I was at school with a girl who just opened her mouth and spouted utter nonsense. No idea why (well for attention). For some reason some of the teachers indulged her.
I remember one English class when she was explaining to the teacher her woeful attempt at homework.
NB both her parents were teachers. And alive.
She don’t have a pen or pencil.
She didn’t have a dictionary at home
In fact there were no books at home
Because her mum couldn’t read.
Her dad couldn’t read.
Her dad had just died.
This went on for most of the class and even the ‘bad lads’ at the back of the class started telling her to stop telling lies.
Remember both of parents were alive and were teachers and she lived in a nice house near the school.
She also bought herself a dress ring when she about 15 and announced that she ‘was engaged to a lad (who we didn’t know) who was… a mechanic’.
She had a very fierce guard dog. Family had no dogs.
Every day there was something ‘amazing’ or ‘terrible’ that happened to her.
It was exhausting..