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To ask you for your own WILTY stories?

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hepsitemiz · 09/06/2026 12:57

I like to organise dinner parties where we copy the premise of "Would I Lie to You?" If you're not familiar with this programme, each person reads out a story supposedly from their recent or distant past. The story they read out may or may not be true, and the other guests get to cross-examine the story teller and decide whether or not they believe them. The crucial thing is these stories are a mixture of funny and embarrassing.

Of course I tweak the format a little to suit a DP - we cannot do the "This is My..." round for instance, and spouses cannot interrogate, or vote, on their partner's stories.

Guests send me their true story a couple of days ahead, and I invent an equally ridiculous lie that is both entertaining and plausible. Then both truth and lie go into an envelope which the story-teller draws from: so 50-50 it's a lie. Some of the funniest details of a story come out in the cross-examining - if the story is a lie, the teller has to make up whatever details he can to make it seem plausible. As a teller you get points for passing truths off as lies, and for passing lies off as truths. The others get points for sniffing out the lies and endorsing the truths.

Since I've done this a few times, I'm running out of hilarious lies, since not everything can be recycled. For new lies, I like to draw on weird true stories from friends and relatives. One of my favourites, as an example, was when a friend was forced to run out into the street in her nightie at 8.30 am to retrieve her lacy knickers that were travelling quite fast past the neighbours' houses. The detail is that they had got caught on the back of a hedgehog who then continued on his usual early-morning foraging route. They landed on the hedgehog after she had shaken her counterpane out of the window after a very very late party, not realising there was underwear on there... the knickers wafted down to the flowerbed below where the hedgehog like to browse.

So this is where I need your help: new, hilarious stories. Things that may have happened to you, or to someone you know. Goodness knows we all need the odd amusing distraction these days.

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hepsitemiz · 12/06/2026 21:42

You did say that, Nettie! What an absolute bloody nightmare! I would have fled the premises 😅

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Nettie1964 · 12/06/2026 20:58

Ps forgot to say it was a sliding door on the bathroom

cloudtreecarpet · 11/06/2026 17:10

AnonyMumAuDHD · 11/06/2026 00:13

Am sure OP is perfectly capable of letting us know that and doesn’t need you to police her thread. No need to take offence on her behalf.

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😂 Good old AIBU board never disappoints!

Nettie1964 · 11/06/2026 16:13

Ok here is something I did when I was 19, went round to a male friends house with my boyfriend. I think the new Elvis Costello had just come out. Parents were there but very easy going and liberal so not bothered about a few teenagers in their sons bedtoom smoking weed and listening to music the house was like loads of others I have seen with the bathroom at the top of the stairs and 3 bedrooms. I needed the loo went, the tried to get out. Door jammed its late and the others cant hear parents in bed. I pushed and pulled was a bit panicked so I sat on the floor with my back to the loo and pushed as hard as I could with my feet, and the WHOLE WALL door and all feel down the stairway, smashing and splintering. I still go cold and hot when I think about it. It was only just renovated and it was a SLIDDING door. Which I was to stoned to remember.

bellylaughter · 11/06/2026 09:27

Confusedmeanderings · 10/06/2026 20:25

Here's mine:
My DH and I used to commute together in our car to our nearest city. He dropped me off in the morning at my place of work and at the end of the day I caught the bus to his place of work, found the car which was always in the same parking space, and we went home together. One evening I got into the car leant over to kiss DH in the driving seat, only to realise that it wasn't DH. In fact it wasn't our car. I blurted out "You're not my husband" and fled.

Or another one:
I attended a training course in a part of the city I was unfamiliar with. I parked in a street near the venue and attended the course. At the end of the day, I went back to the street, but my car was nowhere to be seen. It had obviously been stolen. After trying to find it for a while, I gave up and called the police. After a while a police officer turned up. I showed him where I had left the car. He suggested that we look in a few nearby streets in case I had mistaken where I had parked it. I told him not to be so patronising. Of course, I had indeed mistaken the street and the car was in the very next one we looked at. The only thing I could say was "ok, I'm an idiot!"

