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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 16:11

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

if he's friends with the couple it's a good chance they know but have the good graace to say nothing to you about it.

Hamjamwich · 18/09/2021 16:14

My child went through a phase with a popular videogame. Refusing to stick to time limits and behaviour was terrible. After many warnings I emailed Epic Games and banned the account. Didn't re-activate for 18 months

LowlandLucky · 18/09/2021 16:20

My ex was a lying cheating abusive fcukwit. i had just found out he had cheated yet again so i waited for my revenge. He was in the R.A.F and had to do NBC training, it meant his uniform got covered in fullers earth which make you itch if it gets on your skin, being a nasty bitch i rubbed his boxer shorts all over the fullers earth. He was in agony for weeks. I laughed for weeks.

Suetully · 18/09/2021 16:29

My child went through a phase with a popular videogame. Refusing to stick to time limits and behaviour was terrible. After many warnings I emailed Epic Games and banned the account. Didn't re-activate for 18 months

I would have told my child I did it if their behaviour was terrible. Why didn't you?
It never ceases to amaze me how many mums on mn tip toe around their kids-you are in charge, the boss. You are not their friend.

Chikapu · 18/09/2021 16:37

@Suetully

My child went through a phase with a popular videogame. Refusing to stick to time limits and behaviour was terrible. After many warnings I emailed Epic Games and banned the account. Didn't re-activate for 18 months

I would have told my child I did it if their behaviour was terrible. Why didn't you?
It never ceases to amaze me how many mums on mn tip toe around their kids-you are in charge, the boss. You are not their friend.

You're really on a roll with this thread.
SocialSafeName · 18/09/2021 16:40

Aged about 17, when the internet was reasonably new and chat rooms were popular to meet people, I met an older man and ended up getting into a secret online sexual relationship.

I had a boyfriend at the time. It didn't last very long, but I never told the BF, and for that I will feel guilty for the rest of my life.

Suetully · 18/09/2021 16:41

You're really on a roll with this thread

it's hardly a ''confession;'' though, the poster did what any parents would have done to the child's face and teach them boundaries and that actions have consequences.
Why on earth would you go behind your child's back here when they disobey you? It's your job and right to take action against their bad behaviour, you don't have to discipline them in secret as that undermines the punishment and the lesson-such bonkers.

Claudethecat · 18/09/2021 16:44

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.'

said suetully earlier in this thread. 😏

Suetully · 18/09/2021 16:47

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.'

but this isn't a confession, a confession is something we do that is breaking a social rule or is somewhat taboo in nature. In essence, you don't play by the fair rules.

If your child badly behaves and ignores your rules you take action, you don't subtly go behind their back and email the computer people to cancel the account. You were within your right of doing it in the first place so it's not revenging or breaking the social rules.

fan90 · 18/09/2021 16:51

@LaikasMourner

My cousin can't stand me. Deep rivalry going back to our childhoods - lots of Golden Child vs Black Sheep stuff going on. That cuts a very long story short.

Anyway, since she just hates not to come first, my DH and I arranged our wedding to be a month before hers. Petty of me, I know, but a small victory after being second best to her for so many years.

One month later, at her wedding; I wore a smart dress and blazer and no briefs underneath. My DH knew, but no one else did. It felt like my own small act of rebellion! Grin

What does the last paragraph mean? Getting back at an enemy = not wearing knickers? Confused
ShaneTheThird · 18/09/2021 16:57

Oh I do have a minor one. When I was 12 I slept over at my best friends house and we hacked into a mutual friends msn account. Said friend was obsessed and spent every day going to the library to use msn. So we hacked her account to see who she was speaking to and found hundreds of names. Instantly a few popped up to chat and we realized they were adult men and not other 12 year olds. So we decided after a few disturbing conversations when we realised most of her contacts were random men we changed her password then deleted her account. She was so angry when she couldn't retrieve her account and we pretended that it must have been a glitch and we had problems on our msn. Neither of us ever told her the truth that we deleted her account.

