Teen praised for 'petty revenge' on dad who complains about her 'messy' bedroom
Anyone familiar with Roald Dahl's 'The Twits' will recall how the hairy couple regularly played nasty tricks on one another, from putting worms in spaghetti to frogs in beards. The practical jokes completely messed with their heads and one real-life dad might know just how they felt.
A teenage girl recently confessed to a prank she carried out on her dad for a year after the pair were at loggerheads over her untidy bedroom. But, thankfully, unlike The Twits this story finished on a happy note. She wrote: "This happened two years ago and finally has an ending. I have a father who is very strict about tidiness. He likes things to be placed in a very particular way. The thing is, I like to organize my room in my own way. Our ways are very different.
"When I was 14, I kept the books and files on my desk in a very particular way. It was organized based on usage and importance, as I have ADHD, and that's just the easiest way for me to find things." The teen admitted that to the average eye, her bedroom looked like a random pile of items, but she added that it was "mostly because the pile consisted of stuff I needed for my summer and winter jobs, so I only really used it during those times."
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However, one day the dad moved some parts of the piles that he "deemed unimportant", which went unnoticed by the daughter for a while. She went on: "But then one day, I decided that I'd scan some important files from my job so that I wouldn't lose them, only to find that the entire folder full of files had disappeared. I looked around and even looked at my brother and mother's desk, but it had completely vanished."
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After asking her dad about the lost pile, he began shouting at her and called her "lazy, careless, forgetful and unorganized," as well as "delusional for thinking that someone else had moved them." She went on: "He said that having a job was a waste because I would never learn responsibility because I couldn't even bother to be responsible for something important.
"He held the fact that I had lost that folder over my head for the next two years and would yell at me occasionally about it whenever I misplaced something." Then, one day when the dad asked the whole family to look for a folder he couldn't find, she came upon her missing pile hidden behind four larger boxes in the house's storage area.
She said: "Finally, I had proof that he moved it! It was his storage area, and it was behind boxes filled with his stuff. I was both relieved and livid. He moved it. He called me delusional, crazy, irresponsible! He yelled at me about it for two years while I cried each time!
The teen claimed her dad did not apologise after confronting him with the missing items, only that she should have looked after it better. This lack of remorse kick-started her 'petty' revenge, as she wrote: "Since that day, about a year ago, I have started moving little bits and pieces of his stuff.
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"Not to obscure places, because then I would be found out immediately, but a one to two-meter radius between where he actually put it. He put down his cup of water and then left to take a phone call? It'll move from his desk to the random portable shelf thing he puts some of his stuff on top of.
"Put down his phone to go to the toilet? One side of the desk to the other. His vape? From the shelf to the pen holder he had on his desk. His shirts? (Yes, he puts them in order.) I'd change the order of shirts that had the same color. I'd switch the old shoes at the bottom of his shoe rack every once in a while. Little things like that for an entire year."
He shouted each time over his apparent confusion until around five months into the joke when he began commenting that he was growing old and forgetful. During this year, she was diagnosed with ADHD, which was when the pair began to build bridges and worked things out between them.
She said: "During this year where I hid stuff, I was finally diagnosed with ADHD, and my dad started to learn stuff about ADHD and realized that my piling thing was actually really common. He also started to notice the patterns in which I put my stuff and commented less on it, even when I knew he wanted to.
"He actually went to a session with my therapist to ask more questions. Turns out! Most of the things he had issues with about me were all symptoms of my ADHD. Who could have known, right? It was also during this year that we realised that we were both mature enough to have a sit-down conversation about things like adults (or almost adults). We worked things out between us and promised to not drive each other crazy. (At least not on purpose)."
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The Reddit post saw dozens of comments from people touched by the teen's story. One wrote: "Actually this is my favorite petty revenge story yet. You get both the revenge and the sweet happy ending. It's like salt and sugar. Two things that shouldn't come together yet when they do it's amazing and surprising."
While many were impressed with the dad's actions in the end, as one said: "That revenge was nicely petty! Also, I'm glad he finally came around and recognised your neuro-spiciness and came to terms with it!" and another added: "I’m impressed that your father, after so many years of a specific mindset was willing and able to change how he perceived your ‘failures’ and move on to accepting your true nature."
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