Have you ever done something totally innocent and proper, then were accused of some serious wrongdoing, because of it?

I probably didn’t do a very good job of wording that question, so please let me explain by my own example, precisely what I mean.

My buddy’s wife telephoned me with a request, and I agreed to assist her with what she wanted done, while her husband (one of my best friends) was at work (it was my day off).

I picked her up at her place, and took her to a large shopping mall in Tucson, Arizona, where I was living at that time.

As we were walking out of that store with a bunch of packages, her husband (my best buddy) saw us and approached us, certain that the two of us were having some sort of “affair,” behind his back. He was very loud and accusatory, and he got even more agitated, when his wife started to giggle.

His wife then said to him, in front of all of the other shoppers, ”You have forgotten that NEXT WEEK is YOUR BIRTHDAY, and all of these packages contain PRESENTS that we have bought, JUST FOR YOU!”

He loudly apologized to us (and all of the other shoppers) who applauded as he made a hasty exit from that mall.

He spent the next three years apologizing to me and his wife. (They’re still married, too!)

So, have you ever had something like that happen to you, where things really looked bad on the surface, but later on turned out to be a gigantic misunderstanding?