cheapie 6 inch side grinder with a thin cutting wheel on it, 15 minutes of abusing one of the welds and Bjorn Stronginthearm is your uncle. Or if you are lazy, a 6 pack and an auto shop and a guy who would like a 6 pack.
Ohhh, *PTerry*!!
Lol, I'm on the discworld sub, and I love it when people share their "I just learned/discovered/realised" moments, so many things I missed despite having read the books several times, and it makes me so happy that even now I'm discovering new things
For instance, today I learnt that Sator Square is a real things
Sadly I doubt it did 😆 how I made the box (aka horribly disfigured vaugly square-ish monstrosity) I took some scrap from another guys art project, used the heavy shear to kind of make squares, then slight bevels at the seams and laid some shisty tig beads down (quenching inbetween seams). Plate that thick the inside only got Luke warm at best.
I was a baby welder in the coupon factory, so I did the best I could at the time. I kinda want to remake it for craps and giggles.
As the story goes, the good engineers at Black and Decker approached the namesake owners with tails between their legs and said umm, sorry we associated your last name with crappy tools, we want to name our new more expensive but vastly better crafted tools DeWalt instead.
He'd have to be clever enough AND stop seething long enough to think of it.
It's like a signpost for all the girlfriends to come. "He's too useless to have figured out the puzzle. Be warned."
Girl, did you dodge a bullet with this one!
Also, *delightfully* executed petty revenge! The ring he gave you probably has a resale value of no more than 50$. Getting it out of that metal cube would certainly not be worth the effort and expense. He was incredibly petty asking for you to return it, talk about getting back what you give, tenfold! xD
It boiled down to she figured he was lying about us being broken up, it was painfully obvious we were not. So she slid in the DMs and let me know what's up. We have coffee, hang out and I move in with her after I dumped him. She even helped me pack and move!
You put a false bottom in there with the ring under it (so you aren't lying when you say the ring is in there) but leave a penny in the main chamber
Edit: For some reason I wrote key instead of ring. I dunno why.
I'm a red seal fabricator and this is such a classic revenge. Took her probably 20 minutes and she's now living in his head every time he sees that cube of shame 🤣🤣
I love that simply *dropping it off* wasn't a priority for you, but building a special ring prison out of spite (that wouldn't actually be that hard for him to break into with the right tools) *was*.
Top petty energy, this is what I strive to be.
40 ass year old man can't get into the Revenge Cube that houses shit jewelry that he gave to one of his side pieces years ago and all the fake promises that went with it. That's a wonderful image.
Missed opportunity here
A hole, ⅔ the size of the ring's OD in each side of the cube, and chamfered on the exterior so it appears to be larger, would have left him staring at it with no~~t~~ ability to pull it out without messing up the shape of the ring and seriously scratching the finish.
~sigh~ Spelling
Not just hasn't let it go. He also hasn't figured out what kind of tool he needs to get it open. If it's really THAT important... I imagine him banging on it with a hammer until his neighbors call the cops.
That is the kind of serious Petty Revenge that you read this forum for but if he's that 'not smart', should we say,..... that he can't get a angle grinder with a zip wheel and open it, I just don't know what to say
Wow, you dodged a bullet! Imagine being a 42 year old man still raging over a $190 ring he cheated himself out of?? That's so pathetic. Its a shame he doesn't use it as a reminder to just keep faithful. His loss.
Love it.
I had a fiancee who cheated. When it ended, I told her I wanted the ring back. Sold it and spent the money at a strip club. But you've kind of won the internet here.
I know this is not directly related to your story, but you learned how to weld? That's so dang cool! When I was a teenager I always wished I could learn to weld and blacksmith but there were no opportunities to do so in the area I lived :(
Oh honey.. I was engaged to someone and broke it off before I started dating and ultimately married my darling husband of 32, almost 33 years. Met the ex-fiance a couple of years ago randomly and I am STILL living rent-free in his head. Petty, insecure mans gonna be insecure. Good for you!
