I have told my story on how I got revenge with my first husband after I caught him cheating for the second time, but I don’t guess it hurts to tell it again. It wasn’t savage, but it made me feel a little bit better.

This was before everyone had cellphones and people were still relying on pay phones.

I was working as a waitress on holiday Thursday night. Holiday Thursdays, I could pull 300.00 or more in tips. Two hours into my shift and right when things started to get busy, I get a call from the babysitter saying that my husband had not come to pick up the kids. I asked if he had called and she said no. I called his work and he had left at the regular time. I knew his manager and I asked if he left with someone and she told me yes that he had left with a woman he worked with to give her a ride home. I had already had a inkling he was having an affair with her.

Anyway long story short I left work and picked up the kids. When he got home he gave me his lame excuse, and later admitted he was having an affair. The first thing I did, was get in his car and leave. He hated when I drove his car (which is why I took his car) I told him I had to think. His car’s gas gage didn’t work so we had figured out that his car on a full tank could go 300 miles. Once the mileage got close to 300 we had to put gas in. I noticed it was close to 300 and took a chance and drove around for a while. Then I flipped the mileage to zero. Drove a couple more miles to make it look like I had filled the gas tank and then drove for a while more, before I came back home. Knowing the next morning he would be leaving early for work and his work at the time was about 45 miles away.

When I got home I packed myself up and my daughter and went to bed. In the morning he went off to work. I got in my car, drove my step-sons to school gave them big hugs and told them I would see them soon. Then I went to live with my Mom until something else could get worked out.

My ex got about 15 miles before his car ran out of gas. It was raining and he was on a rural road that wasn’t very busy. He had to walk about three miles in the rain until he found a pay phone. He had someone from work pick him up. I called later to let him know he would have to leave work early regardless of if his car was on the side of the road or not because he had to pick his sons up… and that was that.