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Carrying a secret for years, even decades can be taxing. If you don't tell anyone about it, that means no one can justify what you did and you're stuck wondering if you're a decent human being all by yourself. Which isn't always fun.
So in an attempt to make everyone's life a little easier, Reddit user Dramatic_Bat3265 submitted a question to the platform, asking: "What's your dirty lil secret?" Immediately, people rushed to confess, and as of this publication, there are over 17,000 comments under the post, with sins ranging from small and funny to big and concerning. Here are some of them.
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#1
I have a kitten I'm feeding without my wife's knowledge. She hates cats and I found one on the street. Every night before I go home I stop by the store and get cat food. She always asks me why I come home late every other night. I say I'm working. Or out with the guys, but I sit and talk to this stray cat about my problems and how mu day was. I named her senua. From senuas sacrifice.
I' Gomez & Morticia's kid 3 years ago (edited)
Dumping is bit extreme id say. Wife hates cats in general cause When she was younger she tried to pet this hyper feral cat, and she got scratched. She still has the scar so now she has a general dislike for them. OP said he trying to convince her without forcing the issue. I don't think it's a big deal.
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Tracy Wallick 3 years ago
I've never met someone who hated cats that didn't turn out to be toxic.
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Animals are great listeners. And paper co-authors if you ever need one. As well as zoom/ teams assistants
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Your wife hates cats??? You didn't know this before you got married?? WTF. How can anybody hate cats...
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
My dad said he hated cats and yet for years would lay in bed so Pikachu ( a dorky cat) would wake him up up by licking his ears and demanding pettings. He would also drive out to his job's storage facility on a farm just to put out cat food for the barn cats in the winter. And we ended up with a cat in the first place cause he felt bad one of our friend's cats had to live in the basement because he fought with other cats. So he got o become an only cat in our house. But dad still insisted he hated them.
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Pisco 3 years ago
Does she hate cats or is she just not a cat person? Because any person who hates animals cannot be worth keeping around. But if she emrely doesnt like them and you talk to her she might be open to keep the kitten at least until you find a home for her.
Zoe's Mom 3 years ago
Be nice folks. Hate is a strong word but there might be reasons she doesn't like cats. I'm not fond of them but I think they are cute as heck. I do agree w/Pisco.
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LC Greenwood 3 years ago
I think you may need to get straight with your wife and or get help w the marriage. good luck!
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 3 years ago
"I promise, honey, I don't have a cat, I'm cheating and have a drug problem but no cats, no no!"
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#2
I know exactly the rules for helping the children in my public education classroom but I still bring cold kids coats, hungry kids food, kids with terrible shoes better shoes, and hugs/long conversations for any child that asks. If any admin is pissed I’m giving a apple and a sandwich to a kid, I claim ignorance, the school system is so strained they won’t fire me so I am doing what I can during this time.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
What the f**k is wrong with a world in which giving a child food or warm clothing is something you have to do in secret?!!!
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
You are such a kind soul. I don't understand why this act of kindness should be a problem. I just don't get it. What is wrong with helping those in need?
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
This is awesome they do this. My mum couldn’t afford warm uniform gear when I was a kid, and I froze going to school in -1 to 4•c temperatures. She scraped some coins together one year and got me an op shop /thrift jacket and the school confiscated it and my track pants for not being uniform code etc. so I just froze. I hate schools that punish poor kids. (This was also a rural public school.)
Kai David 3 years ago
I was a teacher for 4 years. Every Monday, spent most of the day feeding starving kids, helping kids wash themselves clean. I would host two major partie/fundraiser a year, having hundreds of gay friends, was a major turn out. Entrance fee was new Donating wintre gear, shoes, school supplies, and cash for my claßroom.
K Witmer 3 years ago
Thomas Jefferson said if a law or a rule goes against humanity or doesn't make sense you have every right to disobey it. The same as not being able to bring food or water to voters that stand outside for 10 hrs in the sun to vote for the president they choose. The same as the law that says you can't share water w your neighbor if they don't have access to any. Are you supposed to stand by and watch people suffer in case you'll be arrested or fired?? Wtf
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
We had a kid who didn't bring a jersey in autumn on a day when it was extremely cold (for a South African; everything is relative - it wasn't below freezing). The Afrikaans teacher, a lady who gets very cold and always has a blanket with her, gave him her blanket to use. Looked odd to see a kid with a blanket on but at least he was smiling. (I keep a stash of cereal bars in my cupboard for kids who forget or don't bring their lunch.)
#3
I had a counselor who straight up turned some of my Ds to Bs when I changed schools before my senior year. I had a super rough home life and I told her about it when she asked why my test scores were very high and my grades were low. Thanks to her bumping up my GPA, I was able to get into college. I know it’s probably not 'right' and she risked her job, but that woman legit probably saved my life. I saw her about a year ago out in public and gave her the biggest hug.
Karl Baxter 3 years ago
In her defence, she obviously saw this person had potential and was just let down by circumstances. I would like to think she wouldn’t have done it if she was dealing with a proper thicko since the game would be up as soon as they started college.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
My 9th grade algebra teacher told me that I had failed her class. That meant I was going to have to stay another year at the junior high while all my friends went to high school. She took pity on me and gave me the absolute bare minimum to pass. It was a generous and kind thing for her to do. I promised her I would be better, and I was…for about a semester. I’m sorry I didn’t do better, Ms. Steiner, but I’ve always been grateful to you.
Jro308 3 years ago
My older brother drowned when I was 11, in 9th grade school we were required to take swimming for a marking period (6 wks) and I refused because of what happened to my brother, I failed gym that semester. Fast forward to the end my senior year I was in my counselor's office doing the final review when she realized that because of that failure I wouldn't graduate and would have to go to summer school, she changed my grade allowing me to graduate on time. I still think about her and am still so thankful for what she did for me.
Black Karen 3 years ago
So insensitive and heartless to fail you for that. Gym is not an essential class. Good for your counselor and Sorry about your brother.
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Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, I see nothing wrong with this. If you have the knowledge to pass the tests, why should you fail a class because you don't do the "busy" work?If you can walk in the first day and pass the exam, you should pass the class.
Keerthi Vardhan 3 years ago
If it was India, that'd have made no difference. We still learn things at school that are an absolute disconnect to the livelihood, or career we choose to follow. School tend to set a psycological trauma on kids 'you didn't do well..you are behind everyone. See that guy - see this guy' kind of comparision. I'm doing pretty well now considering I used to flunk in a bunch of subjects all my primary standards. I Only needs one correct person/teacher to tell the kid that nothing matters if you have the right potential for what you want to be. Just live the F up to your own dreams. The X num of subjects don't measure who you want to be. The grades are just to compare if you are able to recollect from your memory. I don't want to know which year Julius Caesar died. Doesn't matter in my dreams or line of field unless I inherited a fortune from that guy.
#4
The CEO of the company is a micromanager who wants to make even the tiniest decisions.
He has a coffee mug with the text: Rule 1: I am always right Rule 2: When not, see rule 1.
It might be a joke, but I feel it's a constant subliminal message he sends himself. So, I hid the mug a couple of months ago.
I just left the company last week, and did not return the mug.
ETA: Thanks for the awards, this is now my top comment.
At the time he looked for it frantically searching all offices and enquiring us if we are using 'his' mug.
I played dumb obviously and laughed my ass off.
I did not steal it, I am 6'6 no one else in the company is, and it sits on top of the kitchen cabinets, just out of sight and reach.
Esté 3 years ago
I love this, just out of sight, out of reach, but definitely there.. you, sir, are brilliant!
Betsy Novack 3 years ago
He never said he was smart. Just always right. I was with a friend who was buying nails. A girl came up to ask if he was finding everything ok. He starts going on about the heads are all on the wrong end of these nails. This poor girl was so flustered after he explained how they were supposed to be on the other end. She looked at me and I guess thought I was crazy by association. He finally told her he was joking and was going to pay for the nails. I told her to ring up three.
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Uchman 3 years ago
Why does everyone assume this CEO must be on Reddit or Bored Panda to read this random submission! In any case, he left the company
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John L 3 years ago (edited)
Sorry, but if you removed it (even if it's still in the building) without his permission, you stole it. Your lack of possession of it, doesn't negate the act.
#5
I lost the school spelling bee on purpose. The girl I was against put a lot of time and effort into it, whereas I basically just showed up. Plus, she was more on the nerdy side, not a lot going outside of school… and I felt she needed a victory. She missed a word, I purposefully missed it to keep her in. This happened a few times. Later, I missed one on purpose to give her the victory. She went on to the state competition. The teacher giving the words threw me a look of disgust, as she knew what I did. Oh well…
IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago (edited)
That was really kind of you. Winning isn't everything, but being a decent person is and you were really decent to do this. You won hands down where it counts. Congratulations.👏👏👏👏👏
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
You are a far, far better person than that teacher was or ever will be .....