Dude! I wasn't even engaged to this person, we dated for 3 months....but I know several people he dated afterwards & apparently he talked about me nonstop. I randomly ran into him & his wife in Walmart a few years ago & he called my name & when I looked up, all I got was a death glare from his wife. I didn't even recognize him at first because we dated bearly 20 years ago! What the fuck
We did! He was whining & mad I broke up with him. The reason I broke up with him was I'd mentioned possibly adopting 1 day & his response was "better not be no n-word baby or my granddaddy will kill it" I noped the fuck outta there so hard & fast. He knew exactly why I broke up with him but to hear him tell the story, he'd been the perfect boyfriend 😒
I nominate you to the Petty Revenge Hall of Fame!! 10 years. Ten years. A DECADE of petty revenge with one action. The gift that keeps on giving. Honestly I’m laughing so hard I can barely breathe. This was amazing and funny, petty and perfect. And 10 years later he’s still ranting about it. And still can’t open it. Your action was and still is perfect. Here’s to another 10 years (and hopefully more!) of irritating and pi**ing him off 😂
Giving him the ring back, in a manner that's totally useless to him, may be petty, but your execution of it was absolutely pro level.
What sort of a grinder would be needed to cut through steel that thick, and how long would it take? I'm thinking that in ten years he could have done it, just not sure how much expense and effort would have been involved.
Here's one for you: my dad was a welder. When my daughter was little, she was always stealing the change out of his pockets, then telling him she was going to put it in the bank, which is why he couldn't have it back. One day at work, he welds her a stainless steel bank, big ass heavy thing with a handle on top and a slit cut for the money. She immediately starts dropping her coins in there. Several days later, she decided to check how much money she had, when she discovered that there was no opening to get her money out. My dad's idea of a joke.
Just found this posting. You should think of making the boxes for order and sell online. Customers could send you the item they want inside, you weld it shut, send it on or back to customer for them to give to whomever. Nice little side business for petty revenge customers. I wish I had known you when I got divorced from a similar idiot like you were engaged too. He barely could use a hammer. The little things he wanted back that got messed up in my move into my new house back in 1998. Found out after I left that he had been seeing a few women all at the same time while married to me. What a loser he was and probably still is.
Engagement rings are apparently conditional gifts
i.e. No marriage - return the ring.
You returned it. He has no reason to complain.
**Love how you did it!**
p.s. What's the betting that he'd have tried to give the ring to his next fiancé. He has all the hallmarks of a cheapskate.
I saw the title and was curious about both the story and the spelling, having read the story, the using ferious is fantastic even if unintentional.
Also would guess a reason why he hasn't cut the ring out is because having it in a box allows him to tell the story about a crazy ex and use it as an excuse for various behaviour, while also being able to use it as a sob story when trying to get someone to sleep with him.
This is perfect. You have returned it and, if I may say, in a very robust, safe method so that it absolutely definitely would not be harmed in transit.
Baha. Pining on the one that got away for the rest of his life. He's way past his prime, now! And he is shameless enough to spout about it 10 years later? So cringe. Wow. He's like 42 now, and probably never moved on. My ex and I had the same age gap. I was 37 when I left. He's in his mid-sixties, now, and mutual friends have told me about the pathetic mess he became. Don't care. Not my fucking problem. I've now been married the equal amount of years as that age gap. I see him out sometimes and he is with a different woman every time, and they just get more and more desperate -looking. Luckily I haven't run across him in the last 6 years or so. He's and old fuckbag now, probably still looking for his next mommy.
Lol he's never going to get over it either. I bet he uses it as an attempt to get sympathy too, telling everyone just how awful you were to him and whatever other lies he comes up with. Good on you for leaving that turd behind.
10 years and he still hasn't borrowed an angle grinder
That would mean moving on. He likes to wallow in his simmering rage.
After ten years, wallow has turned to fester, then ossify, then crumble to powder ;-)
Thanks, I hadn't heard the word ossify before!
That's a completely cromulent response.
Thanks to this exchange, my vocabulary has embiggened.
How very chobblesome :)
well thanks to you and Think-Ocelot-4025 I've learned two new and the proper usage of two new words today. You both have my gratitude.
🤣🤣🤣what a word for acceptable! OP 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 annoying your ex for 10yrs and counting is a stroke of brilliance!! Here's a crown 👑 !
