Today, while cleaning my son's room, I found an envelope labelled "PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL" under his bed. I opened it, only to find it was a glitter bomb. I couldn't get it all cleaned off myself before he got home. He just said "HAH! Serves you right!" and went to his room smirking. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, whilst cleaning the living room, I heard snickering coming from my bedroom. My two nephews had found my "play cupboard" and were blowing up condoms like balloons. FML
Today, after threatening my son for weeks that if he didn't clean his room, I would, I went in, equipped with a garbage bag, ready to throw away everything I found, only to discover dozens of empty bottles, two partially empty pizza boxes, Taco Bell wrappers, and cockroaches. FML
Today, I found a baby in a cradle on my doorstep. I was shocked that someone would do this, so I picked it up and uncovered the baby. It was actually a rudimentary stink bomb that went off in my face when I uncovered it. FML
Today, my son dropped a firecracker in my flour storage bin, probably thinking the pop would make flour go everywhere. I guess he’s never heard of a dust explosion because what he actually did was set fire to the flour, causing such a violent shockwave it blew the kitchen window out of the wall. FML
Today, I came home from work and went into the bathroom. I saw a poo on the toilet lid, and thinking it was a trick toy that my son had got to trick me, I picked it up. It wasn't a toy. FML
Today, I had to clean up after the kid who discovered he could finger paint with his poo. FML
Today, I came home from work and found that my son had taken every single one of his toys out and left them on the floor. Plus some goldfish crackers. FML
Today, I received a package labeled “Confidential.” Excited, I opened it in front of my coworkers, thinking it was a PR gift. It was the new toilet seat I'd mistakenly sent to my work address instead of my house. FML
Today, I went into my parents room to empty their wastebasket. Next to it and around their bed, I found tissues that were soaked in an unknown sticky substance. I had to pick them up. FML
Today, I was babysitting to make a few extra dollars. While changing one of the kid's diapers, I turned around to find the other kid gone. I turned back around frantically, only to get poop flung at my face. I guess I found him. FML
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ohjoy15 33
It's really hard to feel sorry for you here when you opened an envelope that wasn't yours. Especially one that said "private and confidential" as a last chance warning. Totally deserved it.
denaeb123 24
This is the biggest YDI i have seen in awhile
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Comments (249)
ThatSadGirl 13
HAHA GOOD
blissfully_me 16
Your son is awesome! Trust that you have raised him the best you can and that he would tell you anything he thought you needed to know. You have now broken his trust as he knows you snoop through his things. YDI
PokemonMaster0 15
And on that day, justice was served.
Booksawhi 22
I totally have to do what your son did!! PS: You deserved it
CaptainRR 20
You totally deserved it! But glitter sucks. My room mate in college made a glitter bomb once. He intercepted my Amazon package and replaced it with his bomb. That night, he found himself locked out of the dorm room.
Jujuboo_3 25
Talk about a spectacular explosion(:
nightbirdblue 27
Kids need privacy to be able to develop properly. You investigating things all the time will weaken your child's trust of you. They might stop confiding in you. They might resent you for being so nosy. I know I haven't forgotten my mother breaking the lock of my diary in elementary school and then asking me about things in it as soon as I got home from school. I haven't forgotten my mother reading through notebooks and flipping shit about a friend's self injury (saying I couldn't have my best friend as my best friend any more). It is something your child won't forget. Plus if you are overly involved in your kid's life, then they will never learn how to be adults. Kids need to screw up sometimes. They need to deal with the consequences sometimes. You can't completely stop your child from ******* up without making them helpless without your direction.
Cass_x 22
Exactly. My mother even reads notes etc I throw out. Every single word of them, just because I "might hide something". I'm 19 y/o and I don't even have a bedroom door. And no, I've never done anything wrong that could make them overreact like that. Parents that don't trust their kids are the worst.
Smeedz 8
Am I the only one wondering why the son doesn't clean his own room?
buddy_J 16
Has it occurred to you she only said she was cleaning his room to make herself sound better in the post? Who's gonna admit they were snooping
uhohitslisa2 20
I admit I thought at first it was going to be **** that you found. But you really did deserve that for snooping. On another note: how old is your son? Why are you still cleaning his room for him?
buddy_J 16
Cleaning was just an excuse to snoop. Put in there to try and make herself sound like she wasn't in the wrong
darthgagemo 10
Serves you right