Cheaters Never Win?

Let me start by saying I am not proud of the following information. I went through a period in my childhood where I was a dirty, dirty cheater. I was never good at art. My sister is a fantastic artist. There was a brief period where I would have her do my art work for me. I cannot say that my parents knew about this. I do not remember. Surely they did not condone this. We will leave them out of it.

I had my sister draw my "Just Say No to Drugs" poster. It was for a contest. A contest that I placed in. My poster got hung up at Western Plaza or somewhere. I felt pretty dirty about this. "My" poster looked way better than the other kids poster. Obviously. It was done by someone six years older.

Another example of dirty, dirty cheating....

I entered a coloring contest to win tickets to Disney on Ice. I had to color a picture of Ursula. Well, my sister did it for me. I won. How awful. Somewhere some kid that got second place got screwed out of the ice show because I cheated! I do know that my parents knew about our scheme at least at the show. A man spilled his entire coke on my head. My parents told me "God was punishing me for lying." Good job parental units. Way to let God handle it at the last minute after I enjoyed the theatrics on ice.

My last attempt at passing my sister's talent off as my own was on a school assignment. We had to color an Indian girl. When I took it to school, my teacher was really impressed. She knew. She so knew. She said "You did this?" I didn't tell her the truth. It was obvious. My in class assignments looked like a monkey had gotten a hold of a crayon and a piece of paper. My take home assignment looked like a masterpiece.

The guilt was enough to scare me out of ever cheating again. I can honestly say I have never cheated on anything ever again. I wouldn't even skip ahead in my online defensive driving.

The moral of the story is cheaters CAN win....but they will feel so bad about it even 20-25 years later. Don't cheat. =)