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No one on this planet is perfect. If we were, we would never really learn, grow, or fully appreciate the good things that come our way. Making mistakes, even painful ones, is part of how we understand both ourselves and others.

Still, not all mistakes are the same. Some cut deeper than others and can stay with you for years. On Reddit, people shared the dirtiest, slimiest, most backstabbing things they’ve ever done and the regret they still carry. Read their confessions below.

#1

Black car with windshield wipers raised, parked on a cloudy day, illustrating regret in backstabbing confessions and slimy actions. My next door neighbours kid used to be an inconsiderate rude [jerk] and his parents let him and his brother get away with it.

Well one time he put gravel on my windscreen wipers because I saw him out the window doing it, and his parents knew he did this but thought it was a mere practical joke.

So I waited until it was dark, and I grabbed some gravel and stuck it right ontop of their windscreen wipers but inside them too. His parents did not think it was funny when it was their windscreen that got scratched.

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Beak Hookage
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23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm calling justified revenge on this one.

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    #2

    White Chevrolet Silverado 3500 HD pickup truck parked in a lot under a partly cloudy blue sky. I went to high school with a kid who drove like an idiot. To make matters worse, he had a huge truck and lived in my neighborhood, so we often went on the same route to school. He would frequently cut me off, and [tailgate] even when I would go over the speed limit. Think of a BMW driver in a compensator truck.

    Anyways, the final straw came when we were both in the school parking lot, and there were 2 open parking spots near the front with plenty of room for both of us. I was about to pull into "my" spot, when this [jerk] decides to double-park his Mad Max truck in both of the spots. Now, I have to go park in the spillover and school was about to start in 2 minutes. That's when I realize that I possessed a "weapon". The previous weekend, I had bought a gallon of milk from the grocery that had expired early. I must've put it in my car with the intent of taking it to the store and getting a refund, but I was sidetracked on my way to the store and I had forgotten about it. I unscrewed the cap to make sure that it smelled bad, and sure enough, it smelled like [trash]. I waited for everyone to clear out of the parking lots, and I made my way to the truck.
    Considering it was the south in May, the temperature was going to reach +97° that day, so he decided to leave his windows slightly cracked to let the air ventilate in his black interior/black exterior jerkmobile. I hopped up on the step bar, emptied the entire gallon of spoiled milk into driver side, thew away the empty jug in the dumpster nearby, and headed to class. When we were dismissed at 4, the temp was 99°. It had reached 102° at noon, so I was expecting catastrophic results. Sure enough, he was at his truck screaming at his friends, and dialing the police. The next day, we had an assembly and the school faculty attempted to find out who was responsible for this heinous crime. They never suspected a thing from me.🤣

    TL;DR [Jerk] in truck double parks. I pour a gallon of spoiled milk into his truck on a hot day.

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    Beak Hookage
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the story about the kid who was on a motorbike when some jerk pulled up beside him in a car and laid on the horn just to startle him, then laughed at him and drove off. Kid pulled into a McDonald's carpark and there's the jerk's car with the window wound down. So he grabbed a nearby garbage can and tipped the entire contents into the driver's seat before zipping off on his bike. The kid went on to become my father and he's still proud of that story. He still rides a motorbike too.

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    #3

    “I'll Never Truly Forgive Myself”: 50 People Share The Sneakiest, Most Low-Key Evil Things They’ve Ever Done I used to have anorexia in early high school years- was hospitalised for a couple of years, came back to school. It took me an hour to eat lunch, cutting a sandwich into 36 pieces and the like. There was a girl who sat with me every lunch for the whole hour, every lunch. For like a year. Then started to talk to people more and ended up abandoning her. Didn't even realise. By the end of high school she was totally alone. Still, teenage me did not even realise. It wasn't til two years later when i looked back that i realised how [awful] i had been. Teenagers are [jerks]. Hope you're doing ok yasmin.

