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April1980
176 Posts
17 years, 5 months ago
Ok, its 05:17 where I am just now and the craziest of subjects are of interest to me just now.
So, what was, for you, the biggest "bad" secret you've kept from your parents. In terms of something you did wrong, but kept from them and got away with it?

For me, its nothing major but would have cause a good few weeks grounding at the time.

Sometime in 1992, when I was 12, I accidently broke the left rear light lense on a Caravan when I was playing near it with my friend on our bikes. The owner had come out of the Caravan, asked me for my name and address, which I duly gave him, then dispatched me to fetch my Parents.

When I got home... I hesitated. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The first Dad had gotten free for a while and he was sitting watching TV with Mum. It was so peaceful. I didn't want to spoil that. I knew I would be grounded for a good two weeks.
So, to stall and give me time to think how I could break the news as positively as I could, I offered to make a cup of tea.
That alone should have tipped them off. It was highly unusual for me to turn up at home in the middle of the afternoon on a nice summers day, let alone to then offer to make a cup of tea. Had they have questioned me, I would have caved... they could always tell when I was lying. But my parents didn't catch on. So I made a cup of tea and while doing so, decided to stay stumm and hope they didn't ask questions.

For the next few days, every knock at the door terrified me. But a week or so passed and the caravans left. I had made it through unscathed.

I didn't tell my mother till last year, a full 14 years after the incident!

I'm sure Dad would have had a laugh at it if I had told him too.
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    misspiggy
    1442 Posts
    17 years, 5 months ago
    first of all this was soooo stupid and I hope my children never find out about this and use it against me in a "how can you even yell at me after what you did at my age" battle.
    -when I was between the ages of 13 and 16 my favorite pass time with my best friend was to leave the house after my step dad went to sleep (mom knew we left) for a walk. This was very late at night and mom thought we were walking to the next town in the dark(i dont know to this day why she would buy that story)..but she thought we were very responsible and just out having fun in the summer.
    -what we were actually doing was hitch-hiking back and forth from town to town with any stranger who would pick us up. Just for the adventure, we had no place to be but we would make up stories about having to be somewhere and strangers would give us rides. We would travel from town to town and back home again before dark and sneek back in my room before my step dad ever knew. We would plan ahead of time what story line to give the driver based on how many were in the car and if it looked safe or not.
    - sounds terrible and I know that alot worse could have happened than the couple of bad incidents that did but I cant say I regret it. It was a fun time and we met alot of strange people along that dark road at 3 am.
    ------and my parents never found out and I hope whole heartidly that my children never do either:o
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      liukangx
      3907 Posts
      17 years, 5 months ago
      Well this one time on my bus in 8th grade This girl wa all sad and angry and yelling for days because her boyfriend dumped her, so I was talking to one of my friend s and he said whats up with her? and I said she is probably on her period or something, some how she heard me and started yelling asying Im making fun of someone so damn loud the bus driver came over and tried to act like I did something wrong(I wastalking to one person and wasnt making fun of anyone) So this butthole busdriver writes me up for "making fun of a females monthly cycle"... but I got the thing in the mail before my mom did, in fear of being severly punished and having my new Xbox1 taken I took the letter in the alley and burned it, for the next ccouple days I was scared they would call my mom about it, but thank god!! they didnt! Its like it never happen

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        agentkev
        819 Posts
        17 years, 5 months ago
        Sure..plenty of them too. From running around the neighberhood going to places we are not suppost to go mostly.


        In my friend's neighberhood lived a nosey old man named Mr. Lightfoot.

        sometime in the early 90's my brother a friend of ours and his brother and I,... went to explore an empty house next door to them. our friend Chris was like... they leave the house open so people can go inside to look around if anyone was interested in buying it,.. wich it was,..since it was on sale and unlocked... not sure if that is true about it being ok to go inside though. probabaly not.

