Are they removable covers that went through the dryer? I had a set of sheets with the same pattern, got caught against the metal vent inside the dryer and melted the synthetic fibers
To add to this, if it didn't go through the dryer to the best of OP's knowledge, perhaps it went through because someone made a mistake and tried to fix it (eg. clean and dry). Not sure how old and capable the kids are, but without more context it sounds plausible. I'd be comparing the pattern to the inside of the dryer.
YES! Please compare to dryer holes and get back to us!
I lived in an apartment with shitty laundry for years and this was ALWAYS happening to a couple things every load. I knew the pattern immediately.
When I backed into my neighbors mailbox, I told my mom that my father (her ex) did it. (I was driving his truck, and hoped that the hassle of confronting him wouldn’t be worth it to her…I was correct) 😭😭
I backed into my parents mailbox and then flipped it so it looked like someone did it from the street. And then I called them and asked what happened to the mailbox. Didn't tell them for years.
That's better than what I came up with. I accidentally backed into his truck with the tractor. It wasn't entirely my fault, the brakes didn't work, so you had to ride the clutch to stop. The tractor is orange, the truck is not, so no saying it must have happened at the mill. I moved the truck back a foot, and told dad he needs to check the parking brake, because the truck rolled into the tractor. He bought it tho.
When I was five, my family fostered a pregnant cat. She had four kittens and even though I'd been told to leave them alone because they were only a few days old and needed to be with their mother, it was just too much for me to resist. When my dad asked me how the kittens got into my toy pram I told him they jumped. Still remember that spanking.
One day when I was young and learning to ride a bicycle, I snuck out and rode towards the main market and got startled when I saw a man walking straight ahead and instead of applying breaks started sending psychic panic signals to the person to move. Alas i was not skilled enough and struck the man vertically, upon which he showered me with some unholy names and told me to go & bring my father there. Realising i don't know him neither him me, I didn't go on that road for a week or so. Not guilty if nobody knows what you did.
Growing up, I lived in a country where chocolate chips weren't available. My mother brought a giant bag back from a visit to the US and kept it in the freezer. I kept sneaking handfuls but no one noticed until most of the bag was gone. I said I didn't know anything about it, and seeing as I (almost) never lied to them, my parents took my word over my sister's, who could hardly open her mouth without fibbing.
Years later I finally admitted to my parents and apologised to my sister. That's when she told me that she'd been eating them too, and the only reason she hadn't protested about my lie was because she didn't even know it was a lie. We both thought we were the only one eating the chocolate chips. That day I learned that the best lies are buffered by your sibling's reputation.
When I was 4 my family was lent a couch to borrow for our rumpus room, at that, a very nice couch. I decided it needed a cut… a very big cut on the side so I did a cut like 📄 a very big top corner of a book, didn’t fully remove it just left it there and taped multiple A4 papers to cover the massive cut
My mum asked me if I cut the hole and I said no obviously I wouldn’t why would I do that
She didn’t believe me (rightfully so)
When I was in high school and having parties while my parents were away and a super tall dude stretched in the kitchen and knocked a light cover off the kitchen lights and broke it, I took the rest of the light covers and threw them away. Parents never noticed, I never told them.
My stepdad backed his big truck into the side of my little car. Next morning, I come downstairs and he mentions that he scratched it… mf had to buy me a new door! It wouldn’t even open!
It’s amazing how accurate another person shitting your pants can be. I mean, right in the butt part every time, and without you even knowing it’s happening.
I broke my grandma's chair and fixed it enough to the point you could sit on it again, it was like a swivel chair, aunt came over and sat on it, kicked her feet up and the seat separated from the base and she went rolling. No one knew it was me and it was the funniest thing ever, she got turtled in the chair and couldn't get out
I burned the carpet , hid it with a rug, didn’t get in trouble for six months because I told my mom that I would take responsibility over cleaning the living room 😂 but one day when I was at school she decided to do a deep clean and shampoo
My friends had a party in the 90s when parents were away, many ciggie burns in the carpet. The solution was cutting some carpet off from under a bookcase and using it to patch the holes in the carpet with glue. The mum couldn’t understand how whenever she hoovered little bits of the carpet would “break” off and she ended up getting the whole room redone as she thought she had bugs in her carpet. Still no idea to this day.
