Get It Off Your Chest

A recent This American Life broadcast featured recordings of calls made to the Apology Line, a fifteen year project of the late Allan Bridges. Mr. Bridges recorded over 1,000 cassette tapes full of people's anonymous confessions to his answering machine like this one:

"I'd like to apologize for...for being such a sorry person. My preacher's wife was counseling me on alcoholism. They're a married couple. I'm thirty and they're thirty. And I had a sexual encounter with her. And I feel sorry, and I need to apologize to somebody...for messing up her. Her husband was almost impotent. In which I attacked the woman. I had oral and physical sex with her. And I feel just plumb damn guilty like I should...just...end it all. Thank you."

I don' t think we'll get anything quite that detailed or heady from the new advertainment site launched by Method, the folks that attractively packaged soap. But it is oddly fun to see what people choose to get off their chests. Go see for yourself at comeclean.com.