{"id":4580,"date":"2010-11-18T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2011-10-01T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T13:03:35","slug":"favorite-memories-friday-a-terrifying-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/favorite-memories-friday-a-terrifying-accusation\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Memories Friday– a terrifying accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this one is a not-so-Favorite Memory<\/a>. I’m trying to stick with the assignments from Mommy’s Piggy Tales<\/a>, though, and this is the week of fifth grade.<\/p>\n

Fifth grade was the year I was accused of cheating in Social Studies and never wore those plaid gaucho pants and that crisp cotton white blouse ever again.<\/p>\n

My friend Kristy was sitting behind me in class and couldn’t see the board.<\/p>\n

A test had just begun and she asked me what something said on the chalkboard.<\/p>\n

I tried to answer her and then Mrs. Schlottman (I think that is how you spell it) materialized in front of me and accused me of cheating on the test. I remember the tingling of my skin and my heart beating out of my chest. It was still the beginning of the year and obviously she hadn’t heard yet that I was about as goody-goody as it gets. I was terrified.<\/p>\n

And, like I said, I never wore those same clothes again for the horrible memory of that day.<\/p>\n

About 10 years later I was waiting tables at an Outback Steakhouse near my childhood neighborhood when I saw Mrs. Schlottman eating dinner. I started sweating. My heart jumped into my throat, I couldn’t think straight and I was terrified again. (Mind you, I never cheated, but the accusation made me feel terrible enough!!)<\/p>\n

I didn’t know what to do. \u00a0I could just feel her there and I was back in fifth grade wearing those awful red plaid gauchos, with Kristy behind me.<\/p>\n

I walked over to her table.<\/p>\n

“Hi, I’m Amy and I was in your fifth grade Social Studies class a few years back,” I said.<\/p>\n

I’m sure she said something polite at this point.<\/p>\n

“I just want you to know that I didn’t cheat in your class, although you thought that I did,” I said.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what she said next. I just remember feeling like I had to confront\u00a0 my past and really come clean. \u00a0Even though I had done nothing wrong, I still had to clear my name. Yes, I still felt this way 10 years later.<\/p>\n

At least now, as I type, I no longer feel that tingling on my neck and my heart no longer races. I have confronted the accuser. And I think I won. Well, maybe. I haven’t re-visited the scene of the supposed crime, yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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