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What do you get when you cross drive-thru with sinners? Author and Mamamia contributor Bec Sparrow writes:

Bob McGuire 300x225 Have you ever coveted your neighbour’s husband? And do you want fries with that?

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“In what is SURELY to be one of the finest of today’s April Fools Day cons, the mischievous South Melbourne Priest, Father Bob McGuire, has announced the launch of his  “Drive-thru Confessional”.  That’s right — a confessional for the guilty on-the-go.

Terry Brown at the Herald-Sun Reports:

Sinful drivers can repent on the run with the opening today of Australia’s first drive-through confessional.

The pray-as-you-go service is to become slicker, with a sin-selection board to be installed by Easter and a smartphone app on the way, the Herald Sun reported.

South Melbourne Catholic priest Fr Bob McGuire said yesterday that the move brought the church up to speed with modern life.

“Everybody drives past this place but no one comes in,” Fr McGuire said. 

”Now they can stop at the window, open their window and confess their sins. Then I’ll reassure them that they’ll be right.”

The 60-second car wash for the soul includes a symbolically refreshing spray of rose water.

A flashing green light will signal when a driver’s sins have been forgiven. “When you’re driving out you’ll be clean as a whistle,” Fr McGuire said.

The seven cardinal sins – lust, gluttony, greed, laziness, wrath, envy and pride – will be numbered on a sign, Chinese menu-style.

From 6.30am, sinners will repent at a mobile unit dubbed the Hopemobile in the St Peter and Paul’s church driveway, confessing, for instance, to three No.7s and a No.4.

Fr McGuire said the coded response was meant to maintain confidentiality.

A more permanent set-up should be in place by Easter and Fr McGuire is hoping for a sponsor to cover set-up costs.”

While I suspect the larrikin Father Bob is having a laugh, we all have something to confess. And there’s something therapeutic about confessing to our sins. I own a Justin Bieber CD.  I ate the last Tim Tam and blamed it on your mother.  I kissed someone at my work Christmas party last year. I kissed someone at YOUR partner’s work Christmas party last year.

So think of today’s post as an online confessional.   Here’s your chance to anonymously spill the beans. Sing like a canary.  Blab.”

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256 Comments so far

  1. marc

    HAHAHAHA. Funny s**t!

    I’ve never really understood the whole catholic confessional thing. I mean, after all aren’t priests usually the worst sinners of us all?? (child molesting ring a bell).

    Doesn’t make sense to me.

    But yeah if going to a confessional floats yr boat then why not do it drive by – sounds fun. LOL

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  2. T

    i got engaged a week ago, picked my own engagement ring and am now regretting the one i picked……

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  3. Julia Pearce

    Father McGuire is a hoot … he is good value. My guilty pleasures are The Bachelor, reading trashy mags in the bath and spending way too much time on the internet reading blogs. ;-)

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  4. Lauren

    Confession #1- I’m a teacher at a very challenging school, and sometimes I just want to shout at my students to Shut the f*&^ up.
    Confession #2- My boyfriend had a boys day yesterday and was out all day and night. When he woke up today and asked what I did while he was out I lied and said I was really busy with work, going to gym, catching up with things that I hadn’t done in ages. In actual fact I stayed in bed until 4pm, reading the paper, sleeping and watching TV.
    Confession #3- I get jealous of my sisters when they look great in new clothes, new hair etc and I am sometimes secretly happy when they don’t look that great.
    Confession #4- I shop online for hours and purchase everything that I love until the very last step. When it asks for my credit card details I just turn the computer off and never actually buy anything.
    Confession #5- I eat chocolate EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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    • trish

      OMG what a HOOT reading this, you should be a writer.

      I love yr confessions! :-D

      I eat chocolate every single date too – sometimes for breakfast.
      hahahaha I loved the shopping bit where you turn yr computer off once it asks 4 yr credit card OMG i must try that

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  5. Tracey

    I stick my finger into the peanut paste jar instead of using a spoon. Never double dip though. Would yell at the kids if they did it.

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  6. Anon

    I have long showers sometimes… Sit in the bottom of the shower with hot water pouring over me. Bliss!

    I have started a wedding ideas book.
    Not actually engaged yet.

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    • Anon

      Not engaged either, and I’m exactly the same.

