A woman who cheekily sent her aunt a teasing 40th birthday card as a youngster has been left gobsmacked as the joke returned to bite her. Back in 1995, when Reddit user Brutz616 was just 10-years old, she cheekily wrote in a card to her relative: “Lordy, Lordy, look who’s 40’ed.”
Fast forward 30 years and the very same card has boomeranged back to it’s original sender, who celebrated her own 40th birthday on January 25, 2025. “My aunt re-gifted me a birthday card I gave her 30 years ago,” she shared on the Pics subreddit.
After three decades, the aunt humorously retorted on the card: “Right back at ya!” The prank delighted hundreds of Reddit users, with one commenting: “I imagine her, packing up for a move or doing general decluttering several times during those years, ripping that card out of someone’s hand that wants to throw it away with a ‘NO! I have a plan for that one!'”
Another praised the patience of the aunt’s revenge: “Anything that someone holds onto for longer than 10 years and allows it to take up space with the express purpose of being gifted at a later time is not re-gifted – it is revenged.”
A third mused: “I would like to believe when she got that card she got epic levels of p****d and concocted this 30 year plan of revenge. As the clock ticked on and on it got more and more difficult to stifle her laughter as her time bomb got closer to detonate.”
And a fourth individual humorously proposed: “Time to re-gift this card to your kid when they turn 40 and make this an on going heirloom. 400 years from now the first born is getting this same card for his birthday with all the ancestors who signed it.”
Meanwhile, a fifth Reddit user shared a similar reminiscent tale: “My grandmother and I have birthdays that are close together,” they penned. “One time, I kept writing on a piece of paper/letter I received from her (or the other way around? I don’t remember).
“We continued to add on messages and birthday wishes every year to the same letter/paper. Eventually this stopped because it has been a while since that happened. I don’t know what happened to that letter, presumably one of us lost it (probably myself being younger and less responsible). I really wish I kept better tabs on that. It was really special.”