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Men Online Share 30 Things They Kept To Themselves So Their Parents Would Never Find Out
It is no secret that a lot of us have hidden things from our parents at one point or another. Whether it was that one time you snuck out to a party you weren’t allowed to attend, or opened that box of chocolates you weren’t supposed to touch, it is very much inevitable that parents won’t know everything about what their children do.
Someone online, in the r/AskMen subreddit, decided to ask men about the secrets they’ve hidden from their parents, and they delivered plenty. The question went viral, collecting 13.8k upvotes and prompting 5.4k comments. Scroll down for the whole list, consider upvoting the entries you found the most interesting and leave a comment!
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#1
I got married and didn’t tell them until my wife began to show her pregnancy. We had been married for over a year at that point. They did not approve of our relationship because of outdated reasons. We have been married for 37 years now and have 4 kids and 7 grandkids
Craig Schulz 3 years ago
Have been with my second wife for30 yrs, married for 25 yrs. My mother has disliked her from day 1. We have 2 kids & when the kids were little 4 & 8 , my mom made a derogatory remark about them being dumb illiterate brats( both kids have grown into fine upstanding adults who both graduated from College. One is a Welder for a National Railway ( makes over $100,000 a yr, other one is a nurse in a hospital $120,000 /yr. I told my mother that you don't deserve to be their grandmother if you can't say anything nice. She tried to say she didn't say anything bad. I called her 22 yrs ago & cut off all contact with her. My sisters have sided with their mother& cut contact with me. I have not regretted my decision. My kids will always come first
Ramirez rachael 3 years ago
Love is love good for you and your family and it sounds like you are very blessed with a good bunch of people!!!
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#2
My teenage best friend Chester was forbidden to come to our house or call, because they heard he was a bad kid, welp, the friend they liked Raphael, was Chester all along... Used his middle name for around 6 years until mom found out.
QibliOfTheSandWings 3 years ago
Wow imagine keeping that secret for 6 years
Load More Replies... Kelzbelz79 3 years ago
I did this with a boyfriend and all was well till his friend knocked my door and my mum answered, they used his real name and all he'll broke loose 😂😂😂
Jill Holmes 3 years ago
One of my best friends parents growing up loved me but hated another one of our friends. Everytime they hung out, she just said she was w/ me. One time, we were all at her house after school & her parents came home, so we literally hid our friend in the closet 😂
Stephen R Hipp 3 years ago
How cool!! I didn't have parents after 11 yrs old. I was a street kid so I always enjoy reading these
Dana Ondráčková 3 years ago
I used to have a bunch of Guy friend as a little girl. One older one was in love with me And when we were teenager, my parents left us in our home alone. On their run for errands, they heard some suspicipus rummors about the boy. They rushed home And I Just sat There alone because the boy already left, we had fun playing pc games, I kicked jim off a gym Ball, we had a blast, he was a great behaved boy, his siblings the same (bless their mom she had to have some miracle to keep all those boys so amazingly mannered) but my parents never trusted him since that rumour
#3
When I was a junior in high school, my mom and I got into a low speed accident with minor damage to both vehicles. Later that month I was so exhausted from school that I decided to ditch. I drove on the backroads for 10 minutes send parked, and then slept.
My mom found out and was furious at me. I lied and said that it was because I wasn't feeling good and I had headaches and some bs like that. She took me to the doctor and they found that my C3 vertebrae was fractured on top of having a tumor growing on it. I ended up having a gnarly 10 hour spinal surgery that honestly completely changed the course of my life.
And we only found out about it because I couldn't think of any other b******t excuse to use
adrien dyer 3 years ago
this guy had a fractured vertebrae and a tumor and you're calling him lucky
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Nkotanyi 3 years ago
In boarding school, I noticed a kind of weird lump on her back but it wasn't hurting or bothering her in anyway. However, she wanted to go home for a birthday so she went to the school nurse who sent her home. Guess what they found??? Her vertebrae column was invading her spinal cord and brain space. Ended having a long surgery and two months recovery!!!!!
#4
My mom is not so good with finances and the internet. I have been paying a significant portion of her bills for the past decade and she has no idea.
Kataroni 3 years ago
Hey DUN DUN, your profile picture looks like Hamtaro. If it is, it's adorable! If not, still adorable!
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Michael Borden 3 years ago
That is an incredibly noble deed that you have been doing for your mother, and God Bless you for that. For all my mother has done for me (or any ones mother really) from newborn to 18+ years, if I was capable of doing what you did, I would in a heart beat. Again, you are doing a wonderful thing for her.
Chrissie Anit 3 years ago
That's very sweet of you, but wouldn't you both benefit from sitting her down and helping her get her finances in order?
#5
My mom raised me in a pretty aggressive christian household. When we finally got tv, I discovered HBO had like a 5 minute preview of movies/shows whatever. Then I saw the late night s**t. Well our tv was locked down with a passcode. I had to be like 11 or 12 but I put a vhs in then hit record. I then told my mom that I wanted to watch a animal documentary but it was locked tv14 for the animal violence. Well, she had me turn around while she scrolled the password in. After she left for work, I rewinded the vhs and got the password. Sorry Mom!
Heather Bailey 3 years ago
Kids are smart. My 8 year old received a tablet for Christmas. I put parental locks on it immediately. And it was a hard one with letters and numbers. I always made him leave the room when I unlocked it (from past experience). He somehow figured it out, changed it so I couldn’t get it, swiped my bank card, opened up his own Amazon Prime account, manually entered my card, and downloaded a bunch of games. He then proceeded to spend over $700 on coins and purchased another $200 on Pokémon items from his Amazon account. Natalie from Amazon and I spent an entire night trying to figure it all out. I finally had to wake his behind up at 5:30am to make him give me the new passcode. I have said that he’ll either be working for the CIA one day or will be running from them. 🤦🏻♀️
Christina T 3 years ago
My parents put a passcode on the TV so we couldn't watch MTV. Since I was the only one who could ever set the VCR up, I knew that I could actually watch MTV without the passcode. My dad could never figure out how we did it until I told him many, MANY years later. He said I outsmarted him and deserved every second I got to watch MTV.
