It doesn’t matter how old you get, how mature you are, or how many years you’ve been away from home. You never want an angry phone call from your Mom.

It’s a timeless form of discipline, one that shakes even grown men and women to their very bones.

So when this user’s cheating ex tried to run up a phone bill he had in her name, she got the last laugh when she told his Mom about his scheming!

Check it out!

Cheating ex tried to land me with a huge phone bill so I ratted to his mother

This was a good few years ago now but it still puts a smile on my face.

I’d been in a relationship with a guy (let’s call him Steve) who seemed super nice on the surface but turned out to be pretty manipulative and a habitual cheater.

While we were together I took out a phone contract for Steve in my name, as his credit score was poor and the company wouldn’t give him one.

It was all fine and I never had any problems with him paying me back, even when we broke up.

But OP wasn’t ready for the truth bomb coming her way, even if did reach her after the break up….

Then, a month before the contract was up, I had a bombshell dropped on me by a mutual friend who had found out the extent of Steve’s cheating and lies and thought I deserved to know.

I’d once been suspicious about Steve’s relationship with a particular woman, but when my suspicions came out he gaslit me and turned himself into the victim.

Turns out my suspicions had been right on the money after all. Needless to say, I confronted Steve (though I did it as coolly as I could).

Understandably, OP was furious, not just for the lying during the relationship, but for the lying he did after!

I was fuming, I’d wasted literal years of my life being taken for an idiot.

Not only that but the manipulation had continued long after the break-up, as we’d stayed “friends”, and I was finally done with it.

I told him that I was cutting him out of my life, and that I never wanted to hear from him again.

My confrontation didn’t go down well, but by this point he’d already sent me the money for the final month of the contract so I thought it was all ok on that front.

But in true “Steve” fashion, he decided to screw her over one last time….

I was wrong – turns out Steve could still rack up a pretty big charge if he went over his data allowance, something he’d always been super careful not to do.

That’s why I was pretty sure it was deliberate when I was sent a final bill for close to 80 dollars. I could have covered the bill and kept that door closed.

But that would have been at the expense of other things and I wasn’t about to let that slide on top of everything else he’d put me through.

First, OP covered her behind with the phone provider….

I contacted the company to make sure the charge wasn’t down to some overseen contract clause, and that he really had stacked up that bill in excess charges alone.

He had. Seems he didn’t like no longer having control over me.

Determined to get my money back, I tried to get in touch with Steve – but he’d blocked me on every single avenue of contact I had for him.

It was then I realized that I still had his mother’s number in my contacts.

Next, OP got out the big guns… calling his Mom!

Immediately I texted her with an outline of what had happened.

That I’d confronted her son about his treatment of me and that I was convinced he’d deliberately landed me with a big phone bill as some sort of petty pay-back.

While she wasn’t impressed that her son’s drama was landing on her doorstep via me, she asked for proof of the bill and said she’d sort it.

The money landed in my account within an hour and I was free of him forever.

But OP said the only thing that would have made her revenge sweeter was seeing the look on his face as his Mom chewed him out!

I wish I’d seen the look on his face when his mother made him, a grown man, sort it out – that was no small amount of money to him at the time either.

I know he occasionally still stirs crap about me years later, as the odd petty comment on his social media sometimes makes it back to me through friends.

If anything, this makes my petty determination even sweeter. Having the money was nice, but getting the last laugh was better.

Imagine getting scolded by your Mom for being a terrible boyfriend. Talk about emasculating.

Reddit congratulated her on her juicy revenge, but said sadly many Moms would have sided with their little boy!

This user was reminded of how she similarly dealt with a psychotic ex-boyfriend.

And this person even explained how a phone call to your Mom was even a deterrent to crime!

Finally, this user hoped that the money came out of Steve’s pocket, not his Mom…

Count on your Mom to set you straight!

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