        Well we all went inside looking around this empty house our friend's brother was the lookout just in case.. well after a few minutes I was in another room when sure enough,..here comes nosey Mr.Lightfoot, I saw this from a window as Jason,.. our friend Chris's younger brother and the lookout bolts.,..nice job lookout. lol

        So Lightfoot goes on in,..while I hide in the room,... our friend chris is not even trying to hide as he has no clue,.. he was in a different room, my brother sees him and he too bolts out the back door,.... then I hear lightfoot asking why chris was in here,...I then took advantage of being in another room and quickly bolt. lol I remember eventualy chris comes out and we hide out for a long time in his backyard, lightfoot lived in the house across the street , well not in front or back,.. but side by side. Man we thought that old man would rat us out on chris and jason's parents..but he never did.

        Another time I cannot belive this,..but Chris and another friend of ours anmed Scott went across the street and slipped into lightfoots' backyard and steals like several cases of Dr. Pepper from his storage. *shakes head* they got away with that.


        Tons of stories I could tell but I don't wanna bore anyone..
        nWo 4-Life!


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          The_Batman
          876 Posts
          17 years, 5 months ago
          there were many secrets that i kept from my mom.

          1.(4th grade)While practicing my Shawn Micahels flying elbow, i accidently broke the wood inside of the sofa.. she thought it was worn out at 1st, but later she caught on to what happened

          2.(high School)All failing test papers were shredded and destroyed b4 she could learn of them.

          3.(6th Grade) Got into a fight at school and was sent to in school suspension, she never learned about it

          4.(2nd grade, yes 2nd grade) Forged her signature on a letter i got sent home

          5.(Middle School) Brought Porn into the house

          6. (High School) my cousin gave me my 1st beer..i was 15 at the time.
          "Keep the change you filthy animal..."
            jb71577
            87 Posts
            17 years, 5 months ago
            MY brother and I were fighting upstairs and we put a hole in the wall (like the size of a 12 year old kid) so I covered it with a huge poster I had of NKOTB. She only found out when we had to move 4 years later.
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              CACZLAD
              78 Posts
              17 years, 5 months ago
              I didnt tell my parents on my 10th Birthday about my first sexual relation with my first girlfriend it was her present 2 me talk about a birthday and lets hope known of u know them, as ive it done many times and hopefully they dont find out about it.
              I`m back BABY!!
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                agentkev
                819 Posts
                17 years, 5 months ago
                CACZLAD
                I didnt tell my parents on my 10th Birthday about my first sexual relation with my first girlfriend it was her present 2 me talk about a birthday and lets hope known of u know them, as ive it done many times and hopefully they dont find out about it.


                *shakes head*
                nWo 4-Life!


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                  NickRules
                  4941 Posts
                  17 years, 5 months ago
                  CACZLAD
                  I didnt tell my parents on my 10th Birthday about my first sexual relation with my first girlfriend it was her present 2 me talk about a birthday and lets hope known of u know them, as ive it done many times and hopefully they dont find out about it.


                  Thats gross :confused:
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                    17 years, 5 months ago
                    agentkev
                    *shakes head*


                    What can you do when you're ten ? Since when do ten year olds start puberty ?
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                      17 years, 5 months ago
                      I think it would be easier to tell what I did tell them. I have so many secrets. When I was a kid, there was a sewer system near my house that was exactly like the TMNT's home. It even had a huge room that was just like theirs. I used to hang out there. Another one is that there was an abandonded house across the street that was open for people to go in a look to see if they want to buy it. I used to go in there all the time.
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                        17 years, 5 months ago
                        Holy crap. You hung out in the sewers? That is unbelievably cool.

                        I wonder how dangerous that was, though. There's this damn like 30 miles from here and if you lean over the ledge and look over it you can see dead rats piled up. They're HUGE. You'd measure their length in feet, not inches.
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                        I miss childhood.
                          WinnieThePujols's Avatar
                          17 years, 5 months ago
                          Not necessarily sure this is the "baddest," but the first thing comes to mind is a time in like 8th grade or so... I was playing "mini-Pyro" or something and I lit a piece of paper on fire. The paper engulfed in flames almost instantaneously. I was shocked, so I dropped it onto the carpeted floor. It burned a big hole in the carpet before I managed to put it out.