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  7. SoMuchSerenity

    I love reading restaurant reviews in the weekend newspapers. Places I’ll never go to (or afford)

    I eat Milo straight from the tin, hiding in my walk in pantry (the only chocolate in the house so I get desperate at times)

    Hubby and I eat the kids lolly bags they get from parties

    I have a habit of buying the same type of tops over and over, how do I forget that I already have one similar?!

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    • nursee

      defo agree with your last point! When I’m out shopping, I’ll pick out a pink top or a green dress that all look the same and I probably have something similar at home! Weird. I guess you must really like that style haha.

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    • Julia Pearce

      Yesss! That’s me. I have at least twenty black tops that are almost all the same not to mention black boots that are almost all the same! Mmmm me thinks I have a little problem. :-)

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  8. Ms. Butlertron

    So I know I go on about how hot I think David Tennant is, but I actually lost all respect for the man when I found out he was dating someone only a year older than me. I know, I’m a prude.

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  9. chellebelle

    I fell off my no-sugar wagon :-(
    Had a double scoop of gelati yesterday AND today at the coast. I thought I’d be able to resist – I did last time – but no.

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  10. Mardon

    I read the odd Mills and Boon….
    I love watching the kardashians and am totally addicted to the new Lifestyle Home channel..

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  11. OssieLeo

    I am ashamed but I watch Hawaii 5.0 religiously because of Alex O’Loughlin – bad acting and plot, but he is hot and I am single (for quite a while..) I also go on his fan site which is hilerious by the way..

    I love Jelly bellies and invent different compination..I know, sad.

    X

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    • Bradley

      Funny, I watch it because of Grace Kim. I have this thing about Koreans. They are lovely people.

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      • OssieLeo

        Don’t feel so bad now! She needs a bit more of a role though..

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  12. Blondie Gal

    The girl who shares my ofice and I had a challenge at work yesterday: can I eat a whole bag of strawberry easter eggs and can she eat a whole family sized pizza. We both won, but was it really winning..? ;-)

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  13. Nadia

    I really hate Packed To The Rafters.
    Sorry, I know it’s the top rating show and all that but I just can’t get into it.

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    • Agreed

      It is SO bad, I totally agree.

      Bad acting, worse plots.

      It’s not even bad good, it’s just bad!

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    • Bo

      Me tooo!!! Hate it!

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  14. Abbey

    shopping….way to often…spending money i shouldn’t be…never fully disclosing the extent of my purchases…

    oops :)

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  15. MissSunshine

    I am not meant to use the internet for private reasons at work. Facebook: Access Denied. Twitter: Access Denied. Blogs & Forums: Access Denied. Mamamia: sneaks through the cracks! I love it!

    You know when you walk through a hotel lobby and the people behind the desk look engrossed in their work? We’re really looking at Mamamia on the internet ;)

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    • MissSunshine

      And I like Taylor Swift. Lol

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    • Najla

      hahahaha… That is gold!

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  16. Bejazzled

    I confess I totally love watching netball on TV – it rocks, and I love the Magnum PI reruns – hot stuff!

    I love it when my kids play over at my neighbours house for hours…..love it. (Plus we reciprocate, so I’m not taking privileges). I’m greedy for non-kid time.

    I confess that I covet Jake Gyllenhaal…. more hot stuff there!!

    I better go chant Om.

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    • Kris2040

      Why is watching the netball a confession? I thought confession was about bad things?? Am devastated for Sharelle McMahon. :( ((

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      • The girl from the carnival

        I LOVE watching the netball too. (And agree, Kris. Absolutely shattered for Sharelle. She is a rock star).

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        • Kris2040

          I was on a flight with her and a couple of other players once. I thought they’d be beanpoles, but they were the same height as me!

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  17. Finding Ella

    I am nearly 27 and just bought myself a Hello Kitty shower cap

    I want to go to the Miley Cyrus concert when she comes here

    I find the song ” Friday ” catchy

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    • Victoria

      I have pink Hello Kitty personal number plates. And I’m turning 31 next Tuesday :;)

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    • Anonymous

      I’m 32 and love Hello Kitty too :-) My inlaws just got back from a trip to the states and bought be back a Hello Kitty Pez (lolly) dispenser!! And I must admit I loved it just as much as the Pandora charm and Skechers they got me.

