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30 Anonymously Shared Secrets That People Wouldn’t Dare To Confess In Real Life
All of us, no matter how kind and open we are, keep secrets from even our nearest and dearest. These are things that we’d feel uncomfortable opening up about even to our closest family members and most trustworthy friends. However, anonymity can help. If you’re feeling guilty or ashamed of something you’ve done in your past, opening up to strangers can help free you of that burden. At least, in part.
That’s where the r/confession subreddit comes in. A massively popular online community with nearly 5.3 million members, it is a safe place for everyone to “admit your wrongdoings, acknowledge your guilt, and alleviate your conscience.” Here, everyone’s encouraged to be kind and courteous to one another. We’ve collected some of the darkest secrets from the sub and other similar communities around the net about the things that people deeply regret doing. You’ll find their stories as you scroll down.
We wanted to figure out why people feel better when they confess their secrets and wrongdoings, so we asked Andrea Bonior, Ph.D., to shed some light on this. Read on for Bored Panda's interview with Dr. Bonior, the host of the mental health advice podcast ‘Baggage Check’ and the bestselling author of ‘Detox Your Thoughts.’
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#1
I tell everyone the reason I do beekeeping as a hobby is because I want the honey and to help prevent colony collapse. The real reason I started to is because my mother is extremely allergic to them and now she won't come near my home anymore.
Dr. Bonior explained to Bored Panda why confessions make people feel better, as well as what we can do to be more empathetic toward others even if our first instinct might be to judge them.
"The idea of confessing in order to absolve yourself of something has been around, likely, since the beginning of time, and has of course been incorporated into many religious traditions. By admitting to something we are doing, it can help us feel less alone with the secret—and more accepted, even among strangers, rather than imagining that we would be cast aside and rejected because of our secret," the host of 'Baggage Check' told us.
"It helps validate that we are still acceptable as human beings, and haven't driven everyone away. It also just typically helps to put words to our own experiences and feelings, and to have someone bear witness to something difficult—which is part of why therapy can be so helpful."
#2
I Slapped A Child In The Face And Then Shoved Him Off His Scooter. I'm 25
So I have a beloved kitty named pixy. She was around 4 when I found her on the street. She had a rubber band tightened on half her tail. I spent 2 weeks feeding her until she was comfortable enough to let me near her, she didn't trust anyone. I took her in, cleaned her up, and got the dead portion of her tail amputated.
After 5 years, she finally warmed up to people and she became so sweet and friendly. It took her years to be comfortable around strangers. Last month, she was out for her daily stroll around the neighborhood and immediately came back in through the kitty door 20 minutes later. Usually she is out and about for 2-3 hours. She had 2 small holes in her chest, and one near her butt. She was completely frightened and was crying/meowing, she wouldn't even let me go near her for the first 5 minutes. I knew for certain that she was shot with metal bb's.
I take her in my car and start driving to the vet, but took a quick detour around the neighborhood, I was going to take the long way to see if I could find the culprit. Sure enough I see a kid on a scooter standing on his driveway, with a Co2 powered bb gun, aiming in the drainage cavity by the sidewalk. I see cats in there all the time. It was then I knew who the culprit was.
I parked the car, got out, walked over to him and said "I'm telling your parents that you are shooting cats." He replied "they are pests, they told me I could." The smug little look on his face threw me over the edge, I slapped the f*ck outta this b**ch, and kick swept his legs out from under him and watched him fall flat on his a*s. I then picked up his gun and smashed it on the ground. A small part of me wanted to finish him off with a stomach kick for good measure, but I'm f**king 25 so I looked both ways before crossing the street, and f*cking bolted. As I hopped in my car and sped away, I heard him shrieking in the distance.
My kitty was treated, and is doing OK. She is a lot more skittish and spends less time outside.
Edit: in case your wondering, I'm pretty sure the cops were called. When I came back I saw a few strolling around, I was sure I was d.o.n.e. I've never been In trouble or done sh*t like this. Anyways, I drove by and literally nothing happened. It's been a month I think I'm good.
#3
I Photoshop Every Photo Of My Mom
My mom has really had a hard time the past few years. When she entered menopause she gained weight and no matter how much she works out or what diet she tries she cannot drop it.
She is a wonderful person, beautiful inside and out, but I could tell it was really taking a toll on her. So I started (lightly) photoshopping pictures I take of her before I send them to anyone or print them. I just nip a little here and there, slight reshaping. and smoothing out a few wrinkles, nothing drastic, but enough.
Since I have started this she has started acting more confidently and has stopped making negative remarks about pictures she is in. She loves being in pictures with everyone again.
It has really helped. I have not told anyone and never will.
According to Dr. Bonior, immediate judgments about other people can be "very natural." However, at the same time, we have to remember that they can be distorted and might not be valid.
"By recognizing that we only have one side of every story, and that we can't automatically assume that we'd behave a certain way in a situation we've never been in, we help remember that although we might have a knee-jerk reaction, we shouldn't necessarily let it inform our behavior," she told Bored Panda that an example of such a reaction might be saying something that is unkind.
