What's the most ridiculous thing you've even been accused of?

[NavyPombear]

Just that really, Something so obviously nonsense that you couldn't believe anyone would take it seriously.

For me without doubt, it was when my parents thought I'd robbed a bank.
I was 17 and at school at the time of the robbery......

To this day I'm not entirely convinced they believe I wasn't involved 🙄

I went to a private girls' school.where some of the teachers were intimidating bullies.

One of my best friends decided to leave school during her A levels and it was very hard on me as I was lonely and had a difficult home life. After she left, two teachers kept making comments about me, called me "nasty" and "unpleasant" and a "liar," seemingly out of the blue. I had no idea why they were behaving like that towards me, but it seriously affected my mental health and still haunts me, especially as I was being abused at home as well and was lonely in need of support.

Years later, my friend's sister bumped into one of the teachers, who told her how terrible it was that I had driven her sister out of the school with my bullying.

My friend's sister stood up for me and told the teacher that we were and in fact still are close friends.

So I was vindicated, but it deeply affected me, left me with low self esteem and anxiety. Now I realise the bullying teachers were just projecting their own guilt onto me!

Being accused of stealing my own car.

Had a new VW multivan during the pandemic, and after the lockdown we drove across Europe to visit DH's family. One day I parked the car on a quiet road to feed my baby, whilst on the way to a local supermarket, and said baby was under 6 months. Parked the car, and then proceeded to enter the car from the side door, as baby was in the middle. Stupid idiot German man walks past and starts filming on his phone saying that I must have stolen the car.....as black people cant afford a car like that. He continues to record and shout louder and louder. I sit in the car and wind the window down and tell him to eff off, whilst phoning the DH panicking. Wont ever take that flipping route again. AFD idiots

Being a terrorist supporter because I didn't vote for Brexit. 2 family members actually reported me to the police for it. Twice. 🙄

Stealing 40 brand new mobile phones from work. Turns out when I'd been ordering laptops as part of my job, they'd included a mobile phone. A guy in procurement had been keeping them and selling them on, as well as other stolen items.
He went to jail for it, but I remember a phone call I got from head office trying to catch me out asking where I'd put the mobiles.

Oof being a thief and a cheat. I was about seven at a friend’s birthday party. We were playing a game where you each used a straw to ‘suck’ a smartie from a central dish and put it on your own plate. The person with the most sweeties on their dish won. EVERYONE in my group was using their hands to pick smarties from the central dish to put on their plate. So I did the same once. And got caught. When all the smarties were added up to announce the winner the birthday girl’s mum announced to everyone ‘I haven’t bothered counting X’s lot since she CHEATED and stole some with her hands.’ I’ve never forgotten it and how bloody unfair it felt. I can’t imagine doing that to a young child at a birthday party, would just have put it down to excitement and silliness and reminded them gently to use the straw and not hands.

Oh, to give some context, nearly all these flats are second homes, lived in for a couple of weeks in the summer by the 'Down from Paris' gang or variously rented out on short lets. I'm more or less the only full time owner occupier.

That's how I became a patsy.

Shoplifting - I was an anxious teen. I had bought some stuff in one supermarket, and they were missing one ingredient. I passed another supermarket on the way home, and nipped in to look for the ingredient. I suddenly started worrying that they would think I'd stolen the stuff in the shopping bag, which made me super nervous and want to leave, and I guess I looked really shifty. The security guard actually went after me, and luckily I had the receipt from the first shop so every item was accounted for on the receipt (and he checked them all). It was truly awful but it was a good reminder that the anxiety needed dealing with.

When I got married first time around I had a sports coach who became a really good friend. Her dad died leading up to my wedding so I told her she really didn’t need to still come but she said she wanted to.

For various reasons, mainly timings wise, a few months after I got married I got a new sports coach and over night people at the club stopped talking to me. People who I’d usually have full on conversations with looked the other way. People who I’d message to see what time they were getting in would blank me.

It took me a year or so but I discovered why. She claimed she stopped coaching me because I’d told her “just because your dad has died you mustn’t miserable in my wedding photos”.

I confronted her and she denied it. If someone had said that to me I wouldn’t have even gone to their wedding!!!

Two that I remember that really annoy me

one - I got accused of trumping at the dinner table as a child - it was a fire work outside but it still annoys me to this day

two - something fairly silly at work . It was a few years ago now , but someone took it upon themselves to “tell on me” to my line manager , who then had a quiet word with me about it. I was absolutely more annoyed by the line manager, because we had worked together for years and I felt she should have know I wouldn’t have done what was said . I almost wish I had kicked off about it , as it does still bother me today

People-trafficking

Lots of posts on here are upsetting but I just have to say that my heart goes out to you and to the 18 year old you that had to go through this, with your darling boy xx

An immature and gossipy work colleague told the whole office that she'd spotted DH and I shagging in a local park at the weekend. Sadly, we're not that adventurous, we were tucked up at home watching telly with a takeaway at the time. Don't know what she got out of that rumour, but I found the brief notoriety amusing.

