u/Jeded_Janifar

A guy a couple houses down kept walking his big lab past my duplex and for like almost two weeks there'd be fresh dog shit right by my mailbox every morning. Not off in the grass somewhere. Right by the post, so I had to do this dumb little sidestep every time I got my mail.

At first I figured maybe someone just missed it. Then I noticed it always seemed to happen after this same guy walked by with his dog, doing that fake distracted phone stare while the dog squatted.

One morning I caught it from my window. Dog does its thing, guy looks back, then starts walking off. I went outside and said, “hey, you gonna get that?” and he goes, “i dont have a bag.” Like that solved anything. I said then maybe don’t walk your dog without one, and he just shrugged and kept going.

That shrug pissed me off more than the actual crap, so I stopped being nice. I bought a cheap box of poop bags, and for the next week every time his dog left one by my mailbox, I scooped it up and dropped the tied bag on his porch. Nothing crazy, just neat little returns.

By day 3 he definitely knew. By day 6 he knocked on my door and told me I was being childish. I told him whats childish is thinking your dogs mess becomes my problem because your re lazy. Then he tried to say I could have just talked to him, which was insane because thats literally what I did first.

Anyway, after that, his dog magically never shit by my mailbox again. Dude suddenly discovered bags exist.

Maybe it was petty, but extremely effective!

A few years ago I worked front desk at a crappy highway hotel and one hight I comped a room for a guy I knew because he kept whining that he was stranded. I wasn't supposed to do it, but I figured I coukd fix it in the system before morning.

I forgot.

The next day my manager found the missing payment and started asking questions in front of everyone. My coworker Jen (name changed) had checked that room out that morning, so it started looking like she was the one who messed it up.

Jen was already on thin ice there, so once suspicion landed on her, nobody pushed back that hard. not even me. She kept saying she didn’t do it, but she got written up again and then fired a week later after some other issue.

I said nothing. I told myself she probably would’ve been fired soon anyway, and if I admitted it I’d lose my job too.

The worst part is Jen texted me after asking if I really thought she did it, because everyone was acting like she was lying. I sent back some fake supportive bullshit, and she thanked me for being nice.

That part still makes me feel worse than the firing itself, because she reached out to the one person who knew she was innocent and I let her keep thinking nobody believed her.

My sister asked me for $600 last month and said it was for rent. she was crying, said she was behind, said she was screwed if she got hit with another late fee. I believed her and sent $400, which was basically my emergency money.

A week later I went to her place and saw a brand new tattoo, shopping bags, and expensive sneakers with the tags still on. later she admitted rent was mostly covered already. she just said it was for bills because she knew I’d send money faster.

That’s what really got me. she used my guilt about her kids and lied to my face for money I really could not spare.

I told her I wanted it back, and she laughed and said I was being cold over $400 because family helps family.

Then I found out she gave our mom the same rent story because mom was about to send her another $300. I told mom the truth before she did, then told my sister I’m done helping with cash, rides, babysitting, all of it until she pays me back.

Now the family is split. my mom agrees she lied but thinks I kicked her while she was already down. my sister says I humiliated her over one mistake. I keep going back and forth because she absolutely lied, but cutting her off doesn't just hit her. it hits the kids too