Aeon Flux 3 years ago
Hey. For all you know, the teacher was just upset OP was sabotaging themselves.
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Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
This is super sweet and the girl probably really appreciated that win
#6
I'm a therapeutic foster parent. When kids leave us to go back home, I am usually really happy for them (unless I don't think their family is going to be able to handle things safely, then I am worried as could be) but I am also selfishly completely heartbroken. I think about our former kids all the time. When they go home, I try to write our name and phone number in a bunch of their books so they can maybe find us again. And I keep my Facebook page as unlocked as possible hoping they will feel they can reach out if they need anything. I want to foster forever, but I also wonder if I can keep saying goodbye like this. It absolutely guts me and I know I have no right to feel that way.
Liz the Wanderer 3 years ago
You have every right to your feelings. You are investing heavily, and have no control of the outcomes.
Lynn H 3 years ago
Exactly. Well said. On top of that, the OP is putting in a lot of time and care into these kids. I hope the OP remembers that the kids will always have her in their hearts and without her, things would be worse.
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This makes you a very very good person who has the child's best interest at heart, at least that how it sounds
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
You are doing a job that can only be done well if you care. Unfortunately, if you care, you can be hurt.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Thank you for helping these children. You have every right to feel your feels.
Sue User 3 years ago
My aunt and uncle fostered over 59 kids. One summer, one showed up to say "Hi"
Sara Schmertz 3 years ago
Sucks how people just move on. But I bet many of the kids had fond memories
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Kai David 3 years ago
We lived in a 7 bedroom 1870 farmhouse. We had 3 sons, but we had about ten kids living with us. Some came over for dinner or a sleepover and never left. Most of the kids were disowned by their families, others endured various types of abuse. Our home became known as the Safe Place amongst their friends.
#7
My ex-husband left, no warning, cheated pretended I didn’t exist. 1 year later he wants the sofa because he bought it! Due to the lock-down happing just after his request, he had to wait a while before he could pick it up. I proceeded to have sex all over that sofa, throughout lockdown, with new boyfriend! Ex now has the sofa back.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
I hope you turned it into a jackson pollack inspired piece.. only viewable under blacklight.
Kanuli 3 years ago
Not like you should send him video material. But maybe mention it a few years later.
Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
See, I would have done the opposite. I probably wouldn’t have sex on it, but I’d tell my ex that I did, daily, and I’d be specific with just how and what kind of sex I had and recommend he get it professionally cleaned and possibly recovered.
DuchessDegu 3 years ago
"oh and that time we had a threesome, it was great but we did lose a couple of condoms under the cushions. I did look for it as I had to remove the covers as my period leaked a bit but couldn't find it. Nah the period left just a barely noticeable stain, nothing to worry about!"
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BasedWang 3 years ago
lol shoulda stuffed a used condom in the cushion. You know the day would cum when he found it
Ben Steinberg 3 years ago
Boyfriend: "Yeah, it's going great, she's wonderful and smart, it's just...well...it's...she has this sofa fetish...It's cool and all...I just...she really likes that sofa..."
Bob Belcher 3 years ago
Pfffft, my wife and I bought our first house about 4 years back. FSBO out condo and our house to save about $12k in cash. With that money we bought new carpet in our house (it's a fixed upper) new washer and dryer, two couches and a dinning set. We were proud and wanted to host everyone for Christmas dinner which was a month after we moved in. My wife and I had sex several times on that dinning table. I made sure that's where my Step father sat.
#8
Third grade, 1953. Somebody passed out a box of lollipops to the class. There was an extra. I took it.
I can no longer live with this shame.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago (edited)
When I was ten, I stole a book from my school library. It was collection of short stories and I really liked it, so I borrowed it and never returned it. No one notice, but anyway I took one of my own books to replace it. Again, no one noticed. Turns out the book I took was a first edition, and really rare. And I still have it. [Edited note] After reading the comments, I have some things to say: 1. Thanks for all the comments of support and understanding. I do not meant to justify myself, but in my mind of the time me replacing the book with another was a way of taking it. 2. The library in question (or the school, for that matter) does no longer exist. I have no idea what happened to the books. 3. I do not intend to sell the book. 4. In case anyone is wondering, the book is a 1952 first edition of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (yes, I was an odd kid). It was old and falling apart when I took it and I repaired it myself with cellotape many times. Later I had it rebinded. I doubt it is valuable as a collectible now.
The lion tamer 3 years ago
Teacher here... Not many pupils read anymore, if a child wanted a book so badly that they stole it from the school library, I might be secretly happy.
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Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
You must've lived a very decent life for something like that to still bother you, bless you.
Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
Sometimes kids in my class would ask for extras for their siblings and eat them both
Kanuli 3 years ago
Oh I hated those kids!!! I am good with math, and statistics, and analysis. (So it’s not like I imagined this, or miscalculated) I brought exactly enough sweets and said 10x only 1 per costumer. And every time, there was like 2-3 too little, meaning I and the poor girl/guy in the last row corner would not get any. This happened so much, that I in the end placed the 1 sweet onto the persons table personally during break time!
ALEXIS CISNEROS 3 years ago
I actually have a few books i accidentally stole back in middle school, i checked them out but forgot about them until i graduated middle school. Now im to embarrassed to return them
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
I tried to steal a foamy banana when I was 11. Got caught. That was all.
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
I went down in infamy at my HS because I stole my yearbook. Everyone wanted to sign it because of that. Not because they like me mind you... because it was the "stolen" book. lol.
#9
When i was in high school, i failed second semester of biology. So here comes the next year and i have to retake it. Again, i pass first semester but fail second semester which means retaking the entire class.
Well, i transferred schools after that. When i was getting all my transfer information looked over in the office at the new school, the woman noticed i had two passed first semesters but never passed a full class.
I said “passing two semesters is KINDA like the full class”, she winked, and that was that. no more bio.
so i guess it’s OUR dirty little secret.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
If it was good enough for George Bernard Shaw, I'm sure making an exception for a mere mortal making a mistake won't hurt you x
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Dillon Brown 3 years ago
When I moved from OR to MO my old school used a weird mix of three different semester/trimester/ABCD alternating day schedules. It was really hard to navigate but harder to understand on my transcripts. When the new school got them they couldn't make heads or tails of it and I wound up getting loads of extra credits for things like Algebra 1 & 2 or Art A & C which were really just two different semesters or alternating days for the same class. As a result I wound up only needing to go half a day my senior year
Vinita Talaulikar 3 years ago
We had a wonderful teacher for biology, I loved Biology & Chemistry because they taught us so well.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
I moved to San Diego after 2 months in my freshman year (9th grade). My transcripts never arrived, this was the late 70's and everything was done by snail mail. The administrator gave me a placement test & I got bumped to 10th grade. Never had to take Algebra!
#10
When I was 15 or 16, I was in an abusive relationship and he would want to go out and I had to pay, but if I didn't have money he would get mad. So I would take money out of my grandma's savings box every time he would make me go out. It made me so guilty, but she never said anything, so over the years and after a lot of therapy now that I'm an adult and have a job and all, I put money from my salary in her box without her noticing. I think I've already paid back everything I took, but I don't want to stop. It hurts to think if she ever was affected by what I did...no matter the reason I did it.
Kanuli 3 years ago (edited)
Wow. With 12-17 I didnt have a job nor pocket money. But that you were forced to pay for someone this often is outrageous enough. I would guess he exploited and abused you in many more ways and I feel really sorry for this. I hope you can still see the bright side in life.
BusLady 3 years ago
Your grandma surely knew, but she loved you unconditionally. I'm glad you got out of that relationship.
Groundcontroltomajortom 3 years ago
Grandma pendant kept a bit extra in there for this purpose! I'd do that.
Load More Replies... Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
Maybe you can talk to her about it now, apologize and clear the air? Maybe she knew all along or will understand your reasons.
Summer Mason 3 years ago (edited)
Omg. I'm so f*****g sorry. You deserved better. I'm I'm so sorry no one ever taught you that. Me personally. As a mom. Would of kicked his ass into the ground. I don't do abuse. But if you abuse my child imma have at ya. Period.
Phil Green 3 years ago
You don't need to talk to anyone about what you did. I don't believe in a god of any kind but I do believe in the self. If you don't feel like stopping, don't. If you feel guilty and just want to do something good, you're doing ok.
