PSSST...I Got A Secret...
By twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
United States
April 13, 2008 11:42pm CST
The other day someone calls me up and says “I have to tell you something…but don’t tell anyone b/c I promised I wouldn’t tell”. Then they go on to tell me stuff and repeats several times that I shouldn’t tell…b/c they aren’t supposed to be telling anyone.
I had to sit there grinning b/c it struck me as so funny that the whole time the person is telling me they aren’t supposed to be telling anyone LOL It kind of brought a whole new meaning to the word gossip. I’m glad I know about it but at the same time I know that anything I tell this person is probably going to be talked about.
I’ve always made it a personal rule that if there are things that I don’t want ANYONE to know about then I don’t tell anyone…including Hubby. It’s just better that way. Some things I don’t mind if ppl talk about b/c it helps me out…like if I’m mad at my Brother and I tell my Mom she will go and talk to him and it works out. Where if I just go and talk to him, we fight more. Other times I just keep it to myself.
So, if someone told you something and made you promise not to tell anyone could you keep the secret or start talking? Are you one of those ppl that promise not to tell and then forget what it was you weren’t supposed to tell? (I’ve done that LOL)
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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43 responses
@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
14 Apr 08
I can keep a secret. I just have to allow myself a few days to let the novelty of the secret wear off. For example, if my mom tells me something juicy and asks me not to tell anyone, I just have to try to tuck it away in the back of my head and try to forget about it for a few days. By then, the power of that secret will have lost its affect on me and I won't really even want to repeat it anymore! LOL!
And, I have been told a secret and forgotten what it was I was supposed to keep quiet as well! LOL!
But, for the most part, if someone tells me a secret, I tell my hubby.
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@Sissygrl (10912)
• Canada
14 Apr 08
okay. i have friends that do that i'm sure.. i dont tell too many people too many things if i dont want people to know. I think hubby is fairly safe to tell. . but i know that i can always tell someone things if i gotta get it off my chest. I have one friend that i've known since middle school and she lives far away from here.. so if one of my friends from here tells me something, and says dont tell anyone.. i can always tell her, cause whoopity doo, who's she going to tell that it matters to ? lol
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@nannacroc (4049)
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14 Apr 08
If I have promised someone I will keep a secret, then I will. I was taught never to make a promise I couldn't keep. I used to work with children who had been abused and they would sometimes ask me if I would keep a secret if they told me. In these cases I had to say that it would depend on the secret because some things I would have to tell their Social Worker or Foster Carer.
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@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
14 Apr 08
I hate to tell people things in confidence and it does not stay that way. I do not tell anyone if I am asked not to.
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
14 Apr 08
A lot depends on who told me the secret and what it was about. Usually the only ones who tell me something secretive are my sister, my niece or my mother. Now if my sister tells me something I don't share with anyone. If my mother tells me something I usually share with my sister 
but she won't tell others. If it's my niece well it depends on the secret. If it's something her mother should know about I'll share with her but she rarely tells me anything she hasn't already told her mother. Mostly with her it's gifts for her mother type things she tells me about and tells me not to share.
but she won't tell others. If it's my niece well it depends on the secret. If it's something her mother should know about I'll share with her but she rarely tells me anything she hasn't already told her mother. Mostly with her it's gifts for her mother type things she tells me about and tells me not to share.
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
14 Apr 08
I am not a very good gossip. I have been told things or seen things happen over the years and I realized it would do no good to tell anyone. I do have to laugh at people who tell things while begging others not to tell.
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@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
20 Apr 08
I don't allow myself to engage in gossip. Normally when I talk about other people it is when they are there so that if they feel the need to they may defend their actions or the choices that they make. As for listening to salatious gossip, I normally try to avoid that too. It is best. There are certain things that I don't need or want to know about some of my friends. I don't spread it to other people, except maybe my significant other and that is only if it has some relevance to him. He however does like to gossip about people sometimes and brings me home little tidbits of it every once in a while.
