Rumors about yourself?

[Kittish]

Let's see, in high school, the persistent rumor was that I was a witch. To be honest, I didn't try very hard to discourage this rumor. In fact I may have even helped it along a bit from time to time.... ahem. What? People left me alone mostly because of it.

In junior high I was apparently the school slut. I have NO idea how this one came about, as I never dated anyone, and as far as I know none of the boys at the same school even knew I existed.

Pretty much everywhere I've ever worked, I've been 'the weird one' that people looked askance at and whispered about, but mostly I haven't caught wind of any particular workplace rumors about me. Aside from getting the odd 'I thought you were dead/in jail/got fired' from people I hadn't seen for months or years. I do have to wonder, just what do they think I DO for crying out loud?

[firecat88]

I dunno if anyone's ever spread rumors about me. Odds are the truth is even weirder than any lie that could be made. I've had things happen, though, that sound perfectly rumor-worthy. Like the whole 'I hurt myself doing the chicken dance' thing.

[FormerCallingCardRep]

Another one from my 8th grade year. I made up a boyfriend because I was jealous. I loved the look on the girls face when I was sitting in the movie theater with the guy that I was dating who I went to church with and he went to one of the schools across town

[sms001]

the guy that I was dating who I went to church with and he went to one of the schools across town

Ah! The (in)famous "boy who goes to a different school" exists! Maybe there really are girlfriends who "live in Canada" too.

[Fudgethatkay]

Possible threadjacking, I'm sorry;

Ah rumors...they're still going on in my college days.

Elementary School: I was a witch. Meh.
Junior High: I was a racist. All because I told a girl to stop acting like a ganster

High School; Not so many, oddly enough

College...the fun rumors.../eyeroll
Rumors started the end of my first year.
I was raped the summer after high school..horrible, but I lived through it, obviously. A girl who dated the friend of the person who did it spread the rumor to everyone she knew, including my own boyfriend, that i lied about it. (she later turned on the person dating her and tried to get with my bf...)

then after I started modeling artistic-wise, this same girl who also modeled, saw some of my pictures and because they happened to be bare-chested, started showing them to everyone saying I was posting for pornography. (Which, if one truly could see, its obvious these pics were not sexual in any meaning whatsoever)

Then she was telling people I was cheating on my boyfriend cause I hung out with other boys...(she keeps trying to start something new years later, but its now meh.)

Now, the fact I have a lot of guy friends causes a lot of rumors now, especially with the Japanese and Korean students here.

A boy who tried to get me to er...be intimate with him behind my boyfriend's back also went to my boyfriend saying I was sleeping with every asian guy after me and my roommate T, who I mentioned, became closer friends. After T took me in during my sickness, it became worse, but unfortunately for the little boy, I'm wayyy to honest with my boyfriend, usually, even with things he doesn't want to hear.


Rumors about me and T are so commonplace, no one cares anymore lol

But lately, I was hanging out with a younger classman from Japan who happens to have a gf, and who walked me home at night. (my neighborhood isn't safe)
The rumors among his friends are now that we're dating behind his gf's back, and everytime we even hang out one on one, it gets worse.
I can't have any guy friends without rumors coming up. Whatever, I know the truth. Its all good.

[Maria]

In junior high, somebody started a rumor that I was gay, since I wasn't dating anyone. The fact that I was barely eleven years old had nothing to do with it, of course. That rumor must have stuck through high school, too, because I remember overhearing girls talking about how I'd bought an engagement ring for myself, and hired a fake date for the senior prom, to conceal the truth. Mr. Fake Date, now known as The Husband, found it utterly hilarious.

My best one was in a "work" situation, when my brother and I worked on a volunteer basis for a small religiously-based group. Another lady there was mad because my brother refused to date/marry her, so for three years, every few months she'd start a rumor that it was because he was having an affair with me. After a few years, the guy in charge got the idea that if a rumor wouldn't die, it's because it's true. So he called a staff meeting designed to make me look foolish in front of everybody as he terminated my volunteer-staff status -- not my brother, just me. My brother walked out in protest of the double standard, followed by three-quarters of the staff, and the organization folded soon thereafter. Somebody sure looked foolish by the end of that meeting, all right.

And yet my mother-in-law is a convicted felon, and you know how many people believe that? Yeah, usually I have to show the pics from my wedding, showing her tracking bracelet, before they believe me... and I'm pretty sure that's just because they can't figure out why else somebody would wear what looks like a garage door opener, strapped to one ankle.

[Eevie]

While I don't don't know if I've got any going around about me (I'm sure there are a few), there is a teacher at our school who from pretty much Day 1 of the school's existence the story was she was kidnapped by aliens. As in UFOs and little green men. Still a circulating rumor. Amusing nonetheless.

[Racket_Man]

Back from during my Senior Year in HS (year 12) in 1978:

The timing of this particular rumor was just interesting, funny and a bit WTF It also shows how fast things can spread and how persistant these things are.

/background
Our Senior Prom was held the first week in May that year. Now Easter that particular year was on March 26th and the Senior trip was a week or two before.

The girl I was dating had a minor falling out with her Mother over something stupid. Mom took her to church near Easter but did not get back to pick her up on time and was late. GF got tired of waiting and started to walk back home (a distance of 5 blocks). Mother finally arrives and can not find GF. Mother proceeds home to find GF. MOther accurses GF of NOT going to church and threatens to NOT let her go to prom (tickets, flowers, dresses, tuxs, etc. already paid for).
/end background

Now onto the story.