"It also might be helpful to think of times in our life when we had our perspective widened because we didn't realize until we were in a situation just how we would behave. Finally, we can recognize that even when someone HAS made a choice we don't agree with, our reactions are often most helpful if we can meet them where they are, and try to understand what led to their decision, and gain some insight from it, rather than automatically condemning them and pushing them away."
#4
I Trash My Coworkers Mugs And Dishes When They Leave It Soaking In The Community Sink
At work we have a kitchenette and at the end of the day, my coworkers leave their dishes/mugs filled with oatmeal and other things left to soak. We even have a sign that states “Do not leave personal belongings in the kitchenette. We are not responsible for lost items”. I stay at work pretty late so I see the night janitor come in and clean. I noticed that he goes out of his way to wash the dishes and mugs, which isn’t a part of his job (our company only contracts them to do floors and trash so it’s our responsibility to clean up after ourselves). My coworkers must have noticed too because they have since stopped doing their own dishes and has been leaving piles in the sink knowing that they will be magically washed and dried in the morning. They even make comments about the “Mexican sucker” that’s cleaning for them. This has been on going for a few weeks now and my coworkers even have the audacity to complain about water spots on their mugs. So throughout the day when I find myself alone in the kitchenette, I take an item or two and toss them out in the building hallway trash so it can’t be found. We work in a building where we share office space with other businesses and there’s no cameras so I haven’t been caught yet. A coworker asked our manager about their items being taken, but my manager just reiterated the policy. I guess I am being petty, but my coworkers are trash and I don’t feel bad.
#5
I Give My 3 Year Old Son Counterfeit Fast Food
I save my sons Mc Donald's wrappers and happy meal boxes then reuse them by serving him microwave chicken nuggets and oven French fries in them. I even throw in ketchup packets and a little toy he'd forgotten he had to help sell the lie. He loves it. And I'm not sorry
#6
I am a foot and a half taller than my wife. So when I take a shower I make sure to set the shower head as high as possible. Then when she gets in she can’t reach it to lower it and she has to call me in. So I get to see her naked. She has yet to realize that setting is too high for even me. Not that I can’t see her naked pretty much any time but still. It’s the little things.
The r/confession subreddit was founded all the way back in late 2008. Over the last decade and a half, it’s become one of the most popular communities on Reddit. Members of the sub are encouraged to admit to “illegal or immoral action” that they’ve committed very intentionally. Mistakes or accidents don’t count here. Moreover, you can only confess to things that you’ve personally done—you can’t talk about other people’s misdeeds.
What’s more, every poster has to express regret for what they’ve done and be as specific and concise about what happened as possible. The moderator team running the community notes that they don’t accept posts with limited context. The confessions have to be detailed and accurate.
“Confessing only the barest of snippets or most cryptic of details isn't the purpose of this sub. Understanding what you're confessing shouldn't be like pulling teeth, context is important,” they write.
#7
I fall asleep watching my boyfriend's YouTube channel so he gets more views on his videos because it makes me happy how excited he gets about more views
#8
I'm Dying But Haven't Told Anyone
I was diagnosed with cancer a little over two weeks ago, after a regular checkup. Turns out I have a tumour on my colon that has spread to other areas (liver and lungs so far) and will require extensive chemo and surgery for any chance to live longer than 8 months
I'm not having any treatment and I haven't told my wife because she'll only pressure me to get the treatment, which result in months of pain and suffering for a relatively small chance
Instead, I'm making sure our last few months together are filled with only happy memories. I'm starting work later and finishing earlier each day, to make her breakfast in bed and take her on dates in the evenings
My landlord I rent my workshop from has agreed to let me run my business rent free for the next 6 months, which means significantly less financial stress and I can save a lot more, so she has something to carry her over afterwards
I hope she'll forgive me for taking this path
#9
I Hate My Brain Damaged Sister
I can't believe I am actually typing this out right now, it's making it feel very real. And before you say it, I know, I know. I am probably one of the worst human beings on this planet.
Around a year ago, my older sister (27), widowed mother of 2 boys (8) and (5) decided to, against every single warning made, get drunk as s**t and wreck her car into a rock embankment outside of our town. She was life flighted to a ICU, spent weeks in a coma and awoke in vegetative state. In the past year, she has SLOWLY began to see some progress.
Because of this accident, I was forced to quit my job, leave my friends, move across the country and back in with my parents, to help take care of her and raise my nephews. I love them dearly, but I have never wanted to have kids, especially not forced upon me like this.
She had the mind of a child now, argues about silly things, can't cook for herself, cries over everything, can't read, memory loss, partially paralyzed on her right side, has aphasia, and a LIST of other problems with me as her caregiver. She tell me how happy she is to be alive after such a bad car accident. I want to scream that I wish she would have died. Her boys are a wreck after losing their dad recently and now having a f*cked up mom. My parents are spending all of their retirement savings for her treatments. I can see the years getting shaved off my dad and mom from the stress.
I don't treat her any differently, I still tell her stories and laugh with her and do my best, but I hate the way I feel when I look at her. Did you even think about your boys when you got in your car? She is smiling and completely ignorant to the pain she has caused to my entire family. So I guess that's it. That's my confession. I have a deep dark hatred and resentment for someone I love. And I will never let her know.
Edit: I am a female btw.. and some people have said pretty horrid and cruel things and I totally get it. But I already feel pretty f*cking sh*tty about my feelings so you can't really make me feel any worse.
