Vet: I just can't believe that she would do something like this without permission; she should know better. I assure you this is not how we do business.
Submitter: I can tell. I would just like to look her in the face when you tell her she doesn't have a job anymore.
Vet: I'm sure that can be arranged.
Watching that horribly ignorant woman get fired was one of the more satisfying moments of my life.

Not Always Right and its many sister sites often feature reprehensible people of all sorts. This makes it all the more satisfying when Laser-Guided Karma comes to town. So many examples, in fact, that the site has a "Karma/Comeuppance" tag for occasions like these:

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This guy is rude and misogynistic to a nursing home employee. When his wife finds out, she Dope Slaps him and calls him a jackass.
This boy is caught stealing candy and is forced to return it. However, his mother verbally attacks the store employee for being rude to him (even saying she doesn't care about the candy). She's about to physically attack the employee when her mother stops her and chews her out for her behavior.
This driver lashes out at a driver for being too slow while passing them and crashes into another car. Ironically, he also tells the driver to "learn how to drive" - when that driver was doing just that.
Another driver. She complains that she can't find an item at a store (which wouldn't be logically expected to carry it) and calls up to complain to the manager (who's actually the employee who told her they didn't carry said item). She then speeds out of the parking lot and cuts off a police officer who pulls her over.
A really expensive tantrum◊.^note
"Karma's a b**ch, ain't it?"
Never underestimate karma.
They tried to push their way through a line, and got escorted out for it.
This gym member savagely insulted another person, and got his membership revoked when some other people told the manager — by the manager tearing the membership right in front of him.
In this one, a woman decides to berate another person in a supermarket line who wouldn't let her cut in front, calling her a "lazy b***" and a waste of taxpayers' money, because she "had an important meeting" and whatever the other person was doing was obviously not as essential as what woman was rushing for. The kicker was that the meeting was an interview for a babysitting job, and the person doing the interview was the one she had so rudely insulted. Needless to say, she didn't get the job.
This scammer's scheme finally comes back to bite him in the ass.
A man acted belligerently towards a bank for a long time to bully some interest refunds out of them. On this particular call, he threatens to close his account, and the bank follows through with the request. As a result, all of the man's outstanding debts were automatically paid with the money from his accounts, leaving him with very little that will be sent to him, a far cry from the thousands he normally made off with.
An employee witnesses two girls, referred to in the story as Girl #1 and Girl #2, checking out some pajamas. Girl #2 is the typical customer seen that doesn't put things back the way she found them because she's not paid to do that stuff, and Girl #1 tries her best to keep things neat. The karmic part comes when the employee later sees Girl #2 with her father, trying to blame Girl #1 for something she didn't do. The employee steps in and explains what actually happened, getting Girl #1 out of trouble and Girl #2 into it.
"Had It Up To Their Neck With Bad Customers": a customer acts extremely rude to an employee and does not care one bit about the employee's complications, only that he has an interview to get to and that teenagers are lazy. Unfortunately for him, the employee happens to be the child of the owner of the company where the customer is interviewing. In the end, he wasn't hired.
There are several stories (like "In The Navy, His Fate Is Sealed", "Be Civil To The Civilians", and "The Uniform Response") where some soldiers are using their service to justify terrible behavior, only to be overheard and chewed out by someone who outranks them.
After being told, time and time again, that her favorite coffee shop did not have room around the building for a drive-thru like its counterparts in neighboring towns, a lady tried to drive her car around the building to prove that they did have room for a drive-thru... operative word being "tried". Not only did the coffee shop sue her for damage to the building where she crashed, the neighboring residential area sued her for damage to their buildings from flying debris!
A old woman is constantly harassing the submitter, whom she believes is a teenager doing something illegal, despite the submitter repeatedly pointing out (which the old woman refuses to believe) that she's actually an adult who looks young. The old woman is banned from the store the submitter is working at, and four years later (having clearly not learned from the previous encounter), is also banned from the bar where the submitter and her friends were drinking.
This customer mocks the submitter paying with cash because the cashier is required by company policy to use a counterfeit-detection pen on the notes. Then she pays for her order with a counterfeit note (and her reaction to the cashier reaching for the detection pen heavily implies she knows it is counterfeit). To top it off, the words she said to mock the submitter earlier get thrown right back at her by the woman next in line.
Woman Next In Line: [mimicking tone] Oh, looks like someone can't be trusted.
A man who refuses to pay for a locksmith job claims that he'll have the charges reversed. The locksmith then proceeds to throw the man's keys back in the car and re-lock the door. Her justification is pretty sound (and while she did get reprimanded for it, she considers it Worth It): "If you're reversing the charges, then I'm reversing the job."
A smug girl had a temper tantrum when a popular tattoo artist refuses to book her for an appointment as he's already fully booked due to his very busy schedule and didn't like her tattoo design. She then tried to discredit him by giving negative and rude reviews on his shop's Facebook page and Yelp, only to be called out for her lies by the artist's past customers and was blacklisted by other tattoo shops around the city.
These jokesters try pulling the classic "fire in the hole" gag, but the submitter closes the drive-thru window just in time for the now-lidless carbonated drink to bounce back into the car, soaking the driver and passenger and leaving the car's interior a sticky mess.
This motorist in a brand new sports car gets impatient with the cattle being herded ahead of him and moves his car forward enough that it bumps one of the cows, prompting the cow to unload her massive bowels on the car's hood.
This idiot wants directions to the submitter's office, but for some reason refuses to tell her where he is, presumably expecting magical directions that will get him there from any starting point. When her manager intervenes, the guy throws in casual sexism for good measure: "Thank God — a man who will be able to give directions." The manager, annoyed with the guy's attitude, proceeds to give him directions at random — which end up taking him to a garbage dump.
An egotistical bully who routinely terrorizes employees and customers alike at a supermarket ends up getting his just desserts when he provokes someone stronger than him and ends up beaten up so badly he doesn't show up at the store for a couple of weeks. When he does show up (battered and bruised), no one feels very sorry for him.
When a woman is intolerably cruel to a girl with Down syndrome, who has done nothing more offensive than exist in a coffee shop, this local CEO witnesses it - and cites it as the reason why he will be shredding the application she recently put in with his company. The humiliated woman flees without her coffee.
This Polish cashier was given an envelope from a group of customers, who paid 16 złoty (about $4). Thinking it was a scam, they ripped up the envelope only to find a torn up 100 złoty banknote, which is about $26.
While shopping for a wedding dress, an irresponsible mother lets her young son run around the store and get several bridesmaid dresses dirty with cheesy hand-prints. She ends up having to buy them all.
This guy with a fancy car loads up his groceries and then shoves the shopping cart in a random direction rather than dealing with it properly. The moment he gets in his car the wind picks up and blows the cart back into his car, leaving a large scratch on the paint job.
A snobby customer who has been treating a clerk at a cell phone kiosk poorly throughout her visit waves off the clerk's offer for insurance for her new phone, saying: "Do I look like I need insurance?". She then turns on her heel, loses her balance and falls down from the maneuver, and drops her new phone on the floor in process, shattering the screen and leaving her forced to pay full price for either a new phone or screen repair since she rejected the insurance.
This guy playing a large fantasy MMORPG (implied to be Final Fantasy XIV) is a complete Internet Jerk, having no consideration for the female admin trying to help, as well as makes condescending, misogynistic, and racist comments to his party, and is a terrible player to boot – he claims credit and loot for raids from his "friends" when all he did was charge in and get killed constantly, to the point where his party attempts to actively ignore him, causing the "connectivity issues" the guy was trying to get fixed. When that fails, the party instead brings him on a raid and lets the guy charge in to his death, doing nothing to help him. They then complete the mission without him, and then promptly mock and unfriend him after he's done. The now chastened guy logs out, and is noted to, as far as the OP knows, have never logged in again.
A toy reseller attacks the submitter over taking the last of a popular toy off the shelves and then claims they were the one being assaulted. She sticks with her story even after the police have reviewed the camera footage, and they give her the option to change it... and then she is the one arrested for assault, along with an existing felony charge.
This couple complain about the hotel they just checked in a short while ago to the poster's coworker working at the front desk and demand a discount, even as the entire hotel is sold out. The poster, having had enough with the couple after they shift their complaints from the hotel to the staff, the poster included, exacts payback by canceling their room and checking in a desperate visitor who just walked into the hotel while authorizing the maintenance personnel to remove the couple's belongings out of the room, resulting in the couple being left outside in the cold.
A business owner needs an emergency window replacement and the OP's company is the only one in the area that can cut a piece of glass large enough. Owner accepts the price estimate, the glass is installed, and then the owner announces that a competitor gave her a lower estimate so that's all she's going to pay. "The glass is installed. You're stuck. Take it or I will pay nothing." OP confirms with the installer that the window is fully installed ... and orders him to make sure the ladder falls through the glass as he leaves. The owner calls OP and demands repair, only to be met with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech before the OP hangs up and tells the shop staff that any order for a cut piece of glass in the size the business owner wants won't be available until the next morning.
"I found out the next day that a competitor had called within a half hour for the same size glass. I assume the woman had spent another night at her business since it was already late afternoon."
This customer gets irate at the submitter, who works at a pizza vendor inside an airport, due to picking up a pizza that understandably gets cold after being left unattended for fifteen minutes (the submitter repeatedly calls out for the customer but gets no response), demands that he receives a freshly-made replacement and a full refund, and verbally abuse the submitter for refusing to cater to his demand to the point of threatening violence if he doesn't get his way, the last of which causes the submitter's coworker to contact airport security members, who get tired of his tirade enough to have him handcuffed and taken away despite his attempt to fight them, culminating in him not only getting arrested and fined but also banned from entering or exiting all airports within the national border for life.
"All for a cold pizza he was late in picking up."
A teenage TikTok-er is running around rooms in a movie theater disrupting the movies by swearing and/or shouting offensive phrases and recording people's reactions. Before management at the theater can catch him though, a fed-up dad in one theater catches the teen himself and throws the teen's phone on the floor with enough force to smash it to smithereens. The teen quickly flees with his ruined phone, crying hysterically with his tail between his legs, and later his mom forces him to call the theater manager to apologize.
In "We Know Where This Is Going But It’s Satisfying All The Same", one businessman, dubbed "Mr. ObNox" due to his group's toxic masculinity, orders top-shelf whiskey on a business lunch without bothering to become aware of how expensive such a drink is and shouts over the submitter's attempt to warn him about the mistake he's about to make, resulting in a bill in the thousands of dollars that puts him well over budget. His misogyny and ableism ("Did I stutter?") have not endeared him to the restaurant's staff, and the only help he gets is an offer to split the bill among his party rather than put it all on the company card. For good measure, his ableist remark "Did I stutter?" gets thrown right back at him when he tries to protest the billing.
"Eventually, Mr. ObNox had to put the whole meal on his business card to avoid getting arrested. We never saw him again, but we would have loved to have been a fly on wall in his office when he had to explain THAT expenses bill!"
In "If You Want To Know Who To Blame Look In The Mirror(Glaze)", an Obnoxious Entitled Housewife screams at a teenage employee to the point the poor girl ends up in tears for the "crime" of clarifying if she's baking for vegans after the woman demands a meat-based gelatine for her cakes. The employee in question goes to school with the woman's Alpha Bitch daughter and knows she advertises her bake sale cakes as vegan-friendly, so she promptly reveals what the entitled customer did on the school's Facebook page, ruining her reputation.
This woman parks in a store's fire lane during a bad storm, under the 'justification' that there's no way there's going to be a fire with all the rain. Less than a minute later the wind picks up and knocks a letter off a sign out the front which goes straight through her windshield. Even better, the letter happens to be a "K".^note
This hotel guest sneaks her miniature poodle into a hotel claiming it's a service animal. After discovering dog poo on the hotel floor, the staff suspects she's lying, so they check the security camera footage. What they find was that after closing out the hotel bar, the guest passed out in a stupor in the hallway for a while, during which time the poodle – contrary to what a genuine service animal would do – took the poo, then peed on their unconscious owner. After having a laugh among themselves over the incident, the hotel staff promptly fine the guest for the "deposit" and blacklist her.
This customer in "The More You Read, The Better It Gets" mistreats the submitter at work, chewing them out for following store policy. Then, the customer tries to net a big contract for their window business… only to realize that his prospective clients are the submitter's parents.
Submitter's Mom: Thank you for coming and for the quote, but we aren’t going to go ahead with your company.

