trying to control. OP. And the friend group. Yeah. By saying like, I'm going to leave if this. Yeah. People don't accommodate me. It's just like, dude, fuck you. Like, I'm sorry. It's like, okay, then leave, I guess. Yeah. Like, it might be what has to happen. One of them has to go. Yeah. It's just like, if, but he's, he is bringing the insecurity about. Yeah. His insecurity is causing all the issues. Or I mean, I guess, and the person he's dating. But like, it's going through him. And then he's saying, everyone needs a change because of my insecurities. Yeah. Or my, my girlfriend's. Or my partner's insecurities. Yeah. Update. Oh! Okay. So let's see what happens here. This is five days later. Okay. Some shit's gone down in five days. She's like, I found a cosplay I'm doing that's even sluttier. I'm cosplaying as your girlfriend. I'm. Full titty out. I'm Bayonetta. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'm silent. Yeah, I'm silent. Dude, imagine showing. That was a. That was from Metal Gear Solid 5. Oh. It's basically like. I didn't get that far. It's in a big. It's a big fully naked. Bikini warrior. Yeah. Is that late in the game? Because I only played the first 40 hours. That game is like 200 hours. Yeah, I think it's halfway. Because Metal Gear 5. Yeah. Am I thinking of five? No, I think you are. Yeah. The open world Metal Gear. Yeah, I was like 40 hours deep in that. I didn't see her. I think she probably comes in about 50 or 60 hours. Anyway, I got to hear this update. All right. Sorry, I got distracted. Wow. I didn't expect this post to blow up as much as it did. Thank you for all the support, understanding, and kind comments. First of all, I want to apologize. If the redaction in the original post wasn't the best. English is not my first language, and I kind of wrote it in the heat of the moment. Second of all, my ex left the friend group and took his new girl with him. Good riddance. After a final attempt at making me apologize, he left the chat through a long paragraph of text and a block to every single person involved. The two ex friends who asked me to apologize to him followed suit. I'm not surprised in the slightest, since they've been his friends longer than they have been mine. I will admit I'm a bit heartbroken about it, but I'll get over it. Of course. My ex DM'd me to call me an immature bitch one last time, then proceeded to block me as well. I'm honestly fine with that. Now for some clarifications on the original post. Yeah, I admit the screaming match was very immature and impolite of us. I don't want to make excuses, but after a whole day at the con, we were all tired, hungry, and very annoyed. Emotions were running high, and we behaved very immaturely. Thankfully, that particular place is used to dealing with con attendees and weren't too harsh on us. We did leave a big tip as an apology to everyone asking if I'll post. I don't know if it's the cosplay I am flattered, but while I believe I've become a bit more confident in myself. They're like, oh, we just got to see it. Yeah, nice going, Reddit. Good job. Cool story. Let's do photos. We'll be the judge if it's slutty enough. Yeah. I don't think I'm ready to blast it to thousands of people on the internet just yet. Maybe I'll upload something to my main account at some point, but definitely not here. Just in case anyone wants to know what the screaming match scene looked like, only five people out of the 11 were wearing regular clothes. The others were all in cosplay. I love that. I love that. Remember myself, Chamber, to Micus, a cave from Genshin, and a friend's original character. Again, thank you all, and sorry if you were expecting a more dramatic update. I'll reach out if anything more interesting happens, though I really doubt it. See ya. That's so funny. If I saw this, if I saw someone recording this on TikTok, I would be watching this whole clip. Yeah. That sounds awesome. Oh, I'm sure fights happen at every convention. Oh, yeah. Because they are, it's always hot. Yeah. I'd love to see a fight at a furry convention. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure you can find him. David Attenborough's narrating it from somewhere. Yeah. As you can see, the foxes have gotten into a tiff. Oh, man. I know. I got some Google searches in my future. