Name something mean you did that you don't regret.

[Radical Activist]

Have you ever done something mean and cruel that you absolutely do not regret? Maybe they deserved it. Maybe you have no guilt about anything in life. Tell the story!

I have something in mind but I'm going to see if I can remember a better example.

[Redstone]

1. Well, I got a guy I never even met fired from his job...

Remember those "work from home" signs you used to see all over the telephone poles? They were put up by Herbalife distributors...I tracked down the identity of a guy who plastered them all over my town, and did a bit of research on him.

It turned out that he worked for a company that did service and repairs on lab instruments. So I went there one morning and waited until he got into his truck to go on service calls. (He had a picture of himself on his herbalife distributor website, the dumb schmuck). I followed him to four service calls that day, and took pictures of him stopping for a total of two hours to nail up signs on the phone poles.

I sent his boss a nice note with time-stamped pictures of the clown putting the signs (which are illegal), with the company truck right beside him, on company time. I asked his boss how the company liked being associated with an illegal activity because of that employee, and how did the company like the guy using company time to promote his little moonlighting business?

He got fired within a few days. I called the company the following week, asked for him, and was told that he didn't work there anymore.

I don't regret that even the tiniest bit. Those sign spammers make me as angry as e-mail spammers do. Any asshole who thinks he has a right to ugly up my pretty little town with his illegal trash gets a rapid correction.

Redstone

[Radical Activist]

2. Pretty cold

but yeah, the guy pretty much deserved it.

[Redstone]

32. I am merciless with those fucking sign spammers. Even when it's a local

business that gets the bright idea that they should be able to use someone else's property without permission to advertise their business.

NO spam signs survive more than one day in my town. The Little Guy even likes coming with me to tear them down (or pull them up, if they're on those wire stakes in the ground) and take them to the dump. I'm teaching him to do his civic duty, helping to keep his town clean.

Redstone

[proud2BlibKansan]

65. If he was posting signs against the war or signs that supported a

political cause you support would you have turned him in?

[bettyellen]

3. i spit in someone's face. right between the eyes.

he was wacking off on the train, and i was in no mood. LOL.
yup, it was me who got to throw off some bodily fluids. :rofl:

[Redstone]

4. That wasn't mean. That was justice.

Redstone

[bettyellen]

8. i didn't plan on it, but it felt kinda good.

wall streeters are the biggest pervs in nyc. i was a little fed up in general by that shit.
:hi:

[Redstone]

11. He was a Wall Street Wanker? Well, I guess they all are.

Redstone

[Radical Activist]

7. Now that's funny.

No reason to regreat that one!

[bettyellen]

10. the change in the expression on his face was fucking priceless, heh heh.

[DS1]

35. was it a pocketpool thing, or a fully out thing?

no, i'm not doing it while i'm asking - just sitting here in amazement

[bettyellen]

39. fully out, 1 AM, i am the only person on the last car of the train...

and am forced to get within 2 feet of him to exit.
what pissed me offf was how very VERY happy he was when i noticed and looked, uhm startled.
he enjoyed that reaction to it waaay to much. that was really creepy, the look on his face.
yuuck, i'm seeing it again. splat, got him right between the eyes too. had no idea i was going to do that, i was so shocked, i laughed all the way to my local bar, and everybody toasted me till closing.

[DS1]

40. good work

:thumbsup:

[amitten]

71. My friend in Chicago saw a guy using a dildo on himself on the

Blue Train. He had it under a trenchcoat (kind of) and had his legs up on the back of the seat in front of him. NICE! She of course was fully traumatized.

[Radical Activist]

87. I always say

you can do and see everything in Chicago.

[GirlinContempt]

5. Too many to count.

:D

[Radical Activist]

6. Interesting comment

:yoiks:

[GirlinContempt]

12. Sometimes, it's necessary.

[Darth_Kitten]

9. Once voted conservative.....

I don't regret it because it was a one time thing. ;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. When I was in beauty school, my ex-the sperm donor for my daughter-

came in for a haircut at my beauty school and requested me. He had been abusive and cruel to me...and I had finally gotten the courage to leave him. The director of the school said I HAD to cut his hair (ridiculous, given today's anti stalking laws) since he had paid extra. So I did. I cut all of it. Off. Think of Bon Jovi mid 80's...and then think military recurit. Yes...this is what I did, and I would do it again. I wanted to humiliate him as much as he humiliated me. It being a beauty school, clients sign waivers.