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    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    1 day ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At school I ended up on the losers' table one time, because I fell out with a bunch of people temporarily. I hated it. To this day I really wish I had tried to get to know these people, who obviously had just as interesting conversation as any other. I didn't, and was glad to leave it. I missed an opportunity, and won't do the same again.

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    #4

    Person sitting alone on a bench at night between tall buildings, reflecting on backstabbing and regretful actions. In middle school, my best friend and I made a fake screen name (IM) and messaged her ex to make him believe it was coming from a hot model (we got pictures of some random hot chick off the internet and made a fake MySpace profile). Then we convinced him she was going to meet him on his street corner in an hour to do dirty deeds and he believed us and waited outside for an hour at 2 am.

    Twist is that he had a girlfriend at the time and we took screenshots of the whole conversation and sent them to her inbox on MySpace. Still feel guilty.

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    #5

    Young woman focused on her phone, reflecting on confessions of the dirtiest, slimiest, backstabbing things done and regretted. To preface: I was 13 at the time so keep this in mind.

    I had a group of friends in an AOL chat. The story is about two. Let's call them Maddy and John. I really liked John. Big crush on him. One time Maddy and I were chatting and she said that John was flirting with her so she wanted to ask him out because she never had a boyfriend before. I was devastated.

    A few days later, John messaged me and asked why I have been ignoring him. I explained that I told Maddy I was going to ask you out (lie) but she beat me to it to see if she could get you to say yes first (lie) because she was mad at me for something (lie).

    He believed me, dumped her, and we dated for 8 years.

    EEK!

    I'm not sure what happened to Maddy. We all stayed in touch maybe a year or two after this, and she had another boyfriend, but I was a 13 y/o.

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    Beak Hookage
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Few creatures on earth are as vicious as 13 year old girls. Source: used to be one.

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    #6

    Three young men in matching patterned shirts laughing together, capturing moments of backstabbing regrets and confessions. A girl who sat in front of me in high school was very obese. She turned around and said something nasty to me. So, I put a few pieces of tape on a sheet of paper, did the ol' pat your back with a distracting comment; She walked around the rest of the day with a, 'WIDE LOAD' sign stuck to her back. Regretted it when I realized how many people were laughing at her all day.

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    Billo66
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    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was an obese girl in one of my classes who smelled. Obese people often do, they can't help it. Anyway, a bunch of jerks thought it funny to put deodorant and soap on her desk. I didn't know what was going on till I heard her crying. Folks, do you have feelings? So does everone else. Knock that sh­it off.

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    #7

    Child sitting in a high chair watching a tablet, reflecting on regret and backstabbing actions in a cozy sunlit room. I don't know if this counts, but I used to work at a restaurant and there was a couple in there with their baby. He was in a high chair and was definitely less than one year old. I noticed the kid looked like he was imitating my hand movements from across the room, so I starting moving them and watching him. He was definitely following everything I was doing, although a little jerkily, and he was mirroring the movements with his hands.

    I was quite impressed. He was obviously bright for his age. After a few hand gestures, an idea occurred to me that was too delicious to pass up. I moved my fist to my forehead, and sure enough, he goes to imitate. He pushes his little hand into a ball, thrusts his fist up rapidly, and bonks himself in the face. There was this really confused look on his face like he was trying to figure out who hit his forehead.

    I did it three more times because it was hilarious.

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    Rob D
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    19 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The jokes on OP nobody was noticing the baby. But they were definitely looking at a grown a*s man hitting himself in the head.

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    #8

    Person covering their face in distress, reflecting on regretful backstabbing and slimy actions they've done. When I was in 5th grade, my friends and I wanted to be in the talent show. My friend (I'll call her Sarah) wanted to be a part of it. I told her that she needed to slim down if she was going to be in it with us. Sarah was and is still insecure about her weight. I felt like such a [jerk] and regret it to this day.

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    Emilu
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    1 day ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, to be fair, you were a jerk, but at least you admit it and regret it.