He apologized profusely as he left my house, minus a huge sale. I think that he may have learned a valuable lesson about Karma and treating other people, including retail workers, with respect.
These two women, going through many different pairs of jeans on Black Friday, attack a teenage girl with enough force to draw blood just because the poor girl happened to catch one of the pairs of pants the women had been tossing around. It turns out the girl is actually the daughter of the town sheriff, who happened to be there at the store on crowd control. The two women are arrested on the spot (and later have to post bail and pay full price for their precious jeans).
This bank customer in "Mischief Managed" is an impatient and entitled Jerkass who causes a scene after the submitter rebuffs the latter for cutting in line and demands to see the branch manager in a private room. The operations manager talks to the customer, who identifies the submitter as the offender, insists that the submitter be fired, and again demands to talk to the branch manager when the operations manager reveals his job title as his reason for being unable to fire the submitter. The branch manager enters the room... and it's none other than the submitter, who has now buttoned their dress shirt, done the tie up, rolled down the sleeves, and put on the jacket, which the submitter didn't do while filling in as the bank teller due to the sweltering indoor heat in the bank as the result of interior air conditioning not working on a summer day, though the rude customer doesn't recognize the submitter despite the familiar face due to the now-formal appearance until the submitter reveals themselves as the branch manager said rude customer demands to see in the first place. The submitter, after disclosing the job title, prompts declares the customer's bank account will be terminated in a month due to said customer's rude antics.
This smoker of a woman in "(We’re So Glad To Be) Here Without You" insists on smoking in a venue with "No Smoking" signs all over the place, blows smoke in the face of a security guard who tells her not to smoke, and gets hauled off in handcuffs.
This bank caller in "If Only We Could Inconvenience All Rude Customers So Easily" acts rude and demeaning towards the submitter and ramps up the belligerence for being asked to answer verification questions by accusing the submitter, a call center employee, of being "unprofessional" before hanging up. The submitter then blocks all of the caller's accesses, as the submitter's job duties dictate that any caller giving wrong or no answers to the verification questions before hanging up results in the caller's accesses to the bank being blocked unless the caller personally goes to the bank branch in question to unblock it, which is problematic for the rude caller because he's abroad at the time and can't reach the branch, hence the call in the first place.
"My dear customer, enjoy not being able to use your money for a looong time!"
Two drunk guys in "Un-Beer-lievable Stupidity" go to a small pub and help themselves with beer when no one is around, getting themselves kicked out for it. Not willing to take their punishment, they go back inside, take about one hundred coasters, and throw them at all workers, the submitter included, and some other customers, which leads to the submitter claiming them banned. They then instigate physical assault on the submitter and another employee, which ends with one of them being knocked out before both flee the scene. The pub owner posts the incident on social media outlets, resulting in those two drunks being banned in all bars and clubs in town.
This man in "The Outcome Is Most Appeal-ing" is a claimant who's angry over his appeal being canceled and acts belligerent at the government office where the submitter works. The submitter pulls out the file pertaining to his records for the claimant to look through... and the claimant finds out, to his horror, that he had personally signed the appeal withdrawal form without reading the relevant section(s).^note
"At least, in the end, he got his wish: he found out who the idiot was, and they most definitely suffered for their stupidity."
This woman in "When Karma Gets Your Phone Number" cuts in line while grocery-shopping, acting impatient, rude, and entitled throughout the transaction. When the submitter, who works as the cashier in the lane she cut in line to get to, asks her for her phone number in order to process her membership with the store for all potential discounts, she responds with barely a whisper before SCREAMING the digits due to the submitter being understandably unable to hear her the first time around. After she leaves, the submitter apologizes to the next customer in line, who had given the submitter permission to scan the groceries said rude woman bought first, for which the next customer reveals that said rude woman's antics were caught on video on the phone and would be sent to her employer, which is easy as the result of said rude woman having screamed out her phone digits. The rude woman's employment at her current workplace is cut short after the current year.
This gun-toting customer in an antique gun appraisal service kiosk refuses to take legally-required gun-related advice from a worker simply because the worker in question is a woman even as she asks said customer to empty the bullet chambers for safety concerns, only for his Reckless Gun Usage to cost him dearly when the gun goes off unexpectedly right as he waves it around and shoots him in his reproductive area.
This hotel guest routinely acts like he's owed the world by the staff. Once, when the submitter just barely manages to carry his baggage due to the braces on his wrist and knees, the guest complains to the manager, saying "I don't like how you did it." When the submitter and a co-worker notice that he left his headlights on, they elect not to mention this to him, and get to watch as his now dead car gets carted away on a flatbed truck.
This plane passenger raises a fuss about being seated to a large man, claiming he's "spilling into his seat" (he isn't). He then proceeds to be a jerk by pushing his legs as far into the aisle as he can get, inconveniencing flight attendants and other passengers. The submitter – a flight attendant – responds by only doing trash runs when he's about to fall asleep.
"I can be an a**hole, too."
This caller, whenever he gets a male worker at his cable company's call center, routinely hurls homophobic verbal abuse at the worker. Eventually, the call center manager, preparing to retire and fed up with the caller's behavior, totally does not lock the customer's account onto a gay adult channel.
This woman continually calls her energy supplier with outlandish demands, coming to a head when she decides they're responsible for mending her oven rather than calling an electrician. When the supplier refuses to send out a tech, she calls back, lies that it's a problem with her meter, and locks the responding tech in to try and force them to fix it. She's subsequently arrested for false imprisonment and assault (it's not made clear to the submitter whether she assaulted the tech, the police, or both).
The parents in "Sadly, That Break-In Probably Won’t Break Through To Them" basically set back and get drunk for more than two hours while their kids drive the staff nuts. Once they're done, one of them complains that his expensive hunting rifle has been stolen from his car (despite multiple signs telling customers not to leave valuables in cars).
"I don’t really believe in Karma, but I certainly had a pep in my step after hearing about what had happened."
A man and a woman in" Dine, Dash, And That Other D Word" go out and eat in the restaurant where the submitter works, only to pull a Dine and Dash stunt before any of the workers in said restaurant could stop them. In their haste to leave without paying, the man leaves his phone behind. The submitter finds a contact being labeled as "wife" and calls her... and discovers to their shock that the wife in question was not the woman who pulled the Dine and Dash with her husband. The wife goes to the restaurant, pays the bill, and leaves the submitter a tip of $100; a month later, she visits the restaurant again — this time with some lady friends of hers — and not only praises the submitter for giving her the concrete evidence she needs to start her divorce proceedings but tells her friends to treat her well, too.
"That divorce got me over $500 in the end!"
This impatient hotel guest gets irate at the submitter working as the hotel receptionist after waiting for a few minutes, loudly demands the towels be delivered to the room personally, throws all of the business cards all over the hotel lobby while the submitter was away, denies responsibility for the stunt until the submitter is about to check the security cameras, comes back down to pick them up only to start loudly yelling at the submitter again, which prompts the submitter to call the manager for authorizing evicting said guest, promising to call the police if the guest doesn't comply due to the guest's loud and disruptive behavior at 1:00 A.M. The manager agrees, while the guest dares the submitter to call the police anyway, saying they would do nothing. The police are called... and he — alongside his wife and two children — are evicted out of the hotel, with his wife chewing him out as they leave.
This entitled lawyer in "Lawyering Up When They’re Lawyering Down" gets banned from a diner restaurant after getting verbally abusive to the waitstaff once too many, with the manager giving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech upon the lawyer's protest and the submitter claiming that the founder of the law firm where the awful lawyer works is the submitter's personal lawyer when said awful lawyer threatens to sue. When the submitter asks the manager what would happen should the awful lawyer tell his colleagues about the incident, the manager's answer is to expect an uptick in business... which does happen, proving how unlikable the awful lawyer is.
The owner of a small, independent company in "CopyWrong, Part 7" asks the submitter to design a logo but rejects all original concepts the submitter comes up with and insists that the submitter uses one that turns out to be trademarked instead, claiming that nobody would notice a small, independent company he owns running afoul of the trademark infringement anyway. The submitter drops the client, who proceeds to use the logo anyway, and it takes only one week for someone to share his "new logo" from their Facebook page with the owners of said logo, which ends badly for the now ex-client.
"By the next day, their business page had disappeared."
This woman in "How To Own The Homeowners" parks in one of the designated pick-up spots due to taking offense that the parking spots that are closest to the place where the submitter works are designated pick-up spots, gets belligerent toward the submitter over this "issue", and declares that she and four other like-minded women, all of whom are affiliated with the Homeowners' Association, will park in those designated pick-up spots in protest despite the signs on the pick-up spots explicitly stating that all vehicles that park in said spots for more than twenty minutes would be automatically towed. It ends with all five of their vehicles being towed as the result.
This student calls the submitter, who works at a college campus IT help desk, and demands that the submitter lift the one-month ban that was activated due to repeated complaints about illegal downloads. When the submitter refuses, the student goes to the submitter's boss to try to force the submitter to lift the ban, lying to the boss with an allegation about the submitter in the effort. Unfortunately for the student, the keyword is "try", because the boss trusts the submitter and not only upholds the ban but extends the ban by another month as well, and tells the student each subsequent attempt to get the ban cancelled will result in an additional one-month ban.
This hotel guest gets demanding and verbally abusive to submitter's husband, who's on the phone with another customer while working at the hotel front desk, because the free coffee has run out. The guest is not satisfied after the coffee is refilled later in the day and makes his ongoing anger clear by yelling and swearing at submitter's husband, who gets fed up with him and tells him to pack up or the police will be called. When the guest keeps getting verbally abusive in reaction, the general manager tells the guest to leave or he will call the police AND contact the guest's boss to make sure the guest won't be staying at the hotel again. The general manager carries out the promise to contact the guest's boss, who does promise in return that the guest won't be staying at the hotel again and informs the general manager that the guest has been fired for his verbally abusive behavior.
Four teenagers gorge themselves through an all-you-can-eat wing deal and try a Dine and Dash stunt, only for the submitter to catch up with them at the parking lot. When they're asked to pay for the food they've consumed, they confess that they don't have the necessary funds to pay for it, at which point the submitter subjects them to a Sadistic Choice of either their parents or the police being called on their behalf. One of the teenagers calls his mother, who pays over the phone with a generous tip.
This customer tells her child, who looks a little green in the face, to wait "only a few more minutes" every time the kid claims to feel unwell and insists to the OP, who works in tax services, that she wants it done now when the OP suggests either a drop-off or a re-schedule. This goes on for several more times until she eventually decides to take the suggestion made by the OP... after her child grabs the high-end Louis Vuitton purse she has with her and vomits into it.
"When she returned to pick up her finished taxes, she had neither the child with her nor the purse."
This caller gets verbally abusive on the phone to the poster working in motor insurance company phone-op and demands a manager when asked for customer policy ID information. When the director takes the call and claims to be a manager "in a manner of speaking", the caller lies about the poster's conduct and demands that the poster be fired based on the false allegation. Unfortunately for the caller, the director is a Benevolent Boss and rebuffs the caller's abusive attitude and lies, and, when the caller gets verbally abusive to the director, declares that the caller's policy is terminated, effective immediately (making the caller's vehicles uninsured on the spot), informs the poster to read the policy termination script to the now ex-customer, and has the call switched off the moment the poster finishes the script-reading.
Director: You have no idea how long I've wanted to do something like that!
This plane passenger tries to force the rest of her row to order water only since if anyone orders pop, her son will want one. Not only is she refused, but the submitter and the rest of the row proceed to order pop themselves, and the flight attendant gives the submitter a whole can.
This banker encourages a barman to commit fraud (so he can expense his alcohol on the company card as a business lunch). His bank is one of the ones that has to be bailed out during the 2008 financial crash and the barman never sees him again.
This customer routinely parks in the fire lane in front of a grocery store enough times that he starts mocking the employees for not being able to stop him from doing so. Karma hits him spectacularly when there is a dumpster fire adjacent to the store and his expensive BMW is parked in front of the fire hydrant, blocking the firemen from being able to use it and forcing them to have to trash the car so they can attach the hose to it. The customer throws a tantrum and starts threatening violence toward the firemen, which ends up getting him arrested, with the coworkers he made fun of waving goodbye to him as he's carted off in a police car for good measure.
This customer spends $12,000 on a mattress and adjustable base combo in a high-end mattress flagship store, only to storm back the next day demanding a return right away and insisting that it be taken back the next day, despite the submitter, who works in said store, telling the customer that it takes a week or two for the newly-purchased mattress to feel soft like the showroom sample does and that returns need to be scheduled with the delivery team and can't be done on a whim. The customer calls the next day, claiming to have hired a junk removal service to pick up the mattress and adjustable base, to which the submitter responds that the return can't be processed without the in-store delivery team getting the mattress back into the store and the same limitation applies to any exchange from it. The customer is never heard from again, the return request is closed a week later, and the customer ends up losing $12,000 with nothing to show for it.
A regular customer at a local restaurant is an entitled Jerkass with a nasty tendency to belittle the restaurant waitstaff, complain about everything, and demand to be seated at one of the nicest outdoor patio spots without having to wait, and the owner of said restaurant is a pushover. When he pulls such antics once too many, the submitter seats him on a table in the patio — specifically, one that a vindictive crow likes to leave a "souvenir" on anyone sitting at the table in question — and takes the umbrella at that table away. Within two minutes of being seated, the entitled customer receives the "present" and storms off, never to return.
This would-be customer turns up fifteen minutes after the store where the poster works as manager is already closed and irately bangs on the door continuously despite the cleaning associate gesturing at the business hours sign on the door. When the poster tries to tell him, he interrupts the poster by yelling “CUSTOMER SERVICE OR F*** OFF!”, and so the poster picks the latter option by re-locking the door and walking away. His subsequent action of complaining to other departments against the poster goes nowhere, and, in a twist of irony, he ends up being fired from his own job for unprofessional conduct whereas the poster has since been promoted to store manager.
This customer in "Behave Badly And You’re Toast" attempts a bizarre scam by asking that the sandwich artist over-toast her sandwich, then when she's served it, she takes out her phone and tries to claim she was served this sandwich against her will. She works herself up so much she tries to throw the tip box at the sandwich artist, who retaliates by throwing another sandwich at the customer's face in self-defense. The other sandwich contained peppers and hot sauces, causing her to drop her phone, which she breaks after stepping on it. The police are called, and the customer is arrested for assault, and for an outstanding warrant in another state.
This Black Friday customer demands to use a cart that an employee is preparing to move out of the way because it was damaged after being hit by a truck. The customer snatches the cart and runs away with it the moment the employee gets distracted, and what happens next is like something out of a cartoon: The cart's front wheels break off and the wheel bearings catch the floor, and the momentum from the customer sprinting away with it flips the cart up onto its front and then upside-down, catapulting the customer over it through the air and head first into a store display, sending Pop Tarts flying everywhere. The customer isn't hurt, but he promptly gets in trouble with store management and the police for the damage he caused.
This hotel guest in "The Fascinating Drive From Entitled Jerk To Shame-Walker" shows up drunk, gets belligerent toward the submitter for having to wait five minutes for a valet, and orders the submitter to cancel the reservation, which the submitter does. Despite no longer having a hotel reservation, this guest refuses to leave, and continues the tirade with the hotel security guards, going so far as to declare that he wouldn't leave unless the guards call the cops, which is precisely what the guards do. He finally leaves... after the police are called, refuse to cater to his demand of helping him get his hotel reservation reinstated, make him call the rideshare for a ride home due to him being too drunk to drive, and monitor him until he actually gets inside a rideshare vehicle and leaves, all while his own vehicle remains behind at the hotel parking lot and he's saddled with the rideshare ride cost, a hotel cancellation fee, and other costs that are now being added up before he can get his vehicle back.
This customer in "Kicked Out In A Holi-Daze" displays a bad behavior while dressed in a Santa suit by asking to the submitter serving him and his coworkers to, in his own words, "crawl under this table and be my ‘ho-ho-ho’.” The submitter asks him to leave at once, and, when he starts getting belligerent toward the submitter, the manager tells him to either pay up with at least 25% in tips and leave at once without being able to take the food or face the security and the police for harassing the staff, resulting in him storming out after paying up.
This client, a senior manager, in "An Alarming Attitude (But Satisfying Results)" sets off a burglary alarm on a Thursday night, angrily demands the submitter, who works in a regional alarm company call center, to remotely change the code — something the submitter can't do as the company doesn't have that capacity — and rejects all other suggested solutions the submitter brings up and can do. The client continues cursing and yelling every so often, until the submitter hangs up due to the police (who the submitter called earlier to report the alarm) showing up at the client's scene, though not before the client shouts in anger that the submitter should, in her own words, "just cancel my company’s service". The submitter's manager arrives the next day, listens to the call logs, calls the manager client back, and, from what the submitter can hear that their manager says on the call, follows through on the client's words by canceling the alarm coverage, effective immediately. This forces the client to find an alternative alarm company within only the business hours of the current day (a Friday, before everyone goes home for the weekend), contact the client's own insurance company for the likely breach of her insurance agreement, and pay for the final alarm service period within thirty days or the client's account is sent to collections without any grace period, which is made worse for the client due to her management range being in not one, but four stores, and the cancellation of the alarm contract applying to all four of them at once.