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. We combine these first two stories. Yeah. Furries getting in a fight at McDonald's. Hell, yeah. Oh, I'm in. Some prime entertainment there. I never thought about people going to a con as their OC. As an original character? Yeah. Oh, yeah. If they're putting stuff out there. I don't know. Interesting. People do all sorts. People really go for niche things. They really do. Because there was a few times back in the day when we would go to Comic-Con, and I was like, I'm rarely recognizing things. Yeah. And I'm in, but nobody's going to go as the most popular stuff. They got to find the niche. They got to show that they know ball. Exactly. They're like, I went as the chef from episode 219 of One Piece. Yeah. That was in the background. But that's going to be a really sick fucking ref for the five people there. Yeah. You've seen all the Chosen. There's this trend of people going to these cons as Chosen. There's videos of them coming down escalators. It's so funny. There's just like 50 Chosen's down an escalator. Yeah. I would be disappointed. Yeah, have you seen these popping up? No. Oh, people really go as the Chosen a lot. It's a great costume for a con. Yeah. I am very honored whenever I see people dressing up as the Chosen. It's so dope. If people get in a fight as the Chosen, I will be disappointed. Yeah. Because that goes against the character. Chosen uses words. Yeah. Well, at our Smosh Reads Reddit store, our show in London, these two people went as Zok-Dok. Oh, I saw Zok and I saw Dok. One shirt said Zok, the other shirt said Dok. That's the deep ref right there. I was like, you guys are doing free advertising. Okay. So this dude split up the friend group. Entirely split in half. Split up the friend group. Yikes. And in such a lame way too, being like, I'm going to write this huge paragraph and I'm going to block everyone so you can't respond to it. And everyone's a bitch. Embarrassing. It is embarrassing. Anyways, moving on. I don't feel like either of these have been like revenge as much as these are people standing their ground in a very fair way. Yeah. So far, I believe. I mean, it's kind of like a big reaction, maybe, but it seems appropriate for the situation. Yeah. To some degree. I'm on their sides. Yeah. Our next story comes from True Off My Chest. This was posted in 2023. My ex-girlfriend, got revenge on me and I'm so broken. Oh. Whoa. Oh, this is from this perspective. Yeah, interesting. This is going to be a. The vengeance receiver. Yeah. I feel like this is going to be a heartbreaking perspective. I, a 25-year-old man, have been with my ex-girlfriend, Carly, 23, for nearly 10 years. We were high school sweethearts and had a good relationship up until after she completed college. Adulthood has been putting a strain on our relationship, so bills and finding sustaining jobs has been a challenge. We started arguing a bunch and just started overall being annoyed with each other's existence. We weren't sleeping in the same room, let alone being intimate. It was a tough time, to say the least. We tried therapy and I felt like it wasn't working. I honestly wanted to be done, but I couldn't break up with her because we lived together and she helped me get out of debt. So I did something horrible and I started cheating on her with her childhood best friend. Ugh. Ooh. Her other childhood best friend? Ugh. I thought she would never find out and my gosh, I was wrong. Pfft. Yesterday afternoon, I came home and she wanted to talk and without hesitation, she jumped straight into it and asked me point blank if I was cheating on her and I of course tried to lie and she just starts laughing and says, I knew you weren't going to admit it, but I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, so now I just feel less guilty. I just confessed to her and she just looked at me and didn't have any expression nor speak. When I finished, she just laughed and told me and I will never forget it. Honestly, it's fine because Louis was over last weekend and we had a great time. Oh. My heart dropped to my stomach because Louis is my big brother. Oh. Oh my God. Oh, that is diabolical. This is messy. Diabolical. This is messy. You kept it in the family? God damn. Ugh. I just thought it was a low blow on Carly given she knew how insecure I was about my brother. He's the golden child and literally always did things ten times better than me. I'm stuck having to have some sort of Six inches taller. Yeah. Bigger dong. Eight pack. Maybe even ten pack. I'm stuck having to have some sort of relationship with him and meanwhile, she can just drop her friend. My chest and heart have been hurting so much since I found out and I'm so broken. I know I was wrong for cheating first, but if she knew. But if she knew, why didn't she just break up with me first? I called out of work because I feel like throwing up just thinking about it. Edit. I did not intend for this to be a viral post. I'm just extremely hurt and I get I fucked up. Also, yes. Yes, I know she did because she offered video proof and my brother has been dodging my calls. What the hell? I'm going actually insane right now and all you people here are just obsessed with kicking me while I'm down and it's fucked up. Like I get it, LOL, so funny. She won, good for her. Also with the debt, she helped me pay off. She just did it from her