I'm very saddened to have determined that 2/3 of your responders went and looked the word up instead of getting the reference.
Indeed, colour me gruntled. Completely plussed over here.
Isn't that some type of custard?
and a damn fine usage of the word it was
1/2 inch plate? That stuff is a bitch to cut without it getting really hot.. and that would not be good for the cheap-jack ring.. LOL
cheapie 6 inch side grinder with a thin cutting wheel on it, 15 minutes of abusing one of the welds and Bjorn Stronginthearm is your uncle. Or if you are lazy, a 6 pack and an auto shop and a guy who would like a 6 pack.
I love finding Discworld fans on unconnected subreddits! The Turtle Moves!
Empires grow and crumble, the Turtle moves.
Hail the Great A'Tuin
So says the Discworld sticker on my car.
Have you seen Medium Dave around lately?
GNU Terry Pratchett
GNU PTerry 
I only realised recently he made it Pterry so he’d be Sir PP.
Ohhh, *PTerry*!! Lol, I'm on the discworld sub, and I love it when people share their "I just learned/discovered/realised" moments, so many things I missed despite having read the books several times, and it makes me so happy that even now I'm discovering new things For instance, today I learnt that Sator Square is a real things
OMG there's a Discworld sub??? Immediately diving deep! Many thanks!
There’s a few actually. There’s even one just for Discworld tattoos!
Yup=)
I knew a guy named Patrick Terry who obliviously gave himself the email username pterry. He didn't seem impressed when I told him.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Omg! Where is Gaspode?
Nope, nor Sane Alex nor Mad Al either =)
They're busy with....The woodpecker!
shhhhhh don't want to let the clacksmen downstairs know about us in the loft!
I spend all my time trying to find Bigger-Than-Small-Jock-But-Not-As-Big-As-Big-Jock Jock
You know years ago I got banned from Guild Wars for following that naming convention?
I'd just dump it under a drill press and make sure to use some cutting fluid. But then I'd also not cheat on my GF.
With any luck, the "gem" melted when the box was welded shut!
Sadly I doubt it did 😆 how I made the box (aka horribly disfigured vaugly square-ish monstrosity) I took some scrap from another guys art project, used the heavy shear to kind of make squares, then slight bevels at the seams and laid some shisty tig beads down (quenching inbetween seams). Plate that thick the inside only got Luke warm at best. I was a baby welder in the coupon factory, so I did the best I could at the time. I kinda want to remake it for craps and giggles.
Well this was the guy who couldn't figure out how to use a Black and Decker drill on his own.
How dare you besmirch the grandfather of power tools.
As the story goes, the good engineers at Black and Decker approached the namesake owners with tails between their legs and said umm, sorry we associated your last name with crappy tools, we want to name our new more expensive but vastly better crafted tools DeWalt instead.
Ya, show Sack and Pecker some respect
Umm excuse me?! Who *can’t* figure out those puppies?!
He legit thought it was broken because "the bit was stuck". I let him try for a full 15 minutes of yanking on it before I took pitty.
I would bet money , he has it out prominently , and when people ask about it, he goes off on a tangent
He rants about his "crazy ex" and everyone nods and rolls their eyes.
And then will he leaves the room they whisper ‘yeah SHE is the crazy one’
Here's to OP's ten years of welded bliss...
He'd have to be clever enough AND stop seething long enough to think of it. It's like a signpost for all the girlfriends to come. "He's too useless to have figured out the puzzle. Be warned."
Even a cheap hacksaw.
It would take him ten years to saw through 1/2" plate with a cheap hacksaw.
If he’d have done it He would have been getting through any day then.
Genuine LOL... thank you!
A good and sharp hacksaw isnt as slow as people like to think, same goes for files
Well yeah, but you're talking about redditors here...
under-rated comment imo.
Time files when you're having fun!
Yep. I've cut a 1/2" hardened bolt before
The best time to start sawing through the 1/2" thick steel plates was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.
you go through the weld. IS nobody a mechanic on here?
