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WildBeaker · 2024-05-10T09:03:16+00:00

I came back to work yesterday after going on holiday to Las Vegas last week. My friend asked me how it was and asked if I went to the Grand Canyon. I wasn’t really focusing, had a mind slip and said yes even though I didn’t go. She started talking about the different parts of the canyon and I thought it would’ve been weird to backtrack so I just nodded along. She suggested to pop round to mine to see our photos/videos over the weekend and I’m panicking because obviously I won’t have any of the Grand Canyon and if she finds out I never went that will be so embarrassing. I’m wondering whether to say I forgot the camera on that day or would that sound too weird?

grinandslothit · 15/05/2024 06:13

I accidentally did the same thing about a stopover in a city and then realized my plane was stopped over in another city, and then when I told her it wasn't that city, they got really mad and didn't speak to me for 2 months.

Thebellofstclements · 15/05/2024 05:33

WalkingaroundJardine · 14/05/2024 21:48

I miss the days when people would invite you over to look at holiday snaps, usually of some exotic (for 1985) location. Some people would put on a slide show! It was a good excuse to get out of the house, score a cup of tea and biscuit and just chat face to face. Mum use to take me to her friends and colleagues’ places to do that and it taught me how to socialise across different age groups.
Everyone is understandably too busy to do that now.

It's not that people are too busy, it's just that with the increase in TV and travel, most people have been seeing exotic locations for decades and don't need to see amateur photographs - usually with someone standing awkwardly in. In the 80s, a man in our village used to run slide shows at the church room of his work trips, places like St Kilda and the Falkland Islands. Dozens would turn up - a bit like how they'd all watch Wildlife On One. It was new and informative. Nowadays if you want to learn about far flung outposts, you just Google.

coupdetonnerre · 15/05/2024 00:03

Perpetualpotion · 10/05/2024 10:12

Google “Grand Canyon” on images and then buy photoshop.

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LOL Thanks for the laughs!

RogueFemale · 14/05/2024 23:44

DarkForces · 10/05/2024 17:35

I'd take a photo of a local stream and then act aghast that the tour guide lied to you

This is good because totally plausible (at least, in this context).

Calliopespa · 14/05/2024 21:58

Gonners · 14/05/2024 21:34

Arf! The question here is, of course, was the other woman's DC there and if so, did he also respond to the call?

No! Thankfully he wasn’t!

Calliopespa · 14/05/2024 21:56

TheShellBeach · 14/05/2024 21:31

Be sure the truth shall find you out

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And in this instance the truth was hollered loud and clear !

In hindsight I should have just told her and said I liked her DC’s name - but some how the next bit (“for my dog”) seemed too hard to confess!

MrsWombat · 14/05/2024 21:56

I'm sure you've already talked to her by now, but I would just say sorry you were really jetlagged, the trip was a bit of a blur and you thought she was talking about a casino and you'd said yes because you'd gone to pretty much all of them. You've gone back through your itinerary and realised that she meant the national park that was 4 hours away. Whoops!

CharlotteRumpling · 14/05/2024 21:50

TheShellBeach · 14/05/2024 20:53

I'm really enjoying this thread.

It's great isn't it? 😂

WalkingaroundJardine · 14/05/2024 21:48

I miss the days when people would invite you over to look at holiday snaps, usually of some exotic (for 1985) location. Some people would put on a slide show! It was a good excuse to get out of the house, score a cup of tea and biscuit and just chat face to face. Mum use to take me to her friends and colleagues’ places to do that and it taught me how to socialise across different age groups.
Everyone is understandably too busy to do that now.

viques · 14/05/2024 21:37

Burst into tears and say the only thing you saw was a hospital room because you went for a secret Brazilian bum job and it failed miserably. you were hoping for a Grand Canyon but all you got was a Petite Hassleback.

Gonners · 14/05/2024 21:34

Arf! The question here is, of course, was the other woman's DC there and if so, did he also respond to the call?

TheShellBeach · 14/05/2024 21:31

Calliopespa · 14/05/2024 21:26

That made me laugh!