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  18. Alison

    There actually is a confession app for the iPhone. It’s called Confession: A Roman Catholic App, and it’s not even kidding. It offers secure user accounts, a sins menu, and you can “choose from 7 different acts of contrition.” Hilarious!

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  19. Kristy

    Hopefully it’s not just April Fool’s – it is fabulous! And, yes, funny, but hey, we’ll take spirituality when we can get it. And a priest with a sense of humor. Priceless. I like that.

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  20. Miss K

    My guilty pleasures are coronation street, emmerdale and eastenders… Totally hooked on these shows (god I Love uktv). If I have any spare time on Satudays then I watch the replay of the young and the restless!

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    • Michelle

      I record Y & R everyday and usually watch it before I go to bed! I like to FF through the boring (read Victor) bits!!

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  21. Aishie

    I love the Gilmour Girls. And I’m only 60% ashamed.

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    • Bec Sparrow

      Aishie, the Gilmore Girls is my all-time favourite show! The dialogue was just so, so clever (up there with The West Wing). A few years ago I was in New York and met Amy Sherman-Palladino who was the creator (and head writer) of the show. She was just like Lorelai. HIlarious. And she gave me lots of goss about the show.

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      • Aislinn

        That is amazing Bec – I am super jealous! I completely agree re: the comparison with the west wing (which is actually my favourite show!) – its fabulous. I have a few favourite quotes I have stored away to be used at some appropriate point. Not sure anyone i know would realise!

        Thank god for foxtel replaying it endlessly….in fact I think its on in about 50 mins! yay!

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      • Sometimes Karen

        Shut Up! You met Amy SP? Which goss can you dish without getting anyone in trouble????

        The GG dialogue is superb, and yes I put it on par with the West Wing too.

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    • Danya Wellington

      I loved it too!

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  22. Minda

    I read worthy things (mostly – do love a bit of Chick Lit for a break), I have a ‘worthy’ business (that’s actually true), but I adore trash TV – ‘Extreme Makeover’ (which is wrong for all sorts of reasons – I haven’t seen it for ages darnit) fascinates me as does ‘Undercover Boss’ and sadly also ‘The Biggest Loser’, I can’t help myself saying all sorts of engaged things about it (like it’s real and it matters and stuff).

    I don’t watch a lot of TV, but when I do, I want it to be crap (well except for ‘Bargain Hunt’ :-) oh and ‘QI’ and ‘Q & A’ – talk about non linear TV preferences)

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    • Nat (Mamamia)

      I love Undercover Boss…

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      • Kris2040

        That was actually really cool tonight, with the mayor going undercover. I actually tweeted Tony Abbott (and plenty of others) could do with a stint like Undercover Boss.

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        • Anonymous

          You could recognize Tony and Julia by their ears though.

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          • Kris2040

            Yeah I was thinking about that – they’d be pretty bloody hard to disguise, wouldn’t they?

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  23. Natalia

    I will shamefully confess that I absolutely love the new Britney album, ‘Femme Fatale’. Even though it contains songs with titles such as “Trip To Your Heart” and “He About To Lose Me.” But I’ll only listen to it on my iPod so that nobody else knows what I’m listening to..

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  24. Bradley

    Have I ever coveted my neighbour’s husband ? No. He’s an ugly bastard.

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    • redballoon

      But does he have a great personality?

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      • Bradley

        No, but he has enormous feet !

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  25. FiFiLaRou

    Confession 1: I rang 5 video shops to find Gulliver’s Travels on DVD so I didn’t have to read the book for uni. Apparently they are quite different to each other though. Fail.

    Confession 2: Am saving for a house but am still shopping on Ebay a little too regularly
    Confession 3: Am still sleeping with my energy-wasting fan on during the night so I can get cosy under my doona. :

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  26. Minnie

    I work from home and today I laid on the couch and snoozed during a phone conference ( god , I hope no-one asks me what it was about )

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  27. Anon for this one

    I told my staff I had a very top secret meeting of the government this afternoon (a west wing quote that NONE of them got and if you knew where I worked you’d be horrified by that) and came home at 2pm and had loud sex with my husband whilst the toddler was at childcare.

    Then I ate expensive cheese and had a glass of wine. At 3.30pm.

