Virtual Scapegoat

[lizziebith]

Pack your sins upon the hapless ungulate and banish them into the virtual desert...

I'll start: I once prepared dinner for my siblings, and then (because we were really poor) informed them that they were probably eating their last meal. I was 13.

[wendybeth]

We just write about how rotten we are, or have been?

[lizziebith]

Yes, like a confession.

[wendybeth]

Okay! When I was 14, my brother was trying to blackmail me, and I couldn't afford to get grounded. (I had a hot date). He picked up the telephone to call my mom, and I just saw red. I grabbed a butcher knife and winged it at him- it embedded in the wall and cut the phone cord in half. My mom locked all the sharp knives in the trunk of her car for some time after that. I was grounded for the whole summer.

On the plus side, he never tried to blackmail after that.

[Tref]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Okay! When I was 14, my brother was trying to blackmail me, and I couldn't afford to get grounded. (I had a hot date). He picked up the telephone to call my mom, and I just saw red. I grabbed a butcher knife and winged it at him- it embedded in the wall and cut the phone cord in half. My mom locked all the sharp knives in the trunk of her car for some time after that. I was grounded for the whole summer.

On the plus side, he never tried to blackmail after that.

Whoa!

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Tref

Whoa!

Perhaps I should elaborate.

My family is comprised of four boys, three girls. My brothers were spoiled absolutely rotten- they could do anything they wanted, whenever they wanted. Us girls, on the other hand, were expected to cook, clean and take care of the boys. Whenever the boys would get caught doing things like stealing bikes or taking drugs, they would deflect attention off themselves by making up crap about us girls. Worked every time. I had just come off an unfair grounding caused by another brother when this incident ocurred. My brother was laughing as he dialed the phone, saying I was toast because mom would believe him, and she would have. To this day he admits he had it coming. I am glad the knife didn't strike him, though. I would still be grounded!

€uro- that's hilarious! How did you do it?

[MickeyD]

Last week a coworker and I took a $20 out of petty cash in case we needed it for parking. We didn't, so we spent it on vodka tonics and whisky & cokes.

[lizziebith]

There ya go! And since we're on a roll:

I, at age 5, HID my blankie, threw a dramatic fit -- making EVERYONE look for it -- and then proudly "found" it again later. Man I should burn.

[Prudence]

We used to have these built-in toy chests in the basement at my parents' house. I regularly talked my brother into climbing into one of them, then I'd close the lid and sit on it. He fell for it over and over again. My very own Lucy and the football moment.

[€uroMeinke]

On my first day at Headquarters for an electric company, I managed to cause a blackout of the entire building. They never figured out what happend, and I've told only one other person.