Christina T 3 years ago
Watch TV through the VCR without having to figure out the code.
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Bayou Billy 3 years ago
Much like money it CAN do good things but mostly is like money the root of all evil 😉
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My friend did a similar trick to get the password for his moms PC back when we were kids
Marie Claire Lafreniere 3 years ago
Haha my dad locked the tv cause all I watched at his house was music videos. Turns out it was easily bypassed. I pressed up for it to start scrolling up, then I’d press down simultaneously and it would stop skipping the blocked channels. I really miss nineties technology 😂😂
#6
While my parents were at work, my older brother started cooking french fries in a cast iron skillet and cranked the heat until the oil was boiling. He left the stove unattended for a few minutes and came back to a raging fire. He took the pan, spilled hot grease on the cheap kitchen tile, opened the sliding back door and tossed it into the yard before hosing it down. The microwave that sat above the stove was completely ruined and two or three floor tiles were badly burned. So my brother goes to Lowes and finds the exact microwave model, overcharging his card to pay for it. Comes home, tosses the old one, installs the new one. We replaced the tiles with a box cutter and super glue and exchanged the burned tiles in the middle of the kitchen with tiles from the back of the pantry. They never suspected a thing
QibliOfTheSandWings 3 years ago
“Uh… son? Why is your credit card overcharged?” “Oh i uh… bought a $50 headphone set?”
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LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
my folks would still have suspected something just from the smell or noticing tiny details. I envy the people who had parents that didn't notice the smallest details.
Marcellus the Third 3 years ago
Absolutely. It taught me ninja skills that allows me to sneakily do so many things to most people I know (and I know on who it won't work)... It's a power that is very hard to only use for good =(.
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Kiryn Silverwing 3 years ago
They probably just agreed not to say anything because the kids were responsible enough to fix everything and probably learned a valuable lesson from the experience.
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Crimro Courter 3 years ago
Maybe they used it a couple times and a lot of people keep their stuff clean and looking new?.
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Jeanine Kitrell 3 years ago
God Bless you and your brother. You guys got very lucky. You must have had an angel watching over the two of you. You did the correct things to clean up your mess and fix everything. Good Job! You are lucky the entire house did not burn down
WiTchY_WoMaN 3 years ago
Reminds me of that scene from Diary of a Wimpy Kid: "wasn't there a lock on that door??"
#7
I snuck out my window at night to raise hell in the neighborhood when I was a teenager. They brought it up in casual conversation about 20 years later..... yeah. Parents know.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
I found out at my mother's funeral that she knew more about things I had done than I ever knew from the minister. My best friend's father.
Midoribird Aoi 3 years ago
Isn't that breaking the seal of the confessional?
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Linda Lee 3 years ago
I was sneaking back into my house via my bedroom window and my mother grabbed my hand. I screamed loud enough to wake the dead. Good times.
Mya Lugar 3 years ago
When I was 16, I told my Mom I was invited to a friends house overnight, Her parents didn't know I was there, and she wasent allowed to have company. Both her parents were part-time drunks. We trie to be quiet in her romm, but suddenly heard her Dad coming in a rage. I jumped ot the split-level second floor while holding the window ledge, and THOUGHT I had my tiptoes on the ground, but it was just the lower window ledge. I fell right onto a rose bush!!
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Whitey Black 3 years ago
In high school I'd call my house before my curfew from a pay phone & as soon as my mom answered I'd say, "I got it mom. Its for me." Like I answered the phone upstairs. She thought I was in the house & I'd pray to god she didn't check on me during the night. I pulled this off 3 times.
Friend Kelli 3 years ago
My dad used to watch my friend and me push my VW bug down the driveway, thinking we were so quiet and sneaky.
Kayden Campbell 3 years ago
I grew up in a smaller town and when I was 17 I was already out of school and working full time. I was hanging out with much older people and partying a lot. I am allergic to alcohol and so my mom was never concerned. I do not like eating leftovers and my mom knows that but there would be times that I wod come home and eat all of the leftovers in the fridge. I wouldn't even bother to take the containers to the kitchen and they would be spread out across my floor. I always believed my mom had no idea that I was coming home with the munchies until years later when she told me that she knew I was coming home high because otherwise I would never have eaten the leftovers but at least I was cleaning out the fridge.
Susan Bosse 3 years ago
My friends always snuck IN my house. My dad thought I was sneaking out so he nailed my screen on. I was a pretty good kid and solid student. Nothing was ever said. My screen would just be nailed back in place. My room was pretty big with a full size bed and full size sofa with extra room. Everyone would come in and we would just hang out and watch movies. No drinking in the house, nothing nefarious. Just hanging out. I'm 53. They still don't know. I did sneak out to learn how to drive a 4 speed truck. We lived in a private neighborhood and we never left it. That was really the only time I "snuck out." My dad was a football/golf coach at my HS. Lol
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
My bedroom was directly next to my parents and had a huge screen door that I snuck out of frequently, and they never found out :)
Justpeachy Alors 3 years ago
Yup, similar story here. NO hell raised but snuck out. Dad took the ladder and hid ut somewhere. We had to find another one at my friend's house.
Jeanine Kitrell 3 years ago
A long time ago this used to be not as dangerous to do as it is today for both male and females. Adolescents and Teenagers are safer to stay home. However, if your home life is toxic and dangerous get help from 911
#8
I got a tattoo on my shoulder blade. Kept it hidden for years after a shower etc. Found out years down the line my brother told them a week after I had the tattoo!
Deux 3 years ago
I've never understood the big deal some parents have with their kids getting tattooed. Like, who's body is it? Who has to live with the tattoo for the rest of their lives? Exactly.