It reminds me if a time when I bumped into a mum who had had a child in one of my DC’s nursery classes. I was walking with my dog in the grounds of a country hotel and she oohed and aaahed about being a dog lover and asked his name. Unfortunately it was the same name as her Dc. 😬 I therefore blurted out the first name I could think of, which seemed to work ok . Trouble was I’d let him have a little run off-lead and he was getting a bit far away as we chatted so I had to call to him using the wrong name which obviously didn’t really work! Next thing DH came walking up with a dc he’d taken inside to the loo. He saw dog off-lead and getting away on me ( because I couldn’t call him) so hollered out the name of this woman’s dc. Of course dog immediately turned around and bounded like a rocket from about 200m away towards him. It was so awkward…

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Be sure the truth shall find you out

Calliopespa · 14/05/2024 21:26

Timeforanewnam · 10/05/2024 14:46

I think most of us have done something like this in our lives. Try not to worry.

if it makes you feel any better, just after I had had my second baby, a lady who lived locally saw me in the local shop and asked me what I had.
I told her I had a girl .
I hadn’t it was a boy 🤪
I realise straightaway, but I couldn’t say anything, in case She thought I was bonkers.
Unfortunately, she started asking me what the name was et cetera. Luckily I managed to tell her my other child’s name.
I still think about how daft it was that I couldn’t remember what I’d given birth too . Never mind 🤪

That made me laugh!

It reminds me if a time when I bumped into a mum who had had a child in one of my DC’s nursery classes. I was walking with my dog in the grounds of a country hotel and she oohed and aaahed about being a dog lover and asked his name. Unfortunately it was the same name as her Dc. 😬 I therefore blurted out the first name I could think of, which seemed to work ok . Trouble was I’d let him have a little run off-lead and he was getting a bit far away as we chatted so I had to call to him using the wrong name which obviously didn’t really work! Next thing DH came walking up with a dc he’d taken inside to the loo. He saw dog off-lead and getting away on me ( because I couldn’t call him) so hollered out the name of this woman’s dc. Of course dog immediately turned around and bounded like a rocket from about 200m away towards him. It was so awkward…

TheShellBeach · 14/05/2024 21:23

Chrispackhamspoodle · 14/05/2024 21:19

The only option is to fly back out and visit the Grand Canyon before you next see her.How much annual leave have you got?

And don't forget to take photos this time.
🤣

Ilovelifeverymuch · 14/05/2024 21:23

fatphalange · 14/05/2024 19:06

Options:

sorry I dropped the camera I was using down the canyon.
oh that Grand Canyon, I thought you meant a similarly named rollercoaster?
whilst there I realised I'm terrified of heights, I can't relive the terror please don't make me.
whoops I thought you were asking if I'd brought a rather grand carry-on as my flight bag- what am I like?!
move abroad.

While I appreciate your creative mind, I vote for number 5 😂

Chrispackhamspoodle · 14/05/2024 21:19

The only option is to fly back out and visit the Grand Canyon before you next see her.How much annual leave have you got?

TheShellBeach · 14/05/2024 21:14

JohnSt1 · 14/05/2024 21:06

Tell her there's a casino called the Grand Canyon in Las Vegas and you went there.

That seems highly likely, actually.

Calliopespa · 14/05/2024 21:13

JohnSt1 · 14/05/2024 21:06

Tell her there's a casino called the Grand Canyon in Las Vegas and you went there.

That’s what I first thought only it sounds as though the friend yacked on about it a bit in a way that wouldn’t fit with a discussion of something other than … well… a Grand Canyon. I suppose it could be a brothel .

Calliopespa · 14/05/2024 21:11

Trickedbyadoughnut · 14/05/2024 15:33

I have auditory processing problems and I do stuff like this all the time. I have no words of advice to offer - I usually just end up pretending for the rest of my life out of shame and embarrassment and then living with fear of being found out and self-loathing for having accidentally lied😬😅

That’s it oP! Auditory processing problems!

cockadoodledandy · 14/05/2024 21:08

Just say “eh? Did I say we’d been?! I must’ve had a complete brain fart that day! No we didn’t go.”

JohnSt1 · 14/05/2024 21:06

Tell her there's a casino called the Grand Canyon in Las Vegas and you went there.

Calliopespa · 14/05/2024 21:05

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 10/05/2024 17:37

Do people still go round to friends' houses to look at holiday photos and videos?

I reckon she suspected op hadn’t gone when they were “chatting” about it! Hence the photo request …

daisychain01 · 14/05/2024 20:58

She suggested to pop round to mine to see our photos/videos over the weekend

You're pulling our plonker on that one, OP, that has to be a chinny reckon

Delatron · 14/05/2024 20:55

NosyJosie · 10/05/2024 14:51

Is nobody going to question why she’s so keen and inviting herself round to look at pictures etc - how is that even still a thing in 2024?
Other than what my friends share on their social media, I have not seen anybody’s holiday pictures for a good 10-15 years.

Yes! This is more strange than the OP pretending she went to the Grand Canyon. Who does a slide show and compares holiday photos? So dull.

Just put her off.

TheShellBeach · 14/05/2024 20:53

I'm really enjoying this thread.