A woman has shared her story of how she exacted the pettiest revenge on her tight-fisted brother-in-law.
She vented her frustrations on Bright Side, asking if her actions were justified or if she had taken her revenge too far.
The woman explained that her 25-year-old brother-in-law, who lives in a different city, often visits and stays with her and her partner. He insists on shopping trips during his visits but always conveniently ‘forgets his wallet‘.
When confronted about this, he dismisses it with a laugh, arguing that she earns more than him and should, therefore, foot the bill.
“Yes, I do make a decent income, but I can’t keep footing the bill every single time,” she expressed, adding that she had paid for things in the past expecting reimbursement but never saw a penny.
Fed up, she decided to teach him a lesson during their next shopping trip. After he picked out an expensive cologne, she pretended to forget her purse.
“Before we left, I made it clear that I wouldn’t be paying for him this time. As we were getting ready, I pretended I had forgotten something inside, went back to the room, and left my wallet there,” she revealed.
At the checkout, she confessed to her brother-in-law that she’d forgotten her purse, which left him fuming as he felt she “made him look bad”. However, she saw it as a necessary lesson, and it appears he got the message.
In the comments, opinions were divided, with some suggesting she should have put her foot down much earlier instead of footing his bills.
One person commented: “There’s no way I would have actually left my wallet at home to prove a point to anyone. Sounds like you left your backbone at home all the other times. You paid for his other stuff because you wanted to, not because you had to.”
Another added: “In fact, since he’s a grown married man and you’re a grown married woman, it was inappropriate for you to be paying for all his stuff. Why did you, your husband and his wife allow this to happen for so long? Unless some of the things he was getting were for his wife as well, and your husband also has no backbone.”
The consensus seemed to be that if he couldn’t bring his wallet, he shouldn’t be shopping. “He’s not five, and you’re not his mother,” one person remarked pointedly.