PilatesPeach · 18/09/2021 17:04

20 years ago I had a job I hated that required me to make visits to companies and I used to go home, do myself beans and egg on toast watch a few hours of tv then go back to work and just fill in some paperwork to the effect that I had visited X and Y and Z companies and they were not interested.
Sometimes I had cheese and onion toastie with tinned tomato soup Grin

Hugoslavia · 18/09/2021 17:06

Millie
Willow
Rowan
Betsy
Hazel
Lula
Holly
Clara

Hugoslavia · 18/09/2021 17:06

Oops, sorry. Wrong thread. Damn phone.

Pinot4me · 18/09/2021 17:09

I was at a trade show… one of the reps was vile and really creepy.. he left his car keys on the side. I threw them in the bin…
He couldn’t get home. Had to call the AA etc etc
I’ve never told anybody. I feel quite ashamed now.

Staryflight445 · 18/09/2021 17:16

‘ 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’

@FuckingFabulous that’s absolutely disgusting 🤢

FuckingFabulous · 18/09/2021 17:21

@ShaneTheThird

Oh I do have a minor one. When I was 12 I slept over at my best friends house and we hacked into a mutual friends msn account. Said friend was obsessed and spent every day going to the library to use msn. So we hacked her account to see who she was speaking to and found hundreds of names. Instantly a few popped up to chat and we realized they were adult men and not other 12 year olds. So we decided after a few disturbing conversations when we realised most of her contacts were random men we changed her password then deleted her account. She was so angry when she couldn't retrieve her account and we pretended that it must have been a glitch and we had problems on our msn. Neither of us ever told her the truth that we deleted her account.
You might have actually saved her life with this one.
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Tolliee · 18/09/2021 17:22

When I was in my late teens an ex treated me very badly and cheating on me often.

A while after leaving him I worked out his Facebook password and changed his profile picture to an (identifiable) one of him lying down with his bum in the air that one of his flings had sent him.

I then changed his password so he couldn’t get into his account. He never found out it was me, in fact it could have been any number of people.

Dazedandconfused170 · 18/09/2021 17:25

This is the best thread I’ve read in a long time, really made me laugh!!
But the people judging really ruin it!

DrSbaitso · 18/09/2021 17:30

@Tolliee

When I was in my late teens an ex treated me very badly and cheating on me often.

A while after leaving him I worked out his Facebook password and changed his profile picture to an (identifiable) one of him lying down with his bum in the air that one of his flings had sent him.

I then changed his password so he couldn’t get into his account. He never found out it was me, in fact it could have been any number of people.

Was he naked?
notelegant · 18/09/2021 17:30

Can't wait to see if the Fail get hold of this thread Grin

soraya · 18/09/2021 17:31

if people are brave enough to post it, I bet a big one would be 'my pregnancy really wasn't an accident'. The number of people who have told me that.

Tolliee · 18/09/2021 17:33

Yes he was, you could only see his bum though, not his bits. Childish I know and I imagine it got reported fairly soon after. The panic when he realised though would have been priceless.

EspressoDoubleShot · 18/09/2021 17:33

I microwaved the purse containing credit cards,bank cards ,Oyster card of a wrong un’..
Just a few seconds enough to zap the cards so they didn’t work anymore. Took them days to sort out it all out. Lots of inconvenience and hassle. They never understood what happened. Someone told them it was card clash or some such.

Totally deserved it and I don’t feel guilty at all

girlmom21 · 18/09/2021 17:33

@Marcee

This happened just the other week.

The post came. One letter was our next door neighbours and had accidentally been delivered to us. Letter from the NHS. No matter I put it on the table to deliver it to them later.

Quick as a flash. My 3 year old grabbed the letter and opened it. It's a vaccine passport.

I'm really annoyed at her and now dont know what to do. I tear up the letter into tiny pieces and chuck it in the bin. Hope they ordered a new one.

They always send letters in envelopes with the little windows - why didn't you just put it in a fresh envelope?