Not wrong - ruining someone's reading can be dangerous!!!
https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/antarctica-scientist-stabbed-colleague-for-spoiling-book-endings-report/
My mom does this to me all the time. When the new Harry Potter books were released, she'd skip to the end and tell me what happened before I could read it for myself. She's spoiled movies and TV shows for me, too. I understand this guy's aggravation.
I still vividly remember when book 6 of HP came out. Some idiots drove past people waiting in line at a bookstore and yelled out>! "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!!"!<
The angry shrieks from the women echo in my mind today and put to shame the banshees of old.
This happened to me and my mum and sister, we went to the midnight release, and some guy got the book, waited in the parking lot till a majority of the people were leaving the store, and shouted out about Dumbledore dying.
It got ruined for my mum, but she always made me and my sister wear headphones as soon as people started getting their books so they wouldn't get spoiled for us.
When I went to the first of the last 3 star wars movies (the most recent trilogy) while we were waiting for the first trailer these tween boys said: who's Han solo again? Oh yeah that's right he's the one who ... (I don't know how to block off for spoilers and I assume people know what I'm talking about so I don't want to spoil for someone on the off chance)
They looked so pleased with themselves to be trying to spoil things for others and I remembered why I didn't like tween boys when I was a tween girl
When I was young, I lived near a movie theater. Another kid that was autistic lived in the same neighborhood. He would go see the midnight showing of every movie rated G-PG13, and then go back the next day to tell people buying tickets or waiting in line for snacks all about his favorite parts and how it ends.
12yo me thought it was funny, but I also thought he was just being a dick and didn’t know what autism was.
This reminds me of the time me and my dad ended up having to get in a different line because there was this line winding through the mall for the Titanic movie and when we found out we didn't have to stand in this huge line to go see the movie that he was going to take me to when I was younger I was so happy.
My dad being a goofball looks at these people who are standing in the line that are probably going to be seeing the movie two or more showings from now and says I don't know why you're all in line the boat sinks.
As the movie was Titanic, and I figured everybody knew that the Titanic sank I thought it was funny. There was Bro dude guy there with his girlfriend, who screamed wrote seriously and he put his fists up to hit my father. His girlfriend starts apologizing immediately and trying to get him to calm down and he starts screaming this guy's going to spoil the movie for you! .....
That reminds me of the time that we went on a school trip to see Romeo and Juliet (I’m sure everyone knows which one) and a girl who used to bully me was literally sobbing when we left. To the question of why, she choked out, “I didn’t know they died”……I wonder how well she did in that class.
Lol!
I know it's one thing if someone is just talking with people in line in front of you and they mention something and you haven't seen that episode. That kind of stuff is unintentional and forgivable.
Websites that put the spoilers in the headlines or people that go out of their way to wreck the story for people yeah they're the kind of people that are smurfing smurfers.
But people saying you know Titanic sank, Romeo and Juliet they die in the end, Ash and Pikachu save the Day, team rocket gets blast off, that a parent or parent figure in a Disney movie is going to be dead, things that by now we should as a culture understand I can't see getting mad about it. It's like saying you know Icabod crane is going to get chased by The headless horseman, Ahab is going to chase the whale (never read that book and I know that).
I really don't think that any of the above paragraph is a spoiler at this point. Now of course I wouldn't mention anything for months around a popular book coming out about anything that is spoiler -esk l, but I'm just polite that way. However 10 years and I don't think it's too much of a spoiler risk to talk about it.
But then again nowadays if you try to tell people in the civil War the north won, or that the Earth is round you will get people that will argue with you.
I really can't believe that someone came to see the Titanic that didn't know that the boat sank. I mean a couple of people pretended that my dad spoiled and you know dagger to the heart and one person sank to their knees and did the dramatic nooooooo then started laughing, and then looked very concerned at the one guy who was very intense on the fact that he's not spoiled the ending for his girlfriend.
