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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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annacondom · 17/09/2021 20:39

OP, didn't your mum wonder what happened to your school tie? She must've you'd lost it?

ForeverQuery · 17/09/2021 20:39

When I was in primary school, my best friend wore glasses, so I pretended I struggled with my eyesight at school so my mum took me for an eye test, I forged the test, lo and behold I got some glasses so me and my best friend could be the same.

I couldn't see out of them though and pretended

ForeverQuery · 17/09/2021 20:40

Pretended I grew out of them when I changed best friends!

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 17/09/2021 20:40

When I was very little in the beginning of primary school we all had to bring in photos of us as a baby which were put up on the wall to guess who was who.
Weeks later the teachers took them down and told all the young kids to collect their own picture to take home. There was one of a baby in a clear hospital cot, wrapped in a generic yellow waffle blanket that looked just like the pics of me as a baby I had seen at home so I took it home with me. The next day the teacher announced that someone had stolen another child's photo. I was so terrified and didn't know what to do, tiny me decided the best course was to say not a word, go home, sit inside my wardrobe and rip the picture into confetti, then surreptitiously bury it in the kitchen bin.

This was in the 80s, and was probably their only
Or one of only a few hospital baby pics they had. I felt bad for years, but had to forgive my little self when my eldest reached a similar age. I mean - really the teachers should have written or requested names on the back and then taken responsibility for redistributing them to the right child afterwards.

I still wouldn't admit it to anyone I went to primary school with though Grin

Hiphopopotamus · 17/09/2021 20:41

@PetuniaButterworth

I put the screw in the tuna
GrinGrinGrin well that’s taken me back!
FuckingFabulous · 17/09/2021 20:41

@annacondom

OP, didn't your mum wonder what happened to your school tie? She must've you'd lost it?
I told her I left it at drama club and someone must have taken it. My cousin gave me their old one.
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quickwhitedog · 17/09/2021 20:43

I pissed in my flatmate’s shampoo bottle. definitely deserved

the80sweregreat · 17/09/2021 20:44

@AuntMargo

I am one of those you nicks other staff members milk from work fridge, no matter how many emails get sent out I still do it !!
That really is bad !! It winds people up no end .. 😂
Holskey · 17/09/2021 20:46

@FuckingFabulous

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?

😂😂😂
Brollywasntneededafterall · 17/09/2021 20:48

I needed glasses as a dc but my dm never made me wear them - I didn't actually own any..hasn't since about 5.
Struggled at secondary school badly because I couldn't read the board.
Tests usually on paper but one day it went on the board..
My friend Hazel wrote on my desk every question for me.
I passed. Can't imagine if we had been caught..
At 17 on YTS I bought myself some. Like a whole new world. Literally..

EvenRosesHaveThorns · 17/09/2021 20:49

I killed a man

the80sweregreat · 17/09/2021 20:50

I killed a man just to watch him die

honeylulu · 17/09/2021 20:50

OP luckily your tie wasn't name tagged! You could have used your socks not that I would ever do that of course

myheartskippedabeat · 17/09/2021 20:51

@honeylulu

OP luckily your tie wasn't name tagged! You could have used your socks not that I would ever do that of course
I was thinking that!!
the80sweregreat · 17/09/2021 20:52

@the80sweregreat

I killed a man just to watch him die
Sorry , wrong thread completely !!
sjxoxo · 17/09/2021 20:53

@blissfulllife I applaud you for this!! Xo

RobertaFirmino · 17/09/2021 20:54

@the80sweregreat To be fair, your comment did fit perfectly!

TwoAndCooPlease · 17/09/2021 20:54

Laughing more than I should be @SeaToSki does your dh know?

Tresal · 17/09/2021 20:55

I reckon your Lance corporal would have been more understanding than your headteacher!

Dubbin · 17/09/2021 20:55

@FuckingFabulous

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?

Just as well you didn’t have to have your tie marked with your name like I did! 🤣
FuckingFabulous · 17/09/2021 20:55

@honeylulu

OP luckily your tie wasn't name tagged! You could have used your socks not that I would ever do that of course
Well, it wasn't and I grabbed the most accessible thing. Socks would have meant removing shoes and putting feet on the frozen earth. I am also pretty sure I was semi delirious at this point. I did consider scooting my arse across the floor, but as aforementioned, 'twas frosty.
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NewLifePending · 17/09/2021 20:57

20 years ago when I was in Uni I was very poorly. My symptoms were bowel related and one night I was so ill I couldn’t make the loo so did my business in the small lidded bin. Over night I deteriorated and ended up in A&E and a month long hospital stay followed and I was discharged home to my family. After about 2 months it was clear I wasn’t going back to Uni so my parents and housemates kindly cleared my room. They informed me it smelled like something had died in there and the fumigators were brought in…
I never owned up to the bin full of poo

FuckingFabulous · 17/09/2021 20:57

Seems that ties with names on were a thing. Not at my school! Not any of my kids schools either. The mother in me thinks it's sensible to name them, but the teenager in me is grateful my school never implemented it

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the80sweregreat · 17/09/2021 20:57

[quote RobertaFirmino]@the80sweregreat To be fair, your comment did fit perfectly![/quote]
I'm waiting for a knock on the door now !!
I hate killing a fly !! :)

StarryStarrySocks · 17/09/2021 21:02

My best friend at high school just missed out on being Head Girl because I voted for her rival. Thankfully it was a secret ballot so she never found out I was to blame for the fact that she was only a lowly prefect. Sorry L! Blush

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