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    #9

    “I'll Never Truly Forgive Myself”: 50 People Share The Sneakiest, Most Low-Key Evil Things They’ve Ever Done I left my fiance for another woman on the day we were supposed to move into our new house. I woke up at 5 am, left her sleeping in the hotel, grabbed all my stuff out of our shared storage unit, and drove it over to the new house. My name was the only name on the house. When she showed up later that day, I walked out on the porch and told her it was over and to please leave.

    Then six months later, after the new relationship burned out, she took me back, and I did it again.

    I am a terrible, terrible person.

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    Val
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy fu-ck. Please burn in he-ll slowly.

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    #10

    When I was a starving college student, I didn't drink (for health, money, and other reasons). I also drove an SUV, so that made me the perfect designated driver for everyone I knew. I would drive 8-10 people down to the (only) local bar and just drink iced tea for a few hours. The SUV drank gas like a fish, so the deal was always that everyone would chip in a couple bucks for gas. I soon noticed that as they got more and more drunk I could ask them for the gas money multiple times. They *never* figured it out. Soon, I was grossing $75 to $100 bucks a night. The next day everyone would sober up and complain they had no more money and I would just tell them "dude, you drank a lot last night". #feelsbadman.

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    Sara Frazer
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    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For several people you're waaayy cheaper than an Uber, or taxi. Plus you were keeping them/others safe, so this I don't consider bad

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    #11

    Unmade bed with a mattress, wooden headboard, nightstands with lamps, in a softly lit bedroom setting. I'm a moderator on a local second-hand facebook group. An old lady put up a very nice bed for a very low price. I deleted the post, and contacted her. Got the bed before anyone had the chance to bid on it.

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    Sofia
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    1 day ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    isnt this power a*b*u*s*e?

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    #12

    “I'll Never Truly Forgive Myself”: 50 People Share The Sneakiest, Most Low-Key Evil Things They’ve Ever Done When my dad suggested I shouldn't work such long hours as a freelancer for [low] pay and maybe find a better paying full-time job, I answered, "I can't, I need the money. Or what? You're gonna support me with your pay?"

    Conveniently forgetting he did raise me till I was of working age. I felt like an absolute slimeball that day, especially when I saw that look of hurt on his face.

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    Emilu
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, that is what parents should do.

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    #13

    Neon hotel sign glowing at dusk with a no vacancy message, evoking stories of backstabbing and regret. A friend asked me with tears in his eyes to spend the night over on the day his brother [passed] at a young age.

    This was at another town where I'd either spend the night at his place or a hotel.

    I chose the hotel because a girl I liked was gonna be there.

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    Yayheterogeneity
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    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You regret it and hopefully did better afterwards.

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    #14

    “I'll Never Truly Forgive Myself”: 50 People Share The Sneakiest, Most Low-Key Evil Things They’ve Ever Done When I was a teenager, my cousin was this big player, womanizer, [jerk]-and-proud type who would play the nice guy, bang a girl, and then never call her again, laughing about it to everybody when she was all in tears after. You know the type.

    One time this really nice girl started crushing on him. I kind of liked her myself, but she only had eyes for him. Finally, after a few days, I just straight up told her what she was in for. "Here's exactly what's going to happen if you go after him..." It was back-stabbing my cousin of course, and I had motive to do it, but I didn't care.

    She ignored me, of course, and my prediction came exactly true. She actually tried to get together with me after, but it was more of an insult at that point. I basically told her, "Well, I told you so." And I walked away.

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    Beak Hookage
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing wrong about that; she deserved to be warned, even if she didn't listen.

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    #15

    “I'll Never Truly Forgive Myself”: 50 People Share The Sneakiest, Most Low-Key Evil Things They’ve Ever Done In 7th grade band, I played a dumb prank by hiding my friend's trumpet. Thought he'd ask where it was and I'd laugh and show him, but he showed up a bit late and we all started. He said someone STOLE his instrument and the director stopped the entire class and made us sit in silence until someone would confess.

