She Won Trivia Night With Her Coworkers—But She Already Knew Every Question, and the Guilt Is Eating at Her
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Well, this is quite a dilemma…
And I can’t ever remember hearing a story quite like this one.
A woman explained how a typical night out with some co-workers turned into something she wasn’t expecting…
And now she feels some guilt about it.
Take a look at what she had to say!
AITA for helping my co-workers win a trivia competition?
“I (23F) have gotten really into trivia recently.
I go with my boyfriend once or twice a week. I work at a fine dining restaurant as a waitress and my front of house team members and I have been trying to catch up outside of work for a while now.
Well, I had the genius idea of suggesting we go to a trivia night!
My boyfriend and I do trivia on a Monday so I suggested we do it on a Tuesday night so I could still do my regular trivia on Monday.
So the week of our hangout rolls around, we agreed to go to a local brewery that hosts a trivia night. I was feeling really confident because I’d just done trivia the night before and although we didn’t win we did pretty well! My co-workers and I get settled and trivia begins.
But oh no… I realize that the same company that hosts the trivia night I do on Mondays is also hosting this one tonight. At this point I wasn’t worried. Surely it wont be the exact same set of trivia questions if its the same trivia company hosting right?
Oh, no…
Wrong.
The trivia questions were EXACTLY the same as the trivia questions I had done the night before. Same host. Same questions in the same order with the same answers. These locations were an hour apart so what were the chances of these two random bars having the exact same trivia questions.
So now I was faced with a moral dilemma, do I pretend I don’t know the answers and let my new co-workers possibly lose OR do I pull out some answers that I remember from the previous night and let my co-workers win the $100 cash prize thus creating an incredible team bonding moment?
She was…coaching them…
Well, I did maybe the wrong thing and HEAVILY assisted with giving my team the answers to any of the questions they couldn’t get on their own. Don’t get me wrong I wasn’t just giving them all the answers but any of the questions they were stuck on or didn’t know the answer to, I played this act of “guessing” what the answer could be knowing full well what the answer was.
Well… we won. By a landslide.
We finished the game on 63 points and the second place person got 42 points so we beat them by over 20 points. The host said she had never seen a score so high and an almost perfect answer sheet in her whole time hosting trivia.
My team was buzzing and the vibes were incredibly high everyone was stoked!
This sounds like a movie…
But here comes the aftermath… the next day at work, everyone was hailing me as a genius. My co-workers were bragging to the back of house about how smart I am and how I knew all of these crazy facts and general knowledge that no one should know at 23.
That’s because I didn’t know!
I just memorized the answers from the night before when I did my regular trivia with my boyfriend! My co-workers now think that we are trivia geniuses and want to keep going.
If I tell them the truth I think they’ll be crushed and it will ruin the whole memory but for now the memory is happy and I’m tempted to keep it that way.
AITA for helping my co-workers win trivia?”
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Another person said she’s to blame.
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And this reader shared their thoughts.
Maybe she should’ve sat this one out…
Or maybe it wasn’t really a big deal…
It seems like folks out there are pretty divided about this story!
She probably shouldn’t beat herself up to much about this…
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