When I was in high school some people spread a rumor that I was going to blow up my High School :wally . That year really sucked… 
Having no friends at the time didn’t help either since there was nobody to stick up for me. It was everybody’s word vs mine. Took several months to blow over.
Anything like that happen to any of you?
Yep. When I was a sophomore, some girl went off at lunch and somked some pot that was laced with something. She ended up going to the hospital, and they asked her where she got the weed from. She got it from her cousin, but for some reason she told the cops that she bought it from me.
Nevermind the fact that I barely knew her, and never sold pot to anyone. That was a good time, trying to convince everyone that it wasn’t true. I still don’t know why, out of anyone, she chose me.
in high school, a friend i had since preschool told his parents he got his weed from me, when they found it hidden under the bed or whatever. his parents didn’t really treat me normally until we probably graduated from college, but it’s not like we hang out anymore. his parents worked with mine, but they never told them, which was good. my parents did not trust me. my room woudl have been turned over, and even though they wouldn’t have found anything, i’m sure i’d have been sent to some religious detox center.
thing is, i didn’t even drink in high school. i was a perfect angel.
i waited until college to really screw myself up.
Well, because you’re a DOPER, obviously 
When I was in middle school, they spread the rumor that I had herpies.
You can imagine what it does to an already-depressed eigth grader when every time she walks in to a classroom everyone yells “herpes”. I spend most of that year crying, thinking I would never have any friends and certainly never a boyfriend.
Wow, these are all about high school. I can’t think of one about school…at least not that ever got back to me…except that I was a witch. Which I don’t consider damaging as it resulted in certain assholes leaving me alone 
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But currently…it’s hard to say. It’s hard to figure out what or who is saying anything but…well, I was living with my SO this past year in the UK. And he was supporting me. Not much way around it as I was not legally allowed to work. And beyond that he had a huge salary. I never asked him for anything (well, there was a ring I liked…and some new sex toys…) but he gave me a lot. More than I expected. Certainly more than I deserved :).
Anyway, I get the impression that certain “people he trusts” (his words) were convincing him I was of course just over there for his money. And therefore bad for him. At least I get that impression. It’s hard fighting againts shadows. Especially at 3000 miles.
When I was teaching, some of the other teachers believed that I was having an affair with the band director. He was my best friend, we worked together (I directed the corps), and he was seriously cute. We were also both married, but that didn’t stop the few rumor-mongers from carrying on. It was kind of funny, and he and I managed to get a lot of mileage out of it, humor-wise.
After I left teaching, some of my relatives rumored that I had been fired. They STILL believe it, and still tell people so, much to my mother’s chagrin. They simply can’t imagine that a woman would give up a teaching career, retirement benefits, health insurance, etc just to “stay home with her KIDS.” :rolleyes:
When I was a senior in high school I was at a field party. One of my acquaintances came by, sat down on a log next to me, and offered me the bottle he was drinking from, which I politely declined. He stayed to chat a while, eventually we both moved on.
He was the very recent EX-boyfriend of one of my best friends. When she heard that I had been seen kissing him, she refused to speak to me for weeks. She only relented when I got pinkeye and looked so pathetically awful that she realized I couldn’t possibly attract anybody, and she felt sorry for me.
OK…
A) I WASN’T ever kissing him! We just talked!
B) Even if I had kissed him (which I DIDN’T!), he was her EX-boyfriend. She had no claims!
C) So what if he was naked? Lots of people were naked at that party. I wasn’t naked. It wasn’t my fault if he was naked. He was already naked when he sat down next to me!
sigh, reading that over, I wonder if maybe those WERE the good ole days. They certainly didn’t feel that way at the time, but nowadays I don’t even get accused of kissing naked acquaintances in fields.
Ahh, high school. Those were the days. According to the rumors, I was a satan-worshipping cocain dealing loser who’d already done some jail time.
Of course, having a bad reputation wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. I don’t know how these rumors started, but I didn’t go out of my way to correct anyones misconceptions.
I was actually a pretty good girl but there were a lot of rumours about me. The worst one was that I was a heroin addict. I was actually just sleepy. People are so stupid. Also any time anyone did anything sexual at my school, the story would always get twisted so that I was involved. If you have ever seen the episode of Strangers with Candy where Jerri gets sexually harassed, that was my true story. I wish I had been on heroin!
When I was in college, a girl I knew, out of anger, told the guy I had recently broken up with that I had lied to him about how many people I’d been with before him. He’d been a pretty serious boyfriend and I’d broken up with him, so he was in a pretty bad frame of mind. Anway, it wasn’t even true, but it really, really hurt him that I might have lied to him. I tried to talk to him about it, but he was very angry and felt betrayed. To this day (over a decade later), I feel bad about what happened.
At the time, I had very loud, angry words with the girl who spread the rumor (which is completely out of character for me - I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve raised my voice to someone). I’ve been given updates on her life since then from mutual friends and I’ve been to numerous social things that she’s also attended, and I’ve never spoken to her since. She no longer exists for me.
The most damaging rumor spread about me in high school:
“Q.N. is Amish!”
Seriously. I must seem like a really boring person.
Here is one that isn’t from High School. (Though I’ll post those later.)
Towards the end of my first marriage, my wife, who had been sleeping around, felt some need for people to be sympathetic to her when she finally left me. After she sent one of her (our) friends to try and get me to at least make a pass at her and that failed so she couldn’t say I cheated on her, she told everyone that I beat her.
That was not fun.
That makes the time in HS when there was much gossip that I was probably gay. The fact that I attended a small Catholic HS. (300 kids for four grades) and the fact that the gossiping was not limited to the teacher’s lounge, combined with the probability that my own brother may have started or at least help spread the rumor, kind of made HS suck a whole bunch.
But hey, thanks for the thread, I know what to talk about in thearpy this week.
When I was in junior high, everyone would say I had head lice. Minor now, yes, but at the time it hurt.
Hmmm… people said I was gay, that they had “seen” me making out with some guy in my hometown, that I worshipped Satan, and that I did “hard drugs”.
Jeez, being the only goth in my high school in the early 90’s was no walk in the park now that I think about it!
The truth has always been most damaging to me.
In school there was a rumour that I was leading a guy along. They never though I might actually LIKE him. We’re now engaged, so screw them.
There was another untrue rumour about me and a friend. Also untrue.
Apparently I was the devil. No. Really.
And when I was in hospital and the bitchiest girl in school somehow got put into the bed beside me, I told her what I was in there for, and she went back and told every one I was in there for anorexia(Which I wasn’t btw).
Didn’t hear until after I left, that in final year, everyone thought I was a lesbian. (Which would explain a lot!)
Oh yeh, and I am rich :rolleyes:
The lice or the rumor?
Either no one spreads rumors about me or I am just not real perceptive. In any case, I have heard nothing about me rumor wise. I bet in some circles im a homosexual and in others I’m a hippie on acid, but whatever, not my kind of people anyways - no one should be bigoted to hippies or gays.
A former student once spread the rumor that he had beat me up in a bar. Eventually, it got back to the school where I teach. Administration wanted to know what I was doing getting in barfights. Some of the students thought it was true and gave them license to be disrespectful towards me.
Apparently, what finally put a lid on that rumor was another former student publicly quizzed the rumor-spreader for details. From what I heard, second hand, he pinned him down as a liar pretty quickly.