# Secrets you want to reveal but you can't **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433 "2000-06-15T03:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr\_Bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@Mr\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Bear)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/41 "2000-06-16T14:07:12Z")
pssssst don’t tell anyone but I took some hotel towels once! ---
**Author:** ![labdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@labdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labdude)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/42 "2000-06-16T16:30:52Z")
ok. my secret. I have a crush on the girl at the local copy store. I go in every couple of days to make copies of stuff that I don’t even need. I even ask for complicated stuff like colation, multiple colors, enlargements etc… . . . . . The sad part. I’m engaged to a very beautiful woman. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/43 "2000-06-16T16:38:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > pssssst don’t tell anyone but I took some hotel towels once! > \*\* _ **BUSTED!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/44 "2000-06-16T16:40:25Z")
…Well, I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own to eyes, so you can wipe off that grin, I know where you been, it’s all been a pack of lies… 😉 It’s not a huge secret, but if I told you, I’d have to rough you up. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/45 "2000-06-16T16:48:04Z")
Vestal Blue had an affair with Phil Collins!!! It’s true, I swear! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/46 "2000-06-16T18:16:16Z")
I am pretty sure I am Bill Gates’ long-lost half-sister. But I know it will upset my own supposed parents to pursue this, so I just send telepathic messages about it to him. And then check e-mail real often to see if he or his foundaton have decided to get in touch. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/47 "2000-06-16T18:47:27Z")
Quote: "I have a crush on the girl at the local copy store. I go in every couple of days to make copies of stuff that I don’t even need. I even ask for complicated stuff like colation, multiple colors, enlargements etc… " Heh heh…he said “colation”…heh heh. Not to mention “enlargements.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/48 "2000-06-16T18:56:06Z")
. . . I’m actually an overweight 14-year-old boy with a bad complexion. That’s why I don’t sbow up at the NY get-togethers. . . . Hey, isn’t anyone gojng to say something nice to the poor suicidally depressed Nerd? ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/49 "2000-06-16T19:02:28Z")
I’m Elvis. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/50 "2000-06-16T19:37:23Z")
I am the one responsible for all the crop circles and mutilated cattle. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/51 "2000-06-16T20:01:01Z")
I was getting ready to, Eve. Hey, Nerd! {{{{{{{{{{Nerd}}}}}}}}}} I’m just down the road from you. Email me, and we’ll get together sometime. I’ve been told I’m a good listener and friend. Mr Bear: _ **ONCE???** _ Ha! Guys, you should _see_ my linen closet! The stories I could tell you!!! 😛 VB, c’mon, pal, you can tell me. I won’t tell anyone, _honest_! 😉 Cher, you read my mind! That’s just what I was thinking too! \ 😃 Billiehunt, I agree with you. Turp. needs help. Southern Style, Youch!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/52 "2000-06-16T20:05:30Z")
Ok – saying something to Eve. It’s really cool that you have a dyslexia-resistant name! I mistyped it the first time around and didn’t even notice! SouthernStyle ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/53 "2000-06-16T20:21:23Z")
I have a major flirtation going on with a guy at work. It has been going on for years. He confronted me the other day, in my office. He took my hand and asked what I’d do if he kissed me. I stammered ‘I don’t know’. Then I heard someone coming up the stairs (turned out to be my boss), by the time they got up there we were sitting as if we had just been chatting. My SO knows I am a flirt, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/54 "2000-06-16T20:39:45Z")
I sneak into your house at night, and drink almost all of your milk. I leave about half an inch. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/55 "2000-06-16T20:44:09Z")
Okay, I snickered at someone else, but I didn’t fork over, so here’s one: Someone gave my daughter a chocolate See’s lollipop for Easter and I ate it myself. Bad Mommy. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/56 "2000-06-17T15:15:21Z")
Well, I was going to send TheNerd a private email, but I noticed his email address is still set to his college account, so I wasn’t sure he would get it. Steve - you’ve promised yourself to wait until you are 25 to consider suicide. I am asking you to do two more things before you make that decision. 1. Get the book “Feeling Good” by David D. Burns and read through it. 2. See a therapist for 6 months. Don’t go to a psychiatrist - they are medically oriented and most will treat the problem with anti-depressants & ignore behavioral interventions. IMNSHO, depression (but not bi-polar disorder) is a non-chemical problem that can be addressed with behavioral techniques. Go to a psychologist or a counselor. And if you don’t like the first person you go to, find another person. Consider depression “a bug in your programming”. You know that the first step to debugging a program is understanding the problem. I’m hoping that these two things will help you understand your depression better, and lead to an end to your depression. All I’m asking is a couple of days to read a book, and one hour a week for 6 months. You don’t have to change anything you don’t want to, or do anything that feels wrong to you. Love, Briana ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sweet\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/57 "2000-06-17T18:59:27Z")
Last year I got some hot, girl-on-girl action with my best friend on her bedroom floor while her longtime boyfriend, her brother and a mutual friend were in the room directly below us, watching _Mystery Science Theatre 3000_. Another girlfriend and I also performed a sexual act on a bouncer in an alleyway in order to be allowed admittance into a trendy dance club. Naughty enough for ya? ---
**Author:** ![\_oo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e9a140/32.png) [@\_oo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_oo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/58 "2000-06-17T19:13:59Z")
Well, I’ve had a 4 year relationship with a girl (yeh, i know i’m not even 22 yet but anyways), and my secret is keeping that a secret from my family (then), and from my current bf (now) - have to always refer to the past as a he instead of a she (whenever it was only absolutely necessary, otherwise i’d avoid). Makes it even more harder to answer him when he’s asking about things related to sex for curiosity (and he shouldn’t even be asking in the first place). ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/59 "2000-06-18T02:38:25Z")
I had a crush on this one girl since the 5th grade. I was always too chicken to tell her. This continued through High School, and I was still to chicken to ask her out, even when she never really had a boy friend. We graduated and went our separate ways. We had our 10 yr class reunion 3 years ago and I still couldn’t tell her about the crush I had, eventhough I knew that it would probably have been ok to tell her, but I just couldn’t. Maybe at the 20 yr class reunion. On a more personal note (and I won’t name names), I recently (within the last 6 months) had a girl I’ve known for years tell me that she has been attracted to me for quite a long time (at least the past 15 years). Talk about an ego boost! ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433/60 "2000-06-19T02:23:32Z")
Hope I didn’t scare anybody with my previous post. It’s still all true, but I am a lot more in control than I think I implied. I’m already planning to seek help, though I think in my case it is more physical/chemical than behavioural. I have been reluctant to get diagnosed and get a prescription because I didn’t want to rely on drugs. But I’ve been living with this for 22 years now (well ok, it didn’t really start until Jr. high), and I realised I don’t need to. I will read that book if I get a chance. But I’m also sticking with my plan to reevaluate at 25. If I still feel like it then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secrets-you-want-to-reveal-but-you-cant/22433.md?page=4)