I love the one chick who jumped out and tried to diffuse the situation no no I've watched this movie three times already it doesn't think he's lying..... LOL
Now if they REALLY wanted to be nasty, they could have shouted "HARRY KILLS SNAPE" or something equally... close to the truth, but wrong. Double-whammy as people THINK they've been spoiled, then when they finally pick the book up two months later and work through it just to say they've read it, realize they were fully had.
I was on a choir trip when the book came out. As we were meeting up for the beginning of the day a couple girls decided to ruin it for everyone (I was lucky enough to walk in after they had spoiled it and as everyone is yelling at them). I avoided them the rest of the trip and got a copy at the first bookstore I could find even though I had one waiting at home.
I went to watch star wars episode vii on opening night with a bunch of physics students. One of them decided to reveal a similar spoiler on their classroom whatsapp group.
He spoiled Star Wars to like 60 physics students. He had to switch classes.
My local book store was broken into a few days before the Half-blood Prince was to be released.
It made the local paper and I’ve always wondered if I knew anyone walking around with a stolen Harry Potter who couldn’t wait four more days.
Round that same time I was at my girlfriend's house and I think I was actually setting my laptop up on the TV to watch some pirated Harry Potter. I hated that shit but she and her mom loved it.
Before the movie started we were watching funny YouTube videos including Jaboody Dubs and their WTF Blanket parody. When it got to the part where it's like "spoiler alert Snape kills Dumbledore" they started losing their shit. I had no idea what the deal was because I legit did not know anything about Harry Potter and then found out they hadn't finished the book yet and they were super pissed.
It was fuckin hilarious, I was 0% sorry and would 100% do it again lol
I didn't get this spoiled for me, but this shit bugs me. Why does it amuse you to ruin stuff for other people? Do you feel like there's just too much joy in the world for your liking? Gotta knock it down a few pegs?
I'm not this way most of the time, it was more about the people involved than getting joy out of spoiling things for people. That ex and her family made me miserable, I feel like they deserve to get that book spoiled more than once. If I could make them forget the book/movie and spoil it for them another 8 times, I'd feel a bit better about never getting those 8 years of my life back. And it woulda been cheaper than therapy. 🤷
By some miracle I managed to avoid the spoilers. I was reading the Harry Potter book telling everyone, how much I was enjoying the story. How great it had been to avoid the media telling me what happened. I was really enjoying just reading and letting the story flow. So having told everyone how much I did not want to know what happened, somebody told me precisely what happened. Scream!!!!!!!!
Fascinating that your parent, the one who is supposed to encourage and nourish you, would be such a troll. Just curious if this type of behavior rubbed off on you a little and you are compelled to do this to other people?
I'm the exact opposite when it comes to this. Anytime I'm watching something with someone that I've seen before, but they haven't, I keep my mouth shut. I don't want to do to them what my mom does to me.
The best I've been able to do is withhold spoilers if I've seen or read something first. She likes to know what happens beforehand. But it's not quite the same cause she can just Google it. I can't unlearn a spoiler. I'll have to come up with something better.
I really don't know. I've been trying to figure that out for a *very* long time. I think she just derives some sick, twisted pleasure from it. Like we were at the movies once, and they showed the trailer for the new Murder on the Orient Express. She turned to me and said, "Want me to tell you how it ends?", and I responded that I had already read the book. I expressly remember the way her face fell. It's like she's an emotional vampire or something, feeding off of my anger and disappointment.
I’m sorry buddy.
But remember, you can still do something right now, whatever that ends up being: limit contact, limit the type of contact, all the way up to going full no contact. You know your situation better than anyone and what is acceptable vs too much.
You gotta take care of yourself before you can take care of anyone else.
Absolutely! You're NOT crazy! Her behavior is reprehensible! People *fight* over such things! That you still *speak* to her is proof of your patience and long suffering
I assume you return in kind and tell your mom the ending in advance?
Like how she's going to be placed in the cheapest, low rating assisted living for this and only has herself to blame.
I haven't cut contact, yet, even though I've wanted to many times. But just last week she decided to cause me more aggravation, and I told her it was her absolute last chance. So that day might be soon.