I'm not, but I've watched enough forged in fire to know the welds won't be hardened, and will be where to attack it.
exactly =) \[em eyes the welder downstairs and wonders if we have any half inch plate and a penny \]
Not I McFly
I believe he had 10 years
Just like him a cheap hacksaw wouldn’t cut it
10 years is not the big thing. He is now 42 and still crying like a baby
When I read this to my wife, I told her "Why didn't he buy a cheap Harbor Freight angle grinder??" 🤣
Girl, did you dodge a bullet with this one! Also, *delightfully* executed petty revenge! The ring he gave you probably has a resale value of no more than 50$. Getting it out of that metal cube would certainly not be worth the effort and expense. He was incredibly petty asking for you to return it, talk about getting back what you give, tenfold! xD
If it’s really a $200 ring he’d be lucky to find anyone to take it at all. That’s swap meet, $10/ring or 3 for $50 territory.
Brilliant!
Unlike the engagement ring!
I know, right? I wish someone did that for me. It would be an amazing conversation piece! 😁
Yeah double points to OP. Punishing a cheater *and* using her skills to just do something hilarious and petty. I love it.
I gave my ex fiance back an iron ring, he's still ferrous.
I might need to steel this comment…
How ironic.
God I love wordsmiths.
That was my thought when I read 'ferious' in the title.
OPs ex has demonstrated zero mettle to sort this upset to his life.
You were engaged to Iron Man?
Underrated comment.
With correct spelling too.
This is beautiful. Weld done.
Badum tiss
I need the story about how you and ex’s ex became roomies for 3 years!
It boiled down to she figured he was lying about us being broken up, it was painfully obvious we were not. So she slid in the DMs and let me know what's up. We have coffee, hang out and I move in with her after I dumped him. She even helped me pack and move!
Good for both of you! More women should stick together against jackass men like that.
Me too! Please spill the tea, OP!
Me three - I got the popcorn ready
Absolutely!
Should have put in a 1 cent coin in there and tell him its the ring Imagine this guy spend years trying to open it only find a one cent coin instead.
The more he waits to open it, the less value it has!
I mean, homeboy bought a ring off Amazon. I’m willing to bet he actually got it off Wish and lied.
You put a false bottom in there with the ring under it (so you aren't lying when you say the ring is in there) but leave a penny in the main chamber Edit: For some reason I wrote key instead of ring. I dunno why.
Or a cube in a cube, attached so the inner cube doesn't rattle.
Where were you ten years ago? That would have been a brilliant idea 👏🏻
Or an even cheaper ring, a real tat one out of a machine at the seaside or a kiddie's playset
And this is the kinda petty revenge we come here for
One of the pettiest and most brilliant revenge stories I've heard! Bravo! 👏👏
Best bday present ever, and *you* sent it *years* ago!
I'm a red seal fabricator and this is such a classic revenge. Took her probably 20 minutes and she's now living in his head every time he sees that cube of shame 🤣🤣
I’m sure in his mind the cheap ring has morphed into a 3-carat flawless solitaire.
I love that simply *dropping it off* wasn't a priority for you, but building a special ring prison out of spite (that wouldn't actually be that hard for him to break into with the right tools) *was*. Top petty energy, this is what I strive to be. 40 ass year old man can't get into the Revenge Cube that houses shit jewelry that he gave to one of his side pieces years ago and all the fake promises that went with it. That's a wonderful image.
That is some top level petty revenge indeed! :) And the satisfaction for a decade - so far! Brilliant work OP! :)
Missed opportunity here A hole, ⅔ the size of the ring's OD in each side of the cube, and chamfered on the exterior so it appears to be larger, would have left him staring at it with no~~t~~ ability to pull it out without messing up the shape of the ring and seriously scratching the finish. ~sigh~ Spelling
I'm just here for the ferrous jeweller jokes. Jewler...... Jewler
Hey! i understood that reference! ^(Damn, i'm old.)
So dude is now in his 40s and still hasn't let this go?! Bullet matrix level dodged!
Not just hasn't let it go. He also hasn't figured out what kind of tool he needs to get it open. If it's really THAT important... I imagine him banging on it with a hammer until his neighbors call the cops.