[bettyellen]

15. wow,

:applause:

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. It was the single most emancipating thing I've done in my life.

:hi:

[bettyellen]

31. good for you! i love you for it.

he went in expecting to get some twisted satisfaction, and you turned the tables on him.
very cool. i hope he learned a lesson from it.
:hi:

[Radical Activist]

18. That's a good one.

You may win the prize.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. A new pair of scissors!

:hi:

[Redstone]

19. Well, all RIGHTY then. I respect you even more now than I

already did. Good for you.

Redstone

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. Thanks Redstone!

He made my life miserable for awhile after that...but we had his parental rights severed (he's a very bad person) and MrG adopted Nicole when she was 7. He had been her daddy from the time she was two anyway. She's the single good, wonderful,thing that came from a bad period in my life. :hi:

[Redstone]

29. Know what you mean. Though I only suffered for 4 years with

the lunatic mother of my older son. Haven't had to endure her presence in years, and neith has he.

(And I'm not using the word "lunatic" because I don't like her. She had serious mental-health issues, and would not even acknowledge them, much less seek treatment.)

And, similarly to your husband, Mrs R has been "Mom" to him since he was five...

Redstone

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. The world needs more MrsR's and MrG's...

She has to be a wonderful woman. I'm so happy for you both.

[fishwax]

48. fan-damn-tastic

:applause::bounce::applause:

[China_cat]

93. That's even better than the time

I starched my ex's clothes with HEAVY starch right before he went back to duty at Fort Sill. In July.

All his clothes. Including shorts. (Especially shorts)

[DainBramaged]

14. Kicked a dumb bigot out of my car in the rain on a major highway

I actually kicked him out of my car when he refused to get out. I wouldn't stand for one more "N" word out of his shit-hole. Never spoke to him, never found out what happened to him, never heard from him again. Never called his house and disassociated myself from all of our mutual card-playing buddies. If he had fallen down an embankment it would have been his own fault. He stood there calling me every bigoted curse word imaginable and kicked my car as I pulled away.

Long before cell phones were a dream and back when you'd pick up hitchhikers.

I hope he was picked up by his worst nightmare.

[Flaxbee]

16. Severed a friendship, no explanation given.

I don't feel it was mean so much as necessary for my sanity, but it sure wasn't nice and she probably was totally confused as to why I quit talking to her. She was such an energy drain - would never do anything to help herself, was always in need of something, never planned ahead, always always always needed help after getting herself into huge amounts of (usually financial) trouble or doing something incredibly stupid that made whatever problem she had much WORSE... etc. Nothing I did helped (for long) and I was so preoccupied with her life drama that it was just bad.

So I just walked away, no emails, no calls, no visits, nothing. No explanation. And I do not regret it, I feel like I got my life back.

[ChoralScholar]

45. I wondered why you quit calling me!!!!

:)

Good for you. We (my wife and I) had one too. Her name was Erin. We all have Erins in our lives at one time or another.

[Flaxbee]

59. LOL! It just so happens, that...

my name is Erin. Bwaahahahahahaha! You and Mrs. ChoralScholar didn't dump me, I DUMPED YOU!!! And by the way, I need some $$$, my toilet isn't working (I think I dumped too much clumping kitty litter down it - can you replace pipes, too?) and I need you guys to come over and fix it, I found this really cool new pyramid scheme to make money with, and ... can I just borrow your car for a few days to go visit my ex boyfriend in Florida?


Just kidding. Name is Erin, but I don't think we've ever met. Can't help but :rofl: at your reply, though! :hi:

[ChoralScholar]

70. Thats funny.

I WANT MY CAN OF VIENNA SAUSAGES BACK!!!!

:)

Good to meet you.... :toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

54. Did she happen to live in Wisconsin? (n.t)

[Flaxbee]

60. California...

...and I could tell someone I'd just met when I moved to Virginia had the potential to turn into a nightmare 'friend', so I nipped that one in the bud.

Users and "energy vampires" (don't really like that term but it actually is pretty appropriate) exist everywhere, looking for a nice person to latch on to...

Did you rid yourself of one in Wisconsin?

[Wapsie B]

61. That's a story similar to mine.

Nothing to add here at all. Glad you got out of it for your own peace of mind.