inheritance. I didn't- It was just her inheritance. If she asks for the money back, I will be willing to set up some payment arrangement with her. Oh my- This is insane. So messy. And he's the victim. He thinks he's the victim here. And she's offering to send him a video of her fucking his brother? Damn. That's crazy. This is chaos. Oh my God, bro. Oh my God. You know what? Okay, okay. There's a million things going on. One is him going, like, why didn't she just break up with me? Right. Like, buddy, we could ask the same thing of you. Right? And you're giving all these excuses of like, well, the situation's weird and we're living together and stuff. I'm like, yeah, that's kind of why cheating is so shitty because yeah, you're stuck in that situation. Yeah. If you're gonna cheat, you need to just break up. He's like, she could have just cheated on me with anyone else. Yeah. So that it wouldn't have been too hurtful. Yeah, it hurt me too much. Like, you already chose her childhood best friend. Yeah, which is diabolical. Like, it's already, I mean. How, and also like, to say, to say, I didn't think she'd find out. How dumb are you? Like, Dude, if you're gonna cheat. Of all the people in the world. If you are going to cheat, you have to know that that shit is gonna get found out. Especially someone so close to her, right? Oh my God. The closest person. Yeah. Outside of a brother, maybe. What the fuck? She one-upped me slightly. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, duh, she's gonna find out. Okay, though the best childhood best friend and his brother, diabolical human. Oh, they're horrible. Everyone's horrible. Everyone sucks here. Everyone here sucks. Like that's not, I guess it's not her childhood best friend. No. Like what the hell? And then his brother, like his brother just sounds like he's the devil. Like just living to ruin his life. I mean, I think, I think that dynamic happens a lot more than we think. I mean, it's just awful of like people. I mean, you, I mean, I think a lot of times like, I feel like we've all kind of heard stories of like people where it's like, oh, this like couple got divorced. And then one person started seeing the other person in the family. Like, I feel like that happens not like often, but, but often enough to know it's like an existing. Only one out of every 10,000 writes a Reddit post about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. This episode of Reddit stories is sponsored by Zoc Doc. Life has some pretty big moments like moving to a new, a new state or starting a new job, getting situated and starting over can feel like a daunting task. That's why I use Zoc Doc. Zoc Doc lets you search and compare local in-network doctors. Imagine just logging onto the free Zoc Doc app, entering your location, adding your insurance. And just like that, you can line up all your appointments for the year. 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She didn't earn it. - She didn't earn it. - I don't know. - It was free money. - Free money. - And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital. "I'm gonna go to the hospital. "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And she was like, "I'm gonna go to the hospital." And I was like, repercussions you know like i'm just like i just think it's bad for you i feel like it would be such a haunting feeling totally to just to live like it's it's i think it's the same with doing anything and getting away with it like people who get away with a murder right where i'm just like you're now living day to day in this weird simulation of like everyone's talking to me as if i am someone yeah right and nobody knows me i'm like it's got to be isolating um and that's why like i know like isn't it a weird thing that with cheating the cheater can develop a resentment towards their partner for for like not knowing and like it's a weird i'm like it's one of those things i'm like i don't want to deal with the psychological horrors that come with that yeah and like a lot of times it comes up on on this show like and you even mentioned like when someone is so concerned about their partner cheating so often they're the ones usually that's why the idea is planted in their head first place the biggest red flag is like severely levels of suspicion yeah yeah and that's just their own anxiety going crazy because they're anxious about this own situation their own situation yeah they're being anxious about everything because how you can't trust anyone if you know you've gotten away with yeah yeah that's true it's like it was so easy for me to get away with everyone's getting away with it's truly like uh it's like a horror to me yeah i agree anyways moving on because that that is that is the revenge so far that was crazy that is revenge that was that was the first like real also true diabolical