I know someone who this happened to but she worked in the police station cafe and knew all the police officers. They all took it in good humour when the car was eventually discovered the following day

hepsitemiz · 11/06/2026 08:05

Thanks Ibiza, that’s likely to be a gold mine of great stories 😅

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IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 11/06/2026 07:49

There is an old podcas, but still available, called “At Least You Didn’t” which is essentially 2 friends recounting all their embarrassing stories.

hepsitemiz · 11/06/2026 07:30

More amusing stories there! Thank you very much!
A very similar thing to @Confusedmeanderings ‘s story happened to me but I got into the driving seat of a car with someone else’s baby in it!

I am cringing at what happened to @TheDevilWears ‘s sister! What a living nightmare that was, it’s bringing me out in cold sweats!!!

What a cheery way to start the day. Thank you! 🙏

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AnonyMumAuDHD · 11/06/2026 00:13

cloudtreecarpet · 10/06/2026 20:16

The OP just wants posters to share some amusing stories, she's not asking for somewhat snide comments on her dinner party plan.

Am sure OP is perfectly capable of letting us know that and doesn’t need you to police her thread. No need to take offence on her behalf.

Confusedmeanderings · 10/06/2026 20:25

Here's mine:
My DH and I used to commute together in our car to our nearest city. He dropped me off in the morning at my place of work and at the end of the day I caught the bus to his place of work, found the car which was always in the same parking space, and we went home together. One evening I got into the car leant over to kiss DH in the driving seat, only to realise that it wasn't DH. In fact it wasn't our car. I blurted out "You're not my husband" and fled.

Or another one:
I attended a training course in a part of the city I was unfamiliar with. I parked in a street near the venue and attended the course. At the end of the day, I went back to the street, but my car was nowhere to be seen. It had obviously been stolen. After trying to find it for a while, I gave up and called the police. After a while a police officer turned up. I showed him where I had left the car. He suggested that we look in a few nearby streets in case I had mistaken where I had parked it. I told him not to be so patronising. Of course, I had indeed mistaken the street and the car was in the very next one we looked at. The only thing I could say was "ok, I'm an idiot!"

cloudtreecarpet · 10/06/2026 20:16

AnonyMumAuDHD · 09/06/2026 15:19

Agree - it’s a common warm up for corporate/training days too. I think people may groan (inwardly) at the thought of it.

The OP just wants posters to share some amusing stories, she's not asking for somewhat snide comments on her dinner party plan.

cloudtreecarpet · 10/06/2026 20:11

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 09/06/2026 13:26

Kindly, if you've done this a few times, the format has probably run its course. Once or twice a year maybe, but too much like hard work for a dinner party.

The OP just asked for some amusing stories, not a rudely patronising critique of her dinner party idea.

As a PP said, your post is anything but kind so why bother sticking that at the start?

Mountainormolehills · 10/06/2026 20:02

Very outing but I was struck by lightning and walked away mostly unscathed. More shocking than funny though

MannyTeddy · 10/06/2026 19:22

Sounds like my kind of evening.

I've told this before but when I went to the post office, I parked my car and went in. When I came out I noticed my tyre was flat and did the thing where you put your foot on the tyre. I looked up and saw a complete stranger looking weirdly at me, as I realised it wasn't my car! 😂🙄

My sister loved doing crafts and when her daughter was in Primary school, DN made a beautiful picture of a sunflower using pasta and paint, entering it in a competition and it won 1st place, it was in the newspaper and on the wall in school and my sister had made it! 🥰😂

TheDevilWears · 10/06/2026 18:47

I love my sisters story - she very reluctantly went to a carol concert last Christmas with her boss at a private members club. It was a busy parlour like affair with a pianist. Her boss went to the bathroom and she was chatting with the pianist who then begun to play and encouraged her to sing along. She did thinking everyone else would join in … they didn’t 😂 her boss arrived back to see her singing to a room full of people. Just as the professional singer she had been mistake for also arrived. She said she literally ran out 😂

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 10/06/2026 13:07

I saw the wilty board game in a charity shop yesterday, so there's that that you could probably buy online if you were desperate, or maybe a reddit thread of embarrassing stories. Its not my thing but if you live somewhere its not shown i see why it might work for you.