    I’ve got sinner all over me today – liar, glutton…

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    • rainbow

      love it!

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    • Meerkath

      Afternoon delight lol! Good on you!

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  28. Free Human Being

    Don’t tell anyone, but I watch the intellectual masterpiece “Holly’s World”.

    VEGAS baby.

    What happens there and all that jazz…

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    • Bec Sparrow

      What is Holly’s World? I’ve never heard of it … Details!

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      • Kim-Marie Williams

        I think it’s a reality show about Hugh Hefner’s ex-fiancee?

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    • protecting my identity

      Omg I love Holly’s world!! Its my guilty pleasure to watch the newest EP online ever Monday

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  29. Elli

    My confession is that I don’t find April Fools Day or any other sort of practical joke funny. I feel like such a wet blanket, but I just don’t get what’s funny about playing tricks on other people and laughing when they fall for it and feel silly.

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    • Faybian

      Like funniest home videos??

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      • Elli

        Like that, yes. Except that those people are doing it to themselves, which is even weirder.

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        • Anonymous

          Yes they are. I always make a lot of noises of disgust when my family put it on, and often end up reading or stalking out.

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        • Faybian

          That was me, I have no idea why it came up as anonymous.

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    • MDW

      I am the same, I actually dread April Fools every year. I don’t get it either.

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    • Jess

      I might agree :/ Was had for the first time this year.

      My brother’s joke was to text me that he had stepped on my little dog and she was really hurt.

      Not funny.

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    • MBK's Mum

      Agree. I like a laugh as much as the next person, but I loath a joke at the expense of anyone or anything. Don’t like scaring people, shocking people, belittling people or insulting them ‘just for a laff’. Hate, hate, hate when ‘everyone’ is in on a cruel joke at a single individual’s expense. Funny is funny, but mean, even if you end up saying ‘it was just a joke’ will never be funny and I make no apology for feeling this way.

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  30. Daniella

    Just ate 2 packets of chips, half a packet of shapes and now feeling really very guilty.

    I think I’m going to head to the gym soon…to stand on the cross trainer while watching family guy on the TV screens…

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    • Daniella

      …hang on a minute… *checks date* Maybe PMS-ing?

      WHAT? Who said that?!

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    • Bejazzled

      You may need a coke to wash all that down!

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  31. Chia

    I told my daughter she’s not allowed to install games on my iPhone, but today while she was at school I sat on the couch playing Chuck Norris.

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    • Bec Sparrow

      There’s a CHUCK NORRIS game? Hilarious!!!

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      • Kris2040

        I was on the bus yesterday with the local high school kids, and they were making all these “Your momma” jokes. Then they started on “Chuck Norris is so tough…” calls. It was really strange because I don’t think they really understood who Chuck Norris is and why the calls are so funny!

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        • MissSunshine

          Chuck Norris jokes seem to be everywhere at the moment. It’s hysterical! I had a quick look at the iPhone app, and it has all those Chuck Norris one liners built into it as well. I have no idea what started it???

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          • Kris2040

            It’s been around on Facebook for ages…

            The kids were funny as most of them were down with it and then there was the one who just didn’t get it. So the rest were all “Your Momma’s so fat when she wears a yellow raincoat people try to flag her down” stuff, but little mate was “Your momma’s so fat.. and then goes off on a minute long story”.

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  32. KP

    My confession is that I love the TV show The Golden Girls. I record it every night on FOX and watch it the next day. I think it is hilarious. Very tragic I know (I’m 32 btw).

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    • Evil Cupcake

      My 29 year old BROTHER loves Golden Girls. He cried when Bea Arthur died.

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    • Chicken or Chooky

      I’m 23 and LOVE Golden Girls. Have done so since I was 14. Always love to hear other people love it too.

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    • mumof2girls

      I love it too! And I am 34. My daughters, aged 7 and 9, also love it. There’s something very comforting about it, no?

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  33. Mattie loves to read

    My husband and I only get to have dinner together on the weekends because he works long hours. So, about once a week, I go to Woolies and buy prepared butter chicken, or some other Indian already cooked and ready to serve meal, and cooked rice, and then plate it up for my husband. I then tell him when he gets home that I cooked it during the day. He hasn’t twigged yet. It’s a win/win – he gets a meal he really likes, and I look like a domestic superstar with no effort made by me!

