‘Do you have something you really want to own up to and get off your chest?’ – 19 confessions that are a real weight off the conscience
11.
‘I went for an interview and yesterday’s knickers began their exit from my right trouser leg. Interviewer noticed, and said he’d go and get something while I ‘sorted myself out’.
Got the place, but I still cringe at the memory.’
–TheBikerMidwife
12.
‘The pants thing happens more than you might think. I once had to look the other way as my line manager removed the pair of tights trailing from one trouser leg.’
–Sea-Still5427
13.
Going back years now, hobby shop down south. They had some catalogues for Scalextric and something else, Hornby perhaps – I stuck one of each in my bag thinking they were free. Turns out when I got home each was priced at 1 pound – safe to say I never went back in.’
–theegrimrobe
14.
‘When I was about seven, my Nan left £20 on the living room table and I took it and bought £15 worth of football stickers. I put the £5 change back in place of the original £20 and when she brought it up I denied it. She believed me (Which I feel awful about).
I think she actually saw the funny side that someone would steal from her and put a fiver back. We didn’t have much money but I was the only kid at school who didn’t have any football stickers and I remember feeling so left out. They only led to guilt though and not much later they were out of fashion when Pokémon cards came out. Sorry Nana.’
–ResponsibilityWise74
15.
‘I’m the guy who makes sure the medication leaflet is always on the side of the box you open. Don’t ask how I know. I just do.’
–The_Kevinator_1000
16.
‘Pretended to be ill for the fuss, carried it on until I ended up in hospital with suspected appendicitis (still pretending but felt I’d gone too far to come clean), had surgery to remove it and was told afterwards there was slight swelling. Obviously there wasn’t, because there was literally nothing wrong with me (physically at least!).’
–TheMagicTorch
17.
‘I burgled a local shop when I was a teenager. It was wrong and I’ve never done anything remotely like that before or since. I acted alone, and I didn’t even do it for the money which was minimal anyway. I think I was just deeply unhappy and going through an edgy angsty phase.
No-one got hurt, but it must’ve been a huge headache for the shop owners to get their till replaced and fix their broken window. I can’t own up to the owners as they sadly passed away a number of years later, but I can at least put it out there that I’m sorry and that I regret it.’
–Subtlehame
18.
‘As a teen, I pissed on the floor in my frenemy’s house in like three different rooms. As she was dead asleep (drunk). I was also drunk and apparently fueled by the pissing rage.’
–bumpyhumper
19.
‘Was bullied by this awful girl in primary school. One day, I overhear her talking and showing off before class started about a new special pen she had gotten sent from her grandparents who lived overseas.
The pen was expensive and had her name engraved on it. She was an absolutely awful person to me because I was quiet. Used to follow me halfway home with her gang and push me into hedges, and once put glue in my hair.
A few weeks after she’d gotten the pen she had left it behind on her desk after class and as we were all filing out of class I was last and swiped the pen into my pocket. On the way home I dropped it down a drain grate, was so therapeutic for me to hear it hit the mud at the bottom. I heard her the next day searching the class for it and upset. Still, when I went home that day and reflected I felt bad and still do wonder if the pen is still down there in the shitty drain.’
–Gothiccheese95
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