Have you ever hidden as an adult?

[GasEngineer]

Not when playing with the grandkids etc; but genuinely hidden?

[Jamescrs]

I've had the blinds closed when i've been at home alone and pretended I wasn't in when people have come to the door, does that count? Or are you thinking more faking one's own death?

[boyse7en]

Only once when her husband came home early.

We'd barely finished putting up the decorations for his surprise birthday party...

[Soloman Dodd]

Does turning the lights out and tv off at Halloween count?

[Spare tyre]

Heard a noise behind our house, thinking the old dear was in trouble I wondered up there in pitch black

It’s a long drive, 4 very nasty looking lads were heading back, I managed to hide behind a bush

Pathetic, probably, but I have a family and thought better of confronting them

Any way, they buggered off, I knocked the door and enquired about a made up parcel, she didn’t mention anything about the noise or anyone knocking, I suspect they were upto no good but we will never know

[wyson]

I have. Was supposed to be some sort of team lunch, which I wanted to avoid. Made some excuse that I had an appointment and couldn’t join them. They ended up going to the same restaurant as me. Quickly shifted seats to sit behind a pillar. I think I got away with it.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

I once went kayaking and ended up in Panama, but its a long story.

[Grumbler]

My brother and I regularly hide from each other. Always have. Sometimes for jump-scare, sometimes just to annoy.
A while back we stopped at a garage. I went in to pay, he slid into the back and pulled and blanket over himself.
I got back into the car, assuming he’d nipped to the toilet, and waited. And waited. After nearly ten minutes I went looking for him as I was getting some funny looks just sitting in the passenger seat. Obviously no luck.
At this point I began to suspect there was some epic hiding going on. The muffled sniggering from the back confirmed it. More funny looks as my brother emerged, red-faced and sweating from the rear footwell. Oh, how we laughed.
For clarity, I’m nearly fifty and he’s my big brother. We just regress occasionally.

[The0perator]

boyse7en said:

Only once when her husband came home early.

We'd barely finished putting up the decorations for his surprise birthday party...

had me in the first half

[Mobile Chicane]

My student house in Brighton was one of those tall townhouses with an attic and a basement.

Oh what fun we had playing 'sardines'.

A giggle at any age.

[Warhavernet]

Not really, unless darting into a shop doorway to avoid someone counts as hiding.

[redrabbit29]

Yes a few times in a supermarket actually. Often when I've seen someone I know but don't want them to see me.

I got caught/noticed once and it was hugely embarassing.

[_Hoppers]

boyse7en said:

Only once when her husband came home early.

We'd barely finished putting up the decorations for his surprise birthday party...

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[Doesitdrive]

Yes, after a mental health crisis, for far too long.

[Lo-Fi]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

I once went kayaking and ended up in Panama, but its a long story.

Are you sure you remember it all?

[grumpy52]

Did a driving course when working for a security company . Evasion ,avoidance and anti hijacking . Got top marks as they never caught me in the evasion. Got top marks also in the anti hijacking ,we were permitted to push and barge the vehicle was basically a banger racer . I kept quiet about the years of racing experience.
You can hide in plain sight if your not recognisable.

[Monkeylegend]

I was the world hide and seek champion for many years, I hid when I was 12 years old and nobody found me until I was 56.

[konark]

Monkeylegend said:

I was the world hide and seek champion for many years, I hid when I was 12 years old and nobody found me until I was 56.

Nobody was looking mate.😅

[Hub]

My wife and I were once invited to a wedding, a couple we knew (but not at all close friends) as they had a young daughter that was the same age as ours. We arrived pretty early, it was a treehouse in the woods type affair. We only saw one other older lady arriving on her own, though we did briefly speak to her.

On the walkway up to the entrance was a board with the usual table plan on it. We were not on it! It was a fairly small do, turns out that it was only the evening we were invited to, we'd somehow got that wrong.... So out of embarrassment we hid in the woods round the back for quite a while until all the other guests had arrived and gone in then went back home!

(And we couldn't even make the evening as we had no childcare!)

[Mikebentley]

konark said:

Monkeylegend said:

I was the world hide and seek champion for many years, I hid when I was 12 years old and nobody found me until I was 56.

Nobody was looking mate.?

Amateur. My dad has been hiding since 1966 when he knocked my mother up.