Fake Tragic Backstories So I Can Go On A Reality TV Show

Fake Tragic Backstories So I Can Go On A Reality TV Show

I don’t actually know the last time I watched a “reality” TV show, but I do remember that the competition based ones LOVE a tragic backstory. I assume that in the years of these shows somehow, utterly inexplicably still existing, that the same few big dramatic stories have lost their edge, and that the TV shows would be scraping the bottom of the barrel for a tragic backstory.

 

So I wondered what mine would be…

 

Fake Tragic Backstories So I Can Go On A Reality TV Show

 

Fake Tragic Backstories So I Can Go On A Reality TV Show

 

This one time, I ripped my nail.

 

I was sneezing and I couldn’t get just one tissue out of the new box.

 

I almost played the pokies once.

 

I’m an aspiring instagram model. 

 

I saw a car nearly crash. Then, at the last minute, it didn’t.

 

The supermarket was out of organic free range eggs one day, so I bought cage eggs. 

 

A zipper broke on my sleeping bag.

 

I once had to wait at a red light. 

 

I was given a pen as a gift, but the ink was black instead of blue.

 

What would your fake tragic backstory be?

 

 

17 Replies to “Fake Tragic Backstories So I Can Go On A Reality TV Show”

  1. Oh, mine would be far more dramatic than a broken nail. Like, on stage, about to give an acceptance speech for some glamorous award, a sneeze happens and I snot the whole front row!

    1. Vanessa Smith says: Reply

      Haha see now that probably would happen to me!

  2. Bahahaha – love this. Ohhh my fake backstory would be I was born an octuplet and grew up in a cult.

    1. Vanessa Smith says: Reply

      Ooh nice! Much intrigue.

  3. black pens are the worst. Second are red ones.
    BLUE FOR PRESIDENT!
    (I may have to go back to work soon just to get more blue pens…)
    My tragic story would be: I just sat down and the remote is juuuuust over there. It is really quite a tear jerker.

    1. Vanessa Smith says: Reply

      Ooh yes that one happens far too often in real life to me.

  4. This is so funny! All these fake tragic back stories would also qualify you to have a story in the weekly magazines too!

    1. Vanessa Smith says: Reply

      With a VERY DRAMATIC HEADLINE!

  5. I am often getting the wrong coffee order.
    I tell them exactly what to make and still they do not always do it right.
    Sigh. My coffee is the highlight of my day.

    Denyse x

    PS You win the fake tragic back stories competition.

    1. Vanessa Smith says: Reply

      I could never make coffee. Because I don’t drink it when people say “10 milks and 30 sugars with latte art on top of an elephant” all I hear is “la la la la” because my brain won’t absorb it.

  6. My tragic story would be, the last lolly in the bag was green. Side note – I think green lollies of all kinds should be banned!

    1. Vanessa Smith says: Reply

      I’m on board with that. We should start a petition.

  7. She accidentally bought Diet Coke.

    1. Alternatively: “Is Pepsi okay?”

    2. Vanessa Smith says: Reply

      Hey I like diet coke 🙂

  8. Mine is: people keep making me tea with too much milk in it 🙁

    1. Vanessa Smith says: Reply

      Oh I don’t have any milk in my tea!

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