Did you ever get a bad reputation you didn't deserve?

When my daughter was in High School the bus would drop her off in front of the house. I would get home from work before her and I would sometimes be sitting on the porch and notice the kids on the bus would turn and look at me. I thought nothing of it, till one day my daughter gets off the bus with a friend of hers and it is report card day. My daughter could easily get A’s in school but she oftened got dinged for not doing homework assignments so she would get a B. So if I saw a B she would try to make excuses, like the teacher doesn’t like me and so on. Any how I would tell her a B was not acceptable because she was simply just lazy. (By the way, teachers always let me know when she forgot assignments.) Anyhow, I would never yell just simply tell her it was unacceptable and she best shape up. Now when it happened to my son, I knew its not because he was lazy, he would work long hours after school to learn his stuff and always completed assignments. So even though he was disappointed in getting a B, I would tell him he should be proud of it because of all his hard work. Anyway, my daughter would get upset and her friend started to cry because she was a C and D student. She felt I was calling her stupid. I later found out she got off the bus to support my daughter from the horrible reprocussions she would suffer at my hands and that a few people thought I was going to beat her. Turns out she, didn’t say I beat her for bad grades but that the reprocussions are would be horrible. (The worst I would do is no TV at night) And she made herself sound like a step child because her brother would never suffer for his grades. So the kids on the bus were looking at the monster mother who would beat her child. Although amusing as this is, I wonder how many people have the opposite reputation. How many of you are something you are not?