Suz66 3 years ago
My sister didn't agree with me getting a tattoo. She always likes my posts but the one with my tattoo she didn't. She's super straight laced. My other sisters loved it and commented about it. Even my Mom did too.
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Jessica Holladay 3 years ago
My coworker's daughter worked with us for a year when she was 17. She got a tiny tattoo on her wrist, and started wearing a wrist band over it to hide it from her mom. Fast forward two years. That same daughter stops in to talk to her mom and she has blue hair and tattoos down both arms.
Auntriarch 3 years ago
My friend got a tattoo and her dad found out, but didn't tell her mother because my friend knew he was still smoking
Jonathan West 3 years ago
Nah, he hooked it up. As long as he made the agreement that "you can't say anything about it" then he essentially handled it for you. If anything, the d**k move was not letting you know. I've done this for my younger cousins.
Susan Bosse 3 years ago
Mom "grounded" me when I got my first tattoo. I was 25 and didn't live at home. My brother got one years later when he turned 18. He's 6'3" and was so scared to tell our parents that he could barely speak. Mom thought he'd had a wreck or gotten someone pregnant. When he told her he'd gotten his tattoo, she said "Oh, thank God." Big baby.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
My daughter also hid her tattoo from me. Beats me why. I sure didn't care and I only said to her that I personally didn't like tattoos, meaning I wouldn’t want one and there was nothing I wanted to etch on my skin. Obviously, she got the wrong message.
#9
There's a little entryway off on the side of my mother's house and into the basement. I realized how easy it was to sneak in and out of that thing when I was sixteen, and asked if I could move my room to the basement to "feel like I had my own space."
Actually, I snuck people in and out of it constantly. My girlfriend at the time stayed over two or three times a week, and I would sneak friends in constantly to drink and party with me. Either that or I'd sneak out on weekends and go party and hang out with people. My mother is a very very conservative Christian, and if she ever found out, she would lose her mind and probably disown me. I think about this sometimes.
Suz66 3 years ago
My sister moved into the one downstairs bedroom for awhile so she could sneak out the window. She got caught once after Dad heard her leave and he shut the window...then waited. He watched her check every door and window until she finally rang the doorbell. He made her move back upstairs where she still snuck out (had a ladder on the side of the house!)
Sande Knight 3 years ago
It is my sincere hope that you are able to overcome your mother's harmful perception of religion.
Ivy la Sangrienta 3 years ago
My dad's bedroom and mine were at opposite ends of his house. If I closed two interior doors I could blast music all night and he never heard a thing. And I also had boys over...
#10
When I was 14 I stole my dad’s MGB roadster and drove it for about an hour. When I got it home I washed it to cool it down so he wouldn’t notice it was warm, he appreciated the wash so much he took me for my 2nd serving of ice cream that day.
MacKenzie Moore 3 years ago (edited)
yes! let's totally be freinds.in hell.
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Joseph Kastorff 3 years ago
If only Cameron could have pulled it off like that in Ferris Bueller!
DC 3 years ago
... that's a story that is great because nothing happened. I did kind of the same, but used a Lancia Delta instead. Sadly, no Integrale, just the regular FWD Turbo ... but, 13yo me was kinda impressed about how it took on load after threshold RPM ... nothingnothingnothing - BAM!
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
Didn’t check the mileage? My father always checked it on his “special” car!
#11
I got my drivers license a few days after I turned 16 one summer. I told my mom and dad that a friend and I wanted to drive a 100 miles away to go help my friends grandpa with chores around his house because he was getting to old to do them on his own. My mom and dad thought that was a great idea and even offered their brand new car for us to use the week we would be gone.
Thing is, we didn’t go to my friends grandfathers house, we drove almost a 1000 miles (each way) to Las Vegas. After we had driven a few hundred miles we disconnected the speedometer (gear driven) so they wouldn’t know the real miles we racked up on their new car. Had the time of our life. We slept in the car and cleaned up at truck stops along the way. This was back in the mid 70’s and the strip wasn’t even part of Las Vegas yet. We managed to slip into a casino and put a few nickels in a slot machine right inside the door, but never got caught. It was a road trip that I’ll never forget. Parents never were the wiser.
Cass Thompson 3 years ago
My parents were way too smart for me to get away with something like this, or anything really. My mom seemed to know EVERYTHING I did/wanted to do/tried to do, etc lol Your parents have to either be extremely naive or they just know and let you do it anyway, for yall to "get away" with all this stuff lol
Jenna Garrett 3 years ago (edited)
The strip WAS part of Vegas in the 70s. It was Las Vegas Blvd, just like it us now. Even though part of it is called Paradise, it's still in Las Vegas. It's not in New York city or something ... My grandfather was a musician. He played in casinos on the strip in the 70s. I feel like OP actually drove to Reno ?
Rosemary Edwards 3 years ago
God was looking out for you! It's great memories! That sort of thing happened to me a few times.
#12
My mom used to take the power cord to my Xbox when I was grounded. My buddy’s Xbox stopped working so he gave me his power cord and I would hop on when they weren’t home or late at night.
Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
My stepdad would take my controllers away when I was grounded. I had backup controllers and a Gameboy he seemed to not know about. He still brags to people that taking games away caused me to do better in school when in reality it just taught be skills about being sneaky
*Displayname*=idk 3 years ago
The strictest parents have the most sneaky kids!
