Lighthearted - is there anything that you did as a child that you feel guilty about to this day?

[redflowerbluethorns]

Lighthearted post. Here are my things that have stuck with me:

Age 5 eating my brothers flake bar which he'd saved for days, then denying all knowledge

Age 12 (this is a bit outrageous), my best friend was coming for a sleepover. My mum told me she'd bought special snacks and rented a video because the next day my best friends mum was moving her to AUSTRALIA but she didn't know so I couldn't tell her. I didn't. We had a great sleepover but the whole time I was sad because I wouldn't see her again. She was telling me how her mum had booked for them to go to legoland the next day and she couldn't wait...the next day comes, she left, I got a phone call a few hours later saying her mum had lied about legoland and that they were at the airport to move to Australia :( she was sobbing and I had to act shocked.
I think about it all the time and wonder if I should have told her.

@redflowerbluethorns
What was the back story? Why would her mum move her to Australia???!!
You were right not to tell her I think

I was always taught not to lie and as a kid I took that incredibly seriously. I'd always own up to things I'd done even if it meant I'd get told off.

Apart from one time. I had swimming class and this one boy was so fucking annoying every week. Anyway I threw his goggles into the deep end when he wasn't looking and pretended I knew nothing about what had happened to them, and he proceeded to get a bollocking from his mum about how he always loses things.

I still feel bad. Tom if you're reading this I'm sorry, it was me.

I used to peel off my parents wallpaper. Discreetly, teeny bits at a time. It was like this 3D foamy 80s stuff - so satisfying.

Except we weren’t well off, and they went to a lot of time and effort and spent money trying to make the house nice for us, so I feel really bad about it as an adult.

You were doing as you were told and if you'd told the girl she'd have been upset on the sleepover and her mum would have been cross with you. It's the mum who was wrong to do that to the poor girl

@CassandraBarrett Sorry I should have clarified that they all moves together. Her mum was Australian, had been here for 25 years, wanted to move back. Just didn't say a thing to her daughter and lied to her about it all until they were at the airport.

Scribbling a tiny mark on the wallpaper (less than 1cm) and denying it which left DB to blame

I used to peel off my parents wallpaper. Discreetly, teeny bits at a time. It was like this 3D foamy 80s stuff - so satisfying.

I did this in my bedroom! It was addictive. I coloured the plaster in and put cushions over it. Eventually it got huge and they noticed. Another thing to feel bad about whoops

Accidentally tipped the basket of shoe cleaning brushes and polish, into a basket of clean white ironing. My brother got the blame and I kept quiet.

Hit my friend with a pencil ( we were girlie fighting, it wasn’t a random attack) . A bit of the lead broke off and it stayed underneath her skin for years ( she said it didn’t hurt).I felt so guilty, I still feel awful now and it was sixty years ago.

When I was about I did something to someone else that is possibly illegal. The person in question is dead now (unrelated) but I still think back to what happened sometimes. I don't feel guilty as what happened following that wasn't directly my fault but I do wonder if I didn't do it if things would have been different.

When I was about 9**

I shoplifted a strawberry lipgloss from Woolworths when I was about 9. I felt really guilty when they went bust years later.

I did a really terrible thing in primary 5 which I got the belt for, and to this day I'm still ashamed. Can't even bring myself to write it down (although it may be worse in my head than it actually was).

I laughed at a boy in my class and said he was being disgusting because he picked his nose and ate it.
He got really embarrassed and upset and told the teacher I was a bully ☹️
I probably could've handled the situation a lot better but I was a little kid.
I sometimes wonder if he remembers and still sees me as a bully. 😔

I graffitied by carving into something at school with some boys name that they were an idiot or something then denied it was me I didn't mean anything I was just bored sorry

When I was six one of the two boys sitting opposite me at school kept throwing those plastic counting cubes at me. I didn't know which it was, and each blamed the other one. It kept happening, and I got increasingly frustrated. So I told the teacher it was both of them, and they both got detention.

Sorry Michael. In hindsight it was probably not you .

I stole my friend's doll pillow because it was so pretty.

I think I still have it somewhere. I felt so guilty I never played with it.

Me and my friend used to wet tissue and throw it up onto our school toilets ceiling so there were blobs stuck here and there. We were in year 6.

We had an assembly where the headteacher had asked children to come forward with the culprits. We were ratted out by multiple children and got sent straight to the headteachers office.

I did this but with the paint work! I remember peeling a huge bit off and eating in because I didn't know what to do with it. My poor mum was a single parent and would try so hard for us to have a lovely home!
I also used to throw my sandwiches away every day!

My mum used to make bread and sliced red bread was a big no no . I hated getting my sandwiches out of my lunchbox as they were like huge concrete slabs with home grown cress or lettuce hanging out of the sides .I either used to swap with my mates or throw them away . Feel really bad now as I know my mum struggled to feed us and money was really tight .

Sorry sliced bread

When I was about 9. Staying at my grandmother’s house. Just outside my bedroom was a flat roofed porch. One day I climbed out of the window and stood on the porch roof. A neighbour saw me and told my mother. I denied it and my mother believed me. My mum went to her grave thinking the neighbour was a liar.

I put my cats paw on the lit lightbulb as I wondered what would happen if you touched a lightbulb but darent touch it myself. What did happen is the cat hissed at me and scratched my arm as obviously it was hot. I still feel bad even though she was fine.

God that is so awful of her parents! I accidentally broke my grandparents water fountain in their pond and let my cousin take the blame for it . Still cringe when I think about it now. It’s not like he was punished, they were a bit annoyed, but still. The main question I have is why we were all allowed to play unattended by a pond when we were quite young. Can you imagine parents doing that now?

Did she not notice her parents packing everything they owned?

A girl in my class who would regularly treat me like shit and thought she was queen bee gave me a Christmas card, I ripped it up in front of her and threw the pieces on the ground. I still feel guilty about littering.