Bullshitter at work - could this be true?

That's been done.

Why do you even care 🙄🤣🤣

It could be true but who the heck cares?

Just take all she says with a pinch of salt. Say "Oooh, fancy that" whenever she comes out with her porkies.

I thought over 100 was an instant ban too

No it's not. My partner was caught doing almost 120 on the motorway. He had to send in his explanation to the courts and he had never done it before. He took full responsibility for it and apologised and got a £600 fine and 6 points. No driving ban.

I had one of these in an old circle of friends about 10 years ago.

It wasn't so much that we always thought she was lying, it was more the 'been there, done that' attitude which ALWAYS led to her taking over the conversation..

"I'm going to the circus tomorrow"

"Daddy hired me a circus for my 10th birthday party".

"I'm doing a hot air balloon ride when I go on holiday"

"Oh, Mummy used to own a hot air balloon".

It was relentless and VERY tiring. So I pulled her on it.

Some bullshitter's storytelling has a basis in truth but they tell a portmanteau of different situations as one tale eg once her speed crept up to 120 and on another situation she got a speeding ticket that nothing came of .
The job thing, she worked briefly at these jobs , perhaps as a receptionist , or started the training then moved to something else.

I just reply ' oh' to stories I don't believe.

I probably sound like this sometimes but there is a difference in how people talk about things. I've travelled a lot and changed jobs a lot.
I went to uni with someone who was just a compulsive liar though. It is really strange. We were all 18 but he would talk about being a bare knuckle boxing champion when he was younger. He'd also turn up to the campus pub and be flexing his hand and say he got jumped on the way there and started a fight and beat him up 🙄.
I understand it a bit more at that age though as it's showing off and all new people, there was often a kid at school who'd make stuff up but most people don't do it as adults.

Yes, this is what I was thinking too. That she might be exaggerating rather than outright lying. Some people do it just to tell a good story and build rapport rather than maliciously.

But she could have been a veterinary nurse, or a legal assistant which could be what she means when she says vet and Lawyer. I knew someone who as adament she was a headteacher despite not even having a bachelors degree - she was in charge of the education department of a charity offering functional skills to adults with disabilities. Technically, her title was headteacher, but not in what the vast majority of people would consider being a headteacher (of a school after having QTS, years of post grad training and qualifications etc).
Job titles don't always mean qualified jobs iygwim. So she could have been a "vet" and a "lawyer" but the surgeon is pushing that waaaay too far. Probably just played operation as a child

The OP's not lying awake caring her heart out over this. She's just asked us what we thing. Jeepers.

@crochetmonkey74 Could she be Frank Abagnale Jr's sister?

Still not sure why you care?

You also need the SQE formerly the Legal Practice Course plus two years of practical training to become a solicitor. Four years in total. If she did vet medicine she’d have been about 23 on graduation. Let’s say she then immediately did medicine, she’d probably be able to do a 4 year degree and she’d be 27 on graduation and then another 4 years to be a solicitor at 31. Then have 3 kids in 4 years. So yeah I guess technically possible but she’d have had no clinical experience really beyond uni placements and wouldn’t have been performing operations. I’d also expect her to have a LinkedIn profile with her various studies outlined there. She’d definitely be in an unusual category to have had that many careers with long training periods.

Maybe her lie is that she’s 35 and she’s actually 45 😂

Someone mentioned above law can be done in a year so her timelines were possible. It doesn’t, and they aren’t!

Training to be a solicitor takes 6-7 years just to get to qualified level (depending if you’re in England or Scotland.) Can be marginally quicker if you’ve already got a degree under your belt and you’re doing a conversion degree before your post grad and two years traineeship/pupilage but it’s NEVER a one year and done kind of thing.

Solicitor, vet, dr (and her own surgeon, guiding a team to perform an op on her!) what a woman…

Yeah that doesn’t add up, the doctor vet and solicitor thing. Even if she had, she’d have only made it to newly qualified status so unlikely she’d have been doing surgeries etc. What’s the current job she’s doing? I’d probably quiz her extensively if she said stuff about her qualifications. Or I’d just be like ‘oh that’s nice’ and change the subject.

Yes but OPs point is it takes 5-7 years to train full time as a doctor, vet or solicitor so it’s technically impossible that she could have had all these jobs by the age of 35.

A vet takes 5 years (or 6!), a medical degree 5, law conversion is 1. Not sure there is much ‘conversion’ for medical to veterinary.

Just about possible by 35, but it’s a bit of a slog whilst having kids.

I think a ‘wow did you’ is called for here 😂

But imagine being 35 , and already you've been a doctor, a vet, a solicitor
.....and able to guide a surgeon through her own operation.

That's quite the skillset there.

Just position yourself directly opposite her and repeatedly scratch your chin.

@Westfacing nothing worse than listening to long descriptions of someone else's dreams!
Except perhaps when someone asks you if you've seen a film, you reply that you haven't because it's really not your thing and you'd rather have root canal treatment than watch it. They then proceed to tell you everything about the film in minute detail for the next half hour.

But imagine being 35 , and already you've been a doctor, a vet, a solicitor

I read that and thought give the girl a break, she might have adhd - for context I have adhd, I'm a qualified hairdresser, nail technician, meditation coach, accountant, teacher, have run 2 business of my own, have 4 dc, and currently considering a career change.... it happens sometimes (also in my late 30s)

The operation though - okay yeah that's bullshit. If she's gonna lie, at least keep it vaguely believable. Just roll your eyes and play along with it

Omg didn’t anyone press her for more info about the operation?

I know someone who was motorbike speeding but they'd not been able to get a proper reading so couldn't do anything. They only caught up with him at traffic lights.
Gave him a right toasting.

Her name doesn’t start with a V does it?