Page 3 | Things you wouldn't admit in real life part 2

LillyPJ · 16/10/2025 10:15

@MorrisZapp I have a dear lifelong friend too. We have years and years of happy memories and shared experiences but I've lately realised that I just don't like her very much. She thinks she's always right, doesn't listen and lives a sheltered life so isn't aware of the problems some people face. She'll always be my friend and I just have to bite my lip a lot.

OldBird79 · 16/10/2025 10:16

NC

My biggest achievement is not killing myself. I'm pretty sure it'll happen one day though...

Arraminta · 16/10/2025 10:17

I secretly despised my MIL. She was everything I found contemptible. Uneducated. Inarticulate. Small minded. Scruffy. Cowardly. Feeble. Sly. Racist. Selfish. And silly, above all she was so silly.

No one knew. I was always pleasant and polite to her and even pretended a fondness because it made DH happy.

I was there when she died, comforted her children and helped arrange her funeral. But, all I felt was relief that I didn't have to tolerate the bloody woman anymore.

Jerseycreamtea · 16/10/2025 10:23

I dislike most of my colleagues. I am nice and polite and professional in real life so no one would think this of me.

CurlewKate · 16/10/2025 10:24

My embarrassing hobby.

Horsie · 16/10/2025 10:27

I think that early, healthy retirees who end up having a retirement of 20-30 years are lazy, and I think the sheer number of holidays that many British people take is really self-indulgent. 🤭 Obviously, I don't air these views aloud. 😂

Horsie · 16/10/2025 10:28

MollyRoisin · 16/10/2025 00:04

I'm in love with a man who's also in love with me. We connect, we are close, we click, we just get each other, we'd be together if we could. But we are both stuck in very unhappy long marriages to other people, and both of us have children. Neither of us feels able to leave for different reasons and neither of us would ever have a physical affair because after all we made vows to other people. I realise what's going on is an emotional affair and of course that's a betrayal too, but both of us need the connection and emotional support we have with each other because we don't have it at home. One of us is in an abusive relationship, the other an utterly soulless indifferent one, both awful in different ways, both sexless for many years. We met at work two years ago quite by chance, it's a huge organisation. We can't believe we found each other at this stage in our lives, in our late 50s. I don't know where this is going or if we'll ever be able to be together, but for now what we have will have to do. I can't imagine life without him, and he feels the same about me. For now it makes things bearable for both of us.

PS long term MNer using a different name for obvious reasons.

Ha! I bet his marriage isn't sexless!

Wellyoudidaskaboutit · 16/10/2025 10:30

I receive PIP, have a Blue Badge and have a Nimbus card (free companion tickets, etc.)

I do have a chronic health problem/disability, but it doesn't really affect my life that much. I have saved a fortune on parking and theatre tickets.

NotrialNodeal · 16/10/2025 10:33

Beekman · 16/10/2025 02:42

I rent an apartment and all that is in it is a large brown sectional and a massive telly. Oh, and a kettle. I go there twice a week and watch true crime documentaries and cry about my mum, who died three years ago. I spend a couple of days a week there and then go back to my lovely home where my husband lives and our grown kids visit all the time. Not a soul knows about this.

Sorry to learn about your mum. X

beguilingeyes · 16/10/2025 10:35

I'm still in love with the one that got away 40 years ago. He's part of my larger friends circle so I can't go NC. Every time there's something about him on social media I die a little.

SmallDogsAreScary · 16/10/2025 10:36

I disapprove of people buying designer crossbreeds (with stupid made up names) from a puppy farm for extortionate sums of money when there are native dog breeds that are at risk because they're no longer fashionable.

I feel anger at people who give their kids nature names like Wren, Willow, River or Bear, but live in a house with no plants in the garden because 4x4 parking and a plastic sofa/hot tub is more important than growing trees or feeding the birds.

Horsie · 16/10/2025 10:38

No5ChalksRoad · 16/10/2025 02:51

OT: look in to getting your tonsils removed. Google it.

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You do realise that her tonsils are not located in her arse crack? 😂😂😂

Wellyoudidaskaboutit · 16/10/2025 10:40

Horsie · 16/10/2025 10:38

You do realise that her tonsils are not located in her arse crack? 😂😂😂

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If they are, removing them is doubly important.

Horsie · 16/10/2025 10:43

InjuryMyArse · 16/10/2025 09:32

Whenever anyone is complaining to me about almost anything, I always want to say Come back when you've lost weight and found a hobby.
Sometimes the urge is strong 😔.

Because you think they'd feel happier having less time to ruminate and would be healthier and also happier having lost weight? If so, it's not bad advice.

Horsie · 16/10/2025 10:43

Wellyoudidaskaboutit · 16/10/2025 10:40

If they are, removing them is doubly important.

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😂😂😂

MrsWorldwide · 16/10/2025 10:44

Jimmyneutronsforehead · 16/10/2025 01:37

When I worked for a call centre, and I got a particularly bad customer, I used to doodle on my whiteboard of what I think they would look like as dogs.

