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REVENGE IS SWEET
Oct 25 2006 By Lindsay Clydesdale
ARE you the type of person to get even, or turn the other cheek?
If you've been dumped, sacked or insulted, do you shrug and forget it or start plotting ways to strike back?
According to Claire Gillman, getting even is becoming increasingly popular as life gets more stressful.
In her book, Revenge is Sweet, Claire reveals that men are by far the more vengeful sex, except over romantic matters, when it's women who are most likely to exact revenge.
"Lots of us would like to wipe the smile off someone's face," said Claire. "All research shows men are more prone to taking revenge. They also enjoy it more than women.
"Men are far more likely to take revenge in almost every area from work to sport, even driving.
"Women tend to be more devious, peppering men's food with laxatives or dirt and wiping round the toilet bowl with his toothbrush."
Despite the title of her book, Claire believes revenge is never the answer as it ultimately leaves you feeling unhappy you have stooped to your offender's level.
Here are some of her favourite tales from the book.
HIS PRIDE AND JOY
The wife of radio DJ Tim Shaw saw red when he told glamour model Jodie Marsh on air that he would leave his wife and children for her.
His wife Hayley, who was listening to his show, immediately posted an advert for his £25,000 Lotus Esprit Turbo sports car on eBay for 50p.
The car sold within five minutes.
The DJ had upset his wife previously on air by telling her sister he thought ab out her while having sex with his pregnant wife.
Hayley said: "I am sick of him disrespecting this family for the sake of his act.
"The car is his pride and joy but the idiot put my name on the logbook so I just sold it. I didn't care about the money, I just wanted to get him back."
BUZZWORDS
AFTER a long-running neighbour dispute, one of the parties went on holiday for two weeks in the summer. The other neighbour took advantage of their absence to put two pints of maggots through the neighbour's letter box.
The family returned to a Hitchcock-like house of flies.
A LIFETIME OF PENT-UP RESENTMENT
An 80-year- old woman was in front of a judge, charged with shoplifting. He asked her what she had stolen.
"A can of peaches," replied the woman.
"How many peaches were in the can?" asked the judge.
She replied that there were six.
"Then I'll give you six days in jail," said the judge.
Before he had time to speak further, the woman's husband added: "She also stole a tin of peas."
CLEAN PLATE
One chef confessed that after a customer had very rudely asked for his burger "without any bl**dy sauce on it", she licked the sauce off the burger with her tongue and then sent it out.
WAKEY WAKEY
WHEN a Romanian man fell asleep while making love to his mistress, she took it as a huge insult. To teach him a lesson, she put his penis through his wedding ring. The man, who was married with two kids, had to go to hospital to have the wedding ring removed.
SERVER SABOTAGE
A computer technician at Forbes Publishing was angered when his temporary position was terminated so he deliberately brought down five of eight network servers.
All the data in the servers was deleted and none was recoverable.
As a result, Forbes was forced to shut its New York office for two days and sustained losses of more than $100,000.
KISS & SWELL?
In a private school in Ontario, Canada, a caretaker's patience was being sorely tried by a number of 12-year- old girls who would apply lipstick 'kisses' to the mirror in the girls' toilets, leaving dozens of marks.
Every night the caretaker would remove the lip marks and the next day the girls would put them back.
Finally the headmistress called all the girls to the lavatories to tell them off. She asked the caretaker to show the girls how hard he had to scrub.
The man took out a squeegee, dipped it in the nearest toilet bowl and scrubbed at the mirror.
Et voila, no more lipstick marks.
SEE YOU AND RAISE YOU
Playwright George Bernard Shaw sent Sir Winston Churchill a caustic invitation, reading: "Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one."
Churchill replied: "Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend second - if there is one."
Revenge is Sweet by Claire Gillman, published by Fusion Press, priced £9.99.