AS a parent, there are some things you just don’t want to know – and the details of your teenager’s sex life is definitely one of them.
Unfortunately for one mum, this was taken out of her hands when she accidentally stumbled upon her 17-year-old daughter’s secret lube stash while tidying her room.
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Sharing her dilemma on parenting forum Mumsnet, the mortified mother revealed she had found a bottle of strawberry-flavoured lubricant in her daughter’s suitcase.
Posting a photo of her cringeworthy find, the panicked mum wrote: “What do I do with it?! It’s in a big suitcase that she’s brought home from boarding school and I’m sorting out her washing because she’s away for a month.”
But while most parents would simply pretend they’d never made the discovery in the first place, the Mumsnet user added: “To make matters worse, the suitcase is being thrown out today because it’s broken so I can’t just leave it in her room.”
She added: “It would look very obvious and then she’d be embarrassed. Arghh!”
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And just when you thought the situation couldn’t get any more cringe, the mum then found a box of used condoms tucked away.
She added: “The condoms were contained in the box. It wasn’t until I opened them that it became obvious that they were used…”
Desperate not to embarrass her daughter, the mum asked: “Where can I leave it surreptitiously??”
While some users argued that the mum should leave the suitcase exactly how she found it, others said she should place the items in her daughter’s toiletry bag or bathroom.
“Beside drawer? Where she keeps all her toiletries?” one suggested.
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Another added: “Stick it in her knicker drawer. She’ll probably be mortified but it’ll never be spoken of again.”
Taking a staunchly British approach, a third recommended: “Just chuck the whole lot and never mention it. At some point she’ll remember what was left in there. Pretend none of it ever happened.”
However, another pointed out: “She is having careful sex. Why do you think she would be embarrassed of you acknowledged that?”
Meanwhile, one wondered if her friends “left them in there as a joke considering she knew you were emptying her bag”.
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