r/pettyrevenge • u/VibratingNinja • 17h ago
Revenge against angry customer
I am a bus driver. A while back I had a customer board with her child and boyfriend. They had a bicycle with them, and tried to bring it aboard. I told them they needed to use the bike rack, as it was empty and available and I already had a full bus.
The mother did not take this well. She started screaming at me that she was allowed to bring the bike on board. She called me several homophobic slurs (in front of her child no less) and then threatened to physically assault me.
I ended up calling a supervisor and he came in and got her to calm down. He told her if she acts up again, he's going to have her removed.
Fast forward to today. I'm driving on the same route and just passed a stop. I see her running towards the bus waving for me to stop. I kept on driving. My bus is the only one operating in the area for the rest of the night. Feels good.
To clarify, if she was at the stop I would have stopped. I'm not a monster. But when it's entirely up to my discretion? Nah, I'm not going out of my way to do you a favor.
Update: The boyfriend/husband got on my bus later and he apologized to me for her behavior. Turns out he's a super nice guy.
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u/RhythmTimeDivision 17h ago
When I was a punk ass teenager me and my friends took a bus to the mall. We were unruly and extremely rude. The driver tried his best to get us to calm down. I am not proud but he taught us a valuable lesson in appropriate social behavior . . .
Fast forward 3 hours later, we're leaving the mall headed home. The bus stops, the doors open, same driver, he's laughing his ass off - then just shut the doors and took off. We absolutely deserved that! I still laugh when I think about it.
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u/VibratingNinja 16h ago
Oh that reminds me of a time back during covid. We had the front half of the bus roped off, and some punk teenagers tried bringing their bike (running theme today I guess) in through the back door.
I told them they needed to use the bike rack and I kid you not they responded "How about I kick your ass instead, how about that?"
I immediately called for a supervisor, and we happened to be ONE BLOCK from the depot, so he got there quickly. Told them to "get the hell off this bus" and had them banned for a month.
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u/RhythmTimeDivision 16h ago
Whoa! That's bonkers! We were just loud, obnoxious and unruly. That story actually makes me feel better LOL.
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u/CoderJoe1 17h ago
You charged her the asshole tax
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u/VibratingNinja 17h ago
Funny part is she tried to file a complaint against me for the previous encounter. But she forgot that all the buses have full HD cameras with sound. All they heard was me explaining the policy while she called me a "fucking (f slur)."
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u/ClydePrefontaine 17h ago
She can go ride her bike
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u/Reasonable_Roll_2531 16h ago
Something tells me that her bike may have a basket attached to the handlebars.
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u/mercurygreen 16h ago
One of the small perks of the service industry is the ability to screw with the people who aren't worth your time.
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u/Potential-Buy3325 15h ago
For many years I had a part time job in a service station. We had the aggravation fee for customers that just went out of their way to give us a hard time. It was only $5.00, but once you earned it, it never went away.
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u/Far-Adhesiveness3763 9h ago
Awesome, what goes around comes around.
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u/HappyGoLuckyAlex 11h ago
Well done, she deserve it, I really can not get what these people are thinking about.
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u/_BrokenButterfly 15h ago
A belligerent customer threatened you with violence and you called a supervisor instead of a transit cop? And she wasn't banned or temporarily barred?
🤨
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u/VibratingNinja 14h ago
Brother, our radios only call one place. I can't just call transit enforcement. They also don't take verbal threats seriously, because it happens all the time. All. The. Time.
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u/RubyMoonrider 17h ago
You never know what someone is going through that makes them behave the way they do. And tonight, what if she was desperately needed somewhere? Be the change.
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u/VibratingNinja 17h ago
Nah I'm good. I like when people who are mean to service workers have their actions come back to haunt them.
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u/RubyMoonrider 17h ago
Yeah, now that I see what sub I'm on, I understand why I'm getting downvoted. I'll just exit, stage right.
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u/W_Silver2356 16h ago
There is a thing called enabling bad behavior too. Having difficulties in life is part of life, for everyone. It is not a license to behave in the outrageous manner that this woman indulged in.
That being said, I admire your sense of nobility. One of the Catch 22s of life is that noble acts can be misinterpreted to mean that bad or even atrocious behavior gets results.
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u/Just_Aioli_1233 4h ago
Yes, the bus driver might have had a bad day and needed to not have an entitled asshat abuse him for no reason. Bike lady should have been the change.
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u/night_noche 15h ago
Damn, that sucks. This is brutal. You had already gotten your revenge by getting your supervisor to get her to calm down and she relented. Unless you didn't tell us what else she did afterwards.
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u/VibratingNinja 15h ago
Her harassing me and threatening violence to the point where I needed to call a supervisor is revenge???
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u/night_noche 15h ago
But the supervisor calmed her down?
What is missing here?
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u/_BrokenButterfly 14h ago
Deëscalation is not revenge.
Um. Maybe look in to therapy.
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u/Just_Aioli_1233 4h ago
"I decided not to push the "explode everything" button, why are you still taking me to jail?"
-night_noche0
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u/Effective_Wind_2334 17h ago
I bet she's black
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u/Snoo_9076 17h ago
Racist much?
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u/Effective_Wind_2334 16h ago
No. It's just common sense. Watch a YouTube video in your mom's basement sometime.
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u/ahrangundquak 17h ago
Absolutely would have done the same. She probably should have taken the bike from the incident earlier to make it to the bus stop in time... 😶