r/confession

I’m a hostess at a restaurant. There’s a new-ish, younger server I’ll call Anna. She’s so sweet and bubbly. Yesterday she was having the worst shift of her life. She misplaced a customer’s card (it was found!) and I found her crying in the bathroom. She told me that NOTHING was going right today and that she just kept making silly mistakes.

I hugged her and told her it was alright, shit happens. We have a fat stack of lost and found cards in the safe. The customer wasn’t upset, the manager wasn’t upset, it would all be okay. She just looked so defeated and kept talking poorly about herself. Even though the manager knew she was having a rough day, he cut her last so she was stuck feeling like crap in the mostly dead restaurant.

Her last table was an entitled asshole of a man who just kept barking demands at her. I told her I’m sorry she got him as her last table. She was so unlike her usual happy self and sighed and said, “It’s okay. As long as I make like, $5 I won’t feel like a total failure.”

This dude refused to look at the menu, saying he gets the same thing every time: the penne. She asked, “Oh! Our steak penne?” and he confirmed.

She brought it to him, and he said it tasted weird. He told her to make a new one without mushrooms because he usually doesn’t have mushrooms. He eats half of it and then tells her the sauce isn’t right. I grab the manager and warn him that this guy is a headache.

This dude ordered THE WRONG PASTA. He didn’t know what his favorite dish was called. He wanted another one, that doesn’t have the word “penne” in the title, but it does use penne noodles. He complained enough that the manager just comped his ENTIRE meal.

I knew this guy wasn’t going to leave anything for her, and she just really needed a win. So, when the guy left, I ran over and tucked a fiver under a plate. She told me, “Hey! He left me $5!” and I just said “Look at that! You fished your wish!”

I feel kind of bad for lying, but I think it was worth it to give her a small win.

my ex husband and I used to live in a house on a property that was curved to the right as you drove down our road. Often, drivers would drive through a section of the property to make their drive “straight”, not paying attention to the curve of the road. We had a well manicured property with fresh gravel, wood chips and grass, that I would regularly have to sweep off the street back onto our property from this “cut across” issue. one day we got an idea that we would find two boulders (about 3 feet high) and place them in two perfect spots that would prevent this issue. We even installed reflector sticks on each boulder for warning to drivers that they were there. Night after night, after putting the kids to bed, I would get out my crocheting, sit by the window and listen to the banging, scraping, clunking and swearing of people hitting those rocks over and over again! Bylaw even came by the house and confirmed that the boulders were on our property and we didn’t have to move them! Sweet justice. Man I miss that place.

for context I’m currently 16 almost 17 but at the start of all this I was 14. I’ve always been interested in technology ever since I was little, when I was 7 with my dad he taught me how to build a computer and he built one especially for me

As I got older though i eventually got my own proper laptop for school and personal stuff and that’s when i was taught how to pirate the games myself so i didn’t need to spend 1k+ on sims 4 dlc, that’s when I discovered a YouTube video about “how to get onto the dark web.” I always have thought its so silly how people make the dark web sound like a myth or so mysterious when it’s so easy to access even from a simple search you can find a dark net search engine (but the links of what u search would only work with an onion browse) in the YouTube video the man said “never do this at home.” so of course being a 14 yr old I found it more enticing when he said that so I copied him.

what I discovered that day literally changed my life forever than if I have never seen what I saw. there’s thousands and thousands of sites on there, they even advertise illegal sites on some tor sites it’s so crazy to me how they blatantly advertise such horrible things. I was looking at a link directory and i was clinking on all of them, most of them were dead but then I came across a exploitation site, I remember when my brain registered what was happening in some of the images on the home page (which took like 2 minutes for my brain to register) i literally gasped so loud and closed everything. I was sick for like 2 days after that, that might sound dramatic to some but keep in mind I was a 14 yr old kid who didn’t even have the knowledge that an adult would ever harm a child like that.

After that day I became a lot more scared of stuff then I usually was, when I post a selfie online I would always get creeps in my DMs or in the comments and i just accepted that as normal but after I saw what I saw those comments freaked me out much more, I began to realise there’s a big audience for this stuff, literally thousands and thousands of people watching these things. so eventually I made an account on a social media platform with selfies of myself and with my account to a secure messaging app, I would send inappropriate pictures of myself in exchange for a private coin which then later I would exchange into cash out at those machines in malls. I made about 3k from that in 3 months , it was so crazy but I always felt so guilty about it.

Then someone messaged me, it was one of those people who gave me money and he told me there’s a way for me to earn 200 dollars a week, he explained it to me and gave me a link to a dark web exploitation site and theres a section on the site for under age people to post their pics of themselves telling them they would earn 200 a week from posting and even more if they did requests from viewer, i unfortunately did it and wrote the sites name on my body like they told me to and I made alot of money.

those years where an extremely dark period in my life, I would get the most disgusting requests and it felt so weird, but I kept doing it which I’m really not sure why I was because I at this point already had plenty of money, and my family wasn’t even poor either. eventually I stopped doing it because I began to feel the repercussions on the clear web, as I was on uhmegle which my friends and we connected with someone and this man said he recognised me from somewhere and that’s when I instantly knew what he ment. it really really scared me and that’s when it began to dawn on me how evil these people are, I was exposed to so much evil in my early teen years, more than detectives would ever see and I began to feel overwhelmed and worried so I deleted everything.

i have never told anyone this and I probably never will but it causes me a lot of anxiety a lot, I feel like I have ruined my life with this and it has made me so much more paranoid about the world and about who I would ever let my kids near, I’ve always wanted to be a mother but now I’m so scared to ever have kids when I used to be really care free. this is lowk going to be my secret forever.