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What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?

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shehardlysleeps · 20/04/2026 17:18

I’m in a reflective mood, and it’s got me thinking about something I did a few years ago which is probably the thing I’m most deeply ashamed of.

There was a coworker who really rubbed me up the wrong way. I was very unhappy at the time, and going through an awful time personally. She would make snide comments about me, do things with my family members (who were colleagues too) which really got my back up, I felt like she judged me harshly and was pretty rude. Along with another colleague they made three or four very nasty comments which still stick with me.

Instead of raising a grievance, which I should have done, I took to posting about her on another website (along the lines of Mumsnet), not realising she used it too. She saw the posts and reported me, and I ended up facing a meeting with HR and a senior partner of the firm I was working in. It damaged my reputation within the firm forever and I ended up leaving after not being offered a promotion. I still feel ashamed of it now, nearly half a decade on, and feel like it’s tarred me forever.

Whats the worst thing you’ve ever done?

OP posts:
Dollymylove · Yesterday 21:20

mambojambodothetango · Yesterday 18:05

I joined in and encouraged teasing a boy at school (we were 7ish) because he had bad excema. I really wish I could say sorry now.

There was a boy in my class who had very bad eczema. The boys were really awful to him. I never participated and I dont remember any of the other girls doing so. I was in a detention with him once and he was the only person I knew in the classroom so we chatted a while. He just seemed so happy that someone actually talked to him without taking the piss. He was actually a nice lad . I felt so sorry for him x

anxiousbiscuit99 · Yesterday 21:20

Flushed cocaine & weed down the toilet as armed police were trying to bash my door in.
They found nothing.
Many, many years clean & sober now, thank god.

ChristmasCwtch · Yesterday 21:21

Mine is awful 😂 I had my 2-year old and newborn with me and we were heading back to my car in a multi-storey car park. A guy reverse parked his car in the space behind mine just as I got to my car. His wheels were touching the line and his boot/bumper was over into my space. I politely asked him to pull forward so I could open my boot and put my pram in. He said “nah, not my problem” and walked away…

I played jenga with getting toddler and baby into the car and then had to leave the pram to the side whilst I got in and pulled forward enough to open my boot. The exact same moment, my baby did an explosive poo… I used the open boot to change his nappy and babygro and when I turned round to look for a bin, I decided to rub the open nappy all over his rear reg plate 😂 I hope he got a ticket for concealing his registration and I hope he cleaned it himself. I’ve never done anything like that before but it made me happy at the time.

ForWittyTealOP · Yesterday 21:22

I'm really embarrassed about this because I don't know why I did it, it's very unlike me but I was just overcome with rage... One day I was walking past Reform's constituency office and I spat in the doorway. 😳 I'm a respectable middle aged woman who has never spat in public before or since!

Ashamedmuch · Yesterday 21:23

ForQuirkyFawn · Yesterday 21:10

When I was eighteen I was a bit of a tearaway, drinking cider and smoking weed, hanging about with a bunch of people who all did the same, anyhow ended up in jail for my eighteenth birthday, for about nine months, the scary part was, looking back, it didn't bother me, but it did upset my mum, when I got out I still carried on with my reckless lifestyle, but never went back in the nick, and now I'm a teacher....wait I'm not sure which part is the worst....

How did you pass a DBS check?

ForQuirkyFawn · Yesterday 21:29

I never had any problems with the DBS check, the authorities are looking for issues in a person's background concerning abuse etc..my travails were seen as 'high spirits' , also they were considered 'spent' under the law, rehabilitation act

ShakyBake · Yesterday 21:34

Angela

Karen

Emily Thornburry

Yvonne Couper

TheEnergeticBaker · Yesterday 21:36

NobodysChildNow · 20/04/2026 17:35

I ghosted a friend. I can’t really explain why. It was an absolutely awful thing to do; she needed me.

Maybe it's not too late to unghost your friend, if she's a friend she will understand.

My friend ghosted me a number of months ago after decades of friendship. I was going through absolute hell on earth.
My friend lost her mum and I was there in the midst of my crisis, I was checking in doing what I could do to help, I didn't want help in return I just wanted to be there for my friend.

Sadly after all the effort I was putting in ...around 2 years worth of being the first to reach out, I stopped messaging and I've not heard from her since :-( I tried I really did and it kept hurting me, the no responses.
I would 100 percent welcome her back into my life though she was going through such a tough time. I really miss her.

UnctuousUnicorns · Yesterday 21:38

ChamonixMountainBum · Yesterday 19:48

Parklife

Okay, you win! 🤣

Hip2besquare · Yesterday 21:43

shehardlysleeps · 20/04/2026 17:18

I’m in a reflective mood, and it’s got me thinking about something I did a few years ago which is probably the thing I’m most deeply ashamed of.

There was a coworker who really rubbed me up the wrong way. I was very unhappy at the time, and going through an awful time personally. She would make snide comments about me, do things with my family members (who were colleagues too) which really got my back up, I felt like she judged me harshly and was pretty rude. Along with another colleague they made three or four very nasty comments which still stick with me.

Instead of raising a grievance, which I should have done, I took to posting about her on another website (along the lines of Mumsnet), not realising she used it too. She saw the posts and reported me, and I ended up facing a meeting with HR and a senior partner of the firm I was working in. It damaged my reputation within the firm forever and I ended up leaving after not being offered a promotion. I still feel ashamed of it now, nearly half a decade on, and feel like it’s tarred me forever.

Whats the worst thing you’ve ever done?

I found my DH had been using a sex toy and hiding it. It was like a mechanical vagina type thing. I rubbed a hot chilli all around the inside.

