# Confess your sins
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 4, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447 "2003-04-04T14:04:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/1 "2003-04-04T14:04:22Z")
When I was in college, I went to a keg party at my sorority sister’s house. I went inside to use the bathroom, accompanied by a guy I had just met (he didn’t actually go into the bathroom with me, just loitered around the living room until I was done). When I came out, I accidentally knocked over this really cool lamp she had and broke it. Almost immediately after that, she walked in, said hi, and noticed the lamp. I made all the “Oh, that really sucks that someone would do that” comments while she sort of freaked out about the lamp being broken. I didn’t admit to doing it or apologize or anything, though. The guy, who understandably didn’t call me after that night, just stood there watching this exchange.
Now, more than 10 years later, I think about this all the time. I feel so awful. I know it’s probably stupid - she probably barely remembers me, much less the lamp.
So, I’m confessing to you all in an attempt to purge my soul.
What horrible things have you done?
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### Author:  [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/2 "2003-04-04T22:23:14Z")
Millions and millions of impure thoughts?
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### Author:  [@Skarlett244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skarlett244)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/3 "2003-04-05T01:12:28Z")
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> I know it’s probably stupid - she probably barely remembers me, much less the lamp.
Well, so it _was_ you! I’d always wondered. But not to worry, as I gave up seeking revenge years ago when I could finally afford a new lamp. Although I really don’t need it as I’m going blind from reading in the dark.
My own sin? Kicked your dog, just in case it was you. 😉
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/4 "2003-04-05T01:44:40Z")
I am a tawdry tart.
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### Author:  [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/5 "2003-04-05T01:50:34Z")
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> \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \*
> \*\*I am a tawdry tart. \*\*
I am a strawberry tart. 😛
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/6 "2003-04-05T01:53:34Z")
Oooo…I _like_ strawberry tarts!
[sub]What? What do you mean, that’s \*not what she… Ohhhh![/sub]
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/7 "2003-04-05T02:15:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by BuckleberryFerry \*
> \*\*I am a strawberry tart. 😛 \*\*
:: mutters ::
hussy.
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### Author:  [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/8 "2003-04-05T02:25:07Z")
When I was nine, I broke a window. My delinquent cousin was blamed for it, and, shamefully, I let him take the rap. (He didn’t get into any trouble over it, besides my relatives muttering about what a menace to society he was.)
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### Author:  [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/9 "2003-04-05T02:42:10Z")
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> \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \*
> \*\*:: mutters ::
> hussy. \*\*
Don’t feel badly, **LCC**. Tawdry tarts are _my_ favorite.
How YOU doin’? 😉
What? Topic? Oh, right. Confessions. Ummm…I sometimes flirt too much?
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/10 "2003-04-05T03:12:34Z")
I cheated once at Skeeball at Chuck-E-Cheese’s.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/11 "2003-04-05T03:36:35Z")
When I was 7, my best friend and I took turns throwing rocks at the passing cars. I found a really big one, and _heaved_ it at the next car that came by. It landed on the guy’s hood and just caved it in. He slammed on the brakes, and we just ran away.
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### Author:  [@Shaolinrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaolinrabbit)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/12 "2003-04-05T03:47:12Z")
No offense, but everyone else is sharing some kind of mundane sins, so I’m not going to be the one to post:
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> _Parody Warning!!!_
> One night when I was thirteen I killed a man and buried his body under the shed. They never found him, but his wife always knew it was me.
However, I did once steal Holy Water from a church. I also stole a Bible when I was fifteen and used the pages to roll joints. There’s more, but I don’t want to hog the confessional.
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### Author:  [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/13 "2003-04-05T03:53:23Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \*
> \*\*Oooo…I _like_ strawberry tarts!
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> [sub]What? What do you mean, that’s \*not what she… Ohhhh![/sub] \*\*
:😊: Oh, _you_ ::waves hand::
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### Author:  [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/14 "2003-04-05T03:53:53Z")
**SPOOFE** , is it even possible to cheat at Skee-Ball? What did you do, climb right up to the target?
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### Author:  [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/15 "2003-04-05T03:55:05Z")
Oh, way to code, **FERRY**! ::smacks self::
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### Author:  [@Latch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latch)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/16 "2003-04-05T04:06:53Z")
**Already in Use** , Skee-Ball is that thing where you roll the balls down a wooden platform and up into a bulls-eye type target, right? If it was just a single machine, you’d just walk around the side and stick it in the middle. I got caught walking up the platform once, but hey, I got the bullseye that time 🙂
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### Author:  [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/17 "2003-04-05T04:12:03Z")
Oh, I didn’t think about walking along the side, as I always played with Skee-Ball machines in rows. Silly me.
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/18 "2003-04-05T04:37:44Z")
I stole a book from my college library. The Book Of Lists. paperback
::hangs head in shame::
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### Author:  [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/19 "2003-04-05T05:34:39Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Already in Use \*
> \*\ ***SPOOFE** , is it even possible to cheat at Skee-Ball? What did you do, climb right up to the target? \*\*
That’s what I do.
Most of my sins are punishable by jail time, so I’m gonna take the fifth on this one. 🆒
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### Author:  [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confess-your-sins/166447/20 "2003-04-05T05:38:06Z")
Hey **Copaesthetic** , I once stole a bible to roll joints with too. Strange.
I had sex with a lesbian, and a priest in the same month.
I cheated on my taxes last year. Sortof.
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