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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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Candleinthebreeze · 20/09/2021 12:16

@FerretFumbler

Wow *@Candleinthebreeze*! Your poor wife shafted by her husband and mother. Jeez.
I get your point, but she will never know, and you can’t help who you’re attracted to
helpIhateclothesshopping · 20/09/2021 12:19

I feel the pain of the worms/ beansprout incident. I ended up on worm medication for several days for the same reason in the as a teenager, convinced I had worms

ShaneTheThird · 20/09/2021 12:24

Yes but you can fucking help acting on it. Jesus Christ.

Chikapu · 20/09/2021 12:47

I get your point, but she will never know, and you can’t help who you’re attracted to

Well that's ok then...rat bastard.

Claudethecat · 20/09/2021 13:02

Are you still with your wife @Candleinthebreeze?

DrSbaitso · 20/09/2021 13:05

Haha, that doesn't sound like a porn fantasy designed to stir up fury on a very anti-cheating female-centred website, oh no.

dearmrpresident · 20/09/2021 13:08

@DrSbaitso

Haha, that doesn't sound like a porn fantasy designed to stir up fury on a very anti-cheating female-centred website, oh no.
spot on
cricketmum84 · 20/09/2021 13:10

@Candleinthebreeze yeah that totally happened Hmm

Claudethecat · 20/09/2021 13:10

@DrSbaitso

Haha, that doesn't sound like a porn fantasy designed to stir up fury on a very anti-cheating female-centred website, oh no.
Ha, yes!
FooFighter99 · 20/09/2021 13:30

DH's uncle, who is only a few years older than DH, flirts with me every time we go round (sometimes outrageously so!) and I absolutely love the attention Blush

One year, he got quite drunk and was commenting about how beautiful my eyes are (opposite colour to his wife's) and said "just shut up and kiss me" - I didn't, but I think about it often

MeredithMae · 20/09/2021 14:02

@DrSbaitso

Haha, that doesn't sound like a porn fantasy designed to stir up fury on a very anti-cheating female-centred website, oh no.
Perfect Grin
ConstanceGracy · 20/09/2021 14:29

A few years ago I ran into the back of someone’s car at some traffic lights as I was faffing about with the radio stations but I lied and blamed it on my dd ( a baby at the time) said having a tantrum and distracted me when really she was always good as gold.

BoreiPuriHagafen · 20/09/2021 14:33

I think @candleinthebreeze has confused his own life with the early noughties novelty hit "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne.

Don't worry, candle, it's easily done. Only yesterday I was telling some friends how glad I was I crashed the wedding.

And last week I recounted the anecdote about the time I went to the year 3000. Not much had changed but they lived underwater. And your great-great-great granddaughter is pretty fine.

lurkingfromhome · 20/09/2021 15:01

For my two most recent big birthdays my husband has arranged a fairly amazing surprise present (weeks in the planning, very hush hush, friends and family consulted about it and sworn to secrecy).

Not once but both times I have accidentally found out about it in advance and had to feign surprise on the big day. I will never ever tell him as he is so pleased with himself for having planned such brilliant gifts and "surprised" me with them.

doctordoverylittle · 20/09/2021 15:18

When I was 15 I bunked off school with a boy I liked. I invited him to mine as everyone was out that day. I know he liked music so, to impress him, I took him into my dads home studio and he started playing with my dads (very expensive) guitar collection. During his showing off he accidentally dropped and damaged one. We put it back and left. To be honest I was 15, selfish and thought no more about it.

Few days later my dad asked if I had been in his studio. I said no. I was extremely low down his list of suspects as I never ever went in there and had zero interest in touching his guitars. That was the last I heard of it.

Many many years later we were at a social gathering and my dad was telling a story about a guy who used to work for him years ago and had keys to our office and studio etc. My dad had suspected the guy had been letting himself into the studio and hiring it out privately (something my dad didn't do) and allowing them to use my dads guitars when he knew nobody was there. One day a very special guitar been damaged and my dad was now certain it was this guy as nobody else was home. He wanted to fire him but my mum pursuaded him to set up home surveillance instead. They did. And they caught the guy letting himself into not only the office and studio, but our home. They didn't mention it at the time as they didn't want to scare me and my siblings as they believed he had been going into our bedrooms regularly. I never said a word and have felt massively mixed feelings of guilt since.