Gonners · Yesterday 21:43

The worst thing I have ever done? Well, I suppose it depends who you ask!

Dancingintherain09 · Yesterday 21:48

My husband a few years ago was really unsympathetic when I had severe D&V to the point I could barely stand and nearly passing out, slept on bathroom floor etc he actually said I was being dramatic. While I was in the bathroom I scrubbed my teeth with his tooth brush and ultimately my GERMS, two days later he's bed ridden and sick as hell and very humbled. He's never been unsympathetic again...I've also never told him this.

jammibats · Yesterday 21:50

The worst thing was a a teenager I got off with my boyfriends older brothers friend who I might add I didn't even really like that much, and I gave him a handy!. I proceeded to break up with and get back together with said boyfriend on and off through my teens and early twenties and I never divulged my indiscretion. Anyway to cut a long story short I am now in my 40's married to that boyfriend, very happily I might add but unfortunately his older brother is still friends with that same guy I got off with. I luckily don't have to see him too often but I do cringe every time I end up at the same wedding or party and he is there. That ladies, is my punishment.

PeachShaker · Yesterday 21:51

Depends if you left it there/dug a hole first

tooloololoo · Yesterday 21:53

Guys you all are so funny
this is great

Rhaenys · Yesterday 22:00

Mine is disgusting, but I was on my period and I’d just had a poo. As I reached round to get the toilet paper (that we kept on the windowsill), I accidentally knocked an expensive ring of my mum’s into the toilet. I didn’t want to fish around for it in a toilet full of blood and poo, so I just flushed. I was about 17. I don’t think it was insured either. Oops.

SabrinaThwaite · Yesterday 22:01

TheDehumidifierNeedsEmptying · Yesterday 19:50

That was my thought process as well, every week for 4 months I went into the police station, purchased every newspaper available and joined every local FB page looking for information but nothing.

Forgot to add, the area it happened is a major tourist attraction so lots of CCTV.

Edited

I reckon it was one of those haunted stretches of road and the police were used to reports of drivers encountering an old lady, and not in a good way.

PUGMEISTER21 · Yesterday 22:14

LapisBlue · 20/04/2026 17:44

I slept with two men on one day. On two separate occasions, four guys in total, as it were.

This sounds like it was fun, rather than a worse thing you have done? Guessing uou weren't hurting anybody.

Beanzmeanz · Yesterday 22:19

Had a one night stand with a stag on his stag do

andthat · Yesterday 22:27

TheBewleySisters · Yesterday 18:08

I behaved very badly to someone who loved me very much. He was heartbroken by what I did and I was dismissive of his feelings. If it comes into my head now I have to immediately think of something else, because it tortures me how heartless I was.

@TheBewleySisters i could have written this word for word. ❤️

Plasticdreams · Yesterday 22:27

rainbowunicorn22 · Yesterday 14:13

Living in a homeless hostel i was so desperate for food and no money i did use to take things from shops. if its any better i used to go to International the supermarket that was and take reduced sandwiches and yoghurts
In the same vein i have done sex acts for money would not now but at the time I needed money to live on saying sex acts it was only a hand job
i had to leave and my children go to a foster mum who was also a friend i broke down totally and was coerced by a dangerous nasty man who put me through two years of hell i only said temporary for the kids similar to staying with a grandparent for a short while but because i was so all over the place this bastard took advantage and I had no contact with anyone for over 2 years. in that time he knocked my teeth out, he knew i had a bad phobia about certain foods so used to delight forcing food down my throat until i would vomit then he would make me re eat it, shove me face first into a plate of hot stew, so many other things. i cry everyday about losing my kids and the lovely home we had.
leaving the darling little cottage i had i was so rude to my sister who tried to help and wish now i had listened to her
i regret my life from being sexually abused at 5 years to the life i have now

Heartbreaking to read. That poor little girl - no wonder so many things went wrong. None of this is your fault.

oosha · Yesterday 22:33

Fuck I don’t think I would even know where to start with that question 😂😂😂😂😂

JohnThomasOnAFloralBedspread · Yesterday 22:36

ThatCyanCat · 21/04/2026 08:08

Everybody will know she only got the job because of her mum.

I want to know why the daughter bothered with a degree if all she was going to do is sit around and wait for her mum to hand her an admin job. Seems like a massive waste of money and effort if that’s all she wants to do. Although the setup to it is suspicious and I’m sure this is just the admin assistant troll at work hoping we’ll pile on again about what a pointless job it is.

Taking a university place from someone who could actually appreciate it is really worthy of being on this thread.

I’ve done a lot of stuff I’m not proud of, but I have never done that.

Anon501178 · Yesterday 22:38

iamfedupwiththis · 20/04/2026 17:28

Not sure if having a poo outside as I was desperate is better or worse than an affair.

I did this once too years ago.....in the corner of a pub garden 😅 On the way home from work was so desperate I honestly didn't have a choice as there were no loos anywhere in the vicinity.

Anon501178 · Yesterday 22:41

Keepgettingolder81 · 20/04/2026 17:41

I have been with my Husband, since I was 19, now 45 and I have a really good marriage.

In my 20s when I was pregnant, and a bit psychotic! We had a great big row and I dipped his toothbrush in the toilet! He is a right germophobe and even though I didn’t tell him at the time I was hugely smug with myself!

I did confess a few years ago, and he was absolutely horrified!! I don’t regret it though, I think it’s absolutely hilarious. My younger adult children looked at me like I was absolutely insane at the confession time.

Omg that's awful....I couldn't forgive someone for that 🤮