secrets

Maybe it's better to be a heavy sleeper, so you don't hear your parents and friends say damaging crap about you. Maybe it's better to hear it and know what they think? Either way, people really need to do a better job of keeping things to themselves. Here are things that people overheard through paper-thin walls as well as the kindest things people overheard about themselves.

Everybody has to put on some kind of a front for their job, whether it's acting like you have a technical solution or pretending you don't gossip about the customers behind their back. Some industries are way shadier than they seem.

Here are some stories that people have wanted to tell but never had a good opportunity to. Whether it's because they're ashamed or no one asked the right questions. For some more dramatic stories here are people sharing their school's incident as well as what new hires did to get fired on the first day.

Sometimes people give other people compliments that end up sounding like they could be a cleverly disguised insult. Like you're not really sure whether what that person said to you was from the bottom of their heart. Maybe they were just trying to pull a fast one on you with a roast that just sounded kind of nice. Who knows. 

Everyone knows the most fun facts are about morbid history and animal genitals. Some of these are just plain interesting, some are amazingly gross while others are sad and damning. If it gets to be too much there's also some happy facts to hopefully counteract all the messed up ones.

Turns out you weren't as slick as you thought when you were growing up. Adults aren't that stupid, and they know when their kids are keeping secrets from them. Honestly, it's kind of terrifying to think about what your own parents must have known about you that you thought you were getting away with.

Everyone is lying to their kids about something. The difference is in the size of the lie. Some parents hid enormous, life-changing secrets from their kids. Other parents are stealthy about the amount of ice cream in the house that their kids don't know about. On the lighter side of parental lies, here are 29 of the funniest lies parents told their kids.

Nobody's family is perfectly normal, but some people's families are more interesting. And maybe not in the best ways. Some are more trivial and embarrassing, like liking pineapple pizza. Some are family shattering, like secret families. Reminds us of this girl who figured out her family secrets by taking a blood test in college.

Sure, there's the classics like "when I say I'm not thinking about anything I'm actually not thinking about anything" but that's just the tip of the iceberg. In most cases it's helpful to know what's going on in someone else's head. Except when it's absolutely disgusting. We tried not to include too much, but some got through anyway.

You never know what kind of family secret you might uncover when searching through old computers. Truly, proceed at your own risk. This TIFU story could have had a much worse ending, but despite the secrets on that old laptop, the story ended up kinda heartwarming. 

We're not sure who's more shocked here; The retail worker who learned the power symbol isn't a camera, or the tech support dude who had to tell them?

Kids say the darnedest things these days. Most of the time I need a translation to understand their slang. These Whisper confessions from parents and siblings of little ones show us that even the youngest ones have adopted this new talk. It makes me feel old. 

Before you go checking to see what Facebook thinks of your political leanings, see what weird and helpful features are hidden in the things you use on a daily basis.

Kids remember everything.

Turns out your teachers DID talk about you behind your back.

This'll probably make you think a little harder about your own childhood.