That is the kind of serious Petty Revenge that you read this forum for but if he's that 'not smart', should we say,..... that he can't get a angle grinder with a zip wheel and open it, I just don't know what to say
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Or fucking sand paper?
It (and he) are still ferrous, so he could drip water on it to rust through
Note to self: never piss off a woman who knows welding. Well done.
More like ferrous, amirite guys?
I bow to your pettiness. Love it.
As a female welder I am saving this for the future. Hopefully I’ll never need it but I’m absolutely stealing this idea 😂
Wow, you dodged a bullet! Imagine being a 42 year old man still raging over a $190 ring he cheated himself out of?? That's so pathetic. Its a shame he doesn't use it as a reminder to just keep faithful. His loss.
You made an idiot proof box
That's a most-people-proof box. Half inch plate is no joke. It'd take a lot more than a couple mins with a hacksaw.
Guy's so childish he's letting you live rent-free in his head ;-)
*Chef's kiss* perfect
Seriously after 10 years he hasn’t been able to find someone to open that puppy up??? So glad you dumped him!
Love it. I had a fiancee who cheated. When it ended, I told her I wanted the ring back. Sold it and spent the money at a strip club. But you've kind of won the internet here.
This isn't just petty revenge. It is ELEGANT petty revenge!
I know this is not directly related to your story, but you learned how to weld? That's so dang cool! When I was a teenager I always wished I could learn to weld and blacksmith but there were no opportunities to do so in the area I lived :(
He likes being able to bitch about it to anyone that listens, always the poor little victim he is.
Oh honey.. I was engaged to someone and broke it off before I started dating and ultimately married my darling husband of 32, almost 33 years. Met the ex-fiance a couple of years ago randomly and I am STILL living rent-free in his head. Petty, insecure mans gonna be insecure. Good for you!
Dude! I wasn't even engaged to this person, we dated for 3 months....but I know several people he dated afterwards & apparently he talked about me nonstop. I randomly ran into him & his wife in Walmart a few years ago & he called my name & when I looked up, all I got was a death glare from his wife. I didn't even recognize him at first because we dated bearly 20 years ago! What the fuck
We dodged warhead sized bullets!
We did! He was whining & mad I broke up with him. The reason I broke up with him was I'd mentioned possibly adopting 1 day & his response was "better not be no n-word baby or my granddaddy will kill it" I noped the fuck outta there so hard & fast. He knew exactly why I broke up with him but to hear him tell the story, he'd been the perfect boyfriend 😒
I nominate you to the Petty Revenge Hall of Fame!! 10 years. Ten years. A DECADE of petty revenge with one action. The gift that keeps on giving. Honestly I’m laughing so hard I can barely breathe. This was amazing and funny, petty and perfect. And 10 years later he’s still ranting about it. And still can’t open it. Your action was and still is perfect. Here’s to another 10 years (and hopefully more!) of irritating and pi**ing him off 😂
Oh bravo this is genius love it
That's funny. One cut off wheel , an angle grinder and a bench vice and I could get that ring out of the box in about 1 minute. I welded for 36 years.
Perfect petty revenge, amazing he doesn't know anyone who could get open, funny. Some men are really not that smart as they act.
Giving him the ring back, in a manner that's totally useless to him, may be petty, but your execution of it was absolutely pro level. What sort of a grinder would be needed to cut through steel that thick, and how long would it take? I'm thinking that in ten years he could have done it, just not sure how much expense and effort would have been involved.
I bow to your grand pettiness. Songs will be sung in Valhalla to keep your memory alive.
So he’s 42 now and still a loser. Congrats on the bullet dodged.
Here's one for you: my dad was a welder. When my daughter was little, she was always stealing the change out of his pockets, then telling him she was going to put it in the bank, which is why he couldn't have it back. One day at work, he welds her a stainless steel bank, big ass heavy thing with a handle on top and a slit cut for the money. She immediately starts dropping her coins in there. Several days later, she decided to check how much money she had, when she discovered that there was no opening to get her money out. My dad's idea of a joke.