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the_casscass 3 years ago
When I was a junior in hish school, my mom would take the power cord to the computer. I new where the computer was boxed up in the attic, so I went and got that cord and kept it stashed for when she would take the cord. Seriously pissed me off. Her reasoning? I was on the internet too much, and not watching my siblings like I was supposed to or doing my chores, and hogging the phone line (ah, dialup). I would go online and copy and paste a couple stories from FanFiction. net to Wordpad to read offline, check my emails, and do research for school. I would do my chores when I go home from school, I made sure my siblings had snacks and were intertwined(they were pretty well behaved for me), and start cooking dinner at 5:30, while she sat on her ass watching TV. I would only spend 2 hours at a time online doing research, and take an hour break, so, no wasn't hogging the line. Meanwhile she would spend far longer on the internet than me, so I didn't understand her logic. Still don't. 😅
Lady of the Mountains 3 years ago
The cord for my moms sewing machine matched our tv cord- the plan was spoiled when my younger siblings found out and weren't careful enough
Erin Mitchell 3 years ago
my mom would take away the compute mouse whenever she was upset with us bc she thought that would stop anyone from using it. I just used the keyboard to navigate everything and didnt say anything about it.
Valerie G. 3 years ago
Mental note - it is on my petty revenge list "if I ever leave my husband, I'm taking all the remotes with me, removing all the labels off the cans in the pantry.
Red 3 years ago
My mom would cut my cables, then make me work for neighbors to earn enough to replace it. Thing is, while I was grounded, she wouldn't allow me to leave the house. Which meant I couldn't go to the store. So I'd need to give her the money to go. So I thought power cables were $70 until I grew up and had to replace one my dog chewed on.
Devan Buelow 3 years ago
My mom would take my gameboy adv or sp away forgeting about my old gameboy color. She would flip out about how i was perfectly happy sitting in my room doing nothing. She couldnt understand it
Misty Pendergrast 3 years ago
If I have to do something like this, I'm just going to take the console out of their room, or padlock the cupboard it's in. I've got a lot of years before this is an issue (my son is 3 and my daughter is not quite 2.
#13
I personally don't want to get married or have kids. I just don't want to deal with the stress around raising another life in this world and failing at being the best father that I can be. I would rather be happy alone.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Me too (not a man tought). I cant imagine my lofe with kids screaming, crying and demanding attention all day long.
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Sean Davie 3 years ago
Agree with the child-free part, disagree with the married part. My partner and I are D***s(dual-income no kids) and we love it! Vacations all the time, whatever luxuries we can afford... and we can even play with our friends' kids for a few hours, and then GIVE THEM BACK! Best of both worlds.
Dan Cybulski 3 years ago
My aunt and uncle said the same things. They’re wondering why nobody will visit them in the retirement home now
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Robert Kniep 3 years ago
I seriously got a vasectomy for this very reason, I never looked at myself as being a responsible parent. Don't get me wrong I do like children, I just didn't want any . I let my sister enjoy parenthood
Moff Jerjerrod 3 years ago
If my mother never brings up me having kids again I will be so happy
Kelly Taylor 3 years ago
With that attitude, I'm glad you don't want kids either. I was in no way prepared to have a child when I was 50 but that's what happened and I'm doing my best to be a good dad... as long as you're doing that you probably are one.
Debby Marengo 3 years ago
I wish I had been this smart even though I love the two I have - they are going on 30's now. Today - no way!
Spampampams 3 years ago
I didn't have kids. I didn't like kids even when I was one. Selfish little s**ts.
#14
I knew about her cancer for 6 months before she told me.
Rosemary Edwards 3 years ago
That happened with my dad. I actually dreamt about it. Really weird.
#15
I still talk to the girl they forbade me from speaking to when I was 14
#16
That it took me 7 years to get my B.S in CS. Because I failed a lot due to anxiety and depression. I'm a first Gen american so they dont know how college works and I just lied to them by saying that taking 2 or 3 classes a semester is better than being full time.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
Actually, for some people that is not a bad strategy. I have ADHD and that would have worked much better for me.
Crystal Lamas 3 years ago
First gen American and going to college like your whole family tree grew here. Many older students take around 6 years because they already have a job or family
Caitlin M. Maguire 3 years ago
Taking 2-3 or even 4 classes is a lot better most of the time. That's how I got through college. 7 years too.
coffeegirl18 3 years ago
I'm just happy you finally got the degree. CS is hard I've had a lot of friends drop out of it.
#17
The really great report card I brought home once was actually a fabrication I made on the home computer while they were sleeping. Mom was so proud, I never told her.
Crystal Lamas 3 years ago
Again proof children are intelligent. And proud schools don't always see that
Red 3 years ago
My report cards were genuine. I was fine showing my mom bad ones. It was good report cards I dreaded showing. Why? I dunno, possibly something to do with the fact that I can't stand praise. I've always hated it. Likely has something to do with my father never once having praised me or said he was proud of me. I mean, I was "getting intimate" with a girl once. Afterwards, she said she was ecstatic that I was so good. Even that mild praise broke me, and I ended up crying. And I despise that about myself. So I go out of my way to avoid doing anything that really praise worthy. Luckily my wife knows and so avoids praising me.
Red 3 years ago
Forgot to mention on my report cards, I usually let it ride around Fs and Ds until finals week, when I'd boost them to Cs and Ds. Always confused my mom how I did that, but to me, it was 2nd nature. Easy to do.
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Carl Liuzzo 3 years ago
I got caught doing the same thing. Turns out they had it directly sent to them, never said a word. Let me give them the one I made. Actually praised me for my ingenuity but “grounded” me for being a little s**t
Ramirez rachael 3 years ago
Lucky ours was printed on a specific paper and you couldn’t fake it lol
#18
I skipped school once in high school. Forged my dad's signature on a note. I'm 37 and still think my mom might kill me if she found out.
Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
I used to forge my mum's signature all the time, got caught once. When I was a teen (13ish) my mum wanted a loan without my dad knowing so got me to forge his signature on the loan forms.
