I told a lie today

[TomAllenWife]

It was a small white lie but god I feel so bad about it.
I've told my dd and my friend and they both thought it was genius but I feel wicked!

I don't go all George Washington on the lying thing.

If it's not self-serving then it's probably OK.

So OP, was your lie self-serving or not?

(Or do you want us to tease it out of you?)

What did you say?!

You need to tell us what it was for us to judge

I tell my 4yr old DS he has the voice of an angel daily 😁he is tone deaf.

What do you mean self serving?

What was the lie?

Self serving - did it benefit you to lie?

Yes it did benefit me
But it didn't harm anyone - other than a large company

What lie did you tell?

There will be a difference between “I didn’t eat the cake” against “you are bubbas daddy”

I think a self-serving lie is one that's told for your own benefit. For your own profit or advancement.

Not the same as saying your mum's horrible home- baked cake was delicious. (Probably the opposite of self-serving cos she'll feed you the horrible cake forever more.)

There is lying then there's lying... What was your lie?

Oh come on then what was the lie?!

I mean are you going to say or do you want us to guess?

Harming big companies isn't necessarily OK. Might still have costs for little people.

You need to say what the lie was, really.

there seem to be a lot of moral dilemmas on Mumsnet tonight. OP we need to know the lie?

Most pointless post of the week award goes to you.

It's a pretty pointless post when you haven't said what you lied about.