Me (18M) am still pretty new to dating, especially the whole “casual encounters” thing. I’m bi, and about a month ago I had my first time with someone I met on a date. Since then, I noticed a lot of people on my profile seem to be looking for… well, just that. So I figured I should be prepared and started buying condoms, just in case.
Here’s the problem: I didn’t really know how to put one on properly. And let’s just say my “little buddy” tends to lose interest while I’m trying to figure it out. So one night, I decided to watch some videos on how to do it right.
The next day, while I was at work, I got a message from my mom:
“Can you explain this? Your little brother found it in YOUR bed.”
Of course, my coworker happened to see the message pop up on my screen. Cue instant chaos, he starts laughing, calls others over, and I just watch the gossip spread like wildfire in real time.
When I got home, my dad gave me a lecture, not because I had condoms, but because my little brother thought it was a balloon. He tried to blow it up… and then started filling it with water.
And this morning, just to top it all off, one of my coworkers went to 7-Eleven and sent me a pic of the condom rack with the message:
“Hey look, they sell them here too!”
I’m never living this down, am I?
TL;DR: Bought condoms to practice how to use them, forgot one on my bed. My 6-year-old brother thought it was a balloon, blew it up, and then filled it with water. My mom sent me a pic asking for an explanation, my coworkers saw it, and now the jokes won’t stop.
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Bummer
I mean any parent should expect their 18yo child to be having sex, if any she should be relieved you are using condoms and not risking pregnancy or STIs. Just an awkward moment but it’s normal for any person, especially a man to have condoms.
You did nothing wrong, in fact you demonstrated responsibility.
You have issues other than condoms
Hope your brother doesn’t have a latex allergy, or this day is going to get 100x more troubling.
Your coworker has to be a massive cheeseball to think that message is at all funny
Having condoms for responsible sex will never be a fuckup. Your parents are fucking stupid, I’m sorry. You’re 18 and will have sex with or without permission, you’d better take proper care rather than making bad decisions because it was taboo, that’s how teenagers get pregnant and catch STDs, all power to you for studying how to protect yourself and your partner
Eighteen is a great age to move out on your own. Then you can have all the condoms you want.
Just remember this, coworkers are pestering you for owning condoms, or partially just because you got busted by your parents with them, but so what. Own it. “Yes, I expect I’ll be fucking any time now so I have condoms. So what?” People your age shouldn’t be that shocked about it, though yeah, there’ll be a few that probably aren’t having or have never had sex, so they’re still at that level of humor about it. At a certain point, wrong or not, you just kind of assume everyone you work with either has had sex or regularly does, but no one cares.
GuyCreature here – age of ‘I know what Halley’s Comet looks like.’
This is going to be hilarious – in ten years.
Your mom was surprised and might reevaluate her reaction later.
You, though; you’re doing the right things. Keep being safe and responsible. Take it all slow, too. Enjoy the journey!
I’m guessing your coworker is jealous and thinks you are getting more action than they are
This is not a fuck up at all on your end.
I would be extremely proud of you for being so responsible if it was me, but just know as a parent we know it’s gonna happen but we aren’t ever really ready for it
No one in this comment section seems to realise OP left an opened condom in his bed, the problem was not owning condoms, it’s that there was just one out in the bed that his brother found
When people have no life, they start to demean other people who have something good going on. Shame on your co-worker. I face the same in my office from my nosy co-workers, where to decide to talk about my family background / family business and talk rubbish, like what I should do / what I should not.
Do not feel ashamed at all. You did nothing wrong – played by the rules, safe – and got your parent’s approval, sorta.
As a dad, your parents and coworkers are morons.
“Can you explain this? “Yes, You need to keep my little brother out of my room and put a lock on my door.”
When I find condoms in one of my son’s room, I am going to high five them for actually listening to their parents and buy them something to mark the occasion rather than shame them. Its going to be soon, they are 14 and 15.
Time to be locking doors especially with a 6yo brother and you’re ‘little buddy’ shouldn’t be loosing interest at 18 in the time it takes to put on a condom, even it you tried to put it on backwards once. That is outside the time window where you should be losing an erection as a teen. That erection should be the magic stick right now unless you over do porn and masturbation, and if so, curb that activity, you are desensitizing yourself.
I remember my mum finding mine when I was 18, and confronting me about it. To which I said, my friend who is younger than me just had a kid, you should be happy I’m taking precautions against that
NFU. You are fine. Things will calm down over time. Why does your brother have to go in your room? Is that where the gaming system is?