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Friend of 40+ years confessed at the time of her marriage 35ish years ago that she’d been having an affair for about a year before and after her marriage. I believe it stopped after about 12 months. I think she thinks I’ve forgotten. I haven’t.

My next door neighbours but one are selling their house on the quiet and moving away after 60 years and my mum is buying it. She’s getting older and my kids are nearly flown the nest so I’m looking forward to having her closer.

(And there’s about an acre between us so she’s not exactly going to be living in my garden.)

How old are the couple? Bewildered what the young girl gets from this.

I am very happy in my marriage with my husband, but when I drink I am a complete dick and black out and have no memory of stuff. We had a work summer party which NEVER HAPPENS! I drank half a bottle of wine on the train on the way there and was already drunk! I’m a light weight and slim so it hits me fast. I carried on drinking and apparently gave my boss a goodbye kiss 😳 He’s a Dr and we have always had a good relationship but NOT LIKE THAT! I have no recollection of it but someone saw and text to ask if I remembered! I was mortified and text said Dr who said ‘erm yeah it was just a goodbye kiss, totally innocent please don’t worry’. I felt awful, had anxiety for days and weeks after (this was last summer) and hated facing him at work. I’ve not told my DH because it really meant nothing and I don’t actually have any memory of it happening. I don’t drink anymore though!

I am very happy in my marriage with my husband, but when I drink I am a complete dick and black out and have no memory of stuff. We had a work summer party which NEVER HAPPENS! I drank half a bottle of wine on the train on the way there and was already drunk! I’m a light weight and slim so it hits me fast. I carried on drinking and apparently gave my boss a goodbye kiss 😳 He’s a Dr and we have always had a good relationship but NOT LIKE THAT! I have no recollection of it but someone saw and text to ask if I remembered! I was mortified and text said Dr who said ‘erm yeah it was just a goodbye kiss, totally innocent please don’t worry’. I felt awful, had anxiety for days and weeks after (this was last summer) and hated facing him at work. I’ve not told my DH because it really meant nothing and I don’t actually have any memory of it happening. I don’t drink anymore though!

I once a couple of years back heard my 79 year old mother having multiple “O”s down the phone 😱..to explain, she lived alone, 70 miles away, isn’t in the best of health, incontinent. She rang me one morning saying she was laid on settee (slept there all night) and couldn’t stop “O”ing and could I help her make it stop, ring 111 etc all while about every 3 seconds going “eewww ahhh” in my ear 🙈😱 she didn’t know why it was happening, definitely wasn’t doing it to herself and please help!! (The most awful thing I’ve ever heard in my life hearing her “O”) I said please don’t make me ring 111 (knew there wasn’t anything they could do! And for embarrassment reasons from my end!) anyway I had no choice and had to ring them. Luckily for me when I got through it was another woman on the end 😂 I explained and said I know it sounds bizarre and couldn’t help and started laughing at the end, the woman also let out a little giggle. Anyway she kept me on the phone and contacted mum, I left them to it! I rang her later to see what happened and turns out 111 got the ambulance service to ring her 😱..anyway obviously there was nothing they could do and it did subside when she pee’d herself and seemed a full bladder was the cause. I’m convinced that the story will have been the butt of jokes and shared for a while in the 111 and ambulance service!

The utter psycho bitch manager who has made my life a misery for too long and who has made me cry several times is standing down soon.

This is brilliant

Two people at my office are having an affair. They don't know that everyone knows but they're about to find out!

One of my friends/work colleagues are pregnant. When she goes back to work (she's a teacher) she will be 16 weeks pregnant and will need to tell her head teacher. It will be a MASSIVE shock. It was when she told me, was gobsmacked and didn't see it coming.

We already have one crucial member of the team off on maternity, I've just retired and there are staff that will struggle to pick up the slack and know what to do.

I would love to be a fly on the wall when she tells him.

I know a couple from parents at school where every Sunday the wife gets up amd goes to the gym for a few hours and a local 22 year old comes round the house and makes the husband breakfast in her underwear. They don't sleep together but she just cleans and cooks and acts all subservient in lacy underwear for him. She goes home. Wife comes back. Wife has full knowledge. Every Sunday.

My boss is pregnant.

She doesn't know that I know.

Please tell your brother to be super careful about hygiene with his menagerie, and keep them away from the family. Some reptiles carry salmonella. I knew a family where the baby ended up seriously ill and hospitalised because of salmonella infection as a large lizard was allowed the run of the house.

The individual concerned had been schmoozing management BIG TIME, trying to ensure they got the promotion that 3 of us were going for through nefarious means. IF they had genuinely been the best for the job, that would have been OK. But they weren't. I wasn't either, to be fair (I just wanted it!). I was quite happy with the person that actually got it. They were very enthusiastic and a good choice.

I didn't actually know that time that my sounding off to someone would result in X not getting the job. BUT it did teach me a lesson about how to have an influence without putting myself in the line of fire.

My manager is having an affair with a manager from another department in the same building 👀

Oh and the manager she's sleeping with, just so happens to be her (long term) partner's boss... 😳

CremeBruhlee · Today 21:15

pollyglot · Today 20:59
Out of the blue, a close relative appeared on Ancestry. Turns out he was my grandfather's love child from 1935

You aren’t from Pendle area are you? We had the same but it was us putting the posting on Ancestry after working through grandfathers history x

Not from Pendle, sorry. Would have been great if we were cousins though!

Not sure, actually, whether you would have been too excited to be related though. I have two murderers in my family - 3x gt grandfather and gt grandfather... first one stabbed his daughter's boyfriend to death in Pudsey in the 1830s, second one, in Herefordshire, shot the butler under the influence of booze and cocaine.

It’s okay, I’ll wear a disguise for the kiss cam!

An acquaintance of mine told everyone she went to Greece for IVF treatment and got pregnant via a donor. She didn’t. She was having sex with her boss. Cue 2 year old baby that boss doesn’t know about.