Some people think they can get away with revenge without dealing with the consequences, but sometimes revenge is met with more revenge!

This man was dating a coworker whose jealous roommate moved out unexpectedly.

But before leaving, the roommate left behind a huge phone bill for them to pay.

Fortunately, he was smart enough to solve the problem and get even with the ex-roommate.

Read the full story below for all the details.

A Hefty Phone Bill

This happened about 30 years years ago.

I was seeing this girl from work. She had a roommate (M) whom we also worked with.

He was just a roommate, although I always got the feeling he wanted more.

This man moved in when his girlfriend’s roommate moved out.

He got angry with her about me just before she went home to see her parents for the long weekend.

She got back and he has moved out.

Fine, I moved in.

End of the month came and she got this huge phone bill (the phone was in her name). I mean huge!

Her ex-roommate called random numbers all over the world.

He spent the entire long weekend while she was away calling all over the world.

I mean just random numbers.

All over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America, the USA.

It was around $1,000.

He called the phone company and tried sorting out the problem.

She was upset, of course.

I called the phone company and explained the situation.

The woman told me there’s nothing they could do.

But if he has a new phone number, he could call and have the charges sent to his new bill, and once they’re on his new bill, they couldn’t be reversed back to the old phone bill. Aha!

He called them again and pretended to be the ex-roommate.

So, I waited a couple of days, then called the phone company again.

I told them I was the ex-roommate and I had some long distance charges I wanted taken off the old number and charged to my new number.

I gave them the old number (hers) and gave them the new number.

I also gave the the phone numbers of the long distance calls, said thank you, and that was it.

Sadly, they never knew what his reaction was when he got his first phone bill.

I wish I could have been there to see the look on his face when he got his first phone bill.

Unfortunately, he had quit his job when he moved out, so we never saw or heard from him again.

And the girl? Well, we ended up getting married a few years later.

It’s great that he was able to get the charges moved to the ex-roommate’s new number.

Let’s find out the reactions of other people to this story on Reddit.

This person has a valid question.

This person thinks it was epic.

Here’s a personal thought from this person.

Finally, this is hilarious, says this user.

He tried to do petty revenge, but it looks like the joke’s on him.

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