BLAME SOMEONE ELSE DAY

Today is National Blame Someone Else Day

- The First Friday 13th of the year

Anything wrong today is ultimately someone else’s fault. The vase is broken? The cat did it, while trying to get at the yummy cheezburger inside. You’re late for work? The guy up for the same promotion as you cut you off this morning, flipped the bird and called you a racist name. You missed an important meeting? The soda machine guy has a vendetta against you and pushed a soda machine in front of your office door. Blame anyone necessary to get through the day. After all, they’ll probably just turn around and blame you, too.

Anne Moeller from Michigan invented this day. On the morning of Friday 13th, Anne's alarm clock failed to work, causing her to be late for various appointments throughout the day. Anne soon found that the alarm clock incident was not a good enough explanation, so she started blaming everything else e.g. flat tire, traffic lights etc.

Today when you roll your dishevelled form out of bed, you are truly exempt from any personal responsibilities. So if you are late it's your cat’s fault for tripping you down the stairs, the automatic doors wouldn't open. What the heck just get a special t-shirt printed off, saying: "It wasn't me."

Blaming is nearly universally observed in children. It seems to be an essential part of human development. Believing this helps you sleep at night as the crows gather behind your eyes and peck away the slimy layers of guilt from your overworked brain. When language skills develop, one of the first practical things that can be done with them is to apply them to blame others for what you just did, and get that person you don't like sanctioned or punished while you keep doing as you do. This way, you get to eat more cookies, so of course you're never stopped.
Lying is often involved in blaming. Of course it is possible to assign blame to someone using truth perhaps however selectively applied. This is considered far more leet, which is why you don't do it. In order to successfully blame somebody else, you must make it seem plausible, and if there's truth involved, much less manipulation is required. Just ask Richard Nixon.

Next one will occur until January 2012.