GF comes into our early class (7am start time) very upset and crying. She tearfully tells me the above story and I can understand why she is upset. iIt knid of upset me too as both of us were looking forward to Prom.

Obviously people in our class notice her crying and her being upset but say nothing at the time. Class goes on and we all split up to go to Home Room. First class passes with no inicident. 2d hour class I get asked by one person if GF is pregnant. Nto sure where that came from 3d hour I got mobbed by 3 different people asking the same question. again the answer is NO.

By lunch GF and I finally meet up and she and I both ask each other the same question "WTF is going on here?????" and relay similar happenings during morning classes. We both figure out that people saw her upset in the early class and jumped to an "obvious" conclusion. It seems like the whole school has heard this rumor by lunch.

By the end of the day the "rumor" has mostly died down or so we thought.

Now my best male friend "Terry" (who most knew was my best friend at the time) for some reason has not heard this rumor on this day.

Fast forward 6 weeks or so to Prom night. Prom is in full swing and a good time is bein had by all. GF and I and Terry and his date are sitting at the same table and all is well. about half way into the night Terry starts acting all wierd around me and GF. when asked what is going on, he refuses to say anything.

After Prom the class has rented a movie theater for a movie showing. we all troop to the movie theater and enjoy the movie. by this time Terry is actying REALLY wierd and I call him out. He blurts out "WELLLL IF GF was preganant and I am your best friend WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME????" I just look at him and yell "IT WAS JUST A RUMOR IDIOT!!!!!" and walk away in disgust.

Apparently some girls had cornered him during Prom and interograted him as to GF pregnancy status. We (GF and I) had assumed that since most of the school had heard this rumor at the time he did too and dismissed it.

[sms001]

Our Senior Prom was...

Flesh this out a bit and you've got the script for sit-com.

(And the rented theater is a great idea - we just had some lame VA hall party iirc.)

Senior Year in HS (year 12) in 1978

Curiouser and curiouser. This parallel lives thing was bizarre enough w/o us being the same age too.

[fireheart]

The two I remember from highschool:
- I was dating my best friend, and my boyfriend was just a cover.
- I took a year off when I was 14 because I was pregnant. I gave birth to a little boy called Jaiden, and gave him up for adoption.

Oh thank you for reminding me. A friend of mine in Year 10 had a massive depressive episode and tried to commit suicide. The rumours that flew around about HER were:

-She was pregnant and had tried to abort the baby.
-She was pregnant and her now ex-boyfriend had tried to beat it out of her.
-Her ex-boyfriend beat the crap out of her/raped her/sexually assaulted her.
-She was attention seeking.
-The story of her new kitten (at the time) was an excuse to cover up the baby.
-She was psychotic and had been spending time in a mental institution.

The actual story was that she had attempted suicide due to her ex-boyfriend cheating on her and being somewhat psychologically abusive towards her. She took a couple of days off of school, came back and saw the counsellor, then came back normally. She stabilised around Year 11.

Funnily enough, the douchebag I mentioned in my earlier post (in Year 10) was sitting behind us in science frequently. He threw gum into my friends hair at one point (causing a complete breakdown), then in a very twist, actually joined in on a conversation we were having post-breakdown.

Her, another friend and I were talking about revenge scenarios against him. He actually turned around and joined in, suggesting that she use paint stripper on the car and then saying why she should use paint stripper as opposed to whatever we were suggesting (I do believe that my suggestion involved paint)
(No she didn't do that, she just screamed out "TOOL" to him in public, while he was with his new girlfriend )

[PepperElf]

-One of my friends was labelled a witch for a while because anyone she hated wound up either pregnant or fat.

Really? I thought pregnancy usually resulted from sex, not witches.

I don't remember too much about high school rumors. I'm sure rumors were flying around, I just don't remember them.

another one I remember:

Rumor that I was dating some guy from engineering. When asked about it my reaction (natural laughter and ) did more to quell it than protesting would have. The truth about our "relationship"... we talked about LOTR a couple of times on the mess decks. But from such, comes juicy rumors. hah.

[fireheart]

Really? I thought pregnancy usually resulted from sex, not witches.

Well she could've caused the condom to break

[customersruinmylife]

At the moment I'm an "alcoholic"

This rumour started when a guy, who I had only spoken to twice on my life, commented on how each time he had met me I was tipsy (no shit Sherlock, you met me in a bar on a Saturday night!)

He attempted to give me a one to one intervention last weekend, after meeting him three times. I sure got a laugh out of that!

There was also a rumour going around that I was on drugs. I caught swine flu a couple of years ago and I lost A LOT of weight because of it. The rumour was that the weight loss was drug related.

[Akasa]

In my first year of Jr High there was a rumor that I was really elementary school age, but I was bumped up a couple grades due to high intelligence and course workl at my actual age level was too easy for me.(I was small for my age, had to take growth hormones to grow.)

Then in High school one chick tried to convince everyone I was a lesbian. All because when she called me a slut(because most my friends were guys) everyone laughed at her. So OBVIOUSLY I HAD to be a lesbian! The reason everyone laughed at her is because I was a virgin and my friends were constantly trying to get me laid and I would shoot them down.

[Lace Neil Singer]

At school, I was apparently a devil worshipper who sacrificed chickens to Satan, a sociopath, and also a complete slag who slept with any boy I could find.

In actual fact, I was a Marilyn Manson fan and a virgin. -.- I got the "slag" label cuz I prefered to talk to the boys about football rather than to the girls about the crappy pop stars they liked.