You Can't Handle The Truth!!!

While I put together Halloween Pics, I thought I would import another oldie but goodie...Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do?

It's funny. Not Ha, Ha funny. Just funny. Things that occur to you in the past that you carry with you over time. 

I was in the 1st grade. My teacher was Mrs. Shanks. 1st grade was fun. I felt so grown up! No more colored tables in the kindergarten class. We had real DESKS! We had lunch at school! This was a big deal for me! I loved it!

Until….

If you were going to have hot lunch, you could either by a one-day lunch ticket or a 10-day punch card. You had to buy them between the before school recess and when class started. On this particular day, I was in line for my one-day ticket. I was behind Louis and in front of Jimmy Garcia. When it was Louis's turn, a little girl named *** came in a returned a ticket. Turned out she only paid for one, but had gotten 2. She took it back to the classroom where she wrote her name on the back of each ticket. I don't know if her conscious got the best of her or what, but she erased her name off one ticket and returned it. Louis bought a 10-day punch card and then I asked for a one-day ticket. The secretary gave me ***'s newly returned ticket. No big deal, right? Why rip off another ticket off the wheel o' tickets when there was one ticket pre-ripped?

I went to my class and wrote my name on the back-over where ***'s name had once been (all right…her name was still pretty much on there…if you have kids, or if you remember those big fat pencils and how they don't erase for crap!) I turned my ticket in to Mrs. Shanks. She saw my name over ***'s and asked me what happened. I told her EXACTLY what happened! *** and I were told to go sit in the hallway until someone could tell her what happened.

*** was pretty and blond and already destined to be the popular cheerleader that she became. Me? I was weird looking with brown hair. I was clumsy. I fell all the time and I cried when I was hurt. My feelings were very easily hurt, too-and when my feeling got hurt I cried. I was just that weird little girl that just wanted to fit in and I wanted
*** to be my friend.

But that day,*** was pissed at me for her inconvenience. "Just tell them that you took it so we can go back!" She ordered. "But I didn't!" I cried. So we were at an impasse. We stayed in that hallway until recess. Mrs. Shanks came out and informed me that I was to go to the principal's office. ***, on the other hand would be going out to play.

I had to go to the principal's office. In 1st grade. I was a "bad kid."

I told him my story. He called *** in. She didn't know "ANYTHING!" He called Louis and Jimmy in…. neither one of them paid any attention. (Boys are dumb!) He spoke with the secretary who said, "I never saw DeeBop come in at all today." WHAT?!?!? She was the one that told me it was okay to write my name over ***'s!!!!!

I spent the rest of the day in the office crying my ugly eyes out of my weird looking head.

MY MOM WAS PISSED when I got home and told her. We jumped right in her car and drove back to the school. FINALLY! Someone believes me. (Well, sorta. She did ask me a couple times-"are you SURE you bought the ticket?" And now as a parent, I understand. She was about to go bust some balls and would hate to look like a lunatic if in the end I confessed to stealing…)

Long story short…. My mom was a reporter for the newspaper and she had done a not-so-nice article on a certain public official. Turns out, this public official is NOT a good person. It also turns out that his mother is my schools secretary and she had a beef with my mom.

I received an apology from her, Mrs. Shanks and the principal that day.

About 13 years later, I got one from ***. She told me that she was afraid that she would get in trouble for ALMOST stealing the ticket. She understands now that she would not have, but at 6 years of age, she thought she would get the death chair.

It was not a good feeling knowing that you were accused of stealing and lying when you totally were not.