Maria Mendez 3 years ago
you sound truly repentant & i think your gma may have forgiven you...
#11
I got an $8,000 dollar scholarship, due to a clerical error, for having above a 3.7 GPA all semester but my GPA was actually 3.07
K Sarfo 3 years ago
Im happy for OP but I feel bad for the person who actually did the deed and missed out
Betsy Novack 3 years ago
3.07 is nothing to sneeze at. The amount is chump change compared to all the money accepted in bribery. The scandals were just getting careless and the sheer number of them because people talk and started comparing notes. Colleges are like big parties after all those years kids go through sitting in school. Student loans. Everybody should take a year off and get the crazies out.
Frankenfrog 3 years ago
Man, the American admission system is so messed up. You indebt yourself for life to go to college or university, yet they act like you should be grateful to be even considered paying an insane amount of money to attend their precious school..
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago (edited)
Prior to the internet, you had to do everything by looking it up at a library or know someone who knows the answer. I found a $500 scholarship that was earmarked for Inuit of what is now Nunavut by the Catholic church for first generation children to go to college. I am not catholic, indigenous, or even canadian but I was the only one who applied and the bylaws allowed it. I would not have gone to college without it but as a mature adult it makes me genuinely sad of the loss that all those children suffered because they didn't even know help was available. I probably would have found another scholarship if I had been rejected because I would have kept looking and some kid who deserved it would have gotten an education.
Mark Kelly 3 years ago
You know what, that is good. People who have the best grades shouldn't always get the rewards.
DC 3 years ago
Clerical error ... well, they got enough money anyway, and sure did worse to get a hold on it than you. You didn't even play the system actively, but just passively accepted the outcome of a flawed, rigged, messed up system that never deserved anything else in the first place, so ... never feel any shame - only if you get yourself caught, but that shame, then, shall be about stupidity, not about receiving their money.
#12
A co-worker retired and I inherited one of his reports, which is one of my employer's Key Performance Metrics. Every two weeks it would take him an entire 8 hour day to complete. The first week I was able to automate most of it down to 1 hour. Over the next nearly 10 years, I've improved it to the point that it runs in less than a minute, then 14 minutes to quality check it. I then spend the next 8 hours surfing reddit, watching movies, doing whatever I want in my office from home. All this time, I've told my boss it takes me 8 hour to perform, and sometimes I'll tack on extra hours because of "technical issues". No questions asked as long as its in his inbox by COB Friday. About 8 years ago I had a conversation with a coworker who works for my boss' boss. It turns out he recieves the report on Monday and never reads it. It gets filed away and the only time they get looked at is during an audit. I've had to discuss the reports just twice, and showed them an "SOP" I wrote that demostrates how it's done (without the automation). Auditor checks the box, next item... Whenever I'm on vacation, I turn the SOP over to someone else who'll have to compile the report by hand. When I get back, they've alway mentioned "How do you do all that in just 8 hours???" At this point I've charged my boss nearly an entire year for sitting on my [butt]
Charlie Taube 3 years ago
If they find out, they fire you and use your system. So, you hide streamlining. It is my first rule of employment
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John Dilligaf 3 years ago
still not as good as the guy who outsourced his entire job. Of course he got caught and fired, so maybe this is better after all.
Uchman 3 years ago (edited)
Employees don't trust bosses either, so... The sooner you understand there's no loyalty anywhere in business, the better for you
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third molar 3 years ago
Make hay while it shines. Developers are anyway automating themselves out of job!!
#13
I never wrote my 7th grade science paper on Dysentery, and when my teacher asked me if I turned it in, I said yes.
She looked through all of the papers and stacks of paperwork on her very crowded desk, and she said she "knew she saw it there somewhere."
I got a B for a paper I never wrote.
Sorry Ms. Weber.
Kanuli 3 years ago
I felt so guilty half my life. Did this once, actually when I was too young to get what I was doing, but old enough to feel bad about it? I took the same topic this presentation was about and aced it in my academic career later on. And I have never done it again, and never will. Honesty is key.
Question everything 3 years ago
I feel guilty over the smallest things... but... honesty will take you places maybe 10% of the time. Cheaters get further in life. Just look at all the rich people. They didn't get that far by being honest and nice so we shouldn't felel bad about cutting corners here and there.
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Rider 3 years ago
Did that for an 8th grade history project. When the teacher said he didn't receive my project, I acted extremely surprised and upset. I said "you lost my project" and started crying. He gave me a B. I almost broke character, but couple of sniffles and a week "ok" as I hung my head and wipe my tears.
Annabeth Chase 3 years ago
I once had to do a piece of writing in primary school that my secondary school would look at. I ended up behind and asked to take it home. I did and promptly forgot about it. Never handed back in.
Dillon Brown 3 years ago
When I moved from OR to MO my old school used a weird mix of three different semester/trimester/ABCD alternating day schedules. It was really hard to navigate but harder to understand on my transcripts. When the new school got them they couldn't make heads or tails of it and I wound up getting loads of extra credits for things like Algebra 1 & 2 or Art A & C which were really just two different semesters or alternating days for the same class. As a result I wound up only needing to go half a day my senior year
Vee! 3 years ago
last semester i took an online cybersecurity class. i would submit my work and i would always get 100%. i never thought much of it until i submitted a physics assignment and still got 100%. i then became suspicious and submitted a file that i corrupted to see if the teacher would say anything. she didn't. so for the rest of the semester, i submitted corrupted files and got a fantastic grade. on the final day of the semester, i emailed my teacher telling her what i had done and i attached a zipped file containing my ACTUAL work. let's just say she wasn't too happy with me- luckily she couldn't do anything to my grades because 1. there wasn't enough time to grade everything properly and 2. because i had dirt on her that could potentially get her fired. i do feel bad for what i did but i want a proper education. is that so wrong? i also apologized to her and she just said "whatever" lol
Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago (edited)
I didn’t write my thesis. I was in a project that replaced the thesis, but it failed, so by the time I had to graduate I had no thesis. The teacher pretended I had done the project so well even when it failed, he gave me a passing grade. It dropped my overall score, but at least I graduated. It was the only nice thing he ever did for me, but it was enough.
#14
I slept with my mom’s friend. She was younger than my mom. She was 32 and I was 20 at the time. She stopped me one day as I was walking by her apartment and asked if I could take a look at her laptop because the “wifi wasn’t working.” I said of course and started looking for the cause of it. While I was on her couch with the laptop she comes out of the kitchen with a bottle of tequila and two shot glasses. At that point I knew the real reason I was there. Needless to say, there was nothing wrong with her wifi.
Susie Elle 3 years ago
Don't mean to be that person but if the roles were reversed and a 32 year old man would lure in a 20 year old woman like that, everyone'd get the shivers. I mean, at least he was an adult.
Laura Pantazis 3 years ago
As long as people are adults and able to consent, age gaps don't bother me.
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LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
That was the first thing that popped into my head too.
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IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago (edited)
This is like a modern version of the song "Summer The First Time" by Bobby Goldsboro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ruZX5JdCk
K Witmer 3 years ago
This is not that bad. If they were in a relationship then it would be much more creepy and yes I would say this if it was the other way around as well. It's when the age gap in a relationship is that large that it becomes about control. Having a one night stand that's consensual when you're an adult out of curiosity is normal.
#15
When I was a kid, my mom took away my favorite computer game CD for a few weeks as punishment for something I did. (Bad grade I think?)
I found where she hid it, photocopied the CD label, cut out the print, glued it to a blank disk, and put that in the place of the real CD. (Surprisingly she never noticed!)
I played it when no one else was home. Its been 18 years, and I still haven't told her!
IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago
My parents had an old rotary phone in the late 80s early 90s that they could put a lock on to stop me from using. I was in town one day and my mother gave me some groceries to put back in the car and gave me her keys. There on her key chain was the key to the phone lock. I took it to a shop that cut keys and used my allowance to get the key copied. It worked. To this day even though they are both dead they never knew why their phone bill was a little higher each month.
Dillon Brown 3 years ago
This seems like it would be dangerous. My mom once fell off a ladder and broke her ribs, almost her back. My little sister (almost kindergarten aged at that point) called 911, what if there had been a lock on the phone???
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Insert Generic Username 3 years ago (edited)
Oh, the hijinks my brother and I got up to as kids; there's too many to count. We were constantly bickering but one time I was an idiot and he saved my ass from getting grounded for the entirety of summer. I left a burning candle on my desk unattended that caught my bedroom wall on fire. He smelled the smoke and burning wall, put out the (thankfully small) fire, and cleaned up the mess, and repainted the small patch of burnt wall, all without our parents finding out. He was 12 and I was 10 at the time. A few years ago, when he was 38 and I was 36, we finally told our parents what happened and neither of them were surprised. Decades had passed; what were they gonna do, ground us both?