Everyone else. Thank you so much for the support, advice and feedback. I've read and appreciated every comment. Alot of the medical and healthcare advice I will be talking to my parents about and hopefully the financial parts of this can be helped a bit. Thanks guys, much love.
Meanwhile, the members of r/confession are asked to avoid posting about politics and relationships. They’re also encouraged to be kind and civil to one another. “If you are unable to discuss without being disrespectful, walk away,” the mods stress.
Something else that all redditors should avoid doing is accusing others of making certain stories up. “Chances are you're not in the best frame of mind to be fielding attacks on your credibility by the vast and uncaring anonymous internet. We instituted this rule to better protect our submitters and provide a more constructive rather than detractive environment,” the r/confession team explains.
“There is a large chance you think a real post is fake. No one will make real confessions if every post has some variation of ‘tHiS iS fAkE,’” they add. In short, the community is all about creating a space where everyone can reveal what they’ve done that’s been plaguing them with feelings of shame and guilt for a long time.
#10
I Secretly Put Money In My Pants Pockets So My Husband Will Do The Laundry
I put $5 to $10 a week in my clothes. He thinks he is getting one over on me because we both have a weekly budget. He doesn't know that he is part of my budget. If I even try to do the laundry he is like "No, I got it" Worth every red cent.
Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
This is bad. Not so much on the laundry trickery part. More on the money matters overall. You two do need to discuss this like proper adults.
#11
My Wife Thinks I Take Our Daughter To Dancing Classes But I Actually Take Her To An MMA Gym
The dancing and MMA gym aren’t too far apart which is how we have been able to get away with it for 2 years.
My daughter loves it there and everyone is so kind to her.
Before you jump in telling me I’ve forced my daughter into being an elite fighter, over a dancer. I didn’t! At first I took her to dancing classes and she hated it, she said all the girls were already in groups of friends when she started and they wouldn’t talk to her.
So I said “screw it why don’t we both learn MMA, it’s way more useful that dancing anyway”
I can’t tell my wife about it because she hates stuff like that and there literally no reasoning with her on the subject of fighting.
May light defeat the darkness 1 year ago
Your daughter can defend herself from creeps. MMA is definutely a good life skill.
#12
I Put My Infant Daughter In The Closet, Shut The Door And Walked Away
I'm so overwhelmed. I haven't really slept in 8 weeks. That's how old my daughter is. She's a beautiful little girl, but she screams and screams and screams. I do everything to console her. I make sure she is fed, dry, not in pain and comfortable. But she almost never stops screaming. My husband left this weekend for a business trip and I was alone with her for the first time. It was going ok this morning, but then the floodgates opened. I held her, rocked her, bounced her but nothing worked. I wanted to shake her
I'm ashamed to type this, but I wanted to shake my baby. I thought I was about to have a nervous breakdown. I was so fed up that I strapped her into her car seat, placed her in our coat closet and shut the door. She was still screaming and I shut the door on her. I set a one hour alarm, went upstairs and collapsed into my bed. I wouldn't say a slept, more like I instantly went unconscious. An hour later my alarm went off and I sprung up and ran downstairs to her. She was sleeping and no longer crying. I picked her up and held her and just started sobbing. It's too much. I'm a terrible mother. I can't handle this.
However, it’s very natural and even human to judge others for their decisions, behavior, and looks. It’s something that people do automatically, as well as consciously. Being judgmental of others has its downsides, as well as some upsides.
On one side of the fence, people judge others to feel superior, find flaws in others, and feel better about their own decisions. Others might judge others and themselves to figure out where they fit in, what results they want, what they’d rather avoid in life. Putting someone’s flaws under the microscope can help people readjust the way they live their own lives. It also helps us become more self-aware of our own decisions and how they impact the world around us.
#13
I Sold Fake Drugs
At a party in high school i found a bottle of vitamin C pills in the bathroom and decided to tell other drunk kids that it was ecstasy and sold it to them for $20 a pill. I ended up leaving with about $200
#14
I Made My Brother Think He Has Alopecia For The Last Fifteen Years
This is probably the pettiest thing I have ever done, and I regret it to this day. When I was fifteen years old, I got my first job and started to have some money of my own. I used my money to spoil myself and purchased nicer thing like clothes, shoes, makeup and salon brand shampoo.
My brother used to sneak into my bathroom and constantly steal my nice shampoo. He would use them and most of the time he would leave them open in the bathtub. This would result in the rest of the shampoo going down the drain and leave me with empty containers.
This drove me completely insane and I hated him for taking my things. I tried to speak with my parents about this, but they told me that I should just learn to share.
One day I went out and purchased hair removal cream. I mixed this into my shampoo bottle and left it in my bathroom. I gave him a verbal warning not to use my newly purchased bottle, but he stole it again anyway. Over the next few days his hair slowly started to fall out and small bald patches started to appear.
Seeing what I had done I immediately emptied the remaining shampoo. I felt terrible and I truly didn’t think it would have as a dramatic effect as it did. My mother took him to the doctor to get check out and they diagnosed him with Alopecia. He than had to start using this special and terrible smelling shampoo to combat this.