[XemaSab]

17. I had a so-called friend who screwed me over pretty bad

And I threw his keys in the sewage ponds. :D

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Rang the doorbell incessantly one morning...

To try and get my hungover roommate out of bed.

[graywarrior]

21. One day I was in a bar

A Hell's Angel bar. I was at a wedding reception. I went to the loo, and on my way out an HA was standing in the doorway and tossed a .....no, can't tell that one.

One day, two summers ago, my sis-in-law (whom we were living with for awhile) came home shitfaced and announced that Mr. Graywarrior was having an affair with his boss....naw, can't say what I did to correct her story.

I introduced a asshole relative's new business partner to her old business partner (who sued her). It just sorta happened. The results were sweet.

[Benfea]

22. When I was in high school, a cross was burned in a yard...

My father was stationed at MacDill Air Force Base (the command center of the part of the military responsible for the middle east), and so I spent my high school years in Brandon, FL outside of Tampa.

An Air Force colonel also stationed at MacDill retired and decided that he wanted to build a nice home in a nice neighborhood to raise his kids in. His house wasn't even finished and some idiots burned a cross in his yard and spray-painted racist slogans all over the construction site.

I was livid with rage.

Up until then, I had already heard and witnessed all manner of disgusting racist behavior. There was so much racism around me that I was afraid to mention that I wasn't racist for fear that the crazy fuckers around me would beat me or set me on fire or something. It was that bad. Pickup trucks full of rednecks would drive by black elementary schools and take potshots into the schools while cheering and hollering. (What was truly disgusting about these incidents was that they were never reported in the news, although my little brother attended that school and personally witnessed these events.)

But this incident with the colonel upset me more than any of the other incidents.

That colonel had spent his entire adult life in service to his country. He had spent his entire adult life prepared to die for the very people who vandalized his house. The incident terrified his young children, and he declared that if it weren't for his young children, he would have moved into that neighborhood anyway just to spite the racists.

The next morning at school, I was mad as hell about the incident, and some @$#%& racist dickhead approached me and started talking about the incident. He was all smiles and laughs and invited me to laugh with him. He was so happy that someone "taught that nigger a lesson."

The hallway was deserted (classes were in session), but I yelled so much, I'm sure people in classrooms across the building heard me. I unloaded on him with both barrels and told him exactly what I thought of him, and exactly why he was scum. I informed him that military folk tended to look after their own and if he strayed too close to the base, his continued good health was not guaranteed. As my yelling progressed, he visibly shrunk and cringed, looking confused and a little afraid. He couldn't fathom the idea of a white person not celebrating what happened, much less launching an all out verbal attack. I closed my tirade with the declaration "You're not good enough to lick that colonel's combat boots!" and stormed off.

I don't think I ever felt so good in my life.

PS — to anyone curious, this was in the mid 1980s, which is not so very long ago.

[Radical Activist]

26. cool

[hickman1937]

51. You danm libruls are wreking this cuntry!

:P :P :P Welcome to DU.

[Radical Activist]

23. I guess I'm not that mean.

Or else I selectively dis-remember the really mean things I've done intentionally. The worse thing I can think of is calling a woman some very nasty names you should never call a woman. I apologized the next day because I don't normally act that way, but the apology was the mistake. She deserved to be called far worse than any name I can come up with.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I intentionally forgot Poland, and cause a freeper to code brown his pants

[flvegan]

30. I stole

a couple dogs, and ended not only their suffering, but the business that the owners were in (selling puppies)...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=231&topic_id=3292

[AtomicKitten]

34. you are a hero

I have a rescued part-pit. Similar story. She is the sweetest dog.

I just can't understand how people can be so cruel.

You are a genuine hero.

[LeftyMom]

41. SO, when are you going to post the mean part?

:loveya:

[khashka]

33. Ok a couple things

that I did that were awful but I don't regret them - although I'm surprised I could act like that.

1. I was in a relationship with a couple - male and female. It lasted about six months. I only found out later they had made rules about it that she abided by and he didn't. He became very abuse toward her. Then when I stood up for her, he became verbally abusive to me. I threw a cup of coffee in his face. A terrible thing but it felt so good.

2. In college this girl used to hit me. Hard. Daily.It was awful. I eventually (after months and months) had my fill - I slammed her against a wall and told her if she ever touched me again I would really hurt her. I'm not proud of that, but I don't regret it either. She started the violence.... I do kind of wish I had handled it differently - but I had tried so many other things and this one finally worked. (Yeah, Khash beats women., I know, I know. But sometimes women beat men, and sometimes you have to say enough is enough and sometimes you have to say it forcefully.)