#16
I act a lot stupider at work so they don’t rely on me too much
Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
I get this. My sister just quit her job today because she was being exploited for her labor. She was in an entry level position but so smart and great at what she did, they dumped the responsibility of a former supervisor on her and now she’s managing 10 interns at the same salary she was hired for and that a handful of others who don’t do extra make. When she tried to negotiate they used her lack of experience in the job and the fact that these were unpaid interns as an excuse to not give her a cent extra. In her meeting with her boss and HR they mentioned how smart and quick to learn she was over a dozen times. If only she had acted a little less intelligent. This happens on subtle and micro levels all the time. Your intelligence will be exploited, just as your ignorance will.
Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
Sorry it’s not in my job description I was hired for. So you can either give me a new title with new pay or find someone else to do this work for this pay because unfortunately I wont be able to at this current pay structure as Im not actually being paid for it. That’s all she needs to say. People will take advantage of you if you let them. Rather then quitting why not say this first and see where it gets you? If she’s willing to quit she should be willing to stand up for herself.
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Guido Pisano 3 years ago
is really sad that if you're smart enough you get exploited and not rewarded (most of times)
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Somewhere in my 20’s I pretended not to know how to use basic Office programs well and wouldn’t get a sign in or be programmed into the copier. All of this was to avoid my male counterparts and managers from dumping their BS clerical work on me…I was a telecommunications infrastructure build contracts manager when I started doing this.
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 3 years ago
Sort of happpens in my job, video editor for a tv station. The ones who put some time to upgrade our skills, manage more programs to make better videos are the ones that get tasked the hardest jobs that may make you stay overnight doing. The ines that only are skilled in the editing program get the easy part, clock on hour and are paid the same.
Kevin Beard 3 years ago
I remember a job I was at where you had to pass tests to get raises. You could take the test after 1 week and take up to an hour for the test. If you passed you got 5 cents more per hour. I did the math and every week that would be $2. I made $17 an hour. To me it was better to not work for an hour and fail that test every week. I remember a supervisor commenting, it's weird how you get everything right up until the last 7 questions every time.
abby smink 3 years ago (edited)
There's a guy at work I think must either be the stupidest, or the smartest. He calls out every week, is late when he does show up, and doesn't do anything while he's there. They do jack crap about it. So, he's either trying to get fired and get unemployment, or knows he can get away with it, and so he does. Or he just genuinely thinks that's all ok.
Veronica Sjöberg 3 years ago
Well. If you have a dead end, underpaid, temporary job I sort of understand... but it's really a d**k move if it increases the work load of your co-workers.
Sue User 3 years ago
Oh, so rhey should stay being exploited so that other are not exploited more by her leaving ? If you leave/ say anything i will hurt others, said every abusive person .
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Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
That could also end in them thinking your incompetent compared to the others and they could fire you, but if you act smart enough you can probably get away with it, you don't always have to stress yourself
Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
I suppose that's not as bad as being the brain of the shop and the boss ignores you: you're smarter than him and he's too dumb to notice.
#17
When our phone was disconnected (1990's) for non-payment, I dialed 911 to see if they would still pickup (they did) but I hung up right away. Ten minutes later the cops showed up at my door, and I blamed it on the kids.
KC Lancaster 3 years ago
In this case, if the cops had decided they were "wasting police time" the person could be fined, put in jail, or both.
Load More Replies... Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
You should have told them you were worried in case something happened and the phone wasn't available. Explain that you were testing it for the sake of your and your kids safety. They should understand, if they don't they are bad at what they do
Insert Generic Username 3 years ago
I called 911 when I was little just to see what would happen and hung up as soon as the dispatcher came on the line. Being the little idiot I was, I went and hid in my bedroom closet. Cops came and since my dad was a cop, I got lectured by everyone for it.
BusLady 3 years ago (edited)
This is a story that has been passed around my family for years. My niece was about 5 and she dialed 911. Her father caught her and heard the dispatcher on the other end. He hung up and grabbed her and walked out the door saying he was going for a ride. A few minutes later there was a knock on the door and my mil opened it to see the police on her doorstep.
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Tim 3 years ago
If you ever call 911 by mistake, wait until they answer and explain. There's no penalty.
•porcelain•doll• 3 years ago
I did that and they still showed up. They said i could have been in a bad situation and had to lie.
Load More Replies... Kanuli 3 years ago
Why didn’t you just explain it to them? Like wtf. Fear of not being able to reach them if you need is legit. Blaming your kids, and not standing up to your own mistake, is weak and wrong.
KatHat 3 years ago
People do strange things when they panic. Give people grace. She was under a lot of pressure and stress; none of us make our best decisions during those times.
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Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago
In the US, all mobile phones, active service plan or not, can call 911.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
You had a valid concern, and no other way of calling someone to find out.
Justine Queequag 3 years ago
Which is why a high percentage of 911 calls are not even emergencies
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cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
All lines for emergency communication are usually kept open and well maintained, so this does not surprise me
Michael Bond 3 years ago
Where I work at you have to dial 991 to get an outside line, at first people were hitting 911 and hanging up. When the emergency operators looked at the number of 911 calls coming from our company, they told the supervisors to spread the word not to hang up but tell the operator it was a mistake. Saved a lot of heartache on both sides of the phone.
#18
It wasn’t raccoons that spilled that paint in the garage in 1993. It was me
Melody Machala 3 years ago
A raccoon ripped the head of one of my chickens the one in my profile pic
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 3 years ago
The parents already know this. They always knew. But they kept quiet, just like you did XD
Steffen Rehm 3 years ago
You never know. The grandma i do not want visit anymore for a long time now, because i did something as a kid and she not let it go, is still angry at me for it. but i can not blame her for that, because i think that's the familyline where i got my little pettiness. To be honest, it is hard to fight.
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When I was a kid, I farted into a little box over and over for a full year. It was a tin some christmas cookies came in with a picture of Santa on it. Every single time I had to fart, I lifted the lid, “put it in the box”, and quickly closed it. Before long, the box was successfully weaponized and ready for deployment. When my brother was mean to me, I’d steal his Oakleys (expensive horrible 90’s sunglasses) and put them in the box to, um, marinate overnight. Then I’d quietly return them.
My brother continually complained to my mom about how they smelled and that they’d sold him “a bad pair,” and wanted new ones. She was like hell no dude. So he just kept wearing them til they broke.
So basically I farted into my brother’s eyes for a year. Never told anyone.
Olga Posedaru 3 years ago
I'm actually quite impressed with the physics of this.... didn't know you could do that! :D
Kanuli 3 years ago
Well it’s more disgusting but let me try explain how chemistry and physics work here. Almost anything is vaporising with time. The term here is vapor pressure. As the name implies, it’s depending on pressure, and as we talk about vaporising, temperatur. The reason is the air pressure outside, or in a closed system if present, also humidity can play a role. Some solid materials, like metal are special, but let’s just keep it simple. Anything with water in it, will with time lose substance. This substancial loss will most of the time dragged by the vaporising molecules in small portions. So what basically happened, some stuff of his s**t is vaporised in his farts, and since he did this over such a long time most likely laid a film of fecals inside the boxes interior surface. Placing the glasses in, will disturb the airflow and some particles land on the glasses. To his benefit worked that especially s**t aroma needs really low quantities to be smelled, and smell for a quite long time.
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The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 3 years ago
Now you can buy farts in a jar. Perhaps there IS a need.
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
I'm just impressed with the seal of that box! but this sounds like something I would do to my brother and sister without a care
Sasquatch The Almighty 3 years ago
I had a blanket, as a kid, that I would terrorize my younger sisters with. Most of the time, it was an innocent blanket. Until I would become possessed by Loki, and it would become the dreaded SMELLMAT!! I would chase one of them, fart into the middle of Smellmat, and wrap it around her head. Good times :)
#20
When I was about 8-9 I was sent to a summer camp for 1 month. My sister, who was 14, also was there. Never been away from my parents before. This camp was located around Lake Delton wisconsin. I remember the cabins in the woods. Now I don't know if I had arachnophobia before this experience, but I recall that the toilet stalls had dozens of daddy longleg spiders all over, and I was so scared I just held It in for about 4-5 days. Well.. One day I just couldn't hold it anymore and had to make a run for the toilets. I semi ran/walked to The toilets, trying to hold it in, made it In to the main area where the sinks are and just couldn't hold it anymore and just quickly, with one hand, pulled down my pants from behind and dropped the biggest dump on the tile floor, all while still in motion towards the toilet. Thank God no one was in there to see this. When I stepped out, a large group had formed out side and inside one of the staff was covering his face with one hand and holding a hoes in the other.No one suspected me.. .. I thanked God that no one found this out as if they had, the rest of my stay there would have been utter torment.