My dad died a few years ago and I often wonder if he now knows it was me.

cricketmum84 · 20/09/2021 16:03

@BoreiPuriHagafen

I think *@candleinthebreeze* has confused his own life with the early noughties novelty hit "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne.

Don't worry, candle, it's easily done. Only yesterday I was telling some friends how glad I was I crashed the wedding.

And last week I recounted the anecdote about the time I went to the year 3000. Not much had changed but they lived underwater. And your great-great-great granddaughter is pretty fine.

😂😂
likearoomwithoutaroof · 20/09/2021 16:20

The stories of people stopping at home when they were supposed to be out working reminded me of mine.

When I was in my early 20s I was working in a job that insisted I do this training. It was dull, useless and I was already doing that part of the job. It was twelve training days over a year so one two day session every two months and I had to travel to London overnight to do it. Company used to put us up in the same hotel as the course was run from which was v posh and expensive.

Anyway I did two of my six two days sessions and copped on to the fact that actually I wasn't learning anything and basically all that happened in the 'training' was they read off of the presentation. So for the next four I turned up, got the information pack for the two day session (which I did read!) stayed for an hour then made up an excuse to leave! I spent the two days pottering about having a lovely time in London and having a very nice meal and overnight stay on the company. We didn't have to register our names or anything when we arrived, no one knew. I booked the training myself so they only contact the training company had for the business was me.

It was a horrible, morally dubious company that other than chucking money at things like swish hotels treated staff terribly. But still, that was very naughty.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 20/09/2021 17:27

I broke one of the columns at the Giant's Causeway. I took a big step down from a much higher column on to another one. There was an extremely loud crack and I felt a slight movement under my foot. The noise was so loud that everybody turned their heads, so I looked over my right shoulder as though I was wondering where the noise came from. Blush When everyone stopped looking around I took a step sideways and checked out the column I'd been standing one and, sure enough, there was a narrow crack across the middle of the top of the column.

Zeal · 20/09/2021 17:34

@Candleinthebreeze That wasn't your MIL, it was your FIL. But nobody ever told you.

steppemum · 20/09/2021 18:36

@PeapodBurgundy

A combination of factors lead to me doing a full time degree, and working 40 hours per week, yet still not having enough to make ends meet. I was once at work (a cleaning job on an evening) and I was so hungry I finished a half eaten sandwich out of the bin under a desk.

I don't think I'll ever be able to admit that one to anyone IRL, but there literally wasn't a scrap of food in, and my bank was empty (as in completely, not a penny in it).

bloody hell that's tough. I wouldn't judge you Flowers
riceuten · 20/09/2021 19:51

I worked for an organisation that had blank prepaid 1st class envelopes., so I pinched a whole box full of them. Hardly bought any stamps for about 2 years.

I deleted the entire nominal ledger of an organisation I was working for by naming a file the same as the ledger. This meant an entire day's work was lost (though they at least had a tape back up). IT managed to trace it to our office, but as the computer was shared, not who it was.

I nicked a book from a bookshop in the city I lived in, aged 11, just to see if I could do it, but spent the rest of the evening convinced that every car that arrived in the avenue was a police car coming to take me in.

About the same time, I discovered a male relative's porn collection where I should not have been looking. I think my view of him was, for a few years at least, a tad diminished.

Waitwhat23 · 20/09/2021 20:08

@BoreiPuriHagafen

I think *@candleinthebreeze* has confused his own life with the early noughties novelty hit "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne.

Don't worry, candle, it's easily done. Only yesterday I was telling some friends how glad I was I crashed the wedding.

And last week I recounted the anecdote about the time I went to the year 3000. Not much had changed but they lived underwater. And your great-great-great granddaughter is pretty fine.

You're an evil genius. Was that what you went to School for?
karmakemmie · 20/09/2021 20:13

@unsure111

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.
GrinGrinGrin
karmakemmie · 20/09/2021 20:38

When I was doing Theatre Studies for A levels we were encouraged to try and see as much theatre as we could. I ended up seeing the same show that my then 8 year old sister had seen with her school. Her class had to write a newspaper story about it and she asked me for help. I ended up writing the whole thing for her. She submitted it and won! A daytrip to a printers in Coventry to watch her "article" get published. Only she and I know the truth.

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 20/09/2021 20:43

When I was 19, I bought a diploma online and my dad got it framed 🙊. Never actually used it for jobs or anything formal, it was just to try and make him proud. Have never told anyone and he still doesn't know.

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