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

[CakeHoleinRoof]

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 ).

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.

I know, I read it when it was first posted.

Wont he find the cake in the outhouse?

What will you say then?!

Thanks OP!

My baking looks quite okay now 😂😂😂 at least never caused structural damage 😂😂😂

@WhenItIsOver

I have read this story before, on MN. Anyone else remember it?

OP started in early April - so I you probably read it then.

Still makes me laugh though. my baking may be able to create edible (if inhabitants are desperate) houses that could withstand most natural disasters

Ah my thread was resurrected! Thank you
Dido yes I realised something was wrong with it just wasn't certain of what. :)

Whenitsover You're probably just remembering the same thread from a few months ago :)

NinkaNink Yes that too (ugh!!)

Well thanks all. The story makes me smile now.
frankola I did mention at some point that I scuttled out discreetly and retrieved it. I should have put that in the OP though :)

Funnily enough I've been baking tonight! And, no weevils, holes or disasters of any sort yet!

@CakeHoleinRoof

Ah my thread was resurrected! Thank you Dido yes I realised something was wrong with it just wasn't certain of what. :)

Whenitsover You're probably just remembering the same thread from a few months ago :)

NinkaNink Yes that too (ugh!!)

Well thanks all. The story makes me smile now.
frankola I did mention at some point that I scuttled out discreetly and retrieved it. I should have put that in the OP though :)

Funnily enough I've been baking tonight! And, no weevils, holes or disasters of any sort yet!

did your oh ever know about the cake ?

Did you get your own place in the end?

Sorry! Didn't realise my zombie thread had responses!

@Hawkins001 no he didn't! Should I tell him now

@StoriedSally yes I did. As soon as things were operational again I bought a house in my old hometown and am now very happy. My old room is rented out to my most recent ex. Such is life!

I know this is a zombie thread but I'm lying awake trying to get to sleep and fretting about an event I've got planned tomorrow and it's given me a good laugh reading the original post and initial responses. Thanks OP.

Fuck me, that sounds like my cooking!

No way would a cake make a circle in corrogated plastic roofing unless the plastic was decades old.

Am skeptical, flour just isn’t heavy enough, either.
Especially not a mere “Victoria sponge”.
A hammer in garden?
If the hammer had made the hole, itvwould br inside the “ structure “

Sorry, not buying it!

@oakleaffy it wasn't old-I can't remember the exact timelines of when it was built through to 'cakegate' though.

The hammer was inside the structure. As I said before though, he must have just forgotten he'd put it there and come up with that as what must have caused it. Now this thread is so old, I'll see if I can find a photo and alter it or such. Not 'proof' but to deem it more feasible I guess!
You don't have to 'buy' it of course :)

@NewNormalLife it is quite amusing for me that people are still responding-glad it helped!

"I was worried it would seem made up" 🤔 It's made up, but you really don't need to let it worry you. Plenty of folk enjoy the made up story arc.

@PupInAPram it really isn't! But I'd not have been able to prove it at the time, let alone now.

This is hilarious. I don't know how you managed to keep a straight face. Definitely don't confess. I doubt the police will come around. Sorry, but if they did it would be even funnier looking at the hammer evidence 🤣

I cannot believe I'm doing this but here's a photo. I took this at the time to send to a friend when I was extremely annoyed upon discovering the 'workshop' built atop of the garden I'd lovingly cultivated. The other photo is when I was in the middle of sorting the garden out. I also had flowers and a little lawn at the back. Wasn't happy. But I'm away from there now. :)
@Mumspair1 this is a zombie but it keeps being resurrected and I don't like not responding to people :)

I'm really happy to hear your update OP.
I'm glad you got your own place and a happy ending

@CakeHoleinRoof
I fulsomely apologise for doubting you!
That roof does look quite flimsy.

Thanks for the photo🙂
Glad you got your own place in the end.

Oh I'm glad this thread was resurrected and you posted an update @CakeHoleInRoof. I've just voted YANBU because I voted first and then read the rest of the thread. I'm so pleased you took the original advice. That building is a monstrosity and your original garden was lovely. I'm also really pleased things have worked out for you. I wonder if the ex in your old room will end up throwing something at the roof too. He will feel really paranoid if she does.

He came in to your room with a hammer?! Is he allowed in your room? Deny deny deny.

Technically it's partly your shed too and it's definitely his fault for putting such a shit roof on it

No! Why would you. Keep Quiet.

Congratutions on the killer cake. My dad claimed his mum’s rock-buns once broke a window when his little brother threw one. I never believed him. Until now. 🎂💪

Thank you. :) I'm not normally very bothered about things strangers think of me, but I really get flustered at being told I'm lying when I 100% know I'm not! :)

I'll happily post a photo of the loo after he 'missed' too if you like/if people don't believe that either I'd probably get banned from mn

Thank-you, I only expected to be living there a month or so but pandemic. I'm the least house proud person you'll meet but honestly he was difficult to live with mess-wise. So glad I'm out of that!

@nettie434 we're still friendly with one another, I might suggest it 😉

Thank you, it was a tiny garden but I really did try to make it look nice. I enjoyed it for a time at least! :)

You probably should confess but in your shoes I wouldn’t confess.