# What have I done?!?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761 "2003-09-05T17:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ArtyDooDoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@ArtyDooDoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtyDooDoo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/1 "2003-09-05T17:06:47Z")
AAAAARGH!! I’m sitting watching The Price is Right. Saying things out loud like “no you idiot!!”. I have the soft rubbery end of a turkey baster. I’m mindlessly playing with it. Squishing it, then sticking it to various parts of my face, letting it hang there, waving my head back and forth to see if it will fall off. It mostly doesnt fall off, its stuck on there but good. End of show, I’m hungry but first I must use the facilities. Go to bathroom, turn on light, look in mirror----- I have dozens of round hickies all over my face!!! I look like i’ve been making out with an octopus! Mostly they’re all over my chin. Total bummer. ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/2 "2003-09-05T17:11:04Z")
I’d try to pass them off as mosquito bites…it would be easier to explain to the common public. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/3 "2003-09-05T17:13:41Z")
You and that guy who likes to stick things up his nose should get together sometime. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ArtyDooDoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@ArtyDooDoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtyDooDoo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/4 "2003-09-05T17:16:06Z")
They’re almost the size of a quarter and they’re flat, they only look like one thing, hickies. Red and purple hickies. I think i’m sick for a few days. I don’t own a turtle neck that would cover them all. And who gets hickies on their _forhead_?? ArtyDooDoo = dork I was going to say that at least I didnt have any on my nose but at this point, who cares? ---
**Author:** ![NutMagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/5 "2003-09-05T17:16:39Z")
Bwaahhaaahaahaa. I’m peein’ myself here. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/6 "2003-09-05T17:17:08Z")
I think you should add some to your nose, and say it’s performance art. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/7 "2003-09-05T17:19:22Z")
I totally think you should tell people the truth about it should they ask. I’ve given some thought to your problem and I think this is less, I don’t know, weird than any other explanation for hickies on your forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/8 "2003-09-05T17:19:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ArtyDooDoo \* > \*\*I look like I’ve been making out with an octopus! \*\* You say that like it’s a _bad_ thing 😃 ---
**Author:** ![leenmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/9 "2003-09-05T17:22:32Z")
When I was in the Air Force, I worked with a couple of Airmen that started dating. The two of them got drunk one night and started wrestling around and giving each other face hickies. It was all fun and games until they had to put on the uniforms and come to work with their faces covered in marks. The NCOIC was pretty close to exploding. We’re not sure which one thought it would be a good idea, first. Probably him, but she was a little crazy, too. ---
**Author:** ![ArtyDooDoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@ArtyDooDoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtyDooDoo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/10 "2003-09-05T17:24:54Z")
I called my husband at work to tell him what I’ve done. First there was just silence and I could tell he was trying to grasp what I was telling him, then he said “what do you mean”. I explained it to him again and then he started laughing. First it was a quite laugh, then it got louder. Then I guess the full realisation of what I was telling him hit and he started to do the laugh where his body shakes but not too much sound comes out. I just quietly hung up. ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/11 "2003-09-05T17:28:29Z")
Piccy? Please? ---
**Author:** ![ArtyDooDoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@ArtyDooDoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtyDooDoo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/12 "2003-09-05T17:31:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wakimika \* > \*\*Piccy? Please? \*\* Not on your life. Seriously though, I did briefly concider posting pics of my hideous self but I just couldnt bring myself to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Simple\_Dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Dreamer)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/13 "2003-09-05T17:34:46Z")
ROFL Oh, I’m sorry to laugh so hard at your unfortunate facial delema… but OMG! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/14 "2003-09-05T17:39:35Z")
If it helps, I was watching The Untouchables TV show one afternoon and was playing with a juice glass. I found out that it would perfectly fit over my lower lip and chin and I could suck the air out, move my lip out, and it would stay stuck on my face for a long time! My entire chin turned purple for a week. :eek: But I was 12 - ummmm How old are you?? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ArtyDooDoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@ArtyDooDoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtyDooDoo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/15 "2003-09-05T17:41:47Z")
33 I’ve done the glass thing too. But that was many years ago. Well actually I do still do that with glasses but I havent had “purple chin syndrom” for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/16 "2003-09-05T17:45:54Z")
Just tell everyone that the hickies are scars from a 1920’s Style Death Ray. Perfectly acceptable excuse. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/17 "2003-09-05T18:04:05Z")
Oi, **ArtyDooDoo** , you have my sympathies. But hey, at least you stopped playing with the turkey baster after you realized what you’d done, right? What’s this you say? “Of COURSE I stopped – whattya take me for, a moron?” Well lemme tell ya… The first time my (then to-be-)husband visited my parents with me, one afternoon he and I were sitting around the kitchen. He picked up my dad’s [wine-saver vacuum pump](http://www.chefscatalog.com/store/catalog/frg_popupThumbnail.jhtml?imgSrc=/products/p/CC4772_p.jpg,), a gizmo that you fit over these little rubber stoppers and pump to get most of the air out of a partly-used wine bottle. He played with it. He toyed with it. He pumped it up and down. He tried using it on the formica countertop, but that didn’t work – no seal. But he found he could get a pretty good seal if he pressed it to his belly. _(pump pump)_ Ooh! Look! Mr. emilyforce gave himself a giant belly-hickey, the size of a JFK 50-cent piece! Haw, haw, good thing Mom didn’t see that; she’d think my beloved was a moron. Tuck that shirt in, no one will ever know. So he picks it up again a few minutes later, right as Mom is walking in the kitchen, and he does it again… ON HIS FACE. ---
**Author:** ![anewthought](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@anewthought](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anewthought)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/18 "2003-09-05T18:08:59Z")
If you find yourself bored today, put some more of the same marks on your hands and legs then go walk around the mall in short clothing. You can then come back here and post people’s reactions to you as they walked past. It should be an interesting read. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/19 "2003-09-05T18:10:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Just tell everyone that the hickies are scars from a 1920’s Style Death Ray. Um, I don’t know how her [husband](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=209230) will feel about that… ---
**Author:** ![freetobeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@freetobeme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freetobeme)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761/20 "2003-09-05T18:12:34Z")
This is where veils come in handy. That or ass-loads of makeup. Good luck with that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-i-done/199761.md?page=2)