Manager: [speaks through the phone] I hope your tantrum was worth it.
The regular in "500 Days Of A Bad Joke" without fail asks cashiers "Got any five-hundreds? Har-dee-har." when his change comes out to $50, thinking this joke is hilarious. What he doesn't know this time is that a new employee has been hired with what is implied to be an autistic hyper-fixation on the history of U.S. currency, and has been deliberately assigned to serve him specifically in anticipation of the unfunny joke. The new employee is the last cashier he subjects to the joke because it triggers an unstoppable five-to-six minute Infodump about $500 bills, starting with their discontinuation and continuing with the presidents on them.
A man in his forties in "The Daddy Of All Turnarounds" makes an order at the restaurant where the submitter works and the system dictates that the cashier is to yell out the name of the customer making said order and tells the cashier, a teenage girl who's not eighteen yet, that his name is "Daddy" even though he's not actually her father. Not wanting to deal with his harassment, the cashier goes to the shift lead, a Camp Gay guy, who goes to the counter when the man's food is ready and shouts "Daddy" in the most flamboyant tone he can manage, ending with the man taking the food and leaving in utter silence.
This customer in "Long Story, BIG Payout" is a Jerkass who pays for his car service with a check that soon comes back as a stopped payment and has used this trick twice (once on the car repair shop where the submitter works and once on the tire shop owner providing new tires for his vehicle), exploiting the facts that he lives in a different county and that out-of-county bounced checks don't get prosecuted. Some time afterwards, the submitter sees the vehicle in question at the local golf course parking lot and has it impounded via a wrecker company, whose owner informs the police of a repossession. The tightwad's wife then comes to pay for the vehicle, covering the costs for both the car repair shop and the tire shop, which exceed the fees he tries to stiff.
"Trying to screw us out of $625.00, [Customer] ended up paying us $1,350.00 and our friend’s shop $1,275.00, for a total of $2,625.00. I bet his wife was pissed, and that probably put an end to his golfing for a while."
In "A Hurricane Of Entitlement Meets A Hurricane Of Karma", one customer arrives at the restaurant where the submitter works, which is also the only one for miles that has electricity and, therefore, can be open for business. The submitter barely has time to get ready for work when the customer in question proves to be a Jerkass by getting belligerent toward the submitter for not taking his order after waiting for five minutes in a crowded restaurant, which causes the manager to order the impatient guy to Get Out! at once.
Manager: Go have fun realizing how badly you f***ed this up.
This patron in "Mature Is More Than A Number" participates in the midnight launch of Grand Theft Auto V and, upon seeing the line from the sheer number of people waiting for the store to open, goes to the front of the line to complain to the first four people, who are two couples, about women who play games, in a bid to cut in line to the front when the store does open for the midnight game sale, but the protests of other patrons alert the staff into placing him in the back of the queue. Once he's able to enter the store, he cuts in line again and matches to the counter to demand a copy of the game, only to be rebuffed with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from the store manager.
Manager: This game is rated "M for Mature" and you’re obviously not mature enough based on your behavior this evening. Come back when you’ve grown the f*** up.
The submitter in "When It Comes To Spicy, Don’t Wing It" once owned a chicken wing joint, and some customers, who were Always Male, would dare the submitter to up the ante on the spicy level of the hot sauce. The submitter, in return, would oblige by serving the wings to them in Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce, which would be mixed in capsaicin oil to delay the brain reaction to spicy flavors for a few seconds — just enough time for the guys to finishing eating the wing and smugly tell the submitter it wasn't hot... until the effect kicked in with relentless fury.
"The wing was free, but the cup of milk after was $20. I never had a single person ask for a second wing."
This customer in "This Manager’s Spine Sets Off All The Metal Detectors!" insists on boarding her flight with the bandana over her face even though she's told that, per the airline's company policy during the COVID-19 Pandemic, facial cloths like bandanas don't suffice, there are proper face masks nearby for her to use for free, and said face masks must cover the nose and the mouth, and mocks the gate agent and the manager via stating that they must not know how to do their job. Having been fed up with this entitled customer's bad attitude on How They Treat the Help, the manager takes over the computer and gives away the seat the customer had booked to the wheelchair-bound woman, who has been on standby and whom the submitter is assisting on the job, though the submitter realizes what the manager had done only once the submitter notices the entitled customer still standing in the waiting area, well after the fact.
"Judging by the screaming and cursing after that door closed, the woman didn’t realize it right away, either."
This group of guys in "These Guys Should Quit-o While They Can" reacts to the accent the submitter's Ecuadorian coworker has when speaking by using an anti-Latino slur before storming off due to being told that the convenient store where the submitter and their coworker work doesn't have the type of alcohol they want and the submitter threatening to call the police on them. The coworker has the last laugh, however, after writing down the license plate numbers from the vehicle the group of guys is driving with the intention of calling the police, having smelled alcohol in their breath during their tirade.
This old woman raises a fit after being told she can't smoke a cigar in a store. As she leaves, she runs into a sliding door, getting a faceful of her own cigar.
One man and three women in "Did It For The Money" turn up at the clothing store, load up three shopping carts full of expensive items that total around $3,000, and head to the register where the submitter works as a cashier, at which point the guy hands a wad of $100 bills. Suspecting something is amiss, the submitter checks the bills with the machine and sees that the bills don't pass, and so the submitter tells the dude the bills are declined. One of the women he's with takes offense and orders the submitter to "Take the f*** money and do your d*** job!", and the submitter obliges... by taking the wad of bills to the manager and relaying the scenario. The manager takes the bills into the office to check, followed by two cops showing up not long afterwards to arrest all four of the "shoppers". One of the three women being arrested screams and curses at the submitter, who delivers a "parting gift" to her in return.
Submitter: You told me to do my job!
This client in "I Am Tech-nically Able To Own You" dismisses the submitter for being a woman and assumes that her wearing the company uniform and carrying a toolbox that's intended for electronic repair makes her a grunt-level technician with no authority, going so far to tell the submitter that he'll explain things to her (to quote his own word) "manager" when the submitter states that she'll close the ticket and blacklist him. He's in for a nasty surprise when he calls to complain to the male receptionist, who bluntly tells him that "girl" he disrespected was the company OWNER and, therefore, had the authority to blacklist him... and did, before hanging up on the now-former client, who's last heard sputtering.
Two guys in "Picked A Bad Place To Be So Hot-Headed" go to the firework tent the submitter owns and operates to buy a specific type of fireworks for the Fourth of July celebration... on the afternoon of the Fourth of July, right when demand for fireworks is sky-high. They also insist on a 50% discount, which the submitter rejects, and rebuff any warnings the submitter gives them that the fireworks they want are getting in shorter and shorter supply due to the massive customer flow occurring that day, until panic sets in for them after the submitter informs them that another customer has just purchased the last box of the fireworks they want, at which point they try to take the last box from the very customer who had just bought it, only for the submitter to thwart them. They then lash out at the submitter by threatening to physically assault the submitter and set the tent on fire, getting the attention of everybody at the tent — including the uniformed off-duty cop the submitter hires for security, who proceeds to have them placed in the back of his car.
"I hope they found a store with sparklers and snaps left on their long drive home."
A married couple in "I Am Region, For I Represent Many" chronically complains loudly about the hotel they stay in and the submitter works at for months. On one fateful day, the regional general manager makes a surprise visit due to the excessive financial outpouring from the hotel in question, witnesses the couple yelling at the front desk, and confronts them for their verbally abusive attitude, threatening to have the police called in on them if they aren't gone in an hour. The couple leaves after their threat of calling the corporate gets rebuffed, but not before letting their dog defecate in the lobby as one last "screw you". The regional general manager takes pictures of the defecation and forwards them to the higher-up, and the couple's account with the hotel brand is swiftly deactivated.
"It’s the fastest our rewards club people have ever worked to inactivate an account, all the while leaving a huge note of “if you book this guest consider yourself suspended” for other employees."
This caller in "Oh, Gee… It’s Almost As If Threats Don’t Work?" hurls abusive, rapid-fire profanity while on the phone with the submitter (and call notes indicate that he's done so to four agents so far for just that morning) before demanding the manager, who authorizes the submitter to hang up on him for verbal abuse. The submitter complies, though not before the caller claims that he'd keep calling and verbally abusing the staff until he gets his way, and then the manager who authorized the submitter to hang up on the abusive caller notifies the submitter via an email some weeks later that the caller will receive an official warning letter for his abusive conduct and might get his service disconnected with termination fees. The submitter discovers upon checking notes that this is the second time for this measure on the verbally abusive caller, who is now taken off the phone plan.
"So… no more phone plan for the shouty man!"
In "Karma Wrapped In Chocolate", the submitter and their mother are shopping in a pie shop. Enter a woman and her child, the latter of whom touches everything he can reach and screams about "choccy donut" before trying to move the submitter by pushing the leg, to which the submitter rebuffs with a twitch that scares the child into running back to the mother. The woman's attempt at comforting her child includes calling the submitter a derogatory slur for the mentally disabled, which causes the submitter to retaliate by ordering all the chocolate custard doughnuts that are available in the store for the day, leaving the woman to deal with her child, who's starting up a tantrum since the "choccy donut" the child wants is now out of stock.
"Pettiness tastes really good when it’s got a chocolate filling."
This fellow shopper in "If You Take Up A Lot It Will Cost… A Lot" parks her massive Escalade vehicle on the line between two spaces that are meant for the physically-impaired... with no placard granting her permission to park in even one of them. The submitter, who does have a placard for one such spot and is personally disabled, is understandably miffed (due to not only the Escalade vehicle occupying two such spots without the placard for it but also the fact that the other handicapped-accessible spots are taken as well) and heads into the store and contacts the manager, who then calls the police for it. Once the police arrive and take photos of the offending vehicle, they request that the manager announce over the PA system about the vehicle in question to get its driver outside, which the manager obliges. The driver comes outside yelling at the police only for one of them to hold up his hand to make her stop before she gets lectured for her illegal parking, and then the police give her two $500 parking tickets for the two spaces she parked in illegally, totaling $1,000, and order her to move her vehicle under the threat of having it towed if she refuses to comply or causes more trouble.
"The woman stomped around a bit before getting in her car and peeling out. The cops looked at each other, then got in their cars and followed her. Pretty sure she continued to have the day she deserved."
This woman in "What Makes People Think They Can Act Like This?!" is shopping for a Magic: The Gathering card for her ten-year-old son at a local game shop and, upon seeing the submitter in the process of selling a card to the shop owner, demands the submitter to give the card to her son for free. When her demand is rejected, she proves herself to be Not Good with Rejection by taking the card, stating “If my son can’t have this card, then you can’t.”, and make good on her words by ripping the card. The police are called and arrive soon thereafter, get separate statements from the woman and the submitter, view the security footage the owner provides, offer to have her banned from the shop (to which the shop owner agrees), and give the woman a ticket for disturbing the peace and destroying private property. The shop owner, in turn, pays the submitter the cost for the card with the intention of including it for the amount that the woman will be sued for or that the owner's insurance will cover and decides to take the woman to court for harassment, which the owner states she has already done more than once by this point.
"So, I got paid for the card, the woman got escorted out, and she left with two tickets and a court case on her hands."
This hotel guest in "They’re Bad, But I’m Bladder" arrives late at the hotel where the submitter works and at a time when the submitter is away for a bathroom break. Despite the sign that reads “ATTENDANT TEMPORARILY AWAY – BACK IN FIVE MINUTES.” being on the front desk, the guest doesn't appreciate having to wait for somebody to come back to the front desk and gets argumentative toward the submitter upon the latter's return, especially after the submitter refutes the guest's claim of having waited for twenty minutes when the time lapse lasted five instead, and the final straw comes when the guest, after being told that the submitter is the manager on duty once the guest demands to speak to a manager, reacts by claiming “A piece of s*** like you could never be a manager!”, at which point the submitter retaliates by canceling the guest's reservation (and the police would have been contacted, too, had the guest not left before the submitter can reach the emergency contact) and submitting the footage recording the incident -- with audio included -- to the corporate HQ, who respond by revoking the guest's membership status.
"Turns out, this wasn’t her first time playing the elite card. A franchise owner had even kicked her out once before.
Her points? Gone.
Her shiny card? Shattered."
The caller in "Ctrl-Alt-Del(eted) Contract" is rude to all female staff members who answer his calls, including the submitter, who's female herself, as both the caller's bad attitude in the current call and notes from previous calls indicate. The submitter, fed up with the caller's insults, declares that the caller's laptop, which has been awaiting parts for repair, will be returned unrepaired via invoking the clause that states abuse toward the staff may result in revocation of the contract without compensation, and rebuffs the caller's demand to speak to the manager by responding "You just did. Goodbye." before hanging up.
"Yes, I did, and yes, it was. Screw that guy."
The shopper standing in line behind the submitter in "Sloooow And Steady Wins Against The Racist" lashes out for having to wait longer than he's willing to for grocery checkout by making many racist remarks loudly enough for everybody waiting in line at the checkout lane to hear him and refuses to let up even after two other shoppers tell him to stop. Fed up with him, all three shoppers who are ahead of him, the submitter included, fight back by pulling stunts that would delay the transaction processes further: The first shopper asks the cashier for price checks, the second one opts for Paying in Coins, and the submitter asks about a rewards card. The racist talks to the customer behind him in the hope of finding an ally, but the response he gets is “I find that whenever something happens to p*** off a racist, I can get behind it… in this case, literally.”, which causes the cashier to snort and the submitter to laugh.
"I hang around after my purchase to make sure that the a**hole doesn’t have a small-man energy tantrum and take it out on the cashier. He chooses wisely (for once) and stays sullenly silent for the entire transaction."
This customer dials the wrong number and reaches the house of the submitter and their father by mistake while trying to make his order, but insists on getting his order from the submitter after being told he got the wrong place and continues to double down after submitter's father takes the call, culminating in him threatening to assault the submitter's father for laughing at him before the submitter's father hangs up on him. The submitter's father then calls the operator to block the number^note, a friend of his in the local police force about the profane caller threatening violence on him, and the actual pizza place to give them a heads-up. Sure enough, the caller storms up at the pizza place to demand his order, and a cop is already waiting for him in the back.
"It was a small-town legend for a week. To this day, we still joke about “Dad’s wrong-number pizza order beatdown.”"
In "Cemented And Demented", the customer sends his wife to pick up building materials at a big box home improvement store where the submitter works, to be loaded onto the car that's definitely too small to carry all of such items, insisting on finishing the errand in one trip despite the employees and the manager repeatedly telling them that the car she drives in can't handle them all. The employees and the manager eventually agree to the demand, load up everything into and onto the car, and she drives off... just far enough for the employees to watch the car collapse from the sheer weight that has been hoisted upon it. The customer ends up getting the materials with the help of a friend who owns a truck, though it takes two trips to accomplish it and this experience doesn't humble him, as demonstrated by him spending the next week's time demanding that the store buy a new car for him and his wife, only to be refused.
"I guess they weren’t so dumb, though; she did only make one trip."
A group of people in "They Booked The FAFO Suite" checks in the hotel where the submitter works on a Friday night without reservation but intends on staying in said hotel for the next two nights despite the entire hotel having already been reserved for Saturday. On the next morning, the group leaves the hotel for the day without taking their belongings with them and responds to the submitter reminding them that checkout is at noon with a dismissive “We’re not leaving.”, only to find their belongings already cleared out of the hotel room and gathered at the front desk area and the room in question having already been re-keyed and occupied by some other(s) who had reserved the room; worse for them, they're forced to seek hotel room elsewhere -- likely outside the city limit, since all of the hotels in the city are booked.
The caller in "You Bring The Rage, I’ll Bring The Quit" starts the call with rapid-fire profanity with NO INDOOR VOICE, but, unfortunately for him, the company where the submitter works grants permission to hang up on any irate caller refusing to identify their connection to the company in question, which allows the submitter — and the boss who takes the caller's next call — to hang up on said caller without repercussion, and so the caller gets repeatedly hanged up on for getting belligerent without bothering to identify himself.
"The best part? Turns out the guy had the wrong number the entire time."
In "Short Circuit, Long Sentence", the customer claims in the call that he bought an active speaker that broke within a week from the company where the submitter works but didn't notify the company until six weeks after the initial purchase, got a loaner speaker from a colleague to the submitter that also broke within the similar span of time, and wants another replacement. The submitter discovers in the course of learning about his setup that it's been his fault all along^note and tell him the available options, but he refuses to believe he's been at fault for the speakers being broken, demands the company pay him for the repair (which understandably the submitter rejects), and claims that he will keep the loaner as "hostage" until he gets paid for the repair, at which point the submitter tells him that doing so will lead to the submitter forwarding his case to the collections department within the company, who will inform him that he had to pay for the loaner, send out payment reminders, and could eventually escalate it to a bailiff/debt collector. The customer proceeds to double down on the demand and the profanity-laden threats until the submitter ends the call... only to go at it again when he receives the payment reminders from the collections department, which eventually escalates to the collection agency/bailiffs, but his angry threats to the bailiff agency leads to said agency pressing charges with the police both for the various (death) threats he made and to get a writ for repossession for the money he owed.
"So instead of working with us to fix his problem, which would’ve cost about $150–200, he now has to pay over $1500 (price of the loaner + late fees/penalties + bailiff costs), or lose his possessions. Plus, he has a police investigation that is sure to screw him over.