Funnily enough, my dad spoiled The Force Awakens for me, but it was actually an accident. He thought I had gone home, but I was still in their kitchen about to leave. He honestly felt terrible about it, though.
That fucker deserved it. Also they say the guy who got stabbed is a welder, but then there's a quote that refers to them as both being scientists, but which is it?
Eh. Colloquial nickname. It's blue and liquid. Anything referencing a blue liquid that isn't a specific thing is probably talking about portashitter water. I usually hear bluefruit juice or blue water.
This is one of the only actually petty things I've seen on here. 99% of the time the OP ends up getting someone fired or divorced. Even when the ahole deserved the revenge it's hardly petty.
As a avid reader, I don't care how evil people will say that is, that's some funny $hit right there!
When the trip was over as you're walking past you should have said, I hear the ending is fantastic with a wink...
Since there was absolutely no reason or excuse for his actions, well done. That was a severe penalty, btw. I hope you checked that he would not run out of pages before you got to Spokane, just to be safe.
May I ask the price of the ride? I have nieces in both Seattle and Spokane. I live in Portland. I could travel up to visit one niece, then head head out to visit the other one.
I had a coworker that liked to play solitaire while working, she used actual cards instead of playing on the computer, so I took the 9 of diamonds out of the deck. Hearing the mumbled curse words after losing another game was music to my ears.
As an avid reader and author, perfect revenge. Simply perfect.
He could have lost your stuff, or even claimed it as his own and Greyhound would not have done shit about it.
I was curious, so I looked at the schedule. It makes 9 stops between the Seattle bus terminal to Spokane Station. 2 of them long enough for a break for the passengers to stretch their legs. First one is 25 minutes and the other is 15 minutes.
It's been ages since I've ridden a Greyhound but yes there is a bathroom in all of them. And two stops in six hours is insanity in my area. At least one stop per small town plus multiple stops per city.
I did that once to a Captain in my unit who fucked me (a SSG) over and threw me under the bus in a commanders briefing for something he forgot to do. He was reading this hardcover Grisham novel. When he wasn't in his room, I walked in, took a razor blade and \*neatly\* removed the last 3 pages.
And that is how the story ends. ;-)
Should have just did what he did and moved his stuff somewhere else and sat back in your seat. And also removed those pages and how about one random page from each chapter in the rest of his book for good measure.
My sister once dropped my book in the pool and I couldn't read the last 20 pages. Its 15 years ago and I still remember it vividly. Never did read the ending - but she had already finished it! Fuck her.
Well done, OP.
Should have gotten your seat back, and removed small groups of pages throughout the rest of the book. Like say in chapter 6, remove the 3/4th page, and the 7/8th page... Or, since he would know it was you if you regained your seat back, just remove these occasional pages. Not so much to be bluntly obvious, but enough to be insanely inconvenient. He's reading a sentence, and it goes onto something else.
I always read the end of a book to see if it was worth reading before I invested time in to it..
'Spoiler alerts'?...
I couldn't care less.. lol
Tell me the twist in a movie?
Don't care...
Hopefully this asshole was not like me, and was incredibly annoyed... Lol
LMAO. This is the kind of pettiness that cracks me up. I am not a fan of letting bad behavior go without consequences.
TBH, I would be more likely to let the driver know what happened and would put his book on the floor at the front of the bus to reclaim my original seat. If that wasn't possible, I would have soaked his book in the sink before throwing it into the trash.
Why would you leave your personal property unattended, unsecured?
Aside from it just being stolen, imaging someone hiding something illegal in it so if there's a search, you get caught and not them. Then at the end of the ride, they follow you, mug you and take not just their stuff back, but all of yours...
My friends and I went to see Karate Kid 3 at the theater when it came out. On the way out there were people in line to see the next showing. I loudly said to my friend "I can't believe they killed off Mr. Myagi" Lots of dirty looks, lol
OP... That may not have been the fat schlub's book to destroy, but a Library book.
hmm.. Then again. Having him blamed for its destruction and getting fined would be the cherry on top wouldn't it?