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  34. MBK's Mum

    I have an insatiable desire to feed *other people* delicious, decadent and indulgent foods. I’m a pusher! I’m strictly low fat these days (dropped a good amount of weight so far), but find I indulge by baking and making all kinds of yummy items and then palming them off to others! Can’t subject my own immediate family to too much so am always on the lookout for unsuspecting extended family, friends, The Man’s work colleagues, school teachers….you name it, chocolate cake, cookies, slices, an incredible slab of chocolate melted with golden syrup and butter then mixed with salted peanuts and broken up crunchie bars was today’s gift to the local butcher…I’m peddling! I feel so ashamed!!

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    • Lulu

      And you live where???

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    • Kat Kohl

      I second that, I would like to be your random friend who takes baked goods off your hands :)

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      • MBK's Mum

        LOL Kat and Lulu, it *sounds* good, but you know, once you’re in it, and I’m forcing the high-cal foods on you weekly, you might be singin’ a diff’rent toon ;)

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  35. In KL

    After taking my 5 year old to school and then stayed for a cuppa, my two year old and I came home and sat in a beanbag together and watched TV all morning. It was wonderful.

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  36. Alena

    I haven’t taken the rubbish out for ages. should do it today…

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  37. Danya Wellington

    My sin is weighing me down…..it is…. *gulp* I love watching Embarassing Bodies.

    The shame.

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    • Mia

      Someone in my house also loves this show! He shall remain nameless. Jason. I mean Nameless.

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    • Alena

      that’s pretty much my mum’s favourite show. I can’t stand it.

      (although I have terrible taste in TV shows so I can’t talk)

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    • ClaireC

      I love it too, just wish it wasn’t on so late because I just can’t drag myself away from it once I start watching.

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    • Mel W

      That is one of the few shows it record with the IQ. It’s on too late to watch but I *love* it so much. The most recent one was about vaginas and was actually quite educational!

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    • protecting my identity

      How awesome is this show!! Makes me happy I’m not a freak ;)

      When I was in hospital my husband was watching it with my parents and in the first 5 minutes there were boobs everywhere ….how embarrassing

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    • Danya Wellington

      Oh thank god I thought it was only me!

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    • Kris2040

      I love that show! Should be compulsory viewing, especially lke the other night’s vaginas episode. Time and time again people say they’re too embarrassed to go to the doctor about things, and this show just proves how unexciting people’s “weird” things actually are to doctors.
      I also love Eatoholics, and Biggest Loser, but that is losing me. I think the family thing has held most of them back this year.

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    • sarah

      I LOVE THIS SHOW!! I don’t usually remember to watch it though :(

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  38. Guest from Perth

    Confession: I like watching the Kardashians. Ditto Jersey Shore. Ditto Kendra and the Real Housewives of Everywhere. Ditto Come Dine with Me. Ditto every other reality show on TV/Foxtel.

    I think i’ve just lost all my cred ;)

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    • EA

      I am so sadly hooked on Wife Swap, it was on late last night, and even though I knew I would be up over night with the baby and up early early this morning for same, I couldn’t help myself. Ohh the conflict..

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    • Melissa

      I used to love Girls of the Playboy Mansion

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  39. Me

    Father Bob sounds awesome!

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    • Lulu

      He is! And that’s why this was such an excellent prank by the Herald Sun. If they’d said Cardinal Pell, nobody would believe it. But Father Bob? Most people who know about him would probably be going, “Hmm, yeah, possible.”

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    • Kris2040

      Listen to him on Triple J with John Safran on Sunday nights, they’re brilliant!

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  40. NicoleC

    I’m sinning…

    My Boyfriend is away on a ‘Boys Trip’ for 5 weeks.
    I’m the only girlfriend who didnt threaten breaking up or has become a nervous wreck

    I’m not missing him as much as every other girlfriends are missing their boyfriends…

    Maybe because we live together and I’ve been busy..

    10 hail marys and a miss you text??

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    • Bec Sparrow

      So long as you’re not typing this while sitting in the lap of Ramone, the pool boy, I think you’re fine!

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      • NicoleC

        haha I wish…

        drinking & dancing with the girls till dawn.
        working till dusk!

        busybee!

