Blaming has become the quick fix to any fault... or has it? Many people think that blaming someone will get them out of trouble and will place any fault on the person they are blaming. However, this does not always come out clean for the blamer. The fault could backfire on them and get them in even bigger trouble. All in all though, one should just accept their punishment rather than passing it off to someone else. This next true story shows how blaming someone else for one's faults backfired on the blamer.
In a family of seven there was the mom, the dad, three daughters, and two sons. The daughters' names were Mary, Margaret, and Mildred, and the sons' names were Alfred and Arty. (The names listed are not the actual names of the people, seeing as there is a security risk there.) Out of this group, we will only be looking at the two boys, Alfred and Arty, and the mom.
One day, Alfred and Arty were playing with some games. Arty decided that he wanted to play with the action figure Alfred, the older brother, was playing with, rather than his card game. Arty, the younger brother, thought that the best way to go about playing with the action figure was to take it away and not ask to play with it. Arty snatched up the action figure, and laughed at his brother. Alfred, being very stealth, snatched it right back and went on with playing with his action figure. Arty was extremely mad that Alfred took away his toy, which was really Alfred's in the first place. Arty jumped on his brother, who wiggled out of the grasp of his younger brother. Arty swung at his brother, who ducked, and Arty hit the hard wooden door, breaking his hand. Arty went screaming to the mom, saying that Alfred had broken his hand. The mom, furious, started to yell at Alfred. Alfred glared at Arty, and under this stare, Arty broke down and told the truth, that he hit the door, but he still added the blaming device. He said it was Alfred's fault that he broke his hand, because Alfred ducked. The mom, just ignored this blame, and Arty got in a lot of trouble for starting the fight and lying about it.
Because of blaming his brother on his own silly fault, he gained more punishment, and he just looked plain silly. Blaming someone does nothing for oneself; it can backfire on one and just cause more consequences and humiliation.
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