Khash.

[LeftyMom]

38. Defending yourself isn't unreasonable

If roles were reversed and a long-abused woman slamed a man up against the wall she'd get applause.

Men get abused too and the women who do it are evil bitches who deserve as much scorn as men who beat women get.

[khashka]

42. I think I was justified

but I'm an old fashioned guy - you never hit a woman. And I didn't. And I didn't hurt her, I just shocked and surprised her.

I'm not a violent man. I hate violence. Which has been a problem - cuz I keep on putting up with stuff and never hitting back. (I ended up in the hospital seven times - seven, count em - cuz the guy I was dating put me there. I never fought back - I wish I had. One good slug in the face and it would have stopped. Even the cops told me that!)


Khash.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

46. Had a similar #2 as you khashka

It happened like 2 weeks ago, I was at my college trying to go down a set of stairs, these two females where standing in front of the main stairs in the building (this is right at the time in between classes around 500 students use these stairs in 15 minutes) anyways one has her back against the top of the stairs the other one is spaced just where you couldn't get by her, I ask three times excuse me she doesn't move, I wasn't going to stand there all day waiting for her to move so I try going around her. My shoulder touches her back, I get around her about half way down the stairs I hear you "stupid F"N white honky can't even say excuse me" I yell back up "I said excuse me three times open your ears." Next thing I know I'm about to the last step on the next set of stairs and I get kicked in the ankles almost fall but I just trip, about drop my laptop I turn around to this witch talking smack to me, I spit in her face she's stand there shocked, starts to raise her hand to smack me I have a 20 bottle of coke in my other hand so I open it and splash her with the drink. she turns around and storms off, I'm standing there left wondering what the hell just happened. I don't hit women but I feel what I had to in the situation. I can't understand the arrogance of this female thinking it's alright to block a main stairway in a building during a very busy time, then ignoring someones request to get by, then getting mad and getting all racist on someone who tries to get around her. Then following up and attacking someone from behind. Then start talking more racist smack to someone after that. I'm honestly embarrassed to be but in that situation, but I did what I had to put out the fire of that witch.

[aclog]

36. I don't regret it bc it was a dark time in my life

and I was really fucking desperate, but I recognize it was a shitty thing I did

[LaraMN]

43. Oh boy.

*wince*
In high school, I befriended a girl just so I could steal her boyfriend. She never "got" what I was doing, and never blamed me for his dumping her, even though I dropped her as soon as they broke up. Ironically, after I got him to break up with her, we ended up being "just friends" and he dated one of my other friends. I ended up with him a couple years later, though. Bad karma for me, anyway. She was a nice girl, but she was pregnant by the end of high school, with some other guy.

On edit: I regret that I went about it the way I did, but I don't fully regret all aspects of it, since I'm married to "the guy," twelve years later!

[Radical Activist]

55. How evil

Sounds like typical high school girl stuff though.

[ChoralScholar]

44. I told a superintendent and his school board

that they were insulting me with their salary offer, and that they deserve the quality of teacher they'll get for that price.

"If you call me and offer me this salary for this job, I will TURN IT DOWN. My current district, which is half your size, and a fourth of your median income pays me more than this. You should be ashamed to even ask me to come for this price. I won't do it, and no one else who is any good will either."

I was pissed. Very affluent town... they lured me up there to interview by offering a stipend or extended contract... when I got there, they had nothing.

They had to hire whoever they could get at the last minute. Serves them right.

[Orangepeel]

50. that wasn't the least bit mean

just business. it sounds like you did exactly the right thing.

[wickerwoman]

47. I do regret it slightly but...

I was standing in line to buy popcorn at the movie theater and the girl was taking forever because the three guys in front of me in line went to the same school as her and they were just standing around chatting while I was clearly waiting to be served. I hurrumphed, I stood on tiptoe, I said "Excuse me" but she ignored me. Finally, literally about twenty minutes later, the food came out for the guys (a huge popcorn, three large cokes, chicken fingers, a little pizza and two boxes of candy) and they took out their wallets to pay but she said, "That's OK" and waved them along. I ordered my food and got it. Then I went to the manager's office and told her that the cashier had just given away about $60 worth of food to her friends. She looked pissed, pushed $30 worth of vouchers in my hands and then stormed out to fire the cashier. I felt a bit guilty (I hadn't done it for the vouchers- just because the cashier had pissed me off) and a bit of a fink but on the other hand, the cashier stealing from her company was kind of driving up the price of things for everybody... I wouldn't do it again in the same circumstances but I don't feel really, really guilty about it either.

