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Idiom: Stab in the back
If you have been lucky, you do not have any stories of being stabbed in the back.
If not, you’ve reached around and pulled out a few knives.
In my case, yes, there are a few scars there where the knife was stuck in.
Of course, we’re not talking literally here.
No blood was spilled.
When you stab someone in the back, you betray someone who trusted you.
Here’s an example.
I shared an apartment with a guy in Vancouver for a while.
He was an ex-university football player but had to quit because of stomach cancer.
When we moved in together, he had already recovered and was continuing his studies.
The deposit on the apartment was $800, so we both paid half.
After about a year, both of us had plans to move out.
He moved out three weeks before I did.
Before he left, he received the entire deposit back from the landlord and told her he would give me my half.
He didn’t.
He told me I should get it from her when I moved out.
Naturally, the day I was leaving, I went upstairs to get her to check that everything was in order and receive my deposit.
That’s when I realized he had stabbed me in the back.
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That was not the end of the story, though.
While we were living together, he had used my computer and had not logged out of his Yahoo email account.
I had the password and access to his email.
What do you think I did?
I permanently deleted his account after sending an email to every contact he had.
The email said, “I am a backstabbing a**hole.”
The moral of this story is to be careful when you stab someone in the back.
It makes them angry.
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