Fast forward about 30 years.. Im at my parents house with my wife.. My sister is there as well, brothers. Anyway.. We're talking and camp comes up. Told her that it was Me who did that... She nearly laughed to death, Saying "the entire camp talked about this all summer". Hate spiders up until this day.
Good times.
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
"Hose." A staff member in a group "holding his face and a hoes" has an entirely different meaning and would certainly have beaten your incident for top gossip of the summer. =)
MaggieWest 3 years ago
Is this a common thing for Americans to have sleepaway camp for a whole month for little kids?
Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
Yes. I think it is because Americans have little vacation time but the kids have 3 months summer break. At camp they are taken care of.
Load More Replies... Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
I used to pick up daddy long legs and keep them as pets, then when my younger brother came close I would take one and chase him with it..... they weren't really pets, they usually starved and I used to pull their legs off too... I was a lil psycho
#21
I’d only just begun paying off a vehicle loan in mid 1999. My January payment was returned with the bank saying it was paid off. Not even close. Thanks Y2K.
Pisco 3 years ago
I always wished that i could be a hacker and go around canceling peoples loans.
Brendan McCarthy 3 years ago
What a coincidence, I always wish that some hacker would come along and cancel all my loans!
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Kanuli 3 years ago
I heard this before. Always thought it’s a myth. Some people claimed back then, that the administrative work for some stuff was too high, so it was cheaper in the long run to just null some loans and stuff to clear the load to a cheaper managable level. Maybe personell and equipment (like more computers, servers, storage capacity) also played a part. Who knows. The reason would have been real interesting. But I get why almost no one would go and ask ;) (I actually did, and although I would have been fine with paying the wronged difference, I got the official off the hook message and was aswell consciously aswell as money wise free.)
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Most of these errors happened because the software was coded to use the dd/mm/yy format. So when the year 2000 came, things got screwed up because computers couldn't handle transactions from 1999 when they "thought" it was 1900.
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Nice. My bank never cashed a mortgage check once. Since have sold the home, so it’s history.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
I'll bet some decent human being actually did that, blamed it on y2k and never took the credit, honestly sounds more plausible
advice5cents 3 years ago
I'm waiting for the confession about "we were comfortable financially, but my wife didn't believe we should buy our kid a car outright..."
Load More Replies... Bob Belcher 3 years ago
Worked at a smaller credit union back in 2007. We had a internal policy that if a vehicle loan was less than 3,000 we wouldn't repo it bit we would still work collections as normal. The collection manager was a d**k and a wessle. Got our old boss fired who had been there for over 30 years but was not used to computers much. The new collection manger would make us call one Olde customer and threaten repo on a loan she owed less than 1800 on. Would piss me off so after one call I set the system to not pull up the loan for call again until 01/01/2099. Two months later I went to my next job. I have no clue what happened after that.
Wesley Lucas 3 years ago
I went to Radio Shack a few years ago to pay my Boost Mobile bill. It was $50 so I slapped it on the counter and the dude behind it kept trying to process the payment through their system. Well, after about 3 attempts, he says it's not working and hands me the cash back. A second later, I get a text saying my payment was processed and I was good for the month. I showed it to the guy and asked if it went through on his end and he says "nope! Must've been a mistake, enjoy your day!" and I walked out with my $50 AND my bill magically paid.
#22
I’m not that good at IT, I can google like no other.
Reuben Burdekin 3 years ago
My friend that is all I.T is, learning how to google and understanding that all roads lead to stack overflow
A Jones 3 years ago
As an IT person, it's okay to ask for help. Besides it is technically technical research.
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Dodo 3 years ago
My family all think I'm the 'computer expert' in the family. In reality, I just know how to use Google. (It sucks though, because they come to me for E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G)
Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 3 years ago
My nick name had the word Google in it. If it's on the Internet, I will find it. My husband researched something for almost a year and I found it it 20 minutes. He thinks I'm weird but it's a talent that I like having 😊
Peter Korsten 3 years ago
I'm very good at IT, and I'm also very good at googling. Most of the time I google things, because it's the quickest way to solve a problem – and usually, the answer is on StackOverflow. No need to re-invent the wheel.
Farmboyatheart 3 years ago
My computer professor has worked in cyber security, programming, and data recovery since he was in the military mid 70's. He told me that if I can Google well I can get an IT job. He told me that's what he does all the time.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 3 years ago
IT is mostly knowing processes and terminology. Not memorizing every intricate detail. If you know the terminology and how the systems work on a basic level, you can find the information to fix almost anything. But any given singular issue is never going to come up frequently enough to bother knowing how to fix everything.
#23
I came clean a few years ago. But in the 4th and 5th grade I had an obsession with sharp things like knives and razors and would bring them to school. One day our teacher was reading a book and I was messing with the razor behind my back and cut the overhead projectors cord and flipped the breakers for the room. They could tell I cut it but never found the razor blade I hid. 20 years later I find my teacher on FB who still teaches at the same school. I fessed up and told him where he might find the razor blade in the classroom. Sure enough all these years later he found the blade with a hole burned in it from the shock. He decided to keep it as a souvenir from his very first year teaching.
Bobby 3 years ago
breaker probably tripped before they got more than a jolt. or maybe it was like a box cutter and had a plastic handle?
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Inclusion2020 3 years ago
How were you not caught and frisked by an adult haha. I’m a teacher in a program for aggressive kids (usually aggressive towards one another, would never intentionally hurt the teachers they care about) and I gotta say it scares and surprises me that some kids get into the building with knives. So many things could go wrong.
Jessica Gunn 3 years ago
He was caught and frisked. He said they knew he did it but couldn't find the blade because he hid it.
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#24
When I was about 8 i was in a supermarket with my mum and she had to use the bathroom. I was sat on the bench outside waiting and there was one of those “press to break glass” fire alarms on the wall. I wanted to know how hard you had to press it… not very hard as it turns out.
The whole store had to leave their shopping and go outside, well over 100 people. Not sure what happened after that because we just went home.
It’s been 20 years and I’ve still never told anyone.
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
Fairly obvious they'd break easily for safety and not-many-people-carry-a-hammer reasons
Load More Replies... Ben Steinberg 3 years ago
And your poor mum was trying to use the bathroom when you set if off?
rumade 3 years ago
One time when I was about 8 I was at a water mill (for grinding grain to flour) that had loads of interactive bits for kids. But there was also a big with loads of big lit up buttons just over a yellow and black tape line on the floor. I reached across and pressed a big button, and instantly heard a loud whirring and grinding noise. In my defence I was bored and if it was that important, it shouldn't have been accessible 😐
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 3 years ago
Haha, yeah. Even as an adult, every time I pass one of those fire alarms with the little glass rod, the lizard brain wants to investigate it, figure out how it works and what it's like XD
Ivy la Sangrienta 3 years ago
We have several of those all over my building. Problem was people pushing goods in metal cages kept bumping into them and setting them off. Now they've fitted little steel cages for the alarms. Big enough gaps for hands but not for accidental side swipe pokes.
#25
Cheated on my CV to add some skills and certificates I don’t have to match a Google position… but after 5 years I mastered all of them and became a team manager ..
Still a black hole I still can’t get through
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
As long as they are asking for a PhD to re-stock shelves, you are legally allowed to lie about your qualifications.
Earl Grey 3 years ago
Or 7+ years experience in a technology that only came out last year.
Load More Replies... KatHat 3 years ago
It's interesting. Lying is wrong. But what is also wrong is how often degrees and qualifications are used to exclude rather than to include, and how people hiring do so semi-blindly through just relying on pieces of paper rather than the person's actual skill-set. Throw in the cost of education in many (most?) countries and it's another way the rich quietly set about keeping everything for themselves and stacking every deck in their favor.
Britches are for everyone 3 years ago
My dissertation director insisted that I lie on my CV, put articles on it that I hadn't written or didn't exist, basically just pad my CV so I could get a job. I refused to do it, never did get a job in academia, and now I'm a house dad and living my best life.