To give you an idea: threatening people is a criminal offense that carries the maximum punishment of two years in prison or a fine of $20,000. If the threat is in writing and the defendant sets conditions (if you don’t do X, I’ll do Y), then the maximum prison time is four years. So, he royally screwed himself over.

Oh, and his speaker is still broken.
The museum patron in "When The Flip Flopped" holds his toddler daughter on the railing inside the museum, and so the submitter, who works there, asks him to take her down for safety concerns. He argues back that he's holding her safely... and that's the moment when his daughter's shoe falls off her foot and into the enclosure.
"As I went into the enclosure, I heard him say, rather apologetically: “Oh, that’s why.”"
The customer in "Pie Hard With A Vengeance" goes to a pizza place, demands a pizza with more toppings than the amount being given on a standard deluxe pizza, and reacts to the submitter, who works there as a manager, explaining to him why they provide the standard amount of toppings by doubling down on his demand. Wanting to be done with it, the submitter agrees, but warns him that "it’s going to cost a fortune, taste terrible, and probably still be cold", enters his order into the system, totaling $60 (or more), and makes a pizza as he demands, which looks undercooked in the center due to the sheer amount of toppings on it. The customer demands the money back, but the submitter refuses by saying "you can’t have a refund for something I warned you about".
"In the end, he headed out with his pizza… that most likely went straight into the trash."
The customers in "Mike Drop" are a married couple with similar names the submitter is tasked with tax-filing for and become cranky toward the submitter after the submitter puts some information under the wrong person due to their similar-sounding names, making nasty and sarcastic comments through the rest of the tax-filing procedures. Things only escalate after the end result is presented to them, as they insist something is wrong, and then the submitter spots it: It turns out that one of the W-2 forms they brought with them belongs to their son (same first name and surname, with the addition of "Jr." being the sole difference), which the submitter points out to them before repeating one of their own nasty, sarcastic comments about how hard can it be to tell people apart straight back at them with a nasty grin.
"They left the office quieter and somewhat more polite than they entered, but I still hope I don’t have to see them again next year."
The customer in "That Debit Card Is Witnessing Some Growth" is a teenage Jerkass who is notoriously rude to the employees at the place where the submitter works and known for throwing his debit card at whoever was taking his order. When the teenager throws his debit card at the submitter one day, the submitter, after running the card, decides enough is enough by throwing it right back at him exactly the way he did for A Taste of Their Own Medicine, which cause his friends accompanying him at the time to laugh about it. As far as everybody knows, he has shown more respect to everyone at work and never thrown his card at anybody again, to the surprise of all of the submitter's coworkers.
This woman and her kid in "She Has A Whiz Kid" go to the department store where the submitter at work but, when the child needs to use the toilet, lets her child pee on the floor; when the submitter spots the child at it and tries to stop the kid, not only continues to condone her child's behavior but talk back at the submitter before walking away with her child in tow without a shred of remorse. The manager, once the submitter relays the incident to them, not only personally cleans up the urine but has the customer banned as well, adding the woman's picture from the security camera footage for good measure in case she shows up again... which happens when the next Black Friday sales come around. The submitter then exacts payback by letting her wait outside for hours first, get security to tell her she's not allowed to enter as the store is about to open, and, when she asks why, personally tell her she can't be trusted not to pee on the floor loudly enough for everyone in line to hear, humiliating her such that she storms off.
"For the first time ever, I had a smile on my face on a Black Friday."
A family of five in "When Bluffing Reaches The Tipping Point" dines in a high-end restaurant in a tourist town where the submitter works and accrues $400 or so in the bill, with the automatic gratuity around $70 because 20% gratuity is automatically added to parties of five or more as policy. The oldest woman scoffs at the $70 automatic gratuity and insists $40 is enough despite the submitter explaining the policy and, when the supervisor threatens to call the police on them for the refusal, dares them to do so and claims "We don't care!" in response. The police arrive several minutes after the supervisor calls them, and everybody in the family agrees to pay in full upon seeing them.
"I don’t even feel angry at the table. It’s the end of my shift, and honestly, I don’t care if their $70 tip comes to me or not. But watching rude, entitled people suddenly face consequences, and lose, is deeply satisfying."
The friend of the submitter in "Chains Of Command" works for a home improvement contractor, who has been doing renovation work for a client who always gives only lip service when asked for payment for the completed work despite being wealthy for weeks, until the contractor, after getting one non-payment excuse too many, asks the friend for big, heavy-duty chains said contractor uses to loop right through the wood beams that are fastened to the truck with enough noise to get the attention of the homeowner, who comes outside in anger, but the contractor isn't deterred, threatening to take all of the completed, non-paid work at once unless the contractor gets paid in the next minute, which forces the client into complying at once.
"He panics, runs back inside, and less than sixty seconds later comes out waving a check like a white flag."
In "The Customer Is Never Right (Twice)", a woman comes to the restaurant where the submitter works and claims to have a reservation for two, but it's not in the books. Remembering that she made life difficult for the submitter for three hours after the submitter honored her "booking" last year, however, the submitter does nothing to accommodate her this time and tells her personally that the whole place is booked — and she does so again after she goes into the bar “just in case” someone didn’t show up for a half-hour.
"She left furious.

Maybe don’t be such a cow next time."
This woman in "Reverse Identity Theft" decides to take three full bags of groceries out of the grocery store where the submitter works without paying for them, but her thieving attempt is thwarted when the old-fashioned push-to-exit front doors swing back as she pushes her way through them and catch the bags, causing groceries to scatter across the entryway like a piñata exploding, resulting in her fleeing in the moment of chaotic panic without taking everything. It turns out that one of the things she left behind as she fled in panic is her purse (with her ID inside, at that), which allows the loss prevention personnel to report her to the police.
Manager: Turns out the only thing she successfully carried out was a felony.
This woman in "Medi-Careless" calls the company where the submitter works in customer service for Medicare plan enrollment, but she proves too impatient for the procedure when she responds to the submitter telling her the legally-required need to read her the terms of service and her need to verbally consent to it in order to complete the sign-up process by refusing to allow the submitter to do so and hanging up when the submitter warns her that refusal to consent to the process prevents her from having any medical insurance until the next enrollment period arrives (in the same time of the year next year). Several weeks after the next year comes around, the coworker of the submitter receives a call from the very woman who is furious that she has been told by the pharmacist that she had no medical insurance at all while trying to get a prescription filled; worse for her, medical insurance enrollment is impossible at this time since she missed the enrollment period.
"Imagine how much easier things would have gone for everyone if that woman had just let me do my job, let me read the service agreement, and just said yes to it."
The submitter in "Sweet, Sweet Revenge" runs a 7-Eleven-style store at the family-oriented sports camp around halftime for children to get a snack and a drink. When childcare becomes a hassle for the chaperones because the kids buy sugary snacks and drinks that cause them to be hyperactive for one hour before the subsequent sugar crash makes them irritable for the next half-hour, the submitter gets around it by allowing them only savory snacks or fruit with water for the purchases. Two days later, the more entitled parents complain about this restriction to the boss of the submitter, who orders the submitter to lift the restriction, and so the submitter complies... by hosting the shop forty-five minutes before the camp session ends, forcing the parents, especially the entitled ones who made the complaint in the first place, to deal with their children at their sugar-induced hyperactivity and sugar crash modes at home, every day, all the way to the end of the summer.
"The next summer, nobody complained when I went back to regulating their purchases at snack time. Win-win!"
The customer in "A Brewed Awakening" consistently makes a poor display on How They Treat the Help by screaming verbal abuse at the barista behind the counter at the coffee store where the story unfolds. Once he's handed his coffee, he takes the lid off his cup to make sure it's done correctly and sweeps the coffee cup off the counter, but his failure to secure the lid on his coffee cup before sweeping it off the counter causes the scalding hot coffee to spill all over both of his hands.
"It was the most satisfying act of karma I had ever witnessed."
The woman in "“Forms” Of Justice" enters the government office where the submitter works near closing time, but her paperwork slides out of her arms, falls to the ground, and spreads all over the place. A man who appears Middle Eastern tries to help her, but she screams at him not to touch her paperwork and tells him to go back to his country of origin, and so he complies by leaving her be... and getting behind the counter that she tried to reach. The woman finally gathers all of her paperwork and goes to the counter, but the man puts up a sign that reads "closed" and points to the clock in the office indicating that the office hours are up, making it clear he can no longer help her for the rest of the day and that her attempt to get her paperwork done that day has been All for Nothing.
"Her face went blank as she stammered to please make an exception, but she surely knew from the beginning this was a pointless request. If she had let him help her, I’m sure she would have been able to put in the paperwork.