                          I ended up just covering that spot up with a rug or something; I ended up changing rooms, but that wasn't until like six years after the incident so she didn't suspect that I did it.
                          49ers. (STL) Cardinals.
                          I miss childhood.
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                            Timown
                            1575 Posts
                            17 years, 5 months ago
                            errr. so many!

                            me and a friend used to go to our local park and make explosives and all sorts fo crap and set them fo for fun. i was very sneaky in chimstry, and his dad had a shotgun, so munitions weren't hard to come by!

                            I've snuck out so many times, and i've also snuck a girl in, and back out in the morning while my mum was in the kitchen...
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                              Cambion
                              335 Posts
                              17 years, 5 months ago
                              I remember being such a brat in class (in first or second grade) that my teacher removed me from class, made me sit in a room with my hands folded while she sat at a table in front of me and typed a letter to my mother, detailing my bad behavior. She sealed it in an envelope with my mom's name on it, and told me to give it to my mom.

                              Bad idea, missy. When I got home, that letter promptly got buried in the backyard and covered with rocks and leaves...Mom never found out. Teacher asked me the next day what my mom thought of her letter, and I simply said, "Yeah she was mad". Okay, so it's not real bad.

                              Also, all our quizzes and tests in elementary school got sent home so our parents could see our grades, and we needed to bring them back with the rents' signatures. Long story short, I learned how to forge my mom's signature to get out of getting screamed at over lousy grades. This also came in handy when I missed assignments (a note was sent home requiring a parent's signature - my mom would scream bloody murder at me if I forgot an assignment) or when anything else questionable needed signing. Neither my mom nor the school caught on.

                              When I was 15, I was playing with matches in the bathroom and I accidentally lit the wall on fire...surprisingly, it wasn't aflame long enough to burn the wallpaper, and Mom never found out about how I almost burned the house down.

                              That's all I got.
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                                Ackman
                                911 Posts
                                17 years, 5 months ago
                                I've got a few:


                                This happened when I was 15. I was playing with some sparklers in the state forest. Well, we did not have any rain for a while, and all of those dry pine needles make for some nice kindling. Anyway, when all was said and done, almost half of the forest burned down. I bolted out of there so fast.

                                The next event happened when I was 16. I snuck out in the middle of the night, and turned on this house's water spigot. No one was in the house, and the backyard sloped down to a small basin. Flooded completely. There was about 10 feet of water in the basin.

                                Finally, I used to sneak to Hyannis every day on the ferry.
                                  17 years, 5 months ago
                                  When i was 5, i was still wetting the bed... one night i fell asleep in a chair and woke up in the middle of the night, and i had peed in the chair. I went and took a shower then went to bed. the next morning i was about to tell my mom when i heard... "BAD DOG! BAAAD DOG!" ... i felt bad for the dog, but hey, thats less embarassing...
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                                    17 years, 5 months ago
                                    I was at home alone when I was 13, had a lighter in one hand and a large smoke bomb in the other. I was just flicking the lighter when it sparked and lit the smoke bomb. Yellow smoke started to fill the living room. I remember all I could say was "Ohhhh" as I raced to the sink to get some water. I doused the firework but it still smoked. So I finally tossed it out in the back yard. It had burned the carpet and the house was full of smoke. That day I learned about cross ventaltion with box fans and how to trim just enough of the carpet to not get caught.
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                                      Shaunbadia
                                      2395 Posts
                                      17 years, 4 months ago
                                      NickRules
                                      Thats gross :confused:


                                      Gross? Dude, I know CACZLAD outside of retrojunk (Good friend) that girl he mentioned was 12 so it's not like it's pedophilleia (Spelling?) or anything. What's wrong with it? If I where him I'd be expecting a "Luckiest boy in the UK" badge to arrive in the post not long after.

                                      Spottedfeather
                                      What can you do when you're ten ? Since when do ten year olds start puberty ?


                                      There is such a thing as early development you know.




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                                        Timown
                                        1575 Posts
                                        17 years, 4 months ago
                                        paedophilia, i think. I'd done some stuff when i was eleven, but wasn't for a birthday treat, and was kinda pushed into it. one of my biggest regrets to be honest. the rents don't know about that one either
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