Have you ever had to take the fall for something you didn't do? Did it make you mad? (I'm pretty mad..)

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Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

As a kid, often. And, yeah, it made me feel pretty angry.

It's all part of the learning process. After you've been torpedoed unfairly a few times you learn how to avoid it. Sometimes you can even turn the torpedoes around and send 'em back the way they came.

Mostly, unless it's important, I just shrug and don't worry about it.

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Rath Keale
Rath Keale commented
Great answer. I have a creative revenge story from a work situation that still warms me on cold winter nights.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I'm no saint, teach. I get just as much pleasure from seeing somebody hoist on their own petard as the next person. I just don't have the urge to set the ball rolling.
Mind you, I wouldn't pull them out of the way of it, either. >:-)
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Roy Lovett answered

I took the fall for Harley before. I was still in school at the time, she was a senior and it was near the end of the year. I was younger so had nothing to really worry about, she worked really hard to be able to graduate, which they weren't going to let her do at first... Well, there was one day we were sitting at lunch, some guy was making fun of her and she punched him, REALLY hard and broke his nose. They weren't going to let her attend graduation for that so when they asked what happened, I took the fall and my friends/hers, went along with the story. I was suspended for the first week of the next year but she went to graduation :D

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Rath Keale answered

Yes, it was grade four.  I was with a bunch of kids when the back of somebody's head broke a window.  Everybody but me ran.  I didn't break the window, so I didn't run.  Like a dummy, I didn't run.  I was blamed and then I was strapped for breaking the window.  I learned to run.  My suspicions about teachers' trustworthiness were confirmed.

Instead of being mad, look at what you can learn from the situation.  Perhaps one of your friends does not deserve your friendship.  Perhaps you saved someone from punishment they could not bear as well as you.  Perhaps you learned something about moving around an obstacle.   So bear the outcome and learn a couple of things to take into your future.   It's the only way to make this meaningful.


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I think this happens to most people at one time or another and is part of life. You learn from it and move on.

dragonfly forty-six Profile

Yes, my first betrayal, at the hands of my father. I was three. I've been angry all my life. That, I must forgive daily.

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My mother was a very angry person she had a lot to contend with. My father and I were wrestling in the living room and he pushed me into the plant stand. A huge potted plant broke. He told me he would explain to my mother. She asked me later what had happened. I told her dad and I broke the plant and she could talk to him. Later, they came and told me that because I had lied I would be punished later on that day. I asked them what a lie was. They said that I was the only one who broke the plant, and that I threw it on purpose. They made me wait all day for my punishment. When I was punished I was humiliated and beat within an inch of my life. I was three. The beating was so severe I urinated on myself, then was beat for doing that. I had my first out of body experience. They kept me home for awhile, I must of had severe bruising. First betrayal by father, second by my mother not protecting me.
Rath Keale
Rath Keale commented
Dragonfly, this really pisses me off. A potted plant! A common plant! Your mother was a monster and your father was a coward. I hope you are well away from them both. It would be even better if they were both dead.
dragonfly forty-six
Yes, they were. Father is gone, mom has been trying for 25 years to make up for that childhood. She has helped with a lot of healing. Thank you for standing up for me. I needed to hear that.
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Misty Law answered

Yeah. I was accused of something provoking me. All because I told someone if they hurt my someone that they would be in trouble.

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Dakota  Mackenzie
Dakota Mackenzie commented
That's not really taking the fall for someone else... But I know what you're talking about.
Misty Law
Misty Law commented
Yeah looking at it now I see that. I think I thought you meant false accusation.
Roy Lovett
Roy Lovett commented
Treating your friends like property isn't good. Knowing Dakota and that you're talking about her in this, ley me tell you, she hates it. She doesn't like people that are overly clingy, claim to "know" her, lie about knowing how she's feeling, wanting to own her, etc. She also doesn't like when she's treated as property or not allowed to do stuff on her own because people need to be around her 24/7. Future reference.

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