Mayberry's Dirty Secret

We have all had those moments when out of the mouths of babes comes the most honest or direct statements imaginable. Tonight I was faced with such an experience. My 3 children at home decided that tonight would be a “lets drive mom crazy night” and invite a friend over to stay. I went from a house of 3 children to 5.
Oh the joys of a dinner fit for a small army and little girls wanting fingers and toes painted, and boys wanting to slaughter one another in Black Ops. Now mind you I am an absolutely direct person yet I pride myself on my kindness. I have grown up to be “that” mom who gets called Mom by every kid in the neighborhood, so imagine my surprise when a young man tells me tonight about a conversation his parents had about me!
It seems that in the sleepy town of Mayberry little old me who never leaves her house, and when she does goes out of town has rumors going around about her. You would think I with my dry sense of humor I would have found this absolutely hilarious, but in my journey to find my faith I was actually a bit shaken by what I was told. This young man went on to tell me that another woman was at his house telling his parents that I was a bad person and I had robbed her of thousands of dollars!?!? Well obviously I know this is totally untrue. The sad fact is I do not even know this woman yet I recently had done some beauty services for her daughter for FREE! Even with the services for her daughter I still did not meet this woman.
Now obviously anyone who knows me also knows that things are actually not great at the moment and with the sudden lack of transportation I have one would assume if I had recently pulled a Bonnie & Clyde on this woman I would not be in said predicament.
What drives a person to lie to such an extreme? Are people truly that dissatisfied with their own life that they have to try to drag others down with them? I have had people very jealous of my accolades at many times in my life, but never have I heard such absurd rumors before. I guess I will chalk it up to life in a small town; yet with all of the media surrounding bullying I cannot imagine how a young person feels in our communities when faced with such vicious lies.
I guess even in Mayberry gossip, greed, and destruction will always be prevalent, and of course nobody ever gossips about someone’s good fortune. Unfortunately I am faced with the decision of how to end this post…shall I leave a warm fuzzy quote or shall I go off on an angry tangent? Perhaps it is better stated like this…KARMA is one big fat bitch!