His hair did grow back but I just recently found out that he is still using the shampoo in order to prevent another Alopecia flair up. It has been 15 years now and I have never told my brother that I caused him to lose his hair.
#15
I Fake An Accent At My Job
My heart is pounding writing this because I literally haven’t told anyone this. So I work at this one store, and I work on the sales floor; but before all that, I was just one person interviewing for a position at the store. Before I arrived for my interview, a friend of mine dared me to interview in a British accent. I said I’d do it only if they paid me, and to my surprise, they sent me like $10 through venmo (which was more than enough for me). I went into the interview with the mindset that I wasn’t gonna get hired and they inevitably hired me on the spot. Accent and all. I was nervous because I had already talked to a whole bunch of higher ups with the accent and decided to just go through with it -thinking it was only going to be a summer job. I was so wrong. It’s been like 7 months that I’ve been working there and I still use the accent to this day. When people ask me where I’m from I just tell them my hometown because I have several brits from that town whom I grew up with. The accent hasn’t really posed a problem until now cause my bf is friends with one of my coworkers so I’m gonna have to find the right time to come clean.. thanks for coming to my TedTalk
Though we all carry secrets with us, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re bad people. There’s a difference between secrecy and privacy after all. It’s fine to keep some things private. However, if a secret has a huge impact on others, it’s best to opt for transparency. When in doubt, put yourself in someone else’s shoes and consider whether they would like to know the truth or not. Meanwhile, if you’re feeling guilt or shame, odds are that you’re being secretive, not private.
Rebuilding trust after sharing the truth might be hard to do, but it’s not impossible. It will take time, effort, and consistency.
#16
I Leave Fake Parking Tickets On Cars That Deserve Real Ones
I ordered a batch of them off Amazon and leave them wherever. Sometimes if nobody is around I make an effort and fill in all the details on it to freak them out before they get to the bottom and see it's a fake.
Sometimes I just write something dumb in the comments and leave the rest blank.
I've left them on cars at my university that aren't technically illegally parked, and on cars that are parked in no parking zones at my grocery store. I especially do it when somebody is parked in a handicap spot that's not supposed to (no plate or hang-tag).
Local laws are sketchy on this, some would argue it's misrepresenting itself as official and therefore illegal, but at the bottom of them they say they're fake. So others would argue the worst they could get me on is littering if the police actually cared enough to do something.
#17
I Stole Over $20,000 In A Very Creative Way In The 90's
I worked at a fast food chain in the 90's when I was in high school. When I worked there they were in the process of phasing out denominational gift certificates. ($5, $10 & $25) The way is worked was if you spent more than half of the certificate they gave you the cash back. So if you ordered $5.50 worth of food and gave them one of the $10 gift cards, they gave you the $4.50 back in cash. My manager was in charge of destroying all the existing certificates as we transitioned to the more traditional credit card looking gift cards.
So my manager said he shredded the certificates like he was supposed to, but one night when I was closing I found two boxes of the gift cards tucked deep in the dry storage room. They were FILLED with the certificates that were supposed to be shredded. So, I scooped them up, brought them out to the dumpster in trash bags and threw them away. After we closed, I came back and recovered the back, and brought the certificates home. I counted them. There were 1,000 $25, 1,000 $10, and 500 $5 certificates. None of them had expiration dates. Total haul was $40K in fast food certificates. My manager never said a word, he couldn't. He had reported them destroyed weeks earlier.
Over the next three years my girlfriend and I toured every location in our state, and the next 4 states ordering food, and getting the change. We never kept track on a spreadsheet or anything, but we got good at knowing what menu items were just about half.
After the first year, we started saving the change in a shoe box, and let it build up.
I bought my first car for $7,800 cash from the change. And for some reason A kiddie cone was $1.05, if you gave them a $5 cert they gave you $3.95 back. We threw away a lot of kiddie cones.
3 Owls In A Coat 1 year ago
Good! I like this one. The corporation can afford it and already budgeted for every/most tickets being used.
#18
I Posted Fake Jobs On Internet So I Could Build My Own Resume
When i was 19-20 years old I was looking for jobs and could not find any and people would tell me to build a nice resume. The problem was, I did not know how to do it so I posted fake jobs on internet and would get resumes. I used those resumes to build my own using the skills that I liked on their resumes. I could also tell who was competing with me for those jobs that I posted. I feel bad for those people that thought it was genuine and applied.
I am 33 now and have a nice job. Those resumes truly did help me build my career.
#19
I Lied To A Blind Neighbor And Told Him I Moved Away
Many years ago, I was standing on one of my balconies when a taxi driver was obnoxiously blowing his horn out front and yelling for a blind man to "walk toward my voice" from his own townhouse. That direction was toward traffic. My roommate and I went down and helped him to the taxi and scolded the driver for being so rude. I made the mistake of giving the blind neighbor my phone number so that I could give him a ride in the future.
Then the phone calls came... and never stopped. And when I gave him a ride, he would ask for various detours. I'm very calculated by nature, if he had told me beforehand where he wanted to go, it would be cool, but no... we'd be driving along and he'd throw in 2 - 3 extra places on each ride. And it came to be every day that he wanted rides... and he'd even call me to remind me to give him a ride, not that was ever late or backed out.
