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To ask for your secrets you're taking to the grave

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FuckingFabulous · 17/09/2021 20:06

Lighthearted, and risk free. Given that this is all anonymous and all that.

When I was fourteen, I was out with my friend after drama club. It was winter and dark and fucking freezing but I was sweating as well as shivering. We were walking to her grandma's house in the next village where I was getting picked up by my stepdad in about an hour. I was quite clearly ill, but my mum had not believed me and sent me to a long day at school. As we were walking, my belly churned and I knew that there was gastric trouble afoot. I excused myself into an innocent looking field for "a wee" but I knew it was not that. Thankfully, there were no street lights at all, so even if someone had come past, they'd not have seen. It was pitch black. My friend kept watch while my bowels evacuated what seemed like water and slime for about five minutes and sweat dripped off my body onto the ground, I can remember how much I was shaking and how I had the weirdest taste of metal in my mouth. When the onslaught ended, I didn't know how to wipe my bum. I took off my school tie, wiped with that and then had no idea what to do so I just discarded it at the scene and shamefully scuttled back to my friend. I was then off school for a week with some kind of horrible intestinal infection.

But the field. The quiet little field I'd chosen to slip over the fence into. It was a graveyard. And I'd relieved myself right next to a war grave. Right before armistice. And left my school tie there. How do I know? Because it was in the school newsletter as a "regrettable incident" and anyone with information as to who the culprit was could report in confidence to the headteacher. I expect the groundskeeper reported it to the school. Even my mum tutted about no respect. Thank god it was over 20 years ago. Nowadays it would have trended with a hashtag and a witch hunt.

And now I have finally told the tale. What's yours?

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Suetully · 18/09/2021 14:28

I was staying in a mate's house years ago. We were in our early 20s and he was still living at home. It was my 1st night there and it was so warm I couldn't sleep. At around 2 am I went to open the window in the bedroom and the alarm went off. I t woke the whole house and I hoped straight back into bed.

I was worried it would identify where it had come from but it didn't and I heard the mum say ''I am going to get them to fix this alarm, it's broken.''. She even apologised to me the next day.

Lunificent · 18/09/2021 14:29

I once ran through a field of wheat.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 18/09/2021 14:32

@Suetully

*This one bothers me a bit. Acting "creepy and stalkerish" towards a young woman in order to get revenge on a mate is a bit off. But I guess you were very immature at the time suetully and don't use women in that way now*

oh ffs I was a kid and so was she, this was about 20 years ago. She wasn't even ''a young woman'', and I was only a schoolboy at the time. We were about 16 and I just asked her on a date. I see much worse thigs women did to men on mn when they were adults and you don't rebuke that.
I don't get why people click on a thread like this to rebuke others when they know many of the confessions are going to be ''a bit off.''

Yeah, but you posted it on a site mainly used by women. And many of us have been that girl, in one way or another. Seeing a man post about scaring, upsetting a girl/woman as part of his revenge on another man/boy just reminds us that often in our lives we are merely pawns in the doings of men.

Which is why that poster ended her comment as she did, hoping it was immaturity and not a character trait!

Suetully · 18/09/2021 14:40

Yeah, but you posted it on a site mainly used by women. And many of us have been that girl, in one way or another. Seeing a man post about scaring, upsetting a girl/woman as part of his revenge on another man/boy just reminds us that often in our lives we are merely pawns in the doings of men

I wasn't a man though and she wasn't a woman, I was a boy and she was a girl. Big difference. We were all children. Likewise, many men have been treated as ''pawns' by women as seen by these threads and yet they go uncriticised for their behavior when they were adults.

If genders were reversed here and I'd rang a boy been all bunny boiler trying to humiliate a girl you'd not say anything.

Claudethecat · 18/09/2021 14:46

@Suetully

*This one bothers me a bit. Acting "creepy and stalkerish" towards a young woman in order to get revenge on a mate is a bit off. But I guess you were very immature at the time suetully and don't use women in that way now*

oh ffs I was a kid and so was she, this was about 20 years ago. She wasn't even ''a young woman'', and I was only a schoolboy at the time. We were about 16 and I just asked her on a date. I see much worse thigs women did to men on mn when they were adults and you don't rebuke that.
I don't get why people click on a thread like this to rebuke others when they know many of the confessions are going to be ''a bit off.''

Well I don't read every thread on MN so I can hardly rebuke every woman who posts about their wrongdoings towards men.

You said in your post that you made a creepy and stalkerish (your words not mine)phonecall to this girl. That is not the same as simply asking her out for a date! But as I acknowledged, you were young and immature.

yellowglass · 18/09/2021 14:49

Not that long ago my Dh had really upset me ,we had had a row about everything falling on me and how I needed more help especially with his the dogs .

He uses the downstairs utility/shower room so he doesn't wake the house up in a morning so all his wash things are in there .

Immediately after having words ,I'd been out in the garden to clean up and trodden in some dog poo , I used his toothbrush to clean it off my shoe Shock

I've never told him but I did replace it a day or 2 later !