[Digit]

49. I quit a relationship with a best friend

I knew her before her diagnosis as bipolar, and she was the best mom (seemingly) to her two daughters.
She had an internet romance through which she became pregnant with another man's child.
Later, she ended up calling me just after my mother died, telling me she had ingested a bunch of pills...and ended up in the hospital having her stomach pumped.
Meanwhile, she was screwing everyone in town and met a married man who ended up leaving his wife for her. My former friend left her children behind, and I lost all respect for her.
What is funny, is that she thinks I am JEALOUS of her new husband when I know his history is as a peeping tom anyway. Any mother who would leave her children is mud is my book first and foremost. I don't care if it is Ben Aflect or whatever his name is.

Anyway, she invited me to a party shortly after she married this guy and was telling people how her former husband had mistreated her. I happen to know him and SHE was the problem. She would go into her bipolar tirades and try to beat him up. He is quite meek, to tell the truth. I set her straight in front of everyone. Oddly enough, I have not been invited to anymore parties. I tell it like it is.

[hickman1937]

52. I had a friend who is married.

About 25 years by now. When I met her at work in 1997 she was starting an affair with a man who had 2 very young kids and a stay at home wife. A year later the wife had the third kid, and my friend and the man are going at it still. Around 2001 I was having lunch on a regular basis with my friend and the man and his wife lost their home because nobody was making the mortgage payments. For almost a year I kept hearing about what a user and loser the wife was and how she must have stashed the money somewhere. The breaking point came the day my friend told me that the man had found out that his wife had a boyfriend and he was going to take her to court for custody of the kids. I looked at her and said "you better hope she doesn't hire a PI. He's been cheating on her for years with you." She stopped being my friend that day. She's still married and still has him on the side.

[HEyHEY]

53. Pretty well all of it

If I've been mean to you, you had it coming

[Blue-Jay]

56. I peed on a guy who was passed out at a party.

To be honest, he was a mean stupid son of a bitch and I hated his guts. He shouldn't have passed out next to the toilet.

[Radical Activist]

58. LOL

I guess that's a good one if he deserved it.

[mitchum]

57. Told my bush-loving wingnut coworker that her Vietnam era...

pilot husband was a cowardly killer who was responsible for the deaths of many innocents. And that his pension is just his feeding at the public trough.
I also told her that I take a bitter pleasure in the fact that her precious grandchildren will suffer as a result of this administration's policies.
No regrets. Fuck her.

[Nikia]

62. Broke up with my first serious boyfriend after he took me out to dinner

I had wanted to break up with him for a while. The conversation that we had after dinner seemed like a good time to bring up those feelings.
I don't know if that is really that cruel. Generally, I feel guilty for anything remotely mean that I do even if it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Benfea]

77. If you regret it, doesn't that disqualify this story?

Breaking up is hard. Damned hard.

[proud2BlibKansan]

63. I saw a car get hit once and I didn't tell who did it.

The car owner is someone I don't care for. She had insurance. Her car got fixed. But I knew who hit it and I kept my mouth shut.

[Ratty]

64. I have never done anything mean I DIDN'T regret

Maybe that comes with age. I can only think back on the mean things I have done with shame.

[bridgit]

66. turning my shit for brains x into the police for the very last time...

:woohoo: :bounce:

[mdmc]

67. Too much to mention, only can tell one story

I went on a ski trip with a bunch of popular jocks. One of the girls "had" to bring her cousin, or she wouldn't be allowed to go.
All the jocks teased this cousin. It was really awful.
I was too cool to stop it.
When we got back to NY, this kid killed himself.

It makes me cry to think about it.

I've done far worse... :cry:

[bridgit]

68. i've been the butt of other people's jibes, it is very hurtful to say...

the least, that is a sad story

[mdmc]

69. Thanks for your post

A couple years later, I was attending school in Colorado. I was at a keg party. I had met a few guys and they had introduced me to hundreds of cool people, including some hot, crunchy chicks.