    After several minutes of nobody saying anything, he declared that he was cancelling a planned trip to Disney. Everyone started groaning and some even stood up shouting for the culprit to come forward.

    I stood up and said, "It was me. I did it." The director said "Thank you cfenton23 for trying to take the fall for the thief but you don't have to do that."

    After class, everyone congratulated me and thanked me for trying to take the heat and blamed someone else. The person who was blamed eventually kept getting left out of social events and quit band all together while I was proclaimed a hero.

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    Sara Frazer
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    22 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, you couldn't just explain the prank..???

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    #16

    Laptop screen displaying Gmail loading page, illustrating confessions of backstabbing and regret shared online. Was young and mad. My dad's email was opened on the computer. I told his boss to go to hel but luckily my dad was let off the hook because i misspelled hell.

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    #17

    In 4th grade my school had this huge booksale and one of my friends bought this super sparkly obnoxious multicolored diary. We all thought it was perfect. Anyway this one friend of ours had been really pissing me off all week, told me I wasn't pretty enough to be Belle when we played princesses, [stuff] like that. Diary girl and [jerk] girl were best friends.

    I went to diary girl's locker to move the diary to [jerk] girl's locker to frame her for stealing it, but couldn't find it. Diary friend caught me there and I said I just wanted to see it because it was so pretty, so she was like yea sure but when she opened her locker she couldn't find it either. I decided to stick to the plan and blame [jerk] girl for stealing it. I got in SO much trouble for starting rumors and got lectured by our teacher in front of my entire class.

    Then my teacher actually caught [jerk] girl with the diary, turns out she had actually stole it. It was a really weird turn of events.

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    #18

    I pretended to throw the ball for my dog but I really didn't.

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    Beak Hookage
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    23 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you live with yourself, you monster?

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    #19

    In sixth grade a shy awkward boy asked me to the Valentine's Day Dance with a little heart shaped box that had a ticket inside. And a card with roses on it. I didn't really want to go with him, but I was uncomfortable and he went through so much effort, I said yes.

    On the bus I told my friends and they laughed at me, so I joined in saying how awkward it was and then tossed the card out the window.

    I still "went" to the dance with him. Meaning I ignored him and talked with my friends and danced with him once. I wasn't cruel, I was so concerned with what my friends thought of me.

    Acting too good for him made me feel cool during a really insecure time. He crushed on me through out all of middle school and it just fed my self esteem. I was nice to him, but I was aware and didn't care about his feelings.

    But I always kept that little heart shaped box. And after middle school I looked back and realized what a sweet guy he was. I apologized for how I treated him. He told me he always knew I through that card out of the window. It didn't matter.

    We never dated. I distanced myself from him, because though he was sweet, I didn't have romantic feelings for him and I knew it would be cruel to hang around.

    He's turned out great. Went to a great school. Works in a children's hospital. Is an avid sailor. We keep in touch on occasion when he's in town.

    But I'll never truly forgive myself for how I treated him all those years ago.

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    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't beat yourself up. Kids do stupid things, it's how we all learn.

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    #20

    “I'll Never Truly Forgive Myself”: 50 People Share The Sneakiest, Most Low-Key Evil Things They’ve Ever Done One time in third grade, I farted. It was one of those nuclear waste level farts, and all the kids at my table started freaking out. I didn't want to be caught so I started freaking out with them. I then pretended to sniff my best friend Margaret, and scrunched up my nose and yelled out that Margaret was the tooter.

    I framed my best friend for the toot that I tooted.

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    #21

    Group of friends sitting outdoors, smiling and sharing stories about backstabbing and regretful memories. Invited a friend to wingman me when I knew one of the girls was a lesbian. I liked the other one. Sorry bro.

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    #22

    In 3rd grade my friend and I had a joint Runescape account. We worked pretty hard and leveled up the character close to the max. I changed the password without telling him and sold it.