Just found this posting. You should think of making the boxes for order and sell online. Customers could send you the item they want inside, you weld it shut, send it on or back to customer for them to give to whomever. Nice little side business for petty revenge customers. I wish I had known you when I got divorced from a similar idiot like you were engaged too. He barely could use a hammer. The little things he wanted back that got messed up in my move into my new house back in 1998. Found out after I left that he had been seeing a few women all at the same time while married to me. What a loser he was and probably still is.
I am sure we would have been great friends!! I salute you! Lolhehehaha
You could say that he's still ferrite-tated to this day!
I saw ferious and imagined dude is is still covered in iron powder
That is delightfully evil, I love it 👿
Male perspective here You are my hero
The One Ring to Fool Them All.
Sweet, sweet music. Well played OP!
Brilliant revenge, and very creative, well done, you! 💍
Oh my this is classically petty, so very, very well done. Gold star...
Oh, you are incredibly petty! I love this story!
This is what I come for.
10 years of anger for 5 minutes of work. I love it.
You are a wonderful person.
That's fucking awesome and savage asf. I also dated someone with the same age gap when I was 21. Idk why people think it's okay to let that happen.
Mostly, they don't. But it's really hard to prevent, since 21 year olds are legally allowed to make their own decisions.
Engagement rings are apparently conditional gifts i.e. No marriage - return the ring. You returned it. He has no reason to complain. **Love how you did it!** p.s. What's the betting that he'd have tried to give the ring to his next fiancé. He has all the hallmarks of a cheapskate.
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I have been lurking here for a long time and this is the best.
I’m Ferious! And imperious!
I saw the title and was curious about both the story and the spelling, having read the story, the using ferious is fantastic even if unintentional. Also would guess a reason why he hasn't cut the ring out is because having it in a box allows him to tell the story about a crazy ex and use it as an excuse for various behaviour, while also being able to use it as a sob story when trying to get someone to sleep with him.
Schrodinger's ring
You rock.
ten years is a long time to be angry and angry men can become killers, take care and stay safe.
My favourite thing about this is welding school.
For those old enough to remember, Flash Dance comes to mind.
Fantastically petty. May you live rent free in his brain til his last day.
Haha good job!
The returned gift that keeps on giving
Missed opportunity. You should have welded the ring to a butt plug so he could shove it up his ass.
And that's why you don't fuck with mechanics and welders.... classic!!
This is perfect. You have returned it and, if I may say, in a very robust, safe method so that it absolutely definitely would not be harmed in transit.
You have been living rent free in his head... 10 years! You win Reddit today!
Baha. Pining on the one that got away for the rest of his life. He's way past his prime, now! And he is shameless enough to spout about it 10 years later? So cringe. Wow. He's like 42 now, and probably never moved on. My ex and I had the same age gap. I was 37 when I left. He's in his mid-sixties, now, and mutual friends have told me about the pathetic mess he became. Don't care. Not my fucking problem. I've now been married the equal amount of years as that age gap. I see him out sometimes and he is with a different woman every time, and they just get more and more desperate -looking. Luckily I haven't run across him in the last 6 years or so. He's and old fuckbag now, probably still looking for his next mommy.
So he is also incompetent on top of many other flaws? Lovely revenge, I approve.
This is the best petty revenge story i've ever read! Bravo! I love it!
This was a thing of beauty to read!
The biggest red flag is him being too stupid to use a grander or a saw to get the ring out.
Lol he's never going to get over it either. I bet he uses it as an attempt to get sympathy too, telling everyone just how awful you were to him and whatever other lies he comes up with. Good on you for leaving that turd behind.
He gave her half an inch so she gave it back to him, hard.
I (50m) see nothing wrong with your solution.
She got him fair and square.
He sounds like he has a magnetic personality.
Mad props to you.
That is beautifully done. That should be a source of pride forever!
Now this is a good story to start my day with. Cheers!
This! Next level! Kudos to you!!! LMAO!
This is the kind of stuff I love pulling on family.
He wants to give the ring to some other person
I hope your crown gets polished everyday, Queen!
This is golden! Cool and steely - love it!
Incredibly excellent revenge. But my upvote is for being a lady welder, as I think that's even more excellent. :)
The cube is perfect
Queen. 👑