revenge that was some game of thrones revenge where it's like the revenge had already been lain right it was like oh i've already done it uh i want to see the scene like reenacted which with like game of thrones theme right i could see that yeah oh yeah that'd be a good episode i want to see i want to see like the the girlfriend comment and be like yeah and i'm with i'm with his brother and he's great everything is awesome taller longer wider faster stronger we're buying a house i'm already pregnant with his child better hairline better way better hairline oh it makes a really mean baked zd oh yeah what is that whatever pasta okay all right our final story comes from petty revenge this was posted uh the week of christmas 2025 oh merry christmas i ate a bag of rich man's nut so my boss would stop coming into my office and eating the rich man's nuts okay coming into the office all right the way this is phrases yeah it's a lot there's a lot going on here it's the holidays so the company i work for gets a lot of gift baskets from our clients and vendors i work in a department that because of the work we do we share their gifts with us thankfully someone shared a couple of baskets with nuts candies crackers etc the vp has been coming into our office almost every day to pick from our gift baskets he doesn't do this to any of the other departments and i have seen him get a couple of baskets himself and never shared them we had an unopened basket and he opened it then chose the most expensive item a bag of pistachios and ripped into it stealing some of our pistachios then said i love the rich man's nut so are pistachios the rich man's nut they are more expensive oh wow especially if especially if they come pre-shelled i gotta learn about the harvesting process of of these things to justify the price of these rich men they are delicious i do like i feel like pistachios on a lot of like expensive uh like desserts and stuff yeah like a middle eastern dessert yeah like baklava yeah pistachio on the top uh is uh what is it is dubai chocolate is that pistachio or yep oh yes yes pistachio okay so the vice president is coming into their office grabbing pistachios and saying i love the rich man's nut and these are gift and these are gifts these are gift baskets that were for the workers so for the workers for departments they're a department that doesn't get many gifts so like someone else gave them some of theirs and this vice president's waltzing in taking the best things from their basket do you remember we had somebody we had somebody back in the defy days what do you know on your fingers this sounds like a mystery a mysterious story what is this remember when we had we had somebody back in the defy days there was an executive there was an executive at defy and there was a bowl of m&ms and they would walk in and just like grab m&ms and somebody was like oh i saw that person not wash their hands they didn't yeah they go to the bathroom is this when i worked there or is this no this okay this was in the dark ages okay this is the year after and then they start then they would like walk into this room that had a bowl of m&ms and they were like oh i saw that person not wash their hands and they would just like stick their yeah dirty little wiener hands on into the m&ms the hands were bad enough yeah the unwashed hands were the rich man's nut it could have been peanut m&ms yeah oh boy yeah i do remember this oh those wiener hands uh this man makes five times what i do when the opportunity came for him to fight for raises for us he didn't and now he has come into our office and stealing our gifts and eating our rich man's nut this cannot continue i decided that i'm going to eat every single pistachio i don't particularly like pistachios or nuts but i am not gonna let him come in here and steal my rich man's nut i'm gonna eat them all to myself and enjoy every single last minute of it i have eaten four sleeves of nuts the basket is now empty my body doesn't feel good but my pride is intact knowing i am full of rich man nut while he cannot there's lots of other ways to get that you know i am full of rich man you can just get on like a sugar a sugar baby like website okay um there's there's lots of other ways why didn't this person just i don't know if you're finished with the story it's oh yeah okay okay why why didn't this person just like hide them just tell their department hey like this guy shouldn't be stealing our rich man nuts i don't have to eat them all at once this counts as revenge because that also means the rest of the department doesn't yeah yeah yeah revenge on one person what are you what are you doing he cut off his nut yeah yeah what the fuck feeling from the rich and you're like you're like if robin hood ate the gold coins yeah he cut he cut off his balls to save his wieners you know what