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    #23

    A wooden bed frame with a blue plastic-covered mattress area in a simple room with beige carpeting and two nightstands. When I was maybe 5 or 6 I poked a hole in my parents waterbed and blamed it on my little brother.

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    Emilu
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    10 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay... I admit this might be an AH move, but this did make me chuckle a bit.

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    #24

    “I'll Never Truly Forgive Myself”: 50 People Share The Sneakiest, Most Low-Key Evil Things They’ve Ever Done The guy deleted his account, but nobody will ever beat the Redditor who poisoned his girlfriend and caused a spontaneous ab*rtion because they had only been dating a few weeks and she wanted to keep it.

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    #25

    Told on a girl and her punishment was missing high school graduation. I'm 35, I still feel bad about it.

    She made loser awards for the junior girls she picked on and gave them out at a junior / senior girls event.

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    Beak Hookage
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    4 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, she deserved it. What a horrible thing to do.

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    #26

    Friend started talking to/developing feelings for a girl we went to school with. I knew said girl and knew she was the female equivalent of a male playboy (enjoys stringing guys along, new guy every week, that type of thing). Unfortunately friend had been single for a while and so any female that showed him the slightest bit of interest he fell head over heels for, started planning the wedding - you get the picture. Me and her still talked fairly often, so one night I not so subtly let on that my friend was after her. She reacted how I knew she would, telling me she was more focused on being single and I should let him know that. We made a pact that I'd distract his attention, and she'd start hinting at other guys when she talked to him. So, we did. I took him out a lot, she started replying later, and eventually took him out clubbing with her where she got on someone else in front of him. The look on his face was crushing, but I knew I had to do it sooner rather than later because buddy was falling, *hard* and it was only going to end up with him sinking back into depression. I still feel bad about kind of jeopardising it without letting him find out himself, but he has a new girl now and they're doing just swell, so, alls well that ends well I guess.

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    Huddo's sister
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    1 hour ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How is him watching her with others going to make him less depressed than her just saying no?

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    #27

    During arguing I said to my ex-wife "Your breasts look sad". After all, she did breastfeed three of our children... Now, after years I still feel really bad. I was an idiot.

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    Daisydaisy
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was cruel. I bet she'll never forget that comment

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    #28

    This is kind of hard to believe but bear with me. I really like old books and I had this crooked public library in my neighbourhood, before I went to Canada for college. The library was in terrible shape, almost nobody used it effectively and there was this old little lady as the librarian, who did everything by herself. So I'm going abroad for college, about two years ago, and I said, hey, that old cottonhead won't see me again, so why not I just "steal" some books off? Nobody cares about the library anyway, I can just fill them up in my bag because the thing doesn't even have a CCTV system. I can act like I was just looking at something and walk away.

    I did so, but my proportion of theft is prodigious, if I'm not mistaken I filled an entire luggage with books of differing size that day.

    For some reason, I still feel like trash when I see those stolen books on my shelves. I'm pretty sure nobody cared about them, but it feels like I exploited the old lady's age as a justification for theft.

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    Sara Frazer
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    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "for some reason" nah man you *stole*, from a free community resource. Àsshole.

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    #29

    Broken pieces of peanut brittle on a green plate with a bag of brittle in the background, showing sugary texture. In high school, this girl with a peanut allergy started going out with a girl i had i crush on (after I had told her this) so for every class potluck i had with her i would make peanut brittle.

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    #30

    When my friend Nicky and I were like 7-8 I was throwing rocks into this "forest" around our school, at some point during our throwing I hit a girl in the face and I immediately bolted inside to the bathroom. Sometime later I walked back outside to see Nicky getting yelled at by the Principal, VP, parents that were still around. Literally anyone over the age of 18 was berating this kid, he looked at me to come forward and do the right thing and I locked eyes with him, smiled turned around and walked to class scot free not realizing I had created Nicky's supervillain origin story.

