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My revenge on a bully neighbor.

We were living in the projects and the father in the family Jerry, at the end of our unit was a drunk and a bully. Jerry would bully everyone at any chance he got. The guy had arms like telephone poles so I sure couldn’t stand up against him so I had to find little ways to get even with him.

Their bedroom was on the first floor and in the summertime, they would leave their windows open with a fan in the window drawing air in. My father had a sporting goods store so one day I purchased two bottles of skunk scent. I waited until one day when they weren’t home and I sprayed both bottles of skunk scent directly into the fan that was drawing air into their bedroom.

I worked late at night at the time and I didn’t get home until around 3:00 a.m. One night after arriving home, I poured 5 gallons of water into Jerry’s gas tank.

One night after dark I found out that Jerry was passed out drunk up in the field. I put my steel toe work boots on and a hooded sweatshirt. I quietly snuck up on Jerry and kicked him in the face as hard as I could with those steel toe boots. I ran in a different direction from my home and visited a friend for a couple of hours before going home.

The best revenge was from my wife.

Every morning after Jerry would leave for work, Jerry’s brother would arrive at the house and with the bedroom being on the first floor and the windows open, you could clearly hear Jerry’s brother having sex with Jerry’s wife.

Jerry’s son was constantly bullying my son on the way to school so my wife went over to complain to Jerry and his wife. Jerry’s wife...

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