# Getting ratted out for cheating **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814 "2017-11-26T23:09:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814/22 "2017-11-29T19:51:47Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Back when I was living in Japan, a friend was having an affair. I wasn’t particularly happy about that and was kind of distancing myself from him. > > Anyway, his wife was off on a trip with friends, so he went overnight with his girlfriend. When he got back, he just emptied his dirty clothes into the hamper and then later washed them. As is common in Japan, he hung the clothes to dry, and thought everything was perfect for his wife’s return. > > Except that his girlfriend’s panties had wound up in his bag, and now they were hung out to dry. Which is what happened to him as well. There was a commercial for IIRC laundry detergent where a similar scenario was portrayed. It didn’t air for very long. :rolleyes: My dad is a retired firefighter, and he had plenty of stories about the things his co-workers found when they went home sick in the middle of their 24-hour shifts. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814/23 "2017-11-29T21:53:01Z")
Hey, **TruCelt** , what if your dad _wasn’t_ cheating and step-mom found _your_ suit and jumped to the wrong conclusion? Or did dad fess up? ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814/24 "2017-11-30T00:21:43Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > This story made a lot more sense once I realized you were she, not he. > > Even so … Dad pitched your suit thinking it was his GF’s. But if it got pitched, how did stepmom find out? The way I understood it, **TrueCelt** and her stepmother both found out after \*\*TrueCelt \*\*went looking for her swimsuit and learned that her dad threw it away. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814/25 "2017-11-30T00:49:20Z")
I knew a guy that did two tours in Vietnam as a marine infantryman. He was a really smart guy, went on to become a successful accountant. He came back from one tour and had a lot of money from gambling, and found his wife getting plowed by some guy. He told me he briefly considered killing them both, but instead slapped a $100 bill on the guy’s back and told him to go get himself a real piece of ass and left. A friend of mine’s Dad a high ranking military officer was eating at a restaurant with his family and went out to the car to look for something and found in the glove compartment some compromising photos and loveletters, they got divorced afterward. The shitty part? His wife was the one that cheated but he has to pay her half his military retirement for LIFE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814/26 "2017-11-30T01:16:33Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Back when I was living in Japan, a friend was having an affair. I wasn’t particularly happy about that and was kind of distancing myself from him. > > Anyway, his wife was off on a trip with friends, so he went overnight with his girlfriend. When he got back, he just emptied his dirty clothes into the hamper and then later washed them. As is common in Japan, he hung the clothes to dry, and thought everything was perfect for his wife’s return. > > Except that his girlfriend’s panties had wound up in his bag, and now they were hung out to dry. Which is what happened to him as well. This reminds me of a story Jay Leno related in his autobiography. He had come back from a road trip (comedy standup) and dumped his laundry on the bed . . . and then as he sorted the clothes for washing, he discovered a pair of black lace panties, not his wife’s, in the mix. Now, I should pause to say that Leno was completely innocent: he had had no dalliances with any black-panty-wearing ladies. But he was also very confident that explaining to his wife, “Yes, honey, there was a pair of panties in the laundry, and they came from my suitcase, but I swear, I have no idea how they got there!” was not a conversation he wanted to start. So like a guilty man, he stuffed the panties in his pocket, snuck outside, and threw them away, hidden inside a empty motor oil can. And then a couple of days later, Mavis (his wife) says to him, “Jay, did you happen to see a pair of black lace panties on the bed? I got them as a gag gift at so-and-so’s bridal shower and now I can’t find them anywhere.” “Uh… no, not that I recall. Black panties? Nope!” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814/27 "2017-11-30T02:00:24Z")
> [@pool](#): > > … > The shitty part? His wife was the one that cheated but he has to pay her half his military retirement for LIFE!!! The law in many states works that way. Each spouse “earns” half of the other’s retirement. A divorce, regardless of cause, doesn’t erase the “earnings” to date. It does stop any future accrual. In the case you’re talking about if, e.g., they’d been married 15 of his 20 year career, she’d get 1/2 of 15/20ths of his retirement. Read [Qualified domestic relations order - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_domestic_relations_order) for more. The other side of the “no-reason divorce on demand” coin is it becomes “no fault even when there is fault” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814/28 "2017-11-30T02:08:39Z")
Late add of Part 2: I know a guy who was legally separated from his wife, but they both foot-dragged on finalizing the divorce mostly due to his out-of-sight-out-of-mind attitude & her utter flakiness. Meantime they lived halfway across the country from each other and never communicated. Several years later she became pregnant by some random dude she never saw again. Under the law of her residence state my friend was legally the child’s father and legally responsible to pay child support until the kid was 18. Even if they finished the divorce before the kid was born. Yup: pay for his adulterous separated wife’s adulterous child. Moral of the story: Don’t marry a crappy person. And if you discover you did, end it ASAP. It only gets more expensive later. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814/29 "2017-11-30T02:10:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There were always stories in the military. I remember one guy who decided to take leave while on deployment and surprise his wife. … Jesus, \*\* Chef\*\*, that’s the “feel-good” story of the year, right there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ratted-out-for-cheating/802814.md?page=1)