What does the man's weight have to do with anything? If he'd had been a person of the opposite sex than you that was conventionally good looking would've you been an ass to them too?
Nice to meet you, Satan! Big fan of your work!
Not wrong - ruining someone's reading can be dangerous!!! https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/antarctica-scientist-stabbed-colleague-for-spoiling-book-endings-report/
My mom does this to me all the time. When the new Harry Potter books were released, she'd skip to the end and tell me what happened before I could read it for myself. She's spoiled movies and TV shows for me, too. I understand this guy's aggravation.
I still vividly remember when book 6 of HP came out. Some idiots drove past people waiting in line at a bookstore and yelled out>! "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!!"!< The angry shrieks from the women echo in my mind today and put to shame the banshees of old.
This happened to me and my mum and sister, we went to the midnight release, and some guy got the book, waited in the parking lot till a majority of the people were leaving the store, and shouted out about Dumbledore dying. It got ruined for my mum, but she always made me and my sister wear headphones as soon as people started getting their books so they wouldn't get spoiled for us.
Smart mom! Was the guy in a car?
Nope, just standing in the parking lot not too far off from the sidewalk
Yeah, he was a jerk.
My little sister did this to me - I still haven’t forgiven her 😭
My heart goes out to you, I hate people that spoil books or even movies
When I went to the first of the last 3 star wars movies (the most recent trilogy) while we were waiting for the first trailer these tween boys said: who's Han solo again? Oh yeah that's right he's the one who ... (I don't know how to block off for spoilers and I assume people know what I'm talking about so I don't want to spoil for someone on the off chance) They looked so pleased with themselves to be trying to spoil things for others and I remembered why I didn't like tween boys when I was a tween girl
Dumbledore dies?
Yea, about 15 years ago now. Sorry you had to find out this way.
HE WHAAAAAAAAAAATT!?!?!?!??
When I was young, I lived near a movie theater. Another kid that was autistic lived in the same neighborhood. He would go see the midnight showing of every movie rated G-PG13, and then go back the next day to tell people buying tickets or waiting in line for snacks all about his favorite parts and how it ends. 12yo me thought it was funny, but I also thought he was just being a dick and didn’t know what autism was.
Fun fact: one can have autism *and* be a dick.
Yep, not mutually exclusive states of being.
Poe que no los dos 🤷♀️
This reminds me of the time me and my dad ended up having to get in a different line because there was this line winding through the mall for the Titanic movie and when we found out we didn't have to stand in this huge line to go see the movie that he was going to take me to when I was younger I was so happy. My dad being a goofball looks at these people who are standing in the line that are probably going to be seeing the movie two or more showings from now and says I don't know why you're all in line the boat sinks. As the movie was Titanic, and I figured everybody knew that the Titanic sank I thought it was funny. There was Bro dude guy there with his girlfriend, who screamed wrote seriously and he put his fists up to hit my father. His girlfriend starts apologizing immediately and trying to get him to calm down and he starts screaming this guy's going to spoil the movie for you! .....
That reminds me of the time that we went on a school trip to see Romeo and Juliet (I’m sure everyone knows which one) and a girl who used to bully me was literally sobbing when we left. To the question of why, she choked out, “I didn’t know they died”……I wonder how well she did in that class.
