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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Weak-Story6835 on 2025-06-03 01:57:02+00:00.
This story wasn't an intentional Malicious Compliance response; it just sort of happened that way. This happened about 25 years ago.
Every year, my High School would organize a school trip to an amusement park just outside of town. In order to go on the trip, you had to fork over $10 and fill out a form (if you were under 16, your parent had to sign the form). Standard shit. But there was one teacher in charge who made it a point to remind us constantly that we weren't allowed to enter the Water Park, otherwise, we were allowed to do what we wanted so long as we didn't get in trouble or do anything that reflected poorly on the school. Fair enough.
Now, like I said at the start of this story, this malicious compliance wasn't intentional, but suffice it to say we arrived at the bus about fifteen minutes before it was scheduled to return to town, soaked to the bone. If looks could kill, we would've been dusted right then and there. So he demands to know what happened, and we told him.
You see, there's a ride at this park that is kind of a simple-looking roller coaster. It's not very high, and only has one drop but the caveat is the track is actually a slide with water, and the drop is over a body of water that causes a kind of wave that splashes both the rider and whoever is standing on the bridge across from the drop. We all stumbled across this ride while we were wandering the park, and debated whether or not we should go on it. We decided, unanimously even, that technically this ride wasn't in the Water Park, so riding it wasn't actually against the rules.
We rode it twice.
By the time we finished explaining, he was glaring daggers at each one of us and after a pause, he just pointed behind him and said "Get on the fucking bus." Everyone on the bus stared at us while we boarded, either thinking we were heroes or rebels. Whatever the case, I still laugh about this story whenever I tell it, and one of my friends suggested I should post this on Reddit under Malicious Compliance, so here we are.