oh my god what is it the term the rest of the accounting department's like hey man where the pistachios go and he's over here like filled to the brim just like those pistachios are so filling i got a bag at the airport thinking i was just gonna chow down on the i i was so full with by a third of the way through yeah they're like really fatty yeah they're good for you but that's a that takes yeah he's got a lot of fiber i don't know i don't know how much fiber i don't know i just know they're really good for you yeah i don't know pistachios in particular i have a thing like almonds and stuff yeah okay walnuts i have some fiber yeah yeah um comments i mean you could have taken them to someone who would enjoy them but i still approve that guy is a jerk someone said life pro tip you have enough pistachio paste inside of you right now that if you dipped yourself in dark chocolate you'd be the world's largest dubai chocolate that's a thought wow but you'd also need like phyllo dough too yeah yeah you need a lot of stuff someone said that's nuts just put the best stuff in your drawers and leave the cheapest for him op said bro that's the fucked thing we hid them twice and he still found it and ate our stuff oh i think your vice president is a squirrel yeah i was thinking he's like yeah he's like he's like a truffle pig you know he's like i know they're around here so pistachios um yeah i don't know if that counts as vengeance i think vengeance would be you'd have to swap them out with like those super spicy nuts yeah oh yeah or something like that you gotta you gotta get him but he was unharmed in this process there's so many fun ways he could have gone about that revenge yeah right he could have swapped them out all for shelled pistachios oh or if he really want to put in the time he could have taken taken them out of the taking the pistachio out of the shell just gave a bunch of shells oh a bunch of shells bunch of shells yeah or or or went through all the pistachios that have shells on them and only left in the ones that are you know sometimes they don't they don't quite oh there's not enough like of a gap to actually get them out of the shell yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah break a fingernail i really can't do anything that that i have to shell i i struggle with that stuff i'm like i don't want to work for okay privilege i truly yeah i'll crack those thick ass nuts in my teeth though and it's scary that's crazy it's scary you're like that i might lose something you know what he also could have done is attach the bag of pistachios to like a like a string like a pulley system so when he grabbed the pistachios two logs came down it's oh yeah okay great that's gonna be an awkward he walked into his office the guy's hanging from the ceiling like yeah yeah you know did this guy not watch home alone were his wheels not turning yeah clearly i mean he can up his game here yeah instead he hurt his stomach instead he felt full yeah congrats man on him ate a bunch of pistachios you could just take if you're gonna eat them i'll just take the pistachios home like what are you doing why did you eat them on one sitting there's so many other things he could have done and he chose the silliest all right i want to know if the dude came in and was like where are they where am i They're in my belly. They're in me. Then I'm going to eat you. She just tears open his stomach. All right. Well, that was our final story. Wow. Some good vengeance today. Was there? Well, nothing beats the one guy who's. The brother. Yeah, who cheated on his girlfriend and then she slept with his brother. That's peak vengeance. The rest was kind of silly, but still good. If anyone's sleeping with my childhood friend, I'm going to sleep with their brother. All right. And you heard it here, folks. It's the way the cookie crumbles. That's just how it goes. That's how it goes. It's the only logical thing. Hey, look, it's what you have to do. Anyways, thank you both for joining me. Of course. Had a great time. Thank you. Of course. I don't know. The way you said it, I was like. I'm just wrapping it up. Sure. Look, yeah. You walk into my office and I have a bowl of pistachio nuts. And I'm like, go ahead, Ian. Help yourself. You're like, what are you doing? The spicy ones. I'm on the phone with your brother. No! No! I'm calling your brother now. This is how I find out I have a brother. We found your long lost brother and I fucked him. I went on Ancestry.com. I have a brother? And I found your brother. And I fucked him. And you're just like. You just put the pistachio back in the bowl. Yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you both for joining. Thank you. And thank you for watching. We'll see you next Saturday. Goodbye. Bye. Bye. Thanks again to DoorDash for sponsoring this episode of Reddit Stories.