I just can make an assumption that she either wasn’t able to put in the paperwork at all, or at least had to come in again the next day. Surely not what her boss was expecting."
In "The Manager Is Cooking The Roasts Today", the newly-hired waitress finds herself serving a regular customer, a verbally-abusive Jerkass who causes the waitress to start crying after several minutes of trying to serve her. The manager then takes the new waitress to the table where the problem customer is sitting, points at said customer, and gives a motivational speech to the waitress that is scathing towards said customer (e.g. referring to the customer as "it") loudly enough for the Jerkass to hear, resulting in the customer leaving the restaurant in silence.
"We never saw her again."
The customer in "They Said It! They Said The Thing!" rips open a box to check the merchandise inside despite the submitter requesting that the customer stop and retorts to the submitter with “Where’s the sign that says that?!”. The moment the submitter acknowledges that no such signs are present, the customer orders the submitter to back off and throws the box into his shopping cart. Come the checkout time, the customer asks for a discount for the merchandise he ripped open the box for, and the cashier calls over a manager... who turns out to be the submitter. The customer, after recovering from the initial shock of realizing the person he ignored and rebuffed earlier for the box-opening stunt has been the manager all along, tries to ask for a discount, arguing "the customer is always right", only for the submitter to rebuff him back by asking him “Where’s the sign that says that?!”.
"Jerk paid full price."
The woman in "Loudspeaker Followed By Deafening Silence" has a loud conversation on her speakerphone but is oblivious of it due to wearing in-ear headphones, all while the submitter is checking out her items as a cashier. She tells the submitter to be quiet while she's still talking on the phone when the submitter tries to talk to her, but the submitter persists, culminating in the submitter informing her that, because she's on speakerphone, everybody within earshot has been hearing about the results of her colonoscopy, which finally jolts her into the realization that she's been unintentionally talking about her private matters for everyone else to hear all along.
"Her eyes widened, she looked at her phone, looked at me, looked at the awkward-looking faces of the customers behind her… and she bolted.''"
This guy in ""Check, Mate" orders about $75 worth of food in the restaurant where the submitter works and serves him, only to pull a Dine and Dash when it's time to pay for the food. The submitter is in the midst of cursing their luck when, during the clean-up process, a set of car keys he had left behind in his haste to leave without paying gets spotted in the seat, and so the submitter pockets the car keys and continues working. Several minutes later, he reenters the restaurant and goes to where he sat in search of his car keys and has an Oh, Crap! look upon seeing the submitter, who hands him the bill and answers his question about his car keys with a deliberately vague response. It's only after he actually pays that the submitter gives the car keys back — and, for good measure, the submitter doesn't bother giving him any change back after receiving the $100 bill for the payment.
The caller in "This Call May Be Recorded For Karmic Reasons" demands the submitter, who works in the call center where this incident occurs, a package for a phone screen repair job for free despite lacking the warranty cover granting it and threatens to cancel his phone service unless he gets his way, only for the submitter to take his threat at face value and transfer him to the customer loyalty department to process the service cancellation procedure before the caller can backpedal.
In "Granny’s Rules Rule", a couple who has a rented unit without a deeded parking spot frequently parks their vehicle in the deeded spot of an elderly lady and tells her to park her vehicle elsewhere when she complains to them, but their luck runs out when said elderly lady decides enough is enough by parking her vehicle so close to theirs that they can't move their vehicle without damaging it. The couple then goes to the submitter, who works in the office overseeing deeded parking, and asks the latter to have the elderly lady's vehicle towed, which the submitter rejects and responds by asking them to talk to her. After twenty minutes of back-and-forth without getting their desired result, the couple asks the submitter to call the elderly lady, who shows up and makes her demand clear: She will move her vehicle only after the couple pays her $150 for each day they keep parking in her deeded spot plus $50 for waking her up too early — in cash. The couple relents and complies.
"Not only did the renters not park in her spot, but word got around, and I didn’t have to deal with that issue for another two years."
The woman in "The Couponator 52: The District Doppelgänger" attempts to use an expired coupon and demands a manager when she doesn't get her way. The district manager, who happens to pay a visit to the store where the submitter works that day, is called over, confirms that an expired coupon can't be overridden, and rebuffs her when she insists that she always gets it done at the sister location, resulting in her claiming that she'll go to said sister location to not only complain about said district manager but get her expired coupon approved as well, to which the district manager responds with "I hope you have better luck at our sister location". She leaves in a huff and goes to the sister location... which, as it turns out, the district manager was just about to visit before getting called over by the submitter for customer service anyway.
Submitter: Did I overhear that the customer will be going to our sister location?
District Manager: You did.
Submitter: The same location you were about to leave for, before I caught you?
District Manager: The very same.
Submitter: So, she is going to go to the sister location to complain about you… to you.
District Manager: So… if I take the express freeway, I should be able to beat her there and enjoy seeing the expression on her face…

He did do that very thing. Apparently, the customer did indeed show up that afternoon. The look on her face when she realized who was about to serve her was everything [District Manager] had hoped it would be…
In "Customer Gets Put Into Time Out", the submitter is restocking shelves before coming to a section that's blocked by a customer who's talking on the phone and rudely tells the submitter “You’re on my time; I’m not on yours.” when the submitter requests for said customer to move, forcing the submitter to work on another section. The rude customer stops the submitter as the latter is on the way to lunch because the very section said customer blocked from the submitter would have had the items said customer would want for Christmas and, after the submitter explains that said customer had blocked the submitter from restocking said section, orders the submitter to restock the section in question now, only for the submitter to retort with “I’m on lunch, and my lunch is on my time, not yours.” before walking away for lunch, leaving the rude customer to continue to be deprived of the wanted items.
The customer in "It’s Not Us, It’s You…" is a repeat offender in showing How They Treat the Help poorly. The submitter, having endured a rough day, has reached their Rage Breaking Point while she's on yet another bout of ranting and reacts by giving her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, to which she demands to speak to the manager, who, after hearing the details of the incident, suggests for her to shop elsewhere. When she refuses to abide by it (because the grocery store is the only one available on her drive home), the manager gives her an ultimatum — either treat the employees better or never stepping foot inside the store again — and rebuffs her threat of calling the corporate office by claiming that every employee in the store will quit if the corporate bigwigs favor her over the employees, resulting in her paying her groceries in silence, both on that day and since then.
"I guess being the only store within a fifty-mile radius forced her to take the loss and accept she wasn’t going to use us as her emotional punching bags anymore."
The male customer in "Man, What A Jerk" is a Jerkass who not only demands a laptop for only up to $100 but mocks any female workers who tell him "no" to his demand and insists on getting someone higher up in the managerial hierarchy -- preferably a male -- as well, escalating from the submitter to the manager before reaching the district manager, who tells him that she'll call her boss, a man, to sort things out. The customer agrees and waits... and it turns out the man the district manager calls is security, who promptly escorts him off the premises.
"In the end, he got what he wanted: he got some men to help him out!"
The caller in "I Want To Speak To Numero Uno Reverse" proves to be a Jerkass right off the bat by repeatedly interrupting anyone answering the call with "I’m gonna stop you right there" if the responder isn't a manager, as both the submitter and their supervisor find out personally when they try to talk to him before getting the manager to answer the call. The manager plays back the recorded call... and then gives the caller A Taste of Their Own Medicine by repeatedly interrupting him with "I’m gonna stop you right there" every time he fails to provide the answer the manager asks him for; when the caller protests, the manager gives him a brief "The Reason You Suck" Speech, hangs up, and blocks his number.
Manager: None of us has time for that power play BS.
The shopper in ""Rage But Wholesale" demands the submitter, who works as cashier at Costco, to allow him to go through the transaction despite lacking a membership card, which is required to proceed with said transaction, acts belligerent after being turned down, and continues to insist on his demand when the manager confirms what the submitter already told him. He eventually storms out, empty-handed, after realizing that he won't get his way by staying there, though not before claiming that he'll go to the Walmart down the street... not knowing that the "Walmart" he referred to is actually a Sam's Club (Walmart's own membership-only warehouse store).
Manager: Oh, to be a fly on THAT wall…
The caller in "That’s ONE Way To Make Your Bed And Lie In It!" demands the submitter's coworker, who answers the call, to have the mattress delivered to his residence, rebuffs the coworker telling him that the delay in the delivery is because the highways are closed off due to heavy snowstorm, and goes so far as to threaten to enter the furniture store where the submitter and their coworker are with a gun to "speed up the process", to which the coworker responds with "I will see what I can do" to get the caller satisfied enough before ending the call. While the submitter is shocked at the caller's behavior, the coworker states the intention to make the next call be to their son, a police officer, and makes good on their words by making the call. The next day, the coworker's son goes to have the caller, a university professor fresh out of grad school, arrested at his workplace (in front of the dean of his faculty, at that), cuffed, and escorted through the long route out of the campus.
"He was kicked out of the University and never taught again."
The shopper in "Oops, You Lost Again" walks into the store where the submitter works at and proves to be a Jerkass by wearing a hoodie that has the Confederate Flag on it, walking around in the store with a deliberate attempt to be as visible as possible, and asking the submitter whether the hoodie offends them as he comes to the counter with a drink in hand, only for the submitter to rebuffs him with "I thought they replaced that flag with the white surrender flag back in 1865".
"He walked out without paying, without his drink, and without another word."
This customer in "Some People Have Never Been Told “No” And It Shows, Part 18" demands service from the submitter, who works as cashier, by repeatedly banging her fist on the counter despite the submitter tending to a man who collapsed nearby due to a sudden heart attack, calling an ambulance, and talking to the 911 operator about the incident. To top it off, said customer gets angry at the submitter for making her wait ten minutes before checking her items out even though the submitter was helping a potentially dying man all this time, which pushes the submitter past the Rage Breaking Point into telling her to Get Out!. Not willing to concede defeat, the now-former customer calls the police on the submitter and falsely accuses the latter of assaulting her, but this stunt comes back to bite her in the rear when the very police she called to the store end up arresting her instead for making a false report and attempted destruction of property when she tried to attack a nearby trash can and, later on, inform the submitter that the collapsed man recovered from his heart attack.
The caller in "Escalation Circulation" proves himself a Jerkass from the get-go by demanding the supervisor instead of allowing some, in his own words, "lowest rung call center worker" to help him when the submitter takes his call and refusing to answer the submitter, and so the submitter transfers him to the supervisor as he demanded. The supervisor takes the call and complains to the submitter an hour later about how the caller insisted on talking to the manager and wouldn't allow help from them, the manager makes the same complaint ten minutes afterward about how the caller insisted on talking to someone a rank higher after taking the call the supervisor transferred, and the general manager gripes about that very caller insisting on talking to someone who's at the highest rank five minutes after that, and so the submitter takes the call. The caller is indignant that the submitter is talking to him again until the submitter reveals themselves to be the district manager, the highest rank in a given region, all along, at which point he protests that the submitter didn't help him the first time around, only to be rebuffed into silence when the submitter throws his own words right back at him by reminding him that he demanded the supervisor in the first place.
"The query ended up being something very simple, but because he was a ‘super platinum member,’ he expected that he should only talk to the ‘top dogs’ every time he called in. Also, he wasted half an hour just to get back to me."

Not Always Romantic

Happens occasionally, but rarely is it as satisfying as "Make Rainbows, Not War". A homophobic player in a shooter game keeps calling the gay submitter slurs, angering the players on both teams, who tell him to shut up. Instead, he turns the slurs on one of his own teammates, who is also gay. His teammates respond by completely abandoning him and permitting the submitter's team to repeatedly kill him in game which frustrates him to the point he Rage Quits. The homophobic player is banned from the team since he was only filling in for his sick brother, and the gay teammate later dates the submitter.
Comes with a side order of I Was Beaten by a Girl in "Shouldn't Make Off The Cuff Remarks", in which a guy with an extensive rap sheet for Domestic Abuse tries to slap around his current girlfriend for postponing a date because she was working late... as a prison guard. Cue Curb-Stomp Battle. And then he goes back to her house the next day to "teach her a lesson", which ends with another curb-stomping and his arrest.
This jerk has a fling with the submitter, only for the submitter to discover he's just gotten engaged to another woman. So the submitter pretends to be pregnant with the man's child to force him to admit his infidelity to his bride-to-be. His now-ex-fiancée later marries another man, while the cheater's love life never recovers.
He […] lost all his hair by the age of 30, has a beer belly, is still single, and had to move back in with his mom after the breakup, where he’s lived ever since.
This aptly-dubbed Bridezilla forces her sister out of the wedding because she's pregnant, not caring she's been trying for years for a baby, and later coldly replies to the news that her sister miscarried (and their mom's own distraught reaction to the news) with a flippant "I guess she can be in my wedding, then". The now rightfully furious mom tells the wedding planner that, effective immediately, she's no longer paying for the wedding, causing Bridezilla to panic; a day later, the would-be groom ends up cancelling the wedding outright.
This flaky, domineering fiancé splurges on costs for the wedding, booking an expensive venue, expensive dress, etc., all on her groom-to-be's dime as she has no job of her own. Then, a month before the wedding, she abruptly tells her boyfriend that "God told [her they] shouldn't be together." After being kicked out by her boyfriend, she finds a new fiancé, and tries to get married on the same day as their planned wedding, pretending her new boyfriend is her old one. Only, when her first boyfriend finds out, he cancels all the reservations, getting $75,000 in refunds, resulting in the girlfriend having to marry her new beau at a courthouse – oh, and this second relationship only lasts for six months.
This married would-be Don Juan co-worker sends love poetry to two of his co-workers and tries to badmouth each of them in front of the other to separate them. When they wind up meeting and hitting it off anyway, they tell his wife, who as it turns out had already packed her bags and was waiting for confirmation of his infidelity. As a result, his marriage falls apart in a heartbeat, and it's implied he loses the house.
This cheating cheapskate of a husband boards a flight using the airline in which his wife works as a flight attendant in order to book said flight for free, with a woman who's definitely not his wife, and taunts his flight attendant of a wife as she's led off the airplane after screaming at him for his public display of infidelity, her supervisor claims that her job will likely be in jeopardy for the outburst. Not only is said flight attendant still employed, as evidenced when the submitter encounters her on the return flight, she also gets to exact revenge on him by removing him from her family account, which cancels his return flight and ensures that he would be unable to return home unless he pays for the full cost of airfare.