Finally I had enough, so I gauged how blind he was. His response was that he was "blind as a bat". A week or two after he said that, I told him I had a job interview in the next city. A week after that, I told him I got the job and was moving away in a month. After I "moved away" It was strange as hell walking by him in silence as he stood on the sidewalk.
Bobert Robertson 1 year ago
Tf? Of all the ways to get out of giving him rides you chose this?
#20
I Run A Fake Restaurant On A Delivery App
I registered a company, bought all the take-away boxes from Amazon, signed up for a few delivery apps, made a few social media acounts and printed leaflets that I drop in mailboxes. I re-sell microwave meals...On some meals I add something to make them look better, like cheese. So far it’s at around £200 a day in revenue.
Nobody suspects a thing, soon someone will come for higene inspection, but I’ll pass that check without any problems. It’s not illegal to operate out of your own kitchen.
Should I feel bad? I feel kind of proud to be fair and free as a bird from the 9-5 life.
Jake B 1 year ago
Well, you do have a business license right? And you had your county health certification right? And you have your food handlers card right? And your Serv Safe other food safety person in charge certification right? And you’re paying your taxes quarterly, yes? Do you feel anything yet? Maybe some worry after you’re sued when someone falls ill and you haven’t got insurance. You do have it right?
#21
I Pavlov'd My Girlfriend
My ex used to use a specific shampoo and over time i noticed that every time i smell this shampoo on other people i automatically think of her and this got me planning..
For my current girlfriend, every time we got down to business i put on a cologne that i saved specifically for those times. No matter how spontaneous the action was, i found the time to put on a puff or two of this perfume secretly and then continue.
After weve been going on for couple months, i began to do tests - i put this perfume on when casually walking in the kitchen past her, and just sat down in the living room. Soon enough, after couple minutes she got here and initiated sexy times!
Now i use it ocassionally (im very careful not to overuse it so it doesnt spoil the effect) when i want to get hee going, and it works well enough :)
My favorite is putting it on before going out to a public place, and watching her get super worked up and unload at home
Olivia Dean 1 year ago
It's pretty obvious that a person has just sprayed on smells- I think what was actually happening is that you are signalling to her when you are interested, and she is responding to your cues.
#22
My Boss Pissed Me Off So I'm Catfishing His Wife
My boss is generally a d*ck.
I noticed his wife (who also works at the company) came up as a recommended friend on Snapchat, I copied the user name and added her on my burner Snapchat.
After a few messages and a few fake selfies she has told me she is single and sent some damn good reveling pictures.
I feel a bit guilty now but damn she is hot.
#23
I Added Tabasco To Wendy’s Chili And Used It To Get Second Place In A Chili Cook Off
Title basically says it all. This wasn’t a professional organized competition. There was some bmx event with a couple hundred people and they always have a chili cook off. I’m not much for cooking so I thought it would be funny to throw a bunch of Wendy’s chili in a crock pot and see if anyone noticed - they didn’t.
I’ve been a vegetarian for roughly twelve years so this was a long time ago.
#24
I Stole A Pregnancy Test Bc I Couldn’t Afford One Today
Hi. I feel awful. Anyways long story short I only have $7.49 in my bank account I am a full time working student and test these days are 45.99!!!!!! And then cheapest one was 11.49. I just took one and I feel so bad I want to cry. But I really need to know- as I sit here on the toilet and type this waiting for the results.
#25
I Stole A Girls Ipod Touch And Then Sold It Back To Her A Month Later
It’s 2011, I’m in Year 7, it’s my first year in high school and I got sent somewhere where I literally only knew one person, and we never spoke.
A few months into the year and I’m sitting in Math class and this one girl who I just could not stand (and who also bullied me on and off) kept just interrupting for the stupidest of things, and just generally kept getting on my nerves the whole lesson.
Part way through the lesson the teacher tells us to leave our things in the classroom so we could go to the computer lab, and I was the last to leave the classroom. Note that most kids hid their iPods under their pencil cases during class so they could get away with using it, and I knew for a fact she’d left it there.
I don’t know what possessed me to steal her iPod, but I did. She never found out.
But now, I leave school, the iPod is still in my shorts pocket. Nobody knows what I’ve done. The girl thinks one of the guys was screwing with her and doesn’t suspect me at all.
Now the one defining feature of her iPod was that the back was completely covered in small circle stickers. Ones that had gotten so worn down they’d almost fused with the device. So I did what I could and I scrubbed those f*ckers off until it looked brand new.
I didn’t use it at all, in fear of my mum seeing it and screaming at me for being a thief. So it just sat in my room gathering dust, until about a month later I overhear her asking some people if they know anyone selling an iPod.
One week later and I’d made $150 by selling a girl her own iPod that’d just been factory reset and scrubbed down.
#26
I Messed Up My Local Eco System By Setting Hundreds Of Californian Ladybugs Free And Never Told Anyone Even After I Started Noticing The Changes
I just recently was reminded of this story by the man on TikTok who let millions of frogs go in his backyard. Someone in the comments mentioned the story of a man who let out ladybugs and a wave of regret hit me.