Jan H 3 years ago
In HS in the 70s I used to forge my mother’s and some of my teachers signatures on various attendance-related documents. My home room teacher taught math in the same classroom as my math teacher, different hour. One day I strolled up to my home room, HR teacher standing at the door. “Just a minute, I have something for you” he said. Stepped into the room and came back out with my binder, opened it to the front pages, and showed me several practice pages of neatly forged signatures: his, my French teachers, my mom’s, etc
Jp@nda 3 years ago
Ah damn.. your heart probably went right into your stomach didn't it. But why the hell was he going through your personal stuff?? Freaking weirdo
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I'm named after my dad and his handwriting is as bad as mine. I had him sign a permission slip once and the school thought I forged it so they called him and confirmed it was his. From then on I knew I could forge it and they'll never question it.
Leonard Haley 3 years ago
In high school the first time a friend needed a parent's note he got me to sign it for him. He did the same for me. We became each other's parents for the rest of our high school years and never got caught.
King Kashue 3 years ago
My father and I have the same name and my voice changed at like 12, so in high school I used to go home at lunch and call in saying "Hi there, this is Firstname Lastname and I'm calling to report Firstname Lastname came home at lunch. Yup, father and son, same name, heh. Yep, thanks, have a great afternoon." Excused absence and *technically* not actually lying. :D
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I did that once when I was in high school. Except as I was happily driving around with a friend we drove right past my Dad. Oops! I tried to tell my parents it was just another car that looked like mine, but they weren't buying it. Ordinarily my Dad would have never even been in the area in the first place - it was just a really crappy coincidence . Luckily I was the "good kid" compared to my sibling and had already been accepted to college, so they let it slide. :)
robin woordes 3 years ago
I always used to write and sign my own notes, even when she wrote my one, I just wrote one myself too so there is never any change. I just made up a signature. Nobody found out ever
Brandy Dor 3 years ago
I forged my dad's signature soooo much that except for the first letter are signatures are now identical
#19
That they are terrible at hiding things or making passwords. Anytime I was in trouble and used a password to lock the tv or computer they always used a significant date so it was just process of elimination.
I also found almost all of the Christmas presents every year because they would just put them in the garage under a giant blanket. Like all of a sudden in mid-December a mountain of stuff covered by a blanket would appear in the garage, don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure that one out.
Julian McCallum 3 years ago
I know where the Christmas presents are kept, but I like the surprise on Christmas day
RandomFrog 3 years ago
Yeah my parents keep them in their closet but I never peek because I love surprises and the one time I did peek it ruined my Christmas.
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Kay blue 3 years ago
I found my presents one year and it was such a let down on Christmas day that I never went hunting for them again.
Buggs Island Lake 3 years ago
My sister and would look for them every year, never found them. Found out that the presents were hidden in the trunk of my father's car. I never would have thought to look there.
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Aidan Pite 3 years ago
There is currently a Batman gift bag sitting innocently in my closet. My birthday is in a week. I have to wait for mom to get here to open it. It's taunting me.
Jill Holmes 3 years ago
I keep all the presents in a crawl space in our basement. I've always told my kids there are big, nasty spiders in there, so they won't go near it. They're almost 14 & 16 and still terrified of that space 😆
Shyla Clay 3 years ago
I opened my presents early once. It was a real let down at Christmas. Lesson learned.
Claire Cochrane 3 years ago
Would you prefer no presents that day & simply a surprise before or after with family?
Kashi Devi 3 years ago
As a mom, we know the presents aren't well hidden. We put them there so you won't accidentally find them. We assume/hope you won't be too selfish to ruin our pleasure at seeing your face when you open them up the first time on Christmas morning.
#20
I never graduated college. Im the youngest so they were pretty "over" going to graduation ceremonies. I said I got my degree in the mail. I still got a decent job, they never asked for my degree but I said I had one on my resume.
Been 8yrs since I "graduated"
Frances M 3 years ago
This is so common. But be careful, my current job had me bring the real certificates in with me to the interview so they could photocopy them there and then and stamp the copies for proof to the interviewers.
Somorgujo de Río 3 years ago
I don't think he meant he told it at the job.
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Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
I spent three miserable years doing a degree I didn't want to do but needed to for a job.... got said job, AN ENTIRE YEAR LATER, boss calls me over and said, "Hey! Just came across your CV again somehow, I didn't realise you had a degree in (relevant field), that's good to know, I'll stick you on some more related projects!" HE'D NEVER EVEN BOTHERED TO READ TO SEE WHAT MY DEGREE WAS IN
WhovianPotter14 3 years ago
For all of you complaining, they lied to family. They never said they lied to jobs🤦🏽♀️🙄😂🤣
Upstaged75 3 years ago
When I worked at a University I had some guy come in and try to bribe me to falsify a document that said he graduated from our program. (Apparently his employer had discovered he had no proof of his supposed Master's degree and he was in danger of being fired) He slipped me $100 cash and his business card, and asked me to type something up. (I was the program manager of a Master's degree course in IT) It was so unexpected I didn't even realize what he was asking me for - I honestly couldn't figure out why he was giving me money. :) Once I finally caught on I went straight in to my boss's office and got him. He threw the guy out but kept the business card. I don't remember if my boss called his employer or not - it was a long time ago. But how stupid can you be? I hope the idiot lost his job. After that my coworkers were constantly (jokingly) asking me how much it would cost for me to break various laws for them. :) More than $100, that's for sure!!
Miranda Marques 3 years ago
TBH, as a college graduate, it sucks to me that you even have to lie to say you have a masters degree to get great jobs that can literally be done with a high school education and training.
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Red 3 years ago
Dropped out of high school my senior year. Wasn't gonna graduate cause I screwed around freshman year and didn't have enough credits. So I sped up thr process. Got my GED (still hold the state record for highest GED testing scores 10 years later, so thats something). But I later went to job corp and got my diploma through them. Granted, my school wasn't sending my records, so I was "in class" long enough to earn my credits without doing a lack of work, cause they didn't know where I was or what work I should be doing.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago
Most places I have worked required a sealed transcript from the university registrar. Guess you could just look it up online now.