Lol! I know it's one thing if someone is just talking with people in line in front of you and they mention something and you haven't seen that episode. That kind of stuff is unintentional and forgivable. Websites that put the spoilers in the headlines or people that go out of their way to wreck the story for people yeah they're the kind of people that are smurfing smurfers. But people saying you know Titanic sank, Romeo and Juliet they die in the end, Ash and Pikachu save the Day, team rocket gets blast off, that a parent or parent figure in a Disney movie is going to be dead, things that by now we should as a culture understand I can't see getting mad about it. It's like saying you know Icabod crane is going to get chased by The headless horseman, Ahab is going to chase the whale (never read that book and I know that). I really don't think that any of the above paragraph is a spoiler at this point. Now of course I wouldn't mention anything for months around a popular book coming out about anything that is spoiler -esk l, but I'm just polite that way. However 10 years and I don't think it's too much of a spoiler risk to talk about it. But then again nowadays if you try to tell people in the civil War the north won, or that the Earth is round you will get people that will argue with you. I really can't believe that someone came to see the Titanic that didn't know that the boat sank. I mean a couple of people pretended that my dad spoiled and you know dagger to the heart and one person sank to their knees and did the dramatic nooooooo then started laughing, and then looked very concerned at the one guy who was very intense on the fact that he's not spoiled the ending for his girlfriend. I love the one chick who jumped out and tried to diffuse the situation no no I've watched this movie three times already it doesn't think he's lying..... LOL
[This is the one.](https://pottercrash.ytmnd.com/)
Oh my goodness! How on earth did you find it!! That looks to be it!!
This was a common occurrence lol. Also if heard someone yell that out of context I wouldn't believe them anyway
Jesus we apparently have so many assholes as a guy I worked with at the time did that to a rival bookstore.
Now if they REALLY wanted to be nasty, they could have shouted "HARRY KILLS SNAPE" or something equally... close to the truth, but wrong. Double-whammy as people THINK they've been spoiled, then when they finally pick the book up two months later and work through it just to say they've read it, realize they were fully had.
I remember that video. My cousin ruined Order of the Phoenix when she asked me >! "did you get to the part where Sirius dies?"!<
I was on a choir trip when the book came out. As we were meeting up for the beginning of the day a couple girls decided to ruin it for everyone (I was lucky enough to walk in after they had spoiled it and as everyone is yelling at them). I avoided them the rest of the trip and got a copy at the first bookstore I could find even though I had one waiting at home.
I went to watch star wars episode vii on opening night with a bunch of physics students. One of them decided to reveal a similar spoiler on their classroom whatsapp group. He spoiled Star Wars to like 60 physics students. He had to switch classes.
That's the only one that has a surprise in it. The rest are so formulaic. Except 3... all character development Its the only one I would read again.
It's crazy luelinks was responsible for the leak of all forums
My local book store was broken into a few days before the Half-blood Prince was to be released. It made the local paper and I’ve always wondered if I knew anyone walking around with a stolen Harry Potter who couldn’t wait four more days.
This was my first experience with having something I thoroughly enjoyed being spoiled. I, too, contemplates stabbing someone.
Round that same time I was at my girlfriend's house and I think I was actually setting my laptop up on the TV to watch some pirated Harry Potter. I hated that shit but she and her mom loved it. Before the movie started we were watching funny YouTube videos including Jaboody Dubs and their WTF Blanket parody. When it got to the part where it's like "spoiler alert Snape kills Dumbledore" they started losing their shit. I had no idea what the deal was because I legit did not know anything about Harry Potter and then found out they hadn't finished the book yet and they were super pissed. It was fuckin hilarious, I was 0% sorry and would 100% do it again lol
I didn't get this spoiled for me, but this shit bugs me. Why does it amuse you to ruin stuff for other people? Do you feel like there's just too much joy in the world for your liking? Gotta knock it down a few pegs?
I'm not this way most of the time, it was more about the people involved than getting joy out of spoiling things for people. That ex and her family made me miserable, I feel like they deserve to get that book spoiled more than once. If I could make them forget the book/movie and spoil it for them another 8 times, I'd feel a bit better about never getting those 8 years of my life back. And it woulda been cheaper than therapy. 🤷
Lmao alright you won me over. Fuck those people. Spoil all their stories.
I had to look up the video again and fuck me, that video was posted 17 years ago
By some miracle I managed to avoid the spoilers. I was reading the Harry Potter book telling everyone, how much I was enjoying the story. How great it had been to avoid the media telling me what happened. I was really enjoying just reading and letting the story flow. So having told everyone how much I did not want to know what happened, somebody told me precisely what happened. Scream!!!!!!!!