My parents accused me of smiling when I was at sixth form college. To be fair, it was the 90s, a lot my friends smoked and I did hang around with them in the smoking area so I did probably reek of smoke. However, I'd never touched a cigarette in my life, mostly because my grandparent had very recently died from lung cancer! They keep making little digs about my smoking for years.

My sister writing an email to bollock me for things that I had not said and did not think but that she thought that I was thinking and just not saying.

Fucking hell - that's extraordinary!

At a previous workplace, a middle manager didn’t like me very much. Our office was above hers. One day, when I wasn’t even in our office, a friend tipped the remains of her coffee out of our office window and it landed on managers window below.
Manager stormed up the stairs, burst into our office and demanded to know where I was because I had poured a drink down her window.
Friend told her I hadn’t been in the office (but equally denied it was anything to do with her!) but manager clearly didn’t believe her.

I wasn’t even there! Still annoys me.

My son frequently and passionately accuses me of cheating at games. I don't even see how a person could cheat at Foxypants, setting aside the fact that I don't care who wins.

Also I'm not sure if this counts because I was accused only by rumour, but I was believed to be having a secret relationship with a guy at work because we often went for a half hour walk at lunchtime. We were just trying to get some exercise and not get even fatter!

@blackpear even more ridiculous....people believed them and I've been ignored/shunned by people in the street and where I work. Police saw straight through them and told them to quit the false police reports. It upset me for years, been NC ever since.

You must have been so stressed.

Accused by my 'mother' that it was my fault she had to marry my 'father'.

The reality is, they had sex, she became pregnant and was 'forced' to get married (mid 1960's, Catholic). I was just the by-product of their fucked up relationship resulting in years and years of abuse and neglect.

Funnily enough, something similar happened to me when I was about 12. I was the first person at a bus stop after the previous bus left and an elderly couple were second behind me in the queue. For some reason, when the next bus came, I stood back to let them get on before me. I then went to get on after them and the bus driver wouldn’t let me get on, saying that he’d seen that I’d only just arrived and was trying to push my way in. He made me wait until last and no one spoke up for me. It still makes me angry now and this must have happened at least 50 years ago

1. being accused in my last year of high school of plagiarising sn essay for English finals and being told I would fail. My mum stormed into school the next day and told teacher it was my work. I worked really hard on it and it was all mine. She believed my mum
2. high level meeting at work. Only me and a senior member knew there was going to be an organisation shuffle and work leaving my team. No jobs lost but change of work. Final details not worked out so teams didn’t know. I got accused of leaking it in a meeting by senior manager and upsetting people by the senior manager and told was going under HR investigation. Lucky we recorded Teams meetings and I had to show her it was her that leaked it.

Stealing a carton of blackcurrant.
First day of work I was told anything in the double fridge is for everyone to drink or eat.
' bitch face ' had put her own carton in there instead of the single fridge for your own items.
That was the first and last time she crossed me.

Yeah, I might have another one:

Being accused of being unreliable and uninvested.

Company had a project deal with a v important university, and had to participate once a week for a term to ensure that the research supported our project. I went along to the uni every week, without fail. Spent more time than agreed and supported PhD students with all means possible (financial, equipment, mentoring etc). Gave links and contacts for future jobs and shit (had a wine already), and we had to give a talk to an auditorium of students at the end of the semester about the project progress. During my talk I received a text, so I left straight after i gave my presentation. Winter, dark. Public transport.

Next term when I return to give the PhD students an update on the process, to a small research group of less than 10 PhD students and 2 professors. One little shit professor stands up and talks about my leaving early in the December of the previous year, that I missed some very important PhD students' work and it would have been crucial to my project, XYZ. And that I am sooooo unreliable, that there is no hope. He embarrasses me unnecessarily in front of a wide range of students and says that i am not committed to this uni- company project, and it's because of people like me that so few students take engineering XYZ. You could have heard a pin drop in that room.

Why did i have to leave early and unexpectedly? My house was being broken into, and I was sent a text by my little sis who had driven there to drop something off. She saw & heard people in the house in the darkness and knew that neither me nor my DH would have been at home at that time.

Did I ever say to the professor? No. Does it still hurt? Hell yes

Sleeping with my cousins boyfriend

Genuinely didn't happen but she is convinced it did. I believe he told her that he slept with me to piss her off (he had form for doing really horrible things to upset her) but she confronted me one day and I absolutely denied it, asked when/where this was supposed to happen?

We lost contact for years over this. Then over lock down reconnected and eventually met for a drink (were talking 15 years later here...) and she said "I know you slept with Danny but I forgive you now" and I said "I didn't." And she responded with a yeah OK whatever and really what's the point in keeping arguing it?! They split up anyway 😒

My mums partner accused me of not letting another family member charge their new electric car on my outside plug socket. Despite the fact this plug would be actually useless to them. They were waiting for the charging point to be installed but had to wait a few weeks. He would not accept that you can’t change a car on a normal socket. Made me out to be a complete selfish bastard.