When I was about 13, my science teacher let us choose our own final projects. My friend and I wanted to do research on [m]etabolism, and after searching around the internet we discovered that ladybugs would be the best test subjects for our experiment. We somehow got approved by our school to order 100 ladybugs from California for the sake of science. However, when they finally arrived, it turned out that my teacher had ordered wrong and there were 500 lovely little creatures waiting for us in a box. We got a bigger container to hold them all and ran the experiment as planned. Spring break finally rolled around and my teacher assured us that he would take care of the ladybugs while we were gone.
However, when we returned, the box sat unmoved on the table. Our teacher had forgotten to feed them and they all lay on the bottom, dead from starvation. You would think that having done an experiment on the metabolism of these organisms that can withstand crazy temperatures and prolonged starvation we would have realized they could still be alive, but no. I cried and felt terrible for leaving all of them to die. My teacher reluctantly gave me permission to go "bury" them to respect their loss.
I opened the container and a swarm of ladybugs took flight, dissipating into the air. Some were actually dead, but the majority had left the container. My teacher watched this happen, and although a lot of the details are fuzzy, I'm 99% sure that my teacher told me to keep it quiet.
The next years to come came some of the worst ladybug-related disasters my small town had ever witnessed. They CRUSTED the windows of every home and ate foliage like crazy. People who were unfortunate enough to have poor insulation (including me) would find them in every nook and cranny in the house. In such a tightknit community full of farmers and gardeners, word spread fast. And I just watched it all happen, knowing full well who was responsible. Years went by until the population of ladybugs seemed to go back down, but they still run rampant. I'm not sure what help could have resulted from my confession, but it certainly would have cleared up what had happened for the dozens of townspeople who didn't understand why this was happening to them.
I feel absolutely terrible and wish I had confessed sooner. I know it seems like an unfortunate mistake, but in hindsight it was reckless and I should have told someone sooner. I have told a few friends since the story re-entered my mind, but I just thought I needed to apologize to the public.
JoJo Anisko 1 year ago
Seems like the teacher was the one at fault? OP didn't know they were still alive.
#27
I Have Been Sleeping With Both Partners Of A Married Couple. Neither Of Them Are Aware The Other Is Cheating. The Wife Doesn't Know The Husband Likes Men
The wife came onto me first but I didn't sleep with her out of respect for her husband, til he messaged me on grindr and I realized they're as bad as each other and I may as well have some fun with it. I even popped the husband's bootyhole cherry. I might tell them one day but ehhh the sex is fun.
#28
I Overcharged Over 5,000 People
Back in high school I used to work the concession stand. In my school the booth was a little folding table where I would sell water, pop and chips.
To anyone that was a visiting team I would charge $.25-.50 more on the items they wanted to buy, and I would keep it.
I ended up making somewhere around $3,000 doing this for my high school career, and no one ever found out because I didn’t charge anyone from the home team the same amount.
#29
I Sh*t On My Neighbors Door Step
So back when I was ten my dad asked me if I wanted to make 20$. I accepted. The catch I had to sh*t on our neighbors door step. It was clear my dad had beef with this woman. She woke in the morning and tried to blame our Chihuahua. My dad yelled at her saying that the sh*t was bigger then our dog. Impossible. The point is I don’t feel bad. Forever daddy’s girl.
#30
I Stole Money In Junior High School With A Fake Fundraiser
When I was in junior high and it was perfectly fine to go door to door and ask for donations for sporting events and stuff, my sister had a typewriter and I would make up a fake sign-up form and ask for donations to a team going somewhere with my school. Easily [made] [one] hundred bucks in one day. Never forgave myself lol
![When I Was A Kid I Would Wipe My [butt] With Towels That Were Hanging Up](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/relatable-therapy-memes-38-64108cfee265e__700.jpg "When I Was A Kid I Would Wipe My [butt] With Towels That Were Hanging Up")
What do you think ?
2picklesinabun 1 year ago
Some real a******s in this thread. It's one thing to mess up your life. It's another to destroy someone else's.
BenyA. 1 year ago
I resent having to check in on my father who had a mental breakdown starting a couple of years ago. He never raised me, just saw him every once in a while growing up, I never managed to connect with him due to his reserved and quiet nature. So I'm frustrated that people assume I have a duty to look after him. His wife of 10 plus years finally left him when the strain of helping to rehabilitate him became too much. I resent having to pay for his meds out of my paycheck every month. I resent his weakness and inability to have a grip on life because deep down I'm scared it's genetic.
Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
Find a social worker to get him hooked up, then bail. None of this is your responsibility.
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago
Big confession: I was the moron who brought a big box of tiny plastic jewels and hid them all over school. I even paid a boy to hide the jewels in the boy’s toilets :/ I think I may have inconvenienced a lot of the janitors, but they didn’t seem to mind. I saw a teacher making a bracelet out of the jewels she found, and for a while all everyone could talk about is who the freaking heck hid those stuff
ZombieSushi386 1 year ago
Not gonna lie, I think that's a pretty awesome prank. I remember doing similar with beads when I was a kid.