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      • Tania

        LMAO

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    • Mary Christmas

      When my husband goes away, apart from the increased work of looking after the kids 24/7 on my own, I actually like it! My ship sails more smoothly with one captain…me!

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      • Lorin

        I hear you! When he’s not away for work I am counting down from about 5pm until he gets home, but when he’s away there is nothing to mess with the schedule I have devised in my head to get the kids to bed on time!

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      • Alena

        I always use it as an excuse the rent all the terrible (in a good way) movies he refuses to watch with me!

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      • Mattie loves to read

        When Mr M is away I like to see how many days I can go without actually cooking. I am on intimate terms, but not too intimate, with our local sushi go round owners, and know all the staff at our favourite restaurant. Kids love it.

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    • Elli

      When my boyfriend is away I cook all the things he’s allergic to (seafood) or doesn’t like (meat on the bone), get the house tidier than it has been since his last trip away, and listen to pop music.

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  41. Axe

    I lived in the U.S. in 1995. Saw a drive through church just like this near the Daytona Speedway..have a photo somewhere..they’re real!!

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    • Maddie

      Yup, there’s at least one in Minnesota, too!

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  42. Deb H

    I have been onto my husband this week about the fact that we are cash poor at the moment, but today I have purchased new winter shoes, a scarf and a new shirt. Does it matter that i saved over 50% on each item? Me thinks i better go and hide the evidence before he gets home :)

    plus every friday i take my daughter for an ice cream after school, because i love those 50c cones mmmmm

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    • String

      Me too. A new top, a skirt, a pair of leggings, some baby shoes, a handbag, son’s birthday present and some easter eggs! But I did confess most of my shopping sins to my husband already. Not the clothes just yet, but most of the rest. And mine too were on special! How can you beat $7.50 for a skirt, 20% off on the handbag and birthday presents, top and leggings both bargains… Oooh – a scarf too.

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    • Hatiheri (Tish)

      After my last trip to IKEA I kept most of my bigger purchases (2x big tall shelves, 1 shoe rack/coat stand thing, and one shoe rack) in “my” car until later in the week as I knew my boyfriend wouldn’t notice they had been built and put in the spare room until weeks (maybe months) later.

      BUT… I was constructing my lovely products one afternoon and he came home early and caught me in the act!

      I learnt the trick of hiding purchases from a mutual friend who used to hide all his book purchases (Lifeline book sale big purchases) in the garage and then slowly sneak them up onto the book shelves in their unit.

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    • Em*

      50 cents now?!?!

      Wow, where have I been, I thought they were still 30 cents!?

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  43. Sometimes Karen

    A tiny part of my celebrates when one of my kids gets gastro because it means I can cancel all obligations for at least 4 days.

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    • Sometimes Karen

      *me* celebrates

      Another confession: typos give me hives.

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    • Evelyn

      Me too – glad I’m not the only one lol. Just cancelled all my weekend plans, feels GREAT. Means I can watch Murder She Wrote, my other confession…

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      • Sometimes Karen

        Terrible isn’t it? After the first 2 or 3 deadly spews it’s pretty much all about germ control and copious amounts of lounging about ;)

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  44. housie destinationeden.wordpress.com

    Haha, I think this is lifted straight from a de-gen sketch from The Late Show in the 90′s, hilarious! 2 Hail Marys and drive through to the next window!

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    • Megsy

      Body of Christ?

      That’d be nice!

      I’m so glad someone else noticed this!

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  45. sally

    Confession….I had ‘Friday’ stuck in my head for a week after the MM post. And I didn’t hate it.

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  46. Bernadette Morley

    Confession: I’ve pre-ordered the next series of The Hills. The sad thing is, it is very unlikely it will actually sell out before I get to the store.

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    • Bec Sparrow

      That’s the Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag show???? (Oh my God, I sound like my mother asking that ….).

      I am the Queen of Uncool.

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      • Bernadette Morley

        No Bec, that makes you the Queen of smarts. I got suckered in one very long non-ratings period and I went and purchased every single series of that and the Kardashians. Surprised I can even type legibly after the amount of brain cells I’ve sacrificed.

        Hello. My name is Bernadette and I am a TV trash addict.