So if you've ever had the opportunity to speak to me at my old job and you've called 5 minutes before closing to tell me that you've not paid your phone bill and we're going to restrict your services because it's the 5th time this year, and then personally blame me for causing you stress when I've explained there's sweet FA I can do about it, the billing department is closed and we had been open ALL DAY to resolve this issue, I probably drew you as a dog. If you ever rang me to tell me your broadband is down and I tell you that it'll be 2 days before we can send an engineer to you, and you tell me that's not acceptable because now you've got to entertain your own kids, I drew you as a dog. If you ever rang me to tell me that your internet speed is 2Mbps but that's because you decided to buy your own land at the arse end of nowhere and build your multi-million pound modern mansion there where there's no street registered, and all you can get is copper, but somehow that's OUR FAULT, dog. If you ever rang me to say you can get better prices on comparison websites, and want me to magic up a discount from my arse and complain incessantly when I can't instead of just using the comparison websites you've preached about, dog. If you ever rang to tell me that you've got a problem entirely within your own domain, but you expect me to send an engineer out for something out of their remit because you're technologically illiterate and then start screaming down the phone at me when I say they can't help you connect your wireless printer to your PC because that's not our problem, toothless chihuahua. If you ever rang first thing on a morning and expected me to be peppy at 8am, when I finished my 10pm end an hour late because the last person I talked to wanted to ask "one last question before you go", dog. If you ever started a sentence with the statement "I've looked on your website, but I can't see..." and then suddenly expect me to see what you can't see, dog.

Bet my colleagues just really thought I liked dogs with how much I was doodling them.

I used to work in this exact environment and with the customers you described, I had a colouring books with swear words and would colour in the appropriate ones. It was quite satisfying colouring in the words cockwomble, dickhead or twat.

CallBackPlease · 16/10/2025 10:48

Jimmyneutronsforehead · 16/10/2025 01:37

When I worked for a call centre, and I got a particularly bad customer, I used to doodle on my whiteboard of what I think they would look like as dogs.

So if you've ever had the opportunity to speak to me at my old job and you've called 5 minutes before closing to tell me that you've not paid your phone bill and we're going to restrict your services because it's the 5th time this year, and then personally blame me for causing you stress when I've explained there's sweet FA I can do about it, the billing department is closed and we had been open ALL DAY to resolve this issue, I probably drew you as a dog. If you ever rang me to tell me your broadband is down and I tell you that it'll be 2 days before we can send an engineer to you, and you tell me that's not acceptable because now you've got to entertain your own kids, I drew you as a dog. If you ever rang me to tell me that your internet speed is 2Mbps but that's because you decided to buy your own land at the arse end of nowhere and build your multi-million pound modern mansion there where there's no street registered, and all you can get is copper, but somehow that's OUR FAULT, dog. If you ever rang me to say you can get better prices on comparison websites, and want me to magic up a discount from my arse and complain incessantly when I can't instead of just using the comparison websites you've preached about, dog. If you ever rang to tell me that you've got a problem entirely within your own domain, but you expect me to send an engineer out for something out of their remit because you're technologically illiterate and then start screaming down the phone at me when I say they can't help you connect your wireless printer to your PC because that's not our problem, toothless chihuahua. If you ever rang first thing on a morning and expected me to be peppy at 8am, when I finished my 10pm end an hour late because the last person I talked to wanted to ask "one last question before you go", dog. If you ever started a sentence with the statement "I've looked on your website, but I can't see..." and then suddenly expect me to see what you can't see, dog.

Bet my colleagues just really thought I liked dogs with how much I was doodling them.

This made me smile!

LillyPJ · 16/10/2025 10:54

@Horsie I retired at 56 and have achieved over 14 years of (relatively) healthy and well-travelled years so far. It took a lot of hard work and scrimping to be able to do it, but I do agree with you. I do think I ought to have worked longer!

Iloveagoodnap · 16/10/2025 10:55

There are children in my life with diagnoses of autism and/or ADHD who I think have developed the behaviour that led to their diagnoses due to the way they are parented.

surreygirly · 16/10/2025 10:56

I fancy a gf of mine rotten !
I am sick of people who say they are anxious so cannot work - we all get stress at work

PTSDBarbiegirl · 16/10/2025 11:02

errorprone · 15/10/2025 23:20

I don't like holidays. I only ever go because my other half likes them. I'd rather stay at home and spend the money on something else.

I can relate to this. I love being at home, I don’t want to sleep on a mattress shared with 100’s or 1000’s. I can’t bear the idea of it. I don’t enjoy travelling and am happier being free of demands at home. However, this is not the impression others would have!

LillyPJ · 16/10/2025 11:04

I don't like all-female gatherings. Women's conversations are generally quite boring for me.

Lilaclane · 16/10/2025 11:04

This has been a refreshing thread!

I haven’t worked for four months after being bullied out of a senior role. I fantasise about beating up the nasty young women who made my life so difficult. But to others I am gracious and unbelievably upbeat. My new job starts in the new year but I.. give no shits
I often experience suicidal feelings and find life as a single woman in her late 30s a total drain lot of the time. Sour romances, non-stop bills, society’s obsession for women to look no older than 23. I lost my dad to dementia when I was 30 and it tore me up to see him deteriorate. Sometimes I think it would be nice to just.. disappear. I would never act on this thought
I can’t stand people showing me photos from their camera reels. Especially if they’re photos of a child I’ll never meet! I have to bite back to urge to tell them not to bother because I couldn’t care less.
i doubt a lot of people have autism/adhd/audhd/are non binary - take your pick. I believe this claim to a label is often attention/identity seeking masquerading as a legitimate health issue. I think they’re often just bellends!

thanks for that. Feel a bit lighter but definitely a bad human

Beachtastic · 16/10/2025 11:04

I wish the advice "Grow up" had not, apparently, been lost for ever in the mists of time.

NoOneToCallWhenThePlaneLands · 16/10/2025 11:06

I don’t have much patience for the majority of people diagnosed with anxiety and depression. When it’s severe enough to actually impact your life I do, but when people have it in a way that doesn’t stop them doing what they want to do, but does impact work etc., I lose patience.