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    #31

    As a commuter in a large city, regularly ran into a girl in the subway who danced and asked for donations. At a certain point, had come to realize she was homeless and was in the subway every day. Became familiar enough that, one day, she said she needed help, so I offered to hold some of her stuff in my apartment. Turned out to be several dark trash bags of papers and other items: maybe she was a hoarder; I don't know, because I held the bags for her but didn't go through them. Days turned into weeks, and then, ultimately, my flatmates were moving out, so we had to give up the apartment. I told the girl repeatedly that I was moving, and that she had to come and get her stuff. Gave her multiple chances, knowing that she was homeless and possibly not fully rational. In any case, after she missed deadline after deadline after deadline, and multiple grace periods, I told her I had to put her bags on the curb one weekend. I did--and she showed up the following Monday, and asked where her stuff was. At that point, it was gone. Still feel bad about it more than 20 years later. Never saw her again.

    TL; DR: Agreed to hold a homeless girl's possessions. Had to get rid of them when I was moving, and she came to get them too late. Might have been all she had left; still feel bad about it.

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    Kim Shannon
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    15 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She should have listened to you

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    #32

    An old friend of mine and I were in a fun run when we were coming up on the finish line. We were tied and I guess we non-verbally, mutually agreed to pass through the line at the same time. Like a complete [jerk], I broke out into a full sprint and came out in front of him. I haven't seen him in a long time but thinking about this still makes me feel like [trash].

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    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that you, my portly temporary friend at the end of that cross-country run in Ashtead? Because this is exactly what someone did to me, and only the first and last 3 people were counted in the competition.... I never forgot that!

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    #33

    Was pissed off at a friend whilst at his house, so went into his fridge and stabbed his bowl of jelly.

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    UnclePanda
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    18 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pshaw. That's just a warm up item on the Big List of Things to Get Stabby With.

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    #34

    In elementary school my class did an Easter egg hunt. There was a special egg that had glitter glue put on it so that it'd sparkle. If you got that egg, then you got a special prize. I saw this one girl reaching into a bush. This girl was the shyest girl. She never spoke to anyone except for whispering in the teacher's ear when she needed to say something. I instinctively reached into the bush too thinking that she might be looking for an egg. I found the special egg. I now feel awful about stealing that egg from her when she was too shy to stand up for herself.

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    #35

    I used to spend summers with my uncle who ran a campground and he taught me all kind of useful skills. One was how to make a key that would open all Master locks that were similar.
    Well back in the 70's just about everyone had the same locks on their garage doors and garage door openers were not around yet or our neighborhood didn't have them. So me and my friends decided that we would collect all of the locks off of the garages mix them up in a bag and put them back on.
    The next morning everyone came out to go to work and couldn't get their cars out of the garage, the entire block was standing outside wondering what happened. It was really funny for about five minutes, then I felt bad. My dad said it's a good thing our garage is full of [stuff] and we park our cars outside.

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    Sara Frazer
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    21 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the 70s did they not have the internal door that goes from the house to the garage?? Not a troll question, genuinely curious. Ah, wait, I guess if it was a detached garage this would be a problem...*glances out back at my detached garage*

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    #36

    Young person wearing headphones and glasses, writing in notebook in a classroom setting reflecting on backstabbing regrets. There was a kid in high school in the mid 90s that I really hated and had a couple of altercations with. I was a skinny kid and couldn't really do anything physically to anyone so I got a bit creative. I made an AOL account with part of his name, made a profile that sounded realistic, and then found some minorities in school to toss a few racial epithets at. Later, I heard that a group of people cornered him in the locker room and were going to beat the [hell] out of him until he somehow talked himself out of it.

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    Michael Largey
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    10 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So OP dumped a load of bigoted a***e on some innocent minority kids just because he lacked the guts to confront the other person himself? Guess who he grew up to vote for?

    #37

    Well, I did something kinda slimy today. But it was funnier more than it upset anyone.


