petty little victories

[Bob]

some time ago i made a stupid whiny girl thread about a girl who seemed to like me and then suddenly she had an ex-boyfriend that came back into her life and she needed some time to think about it and blah blah blah long story short she never ended up getting back to me one way or the other and i never saw her again

i'm over it, i promise, i've even quietly loved and lost like a grown-up a few times since then

but get this, right

on the way to work today, i was walking by her house (i know that sounds weird, but she literally lived about 2 blocks from me and i walked by that house every day on my way to work, it'd actually be weirder if i went out of my way to avoid it) and some construction dudes were tearing down her apartment

i know it was years ago and it's unrelated and for all i know she's homeless or living with her parents or something objectively tragic but in the end i still feel like i won somehow. there aren't any construction dudes tearing down my home


what are some moments where you felt good about bad things happening to people you don't like?

[ms.peachy]

Usually first I feel a bit smug, then I remember I shouldn't really engage in schadenfreude, but then I remember I can't actually really speak German, then I think maybe I should have paid more attention in German class in high school, and then I think about my teacher Mr. Westcott whom we of course all called Mr Wetcock and how he used to wear socks with sandals, and then I laugh.

[Documad]

Usually first I feel a bit smug, then I remember I shouldn't really engage in schadenfreude, but then I remember I can't actually really speak German, then I think maybe I should have paid more attention in German class in high school, and then I think about my teacher Mr. Westcott whom we of course all called Mr Wetcock and how he used to wear socks with sandals, and then I laugh.

<3

Sadly, in my life, it's more likely that I'll find out the person is now someone important.

[cosmo105]

bahahaha Ms. P!

i think my finest "fuck you i win" moment was when an old manager (who had always been a dick to me) at the grocery store chain where i worked for many years had to bag my groceries as i went in shopping there after work at my real adult job one day. i usually bag my own because i'm good at it after all those years of experience, but this time i didn't lift a finger.

[Dorothy Wood]

My old boss had to close two of three locations last summer. He was such a dick, it took 7 years, but I knew he would fail, or at least I really wanted him to fail. That made me happy for awhile. :cool:

[Waus]

My old roommate from college told me and my girlfriend "I really don't think you should be hanging out like this, especially at this time of night." (Bear in mind, we were team-leading some youth thing so legalistic assholery sometimes arises)

His fiancee, however, would be over constantly - even gunking up our shower with her Chewbacca-on-chemo hairloss.

His fiancee ended up dumping him and that girlfriend is now my wife of 4 years. :cool:

[TurdBerglar]

oh shit