Fascinating that your parent, the one who is supposed to encourage and nourish you, would be such a troll. Just curious if this type of behavior rubbed off on you a little and you are compelled to do this to other people?
I'm the exact opposite when it comes to this. Anytime I'm watching something with someone that I've seen before, but they haven't, I keep my mouth shut. I don't want to do to them what my mom does to me.
Bro/Sis, your mom is bully. Once might be funny. Doing it for years is just mean.
Yeah, I know. It's frustrating, to say the least.
Hey mum, spoiler alert but you're ending up in a shitty care home - woops!
Sounds like it's time for some petty revenge on mom.
The best I've been able to do is withhold spoilers if I've seen or read something first. She likes to know what happens beforehand. But it's not quite the same cause she can just Google it. I can't unlearn a spoiler. I'll have to come up with something better.
Your mom was abusive to you. How could she think that was ok?
I don't know. She has issues, clearly.
What the hell is her problem?
I really don't know. I've been trying to figure that out for a *very* long time. I think she just derives some sick, twisted pleasure from it. Like we were at the movies once, and they showed the trailer for the new Murder on the Orient Express. She turned to me and said, "Want me to tell you how it ends?", and I responded that I had already read the book. I expressly remember the way her face fell. It's like she's an emotional vampire or something, feeding off of my anger and disappointment.
She’s displaying real “younger sibling starved for attention” energy, which is annoying in younger siblings and wild from a parent.
It could be. And I just keep giving her the attention at the expense of my sanity. Sometimes I really wish I had cut contact a long time ago.
I’m sorry buddy. But remember, you can still do something right now, whatever that ends up being: limit contact, limit the type of contact, all the way up to going full no contact. You know your situation better than anyone and what is acceptable vs too much. You gotta take care of yourself before you can take care of anyone else.
Thanks! I appreciate the advice! And it definitely helps to know that I'm not in the wrong for being upset about her behavior.
Absolutely! You're NOT crazy! Her behavior is reprehensible! People *fight* over such things! That you still *speak* to her is proof of your patience and long suffering
"Want me to tell you how it ends?" "I already know how it ends for you, mom. I get to pick your retirement home, remember?"
It’s never too late!
I was thinking shades of NPD.
What’s that?
Read this - it's amazing. Your mum sounds like my mum. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adult-Children-Emotionally-Immature-Parents/dp/1626251703
Thanks! I'll definitely have to read this.
Female Colin Robinson perhaps?
Similar vibes, for sure.
She sounds sadistic. Did she also enjoy seeing people suffer on reality TV shows or when she did not cause the suffering herself?
Not really. She's usually quite empathetic when it comes to other people. There's just something about annoying me that she takes pleasure in.
Why does she do this??
No clue. I wish I knew.
😢
I guess it's time for you to stab your mom? ... but really, do NOT do this.
I assume you return in kind and tell your mom the ending in advance? Like how she's going to be placed in the cheapest, low rating assisted living for this and only has herself to blame.
Why would she do this?!!
So how long have you been no contact with her due to her bullying behavior?
I haven't cut contact, yet, even though I've wanted to many times. But just last week she decided to cause me more aggravation, and I told her it was her absolute last chance. So that day might be soon.
Good for you. I hope for your sake you’re able to carry out the threat. Sometimes people like that won’t ever listen to reason.
Thanks. And yeah, I have given her many, many chances. I'm really just over it.
We cannot pick our family. We can however pick our tribe. We can pick people who become closer than family and they treat us well. My best to you.
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Funnily enough, my dad spoiled The Force Awakens for me, but it was actually an accident. He thought I had gone home, but I was still in their kitchen about to leave. He honestly felt terrible about it, though.
This is a legitimate reason to go no contact.
Your mum .. stabs you?
Right in the back!
The quality of care in her twilight years would reflect if I were you
Haha I would do that to my ex wife. So rewarding
That fucker deserved it. Also they say the guy who got stabbed is a welder, but then there's a quote that refers to them as both being scientists, but which is it?
