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I guess due to luck with circumstances, this is often an issue for me. I wonder how normal it is. I was joking about this today with someone and comparing it to the scene from The Simpsons where Mr. Burns wakes up from being shot and randomly starts yelling Homer's name when asked who shot him. Thirty minutes later someone tried to confront me because I seemed like the most likely candidate for who stole their mail.

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[–] AppaYipYip 2 points 3 hours ago

I jokingly accuse my partner of stealing my glasses when I lose them. I just put them down in random places and am then too blind to find them again. A few days ago I told my partner I lost my glasses and he blamed ME for stealing my own glasses!! How can I steal my own glasses??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Once there was a small earth quake in NYC, and my mom couldn't make a phone call, and she blamed me for "breaking her phone".

Bruh, it was the network congestion from everyone calling each other. So every time from then on, every time she tries me blame me, I say "OMG its NYC earth quake all over again!"

Still mad at what happened that day. A fucking earth quake and it gets blamed on me? 😑

[–] Valmond 2 points 7 hours ago

Made me remember this old nugget;

When three hundred tonnes of ammonium nitrate went up in a biig kaboom accident in Toulouse and the first shake/sound wave hit the building I lived in I was promptly told not to slam the door lol.

It was 10 days after 9/11 so I bet you havent heard about it but the explosion was the size of a small nuclear detonation IIRC (3.4 on the Richter scale), thousands of wounded etc.

[–] Chainweasel 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My girlfriend jumped my ass a few days ago because I did all the chores.
I get home a few hours before she does and she's been stressed about work and the long drive so I've been doing all the chores and getting dinner ready. I figured she'd be able to relax instead of being strung like a bow and since I have about 3 hours of time before she got home that we'd be able to spend more time together too.
Turns out I'm making her feel like she doesn't contribute enough by doing all the chores and she needs to feel like she accomplished something when she gets home.
So, I got blamed for making her look lazy when my intent was just to give her time to chill.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

That sounds like trauma.

[–] clockwork_octopus 9 points 1 day ago

That sucks. Sounds like you two need to work on your communication.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Girlfriends be crazy, yo!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably when I didn't take the trash out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Technically correct, best kind of correct.

[–] sanguinepar 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Couple of years ago, I ended up driving into the side of this guy who, coming from the lane to the left of me suddenly decided he needed to make a right turn to the exit on my right.

There were no cameras, so in the end the insurance companies agreed to split the blame 50:50. I'm still furious about it! 😁

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Get yourself a dashcam yesterday! You can go as cheap as $30 USD on Amazon nowadays for a basic one. Just the sight of one is enough for people like this to sometimes back off, assuming they know they were in the wrong.

[–] sanguinepar 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, would have been handy. I really don't drive very often, but probably worth doing anyway.

[–] UnPassive 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a teen, I once went to open the microwave but the handle wasn't attached, it just lifted off. I think one of my siblings broke it and then placed it back carefully. Half my family was in the room when I lifted the handle off and to this day they don't believe me that it offered 0 resistance and that someone else might have broken it. We kept that microwave for years after that and just had to pry it open with finger nails.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Our old one did this same thing so I just unscrewed the handle and flipped it over and used a different, self tapping screw on the broken side and it held together for another few years until we replaced it.

[–] SpaceNoodle 15 points 1 day ago

A couple months ago a colleague thought I had automated the review of all the files in a massive [highly patterned] PR, but I actually manually went through each file efficiently and systematically. Mostly I'm just accused of being a robot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

We're currently being threatened with court action by our landlady for using our flat for commercial purposes. It's obvious bunkum, and we've had inspections and everything that prove we don't do it and sent all kinds of evidence to the lawyer accusing us, but the thing is that we followed a rental commission procedure last year to have the rent tested and so the landlady's losing money or whatever. It's all very dramatic but we're confident because it's so easy to prove that it's a load of bollocks.

[–] SpaceNoodle 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know about other countries, but in the Netherlands you go to the rental commission for a "rent check": https://www.huurcommissie.nl/support/huurprijscheck

[–] 2piradians 2 points 8 hours ago

Are utilities included in your rent? If so maybe the landlady is seeing increased utility usage/costs, and the rental commission decided yep, they're running a business in there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Just now lol

This lady at work is just insufferable to work with sometimes and she accused me of installing software to β€œher” server because I’ve said that I’m creating a replacement server so it can be on a newer version of Windows.

As I’ve told you many times before, I’m not touching β€œyour” precious server. I am simply mirroring what is on there to a newer server and then we can begin testing with this completely separate server and make changes there. The only things I’ve done there is log on and take screenshots and save said screenshots to my local computer.

β€œYour” server having space issues has literally not a damn thing to do with anything I’m doing, as I have said repeatedly before.

Thankfully she accepted my response with an β€œok”. An apology would have been nice for accusing me of doing this, but that’s too much to ask of her so I’ll settle for acceptance.

I think she acts the way she does because she’s the only one who does this job and thinks she’s invincible. Which she is, to a degree.

She does this to everyone and even publicly, so that helps to at least I know I’m not the problem here because I often am blaming myself when others accuse me and giving them the benefit of the doubt.

[–] sunbrrnslapper 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a consultant so this happens regularly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] sunbrrnslapper 2 points 1 hour ago

Business consulting.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The cat did a silent fart and jumped off the couch. The wife seemed to think it was me. I never even smelt it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I was accused of unpluggin the beer tap in the office kitchen because I complained about the keg being in the way. But it wasn't me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Few days back my SO was annoyed by how she predicted I would have answered if she were to ask me to do something.

[–] BilboBargains 5 points 1 day ago

Is your SO George Orwell?

[–] snekerpimp 4 points 1 day ago

Couple times a day, by myself, constantly.

[–] trolololol 0 points 59 minutes ago

1 minute ago. I'm married. The reason doesn't matter, there will be another I've pretty soon.