17 Times Kids Told Silly Little Lies That Spiraled Waaay Out Of Control

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“For the record, I really was a twin. HOWEVER, I was a fraternal twin. Boy-girl pair. We had a substitute teacher one day, and one of my bullies was picking on me for something or other again. I decided that I had had enough, and I poured clear glue on her chair. She sat down on it, and her skirt got all sticky and stiff. Her tights stuck to the chair; it was a mess. The substitute asked who did it, and obviously, someone ratted me out. When I was asked about the incident, I said, ‘I’m not Phantom, I’m Maria. I’m her twin. We switched places today. I’m supposed to be in the other 4th grade class.'”

“The substitute left a note that said, ‘Phantom’s twin switched places and glued a girl’s skirt, no complaints about Phantom except that she was not in class like she was supposed to be, but another teacher said there was no issue for one day.’ My teacher was back the next day, and she pulled me aside, telling me it wasn’t funny to switch places with my twin because there are a lot of safety issues and school rules we are breaking by switching. She went next door to the other 4th-grade class and told the other teacher about the glue incident. He got in trouble for it.

My twin was already a troublemaker while I was the nerdy, goody-goody twin. When we got home and argued about me getting him in trouble, our mom marched right up and asked us to explain. She, of course, did not believe that a teacher would fall for the twin switching story because we were a fraternal boy-girl pair. He got grounded at home, too. 

From that moment on, whenever I did something I wasn’t supposed to, he would sarcastically say, ‘Oh, was it MARIA?!’ which just ended up backfiring because our classmates ended up thinking I had a twin named Maria and that my twin brother was a really year older but got held back. It wasn’t until high school that one of our classmates, who was also part of a Boy-Girl twin pair, was complaining that she never got to pull the twin switch thing, and he got snarky and said, ‘Ask Phantom how to do it, I bet she’d looooooove to share.’ I had to confess because he sounded so upset, and he had my back about something earlier that day.”

—PhantomIridescence