Not Always Related

A sister who constantly takes her sibling's stuff without permission experiences this trope when she grabs an ice cream bar out of the freezer, throws away the "do not eat" label on it, and chows down. Turns out it wasn't an ice cream bar, it was a dog laxative.
This dad continues to insist that his son's adopted daughter is not his and he was tricked into taking care of a child that's not his. Even though the son has openly said that he doesn't care if she's biologically his or not, and given his dad a black eye to emphasize that point, the dad gets a DNA test to prove he's right, even turning up with a cake that reads "I f*** told you so". However, to his horror, it turns out that the daughter is his son's bio kid, meaning that the dad made an ass of himself and irreparably damaged his relationship with his son and granddaughter for no reason. The son, to drive home the point, turns the cake around to face his dad.
This dad who deliberately acts like a Card-Carrying Jerkass to other drivers while driving is finally knocked down a peg when he deliberately cuts off another driver trying to get over and drives up parallel to them just to roll down his window and flip them off for good measure. A passenger in the other car responds by throwing a cup that (for reasons that are a mystery to the rest of the family) is full of pee at the dad, causing him to have a vomiting fit so bad that he has to pull over. While he doesn't completely stop being a rude driver, he is still noted to be comparatively much more polite to other drivers after that.
The aunt, uncle, and their two children of this submitter are chronically tardy in all family gatherings and events they're invited to, and so other family members give them wrong information (e.g. telling them an event takes place at 10 A.M. when it starts at 11 A.M.) to get them to show up on time due to being fed up with waiting on them after everyone else has already arrived for a given event. When they start to realize the scheme, they insist that they're not at fault and ask to be told the correct time for the next family gathering event (a ferry ride lasting one day this time), for which the submitter's parents oblige. Come the time of the ferry ride, those same four people are late again, but, this time, the ferry waits for no one, leaving the four of them far behind when they show up thirty minutes later than the scheduled ferry departure time. This incident doesn't make the four of them more punctual afterwards, but, ever since then, other family members would relay the correct time as requested and no longer wait for them should they show up late again.
This aunt mocks the poster's blue-collar occupational choice to her own children during a family gathering after catching wind that the poster needs help finding work close to home. Unfortunately for her, the mockery incurs the wrath of the poster's mother, who raises Hell on the aunt in question, which alarms everyone due to this incident being the first time anybody had seen the poster's mother being this angry. According to the poster, the aunt never says a word about the occupational choice of any of her own offspring's or the poster's again, and her own children actually end up in the same occupational field as the poster.
This poster's great-great-uncle wanted to divorce his wife to be with his new squeeze and leave her to raise their five children alone without promise of child support while intending to keep the full amount of his pension from his (back then) high-paying job. Unfortunately for him, his soon-to-be-divorced wife managed to find a byline in his pension contract guaranteeing her half of the pension amount due to the length of time they had been married, even if they were to be divorced now, and the company bigwigs upheld the byline despite his appeal, and so she managed to raise her five kids and live a comfy life from the income generated through the pension.
This poster's great-grandmother grew vegetables in her garden while her husband kept watch upon her telling him that their stocks were looking thin, culminating in him firing a shot from his double-barrel upon noticing potential thieves outside their garden, which scared the intruders off. The aftermath of it became clear when they went to church the next Sunday, when they were informed that the pastor was "home sick" for a few weeks based on the account offered by his daughter, who had one arm bandaged up from "thorns". The pastor recovered, albeit with scars on his face and neck from his "illness".
The submitter's maternal uncle in "Living In Fear Of The Pulled-On Ear" is a troublemaker after World War II due to the combination of PTSD and being a bully who remains one after becoming an adult, but he makes one critical mistake after picking a fight with and beating up some sheriff's deputies he has known since childhood before fleeing. After the sheriff calls the submitter's maternal grandmother about his thuggish stunt, she marches into the sheriff's office with one hand holding said uncle's ear and the other hand holding a hammer, telling the officers that she'd personally have her son Bludgeoned to Death with the hammer if they don't arrest him, all while the uncle fearfully confesses to the crime and begs for the arrest and the incarceration to escape his mother's wrath, and the officers oblige while doing nothing to the grandmother despite her having made an explicit death threat in front of them. By all accounts, the submitter's uncle has never misbehaved again after this incident and his release from jail.
In "Monster-In-Law: Exposed", the submitter's family invites their mother-in-law to a restaurant for Mother's Day. The reservation is booked for six, but the mother-in-law makes a last-minute decision of inviting some of her friends and their families, increasing the total amount of people to twenty, which the restaurant staff understandably can't accommodate, and the manager reacts to the mother-in-law's threat of taking the business elsewhere by canceling the booking at once. The final straw comes when the mother-in-law responds to a friend's suggestion of going to a Chinese buffet in an effort to salvage the occasion by insinuating that the staff at the buffet butchers cats to serve the patrons, in close vicinity of another friend, who's Chinese herself, leading to the mother-in-law's friends leaving at once and no longer wishing to be friends with her. The mother-in-law then decides to go back inside the original restaurant now that the size is down to six again and gets upset that the restaurant staff refuses to take her group, and her insistence in blaming the restaurant staff for her own antics results in everybody else deciding to abandon her on the spot.
"We all left her standing in the parking lot. That was the last time we tried to do anything nice for her."
A relatively silly example takes place in "You Reap What You Soy", in which the submitter's father tries to play a prank on his teenage offspring by replacing the soda in a Coke bottle with soy sauce but forgets all about it until a week later, when HE decides to have some drink of Coke and unintentionally ends up drinking the soy sauce he put inside said bottle instead, leading to him vomiting it out in the kitchen messily.
"Yes, because they raised three teens who don’t like soda, Dad forgot about the prank he set up a week ago and decided he wanted some Coke tonight. Nice one, Dad."
The submitter's cousin in "CPS: Cousin Perfidy Scheming" calls CPS on her parents that results in her and her siblings being taken out of their home because she would rather live with her best friend's family instead of hers, but it backfires on her because she fails to take into account that she'd have no choice in whose household she'd live in after getting the CPS involved: Instead of living with her best friend's family like she wanted, she gets assigned to live with her grandparents, who live four hours' drive away, and would have to transfer to another school. Devastated by how much her scheme backfired, she eventually confesses to it, but she'd still have to spend some months with her grandparents before the CPS is satisfied with the investigation, and her parents are understandably miffed at her for her stunt.
"[Cousin] was essentially grounded until the day she moved out."
The mother-in-law of the submitter's husband in "California Dreaming… Because I’m Asleep!" repeatedly calls the husband when he and the submitter are asleep and dismisses the husband telling her that they're asleep at the time of her calls because of sixteen-hour time-zone difference by telling him he should take pity on her for not having learned about time zones in her own childhood before proceeding to talk to him without letting up. Fed up with her attitude and stunts, the husband calls her when it's around three A.M. in her time zone to give her A Taste of Their Own Medicine and, in reaction to her protesting that it's in the wee hours where she is, tells her that he never learned about time zones in his own childhood, either, resulting in her sputtering something about respect before hanging up.
"The middle-of-the-night calls stopped immediately."
The grandmother of the submitter in "Grandma Has Some Sketchy Remarks" is always judgmental and emotionally distant, as illustrated when she criticized the submitter's youngest sister's drawings, such that she refrained from showing her grandmother any of her artwork. The grandmother visits on one weekend and sees one drawing made by submitter's youngest sister, who showed it to the mother of both her and the submitter earlier, while said youngest sister is away. Upon seeing it and being told by the mother it's one of the youngest sister's handiwork, the grandmother expresses relief that the youngest sister has finally given up on drawing and ventured into photography, only for the mother to respond that it is a black-and-white pencil sketch.
"Oh, the look on Grandma’s face! She looked closer at the amazingly photorealistic drawing my equally amazing sister had drawn, realized that she had just admitted that [Sister] was crazily talented, and quickly changed the subject.

We all told our sister what happened at the dinner table that night (with Grandma present, of course), and it looked like the old woman was sucking lemons all through the meal."
The oldest sister to the submitter in "Sunk By Grandma’s Receipts" is chatting with her boyfriend about his family’s upcoming cruise to the Caribbean when the submitter's grandmother brings up said sister's claim that she'd break up with him because he's too boring for her. When said sister tries to deflect by saying the grandmother is just old and senile, the grandmother pulls up her phone and plays a video of a cat doing something cute... but also including the sister telling her friends on the phone “I’m dumping my boring boyfriend after this cruise.” in the background. The boyfriend storms out in silence; when the submitter asks the grandmother why she did this, she responds that she doesn't want her grandchildren to get away with using others like the oldest sister tried to do to her boyfriend. For good measure, the grandmother ribs the sister once more come Christmastime after learning that the sister hasn't apologized to him for her failed antics.
"At Christmas, upon discovering that my oldest sister had yet to apologize to her (now ex) boyfriend, she got her a cruise ship calendar for the following year. It did not go down well."
In "The Cheesecake Was Almost A Lie", the five-year-old son of the submitter has finished his mac-and-cheese meal, but he expects a cheesecake as the result of his fourteen-year-old brother telling him "mac and cheese" was "macaroni and cheesecake" for a prank. After the submitter finds out, the five-year-old gets his cheesecake... with the expense for it coming out of the allowance the submitter would have given the fourteen-year-old.
The submitter in "Late For The Sundae Barbecue" sees her grandparents ordering food in the same fast-food joint she's in and is about to go to them and greet when she notices them shouting and berating a teenager who's serving them due to having run out of stock of a particular flavor of sundae, causing the submitter to leave and order elsewhere for food. On that very weekend, her grandparents invite everyone over for a backyard barbecue, and the submitter arrives an hour late on purpose. Her grandmother, whom the submitter knows has a Berserk Button about people showing up late for any event she hosts, confronts her, but the submitter gets her grandmother to back down with a made-up story claiming that she was late due to having to cover for a poor coworker who got yelled at to the point of tears because of an out-of-stock ice cream flavor.
"Suddenly, my tardiness was forgiven!"
The uncle of the submitter in "Someone’s Getting Their Just Desserts" responds to his brother's diabetes diagnosis by baking several pies for the next family gathering and relentlessly tormenting his brother about him not being able to eat them. When the uncle responds to his brother asking to pass the potatoes by passing him one of the pies instead, the brother, now completely fed up, walks over to the uncle and breaks his nose, and his sister-in-law shows No Sympathy to him via responding to him crying out for help afterward by offering him some pie.
"That was the last time I saw him for a whole decade."

Not Always Learning

After this incident, where a teacher flips a student's desk because she knew the student wouldn't pass a neatness check, the student's mother shows up in the classroom to respond in kind, then pulls her child from that teacher's class. The teacher is later investigated and fired, and her teaching license revoked.
A mean teacher who refuses to let a student with fifth disease rash leave class early to call her parents despite the evidence appearing on her skin. When the student came back to school after getting cured, she learned the mean teacher got fifth disease.
"It's A Con-Text":
- Problem Teacher falls on his sword in Part 2 after not only failing to help solve a rash of petty thefts at the school and not learning his lesson after he was suspended for what he did to the OP in Part 1 but also harassing and nearly getting a wheelchair-bound student arrested after jumping to the conclusion that she was responsible for the thefts through Insane Troll Logic and then gloating at her when the OP's policewoman grandmother shows up in uniform to defend her.
- Part 1 is about Problem Girl pulling a Wounded Gazelle Gambit on the OP that fails due to her ruining her own scheme, all because she called her out on faking a Teen Pregnancy. While Problem Girl didn't get any official punishment from the school after getting caught, word about what she did spread throughout the school and all of the staff and students refused to trust her anymore out of disgust. It also resulted in her being the main suspect among the students for the thieving spree in Part 2 (while it wasn't her, her reputation as a liar, her taking off to "use the bathroom" in the middle of P.E. every day and her continuing her Attention Whore tendencies even after people wised up definitely didn't help her look innocent). Also, since the OP's mother, the OP's grandmother, and the wheelchair-using student's parents all worked together to get Problem Teacher fired out of disgust for how his actions harmed their children, Problem Girl now has nobody in the school to protect her from the consequences of her Compulsive Liar tendencies. All this never would have happened if she didn't try the Wounded Gazelle Gambit on the OP in the first place.
A substitute teacher holding a petty grudge against another teacher (the OP) for not making a big deal out of sending the sub's daughter home from school barrages the OP (who is sick at home) with phone calls just to annoy them and tries to get them in trouble with upper management by claiming that the OP was not giving her sufficient instructions in teaching the class. The sub's plan falls apart when another teacher she doesn't like discovers what the sub is doing, resulting in the sub losing her temper and throwing things at the other teacher right in front of class. Not only is the sub fired and made a Persona Non Grata at the school, but the OP gets in no trouble as the sub gloated about harassing the submitter as she was attacking the other teacher.
Another substitute refuses to believe the submitter's claims that she's really nauseous and denies her bathroom access until a scheduled break, resulting in her puking on the substitute's shoes.
In "Some People Shouldn't Work With Children", a Sadist Teacher doesn't just excessively punish students for such crimes as "having a nickname" or "being left-handed", she also calls their parents to blame the "sins" of the students on supposedly bad parenting, or in the case of the submitter, staying single after his wife was killed in a car accident. All the students and their families want her gone, as does the principal, but the school district doesn't have cause to fire her... until she deliberately blames a fight on a student who was home sick that day. The district is forced to investigate whether the rest of her recent disciplinary action reports were equally dishonest, and enough are that she's fired the next day.
This Job Corps student routinely gets away with bullying, making the submitter's life utterly miserable. The story takes place in 2000, when cell phones were rare, and the campus has a draconian policy against students having phones. When a dorm RA loses his phone and puts up a reward for the missing device, the bully sees the submitter with a phone they've just bought,^note assumes it's the missing phone (despite it not matching the description), threatens the submitter with violence until he gives it to him, and rushes off to cash in on the reward… only to get expelled for cell phone possession.
"The bully ironically bullied himself out of the program!"
The submitter in "That Student Council Needs A Counselor" is an artistic student helping their fellow students, most of whom are the student council representatives of their class, to make class banners for the upcoming pep rally... for one day, until the next day when two of said student council representatives decide to kick the submitter out of the group project under the excuse of making the banner project for student council members alone. The submitter, understandably miffed over this sudden exclusion (especially since the submitter is not the only non-council-member helping out with the banners), promptly takes a paintbrush and the paint they had personally brought with their person before taking a half-painted banner away as well, folding it up for good measure (both because the submitter had personally painted it and no one in the student council members would take up the offer when the submitter offers to sell it to them for the cost of making it, as well as because the submitter doesn't want to risk wet paint from it inside the car). The aftermath of this fallout is on display on the day of the pep rally, in which the gym walls are devoid of any banners from the class of the submitter and the student council representatives.
This substitute teacher in "She’d Better Hope She’s Not Allergic To Unemployment" refuses to believe the submitter's claim about being allergic to pork, beef, and stone fruits such as peach, all of which the school serves, after tossing the submitter's packed lunch into the trash, resorts to Force Feeding the school lunch into the latter's mouth, which results in the submitter breaking out in hives in ten minutes, and tries to prevent the submitter from going to the nurse's office, culminating in the submitter projectile-vomiting all over the place, said substitute teacher included, leading to the substitute teacher being fired. As the now-former substitute teacher is left muttering about how was she supposed to know the submitter's allergies were real, the school nurse points out that there is a note in the attendance book with an entire list of foodstuff that the submitter is allergic to upon opening said attendance book.
A fellow poetry club member to the submitter in "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? Uncomfortable." is persistent on having the submitter out for a date despite the submitter turning him down repeatedly and avoiding him to the best of her ability for many weeks. After the submitter decides to put her foot down by telling him calmly but firmly that she would not go out with him, he proves himself to be Not Good with Rejection in the next poetry presentation session by reading a written diatribe that is also misogynistic in front of the whole club, looking straight at the submitter the whole time, until the girls start yelling over him, followed by the club teacher telling him to Get Out!, and his friends prove Everyone Has Standards by refusing to back him up when he asks them to, resulting in him finally leaving the submitter alone after being booted from the poetry club.
This female college student in "They Will Take Note Not To Do That Again" continuously talks to the submitter throughout the 50-minute-long lecture session, even though the submitter ignores her as much as possible to focus on note-taking to keep up with the professor's lecture, and stops only at the end of the class — and, even then, only because the submitter had put away their notebook into their backpack. Having missed the entire class session because she spent the whole time chatting nonstop, she asks to borrow the submitter's notes, only to be refused.
"I never saw her in class again."
This teacher in "Mama Is Locks And Loaded" talks to the submitter on the phone about her thirteen-year-old son and asks the submitter to cut her son's hair under the firm belief that Real Men Have Short Hair and the thirteen-year-old boy is growing his hair out. The submitter proves to be a Mama Bear as she voices her refusal to do so, hangs up despite the teacher's protest, calls the principal the next day, and relays the incident to the principal, who pays a quick visit to the classroom where the teacher is in to make sure said teacher isn't shaming any long-haired boys (or, worse, forcibly cutting their hair short against their will). The teacher never gives the submitter's son any more trouble, though she does end up fired halfway through the school year, allegedly due to other such displays of sexism.
"My son is now eighteen with a GORGEOUS head of long hair that has me very jealous of him."