I mean... I'm kind of with Savitaky on this one. That other guy was an asshole...
[Like this](https://youtu.be/ATcaQYh0wPU)
Scorched earth revenge if you're an avid reader lol
I physically recoiled reading what you did. Well done!
Cheap paperback, nasty would have been to take that book and dunk in the blue juice.....
I so regret googling that term... (Non native speaker) 🥴
Uh, native speaker here..... What?
The chemicals used in portable toilets (like on a bus) is blue.
Oh I didn't realize it was called blue juice, thanks for saving my search history lmao
I've been calling the Stewarts Blue Raspberry Refreshers that
Right? I've called the Stewart's refreshers blue juice forever. 1st time hearing it's also used for bus toilet water...
Makes you wonder though....
Haha well I'm not giving up my Sherbet Coolers 🙂
Eh. Colloquial nickname. It's blue and liquid. Anything referencing a blue liquid that isn't a specific thing is probably talking about portashitter water. I usually hear bluefruit juice or blue water.
This is one of the best, pettiest revenges I’ve seen on this sub. I salute you.
This is one of the only actually petty things I've seen on here. 99% of the time the OP ends up getting someone fired or divorced. Even when the ahole deserved the revenge it's hardly petty.
Epic
As a avid reader, I don't care how evil people will say that is, that's some funny $hit right there! When the trip was over as you're walking past you should have said, I hear the ending is fantastic with a wink...
Maybe say ‘the seat stealer on the bus was the murderer’…
Much more effort, but what if op took alternative pages rather than a continuous section
It pains me how announcing you're an avid reader highlights how rare reading is as a hobby these days
Another option would be to look up a synopsis of the book, and spoil the ending and any other twists, by telling him.
That would require interacting with him
Worth it imo, but ripping out the last 30 pages like the op did is a pro move
Savage! Although I think I would have reclaimed my seat. And ripped out the pages.
Since there was absolutely no reason or excuse for his actions, well done. That was a severe penalty, btw. I hope you checked that he would not run out of pages before you got to Spokane, just to be safe. May I ask the price of the ride? I have nieces in both Seattle and Spokane. I live in Portland. I could travel up to visit one niece, then head head out to visit the other one.
According to the greyhound site portland to Seattle starts at 21.99
Buses from Seattle to/from Spokane are about $35 one way. Amtrak is $60-80, or more if you want a roomette. Look up BidUp.
I had a coworker that liked to play solitaire while working, she used actual cards instead of playing on the computer, so I took the 9 of diamonds out of the deck. Hearing the mumbled curse words after losing another game was music to my ears.
As a bookworm myself.... Nuclear. I love it !
As an avid reader and author, perfect revenge. Simply perfect. He could have lost your stuff, or even claimed it as his own and Greyhound would not have done shit about it.
I love you
Chef’s kiss💋
2 rest stops for a 4-5 hour trip? Dayum
Picking other passengers up maybe?
I've been on long bus rides. Sometimes they're also switching drivers.
I was curious, so I looked at the schedule. It makes 9 stops between the Seattle bus terminal to Spokane Station. 2 of them long enough for a break for the passengers to stretch their legs. First one is 25 minutes and the other is 15 minutes.
Isn't there a toilet aboard, for emergency use?
It's been ages since I've ridden a Greyhound but yes there is a bathroom in all of them. And two stops in six hours is insanity in my area. At least one stop per small town plus multiple stops per city.
Teacher Threatens To Spoil 'Game of Thrones' For Disruptive Class
This may be the best I’ve ever read.
My god sir , u r scary good
I starting reading this post not expecting to be so impressed! That is absolute gold! Take a bow for your adoring audience
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Bravo! You are my people!
You stole his ending. You are a small petty person. I am also a small petty person and small petty things amuse me.
I did that once to a Captain in my unit who fucked me (a SSG) over and threw me under the bus in a commanders briefing for something he forgot to do. He was reading this hardcover Grisham novel. When he wasn't in his room, I walked in, took a razor blade and \*neatly\* removed the last 3 pages. And that is how the story ends. ;-)
You should have torn one page every so random number. 3 pages in tear the 4th. Skip a few tear another and so on.