Christina B 3 years ago (edited)
This will get a down-vote for sure but the use of 'still' twice in such a short sentence to me is like nails on a chalkboard....the first or second instance should be omitted
Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
A public library, properly used, can give you a diploma. Since I graduated over 40 years ago, no one has ever asked to see my legitimate diploma, so just be smart and don't claim to be a lot smarter than you really are. A former boss had a Doctorate certificate on his wall which he thought had us fooled. There was no date on it and he spoke and acted illiterate. We knew he was full of it and the one time I slipped and called him 'sir' he about broke his own neck snapping his head around in amazement! "Wow! Someone called me 'sir!' "
Uchman 3 years ago
I find that HR people just cut and paste all the usual s**t that make a job posting look impressive. Every job I've had in my 25 year career came with lots of training and learning on the job. Last position I had, I recently saw it advertised and probably half of what they put there is just rubbish, I had none of that when I got it
Bob Belcher 3 years ago
Most large companies use software to scan resumes before interviews. Type your resume in a word document and in the footer, in the smallest font type a bunch of buzz words for your area and then change the text to white. Then convert the file into PDF. The software will still pick up the text but if someone prints out your resume the text won't show. You're welcome.
#26
5yr old me ruined my parents marriage. I distinctly remember finding what I now know is a condom(unused) in our old station wagon. Me not knowing any better began playing with it. Got done tossed it in the trash. Fast forward a short time later. My father returns home and begins to drag the can to the road. As he closes the lid he notices said condom and you can guess where it goes from there. I didn’t learn that was the reason until I was about 14-15.
LC Greenwood 3 years ago
You did not ruin their marriage. lies and deceit between adults did that
Sasy 3 years ago
There was no deceit the kid unwrapping it, playing with it, and then putting it in the trash made the Dad think the Mum had been cheating on him with someone else.
Load More Replies... Kanuli 3 years ago
It was not your fault. And stop thinking this immediately. Whatever you did was you growing up before knowing any extend of your actions. This is outright excused, for all eternity. What happened between your parents was 99,9% not caused by this one thing alone anyway.(even if, NOT YOUR FAULT) The insecurities, low trust levels, misconceptions, maybe there even was something going on, and your mom was like „he didn’t even use a condom“. Or your dad took this as opportunity to cheat himself. It’s all on the plate of your parents. They could have hidden it better, or taught you not to play with them. Whatever. Children should not feel such guilt, and you should stop blaming for something you had no control over. What you did doesn’t make you guilty of their actions. You should generally try to avoid taking blame for stuff you can’t control. Just saying.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
I have Sims. I have this guy, Carl LaBeuf. Carl was an elder. He was married to a vampire who decided to break things off. So she decided to *ahem* Woohoo with him until he died of overexertion. The Grim Reaper came and the other people in the house (Mac and Leonard, two roommates. The vampire's kids were in school) filed into the room to witness the death. Faced with witnesses, the vampire (her name is Rachel) begged the Grim Reaper to spare her husband. And the unspeakable happened: it worked. Carl was brought back to life. As everyone congratulated Carl and Rachel and left, Rachel suggested to Carl that they Woohoo again, to celebrate his miraculous return. Carl died again, and this time Rachel didn't plead for him. But a glitch in the game made it so Carl and Rachel were still married, even with Carl as a ghost. He caught her cheating with Mac, so they started fighting. Then they got divorced in front of their adopted toddler, Gray.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
Gray immediately blamed himself, the poor baby. The Sims are a bit too realistic for my taste in that respect. Now the ghost of Carl still haunts their house, depressed about his death and the divorce. Rachel has 3 kids from 3 different fathers: Dawn, daughter of Carl, Aphrodite, daughter of Leonard, and (unknown), child of Mac. Mac has since died of old age, so Rachel is planning to marry Leonard. Anywho, that's the story of my evil vampire and how she traumatized her adopted son XD.
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Jodi Baer 3 years ago
I was thinking the same thing- that’s a lot to carry for the rest of your life. I’m so sorry, but you definitely did not cause the divorce. Something was already broken in that relationship to begin with unfortunately. When I was little, also elementary school age, I didn’t listen my parents and some horrible consequences happened to a family member. My mom still blames herself for reacting the way she did after the accident. I have mental and emotional issues, and I feel horrible that she thinks that one incident is what screwed me up for life. Obviously something was wrong inside of me to begin with. I would have depression and anxiety whether that incident happened or not. And of course I feel guilty because I did some thing it wasn’t supposed to do in the first place… hugs to you.
Load More Replies... Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
Seems an inherent lack of trust and inauthentic validation crashed that party. Not an innocent 5yo.
Jill Pulcifer 3 years ago
If a single opened condom in a trash can ruined their marriage, then you did them a favor.
#27
One time when I was 10-12 ish, I told a group of friends that I brushed my teeth with hot water instead of cold water (our cultural norm) just to seem quirky or cool, and man did it get the reaction I was hoping for. However, it was all a lie. I did brush with cold water. And this lie was too heavy for my pre-teen soul, so every day since then I have brushed my teeth with hot water, despite being 15 years older. I feel trapped in my hot teeth scrubbing sentence yet it feels right as a punishment for lying.
Tiffanie Sewell 3 years ago
I've brushed my teeth with hot water for sad long as I can remember. It feels better on my teeth and I feel like it's a little more sanitary.
Cydney Golden 3 years ago
It's actually less sanitary bc it's the water that's been sitting in the hot water tank. There may be sediment in it.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 3 years ago
Huh, I've never once in my life considered the temperature of the water I brush my teeth with.
Jessica Gunn 3 years ago
I have always brushed with warm/hot water. My teeth cannot handle cold water, never have
Bora Zrinyi 3 years ago
Poster, if you need I give you permission now to brush your teeth with nice warm (not hot, not cold) water. You punished yourself enough.
Hugh Walter 3 years ago
I always use the hot tap, it softens the bristles and does less damage to the gums.
Jinetlee Luciano 3 years ago
Def brush my teeth with hot water, if not my brush feels hard and prickly 🤔. Maybe it’s a cultural water heater thing lol
#28
I was 10 ... My parents had been working day and night to get their start up business off the ground. ... After several months of spending my afternoons alone ... I decided to diversify my entertainment selection. I proceeded to ransack their entire office ... I broke a window and two lamps, smashed the legs off a chair, and pulled every file from the cabinets and tossed them around the room like confetti. I then called my mother and told her I’d just gotten home and found the place burglarized. She told me to get out of the house, and called 911 on her way home. The cops arrived with their sirens blaring at about the same time she rolled up. They stormed the house with guns drawn, screaming, 'Come out with your hands up!' When I saw them going all Delta force through my front door, I knew that I had probably gone a little too far this time. Long story short, a detective came to take a report after the patrol cops had cleared the premises. As I was sitting on my living room sofa, surrounded by the tattered remains of my dirty work, the detective looked me dead in the eyes and said, 'There was no break in, was there?' The man looked right into my soul and knew the truth. ... Thankfully, I was young enough to escape any criminal charges.
Katinka Min 3 years ago
Well, I hope his parents spent some more time with him. It soudns like he was neglected and jealous of their business.
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Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
BP cut off the end: "My parents weren’t too harsh with their punishment either. I guess they figured it was more a cry for help than the actions of a burgeoning sociopath. For the next couple of years they made sure someone was always home with me. Or they made sure I was signed up for an after school program."
DarthSadie 3 years ago
Thanks for adding that, friend. I was curious about how his parents reacted.
Load More Replies... Zoe's Mom 3 years ago
Don't believe a word of this. Cops don't come running blazing guns for a break in and detective aren't involved in a random break-in. Nope, I doubt this ever happened.
Question everything 3 years ago
A 10yo child is at home on its own and finds a ransacked house? Sure they would, especially in a non poor area.
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#29
My freshman year of highschool, I ditched class so much that I flunked the year. I moved to a different town over the summer and somehow they lost my "permanent record" in the mail. (Early 90s, so they had computers, but they weren't integrated between school districts, so it was just a fat folder of paperwork.) Anyway, when the new school realized this, they called me in and asked what classes and grades I had, so I straight up lied my way out of having to retake freshman year.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
did a similar thing. as a military family we moved to a new place. told my parents i had registered for school but didn't. just stayed home for a couple of months until i got bored. when i did go in they asked for my records and i told them that the old school had sent them. they searched, didn't find them but just assumed that i had transferred immediately. never did question where half a year's grades went.
#30
I (M25) had a threesome with two co-workers (M40 & F33). Now she's pregnant with her husband (atleast we think that it's his)
#31
Back in the day, my drunk friend wanted to do more shots of vodka, but put water in the shot glasses for her. She said that she couldn’t taste anything. I told her that after a while, her taste buds are messed up because she had too much to drink, but here ya go! Bottoms up!