Ron Cooper 3 years ago
You can buy "authentic" degrees/diplomas online. Pretty much any school you can think of is available. No one would be the wiser, unless actually contacting and checking validity with the school administration. (Informational purposes only. Not a suggestion to do.)
#21
Im the one that made all the leprechaun movies disappear throughout my childhood. I took them to granny’s house & made sure they’d never see the light of day again.
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
There’s a horror series called Leprechaun I believe. I wanna say Jennifer Anniston was in one before she was famous but I might be thinking of the wrong movie.
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Nick Lasley 3 years ago
More context from that sub: "I mean, have you *seen* the 1st & 2nd one? I was a child of anxiety. I thought homicidal leprechauns lurked in the dark. Then, every Friday night at the local blockbuster, their faces stared back at me. Oodles of copies. I always turned around all the copies on display. Anytime they were on tv, my parents grabbed a junk vhs & taped over whatever WAS on that vhs. So I woukd be watching a tape of rocko’s modern life, then BAM! Homicidal leprechauns. So I was making vhs tapes disappear often. tl;dr: Ima wimp."
Jennifer Lewis 3 years ago (edited)
Omg, f♤(< those movies! That's the 1 Jennifer Aniston movie I will NEVER watch again!
William Bennett 3 years ago
I was terrified of leprechauns after my brother let me watch them When I was about 5, along with the shining.
#22
I used to drive the family car when they were away at work. Like everytime. Just drive around the neighbourhood. I was 15.
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 3 years ago
I used to take my dads motorbike , push it up the road and coast it down.
iBlank 3 years ago
I was messing around in my dads truck by myself when I was little and accidentally put the car in neutral on a hill. I was too little (like 10yo) to reach the pedals, so I was on the floor pushing on the brake until they could find me. Probably would've taken forever if I hadn't rolled into the middle of the road, and people were honking at this driverless truck, haha.
Shortstuff 3 years ago
So did our daughter aged 14, no licence...until she crashed into 2 shop windows by accelerating instead of braking. Police rang me at work. Court case, and she had to pay $2000 for the insurance excess on the sign written windows, plus $500 court costs. We refused to help her pay.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago
Hard to do when the "family car" was the company pickup. Door logo and during the day at work.
#23
That I watched Ben 10. Growing up, I said that Ben 10 was stupid and then I watched an episode and loved it. But not wanting to be a hypocrite, I would put a sign on my door and say don’t come into until 10:30 which was what time Ben 10 ended on Saturday mornings.
Grace Walker 3 years ago (edited)
I am the same with My Little Pony. Sometimes stuff like this is still enjoyable even as a teenager
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is one of my favorite tv shows, even as a nearly 18 year old.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
How was the mum not suspicious he put a sign on the door every Saturday at the same time? And do kids usually have tv in their rooms?
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
She either didn't notice or didn't care, I believe.
Load More Replies... Jonathan West 3 years ago
I did this with Pokemon. Truth is, I really didn't like the show but I had to watch it cause I loved Pokemon so much I wanted to see them in action and back 2000 the cartoon was really the only way.
Grace Smith 3 years ago
Ooo I feel this one, as a teenager I discovered a love for the show “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” it was so good!
Kelly Taylor 3 years ago
That's me and Rick & Morty. I poo-pood it for 2 seasons, watched the Szechuan sauce episode of season 3 and was hooked.
#24
I once took my dads motorbike on a 4 hour round trip because I woke up late for a scuba diving trip when I was 18.
I was being picked up by the instructor and just overslept by about 45 min and didn't hear them at the door. My parents were away so I put on all my dads bike gear (we are pretty similar in size) and drove about two hours up the motorway and spent the day diving before driving home. Filled up the tank on the way home to cover my tracks!
I didn't have a license or insurance (although I could drive a bike).
I don't think he would even care now (I'm 33) but I've just never had the right moment to tell him.
Debby Marengo 3 years ago
At a family dinner get together when you bring up all the things you did as a kid. [just to start trouble] lol
Winter's Dream 3 years ago
This game is even more fun if you have sibs and "tell" on each other
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#25
In high school, the melted floor mats in my mom's new car were because I sprayed febreeze on dog c**p that a friend's shoe brought in and it "reacted like that".
In truth, it was a firecracker that someone tried to chuck out the window and it bounced off the glass and landed inside the car. They forgot the child safety windows didn't go all the way down.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
This is the first time I have heard of child safety windows. Now the reason old winder windows in the back seats of cars don't wind all the way makes sense.
Dave In MD 3 years ago
Not a child safety thing. The design of some doors don't have room for the glass to go fully down.
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#26
Those 20 beers that were stashed under my bed..I was NOT holding them for a friend
NsG 3 years ago
Unless your parents also believe they've removed the word "gullible" from the dictionary, they knew the truth.
Marcellus the Third 3 years ago
But that word was never in the dictionary in the first place, so it can never have been removed. Source: a mate told me.
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Celeste Grant 3 years ago
My brother was "holding" cigarettes and a lighter in his pockets for his best mate....No one believed him but he thinks they did!
Red 3 years ago
Worst substance they ever caught me with was cigarettes. They were going through my room after they found out I'd been stealing. Had a good 3 year streak going on. They found a whole 2 large laundry baskets full of stuff I'd stolen and questioned me about all of it. About half was "given" to me. The other half I admitted was stolen. Including about $300 worth of stuff from various shops on the AFB we lived on. What they never found out about was the money and the yugioh cards I'd stolen too.
#27
Back in high-school, we went on a family vacation to Hayward Wisconsin. Me, my brother, and my cousin had these under water fire crackers we'd been lighting and throwing in the lake. Well, I convinced my cousin to light one and throw it in the toilet of the cabin we rented. Sure enough, it cracked the bowl and all the water spilled out. When it came time to fess up, none of us had any idea what happened and my uncle had to go buy a new toilet to install. I think we told them the truth about a decade later.
