# Worst Things You've Done? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995 "2011-03-09T02:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/41 "2011-03-09T19:43:50Z")
Voted for Reagan in '84. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/42 "2011-03-09T19:52:32Z")
By my count, I’ve broken 9 Commandments. For what that’s worth. ETA: Unless “Do not kill” includes non-human things, then it’s 10. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/43 "2011-03-09T21:18:39Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > By my count, I’ve broken 9 Commandments. > > For what that’s worth. > > ETA: Unless “Do not kill” includes non-human things, then it’s 10. Not unless it was a rather cunning monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/44 "2011-03-09T21:24:30Z")
I was the Other Woman once. I didn’t know at first but figured it out eventually and, you know, didn’t stop. Also I tagged a fat, miserable girl with a very mean nickname in middle school. I was so awful to her because she was at the bottom rung of the food chain and I was on the second to bottom rung, which means I was twenty times meaner than the popular kids. I’d look her up now to apologize only I don’t think it would make her feel better, just me. Oh, and I burn with lust recreationally. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/45 "2011-03-09T21:27:24Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Oh, and I burn with lust recreationally. Ditto. Must be a librarian thing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/46 "2011-03-09T21:54:12Z")
The first time I read the book _The Exorcist_? Easter Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/47 "2011-03-10T00:32:36Z")
I’ve never owned a moral compass. I’ve never felt really bad about any of the stuff I’ve done. **OP** , I well remember the first migraine headache I ever had. Let’s just say it was brought on because I seriously burned with lust----indiscriminate lust-----and my baptism didn’t make me stop burning with lust. Lust made me feel guilty; feeling guilty led to my first migraine. Be a little easier on yourself. Accept your lust and embrace it for what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Agnostic\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/48 "2011-03-10T01:32:35Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > By my count, I’ve broken 9 Commandments. > > For what that’s worth. > > ETA: Unless “Do not kill” includes non-human things, then it’s 10. Yeah, I am up to the same number, and the same exception. Fortunately, juvenile records are sealed, and I made sure they were expunged as soon as I was able. The worst of the worst - seriously considering to break that last commandment when I came to my senses and got help. And that was almost twenty years ago. I have no problem breaking most of the other nine though. I don’t believe in the rule maker, so I have no use for the rules, though I agree with a couple for non-religious reasons. I just view them as guidelines, not commandments. And Lust is awesome! Sloth is my greatest bane at the moment, but when I younger it was Wrath. I am far happier trying to deal with Sloth. Far less collateral damage. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/49 "2011-03-10T02:07:37Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > You’re fourteen. You’re supposed to “burn with lust”. It’s called “puberty”. > The worst thing? When I was about twelve, a few of my friends and I got into some stupid argument. It ended up with three of us on one side, and one on the other. Well, we decided it would be “fun” to send her this really nasty letter, telling her how stupid and ugly she was, and how much we hated her and that everyone wished she would die. We made up these stupid little rhymes, like “roses are red, violets are blue, you fucked your brother, so fuck you.” AND, to add insult to injury, on the outside of the envelope, we wrote, “We’re sorry,” and “let’s be friends again”, etc. ☹ > So we dropped it off in her mailbox…and waited to see what would happen. Well, apparently, her MOTHER found it. And called OUR mothers. And then, of course, we were grounded for the summer. (Which, of course, we deserved). I still feel guilty when I think about it. > > The only explanation I can give is that twelve year-old girls can be extremely nasty. (And yes, we later made up.) Wow. You invented trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/50 "2011-03-10T02:22:27Z")
Please answer this honestly: am I a parent-abuser for doing what I have outlined in the OP? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/51 "2011-03-10T02:31:03Z")
In third grade or so, we had to create Mother’s Day cards. I created one for my mother that was from a made-up lover in Vietnam in an attempt to prove that my brother was not _really_ my brother. In crayon. That’s not the worst part. I delivered it to her. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/52 "2011-03-10T02:33:08Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Please answer this honestly: am I a parent-abuser for doing what I have outlined in the OP? That’s a different thread, pal. And I’d be shy about starting it here. Do you have a counselor or religious figure you can talk to? ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/53 "2011-03-10T02:59:43Z")
I took a $20 out of my mom’s purse after she grounded me for something stupid. I peed on someone’s car because he cut me off and he ended up (unwittingly) going to the same place I was going. I asked a girl out in 8th grade and she said yes, but when the other boys made fun of me because she wasn’t cool, I told her I was just kidding. I shot the family dog in our back yard because he was sleeping too much, and I found that boring. I got tired of helping my 1st grade classmate with her math so I started giving her the wrong answers and she got a bad grade. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/54 "2011-03-10T03:06:45Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Please answer this honestly: am I a parent-abuser for doing what I have outlined in the OP? Well, if you’re called before Congress, I wouldn’t call [Mickey Rooney](http://video.ap.org/?f=AP&pid=pHbHaSKVC0uQOrNfSaX5gf4tWnmiyFch) for a character witness. (You know, if I hadn’t seen that man labeled as an actor, I would have Sworn it was actually Mickey Rooney…) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/55 "2011-03-10T03:41:07Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Please answer this honestly: am I a parent-abuser for doing what I have outlined in the OP? No – just an out of control kid. (Although it depends on HOW you hit them, and how often) How did your family react? As for talking back – like I said, you’re fourteen. You’re acting your age. Not that it’s a GOOD thing to talk back to your parents and/or aunts, but it doesn’t make you abusive. Just a typical teenager. (You should have heard some of the crap I said to my parents!) Once when we were kids I got pissed off at my sister and told her she that she had been a mistake. And when I was thirteen, I got in a fight with my parents and told them I was going to call 911 and lie and tell them they abused me. My mother managed to disconnect the phone, but they still sent a cop out (of course), and he tore me a new asshole. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Conqueror_Worm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/56 "2011-03-10T04:05:24Z")
You people are all weak. Not that I’m gonna confess mine. As far as I know there is no statute of limitations for that. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/57 "2011-03-10T04:38:58Z")
One day when I was in about 8th grade I spent an afternoon berating my little brother for being in Boy Scouts - just wouldn’t let up on how dumb an organization it was, what a waste of time, etc. The poor kid really loved scouting and I can’t fathom why I was so mean about it. I wasn’t a typical “movie-style” older brother, sticking up for him on the school playground and teaching him the ways of the world. We played together sometimes, bugged each other sometimes, and could be indifferent or in our own heads the rest of the time. But I was generally nice and very seldom cruel, except for that one time. I still feel terrible about it. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/58 "2011-03-10T06:32:21Z")
As a very reluctant Altar Boy I used to pee in the holy water font and smile to my self when the priest used to sprinkle it over the congregation! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/59 "2011-03-10T06:38:19Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Voted for Reagan in '84. Pfftt…thats nothing, I worked for the Nader campaign in 2000. In Florida. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995/60 "2011-03-10T09:01:45Z")
When we were wee lasses on the school bus, perhaps around age 9, I punched my best friend right in the nose. It didn’t actually _do_ anything but smart for a minute or two, but I felt bad for a week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-youve-done/573995.md?page=4)