Traveling on a regular basis in and of itself poses its own set of stress and problems: going through security, checking whether or not one’s flight is on time, hoping the weather cooperates, choosing the proper hotel in which to stay, etc. Additional unexpected problems can further exacerbate one’s travel experience. During my travels, whenever someone or something caused by someone bothers me, I typically either ignore it, chalk it up to experience or shrug it off.

However, there are times where the inconsiderate perpetrator needs to be taught a lesson. I do not believe in violence or other drastic measures, but sometimes a situation arises where one knows that simply asking the perpetrator to stop will result in either no viable solution to the problem at hand or perhaps even worsen the problem. Revenge is simply not my style and I am not particularly proud of myself when I exact revenge on someone else, but on rare occasions I find it to be absolutely necessary.

The purpose of this thread is dedicated to innovative, creative ideas and methods of exacting fairly harmless (yet satisfying) revenge on thoughtless perpetrators who carelessly infringe upon other peoples’ rights of problem-free travel with no regard as to the consequences of their actions upon other people, whether it be in a hotel room, on an airplane during flight, in an airport waiting to depart, while driving a rental car, while going through security, during dinner, etc.

Please list your ideas, comments, situations and/or experiences in this thread. Clearly adding a title to your dish of sweet revenge would be helpful for other FlyerTalk members to identify with the content of the milepost.

I will start...

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What’s Your “Hang-Up”?: The Hotel Room Telephone Constantly Ringing Revenge

When I am in a hotel room for the night, I usually enjoy peace and quiet without incident. However, on occasion, I sometimes find myself unlucky enough to be next to a room where the inconsiderate guest(s) will blatantly do one or more of the following at inexcusably late hours with no regard whatsoever for other guests (such as myself) who are trying to fall asleep:

• Yell or talk loudly on the telephone or to each other
• Unnecessarily increase the volume of their television or radio for extended periods of time
• Constantly laugh loudly
• Continuously enter and exit their room while allowing the door to slam loudly and uncontrollably
• Bang into or drag around their furniture.

Usually, a fairly reliable theorem is that those who stay up late and cause these problems usually sleep late the next morning.

If calls to the front desk are futile and produce no results in terms of resolving the matter at hand and nothing else works, what I will do as revenge is wake up early the next morning, pick up the telephone and call the room of the offending guest(s). By the way, I always ensure that I am calling the correct room. I press my ear against the wall to the next room to monitor movement of the guest(s). I then hang up the telephone by quietly using my finger at the exact second the telephone receiver is picked up in the next room. I listen through the wall as the guest usually mutters “Hello. Hello?” while half asleep and then hangs up.

I will give a couple of minutes and do something (such as wash up, brush my teeth, etc.) to give the guest a chance to lay back down in bed and go back to sleep before I repeat the same procedure above. Once again, the guest says “Hello. Hello?” and then hangs up.

I then immediately call back and repeat the procedure again. By this time the guest starts to become irritated: “Hello. Hello!” and then hangs up in sheer frustration.

I do this several more times while randomly varying the time between telephone calls to keep the guest off-guard, always ensuring that the telephone continuously rings before “coincidentally” hanging up the second the guest answers the telephone: “Hello! HELLO!!!” and then slams the receiver of the telephone in absolute disgust.

An added bonus is when there is more than one guest in the room and they discuss the telephone situation in disgust and in desperation, not knowing if the telephone is merely malfunctioning. Usually, this does not require an ear pressed against the wall, as they will usually be as loud during their discussion as they were the night before.

At worst, I leave the room that morning satisfied with exacting harmless payback against an inconsiderate offender. At best, I have ruined their morning and possibly their day.

By the way, depending on the situation, this idea could also work well before going to sleep or, better yet, during the middle of the night if one finds that one cannot go to sleep due to the selfishly inconsiderate acts of the perpetrator.

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Please share your harmless (or virtually harmless, anyway) acts of revenge related to travel in this thread.