Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Would you confess your cake had made the hole? Please be honest!

209 replies

CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 19:19

Name changed for this as It's extremely outing! because It's bizarre, mainly Pom bears, Mexican House Thief, Penis Beaker etc.

So I currently live with my ex partner. This is recent-I moved back in with him to save money in order to buy a house (obviously I can't do that for now Sad ).

We get on okay, but he was a terrible partner when I was with him.
Heavy drink problem (which he managed to keep secret for far too long!), lies, unable to manage finances, a whole barrage of dishonesty about his circumstances. It was horrible, so many tears and sleepless nights on my part as I'd really thought he was for me before then, but it was years ago and I have grown up a lot now.

This definitely bears some relevance to how I treat him now though. I don't have much respect for him admittedly as it took me a long time to rebuild my life when we broke up some years ago. I'm not horrible to him or anything but I am not overly nice. Had I done this to anyone else I'd have been mortified, ad definitely confessed and paid for damages.

We both own the house together.

Some time ago I was baking a cake. I didn't realise the flour had gone off, so the cake was inedible. I decided to chuck it out for the birds.

Amongst other twatty things my ex had done, he built a HUGE outhouse/outbuilding in the garden. I'd previously had the garden lovely albeit small and he built this thing which takes up about 90% of the garden. It's massive. I decided to chuck the cake on top of it.

But it broke the (corrugated plastic) roof of the structure. It made a hole in it.

This was a month or so ago and he has only just noticed. He came into my room this morning holding a hammer and said 'Whose is this hammer?!' I said I don't know, not mine? And he said he thought someone had thrown it into the garden and this is what has broken the roof. He wants to report it to the police as well.

He is not overly upset about it, and has fixed the hole now.

I kind of want to confess because I don't want him wasting police time.

I kind of don't though.

Would you? Honestly?

YANBU -Don't confess, no point and he's a knobhead anyway
YABU-Confess, It's the correct thing to do.

OP posts:
CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:43

dark it means that here too!
run I'm glad my misfortunes are making people laugh! Grin

OP posts:
Runmybathforme · 04/04/2020 20:42

Best laugh I’ve had in ages.

DarkPassenger · 04/04/2020 20:40

If he brings it up again tell him 'Shut yer cakehole and forget about it.' Then come and update us Grin Bet you can't do it without laughing Grin

Disclaimer: Where I'm from cakehole means mouth, especially one that's rabbiting on in an irritating way.

CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:40

tigger I think he'd think bad of me and respect me less. And I've struggled to get him to abide by the lockdown rules, i think he'd take risks again to upset me.

OP posts:
Tigger001 · 04/04/2020 20:38

I would just admit it. If you are not really bothered what he thinks of you anyway, and it's fixed, just tell the truth.
What do think his reaction would be ?

CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:35

mytwo Grin he probably put it there when he was drunk and forgot!

OP posts:
CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:34

Haha it was for someone's birthday thisismy! It's a good job I noticed about the flour.

hearts I don't know!

OP posts:
My2catsarefab · 04/04/2020 20:32

The hammer was obviously left by the birds who'd taken it with them to smash your cake into tiny edible pieces 😆

heartsonacake · 04/04/2020 20:31

So are you going to confess?

Thisismytimetoshine · 04/04/2020 20:29

Just thank Christ you didn’t eat it...

CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:28

Hearts okay. That's why I asked the question really.

OP posts:
rootsonshow · 04/04/2020 20:26

keep quiet and enjoy it

heartsonacake · 04/04/2020 20:25

YABU. I think you should confess. Whether you like him or not and whether you like the shed or not, he spent time building it and I think it’s quite selfish of you not to tell him you accidentally created the hole.

Any past issues between you are totally irrelevant.

CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:22

hotpenguin second thoughts, he's going to know its my cake lol

OP posts:
CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:21

hotpenguin genius!

OP posts:
CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:20

gin omigod! Is that all fixed now?? I hope not too much damage?!
nomore it was heavy!

OP posts:
rwalker · 04/04/2020 20:20

god don't confess but tell him not to ring police they will not be interested as too busy at moment.

HotPenguin · 04/04/2020 20:16

If you feel really guilty you could make another cake, ice it, and write "sorry I broke your roof". Then leave on the doorstep and pretend it's from a stranger.

CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 20:16

Dame Grin Grin
I'm so glad most people are saying not to lol

OP posts:
ThePants999 · 04/04/2020 20:16

I was going to walk on by because with an unrecognisable name you clearly weren't worth replying to, but now you've mentioned some old threads I know you're one of the elite and I should pay you attention. 🙄

Ginntoniconpause · 04/04/2020 20:16

GrinGrin definitely don't tell him. I wonder how the birds were after eating it! Grin

I do daft stuff like this quite often and try to keep it to myself. My 2 year old daughter flooded our bathroom whilst I was home with her at the start of this week. I frantically soaked all the water up and had no intentions of telling my husband. Although when I walked downstairs and saw it was dripping through the kitchen ceiling, I was left with no choice!

NoMoreDickheads · 04/04/2020 20:14

YANBU. It must've already been a bit crap if a cake made a hole in it, anyway. Anything could have done it- a bird shitting on it, for instance.

mineofuselessinformation · 04/04/2020 20:10

OP, that brings a whole new meaning to the expression 'cakehole'! Grin
No, don't tell him. If he's fixed it, it's time to forget about it.

TwistyHair · 04/04/2020 20:10

@CakeHoleinRoof cunning! That’s so funny

Frenchw1fe · 04/04/2020 20:07

We had moths in the food cupboard last year. I bleached the cupboard and threw out the flour etc.
A month ago I made dh a rice pudding and just before serving I saw what looked like a tiny maggot, obviously moth pupae.
I didn’t tell him and he enjoyed the pudding , I didn’t eat any.