Supa79 (He/him) 3 years ago
Bro. Don’t throw those into lakes, they’re like toxic and kill the fish and s**t.
Red 3 years ago
The toxins are fine. Wild fish are fairly resilient to small amount, and I think less than 1ppm counts as a small amount, in the case of the various byproducts. The real danger to fish is the boom. Its loud for us, but its deafening to them.
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#28
That I was a bouncer for a night club for about a year and that I took a personal loan for my classes.
Charlotte Sandoval 3 years ago
Both are risks that could worry some parents, I guess? The bouncer one for sure could make a mom real anxious
Load More Replies... coffeegirl18 3 years ago (edited)
My uncle was a bouncer for a strip club/dive bar in the 70s. My mom gets awkward with that part, I'm like he's a nice guy he probably stopped some jerks from slapping girls around.
#29
When I moved across the country 2 years ago my car broke down in the middle of Texas. I ditched it there and took a rental the rest of the way and bought a used car on Facebook 2 weeks later. They still think I’m driving the same car I had when I left.
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
Weird thing to lie about if your car just broke down! I think there’s some missing details here
Sunny Day 3 years ago
Probably overprotective parents with dire warnings about bad things happening, and an eagerness to say "I told you so!"
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Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
What the frick this is so insane to me.... and wasteful... and expensive.... and elaborate. Why not just get it fixed?!
Rosemary Edwards 3 years ago
Yeah lots of s**t happens in Texas! The car is probably where you left it still!
#30
When I found out they were really Santa Claus.
Dark-Infinity 3 years ago
Not my parents. I've known all my life that Santa isn't real
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James Tartaglione 3 years ago (edited)
mine is how i can never tell them how awful they've always made me feel about myself. my mental health has never been great but will take to my grave how much worse they made it. they meant well and we get along. just had this way of making me feel brushed off and useless. edit: i'm doing better mental health wise
Bill Evs 3 years ago
The only time I did this was for a friend in the late 90's. This was way before scanners, printers or photo software were common. Basically he was in college with me (UK) but he didn't want to be there, just did it to keep his parents happy I felt. He had zero intention of going on to University. Unfortunately his final A-Level grades were lacking to say the least. Back then the grade results were just given to us on a printed piece of A4 paper. He called me up and (as I was quite adept at the stuff) asked me to forge him a results sheet with different grades. I remember using a scalpel, glue stick, Tipp-ex and a local shop's photocopier to make a new grade sheet for him he could present to his parents, lol. Lost touch with him after college but I always wonder how that went (it did look official mind you).
Linda Lee 3 years ago
My brother and I broke the dining room window playing catch. We pooled our allowance and I called a window repairman to come the next day before my father got home from work. We ate dinner that night with the curtains closed, very unusual. I was so scared but we pulled it off!
Shoshana Sherrington 3 years ago
Funnily enough that probably would have been the punishment, paying the repairs. But you skipped the yelling
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Awsomemom52 3 years ago (edited)
My brothers and I were raised strictly Catholic. Prayers before and after every meal, every Sunday (or Saturday) and of course every Christian holiday we had to go to church. When I was about 14/15, we were allowed to choose which church we went to. There was a small church in our neighborhood and a larger one downtown. We decided to go to the church downtown... "using the excuse" that the pastor's sermons were so boring and that we also wanted to visit our grandmother, who lived downtown, on the way back to church. In truth we went straight to our grandma who wasn't really religious and covered up our swindle. I doubt our parents ever found out.
Amilah CrackcornandIdontcare 3 years ago
Awe that's actually really wholesome and cute
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 3 years ago
One secret my brother has kept from my dad and will forever I think. One night when my brother and I shared a house together I woke up at like 2am to him groaning and calling out from his bedroom. I got up and found he had vomited everywhere and he was conscious but not lucid. I call an ambulance and they ask whether he had been drinking. I said I didn't know, as I went to bed about 9pm but he wouldn't have more than a few ciders as far as I knew. They took him off to hospital and I call my mum and dad (they were divorced) but neither picked up. The next day my brother was sent home and I found out he had been intoxicated, he had been drinking shots. Mum knows this, but since my dad is a tea-totaller he didn't want to tell him. Since my bother is coeliac he gave some excuse about nit knowing what it was but he probably ate some gluten by accident. Dad believed this, but every so often he has asked if they ever found out if gluten was the culprit.
A Jones 3 years ago
The worst I did as a teen was secretly watched R rated VHS movies and snuck one or 2 cans o' cold ones. The funny thing is after watching those movies was part of my process on learning that I was asexual. I have zero libido/urges since day one of puberty. I enjoyed the story lines and art of the animated stuff instead. Ex. Heavy Metal. I did date in HS, but the most we did was kiss.
Friend Kelli 3 years ago
My nine year old daughter made a facebook accound at her friend's house and called herself Abigail Monterio. She's in her 20s and I call her that once in a while.
Lux Aeterna 3 years ago
I used to ditch school a lot because of bullying. I pretended to leave for school and just walk through the city or somewhere else where no one I knew would see me and would come back just around the time school Was out. Also forged my father's signature on sick notes so I had an excuse why I wasn't in school. He never found out.
Keisha 3 years ago
I have a second secret. When I was five years old my grandmother had me going through a huge mail sorter and throwing out old,outdated mail.I was in another room and about halfway through the sorting I came upon paperwork from an attorney and found out I was adopted.(I had actually felt like I was as long as I could remember). I found out my oldest sister is my birth mother,my sister and brother are my aunt and uncle and my parents were my grandparents. I honestly felt relieved because I knew what I felt was true. My entire family sucked and didn't give a damn about me and my "mother and uncle" were extremely abusive but my dad was everything to me and he was actually the one who adopted me. He had no clue about the abuse when he was at work offshore. But when he died I was 13 and he never knew that I knew about being adopted.I am 51 and until I was in high school my grandmother didn't know I knew.She never knew how I found out,she assumed my biological.mother told me recently.
