I know two people I'd characterise as evil. I can't think of appropriate vengeance, so I suppose I don't really want any.

Yeah, ditto. In any case, they brought their vengeance on themselves. They've lost friends, large swathes of their family think they're insane in the membrane, and they missed watching their daughter become a truly incredible woman. By taking on and conquering all the negativity, personal demons and trauma they saddled her with. And now they want a relationship with her again, but they'll never regain the trust they pissed on.

There really seems to be little for me to bother with.

Actually, just the opposite. See my previous post about my difficulties trying to think of people upon whom I desire vengeance. I am admittedly scraping the bottom of the barrel. Lacking anyone I carry a burning hatred for in my heart, bad LA drivers make an easy target.

But you aren't required to wish vengeance upon anyone. Unless of course you felt obliged to provide David with some amusement.

Cash, some people have issues. Once some guy cursed me out for crossing the street while visibly pregnant. It seems I was interfering with his right to run the red light.

this isn't really in answer to David's question, but on most days, I think about half the people I come in contact with deserve to be zapped with a stun gun.

(that's for sara).

Frances is teaching Isaac how to draw.

Awww! How sweet. In a year or two, she'll be playing school and teaching him how to read, like my sister did when she started kindergarten. I partially credit her with my knowing how to read before I started school.

How's that working out for Isaac?

Not so bad. I mean, she keeps trying to take the pens away, but then again he wasn't drawing so much as he was trying to eat them. He did make a few marks on the paper, but she pretty much drew rings around him.

For purely narrative purposes, tell me an occasion where somebody did you wrong in such an egregious manner that they deserved to have a hellish revenge visited upon them.

Just one?

The person I'd most like revenge upon is, I believe, a sociopath, so I don't know if any revenge is possible. He was my best friend for about 10 years, and when my dad was diagnosed with cancer he was suddenly unable to do so much as return my calls. For a year. If I hadn't felt like I was losing my mind at the time, it would have been funny. He did offer to come down when my dad died, but since slapping someone at a funeral seemed uncouth, I told him not to trouble himself.

Note that this isn't why I think he's a sociopath. That's a much more involved story. I don't want vengeance for that; I want vengeance because I felt betrayed.

Oh, but the fucktard who put me on 80+ mailing lists because I dissed their TV show or whatever can burn in hell.

Vengeance. Huh. He cheated on me with nearly every woman I knew. Stole my car. Attacked and tried to kill me, more than once. Caused me to lose my job, my money, my credit rating, my house, my cats, my self-confidence, and my best friend (who died as a more-or-less direct result of his actions).

He went to jail for a few years, and is now out. There is no revenge I could exact that would make a damn bit of difference.

People wonder why I'm a little jumpy.

Family members or non? Family members: My awful stepmonster, who held a particularly painful piece of history against my mother that I didn't know about AND treated me like I would turn into a giant whore because of it for at least two very formative years...I hate her and if I could kill her and get away with it, I would.(And I almost know how, too.) Non would have to be the jerk who stole my wallet at Christmas time.

Unless of course you felt obliged to provide David with some amusement.

That was it. The man asked for specific examples, I tried to provide.

I kinda came up short though, not having a lot of people I want to be revenged against.

I think I could make up your shortfall, Sean. I'm not proud of it.