@KKKBsmom (1092)
• United States
1 May 08
makes no sense... them telling you to keep a secret... that they were suppose to keep in the first place... oh how I hate!
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
22 Apr 08
I'm pretty good. If people say "Don't say anything to anyone" then I don't usually. But I might tell my best friend certain things and then he will spread it, so I'm careful what to say to him. If it's a personal thing that the person themself tells me then I say nothing. The same goes for if the facts haven't been proven then I say nothing.
I've seen a little plaque that sits next to a phone:
"Your friend has a friend - your friend's friend has a friend - be discreet"
I don't talk to too many people around here anyway. Small towns thrive on rumour and gossip unfortunately.
@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
26 Apr 08
I'm the kind of person that believes in processing the info I am given and making a decision based on whether or not the info is just gossip or could be really harmful and hurtful to the person. I'm discrete, so whoever tells me things will not be named.
@vera5d (4005)
• United States
22 Apr 08
i've always found it pointless to tell someone something and then tell them not to tell anyone...pretty soon you end up telling someone and they tell someone and then everyone knows!
I only tell my hubby anything...it is always safer that way!!
@shymurl (2765)
• United States
22 Apr 08
In this little town, if you tell one person the whole town knows. Most of the time I keep to myself just for that reason. I don't other people to know my business, especially my secrets. this did happen to me one time. I told someone that I thought was a friend that I was working at a strip club, I told her not to tell anyone, and within weeks a bunch of people knew. Came up asking me if it was true. Now I don't care, just when I started I knew how people would react. Now i'm not working there because it paid my way through school. and now I can be happy with what i'm doing. but I also know not to tell anyone anything.
@ruby222 (4847)
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20 Apr 08
Hi Twoey....If youre going to keep a secret or supposed to be keeping a secret ..well it just seems daft to tell anyone at all!!!
I love my hubby dearly..but if I was asked to keep a secret I wouldnt ever tell him...simply because he cant help but pass it on!!!
Some are good at remeining quiet...and others just cant!!!
But theres nothing worse than asking someone to keep a secret for you just to find that its common knowledge and nearly everyone knows!!!
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
17 Apr 08
I usually am pretty good at keeping secrets, but sometimes something slips out. I also can cover up real quickly as well. lol
Like Patty is pregnant and she went to the doctor and...
the person answer oh Patty is pregnant again?
No no I will come back I am talking about when she was pregnant for her 4 year old lol
@chertsy (3798)
• United States
20 Apr 08
I'm not much of the gossip type. Doesn't mean I don't like hearing about it, and sometimes I admit of sharing what I know. Now, when it comes to my marriage that's off limits, and honestly I don't like hearing about other people's marriage's, mostly what happens in the bedroom. That's just something should be kept there and not shared.
If I'm given a secret, it stays there, because half the time I will forget what was shared with me. I forget a lot of things people tell me.
@AmbiePam (85604)
• United States
15 Apr 08
It sounds like that person was in second grade, lol! Because I remember my friends and I doing that around that time in our lives. Now if someone says, I'm going to tell you something, but you have to promise you can't tell, because they weren't supposed to tell...well, I ask them if they are sure they want to tell me. Depending on who it is, if they continue to tell me, sometimes I just laughingly joke and get away from them. I don't want to know something that shouldn't have to be kept a secret, ya know? Because when I make a promise, I intend to keep it.
@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
15 Apr 08
This annoys me. People always say to me 'don't say anything, I promised I wouldn't tell'. When people say that I want to say 'Well SHUTUP! You're not supposed to tell ANYONE!'
See, people think it's ok if they tell a person who they know won't tell anyone else. But they seem to forgot that the original secret was not supposed to be told to anyone else. Not one person. Who cares if the person you wanna tell won't tell anyone? You're still letting the original secret holder down!
Does anyone else folow what I'm saying?
@rhane7315 (5649)
• Philippines
18 Apr 08
i also done it once but i promised to myself that i'm not gonna repeat it again lol