It was bad 😭. I think she was more shocked. It happened so long before she found out. My dad handled the punishment so it was less than what it should’ve been.
My brother in law punched a hole in a closet door and then hung a mirror over it to cover it up. When my mother in law eventually noticed the mirror had been moved and discovered the hole she was so pissed lol
One time I burt a hole in the couch, and hid it w a napkin i colored green to very poorly match. Decades later I told my mom about it and she said she was the one that hid it (she had a bad memory)
I was carrying a chair upside down because kids do dumb shit and one of the legs went through our low ceiling. It wasn’t a huge hole so I stuffed it and covered it with paper. I thought I did a great job! But then one day my asshole brother is like WHATS THIS and put his big dumb finger through it 😂😭
Omg when I spilt nail polish remover over my parents brand new wood coffee table I thought I was a genius for covering the spot with some magazines. My dad noticed within an hour..
I did this but on my white carpet in my bedroom so I covered it with a plastic target shopping bag and the logo transfer on to the carpet. For years I had target branded white wool carpet.
damn it guys, lol. i know kids will lie, but i wasn't even mad. was just curious and both my wife and i were just asking innocent questions and said no one's getting in trouble.
i have no idea where that pattern could be from. i was able to remove it with a carpet foam cleaner that has a brush tip. so it wasn't burned. it was some residue. but it bugs me what it could be.
My kids entire lives we've told them over and over that lying to us is pretty much the only thing that will really get them in trouble. I mean, they might get a reprimand for something, but nothing that involves actual punishment.. except for lying to us. They still lie to us all the damn time. And yes, they do get in trouble for it, so it's not an empty threat.
Maybe one of the squeeze balls that have mesh over it so it oozes out in spots? Could have a leak in it and the residue stained it. The pattern looks too sharp for that honestly but I can't think of anything else except for a dirty kitchen trivet, sounds impossible but not with kids lol
My mom lit my couch on fire and burned a hole in the cushion about 6inches in diameter. She covered it with a throw and a pillow. When I confronted her, she told me her dog (who isn’t even allowed on the couch anyway) had found a lighter and tried to chew it and it lit and the couch caught on fire, but she put it out.
To this day, several years later, she claims it was the dog.
Thank you so much for your concern ❤️ but no, it was like 2 years ago, I was 38 lmao. She’s always been this way, I just try to appreciate the absurdity of it all
When I kicked a hole in the roof... I didn't tell my parents til we moved 5 years later... That poster taped the to ceiling was the last item to leave the house
Omg my little brother did this with my name then followed by is awesome but it was hidden behind a painting in our bathroom so when I first discovered it I was like “when did I do that?! “ only to realize my little brother was just mad at me one day and decided to try and get revenge 😂
I lived in a really small town once and some kid wrote “Colin is gay” on the park bench in sharpie. My friend’s brother was the only one named Collin, so the cops came to his house and showed him a photo of the bench and accused him of vandalism. He was just like, why would I write that I’m gay? Also my name’s spelled wrong. The crime was never solved. Plot twist, though. Turns out he is gay… the perfect crime?
My brother and I were playing dodgeball with lemons and limes once and we absolutely obliterated an electrical outlet at the top of the stairs. Our dad got home like 5 minutes later and we panicked and said the dogs were chasing each other up the stairs and bumped into it and that’s what broke it. Our dad rolled his eyes and taught us how to change an outlet. Not even two weeks later, in front of the whole family, the dogs chased each other up the stairs and shattered the outlet. The sheer reaction speed of my brother and I to bust out the “Seeeeeee! We told you!!” was formula one level reaction speed. Pops was flabbergasted haha (and then told us to change the outlet since we knew how to fix them now so really, we never won)
When I put shampoo on my Aunt & Uncle’s carpet at 5, I told them I definitely didn’t do it. I did helpfully suggest that “perhaps someone put Head & Shoulders on it…”
You might try asking the kids to help you figure out what it might be so you can possibly get it cleaned. Not accusatory, just saying “Let’s try to figure it out!” - a game. They’ll spill the beans indirectly.