    I'm at a car show and some dudes selling a car radio for a car I don't even own. But there were a lot of cars here that it would fit. He offered it to like 5 of us and I bought it for 15$. Immediately another guy walks up "heard someone's selling a radio?" I hold it up and said "yup! 20$!" I made 5$ off that in a matter of 3 minutes. Right in front of the guy who sold it to me.


    We all laughed about it.

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    #38

    I chased away every girlfriend that one of my closest friends ever had, because I didn't want anyone "taking him away from me."

    ...He's long since become convinced that love is not something he'll ever get to have, and has given up entirely on ever finding a relationship. He's also severely depressed and his life is essentially in shambles.

    It's one of the many things I'm going to regret to my grave. NOTHING I can do will ever make up for that and I will NEVER be able to take it back.

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    #39

    Was with my girlfriend for 11 years and this hot girl started working in my office. We ended up hitting it off really well and after a few months there and in a night out with work we hooked up.

    This went on for about 6-7months, she had a boyfriend too. We ended up stopping everything and I helped her get a job in another company. She's still with her boyfriend.

    I ended up breaking up with my girlfriend because I felt guilty about what had happened and knew I didn't love her. I ended the relationship with her and came out of it looking really nice (made it that I felt not wanting to get married / have kids was stopping her from being happy and I wanted her to have happiness). Her family still think I'm great, we are still good friends and we both have new partners.

    I feel bad because I can never tell her what I did but also I'm with my current girlfriend for about 4 years now and while I love her, if we broke up it wouldn't faze me. Knowing that a relationship I ended after 11 years was no problem for me has kept me feeling pretty emotionless about people in general.

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    #40

    I was bullied pretty badly in middle school, particularly by a girl called "Hannah."

    Both of Hannah's parents were doctors. Her older brother was a lawyer. Hannah got straight A's and had an incredibly nice boyfriend. In my eyes, she had everything I wanted- wealth, good reputation, a social life, etc. I simultaneously hated her and was incredibly jealous.

    One day it all got to be too much. I can't remember exactly what she said to me, but it pushed me over the line. I was absolutely furious. So I made a plan.

    I waited until everyone left the girl's locker room during gym class, found her bag, and emptied the whole thing into the toilet.

    She had all her clothes, jewelry, schoolbooks, and even her phone in her bag. I ruined it *all.*

    Thinking back, I can't believe I did that. It was so cruel, especially considering that I knew how it felt to be bullied :(.

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    #41

    Couple lying in bed embracing peacefully, reflecting on trust and regret in backstabbing relationships. Slept with my roommates girlfriend by sophomore year of college the day they broke up. Continued to do it for about a month and ended up telling him. His response? "Okay. I'm sure you could treat her better than I ever could." I broke the dude... after all that was said and done and I told him I would stop, I still slept with her for like another month. My roommate got stomach ulcers because he was under such extreme stress from this, school bills, and lack of support from his parents. It is my greatest regret and I owe him so much for all I did. We're roommates again now and good friends... I don't have any clue why or how.

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    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because he's obviously a good human being. Treat him well!

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    #42

    In my junior year of college, I was taking organic chemistry, and my lab partner was one of my friends I lived with the previous year in the dorms.

    We had to pay for these cards in the beginning of the year, they were 125 dollar "insurance" cards that were non refundable. The idea was the 125 dollars would cover the cost of materials we broke.

    Anyway, we never broke anything, so at the end of the year we're like "hey, we gave them 250 dollars for nothing", so we decided to steal stuff that we didn't think was that expensive. Stuff like 1 oz sample jars, test tubes, basically stuff we could store or serve "stuff" in. But we also took this titration beaker thing. No idea why, but we always thought it looked cool.

    So we got back and were just enjoying our loot, when we decided to look up the titration thing. It was like, 300 dollars. So we felt bad.

    My friend and I liked to be jerks sometimes when it was funny, but we, and especially he, never did anything that would be considered particularly outright mean.

    I was slightly more of a jerk for fun. So I fowarded him a fake email about how stealing lab equipment totalling more than 250 dollars could be considered a "petty larceny", which was a felony, and could be grounds for expulsion.