Some guy (called "Doobie", by the way) started talking about gays and minorities. He was homophobic and racist. At the end of his rant, he asked me, "Yo, Mike, your from NY. What do you think of mexicans and gays."

I told him that I didn't know any gay people, and the mexicans that I knew where hard working folks. I then told him that at first, I thought this crowd was cool, mountain folk. Now I thought that they were red neck hill-billy racist. The room went silent.

I told them how it was. They didn't want to be hillbillies, rednecks. We remained friends, but they definitely held their tongues around me...

I never remain cool when my ideals are compromised. I'd rather start trouble then be cool.

[amitten]

72. I knocked my ex-boyfriends tooth out with a left hook.

Because he got drunk, got mad, and tried to beat me up for the first (and consequently last) time.

He had the audacity to call me up later and tell me he was going to SUE me! I told him to give it his best shot. I'd already given him mine! }( PS-I am not usually prone to violence.

[CanuckAmok]

73. I turned my ex-wife in to the feds for tax evasion and fraud.

Happy Auditversary!

[kid a]

74. I smoked all my roommates pot once

don't really regret that - he was always bummin money from me. I guess I fely entitled/

[Strong Atheist]

75. See attached.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4360996#4361654

Not the tiniest bit of regret.

[KitchenWitch]

76. ...

When I was in my early twenties, I had a boyfriend who had cheated on me. We happened to be at the same party after we had broken up. When he went to the bathroom in the portapotty, I pushed it over with him in it.

I am evil.

[Benfea]

78. Heck, I've pushed people over in porta potties for less than that

I've pushed over people I liked in port-a-potties just because I thought doing so would be funny.

[ET Awful]

89. That's not evil, it's hysterical

:rofl:

Note to self: If you are ever in a relationship with KitchenWitch, do NOT cheat on her. :evilgrin:

[last_texas_dem]

79. Messing with one of my best friend's relationships

I had to think a while to come up with this one, as I'm usually one of those people who has regrets about almost everything I've done, even if I shouldn't be regretting. But I think this story pretty much fits the bill.

Back when I was a junior in high school I developed a huge crush on this girl. We became pretty good friends from having classes together, and I asked her out one time unsuccessfully. Eventually, I learned that she had a crush on one of my best friends, and shortly afterward I found out that he had a thing for her, too. I finally decided to actually do something selfless (stupid as it was) and get the two of them together, which I did via a three-way phone conversation. I figured having her "off the market", especially with one of my best friends, would help me to get over my hopeless crush.

Well it may have worked in some ways, but it made it worse in others. Because I was originally closer friends with the girl than he was, early in their relationship my friend would often ask me to come along when they were going on dates to make things more comfortable. I didn't mind 'cause I still liked her, but finally getting to hang out with her regularly outside of school didn't exactly help me in "getting over" her. A few months later I finally met someone and got into a serious relationship which made things much easier.

Anyway, my friend and the girl continued to date until they finally broke up at the end of our senior year. I was thoroughly disgusted that I had ever gotten them together by this point. The girl was a pretty sweet person, friendly, and just basically a nice (a little too much of a ditz looking back but, hey, I was sixteen...) person. My friend was one of those somewhat arrogant, jerky guys who it's fine to be friends with but, at least if you're like me, you hate to see in a relationship. It really hurt to see the way he treated her, and how she put up with it and seemed to like it. (Considering a couple of the guys she dated after him as well, she seems to have that odd affliction of liking to date jerks- the discussion of which is one of DU's favorite flamewars!)

But anyway, I had to witness this shitty relationship that I was partly responsible for getting together get more and more bizarre. I stopped having any regrets about feeling resentment about their relationship after my friend got drunk at a party towards the end of senior year and made out with another girl. He never told his girlfriend, though (and as far as I know, she still hasn't found out.) Finally, he decided at the end of senior year that they needed to be "free" to see other people that summer because they were going to be in different places.

Well, I think the girl was truly brokenhearted. After a year and a half together, I think she thought their relationship was more serious than one you could take a "summer break" from. After a discussion we had in which she proposed it, I agreed to keep her informed on whatever my friend was up to that summer so she could be sure that what he was telling her in letters and phone calls was true. (My friend could be a real bullshitter and was bad about overstating just how much success he was having with other girls; which, back then at least, was a pretty negligible amount.)

