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The tricky art of deception

March 18 2015

I made a stupid mistake tonight that highlighted why I just can't trust myself to lie. I've found being honest whenever possible far more reliable. I've had a couple of message conversations here tonight, and I'm on a dodgy internet connection in a hotel far far away. I have a habit of copying a message or post here before I submit so that I can paste it back in if there's a failure. Of course this leaves the text on the clipboard ready to be pasted back in... So an hour or so later I'm chatting with my partner, when I go to copy a URL for her to check out. Instead I copy in the text of the last message I sent here, and because I'm so quick on the keyboard I've also sent it to her before I realise what I've done. Here's where my honesty policy comes in handy, because I'm here with her knowledge. She was a bit annoyed because she thought I was chatting to someone else at the same time, but otherwise just laughed at me for being such a clumsy dick. (There was liberal use of emoticons and i think LMAO came up). But I did get thinking - I also regularly chat with colleagues, my parents and my children. If I had just done that with one of them on the other end it would have been seriously embarrassing and very hard to explain. We maintain the illusion of a fairly standard marriage to our family and friends, and want it to stay that way. It's hard enough to explain that we are happy living in different cities, there's no way I'm getting into discussions about non-monogamy. That's a deception I'm keen to keep up. So folks, what dumb things have brought you undone?

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RHP User

10 years ago

Yeah showing my adult daughter some pics on my phone a couple of months ago, and flicked back a little too far. Theres mummy dearest in a naked shower selfie pic. I got the," mum!! Thats disgusting!!" retort, and she asked me why I took it.Luckily it was a fairly tame pic to what I had on there. Fumbled through a few stupid reasons of just wanting to see if a pic would look kinda cool with water spraying down. Yeah right mum!! She still brings it up. If im going into the bathroom she tells me not to forget my phone.

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RHP User

10 years ago

and I thought we had been very discreet. My daughter and her partner were supposedly asleep in the upstairs back bedroom.My bedroom was at the front of the house at ground level. What I didn't know was they had swapped to the bedroom above mine earlier in the evening. Upon leaving, my not so discreet friend decided to call a cab and waited under the street light 2m away from my front door. Being a very quiet neighbourhood where all the townhouses are very close, at 3am everything echoed ... all my neighbours including my daughter and partner heard him and checked him out. There were some interesting looks and comments for the rest of that week! I had been sprung bit time! LOL All I could say was ... well mum's have need too! LG

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RHP User

10 years ago

I was in the middle of sexting when I got a text about the kids from the ex, I answered her and then kept on sexting.................but forgot to go back to the "other" recipient !Oops, Madam was not amused !

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RHP User

10 years ago

and I had been sending pictures to a friend when it had come back as me having sent it to my mother. I rang her quickly to see if she had received anything and she no thankfully so it was just my phone messing with my head but it has made me paranoid about who I have sent stuff too. I have also managed to enter in a few phone numbers incorrectly and sent things off to some unsuspecting person!

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RHP User

10 years ago

I've been there too, only in reverse. I was showing my Dad pictures from a weekend getaway somehow completley forgetting that the last few were pictures of me and my playmate taking some cheeky ones almost naked on the balcony of our hotel room together. My first reaction (and it's totally bizarre) was to physically grab the phone and run away from him. I think I went to a different room to hyperventilate but in that time he found me. He just smiled and said "there's no reason to be embarresed, you just might want to next time check your photos before showing them to people... Like your Dad". Oh and then he went on to lecture me about the downfalls of sexting. That was boring. :P

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boots_69

10 years ago

Hotel fire alarms come to mind

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TallBaldSexy

10 years ago

3hrs ago Almost did precisely the same thing but dearie me would have been fewer options. Was sending my solicitor an email, simultaneously received an sms re kids from the ex, quickly responded to the ex via sms and went back typing solicitor email..... For security editing and safety reasons I've adopted the habbit not to enter the email address until I've proof read. Guess who's email address I entered..... Oh dear luckily I double check them too ! Flippn heck that could have be a nightmare, I'm still shivering :-)

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RHP User

10 years ago

I do a lot of art work and was showing a nice old chap some if my work. Open up and there I am naked but he was adjusting his gasses thank god. Another time a fight broke out near my house so I filmed it. The cops came I said officer I got it all on my phone. Open it up to my tits. Pregnant pause fumble fumble. More naked pictures . I blushed he looked away then I found the fight. I really do get worried I will send a picture to the wrong person. I did once to a very straught woman u know. I had to then apologise . I said it was meant for my husband. I once sent a text to my husbands best mate saying what time will you be over tonight? He knew my hubby was away at work , he said who was that meant for? I just mentioned a girlfriends nane he knew. I now have a folder that hides things and I delete everything as soon as I get it. But nothing is full proof. - Posted from rhpmobile

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RHP User

10 years ago

I have an app called private pics which is pretty handy. From dreaming phone.com

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RHP User

10 years ago

I still feel like an idiot even though no harm was done.

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