Not Always Friendly

This woman assumed a caller was a telemarketer, yelled at them to be taken off the list... and then wondered why she wasn't invited to her best friend's party.
Submitter: Sorry. I took you off my list.
This guy, trying to buy 16 pounds' worth of items but only having 15, loudly objects to the submitter's offer of letting him borrow a pound. As the submitter is paying for his own items, the other guy is trying to lower his bill, but still ends up ten pence short. He turns to the submitter...
Man: Hey, I don't suppose—
Submitter: —No, I don't suppose either.
(Both cashiers tried to hide their grins as I turned and walked out.)
This guy deliberately backs into the car behind him and pretends to have injured his neck when the police arrive. Luckily, the other driver had a dash cam in the car. The first guy turns white when he finds out.
In "A Helpless Situation", a woman refuses to help a person with a broken arm, saying that they should've brought someone else to help them. Luckily, another man steps in to assist. Later, the woman drops her groceries and asks the same man to help her. The man refuses and walks by, saying that she should've brought someone else to help her.
The lead organizer of this camp insists on letting other campers use the submitter's personal tandem kayak (meant for the use of said submitter and their disabled daughter). It happens that the submitter had secured a location, food, and entertainment for lunch partway through a planned group kayak trip. The submitter is the only one who knows where the planned stop is, so they and their family pack up their kayaks and leave, rescheduling the food and live band as a private party at night, and leaving the organizer to try to salvage the event in some way.
This new neighbor kept harassing the submitter because she was convinced he was a teen thief that stole her packages, despite the submitter only taking packages addressed to his home. Despite all the evidence he shows, and later the police explaining to the crazy lady that he didn't steal anything from her, the neighbor refuses to accept the truth, accuses the submitter of lying to the police and demanding he "confess" his crime and pay a $500 compensation. Eventually, the crazy neighbor was arrested and sent to jail for disregarding a court order not to harass the submitter again; and because she was the sole breadwinner, her family (who also helped the crazy lady harass the submitter) was forced to move out as they couldn't afford to remain in the home without her.
An apartment-dweller not picking up after his dog steps in another dog's waste.
A guy in camo pants goes around kicking over the inukshuks (think 'stone person traditionally built by indigenous people') other people had built on a breakwater. He decides to do the same to a man building an inukshuk of his own, kicking the inukshuk over as the second guy's about to place a rather large stone in place, and nearly kicking the second man in the face. In retaliation, the second guy throws the large stone he was holding through the windshield of first guy's truck.
This neighbour is a general nuisance, hosting wild and loud parties. On one such party on bonfire night, they set off a prodigious amount of fireworks, keeping many of their neighbours awake. Later, someone on a local Facebook group puts out a call for help rebuilding their shed after it burned down. Some people make offers to help, until a user recognizes them as the nuisance neighbour and points out that the shed only burned down because the nuisance neighbour and their friends drunkenly shot fireworks into it. All the offers of help get withdrawn, and nobody lifts a finger to help rebuild the shed.
Another driver honks and flips off the submitter in "Stalled Car-ma" for accidentally stalling their car's engine... then accidentally stalls his own at the next traffic light.
While waiting in the vet's office, this guy sees the submitter's Big Friendly Dog from a fighting breed being friendly with the cat he grew up with and insinuates that the dog's just biding his time before ripping the cat to shreds. Then the guy's dog nips at the cat, triggering the submitter's dog's Big Brother Instinct and causing him to shove the guy's dog away, prompting the guy to wait at the other side of the office.
This guy shows up drunk at the movie theater and harasses a movie-going woman and winds up being beaten up and arrested for his trouble. He's also cut out of his friend group.
After relentlessly bullying a pregnant classmate for months, this submitter and his girlfriend have a Surprise Pregnancy.
This Homeowner's Association busybody accuses a children's fundraising lemonade stand of fraud, purely because the leader of the operation is from a Hispanic family. The police officer she's talking to is Hispanic, which she only realizes when he asks the kid for their side of the story in Spanish, after she's already yelled racial slurs about them. Then the submitter asks her, in front of the police, who's watching her small children in the swimming pool. The ensuing child endangerment investigation forces her to move out of the neighborhood three weeks later, and the newspaper reporter she made sure was present prints the story, ensuring everyone knows what she did.
This roommate swiftly evicts the submitter with next to no notice because she wrongly thought the submitter was flirting with her girlfriend and threatens to have her physically imposing brother take care of them if they debate it. She uses the fact that the submitter was paying in cash as an unauthorized occupant to keep their rent money. Due to how fast the submitter was evicted, she doesn't notice until too late that the submitter forgot to give her their keys. This in turn leads to the roommate having to try and get new keys, which results in them having to reveal to the maintenance guy about the unauthorized occupant, which in turn leads to the roommate being not only evicted, but sued for the cost of changing the apartment's locks. She's reduced to begging the submitter to come back with the old keys, offering to pay the submitter double the rent for them. The submitter responds with a "Reason You Suck" Speech before tossing the keys down the sewer.
Submitter: I suppose I don’t have to tell you the lesson you’re about to learn concerning deliberately screwing people royally to be vindictive. Happy apartment hunting!
These bus passengers won't vacate a seat for a passenger who has crutches, so the driver decides to throw out everyone in the bus except for the passenger on crutches.
An angry old man, who bullies and yells at anyone and anybody at a train station (even children) without provocation for weeks on end, eventually provokes the wrong person and ends up on the business end of a flying dropkick.
These neighbours routinely make nuisances of themselves by parking their cars in the submitter's driveway, and later on, it turns out they were using the submitter's pool when they thought they weren't looking, having cut a hole through a privacy fence for that purpose. This last display prompts the submitter to call the police on their trespassing, and not only is the father booked for that, but he and his eldest son are both arrested for outstanding warrants, the neighbours are sued for the cost of repairing the fence, and they're later evicted for not paying their rent.
"Good riddance."
This bus passenger man-spreads his way into the female submitter's comfort zone, then refuses to move so she can get up, either to be a jerk or a pervert. The submitter responds by making sure the guy's face is introduced to her backpack as she squeezes past him.
This neighborhood crank in "She’s In A Love-Hate Relationship With Trees" makes a nuisance of herself for the submitter's parents after they have to cut down a tree on their property to make room for construction work. She claims the tree belonged to her (even though she doesn't have any argument for why, and she already has a nice big tree on her own property) and finds all sorts of ways to harass the submitter's parents and the construction workers they hire during the process, and one other neighboring couple says she's the reason they plan to move out. Fortunately, karma comes a few years later when a big winter storm topples her tree, causing it to flatten her car (which she reacts to with "a primal scream like something out of The Exorcist" upon discovering this) and forcing her to pay for tree removal, towing service for her totaled car, and a rental car. She moves out later, putting her house on the market, and given that this took place amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, she'll probably be waiting a while before she finds a buyer.
"Everyone in the neighborhood was glad to see her go, and my parents enjoyed watching her drive off into the sunset from the front porch of their amazing new house."
A fraternity brother of the submitter's husband is left alone in the house on a Friday night where the submitter resides while both the submitter and the husband are out and goes into the freezer to help himself with snacks, taking six pills he found in the freezer. He complains to the submitter about the pills being "duds", only to be informed that the "dud pills" were actually enzymes intended for helping to make cheese, well after the fact.
"I will never forget the sounds that came from the bathroom all Saturday."
This neighbor, who worked as a contractor, decided to work on a joinery with a nail gun at eight A.M. on a Sunday... without goggles or a hard hat. When the poster's mother went to confront the neighbor due to the disruptive noise on a Sunday morning and criticized the neighbor's lack of safety protection, the neighbor rudely rebuffed her... only for the nail the neighbor tried to lodge with the nail gun to come undone at the next moment, ricocheting its way into the neighbor's right eye.
This Facebook group member gets condescending towards a fellow group member and, when the submitter responds with an explanation about the question raised by said fellow group member, sends threats via private messages towards the submitter, even after the submitter calls out the member's disrespectful response and points out that the submitter knows where said member works. The submitter then sends the screenshot of the private messages and reaches out to the place where the rude member works, which results in the rude member being fired from said workplace.
After the poster moves into a gated community, a heavy rainfall happens in the fall. Whereas the poster's house is unharmed due to being on a higher elevation, the house belonging to their neighbors living on a lower elevation behind the poster ends up with a muddied patio. Even though the damage to their house is minimal due to the silt fence between the poster's house and the neighbors' blocking off most of the mud and water, the neighbors in question demand the removal of the silt fence despite the poster and the Homeowner's Association board members trying to illustrate the contribution said silt fence played in minimizing the potential damage to the neighbors' house, diagrams and all, and so the silt fence is removed. The next rainstorm occurs one mere week later, and, this time, the lack of silt fence ensures that rainwater and mud have nothing blocking their path into the neighbors' property, resulting in said neighbors' entire backyard and kitchen being flooded with mud and water. They complain to the Homeowner's Association again, only to be told that the neighbors themselves were the ones instigating the silt fence removal demand despite illustrations being presented to them showing them how the silt fence minimized damage to their property, and so now the responsibility in dealing with all of the rain-induced property damage is on the neighbors, and them alone.
Despite the warning signs, especially about dogs (each of which is the size of a pony and is capable of killing a grown man) that the poster has, that the poster sets up around the highly fortified property (high wall topped with electrified razor wire), a stranger still forces his way inside the house with the intention of proselytizing to the poster, only to find himself surrounded by the poster's dogs. The poster shows No Sympathy, however, and proceeds to order the dogs into guard position, head inside the house, and call the police, who take the unwanted visitor away for trespassing.
While the poster is playing a game on his computer during an airplane flight, the woman sitting in front of him complains to the poster's mother about the noise from the button-pressing, resulting in the poster's mother and the woman's husband telling her to put on some headphones. The people sitting in front of the woman then proceed to crinkle their plastic water bottles, the sounds of which are louder than the poster's button-pressing, for the next hour.
This male internet chat group member is notorious for repeatedly providing often wildly inaccurate explanations to female members in a condescending tone, but the moderators have never banished him from the chat group. On one night, he claims oceans can't freeze over; when the submitter refutes his claim, he posts several article making the claim he's making, but the submitter flatly claims those article posts are all wrong. When he tries to scrutinize the submitter for not even bothering to read them, the submitter responds by saying she lives in a small town in Alaska that's close enough to the Arctic Ocean to personally witness it freezing over and that she's personally walked on thick frozen ice on the Arctic Ocean before posting a photograph she took of the ocean to support her claim. The chat group quickly devolves into most of the other group members deriding him for his bogus claim, such that he Rage Quits the chat group that very night.
This bully of a Homeowner's Association figurehead in "Like A Good Neighbor, Don’t Tell Me What To Do!" frequently leaves unauthorized notes about "proper etiquette" regarding various topics on the apartment complex where the submitter dwells despite said apartment complex not belonging to the local Homeowner's Association. When these "notices" go nowhere with the "notice" of "appropriate holiday ornaments" as the latest example, the HOA head resorts to personally taking "improper" decorations off of the doors from apartment residents, which leads to one of the submitter's neighbors, upon spotting said HOA head pulling such a stunt, screaming and shouting with enough volume to alert three other apartment residents, the submitter among them, into blocking the HOA head from escape while the fourth resident calls the police, ending with the police taking said HOA head away on charges of harassment, trespassing, and theft.
The sons of the submitter's neighbor in "Loud Versus Light" play music loudly when the submitter's husband, a paramedic, returns home from work at 3 A.M. with a great urge for sleep and insist that they're free to do as they please on their own property when the submitter's husband complains of the loud music at 3 A.M., and so the submitter's husband grabs a notoriously-bright special flashlight that he uses for his search and rescue efforts on the job, flashes it directly at them, and claims that he's free to do as he pleases on his own property when they complain of the blinding light, which compels them to turn off the music before he turns off the flashlight. As he's about to go to work the next day, he leaves the flashlight at home for the submitter to use in case the neighbor's sons start playing loud music in the wee hours again, which they do, but they're Taught by Experience enough that they turn off the music and rush inside their house the moment they see the submitter walking outside with the flashlight in hand.
The new HOA president in "According To The HOA, Community ≠ Residents" enact many new restrictions that corner the community residents into fines, but the fines dry up after the residents receive anonymous notes detailing the workarounds to the new restrictions whenever any residents start some new project, and it turns out that the security guards who have been hired to work full-time at the community are the ones handing out said notes when, several months later, one hands out a form to the submitter's neighbor before said neighbor starts a gardening project. The HOA president comes to fine the neighbor for the "unauthorized" gardening project and ignores the security guard's explanation, only to get himself arrested when he puts a hand on the guard. The security company more than triples their rate when the community's contract with it is nearly up for renewal, and so the HOA board members decide to seek some other company... only to find that the competitors are quoting even higher rates than the one they have been contracted with because the security company's president has the whole community blacklisted. Left with no other choice, the HOA board members discuss with the current company's president for contract renewal, and the president turns out to be none other than the very guard the HOA president laid a hand on in the first place, to the surprise of all board members, before he makes his demand: The whole board step down and be replaced by more reasonable people as members and the company, in turn, will undo the blacklisting and offers a more reasonable rate; otherwise, the community must either pay a higher rate for their renewed service or be forced to disband due to violating its own charter.
"And that is how I wound up on the board of a gated community and helped set things back to how the good president left them. And the security company president only drops by (unannounced) for a few inspections rather than being our full-time guard."
One girl, a friend of a friend to the submitter, in "Those Who Are Late Don’t Get To Berate" is chronically late for gatherings by an hour or so. In order to avoid having to wait long for her arrival when it's time for the submitter to organize the birthday dinner of another friend, the mutual friend suggests that the submitter tell the chronically-late girl that the it'd start at six when it's scheduled to begin at seven. The chronically-tardy girl shows up at 7:30, gets judgmental about the other attendants not having started eating yet, and, after the truth is revealed to her, criticizes the submitter for not telling her the correct time, which results in the submitter pushing back by pointing out that it was done to make sure other people don't have to wait on her for too long. The chronically-tardy girl takes offense that no one takes her side and declares that she'd stop being friends to the attendants, to which none present bothers to try talking her out of it.
"No one stopped her, not even the birthday girl, who looked so done by that point. The table exhaled like a curse had been lifted. And dinner? Honestly, DELICIOUS."
The next-door neighbor of the submitter in "Leaf It Alone Or You’re Gonna Regret It" calls the police on the submitter due to witnessing via the doorbell camera on the latter getting around twenty leaves into his driveway while using a leafblower for yardwork and demands the submitter clean them up despite not bothering with his own yardwork since he lives out-of-state and has yet to move in after buying the house years ago. Miffed at the Disproportionate Retribution from the Nosy Neighbor, the submitter agrees... and asks the police to check the rusting car that has been sitting in disuse outside the neighbor's driveway since it was dropped off eight months ago, which the police oblige despite the neighbor's protest through the doorbell camera that he only intended for them to check the leaves on his driveway, resulting in the police contacting the neighbor directly to inform him that, since the state the submitter lives in requires any car parked in a driveway to have current tags, insurance, and a valid emissions check, which he lacks, he is to either get his vehicle inside the garage or up to date on everything within the next two weeks, or find it towed with a citation issued on him.
"And that’s how a guy living three states away bought himself a ten-hour round trip to deal with his own car, all because twenty leaves dared to touch his driveway."
A friend to the submitter in "A One-Way Ticket To The Passenger Seat" Drives Like Crazy frequently enough to have a reputation among people who know him, such that the submitter decides to Opt Out of his offer to give a ride home. He also shows that he Can't Take Criticism when he takes offense after the other friend to the submitter points out that the fact he sees nothing wrong with never stopping for the police is why the submitter wants to take a bus ride home instead, storms off to his car, and proves the point the other friend made against him by leaving the parking lot through the designated entrance and driving the wrong way through the one-way ramp. He doesn't get to keep his driver's licence for long, though.
"The next time the group of us got together for a movie, [Friend] was the passenger in [Other Friend]’s car, and when I asked why, I heard a muttering about cops, speeding, and the word “revoked”."
The neighbor in "When Byelaws Become Bye Bye Laws" is a HOA member who rules the neighborhood in a chokehold via issuing fines to the neighborhood members for absurd, asinine excuses (e.g. not taking holiday decorations down by morning the next day after said holiday ends and putting up no decorations for said holiday). After a house was vacated by someone who moved out of the neighborhood and reoccupied by a new couple, who comprises of two women, the fines-happy HOA member starts targeting them for more fines, until the couple reaches their Rage Breaking Point after the HOA member issues a fine on them after witnessing them kissing each other goodbye before work, after which the couple, one of whom works as a lawyer, encourages everyone else in the neighborhood to gather evidence of said HOA member's fines-happy stunts, which is easy to do since all members in the neighborhood are required to have doorbell cameras as per the HOA's guideline, while said lawyer of the couple looks more closely into the neighborhood contracts and concludes that none of the fine-inducing "offenses" is ever included in said contracts before fielding a complaint against said HOA member on every affected neighborhood member's behalf to the HOA board, armed with the knowledge regarding the contracts and all the recorded evidence being gathered thus far, culminating in the lawyer explicitly alleging her suspicion that the HOA member had targeted her and her wife in an act of bigoted discrimination against same-sex couples, which the ensuing investigation soon proves right. The fines-happy HOA member and her like-minded cohorts are expelled from the HOA board, all who have ever been fined are reimbursed (this ends up applying to nearly everyone in the neighborhood, the submitter included), the neighborhood has a BBQ in celebration, and the now-former HOA member ends up moving out of the neighborhood due to being Hated by All because of her unnecessarily pathological fine-issuing stunts.
In "Curb Your Entitlement", a woman lives in the same apartment complex the submitter resides, decides to claim one particular parking spot as hers despite the fact that the apartment complex has no assigned parking spots at all, and aggressively reacts to anybody else parking their own vehicles there (up to and including angrily screaming at any and all "offenders" as well as placing a traffic cone in the space when she's not around), and it comes to a head when another apartment resident decides enough is enough by moving the cone and parking his own vehicle in the spot. Once she notices it, she retaliates by parking her car longways behind three spots, including her favorite one, refuses to move it when asked to, and calls the police over, but the police coming over because of her call end up not siding with her once they discover from the main office of said apartment complex that none of the parking spots is designated to anyone, resulting in her being ticketed for illegal use of a traffic cone in a public area, being ordered to move her car under the threat of getting another ticket for illegal parking, and, when she's about to protest, being warned that a public disturbance citation will be imposed on her and a tow truck will come to take her car away should she refuse to comply, and the whole drama ends with her moving her car away, if unwillingly.
"The guy who had parked in her spot to begin with was an unsung hero in that complex for a while. As for the lady? She got really quiet, and while that remained her preferred spot, she would just silently park her car elsewhere if it was taken.