I probably should have or at least should now feel guilty about basically being a spy on someone who at that time was one of my best friends. But I honestly don't. Although I wasn't necessarily thinking of the "big picture" that much (I mostly agreed to do it because of the resentment I harbored towards my best friend for treating a girl I thought pretty highly of so shabbily) I think I played a positive role in helping to dissolve an unhealthy relationship that needed to die.

I figure things worked out for the better, though. By the end of summer, the girl was over my friend and had found someone else. My friend, eventually discovering that he wasn't going to have her back after their summer of "freedom" actually took a few months getting over her himself (which honestly surprised me a bit) but eventually got over her. So it was all for the better, right?

(I apologize for the length of this post, but I was just in the mood for writing this morning. I hope at least those who, like me, enjoy a good tale of high school relationship complications enjoyed it!)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

80. Link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3776894

[noonwitch]

81. A cold, hard truth told to a pregnant friend in college

She found out she was pregnant and decided to get an abortion, so that night she went out and drank a lot of beer and most of a fifth of Jack Daniels. The next morning, my hypocritical catholic roommate talked her into not going through with the procedure. The friend told me "I'd be killing my baby".

I told her "You killed your baby last night. The abortion is now just a technicality". She did get the abortion after all and I drove her to PP to get it. It was the best move for her, too, although I was annoyed with her for not using birth control to begin with and thus avoid the situation completely.

[TrogL]

82. Threw the cats out of the bedroom

I get spooked when they watch.

[realisticphish]

83. yeah, like

throwing them out stops them. They have ways. Oh, they have ways

[Radical Activist]

84. Oh yeah, I hate that.

[ET Awful]

85. Some pretty vicious things I said to an ex-girlfriend would qualify

They were mean, but well-deserved, and I'd say them again. She was someone who had earned a "reputation" in college if you know what I mean, and she used to complain frequently that a lot of people she went to school with though she was a "slut." However, every time she'd be talking about something that happened while she was in college, if there was someone there she went to school with, she'd always end the story with "that's the night I hooked up with xxxxx."

So, finally one time after we'd been arguing for 1/2 an hour or so and she'd been hurling insults at me, she said something about how often I mentioned my family when telling old stories and said something incredibly stupid like "People wouldn't think you were so weird if you didn't mention your mom in all your stories," to which I responded "people wouldn't think you were such a slut if you didn't end every story with "that's the night I hooked up with so and so."

She immediately started calling everyone both of us knew and telling them I called her a slut. . . that was almost the last time I ever saw her, we went our separate ways shortly after, and I haven't seen her in 7 or 8 years.

Can't say as I have any regrets about saying it, but it's probably one of the meanest things I've ever said.

[Radical Activist]

86. That really crosses the line for me.

When a woman, friend or girlfriend, feels the need to badmouth me after an argument or tells a distorted one-sided version of something that happened. A relationship is between two people. Not two people and everyone some loud-mouthed, immature gossip knows. I recently found out there are a number of people under the impression that I'm some kind of dangerous person that was physically threatening to a woman when that couldn't be further from the truth and the woman who spread these rumors about me was too drunk to remember or know what really happened anyway.

[ET Awful]

88. This was the same female that convinced me to move 3,000 miles

across country then decided she wanted out of the relationship.

Last I heard she was married to some poor schmoe and had 2 kids.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

90. I told the bitter truth to a manipulative, misogynistic asshole

He was manipulative and misogynistic before he got cancer; but he became even more so after his diagnosis. I was sorry that his cancer caused him to lose an eye...truly. I still am.

But I'm not sorry I told him that he used his illness to manipulate people. Not one damn bit.

[liberaltrucker]

91. I don't know how nasty it is, but......

Some fundie site(FOTF) got my email somehow and kept sending me invites to Promise Keepers and all their other shit. After several polite requests to remove me from their email list, I finally told them I didn't need their Anti-Christian fascist bullshit, and that God is gonna give them a good talking-to before He tells them "Depart from Me, I never Knew you". Never heard from them again..on edit-nice avatar:hi:

[Radical Activist]

94. awesome

I always love using Biblical quotes to shut down Christian conservatives in political arguments.

[KamaAina]

92. Called Bret Schundler a pig to his face

the former repuke Jersey City mayor and gubernatorial candidate was pressing the flesh at the Journal Square PATH (subway train to NYC) station one morning. I waited until I was a few treads down on the escalator, then let him have it.

On second thought, I actually do regert that. What an awful thing to say about pigs...