Keisha 3 years ago
In high school my grandmother hated my boyfriend because his mom didn't want to be friends with her. So I was consistently punished from seeing him or talking to him on the phone whenever she felt like it. So I figured out that a cute house phone that I got from a friend was an actual working phone. So whenever I was going out to the barn or go check fences on the property (we owned a large horse farm) I would sneak directly under our house(it was on stilts) and open the big phone box that held the wiring for the house phone and tap into the line and talk to him. If she picked up the house phone she was still able to make a call and not know I too was using the same line. I saw a guy that was working on a phone box years earlier and saw he was using a phone from it so by trial and error I figured it out. I'm 51 and she died never knowing what I did for the four years of high school when she punished me on a whim.
James Tartaglione 3 years ago (edited)
mine is how i can never tell them how awful they've always made me feel about myself. my mental health has never been great but will take to my grave how much worse they made it. they meant well and we get along. just had this way of making me feel brushed off and useless. edit: i'm doing better mental health wise
Bill Evs 3 years ago
The only time I did this was for a friend in the late 90's. This was way before scanners, printers or photo software were common. Basically he was in college with me (UK) but he didn't want to be there, just did it to keep his parents happy I felt. He had zero intention of going on to University. Unfortunately his final A-Level grades were lacking to say the least. Back then the grade results were just given to us on a printed piece of A4 paper. He called me up and (as I was quite adept at the stuff) asked me to forge him a results sheet with different grades. I remember using a scalpel, glue stick, Tipp-ex and a local shop's photocopier to make a new grade sheet for him he could present to his parents, lol. Lost touch with him after college but I always wonder how that went (it did look official mind you).
Linda Lee 3 years ago
My brother and I broke the dining room window playing catch. We pooled our allowance and I called a window repairman to come the next day before my father got home from work. We ate dinner that night with the curtains closed, very unusual. I was so scared but we pulled it off!
Shoshana Sherrington 3 years ago
Funnily enough that probably would have been the punishment, paying the repairs. But you skipped the yelling
Load More Replies... Awsomemom52 3 years ago (edited)
My brothers and I were raised strictly Catholic. Prayers before and after every meal, every Sunday (or Saturday) and of course every Christian holiday we had to go to church. When I was about 14/15, we were allowed to choose which church we went to. There was a small church in our neighborhood and a larger one downtown. We decided to go to the church downtown... "using the excuse" that the pastor's sermons were so boring and that we also wanted to visit our grandmother, who lived downtown, on the way back to church. In truth we went straight to our grandma who wasn't really religious and covered up our swindle. I doubt our parents ever found out.
Amilah CrackcornandIdontcare 3 years ago
Awe that's actually really wholesome and cute
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 3 years ago
One secret my brother has kept from my dad and will forever I think. One night when my brother and I shared a house together I woke up at like 2am to him groaning and calling out from his bedroom. I got up and found he had vomited everywhere and he was conscious but not lucid. I call an ambulance and they ask whether he had been drinking. I said I didn't know, as I went to bed about 9pm but he wouldn't have more than a few ciders as far as I knew. They took him off to hospital and I call my mum and dad (they were divorced) but neither picked up. The next day my brother was sent home and I found out he had been intoxicated, he had been drinking shots. Mum knows this, but since my dad is a tea-totaller he didn't want to tell him. Since my bother is coeliac he gave some excuse about nit knowing what it was but he probably ate some gluten by accident. Dad believed this, but every so often he has asked if they ever found out if gluten was the culprit.
A Jones 3 years ago
The worst I did as a teen was secretly watched R rated VHS movies and snuck one or 2 cans o' cold ones. The funny thing is after watching those movies was part of my process on learning that I was asexual. I have zero libido/urges since day one of puberty. I enjoyed the story lines and art of the animated stuff instead. Ex. Heavy Metal. I did date in HS, but the most we did was kiss.
Friend Kelli 3 years ago
My nine year old daughter made a facebook accound at her friend's house and called herself Abigail Monterio. She's in her 20s and I call her that once in a while.
Lux Aeterna 3 years ago
I used to ditch school a lot because of bullying. I pretended to leave for school and just walk through the city or somewhere else where no one I knew would see me and would come back just around the time school Was out. Also forged my father's signature on sick notes so I had an excuse why I wasn't in school. He never found out.
Keisha 3 years ago
I have a second secret. When I was five years old my grandmother had me going through a huge mail sorter and throwing out old,outdated mail.I was in another room and about halfway through the sorting I came upon paperwork from an attorney and found out I was adopted.(I had actually felt like I was as long as I could remember). I found out my oldest sister is my birth mother,my sister and brother are my aunt and uncle and my parents were my grandparents. I honestly felt relieved because I knew what I felt was true. My entire family sucked and didn't give a damn about me and my "mother and uncle" were extremely abusive but my dad was everything to me and he was actually the one who adopted me. He had no clue about the abuse when he was at work offshore. But when he died I was 13 and he never knew that I knew about being adopted.I am 51 and until I was in high school my grandmother didn't know I knew.She never knew how I found out,she assumed my biological.mother told me recently.
Keisha 3 years ago
In high school my grandmother hated my boyfriend because his mom didn't want to be friends with her. So I was consistently punished from seeing him or talking to him on the phone whenever she felt like it. So I figured out that a cute house phone that I got from a friend was an actual working phone. So whenever I was going out to the barn or go check fences on the property (we owned a large horse farm) I would sneak directly under our house(it was on stilts) and open the big phone box that held the wiring for the house phone and tap into the line and talk to him. If she picked up the house phone she was still able to make a call and not know I too was using the same line. I saw a guy that was working on a phone box years earlier and saw he was using a phone from it so by trial and error I figured it out. I'm 51 and she died never knowing what I did for the four years of high school when she punished me on a whim.
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