I’m sure that it is entirely a coincidence that several people would claim that spot out of spite for weeks afterward."
The dog owner in "Unleashed Consequences" lets his large dog run in a city park without bothering to keep said dog leashed and dismisses the submitter telling him his dog needs to be on a leash by responding "He needs freedom.", only to chase after and shouting at his dog to stop upon noticing the pond within the park, to no avail, right as the submitter witnesses the dog owner panting out of breath with an unhappy expression toward his soaking-wet dog.
Submitter: Gotta love that freedom, amirite?
The guy in "Phoning It In" tries to flaunt his status to two pretty, young ladies by pretending to talk to someone through his then-brand-new mobile phone, only for the phone to ring in the midst of his pretense.

Not Always Healthy

The doctor (nicknamed "Dr. Painful") in "Sometimes Karma Really Hurts" either refused to prescribe painkillers to his patients at all or (if somehow convinced the patient was in pain) seriously under-prescribed them. And then one day Dr. Painful was admitted in his own hospital with a hernia. The doctor handling his case gave a strict "no painkillers at all" order, and every member of the staff gleefully enforced the order using Dr. Painful's very own justifications for not giving painkillers every time he begged for some.
"Dr. Painful never stinted on painkillers after that episode. Seems pain can teach empathy after all."
This member of the public can't be bothered to wait for the fire service to be done extinguishing a burning bus so they can move the hose that's running in front of his driveway, and attempts to disconnect it from the hydrant himself when the firefighters aren't looking. Courtesy of the water pressure, he gets a literal crash course in why the firefighters wear facial protection equipment in the case of an improper disconnect in the form of an injury to his face, and an escort away by a police officer.
This nurse insists the submitter is fine every time the submitter, a woman who's about to give birth, claims to feel nauseous, which results in the submitter vomiting all over the nurse.

Not Always Legal

This driver decided to start tailgating another car for no apparent reason (there was almost no traffic on the road, so he could have simply passed the car at any time). Turns out the car being tailgated was an undercover cop car.
While two teenage shoplifters are being detained, two other teenagers steal their bicycles.
This woman's Wounded Gazelle Gambit not only ends up with her being legitimately hurt, but her lawyer drops the case after being handed evidence showing that the woman was completely at fault because she had been trying to scam the store.
The owners of an apartment building refuse to pay for a replacement for the submitter's old and cheap car after a block of ice falls off the roof and totals it. The submitter takes them to court, resulting in it being revealed that said owners were not only in violation of building codes, they were also committing tax fraud. In the words of the submitter's attoney:
"Seriously, if I pulled that stunt, I'd hand you ten grand for your 20-year-old wreck of a car and tell you to shut the eff up about it."
This customer threatens to shoot up a pizza place and harm the submitter's girlfriend if the pizza place doesn't honor a (non-existent) 30 Minutes, or It's Free! policy for his large orders of pizza. He instead got arrested for his threat.
Some kids throwing lit firecrackers into a crowded street hit a police car with one.
A guy rummaging in people's bags for loose valuables ends up with a handful of used tissues.
The father in "Karma's Working Overtime Today" is berating his daughter for losing control of her car in bad weather and going into a ditch (and describing anyone who would do such a thing as "very stupid"), up until the point when he gets chewed out by the emergency responder and the sheriff's deputy for making such a big deal over an honest mistake. The tirade is continued by the tow truck driver, who confirms that the car is still good to drive. The father angrily speeds off... then hits a puddle and slides his own car into the same ditch 300 feet further down the road, fast enough to do the car serious damage (at least $6,000, and due to its age, it could easily be done for).
Back when traveling from one European country to another required customs/border checks, this guy found himself behind at least 100 other cars at the Spain-France border. He decided to pull into the emergency lane and speed ahead of everyone else, pulling back into the line just before the border crossing station. Then the gendarme on duty flagged his car over and had him park in the median to wait until all the cars he'd cut in front of crossed the border.
A cook, when presented with a customer request for no cod in a mixed fish meal due to allergy, decides that the allergy isn't real and puts it in anyway. The customer has a severe allergic reaction and has to be hospitalized for two days. The cook loses her job, is blacklisted from her profession, and gets a ten year suspended prison sentence plus a criminal record for poisoning and attempted murder by negligence.
The poster in "Doing Some Damage(s)" is a woman who applies for a job for a law firm and actually manages to go through much of the interview well, but one of the main attorneys in said law firm, who apparently holds the biggest sway in the firm, accuses the poster for lying about a law-related blog the poster makes via a Pen Name and includes in her "hobby" section of her resume, insists that the blog must have been authored by a man, doesn't give her a chance to prove she's the actual author of said blog, claims that "it's not a good look" to hire her, and cuts the interview short. Feeling understandably outraged, the poster writes about this failed job interview incident in a scathing post without making it libelous. The aftermath of her blog post is demonstrated several weeks later when a legal secretary calls her and asks her to take down the interview-related blog post; when the poster refuses and insists that the attorney in question be the one to talk to her instead, said attorney does so and asks her the same thing, only for the poster to rebuff the attorney's attempts to make her cave, at one point asking him, after he asks her to take down the blog post because apparently the post in question gets mentioned in a law school and affects the recruitment in his law firm, whether he's worried "it's not a good look" for a blog post detailing his questionable behaviors at a job interview to be kept up. The attorney ends up hanging up, and the poster has been able to keep her blog up since then without being sued.
The poster, while living on an Army post, buys for their daughter a tricycle, which goes missing one day before the poster spots it in a front yard a block away and goes to retrieve it. The woman living there sees the poster and demands that the poster leave the property and the tricycle before threatening to call the Military Police, the last of which the poster does. Once the police officers turn up, one of them talks to the poster while the other speaks to the woman, who accuses the poster of stealing the tricycle SHE bought and of making false accusations of theft on her, but all of her lies fall apart once the poster flips the tricycle and shows the poster's name and address etched directly into the metal under the tricycle seat. The woman now has the theft charge on her since the Military Police are obligated to report it, with or without the poster pressing charges, as the result of it occurring on an Army base, and her criminal record would also reflect poorly on her husband, a service member himself, which could lead to problems for her husband (being denied promotions and given undesirable duties, etc.).
This debt collection agent repeatedly calls the submitter for “Andy Rand Pearson”, which the submitter suspects to be a fake name (Any Random Person). The submitter tries to explain to the agent to get the latter to stop calling to no avail, and the agent changes a different number each time when calling, mocking the submitter with an Annoying Laugh and taunting the submitter by claiming that it's not illegal and he wouldn't be fined for this. After the submitter reports the agent's behavior to the government for the same amount of times as the agent's calls (using the agent's Annoying Laugh as identifier), the agent calls once more, visibly angry this time because he got fined for his stunts, and the submitter responds by imitating the agent's laughing voice before hanging up.
This mugger in "Those Heroic Ladies Had Him All Boxed Up" supports himself financially by stalking the women he'd then rob, but his luck runs out when he targets three women, who turn out to be participants in an upcoming women's boxing tournament, resulting in said women reacting to his attempt at mugging them by beating him up and detaining him until the police arrive to have him under arrest.
The bartender in "Pouring A Double Shot Of Bar-ma" asks the submitter for an ID when the latter asks for a Diet Coke, takes the ID the submitter hands to him, insists that the ID is fake even though the bouncer saw the ID in question and had no problem with it, orders the submitter to leave at once under the threat of calling the police should the submitter refuse to comply, and demands $100 before the submitter can get the ID back. A cop does get involved due to being just outside the bar in question and, after checking the information the submitter presents, goes inside the bar to demand the bartender to give the ID back to the submitter, much to the bartender's surprise. To top it off, one of the submitter's friends had caught the bartender demanding the submitter $100 for the "fake ID", recorded the sequence, and then tells the cop about it and shows the footage.
"The bartender was immediately arrested on the spot."
This driver in "Curb Your Road Rage" acts like a Card-Carrying Jerkass by first tailgating the submitter, flashing headlights and blowing the horn repeatedly despite the submitter keeping up with the traffic at 85 mph^note (or almost 137 km/h) with a vehicle ahead of them. He keeps blaring the horn even while passing by the submitter after they and the vehicle ahead both move over, comes behind a black SUV, passes said SUV on the right, and stays in front of it at a much closer distance than he should have, but his luck runs out when the SUV starts flashing brake lights and shows itself to be a police vehicle, forcing him to pull over.
"I am still giggling about it two days later."
The Range Rover driver in "Rage Rover" displays Road Rage while sharing the six-lane highway (three in each direction) by going far beyond the speed limit, slamming on the brakes, getting about a foot behind the rear bumper of the Dodge Charger that's in the right lane in front of the vehicle the submitter is driving in, and honking the horn heavily. Before the Charger driver can move over, the Rover driver moves to the middle lane (without signaling), speeds past the Charger, cuts the Charger off as it moves back into the right lane (without signaling again), and brake-checks the Charger. The Charger starts blaring police sirens and flashing blue lights in mere seconds, causing the Rover driver to pull over.
"And I started laughing so hard my sides hurt.

Range Rover had just road-raged at a cop."
The submitter in ""Came Back Out Of The Blue" notices a shady-looking guy browsing for ten minutes inside the liquor store where the submitter works before shoving two bottles of liquor down his pants and walking out, which prompts the submitter to call the police and get the security camera footage of the theft into a DVD for criminal investigation. Around one hour later, someone enters the store... and it's none other than the thief who had stolen the bottles, only this time he demands a refund on said bottles. As luck would have it, the submitter is in the midst of telling him no refunds can be processed without a receipt when the police enter the store to collect the DVD, allowing the submitter to not only give the police the DVD but identify the thief for them as well.
"He left with them in handcuffs."

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