MN “MN Female” Female 3 years ago
The girls at my bachelorette party got me totally blotto prior to going out for the evening and every drink out was a virgin something or another. I never knew till the next day. I'm slightly mad at them yet impressed they watched out for me at the same time!
#32
All my work can be done on my cellphone and I lay in bed most mornings until noon.
#33
I was supposed to map the coordinates of our class’ buried time capsule in 1979 and did not do it.
Cadena Norton 3 years ago
Don't worry it will turn up. In the 90s my school was doing renovations and found the the school time capsule from the 60s. No one knew it was there. It was marked to b opened in the yr 2000 so they bricked it back in to wall and ripped it out in 2000. Then our school made another one and buried them and do this every 20 yrs. I saw an article about opening the 2000 one and remembered we put a video of a goth fashion show in there. I am mortified that someone has now seen that
#34
When I was three or four years old, my mom and I were at a Piggly wiggly market. She wouldn't buy me the five cent piece of gum out of the bins of candy. I was mad. I stole the five cent piece of gum. The store went out of business within a month. As an adult I understand my theft didn't put the store out of business. Nonetheless, I've lived with that guilt for more than 30 years
Axolotl King 3 years ago
Dude when I was five I accidentally stole a penny from a Panda Express. It was on the counter and I thought it was our change so I grabbed it for my dad but it turned out it was money he was giving the cashier. He made me go back in and give it back and apologize, to this day I still joke about the time I stole money from a restaurant (and then explain the actual story for legal reasons) XD
Steve Kenney 3 years ago
I stole gum from K-Mart, I must be responsible for it's national demise. I think there are only like 12 open now.
#35
I'm a college dropout who makes a fantastic living basically driving a go kart at an airport.
#36
In my childhood (fifth or sixth grade) while eating my breakfast before leaving for school, I would keep little chewed food inside my mouth and when I walk to the school bus stand I would drink a sip of water and just when I sat in the bus I would vomit it out so that I could be sent back home for feeling unwell. I used to repeat this in couple of month specially the day I didn’t feel like going to school at all sometime to watch cricket match
#37
One time when I was like 5-9 years old my dad was shopping around at a lumber store. I wandered around alone and couldn’t find a bathroom. I had to pee so bad. So I just found a secluded back corner behind some wood and pissed on the floor. 30 years later I still drive by that place every day and remember.
Kanuli 3 years ago
Hahaha. My brother even told me, if I had to pee really urgently do to it in that one manhole. One day when I was still young, still doing it, my grandma caught me in the act, explained to me why I shouldn’t do it, but also laughed hard as they wondered which freaking animal would constantly coz this smell, as when it doesn’t rain much the manhole wouldnt flush.
#38
I worked at Wendy's during my teenage years. I also had a teenager's metabolism, so I would frequently treat myself to numerous giant Frostys during evening shift. Closing one night and, to avoid a 2am ride home with my sketchy manager, I decided to walk the 3 miles home through suburbia. Around the halfway point of my early morning walk, the gallons of delicious milky beverage in my gut transformed itself into gallons of fetid milky waste wanting very much to leave my body. Without a bathroom nearby, I darted down an alley and hopped a fence into a backyard...where I unleashed evil. I noticed that this yard had all the necessary accoutrement to indicate a dog or two lived there. My hope is that the owners didn't take their dogs to the vet with the assumption that Fido's anus exercised Mephistopheles.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Having had a dog roll in both human excrement and human barf (separate occasions!), I hate you on behalf if all dog owners.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
“Exercise” rather than “exorcise” makes the last sentence a whole new story.
Insert Generic Username 3 years ago
I'm envisioning Mephistopheles on a treadmill, being exercised instead of exorcized.
#39
I am a horrible reader, yet I'm a writer.
Per-Ole Sjuve 3 years ago
I am a horrible editor, that's why I'm a reader. :)
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Raven DeathShade 3 years ago (edited)
I'm good at both, but actually putting words on paper? Nah, fam, I'm too impatient for that XD.
#40
I've seen both of my sisters in law naked. I accidentally walked in on my brother's wife whilst she was changing. I didnt realise she was in the room and just walked in. She knows it was me but we've both just pretended that didn't happen. My wifes sister asked me to fix her laptop as it wasnt working. Turns out it hadn't had a windows update for nearly 4 years and was filled with all description of bloatware and malware (she had 4 address bars on her browser) and her pretty explicit nudes in prime position in her Downloads folder. I returned her laptop in working condition with a new folder named "Private". So yeah she knows I saw them, but no-one else does
Hugh Walter 3 years ago
What were you doing in her downloads folder? You should have left well alone, and now she knows . . . you're a creep!
#41
I’ve never OFFICIALLY graduated college. I was able to attend the graduation ceremony, and got to walk on stage. Whole 9 yards. But I was 10 credits shy of my degree.That was almost 11 years ago, and I’m currently working a pretty nice-paying job, so it worked out. But yeah…I can’t help but cringe a little bit when my parents gush about all three of their children (I’m the middle child) being college graduates
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
I'm kinda shocked they let you walk. I remember my school wanting to keep people from graduation over over due library book fines.
Veronica Sjöberg 3 years ago
I doubt this. They usually don't let you graduate/print your certificate without having all credits? You have to apply for that and they will check. Sure, you might be able to find qualified work without it, but you wouldn't have that degree on paper. Like I got my bachelors in social work but I was 15 credits short of being a qualified social worker on paper because I missed some assignments of the last semester. (It's your bachelors + one semester to be a social worker here). I could find work as a social worker with my bachelors and worked for a couple years but I had to go back to uni and take those 15 credits to get that social worker certification.
Mimi M 3 years ago
I had a ton of overdue book fines (not sure why - I think some of them had fifty cents or even a dollar or two a day in fines) and they had a charity drive - you could defray by bringing in food for the food bank. I bought a couple of cases of ramen... IIRC, around ten or twenty bucks defrayed close to a couple hundred dollars in fines.
#42
I just graduated school and got a job at a big company in engineering. I spend a lot of time each day looking at memes, watching YouTube videos, etc… sometimes I do work.
They’ve told me I’m doing a good job so far.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
It'll catch up with them IT measures keystrokes or computer piggybacking
Hermien Greeff 3 years ago
Everyone wastes time at work. Some countries have acknowledged this and implemented 4 day work weeks.
#43
I failed my electrical design class in college but work at an electrical utility company as a designer.
IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago
My brother was terrible at cooking as a teenager, he nearly burnt the kitchen down making baked beans on toast. He later decided to go to catering college. Did a 2 year course in 1 year. Graduated the top of his class with a really good degree in food science and made a career literally straight form graduation being a chef getting his first posting as a head chef just a year later. What you fail at in your early years you can always more than make up for later on.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Agreed, I never wanted to be a Chef, but having dropped out of a prestigious Oxford College (long story), I needed to find a job and a local hotel in a large chain (in the '70's - now defunct), was taking on apprentices. I applied, worked hard and ended up managing several of their hotels until the break up of the company following the death of the founder. Went back to my first love of cooking and ended up as a Rosetted Chef, close to Michelin, and worked for several years as a private Chef to wealthy clients before opening a couple of reasonably successful Restaurants - eventually got asked to teach at a local College but decided against it after spending a day's 'try out' - mostly wanted to punch most of the lazy, indifferent, bolshie, ignorant little shits that were classed as 'students'.
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My friend's ex is red green colour blind. He's an electrical engineer. Had to pass a test to prove he could tell the colours of the wires apart.
A Jones 3 years ago
I failed a few math classes, but eventually retook them with barely passing grades. I literally use math and formulas as an IT person. There were a few deaths and drama in the family during my college days and it was hitting hard as I was staying with family while virtually commuting. I was also working full time too. This was years before COVID-19 though.
#44
When I was a kid (17) I worked at a Greyhound station. I accidently sent a woman to Salmo instead of Salmon Arm because I thought it just ran out of print space on the ticket / screen. I had never heard of Salmo back then. That woman had to spend an entire night in hells half acres, and lost an entire day of travel. My boss chalked it up to a "glitch" in their antiquated machine. Really it was me. I also would occasionally steal a bag of chips from that store when I got bored/hungry. God I was such a [jerk]
Green Machine 3 years ago
Wait... wouldn't you have sent the woman to Salmon Arm? You thought the ticket ran out of space (so it would have said Salmo), plus you never heard of Salmo?
#45
In senior year of HS, I put a milk carton in the ceiling of a portable building right before spring break. When we came back from spring break, the classroom smelled like a rotting corpse. Some other kid that was a known prankster somehow got blamed and was suspended.
