I went into a tobacco store to buy a lighter one time, the guy behind the counter didn't say "hello," he didn't say "how can I help you," he just bitched because I held the door open for the guy behind me and let a fly into the store. I apologized, but he just wanted to continue bitching about me letting bugs into the store.

I put the lighter on the counter and said, "nevermind, you're clearly not interested in my business."

He then chased me out of the store, threw the lighter at me and hit me in the head, and proceeded to call me a "fucking faggot," and tell me he would end my life if I ever came into his store again.

I never have.

With somebody you knew? How much revenge did he deserve on a scale from crabs to cancer?

someone I knew and had to see everyday. At the time I felt it worthy of ruining his life by destroying his prospects of the career path he wanted.

Now, enh.

Beej has the best doctor.

Billytea's ex-inlaws are simply vile.

Beej has the best doctor.

Billytea's ex-inlaws are simply vile.

Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Billytea's ex-inlaws are simply vile.

Ayup. And here's the kicker: a few months after the wedding, they turned up and invaded our home while I was still at work, and proceeded to traumatise Bec all over again. And I didn't feel able to call the police because I didn't know (and she certainly couldn't decide) if that would just make things even harder for Bec.

And they stayed the entire night. Taking our bed.

Billytea's ex-inlaws are simply vile.

"As God is my witness, no daughter of mine will ever date an actuary!"

Good God, that's awful. Craxy.

A former roomie pulled a practical joke having the friend he was supposed to be visiting for a weekend call me and our mutual roommate to ask why he hadn't shown up hours before as expected. Leading us to believe he'd had a car breakdown or accident on the way there. Did I mention this happened during the first-run broadcast of the Star Trek: Next Generation series finale? The missing roomie called just before we were ready to notify the highway patrol, put out that we'd upset his mother and other friends in the area when we tried to determine if he'd made an unplanned side trip.

Third roomie just barely talked me down from moving all the guy's stuff out of the apartment in his absence and giving it away to Goodwill.

When I was in college, I got fed up with being the news editor of the college paper and quit in fairly dramatic fashion. My suitemate, the A&E editor, encouraged me the whole time, even reading my bridge-burning email before I sent it and talking me out of any doubts.

She then

• refused to take my side in a meeting with the Dean
• started talking about me behind my back to everyone I didn't know, about what a horrible person I was and how I tried to ruin the paper
• encouraged me and my co-editor to come back to the paper, and then sabotaged our application for EIC once it had been accepted, forcing the offer to be retracted
• printed an enemies list in the newspaper with my name on it while I was out of the country
• requested that I bring her things from abroad
• pretended to be my friend even after I learned of all of this

As for the revenge, I used to have a list. Now, NSM.