What did you do when you were younger that you still won't tell your parents about even though you won't get in trouble for it? Come on. Everybody has something. I confessed to my parents a year or two ago that I got a paddling at school when I was in first grade. They always told us that if we got a paddling at school, we'd get one at home too. I guess technically, they still owe me. (Though I still maintain that it was I didn't deserve punishment at all.) It took me at least 15 years to tell them. Of course, they knew about most of the bad things I did, but there are a few that slipped through the cracks.
I've had this discussion with several people and it seems that most people have something very negligible that they refuse to tell their parents. I guess the fear of dissapointing your parents never goes away. I think that's a good thing.
In highschool, I told my parents I was going to see "Aladdin" or some other Disney movie, and I really saw "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle". (I think that was it). Although, if I understand correctly, this phenomena originated in Monroe with certain un-named kids... I'm dying to say it, but I won't. You know who you are.
Okay, once I also changed a D on my report card to a B. Sorry Mom. I was pretty clever though. I took the original, made my changes, then photocopied it and gave them the photocopy. I told them I had lost the original and had to get a copy from the office. It was all grainy and further disquised my deception. Now I'm feeling kinda guilty over that one.
Posted by: Shannon at July 23, 2003 11:32 AMAll the ones I remember are far too recent to be out in the open yet.
Posted by: Micah at July 23, 2003 11:56 AMOohh, Shannon. So devious!
That's what I mean by "Statute of Limitations," Micah. Sometimes, it's 5 years, sometimes it's 20, sometimes, the statute is never up.
Posted by: Christin at July 23, 2003 11:59 AMi used to forge my moms signature in my assignment book signifying that i had done my homework. i think that was 5th or 6th grade.
Posted by: dp at July 23, 2003 12:16 PMmy parents had eyes in the backs of their heads. they knew just about everything we did.
probably the only thing i tried to get away with but didn't was when my mom told me that i couldn't ride my bike to school one day becuase it was going to rain that afternoon. i think i was in 5th grade and we lived a few blocks away. i waited in the carport for the bus like normal and when the bus drove by without me in it, i took off on my bike. i was almost there and went to make my last right turn to go to up small hill. i crashed, pushed two of my front teeth back and broke my jaw. needless to say, mom found out. i didn't need a spanking that time. oh, and it never rained that day.
Posted by: Jessie Bessie at July 23, 2003 02:32 PMhmmm...ya know...i really can't think of anything i didn't tell my parents. i always fealt too guilty and fessed up at one point. and if i TRIED to hide it..they ALWAYS found out. i don't keep sins under wraps well...my rents can read me like a book. hehe
Posted by: Kat B at July 23, 2003 04:33 PMUnfortunately, I went to Catholic school as a kid and those nuns never trusted us to tell our parents if we got in trouble. If I got in trouble at school, forget about it, before I even walked in the door, my mother or father would greet me with a "what did you do?" and the tone of voice told me, "oh no, they know!!!" I do remember keeping from my mother and father my first and only speeding ticket (which thankfully the cop didn't show up in court meaning the ticket got ripped up). Anyway, I had my license about 6 months when I got the ticket for doing 70 in a 55. Well about two weeks after the ticket my mother was driving and I was in the front seat. She was approaching 50 in a 30 and I looked over at the speedometer and said, "wow Mom, you're moving, you're lucky a cop wasn't here you would get a ticket. But you see Mom, a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't so lucky. There was a cop and I was going about 15 miles over and he wrote me a ticket." Her look at me was hysterical, she wanted to get mad at me but somehow she couldn't. That one fell in my lap.
Posted by: Tom at July 24, 2003 10:18 AMI thought of one.
I never completed high school calculus. I got frustrated and gave up halfway through the year; since I was a homeschooler, the answer book was at my fingertips and I simply copied down the solutions for every lesson and turned them in to my parents at the end of the week. Because the math was above my parents' heads as well, no one ever knew.
This is simply one more reason why kids shouldn't be homeschooled.
Posted by: Micah at July 25, 2003 02:56 PM