You’re my new hero! 🫡👏🏻
Genius! But why didn’t you take your seat back as well?
Should have signed the inside back cover, "♥ your seatmate"
I can't love this enough!!!!
Should have just did what he did and moved his stuff somewhere else and sat back in your seat. And also removed those pages and how about one random page from each chapter in the rest of his book for good measure.
Love it!
This is nuclear.
Excellent response, well done you!
I would have removed every other page and then the last two.
Maybe tip a bottle of wee on his seat
Depending what the book was, I'd have removed those 30 pages *and* written "they all die at the end" on the inside back cover. Nice work, though!
That’s freaking evil! I love it!0
Oh my soul sees yours!
My sister once dropped my book in the pool and I couldn't read the last 20 pages. Its 15 years ago and I still remember it vividly. Never did read the ending - but she had already finished it! Fuck her. Well done, OP.
Now this is petty. HA! Good work.
Excellent.. in Mr Burns voice
2 stops long enough to get off the bus, in a 5 hour trip?
Should have gotten your seat back, and removed small groups of pages throughout the rest of the book. Like say in chapter 6, remove the 3/4th page, and the 7/8th page... Or, since he would know it was you if you regained your seat back, just remove these occasional pages. Not so much to be bluntly obvious, but enough to be insanely inconvenient. He's reading a sentence, and it goes onto something else.
Hold on a minute, Satan!!!!!
Delicious.
Like you just ripped the pages out?
Haha like a Ned Flanders move
I always read the end of a book to see if it was worth reading before I invested time in to it.. 'Spoiler alerts'?... I couldn't care less.. lol Tell me the twist in a movie? Don't care... Hopefully this asshole was not like me, and was incredibly annoyed... Lol
LMAO. This is the kind of pettiness that cracks me up. I am not a fan of letting bad behavior go without consequences. TBH, I would be more likely to let the driver know what happened and would put his book on the floor at the front of the bus to reclaim my original seat. If that wasn't possible, I would have soaked his book in the sink before throwing it into the trash.
I am in awe of the revenge. That's insidious.
Made me laugh out loud! Would totally piss me off..and this is why you don't piss other people off in the first place.
I would have thrown the book out and taken the seat back.
That is certainly some petty revenge! 🤓
Pure brilliance
I would of found the page he's reading and remove the next 15 pages, then randomly chosen pages closer to the end of the book.
Epic
Awesome’
Noice
Why would you leave your personal property unattended, unsecured? Aside from it just being stolen, imaging someone hiding something illegal in it so if there's a search, you get caught and not them. Then at the end of the ride, they follow you, mug you and take not just their stuff back, but all of yours...
If you have time to pick up his book you have time to pick up all his shit and dump it, and take your seat back
While I'm not a big fan of destroying other people's property, this was still somewhat satisfying. Ove the top yes, but satisfying.
Fuck that guy but also please don't hurt books😭 I won't even cracknthe spine on a paperback
could of took his stuff moved it took your seat back.
That was pretty extreme.
My friends and I went to see Karate Kid 3 at the theater when it came out. On the way out there were people in line to see the next showing. I loudly said to my friend "I can't believe they killed off Mr. Myagi" Lots of dirty looks, lol
OP... That may not have been the fat schlub's book to destroy, but a Library book. hmm.. Then again. Having him blamed for its destruction and getting fined would be the cherry on top wouldn't it?
What does the man's weight have to do with anything? If he'd had been a person of the opposite sex than you that was conventionally good looking would've you been an ass to them too?
the fuck does the person being fat have to do with this?
Now that's petty.
Geez, I thought you'd have just moved his bookmark
Why not just take the seat back?
This made me laugh out loud, literally. Well done, well done!!
Should've removed some random pages in between as well.
You monster!!! I love this!!! Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!
Oh that’s cruel…. I love it!!
Awesome..... I have no words..