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Chelsea Rae 1 year ago
I made my terrible coworkers (unknowingly) clean up my after-coffee sh*t almost everyday for months. I started working at a doggy daycare facility/vet clinic and found out that most all of my coworkers were mean to the dogs. And the ones who were actively mean were complicit by way of not speaking up. I can't speak for any physical harm that might have been done, but I could definitely tell by the timidness of the dogs around certain people that some kind of abuse/intimidation was happening. So, I spoke up to the manager (who didn't know as she was quite spread thin in her role and thought she could rely on middle management to be decent people) and since I couldn't outright prove abuse I ratted them out and got them in trouble for other mistakes they made. It was very obvious that I was the snitch because everyone else there were close friends (like knew each other before they got the job close) so they started doing everything and anything to try to get me in trouble. One of them even took video footage of me taking a 13 min break when it was supposed to be 10, and sent it to the manager. Needless to say, it was really tough waking into a place everyday feeling the utter hatred from everyone for breaking up the party. But I worked with the manager (who I forgot to mention was also my sister so they resented me even more) and slowly got them ALL sacked, installed surveillance around the facility, and helped to rebuild a new and amazing, extremely caring team of staff. IN THE MEANTIME, before the cameras of course, I would literally take my (after coffee) sh*t in the play area right before the shift turnover so the next terrible person would have to clean it up. I did this everyday until all the terrible people were outta there. I watched as all the dogs gradually changed from being scared out of their wits to totally stoked to be there. Those people absolutely hated me and I would overhear them laugh with each other as they talked smack about me.... But little did they know that every single one of them had to clean up my sh*t for like a month and a half.
ZombieSushi386 1 year ago
Thank you for helping those dogs. You are a hero.
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No Name 1 year ago
I love my parents deeply. I also resent them, and most of the people they consulted for parenting advice. I wasn't treated as a liar per se, but all my negative emotions were regarded as overblown and routinely invalidated altogether, and I was blamed for not being able to ignore my bullies. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at 13, which made my parents a little more sympathetic but if anything even less trusting that any physical symptom I had was real or as bad as I claimed. Since becoming an adult I've been diagnosed with multiple chronic diseases, all comorbidities of a connective tissue disorder that makes many of my joints visibly hypermobile. I'm glad they at least take my physical ailments seriously now, but just last week they rolled their eyes at me when I was zooming with them because I was panicking about a test case for I job I really wanted. (I pulled thru & they gave me some helpful encouragement, but I really could've done without the eye roll).
Mimi M 1 year ago (edited)
HS dropout here. Went to an alternative (self-study) college, back in the days when it was not as common. There was a box on the application that said 'do you have a HS diploma?' I was scared and checked 'yes'. Right before graduating with my BA (and High Honors), I confessed to my advisor. She didn't care. I was so relieved. Went on to grad school and now I'm one of only two people I know (which includes me) who have an advanced degree with no HS diploma or equivalency.
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Man, I know some of the posts here are honest mistakes or tiny pranks but the rest makes me think humanity is better off gone instead... Smh...
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
One little secret of mine is that I make and sell stickers at school. It’s not a big buisness, I make only ₹10 a day which isn’t much. My parents don’t know about it
Zephyr343 1 year ago
My friend in college told me she was the one driving the car when she crashed and killed her boyfriend. The police always thought and she always told them that he was driving.
Papa Patata 1 year ago
So you're friend is a murdered and should be in jail?
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mysterious 1 year ago
Some of these are people who made dumb mistakes as kids, and regret it, some of these are kinda sweet, or otherwise harmless, and the rest seem kinda terrible.
Steve 1 year ago
I disagree because eating habits rely heavily on memories. Mc D's marketing to children does exacly that. Building happy memories and associating it with their brand. This is the main reason Happy meals are relatively cheap. It's an investment in future customers. Nobody is saying "once in a while" is a bad thing but it also involves saying no. Because of this I think this is a really bad idea and not wholesome at all.
Yugan Talovich 1 year ago
I live in a village and commute to the city. The job pays well so I need to go only a couple times a week. People on the bus were mostly regulars so everyone was friendly (this was about 15 years ago, not so much now). But there was one arrogant guy who always stuck his nose up at everyone. Lo and behold, Mr Snooty came to my workplace to find a job. I don't think he noticed me when he was being interviewed by the general manager. After the interview, I told the GM, You don't want him. She always trusted me, so that one sentence was enough. He never got the job.
2picklesinabun 1 year ago
So, you don't like someone and decide they don't get work? Wow how terrible are you
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SuperDarkStudios 1 year ago
I absolutely fūcking hate my 6 year old brother. I ignore him, I have to be forced to say hi to him, and I'm hoping to go NC with him when I'm older. I wish we never adopted. I am not sorry,
2picklesinabun 1 year ago
Some real a******s in this thread. It's one thing to mess up your life. It's another to destroy someone else's.
BenyA. 1 year ago
I resent having to check in on my father who had a mental breakdown starting a couple of years ago. He never raised me, just saw him every once in a while growing up, I never managed to connect with him due to his reserved and quiet nature. So I'm frustrated that people assume I have a duty to look after him. His wife of 10 plus years finally left him when the strain of helping to rehabilitate him became too much. I resent having to pay for his meds out of my paycheck every month. I resent his weakness and inability to have a grip on life because deep down I'm scared it's genetic.
Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
Find a social worker to get him hooked up, then bail. None of this is your responsibility.