    I was also friends with his room mate at the time, who reported that he first just heard a lot of scrolling when he was presumable reading the email. After that, he was "rolling on the floor moaning going 'oh god oh god oh god'".

    So I actuallly made him think we were gonna get expelled because he was kind of a sweet, gullible kid. I didn't think he would actually believe it for more than a few seconds. I felt bad.

    I later told him it was a prank.

    So TL;DR I made a sweet kid think we were going to get expelled form college for larceny.

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    Billo66
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    16 hours ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I made quite a bit of money from what I learned in organic chemistry. It's all fun and games till your face down in cuffs. 0/10 Edit: (2S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine

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    #43

    A friend of mine liked a girl. Problem is, this girl liked me. Aaaand I kind of liked her back. He told me he liked her and I told him I would step off. And I didn't. Yeah, I felt bad for doing that. Good news is it turned out alright in the end. He got another girlfriend, and they've been together for more than a year now. The girl he liked and I have been together for almost two years. We are still friends and we sometimes even joke about that, so I guess everything is ok.

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    Huddo's sister
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    54 minutes ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can't help how people feel, and she obviously liked OP more than the friend.

    #44

    Not sure I regret it but I think it was slimy. Started dating friend of friend. Tells me they want to hang out on the night of my birthday. They totally sell me out. Did not call and did not answer my calls. Ok fine. A month later find out friend of friend is laid off. Find out they applied at my workplace and were being seriously considered for a job. Spread rumors, person did not get job, had trouble finding job and left town. Oh well....

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    #45

    My best friend came out to me, after I promised not to tell anybody. Shortly thereafter I told one of my other friends. Compared to a lot of stuff here that's pretty mild, but it's one of the things I most regret. I honestly don't know why she didn't tell me to never talk to her again.

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    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes it's best. Like Crocodile Dundee said: "If we have a problem, we tell Wally. He tells everyone else. Everyone knows, so it's not a problem any more!"

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    #46

    When I was 20 and newly dumped by my first love, my friend at the time, we'll call her Mary, took me to a party once to cheer me up. This party was hosted by her ex boyfriend who she had recently rekindlend a friendship with, we'll call him Travis. Travis and I start flirting, totally innocent. But he asks for my number and we start hanging out together. After a couple of weeks of hanging out with Travis behind Mary's back, I decide I have to tell her what's going on. I don't know their back story, but she flipped out and didn't want me to date him! I chose to continue dating Travis and it ruined my friendship with Mary. I knew my relationship with Travis was just a rebound thing, and sure enough it didn't last more than 4 months. But Mary wanted nothing more to do with me. It's been over 10 years and I'm not friends with either one of them now. I think of Mary often and hope she's doing well.

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    Billo66
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    16 hours ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Operator.. could you help me place this call? The number on the matchbook is old and faded.....

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    #47

    Slept with a friend's boyfriend.

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    #48

    I gave a girl I was dating gonorrhea, but managed to twist it round so she thought she gave it me. I forgave her though.

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    #49

    Never told anyone this, and I need to get it off my chest after nearly 20 years of guilt. Me and my little brother both got little Rc cars from our grandparents one Christmas. They were generally low quality, and actually not very "remote" at all, since they were attached to their respective controls with a wire. Despite that, I seen my bro's little 5 year old face light up when he received his present.

    I think at some point not long after, we had a little falling out, probably over something petty. Well, that wire that connected his car to the remote? I snipped it with a pair of scissors. Completely broke his toy. Can't remember what happened after, but I remember bursting into tears whilst in the school toilet when I was around 10. The guilt was awful, like unbearably so. Even now, at 26, I feel sick thinking about it. Please, free me from this guilt. Tell me I'm not a bad person.

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    Wagner
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    1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe buy a little rc car now and give it to him for Christmas, just because.

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    #50

    I started the washer before my husband could gather his laundry. I didn't feel like folding a lot of clothes.

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