An apology from 1987

[Pinkginxx]

Lighthearted-ish. The funny things that you remember when you're trying to go to sleep...
C.1988 I would have been around 7/8. We were on holiday in Spain and I was having a bit of a paddle and munching away on a packet of mint imperials (we took our pleasures lightly in the 80's). Next to me is a small boy, about 2, who I've noticed has been eyeing up my sweets for a good while. Meeting his whistful gaze I slowly take out a mint and pop it in my mouth.
Unforeseen side effect of this was toddler then had an almighty meltdown. I can still picture the poor mum trying to pick him up and carry him away all the time asking what was wrong.
So I'm sorry for spoiling your day on the beach. Said little boy would now be mid-30's so very sorry if you now have some kind of mint imperial flashbacks.
I still don't know what devil on my shoulder made me do it, but I've carried the guilt for 30 years
What punishment should I give myself to absolve this guilt?

Forgive yourself. Punishment, put some mint imperials in the good bank trolley next time you go shopping.

I think a life time self imposed ban on mint imperials is the only way forward tbh.

Take a long long bus ride and hand out sweets to every toddler that shows an interest

And forgive yourself!

You don't need to forgive yourself at all. The little boy learned an important life lesson that day in that he is not entitled to get everything thing he wants!

And he might have choked!

Apologies to my godmother from me and my cousin. We squeezed little blobs of your toothpaste out onto your sink to make 'sweets'. It will have been a pain to clean :o
It is her funeral this week :(

Apologies to my older brother, from 1990. 9 year old me was so fed up with your rough housing and constant teasing, that I scrubbed your terrapins shells with your toothbrush. You were quite poorly for a good few days. Never made you any nicer though...

C1989 sorry to my neighbours who had just had a new living room window put in. For the next 20yrs they had to put up with my fingerprint marks in the putty all the way around the window.

putty would have been irresistible

Circa 1997. I ran a toy car along the bonnet of by dad's car repewdtly, creating lovely scratches showing the path the car took. My sister got the blame and I didn't speak up. She was only grounded for a couple of hours, but that's a long time when you're little and can hear everyone else playing in the garden. So I'm Sorry!

Vicky, I’m sorry I broke your windmill lamp in 1979. It was an accident; I tripped over the wire. But I thought no one would believe me because everyone knew I was furious that you’d copied my lamp, so it probably looked deliberate. I lied through my teeth and your sisters got the blame. I had sleepless nights from the guilt for years.

Sorry.