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What did you never own up to ?

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Floradora9 Wed 13-Nov-24 21:29:02

At primary school our teacher could smell perfume and it was driving her mad. She went up and down the aisles asking who had it on and I never owned up to having liberally splashed it on my hankie . She did not sniff me out.

In senior school a teacher asked me to post a letter , blue airmail and flimsy , to her sister on my way home as I passed the post office . Some weeks later I put my hand in my coat pocket and there was a very crumpled letter. I did post it then and hoped that her sister would blame the postal service.

In my first week of work in a bank the accountant handed me a circular and told me to read it then put in in the basket. I did just that but put it is the waste paper basket. Some weeks later the accountant could not understand what has happened to the circular as they were all numbered and there was one missing .

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Labradora Tue 28-Apr-26 14:23:18

My parents were Catholics and the whole family is although I am lapsed.
Late mother kept a bottle of Holy Water from Lourdes on her dressing table ( my understanding is that it was kept to be " sprinkled" on things or people in appropriate circumstances) .
Just to see what would happen I drank a mouthful and in order to hide what I'd done I topped it up with ordinary tap water.
What happened to me ? Nothing happened to me.Nor did I get the parental drubbing that I undoubtedly deserved because I never admitted it to anyone.
Now I have .........

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shysal Tue 28-Apr-26 17:23:18

When I was very young I removed a hazelnut from a display in Marks and Spencer around Christmas time. I never ate it and have felt guilty all the way through my life!

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storynanny Tue 28-Apr-26 20:08:52

when I was about 10 in the mid 1960’s I had piano lessons which were about 4 bus stops away so mum gave me the few pennies it cost for a return ticket every week. I always walked both ways and bought penny sweets with the bus fare. We were not allowed sweets. My mother never seemed to notice it took me longer to get there and back than if I’d gone on the bus.

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Basgetti Tue 28-Apr-26 21:03:47

shysal

When I was very young I removed a hazelnut from a display in Marks and Spencer around Christmas time. I never ate it and have felt guilty all the way through my life!

That’s very sweet.

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