What have you got away with?

[Amithetoxicone]

As a sister thread to the whats the worst thing you’ve ever done, what have you done that no one has ever found out about. Doesn’t have to be the worst thing ever or mean, can be funny.

I played a silly prank at school and then regretted it... so I framed the class bully. It served her right and if she hadn’t been such a troublemaker, I wouldn’t have got away with it.

I was a little miss goody two shoes in school. So that when things happened, I was never even suspected of doing anything wrong. I got away with a lot in my last year.

Drunk driving dozens of times

(30 years ago, lived in a village - no police for about 40 miles - went out to pubs in other villages)

Stealing as a kid - never caught

I did the same as one of the above. Hurt myself in primary school and the school bully was laughing while I cried and the teacher asked who did it so I pointed at him 😂 I ended up having to go hospital and he got in big trouble. Hope I never see him again I'd be mortified.

I still remember his face change from laughing to complete shock 😂

Hiding savings from ex
Slightly exaggerated work experience
Often hide what I really think of people

Theft. Often and regular between 14-19. The last time I stole was about 15 minutes before I found out I was pregnant . A grey and black woolen jumper (striped horizontal VERY new look 2001) I still have it. I hate it. It represents a different me.

At a former job. I fell pressed an emergency door release button with a colleague when in a hurry and then pretending we had no idea why the magnetic door lock was broken and saying a horrible nosy child must have done it.

A few things at school, too. I grassed up an utter bitch for a very mean deed at the school I attended for VI form. She got in serious trouble. I was outright asked by a teacher who'd sussed the culprit out and knew I knew who it was. I decided obviously lying to a teacher's face was pointless and made me look bad so I confirmed her suspicions but said it hadn't come from me. Bitch deserved her punishment and never did find out who told.

At a previous school, I stole a huge cake from a school function. My headmistress was a dick and looked like one in public once her gateau didn't materialise. Also, in the juniors, aged 9, using a clip key ring and long sports bag straps to fasten someone who annoyed me to a door handle via her backpack. I'm dyspraxic so I got away with it because her mum complained and said I'd TIED her Dd on. The junior head and my mum refused to believe this because I couldn't even tie my shoe laces or a simple knot. I didn't confess for over 18 years and explain I'd clipped her!

Taking recreational drugs for a couple of years. I was so sweet and innocent that my parents would never have believed I would have done such a thing.

My sister and I had a particularly bad arguement one night and she told our dad that I smoked.

He told her to stop being so ridiculous

He's no longer with is and he never ever knew. We laugh about it now.

I was very quiet and studious in secondary school. I was also incredibly lazy, but this seemed to escape most teachers notice.
My best subject was History, and my teacher loved me. Time came to hand in our GCSE coursework assignments which was something along the lines of 'write about Deng Xiaoping and what you think will happen when he dies'.
Anyway, I didn't hand my coursework in and it went unnoticed so I just ignored it. A couple of months later my lovely history teacher called me out in a state saying she was due to hand the coursework in, but she couldnt find mine. She spent the weekend turning the house upside down but had lost it. She very apologetically asked if I could do it again. This was the days before computers....
I very graciously said yes and did it (for the first time). What was even better was by this point Deng Xiaoping had actually died!
I never did fess up I hadn't submitted it in the first place. 2 years later when I was leaving 6th form she apologised to me again

@ColdemortReturns I was another studious but also incredibly lazy student. I couldn't find enough/was too lazy to hunt for supportive critics to list/pepper in to support my argument for my A2 English coursework essay (which I of course handed in lastminute.com) so I got fed up and made one up, with a quote that really chimed with what I was trying to say. I told my teacher I forgot to note my source down and couldn't find it again.
Fortunately the English master was old school so didn't pick up on how I seemingly couldn't Google properly!

I faked a phonics lesson plan at PGCE, too. We needed to teach two and be assessed for one and the placement school only let me do one. Luckily they followed a scheme with a very detailed book that they copied exactly. I photocopied the lesson plan for the lesson before the one I actually taught so I had notes, wrote it up on the forms in my folder complete with my fake observations on the class and handed it in. No one noticed and luckily the school used quite an obscure scheme so the uni weren't too familiar with it and weren't suspicious.

Pulled up behind a foreign motorcyclist on the m6 toll road(think its the m6) he paid, the barrier went up and off he went, i pulled forward, the barrier stayed open, i waited 30 seconds l, the barrier stayed open, so off i went, didnt pay!

@ColdemortReturns I was another studious but also incredibly lazy student. I couldn't find enough/was too lazy to hunt for supportive critics to list/pepper in to support my argument for my A2 English coursework essay (which I of course handed in lastminute.com) so I got fed up and made one up, with a quote that really chimed with what I was trying to say. I told my teacher I forgot to note my source down and couldn't find it again.

That reminds me of a school project I completely fudged. We’d just done Ancient Egypt, so we were doing a follow-up project on modern day Egypt. I got a few bits and bobs from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Junior, but it needed bulking out, so my mother got some holiday brochures and I nicked some bits from there. Only there still wasn’t enough - so I used the information for South Africa instead (national flower, country motto etc.)

I got an A.

A school project. I was 12 at the time and the project required a bibliography for the first time ever. I had over looked this requirement until I had finished it.

I couldn't remember any of the books I had used from the library. I just made it all up and used pretend author names from the characters from the big film of that month, Ghostbusters.

Venkman, Stantz and Spengler. I then used the name Harold Ramis.

I think anyone would notice now, but the film was new then so those names wouldn't have rung any bells.

I once got very drunk in a nightclub aged 18, fell out with the friend whose house I was supposed to be staying at so slept in my car in a car park behind the club instead. It was January and bitterly cold.
Around 7am I couldn’t take it anymore so drove home (still massively over the limit). I don’t remember much of the drive and spent weeks petrified I’d hit something and not remembered and the police were going to come knocking.
I’d never drink drive again.

Oh and once at school, probably around 15 a group of us all copied someone else’s homework. It was a straightforward fill in the missing words type thing. A friend then copied off mine.
Obviously it was blatant that we’d all copied but weirdly I didn’t get called in to see the teacher. The friend who copied off me admitted what she’d done but dobbed me in as well.
I then got called in to see the teacher and she pulled out my work and weirdly we had different scores so she was satisfied I hadn’t cheated. I still have no idea how this happened as I definitely copied off the main group and then my “friend” copied from me but I got away with it.

I’ve definitely done worse things (and in the grand scheme this is quite minor), but on my one and only trip to ascot, I brazenly walked into the King Edward VIP enclosure with friends with just a general admission ticket.

I went to a large gig once and found a backstage pass that somebody had dropped. I watched the entire headline set from the side of the stage.