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 10/06/2026 13:04

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hepsitemiz · 10/06/2026 10:09

Interesting... I think the lies have been written by the production team, but I may be wrong. The guests come armed with just one true story. It's supposedly set up so that it's fifty-fifty whether someone is lying. I agree there is likely to be a lot of poker face going on, or even bluffing taking the form of feigning surprise when reading out your true story, for example.

Fifty-fifty theory aside, it seems likely that Lee Mac and David Mitchel, having appeared on the show for so many years, have run out of funny anecdotes, so I do think they read out more lies than truths.

As for the guests, Bob Mortimer, being such a hilarious character, often has true stories to tell, however implausible they sound. Same with a less frequent guest, Henning Wehn. Conversely, other guests may arrive with less funny stories, in which case maybe the production team may choose to give them a lie. So although it's supposed to feel random, I don't think it is, and I think Lee and David are reading out lies more often than not!

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AbzMoz · 10/06/2026 07:50

Lurkingandlearning · 10/06/2026 07:34

This isn't what you asked, just an observation. I noticed that the panel, when reading the three anecdotes, often showed some bemusement as if they were reading them for the first time and found the fake ones ridiculous. Maybe that was some kind of double bluff. But I thought if they'd written all three tales themselves they might have read them all out impartially. Just a thought.

I agree - I always thought that the celebs / participants had submitted their own truth, lie, lie - and the surprise was which card was pulled

Lurkingandlearning · 10/06/2026 07:34

This isn't what you asked, just an observation. I noticed that the panel, when reading the three anecdotes, often showed some bemusement as if they were reading them for the first time and found the fake ones ridiculous. Maybe that was some kind of double bluff. But I thought if they'd written all three tales themselves they might have read them all out impartially. Just a thought.

TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit · 10/06/2026 07:20

I would come to your dinner party. It sounds fun!

My story: I got rear-ended at a traffic light. It was pissing down with rain. Damage wasn't too bad, but we quickly exchanged details and drove off.

On my way back, at the same traffic light, I got rear-ended AGAIN! The homeless man on the corner was laughing his ass off. I had a very distinctive car, and he had seen both accidents, about 30 minutes apart.

hepsitemiz · 10/06/2026 07:08

Thank you @ChicAutumnCrow!

Sad to say, I was expecting some people to come on with the goal of making me feel small. Because it’s AIBU after all. However, one of those chip-pissers is someone I know from another board to be (until now) unfailingly clever and kind. So that was a surprise, and probably goes to show you everyone can have a bad day!Wink

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ChicAutumnCrow · 09/06/2026 23:02

Noodge · 09/06/2026 18:00

I guess this could happen if people didn't want to join in,but it sounds as if OPs friends do. I agree @TheRealWhacker . You got a lot of miserable responses at first. MN can be a bit 'fun sponge' at times.

Yes, I think DP and I would give it a good go because we love watching the Lee Mack / David Mitchell partnership at work.

But I have a few friends who would ‘play’, having had it explained to them and possibly even being familiar with the programme, who would just … clam up.

Here’s my WILTY, @hepsitemiz:

“I asked for advice on Mumsnet, and the first page of responses completely ignored my question and told me I was a terrible human being with snakes for hair”.

Flamingojune · 09/06/2026 18:21

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 09/06/2026 13:26

Kindly, if you've done this a few times, the format has probably run its course. Once or twice a year maybe, but too much like hard work for a dinner party.

Kindly, anything that starts with that word is anything but