Shoolboy mendacity...
...I bunked a day off school when I was 13 and when the teacher asked me for an absent note from my parents the next day I told him that my grandad had died and that my dad was too upset to write me a note.
Three days later my grandad did die.
I thought I had 'killed' him somehow by tempting fate and had the guilts for at least a week - a long time when you're 13. My bullshit continued at the funeral where everyone mistook my shocked guilt for pure grieving and being the little shit I was I milked it for all it was worth.
Sorry grandad.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 16:01, 6 replies)

Same thing happened to me
When I was 24 and missed my train to work on account of having a hangover, and decided to have a duvet/Sega Medadrive day instead

Boss: "Why were you late for work, Shiny?"
Me: "My nan died"

Within a fortnight, she did.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 16:14, closed)

Yup
It's a good way to kill people is to claim they're dead in order to avoid facing up to one's responsibilities.

YOU'RE GOING TO HELL!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 16:19, closed)

HAH! Gotcha!
I actually said my grandad had died, and he had. In 1972, when I was 4. My nan still died though, so the universe is even more karmically strict than you thought.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 16:32, closed)

just remember anything you say has no fucking impact on the world
Unless you say kill all the jews and happen to be a dictator.
(waxdart hello., Fri 14 Jan 2011, 16:36, closed)

Wise words
When I'm dictator, I will try to remember that.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 16:38, closed)

And so on Monday morning.....
Miss Saddo:"So your not going into work?"
Me:"Nope, the boss died"
Miss Saddo:"Really?"
Me:"I bloody well hope so, otherwise its added ingredients to his cuppa tea again"
(Sadarse works like Mist condensing mud flaps, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 19:27, closed)