WildHoneyPie 3 years ago
My Dad was taking some Lindberger (sp?) cheese to school one day and a kid asked him what he had in the bag. Dad told him his plan was to put the cheese on the radiators at the school. Kid proceeded to beg my Dad to let him do the deed. So, okay that happened. The school had to shut down for three days. Other kid must have learned his lesson because when he begged my Dad to confess with him he wouldn't do it, telling him he asked for it.
#46
I started lying about my experience with construction site work experience 4 years ago. Today, I am a site superintendent that googles answers to questions raised by other trades To buy time I say “that’s a great question, let me get back to you on that.” I make 90k a year doing this. Been steady for 2 years now
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Hey BP, think you can stop cutting off Reddit posts? OP: Thanks for the upvotes and awards! I should say that I’m not a complete idiot when is comes to construction. I can run all the equipment, install water, sewer, storm, and fire lines, ext. I just don’t have the experience in the office"
beesechurger elite 3 years ago
maybe the edit happens after this post was made
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Aubrie Allen 3 years ago
When I was 15 in the mid 90's, I found a phone number that would just ring and ring. I told my mom it was my friend Cindy's house phone, and I would spend the night at her house every weekend. Really, I was going to punk shows, parties, and spending the night at boy's houses. I did have a friend names Cindy, but I never once spent the night at her house.
Suzi Q 3 years ago
In the early 80's I was 16-17. My best friend and I would each tell our parents that we were spending the night at the other's house. Neither parents ever called to verify. I don't even think that either parents had the other parent's number. That was normal in those days. Instead we'd go to parties where we'd drink and smoke weed. One of our friend's' parents was out of town a lot so we'd stay at his house. (I'm married to that man now.)
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Smilejustbecause 3 years ago
I am a nurse at a children’s hospital and I always give the kids little gifts and say it’s from the hospital but really from me :)
kjorn 3 years ago
remember when i was in highschool ( i was 15 i think) they was a girl i know for a long time. never really talked to her ( i was scared of girl when i was younger) but i always had a crush on her. remember i just saw the movie Cyrano de Bergerac (with Depardieu) and i don't know it just give me a boost to try something. i wrote her a letter and just slip it in her school desk. but was too scared to put my name so i just put the first letter of my first and last name together F + L if you fused them it makes a E. but i decide to erased it but not enough it was still there. so the day after that i remember her coming to class (she was sit just beside me) she was M-A-D!!! OMG i feel so bad. i was too scared to even say of do something as i heard her. i never was so scared of my life. she never knew and never told her. i told that only to one of my friend who never told her too but for what i knew she never have ideas of who it was. i never did that kind of thing again.
Kai David 3 years ago
Yes, we stole the idea from Chunk from Goonies. We bought cans of cream corn, peas, cream of mushroom etc to make "vomit". Roosevelt Theatre, in Kenosha, a historic theatre. We went to the balcony, made the puking sound and spilled our vomit over the edge. It was closed over a month for hazmat cleaning. When Raider's of the list arc was playing at said theatre, during the snake scene, we toßes small rubber snakes and worms over the balcony.
L hill 3 years ago
In high school there was a guy who was a bully. Came from a rich family and got away with everything. Oddly enough, his name was donald. One day, after class, he forgot his wallet on his desk. I took it and went through it and found phone numbers, including his home number. I called it, changed my voice and said i was a truant officer with the school. I spoke to his mother and asked why he was ditching class and was facing suspension. She was not a happy mom...😁. The next day donald came in and looked worried and was hunched over, compared to his usual bullying behavior. I told a close friend about it and we sat there in class and laughed at him the whole time. He was still a jerk but it was satisfying knowing i made his life miserable if even just for a day. Maybe even longer. You're welcome donald.
KT 3 years ago
When I was 8 I was invited to a pool party. Well we all are a ton of food and later the mom tells us the only toilet is broken and.not flushing. Of course I had to go number 2 pretty bad and it became downright painful. So while everyone was off snacking I jumped into the pool and took a huuuge poop much to my horror the poos were floating and they were big. I got out and went about party business. Later the girls all jumped in the pool. One of them dove to get a sinking toy but grabbed a number two instead and came up screaming while another floater passed by another girl's face they all began screaming and fleeing the pool. I got blamed on the toddler that had been in the pool for a bit. I am laughing as I type this out remembering it haha
Patti Vance 3 years ago
was/am terrible at math so i needed a tutor in college in order to meet requirements for graduation. the tutor worked with the professor and she was known to be good with helping so he never questioned her practices. the prof would assign only the 'even' numbered problems so she thought giving me the 'odd' ones would be great for practice. come the final, it was all the odd problems which i had written down in my book so basically just copied them. after grading i felt guilty for 'fessed up to the prof and his response was that i had at least done the problems so no problem.
Aubrie Allen 3 years ago
When I was 15 in the mid 90's, I found a phone number that would just ring and ring. I told my mom it was my friend Cindy's house phone, and I would spend the night at her house every weekend. Really, I was going to punk shows, parties, and spending the night at boy's houses. I did have a friend names Cindy, but I never once spent the night at her house.
Suzi Q 3 years ago
In the early 80's I was 16-17. My best friend and I would each tell our parents that we were spending the night at the other's house. Neither parents ever called to verify. I don't even think that either parents had the other parent's number. That was normal in those days. Instead we'd go to parties where we'd drink and smoke weed. One of our friend's' parents was out of town a lot so we'd stay at his house. (I'm married to that man now.)
Load More Replies... Smilejustbecause 3 years ago
I am a nurse at a children’s hospital and I always give the kids little gifts and say it’s from the hospital but really from me :)
kjorn 3 years ago
remember when i was in highschool ( i was 15 i think) they was a girl i know for a long time. never really talked to her ( i was scared of girl when i was younger) but i always had a crush on her. remember i just saw the movie Cyrano de Bergerac (with Depardieu) and i don't know it just give me a boost to try something. i wrote her a letter and just slip it in her school desk. but was too scared to put my name so i just put the first letter of my first and last name together F + L if you fused them it makes a E. but i decide to erased it but not enough it was still there. so the day after that i remember her coming to class (she was sit just beside me) she was M-A-D!!! OMG i feel so bad. i was too scared to even say of do something as i heard her. i never was so scared of my life. she never knew and never told her. i told that only to one of my friend who never told her too but for what i knew she never have ideas of who it was. i never did that kind of thing again.
Kai David 3 years ago
Yes, we stole the idea from Chunk from Goonies. We bought cans of cream corn, peas, cream of mushroom etc to make "vomit". Roosevelt Theatre, in Kenosha, a historic theatre. We went to the balcony, made the puking sound and spilled our vomit over the edge. It was closed over a month for hazmat cleaning. When Raider's of the list arc was playing at said theatre, during the snake scene, we toßes small rubber snakes and worms over the balcony.
L hill 3 years ago
In high school there was a guy who was a bully. Came from a rich family and got away with everything. Oddly enough, his name was donald. One day, after class, he forgot his wallet on his desk. I took it and went through it and found phone numbers, including his home number. I called it, changed my voice and said i was a truant officer with the school. I spoke to his mother and asked why he was ditching class and was facing suspension. She was not a happy mom...😁. The next day donald came in and looked worried and was hunched over, compared to his usual bullying behavior. I told a close friend about it and we sat there in class and laughed at him the whole time. He was still a jerk but it was satisfying knowing i made his life miserable if even just for a day. Maybe even longer. You're welcome donald.
KT 3 years ago
When I was 8 I was invited to a pool party. Well we all are a ton of food and later the mom tells us the only toilet is broken and.not flushing. Of course I had to go number 2 pretty bad and it became downright painful. So while everyone was off snacking I jumped into the pool and took a huuuge poop much to my horror the poos were floating and they were big. I got out and went about party business. Later the girls all jumped in the pool. One of them dove to get a sinking toy but grabbed a number two instead and came up screaming while another floater passed by another girl's face they all began screaming and fleeing the pool. I got blamed on the toddler that had been in the pool for a bit. I am laughing as I type this out remembering it haha
Patti Vance 3 years ago
was/am terrible at math so i needed a tutor in college in order to meet requirements for graduation. the tutor worked with the professor and she was known to be good with helping so he never questioned her practices. the prof would assign only the 'even' numbered problems so she thought giving me the 'odd' ones would be great for practice. come the final, it was all the odd problems which i had written down in my book so basically just copied them. after grading i felt guilty for 'fessed up to the prof and his response was that i had at least done the problems so no problem.
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