Load More Replies... HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago
Big confession: I was the moron who brought a big box of tiny plastic jewels and hid them all over school. I even paid a boy to hide the jewels in the boy’s toilets :/ I think I may have inconvenienced a lot of the janitors, but they didn’t seem to mind. I saw a teacher making a bracelet out of the jewels she found, and for a while all everyone could talk about is who the freaking heck hid those stuff
ZombieSushi386 1 year ago
Not gonna lie, I think that's a pretty awesome prank. I remember doing similar with beads when I was a kid.
Load More Replies... Chelsea Rae 1 year ago
I made my terrible coworkers (unknowingly) clean up my after-coffee sh*t almost everyday for months. I started working at a doggy daycare facility/vet clinic and found out that most all of my coworkers were mean to the dogs. And the ones who were actively mean were complicit by way of not speaking up. I can't speak for any physical harm that might have been done, but I could definitely tell by the timidness of the dogs around certain people that some kind of abuse/intimidation was happening. So, I spoke up to the manager (who didn't know as she was quite spread thin in her role and thought she could rely on middle management to be decent people) and since I couldn't outright prove abuse I ratted them out and got them in trouble for other mistakes they made. It was very obvious that I was the snitch because everyone else there were close friends (like knew each other before they got the job close) so they started doing everything and anything to try to get me in trouble. One of them even took video footage of me taking a 13 min break when it was supposed to be 10, and sent it to the manager. Needless to say, it was really tough waking into a place everyday feeling the utter hatred from everyone for breaking up the party. But I worked with the manager (who I forgot to mention was also my sister so they resented me even more) and slowly got them ALL sacked, installed surveillance around the facility, and helped to rebuild a new and amazing, extremely caring team of staff. IN THE MEANTIME, before the cameras of course, I would literally take my (after coffee) sh*t in the play area right before the shift turnover so the next terrible person would have to clean it up. I did this everyday until all the terrible people were outta there. I watched as all the dogs gradually changed from being scared out of their wits to totally stoked to be there. Those people absolutely hated me and I would overhear them laugh with each other as they talked smack about me.... But little did they know that every single one of them had to clean up my sh*t for like a month and a half.
ZombieSushi386 1 year ago
Thank you for helping those dogs. You are a hero.
Load More Replies... No Name 1 year ago
I love my parents deeply. I also resent them, and most of the people they consulted for parenting advice. I wasn't treated as a liar per se, but all my negative emotions were regarded as overblown and routinely invalidated altogether, and I was blamed for not being able to ignore my bullies. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at 13, which made my parents a little more sympathetic but if anything even less trusting that any physical symptom I had was real or as bad as I claimed. Since becoming an adult I've been diagnosed with multiple chronic diseases, all comorbidities of a connective tissue disorder that makes many of my joints visibly hypermobile. I'm glad they at least take my physical ailments seriously now, but just last week they rolled their eyes at me when I was zooming with them because I was panicking about a test case for I job I really wanted. (I pulled thru & they gave me some helpful encouragement, but I really could've done without the eye roll).
Mimi M 1 year ago (edited)
HS dropout here. Went to an alternative (self-study) college, back in the days when it was not as common. There was a box on the application that said 'do you have a HS diploma?' I was scared and checked 'yes'. Right before graduating with my BA (and High Honors), I confessed to my advisor. She didn't care. I was so relieved. Went on to grad school and now I'm one of only two people I know (which includes me) who have an advanced degree with no HS diploma or equivalency.
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Man, I know some of the posts here are honest mistakes or tiny pranks but the rest makes me think humanity is better off gone instead... Smh...
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
One little secret of mine is that I make and sell stickers at school. It’s not a big buisness, I make only ₹10 a day which isn’t much. My parents don’t know about it
Zephyr343 1 year ago
My friend in college told me she was the one driving the car when she crashed and killed her boyfriend. The police always thought and she always told them that he was driving.
Papa Patata 1 year ago
So you're friend is a murdered and should be in jail?
Load More Replies... mysterious 1 year ago
Some of these are people who made dumb mistakes as kids, and regret it, some of these are kinda sweet, or otherwise harmless, and the rest seem kinda terrible.
Steve 1 year ago
I disagree because eating habits rely heavily on memories. Mc D's marketing to children does exacly that. Building happy memories and associating it with their brand. This is the main reason Happy meals are relatively cheap. It's an investment in future customers. Nobody is saying "once in a while" is a bad thing but it also involves saying no. Because of this I think this is a really bad idea and not wholesome at all.
Yugan Talovich 1 year ago
I live in a village and commute to the city. The job pays well so I need to go only a couple times a week. People on the bus were mostly regulars so everyone was friendly (this was about 15 years ago, not so much now). But there was one arrogant guy who always stuck his nose up at everyone. Lo and behold, Mr Snooty came to my workplace to find a job. I don't think he noticed me when he was being interviewed by the general manager. After the interview, I told the GM, You don't want him. She always trusted me, so that one sentence was enough. He never got the job.
2picklesinabun 1 year ago
So, you don't like someone and decide they don't get work? Wow how terrible are you
Load More Replies... SuperDarkStudios 1 year ago
I absolutely fūcking hate my 6 year old brother. I ignore him, I have to be forced to say hi to him, and I'm hoping to go NC with him when I'm older. I wish we never adopted. I am not sorry,
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