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The Secret Room | True Stories

93. The Fox's Den

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Shelley tells us about how an invitation to a closed bar landed her in jail, and much worse. That night still haunts her eight years on.

Shelley sent pictures of her at Derrick’s bar; with her "piece of shit car;” and with her “gay hubs” John. See them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Search @secretroompod.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks to Noom for supporting the Secret Room.

0:02.2

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0:04.8

It's about learning healthier habits and feeling better about yourself.

0:08.2

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0:11.5

Sign up for your trial today at Noom and OOM.com slash secret.

0:17.4

Thanks to BetterHelp for supporting the Secret Room.

0:20.4

For 10% off your first month, go to BetterHelp.com slash secret.

0:27.4

All right, I want to hear a secret.

0:30.1

Back in high school, my friends and I used to terrorize our computer lab teacher.

0:35.2

It was a group effort. We figured out how to hack the website and administrative filter so we could

0:42.0

get into every part of the computer and go to any website we wanted.

0:45.5

And then we would also call into the desk and switch the mouse and keyboard cables around.

0:49.3

So one of us would be moving the mouse from the other side and she'd watch it moving when

0:52.9

no one was touching the computer. And we would just love watching your struggle.

0:56.4

All that poor teacher, you're so bad.

0:59.2

Yeah, we were pretty bad. I still feel kind of bad about it to this day but it's also still

1:02.6

kind of funny. You don't feel that bad.

1:04.7

A little.

1:05.9

Hi, my name is Shelley and my secret is that one night eight years ago,

1:20.1

I made a choice that had severe consequences in my life.

1:24.5

Some people I told don't seem to think it's a big deal. And to this day, I wrestle with whether or

1:28.4

not it was truly my fault.

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