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Accidentally lied to friend about holiday

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WildBeaker · 10/05/2024 10:03

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?

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daisychain01 · 14/05/2024 20:53

Say you mixed up your holidays and you actually visited the Sistine Chapel.

TheShellBeach · 14/05/2024 20:52

Princesspollyyy · 10/05/2024 15:14

😂😂😂😂

What's a Grand Canyon? 😂😂😂

Omg don't do this OP. It's a bit like saying What's the Eiffel Tower.

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Louise303 · 14/05/2024 20:30

Just say you forgot to bring your camera on the trip to the canyon its easier than telling her you were not listening.

fatphalange · 14/05/2024 19:06

Options:

  1. sorry I dropped the camera I was using down the canyon.

  2. oh that Grand Canyon, I thought you meant a similarly named rollercoaster?

  3. whilst there I realised I'm terrified of heights, I can't relive the terror please don't make me.

  4. whoops I thought you were asking if I'd brought a rather grand carry-on as my flight bag- what am I like?!

  5. move abroad.

thebestinterest · 14/05/2024 18:56

😂

Cheepcheepcheep · 14/05/2024 18:38

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 🤪

I’ve done something similar - when I came back after my second mat leave I took on a new account and mentioned to my client that I was newly back from mat leave. She asked if it was my first and for some reason - I genuinely have no idea why - I said yes.

It’s been 18 months, I still have the account, luckily we don’t really talk family but I have to remind myself before every meeting (once a quarter) that DC1 for that hour does not exist 🙈🙈🙈

Koulibiak · 14/05/2024 18:37

This reminds me of the thread where the poster was giving training to a huge group at work and started her presentation saying ‘Good morning, I’m Susan Hernandez’ and someone calmly said ‘No you’re not, I am Susan Hernandez’ 😂

OutwiththeOutCrowd · 14/05/2024 18:26

Maybe you can brazen it out with a cheery 'What happens in the Grand Canyon, stays in the Grand Canyon' accompanied by a big wink.

Then distract her with your cheese fondue set.

Changinforaday · 14/05/2024 18:12

EmilyTjP · 10/05/2024 12:00

Also, who on earth asks to come round to look at someone’s holiday photos?! 😂

Was going to say exactly this. Are we in 1985 perhaps?

IReallyStillCantBeBothered · 14/05/2024 17:04

Hahaha this made laugh so much lol.

If you want to double down theres a Facebook page called free photoshop edits where post pictures as ask people to edit in various ways, you can upload some pictures and ask them to photoshop you at the Grand Canyon lol.

But my advice would be to just tell her you weren’t really listening or avoid her for the next 5 years 😀

I was trying to put screenshots of some examples but it’s not uploading but some of the requests and output are hilarious.

Beautiful3 · 14/05/2024 17:01

If she mentions it again just say, I didn't go there. You were telling me all about when you'd gone there." Don't lie and carry it on, that's worse!

IReallyStillCantBeBothered · 14/05/2024 16:57

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Starlight1979 · 14/05/2024 16:21

Who goes round to someone's house to look at holiday photos these days?! Especially a work colleague?! Sorry sounds a bit far fetched to me!

Although I am laughing at some of these responses - especially the one (sorry can't remember who posted) which says to say you got it confused with the Cheddar Gorge 😂

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 14/05/2024 16:17

To be honest, kill me now… when I did our Grand Canyon helicopter tour, we’d been out heavily drinking the night before.

I didn’t feel I could cancel as when we were there the tours were quite booked up and we were leaving soon. My boyfriend was desperate to go and found some alka selztzer for me. I did see the Grand Canyon and watched the video afterwards he’d done of it but I spent most of the whole tour (it’s long!) trying not to throw up and focussing. That’s the last time I’m doing something like that!

So if it were me OP, I’d just say I didn’t want her to see me looking ill and use my hungover excuse. 🤢🤮

FakeMiddleton · 14/05/2024 16:15

EmilyTjP · 10/05/2024 12:00

Also, who on earth asks to come round to look at someone’s holiday photos?! 😂

This!

Why wasn't this the first comment?

AlltheFs · 14/05/2024 16:09

This is hilarious. I’d just say, sorry no you can’t come over to look at photos because it’s not 1985. If you want to look that badly get a bloody smartphone.

lovecrazyhorses · 14/05/2024 16:06

Decline the invite! Sounds awful anyway !!

BaconMassive · 14/05/2024 16:04

Just take some screenshots of the GC off the internet, would could possibly go wrong?

Allofaflutter · 14/05/2024 16:03

I’ve got photos you can have lol

KomodoOhno · 14/05/2024 15:55

WittiestUsernameEver · 10/05/2024 10:04

if she mentions it again, just say "oh, no sorry I got confused, we didn't go, must be the jet lag making my brain fuzzy at the time ha ha ha"

I'd say this too

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😬😅

Mostlycarbon · 14/05/2024 15:22

This sounds like the beginning of a film plot. Things are going to get more and more audacious as the lie snowballs. Be prepared for some big life changes and mild to moderate peril.

RoseWrites · 14/05/2024 13:44

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 🤪

@Timeforanewnam this really made me laugh :)

LimeAnkles · 14/05/2024 13:10

She suggested to pop round to mine to see our photos/videos

Do people still do this?

BreakfastAtMimis · 11/05/2024 08:49

What a shame you forgot to charge your phone/camera before you went to the Grand Canyon so you couldn't get any photos. What are you like?! And the lovely lady you met there who took a couple of pics for you is ignoring your Facebook friend request.

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