# Maybe I shouldn't tell this. Aw, heck! Why not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370 "2020-02-22T22:36:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/41 "2020-02-24T19:33:29Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I told about all my hidey-holes. (Note to self: re-hide stuff) Sorry to get all serious and stuff…but may I offer some hidey advice? I get the impression that you use this forum not just to share the fun you have in life with a bunch of strangers…but also to have a little hiding spot from your family. It’s a little hidey-hole for yourself, a place where you can write your private little heart out, and maybe write the kind of stuff that you can’t quite bring yourself to say out loud to them. But , dammit Beck, there’s _love_ in them-there words you spill. The kind of love that should be read not just by strangers on the internet. One day maybe a couple decades from now, you won’t be around-- but the littlest wrecker and the rest of your family sure will be—and probably with a bunch of little grand-wreckers, too. And there’s a great gift you can leave for them: a short note, “hidden” somewhere where they will eventually find it–containing a link to this site, with a simple statement that you posted here and called yourself Beckdawrek. Let 'em get curious and check out this site… and start reading all 'bout you. Tears will ensue. Tears of joy. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/42 "2020-02-24T20:37:08Z")
Better that my peeps find my words HERE than what I’ve got written elsewhere on the Internet! I still cannot find a way to tell my family what I’ve been DOING. (No naked picture, I promise. Just stuff I’ve written. And people LIKE it. But my imagination conjures up all kinds of disapproval, when all they’ll probably do is a shoulder shrug and maybe a snort of laughter…) ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/43 "2020-02-24T21:34:05Z")
I dunno. I get what you’re saying, **chappachula** and I agree there’s a lot of love there, but I’m sure Beck tells her family how much she loves them in other ways. It seems to me that knowing they would one day be reading her posts would change how she posts. Haven’t you ever had friends you confided in about your SO or kids? Would you want that person telling your loved ones, “I remember when \_\_\_\_ said Bob had the stinkiest gas in the world.” _Everyone looks at the blushing and humiliated Bob_ or “I let Joyce go on thinking everyone loves her macaroni salad when we all secretly throw it out.” _Joyce stomps off._ Her family might also come up with their own painful (and inaccurate) interpretations of some of her more cryptic posts. She could start a journal of loving little accounts for her family if she wants. That’d be a sweet thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/44 "2020-02-24T21:42:50Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I dunno. I get what you’re saying, **chappachula** and I agree there’s a lot of love there, but I’m sure Beck tells her family how much she loves them in other ways. It seems to me that knowing they would one day be reading her posts would change how she posts. > > Haven’t you ever had friends you confided in about your SO or kids? Would you want that person telling your loved ones, “I remember when \_\_\_\_ said Bob had the stinkiest gas in the world.” _Everyone looks at the blushing and humiliated Bob_ or “I let Joyce go on thinking everyone loves her macaroni salad when we all secretly throw it out.” _Joyce stomps off._ > > Her family might also come up with their own painful (and inaccurate) interpretations of some of her more cryptic posts. > > She could start a journal of loving little accounts for her family if she wants. That’d be a sweet thing to do. I’ve got an online Journal for that. It includes a lot of family stories I’d like my kids, grandkids, etc etc to read someday. Beck’s read my Journal. She likes it. Actually, the stuff I write here on SD is fit for general readership. How I write here is what I’m like in everyday life. I’m rude, outspokem, down-to-earth, general know-it-all, and quite funny. IMHO, of course. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/45 "2020-02-24T22:58:16Z")
Do you happen to have a Samsung phone? [A known bug](https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/02/samsung-texting-app-randomly-sends-messages/) has them sending random pics and messages ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/46 "2020-02-24T23:02:52Z")
Bekkers– Get a piece of masking tape. Write “SAMSUNG” on the tape with a marker. Stick the tape on your phone. Voila! Samsung phone! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/47 "2020-02-24T23:37:32Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Do you happen to have a Samsung phone? [A known bug](https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/02/samsung-texting-app-randomly-sends-messages/) has them sending random pics and messages That article is dated 2018. Have they not fixed it YET? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/48 "2020-02-25T00:53:03Z")
I do use a Samsung phone. Oh god. I don’t keep anything nasty on it. Wait, wait…I don’t do nasty things!! (how dare you;)) I do have secrets. Sometimes a girl must. You know? The lil’wrekker knows where all my journals are kept. It’s not easy to talk to her about these things. She thinks I’m being morbid when I do. They know how I feel about them. I’m a lover/hugger. I just '_gross’_ them out to no end. And DIL found out about the Dope during one of my drug addled procedures. She checked it out. And approves, I must say we have her fooled:D ~VOW, You kill me. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/49 "2020-02-25T02:27:58Z")
I’d LOVE for DIL to show up on SD! Hint! Hint! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/50 "2020-02-25T02:54:35Z")
Her head would explode. “She can’t handle the truth” :eek: ---
**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:** [February 25, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/51 "2020-02-25T02:54:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I do have secrets. Spill 'em! 😛 No! Don’t! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/52 "2020-02-25T03:10:27Z")
Aw, heck! Why not? (:)) ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/53 "2020-02-25T06:59:19Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > As usual, my thread devolves into a cat thread. > I have been having nightly discussions with the 2 fiends from old Siam. > Tonight I read them a coupla of old straightdope threads I found about someone getting and naming new kittens. They listen with attention spans of a 10yo boys. Til I got to a post by ~ **VOW**. They were very interested. I think they like her written cadence. > My Mid-daughter will be here seeing to the pets while I’m in hospital and the recuperation place. I’m so happy about that. She knows their ins and outs. That eases my mind, a bunch. > All I gotta do is get through this week. Crossed fingers. Y’all just tell them two I know their secret. They better pay attention, those names weren’t given, they were told and not ALL cats are reincarnated Royalty like they are. I had one who was a highly opinionated secret agent “spec-for” type, not drip nor drop nor dribble of nobility in his veins. He was also uncouth and a liar. Yeah I know cats. Btw yall know the back channels are always open ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/54 "2020-02-25T07:04:45Z")
ETA, it took me a long time to learn how to translate cat into human, those names were a magnum opus, specially Prince’s ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/55 "2020-02-25T07:42:45Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > ETA, it took me a long time to learn how to translate cat into human, those names were a magnum opus, specially Prince’s The reason it takes such a long time to translate Cat into .Human is because most of what cats acream is Swearing. Vicious, ugly, filthy, offensive swearing! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/56 "2020-02-25T08:01:44Z")
Or the word **“NO”** , my 2 like to say that. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/57 "2020-02-25T08:03:30Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > ETA, it took me a long time to learn how to translate cat into human, those names were a magnum opus, specially Prince’s Very nice! Dork, very nice. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/58 "2020-02-25T08:23:42Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > The reason it takes such a long time to translate Cat into .Human is because most of what cats acream is Swearing. Vicious, ugly, filthy, offensive swearing! > ~VOW Not always, sometimes its sneaky deceitful mean backstabbing and spiteful ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370/59 "2020-02-26T00:21:09Z")
Looks like **Dorks Devils** are back together. Where’s **Nellie**? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-i-shouldnt-tell-this-aw-heck-why-not/848370.md?page=2)