To ask you all to reassure me that no one noticed?

[FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse]

Ds just got back from a three day residential school trip. I was unpacking his bag, putting away his wash things, when I noticed that the hastily emptied washbag, hadn't been properly emptied before I put his things in it

Yes, I sent my 9 year old ds on a school trip with condoms.

They were still there which suggests that they weren't spotted by anyone, but were in a string pockety bit, so fully visible.

Ds is not the most observant of children. I'm hoping I've got away with it.

It's not that bad, is it? Is it?! Some of you must have sent your dcs with worse? Gin maybe?! Class A drugs?!

9 year old boy you say? The wash bag won't even have been outside of the suitcase .

just be glad it wasn't a sex toy!

"Miss, miss! My torch doesn't seem to work. The light isn't working but it's buzzing"

I stitched up my oldest accidentally, he was off at Uni, and came back on the train late one night to meet up with friends from home and go on to a festival(creamfields) the early the next morning, he rang me from the train and I went to collect him from the station in my work wagon,

The next day they arrived at the festival and queued up to get in, they went through security , as he was sitting in a circle on the ground waiting for the rest of them to come through security with all their kit, a police officer walked by with a dog, it walked round the circle twice and then sat next to DC1, suddenly it dawned on DC that he knew that sort of dog behaviour, just as a load of police descended on him.

After a very intense search of his kit and clothing the officers were at loss as to why their dog was insisting that DC was defiantly carrying, DC1 is on the A spectrum and really not into anything mind altering.

He then mentioned that his mother (me) trains dogs for special work, and that they hadn't finished the dog task, you have to do a finish or the dogs stop follow through. Eventually they let him go when they realised he wasn't the type.

When he came home on Monday night, he mentioned a dog had done an indication, and it hadn't been handled properly, it was then I suddenly realised what had happened.

When I picked him up at the station he jumped in the truck, and sat on all my buffs(rolled up canvas which are impregnated with different drugs and other stuff). Which I had left on the rarely use passenger seat. he was wearing the same jeans, the dog must of thought It had hit jackpot, and the useless handler failed to acknowledge its sterling work.

My DS was on a school trip last year, his wash bag wasn't opened the whole weekend

Pam I was thinking I bet it had happened to some poor mother, I bet she was mortified

Norbert I have the funniest mental image of that in my head now, "my torch isn't working"..

Oh Chris!
Everyone else is correct, that wash bag hadn't been opened once. You're clear.

I once came home from a weeks 'adventure holiday' with the school with blisters on my feet that were so filthy with dirt they were infected. And a raging case of thrush because I'd been sleeping in my knickers, leggings and a pair of joggers over them in case anyone saw a glimpse of flesh...

Never once looked in a child's wash bag when I took them on residential trips. I think you are safe!

Smelly children are the best :o

Norbert, considering how often I catch ds reading under the duvet with a torch after the lights are out, that could have been awful!

Sohow, I think you win. Actually impregnating your DC with drug scents before a festival is amazing.

This has made me feel much better.

All you scouty people and anyone else who goes on residential trips, make sure you never look

I've got a little while until the next parents' evening. Even if someone had noticed, it'll all be forgotten by then, won't it? (Please say yes)

FuckYou Reading this hilarious thread has cheered one god awful miserable tearful me up and made me laugh for the first time in ages
Thank you Ladies

My DD came back from her residential trip and waved an arm at the case saying 'you didn't empty that properly'.
Checked and no I hadn't.
20 marlboro lights and a Swiss army knife.

Tea, that's pretty good going.

Sugar, if it's made you smile then it's all been worth it

I'm surprised you got those back Tea - past the age of about 14 and I certainly wouldn't have mentioned that there was contraband in there, I would have 'confiscated' it!

Ha ha!

I sent DS (15) in to school with a pair of my knickers (clean!) in his PE bag!

Unlikely your ds even opened the wash bag, I reckon you're safe!

I'm not sure I can be trusted with wine. I'd probably send it in with him to school tomorrow

Oh dear. I can't quite believe I managed this. It's proper prattish.

I reckon ds would have thought they were water balloons. Imagine the disappointment as they refused to break when he threw them at his classmates.

I'll look back and laugh.

Teaandprosecco

You win. And you lead a much more exciting life than me

Oh fuck DS just reminded me of the time he had swimming, wore his trunks under his trews, and I forgot to pack pants in his towel...

I think this should make classics made my day!

It's okay. They're survival tools:

• Waterproof cover for matchbox, also to keep tinder dry, and apparently they burn well (never tried, to be honest.)
• Emergency water container (ones without spermicidal lubricant are best for this.)
• Emergency hand covering for dealing with bleeding injuries.
• Emergency elastic band for fastening things, or for making an emergency catapult to shoot birds and rabbits with.

You are to be congratulated as a parent who has prepared your child for all eventualities. I bet all the other parents were pretty slip-shod in this respect.

She was ten ! Christ knows where I had last been with that case, must have had a good time as I can't remember for the life of me !

If it's any consolation she didn't open the wash bag at all.

I shouldn't think the wash bag came out of the case at all.

DS went off to scout camp for a week when he was 9. I sent him with plenty of clean boxers. When he got home I unpacked his case to dig out his laundry & found all the boxers still neatly rolled up.

DS finally admitted he'd worn the same pair for the whole week