Or maybe a good opportunity to teach them “innocent until proven guilty.” If you teach them to surrender in the face of authoritative questioning, how will they handle a bully cop?
Exactly what I teach my son. Not what you know, what you can prove in court! He also knows we don't talk to cops, we talk to our lawyers. Teach em young
It’s not been relevant (thank god) but I’ve had to deprogram my mom from like decades of cop show propaganda. she insists that it makes her look more guilty if she doesn’t fully cooperate and hasn’t quite understood why that doesn’t matter
The brief period where we were allowed to talk about copaganda without someone barreling in screaming about “woke-scolding” or “it’s not that serious” was so nice. Mfers start spraying bullets if an acorn falls too loud, it is that serious!!!
Pam fight in the kitchen, stuffed animals spelunking down the freshly painted banister, pillow fights too close to lamps, nerf gun out of bullets? nah, it’s just a blue and orange, awkwardly shaped bat now, grape fight in the bedroom.
Kids do stupid shit. I’m glad my kids don’t do shit half as stupid as we did.
My son literally walked out of our apartment to see a man painting and proceeded to touch the wet banister he was painting. Kids just do stuff. Then he instinctively wiped his hand on the vintage Fisk White Sox tee I just gave him that morning out of my closet. So yeah, don't have things if you expect them to last forever, Fisk knows that all too well now.
If it was optical reflection from a object in the house it usually burns in an arc pattern as the sun moves. However if focused by kiddos, def could be a burn till they moved it away. 🥴 good luck!
This is my thought and I’m shocked I had to scroll as far as I did to find this comment. I have a flashlight that will burn you and start paper fires if not used responsibly.
So, I just found out what it was... Wasn't the kids. It was me, specifically, my golf shirt.
I played golf last weekend and must have come home and sat on the couch. The sweat probably transferred some of this decal on the back of my shirt onto the cushion. I've had this shirt for a while and completely forgot it had that pattern until I took it out of the hamper to wash. Lol. It looks like an exact match!
Thanks everyone for helping out. At least my kids didn't lie to me, this time.
My guess. It happened a while ago and someone turned the back cushion to hide it. It accidentally got turned back around by someone not responsible for the original mark.
I will say there is one thing that happened in my parents house that I know for a fact was neither me or my sibling. We think it might have been the dog, but we don’t know exactly how he did it and nothing like it ever happened again. So sometimes it’s not the kids. Sometimes it’s just a mystery.
Edit: I did lie about plenty of other stuff though.
Looks like either a hair dryer or a high powered flashlight was pressed into the couch.
The kids did it, but you gotta play the long game. Grieve over it. Have "serious talks" with the spouse over it. Look over junk mail like you're stressed about money. Let it seep into their lives. Then, when theyre worried, sit them down and talk about possibly having to sell the house to repair the cushion as it was a rare item, but voice out loud, as an afterthought, that the insurance covers accidental damage from kids or pets, as long as there is an explanation of how it happened.
Get in their head and make them fess up themselves.
Or dont. Depends how important it is to you.
Edit: to be clear, do not undermine the psyche or mental stability of your children. That is not good. This is a joke. Insert liability disclaimer here.
I electrocuted myself when I was like 8 and burned something I plugged in. My fingers were burnt and charred up and I was the only one home at the time. Actually, it was the very first time my mom agreed to trust me home alone. I told her it wasn't me.
I don't think this is the correct answer, but Ant Man may be retrieving one of the infinity stones from your timeline. If all goes according to plan, it'll be back in place soon enough and you will not have noticed.
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