I love a good malicious compliance story!

And I especially love the ones that revolve around someone looking like a real dummy when they thought they had it all figured out…

Check out this story from Reddit and see how this woman handled her husband, who got a little too big for his britches.

My Dad took mom’s truck away.

“When I was younger, about 8-10, my parents got into a heated argument.

I don’t remember every detail but it went along the lines of him saying “I pay for everything (not true) and that truck is in my name”.

He was pretty fired up about this.

It ended up escalating to him taking the truck from her and saying “good luck getting to where you need to go,” the truck was in his name so he believed it would stop her.

Before all this we were a family with 5 kids 2 adults and one vehicle.

My mother constantly took the VIA bus everywhere.

This included grocery stores, doctor visits, her two jobs, and anywhere else needed.

So this was nothing new to her.

About an hour later she says to me “wanna go to the bank” and of course being a momma’s girl I jumped up to go.

We walked about 2-3 miles (our city doesn’t have via routes) to get to the closest stop.

All in all the trip took us about 5 hrs to get to the bank get back to the stop and then walk home.

Oh, now you’re upset?

My father was visibly upset as to why she was gone so long, took his child, and didn’t say anything to him.

So she simply responded “Truck or no truck, I have things to do”.

He said nothing else to her and just handed her back the keys.”

Let’s see what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person shared a story.

Another individual weighed in.

This person spoke up.

Another Reddit user chimed in.

And this Reddit user spoke THE TRUTH.

Boy, did he look foolish after this episode.

He deserved it, too.

If you liked that story, check out this post about an oblivious CEO who tells a web developer to “act his wage”… and it results in 30% of the workforce being laid off.