Claudethecat · 18/09/2021 14:49

bunny boiler oh you are now digging yourself a deeper hole with that choice of words suetully!

Suetully · 18/09/2021 14:50

You said in your post that you made a creepy and stalkerish (your words not mine)phonecall to this girl. That is not the same as simply asking her out for a date

But that's all I did, I asked her to go on a date and said I really liked her and said I feel like such a fool for ringing you. To me, it was creepy and stalkerish but the terms are entirely subjective. It was done to make my friend look foolish, I'd hardly say she was 'scared' or traumatised, just thought that he was desprate and needy.

Suetully · 18/09/2021 14:52

bunny boiler oh you are now digging yourself a deeper hole with that choice of words suetully

no, I dug myself into a hole by revealing I was male. I forgot we are the enemy here.

FuckingFabulous · 18/09/2021 14:54

@Suetully

bunny boiler oh you are now digging yourself a deeper hole with that choice of words suetully

no, I dug myself into a hole by revealing I was male. I forgot we are the enemy here.

I personally found your confession not at all dissimilar to many I've heard from both men and women in my life from the deeds they committed as teens in order to get some or prevent someone else from getting some.

All's fair in love and war and never more so than when you're a teen, navigating the choppy sea of bullshit social politics that involves

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wanttomarryamillionaire · 18/09/2021 14:55

Mixed tinned dog food in my vile ex husbands cottage pie, and watched him eat every little bit.

FuckingFabulous · 18/09/2021 14:56

@wanttomarryamillionaire

Mixed tinned dog food in my vile ex husbands cottage pie, and watched him eat every little bit.
Bad, but not as bad as the PP who mixed dead flies in with her husband's shepherds pie. That will put me off the dish for months to come
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Claudethecat · 18/09/2021 14:59

I think suetully that if you had not used the phrase "creepy and stalkerish" when describing the phone call you made I would have thought nothing of it.

FuckingFabulous · 18/09/2021 15:04

@Claudethecat

I think suetully that if you had not used the phrase "creepy and stalkerish" when describing the phone call you made I would have thought nothing of it.
It's probably time to let it go now. It was years ago and you weren't even there. It's his own interpretation of the events as he perceived them at the time. These are confessions that aren't meant for sharing IRL. I don't think you're right to make him feel shit about how he ruined the dating chances of a misogynistic little fool when he was a child.
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LaBellina · 18/09/2021 15:06

When I was working in retail and we got anti theft training @SeptemberNC we were told to always put our own safety first. I don’t think it was bad or shameful what you did even if it was by accident. You could have gotten yourself in a very difficult situation even more so because these men were professional criminals.

Suetully · 18/09/2021 15:07

I think suetully that if you had not used the phrase "creepy and stalkerish" when describing the phone call you made I would have thought nothing of it

It was more 'cringy and humiliating' than creepy/stalkerish but words like 'creepy', ''stalkerish', 'misogyny' 'abuse' get thrown about so much on mn that they have lost all meaning really in fairness.

notelegant · 18/09/2021 15:18

@Lunificent

I once ran through a field of wheat.
Love it! Grin
EspressoDoubleShot · 18/09/2021 15:23

It’s a confession thread expect it to be a bit wtf and unsavoury @Suetully and @Claudethecat I’m not sure what the arguing adds to the thread.
I’m agog at @yellowglass used her dp toothbrush to clean dog shite off boots. Awwwwww.

Suetully · 18/09/2021 15:25

It’s a confession thread expect it to be a bit wtf and unsavoury @Suetully and @Claudethecat I’m not sure what the arguing adds to the thread

I already said that and agree but was merely defending my position as I got attacked when I was revealed I was a man when other posters did much worse but because they wee female it was fine.

EspressoDoubleShot · 18/09/2021 15:26

Oh stop whining @Suetully. Someone pulled you up on a post. It happens

Suetully · 18/09/2021 15:29

Oh stop whining @Suetully. Someone pulled you up on a post. It happens

eh you were the one who was whining if you look back and named me. Pot kettle black.

unsure111 · 18/09/2021 15:30

When my daughter was younger she begged to go the park but I really couldn't be arsed it was a Sunday and I just wanted to chill before the week ahead. So I told her it was set on fire by a group of kids and then googled parks on fire and shown pictures to her. She fully believed. I will probably tell her when she's older.

LaBellina · 18/09/2021 15:31

I remember another one.
I had a short fling with an absolutely revolting guy who also happens to be a friend of my best friend and her husband . I have never told her, I know she wouldn’t understand and looking back I feel disgusted with myself about it.

unsure111 · 18/09/2021 15:32

My mum is still married to my step dad who is emotionally abusive, gaslights her everyday and financially abusive. He goes out one day every week to the pub and when he comes home drunk she takes £20 out of his pockets and has a nice little stash of money that she can buy her own things with. Only she and I know about this. It makes me so happy that she's getting her own way back at him.

santabetterwashhishands · 18/09/2021 15:38

Can't say I'm still breathing 🤣

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