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        • Alyssa KT

          if you want trash, MM, you need Jersey Shore. They’re all such dickheads – it’s awesome! Kind of like a Big Brother Uncut every day – with orange people wearing Ed Hardy and too much hair product.
          I download them for free too.

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          • Bek

            Jersey Shore is TOTALLY my guilty pleasure as well! It’s also my husband’s. We both pretend that we’re going to watch the Discovery Channel and then whenever it gets to an ad we change…and then leave it on!

            Also, the other day I ACTUALLY caught him setting the IQ to tape it. Seriously. When I laughed at him he said he was trying to tape Top Gear and must have got the controls mixed up. Methinks not, he’s an audio engineer and computer whiz, he definitely knows his way around a remote!

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    • Melissa J

      I thought The Hills is finished?
      I can no longer watch it because I find Spencer SO infuriating it actually makes me mad to watch.

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    • Court

      Omg I hear you – when living in Canada it was on MTV all the time and I was secretly cheering. I must have watched each episode about 3 times without really getting sick of it.

      Spencer’s performance is amazing.

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      • SoMuchSerenity

        Yep Ive watched The Hills episodes over and over.. Ohh Spencer – what a first class twat!!!!!

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    • MissSunshine

      I was going to make my own comment that my secret confession is I watch the Hills as well. My sister watches it and I swore that I wouldn’t sink so low as to watch trash tv… but I got hooked.

      Spencer drives me insane and I want to slap Heidi and tell her to open her eyes but otherwise, enjoying the trash!

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  47. Claudia

    My (not very exciting) confession is that I’ve been listening to more AM than FM (more news radio, less triple J!) and feeling like an old fart because of it.

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    • Bec Sparrow

      I hear you, sister.

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      • Claudia

        Oh I’m so glad I’m not the only one….I even had a ‘they call this music?’ moment the other day. Help.

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        • Lulu

          Now if those darn kids would just get off your lawn … :p

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          • Claudia

            GET OFF MY LAWN SONNY BOY JIM!!

            Howzat?? :)

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      • Aishie

        Me too!!!

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    • Tania

      Amen!

      My kids say to me ‘OMG Mum! Crusty radio? Dad’s right you are a dag!’

      I love the local coverage of politics and issues of importance to my community *blush*. The music does suck though.

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      • Claudia

        Crusty radio, lol!

        Yep politics, news and weather are great (love things like the health report too), music is yeah….not so much.

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    • Gnat

      That happened to me around the age of 34.

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    • LittleDumpling

      I too have turned into my mother! Obsessed w ABC radio. We even say ‘did you hear such and such on the radio?’.

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  48. bretts gal

    where do I start….

    Unmarried and living with a man. This one kills my mum.

    I have 4 children and only one was born in wedlock (and its not the baby)

    I am not a natural blonde – ANYMORE – despite my hair still being blonde.

    I pretend Im deaf at 5am when the baby wakes just so I dont have to get up.

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    • Aishie

      You’re not alone….

      Unmarried and living with a man

      2 babies born out of wedlock (and there will never be any wedlock either!)

      My hair colour isn’t natural

      I pretend to be asleep or deaf when any child cries between 11pm and 6am (my defence is that I had to get up to feed or to sooth them for the first 6 months all alone so is payback)

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  49. Jennifer

    When I first glanced at the photo I thought it was Bob Hawke in the car! Now that would be a confession!
    But mine is – tonight I’m going to The Sydney Dance Co., but it’s a Friday, I’m a little tired & I’m secretly wishing I was curling up on the couch and watching The Biggest Loser. Tragic.

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    • Alyssa KT

      me too! I was going to ask if he’d been Photoshopped into the photo!
      haha

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  50. Amz

    I made a call to book in a personal training session with a bag of hot chips and chicken strips sitting in front of me ready to eat ;)

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    • Guest

      I went to KFC after my first PT session on Tuesday : )

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    • In KL

      I feel the same way about my youngest daughter’s name too. My first daughter’s name was easy, second time around we were both uninspired for a long time. Even when my husband came up with the name Sarah, I was like yeah, I s’pose and thought we could keep it out there until I liked something better. Maybe I didn’t try hard enough I never came up with anything else. I look at her now and think she is much too cheeky for a Sarah, but too late to change it now.

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    • Evelyn

      Amz – you are my hero

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