My Mother Said I'm A Liar
At the Christmas dinner table, my drunk uncle suddenly turned on my mom.
“You know, Sis, you’re pretty shameless, aren’t you? Every year, I give Anna five hundred bucks as a Christmas gift, but you’ve never given my daughter anything!”
The rest of the family had clearly been holding this in for a while.
Since someone had said it out loud, they all jumped in at once to accuse my mother of always taking and never giving. They called her selfish and stingy.
My mother suddenly grabbed me by the hair and slapped me.
“Anna, why didn’t you tell me you got money from them? Have you been hiding cash? You made me look like I can’t return a simple favor! Happy now?”
I had clearly given her everything I ever received!
With the way she twisted the truth, I ended up becoming the liar in everyone’s eyes.
As a result, later that night, when a fishbone got lodged in my throat and I choked, everyone just sat there laughing and watching. They were convinced that not only had I lied about the gift money, but I was also trying to scam them for medical bills.