How far have you had to carry on a lie?

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Not me, but I got deeply engrossed in a post yesterday. It was reported and removed because the OP was a blatant liar and admitted so. So out of curiosity have you ever told a white lie without giving it a second thought, then the whole thing snowballing? Years ago I did have an casual friend who lied about her son ‘possibly’ having cancer. He had a simple blood test, they called him back but she made the results sound like he was going to need chemo or something. All turned out to be complete BS. I saw a lot of people back off from her from then on.

Although kolo definitely takes second place, after Barbarian.
Got to laugh at you stopping over your collage, trying to look all in earnest

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Brexit is the ultimate lie

I’m a football fan, a lifelong supporter of a club which currently plays in the Championship. DP’s long-standing colleague supports our hated local rivals, who also play in the Championship.

When I first met this chap, many years ago, he had somehow got it into his head that we supported the same club - his. I didn’t correct him at the time as I didn’t want to cause embarrassment, and anyway I probably wasn’t going to see him again, was I?

Wrong.

DP & him became quite friendly so we have met many more times down the years and he always wants to talk football. Whenever I know we are going to meet I have to research what’s happening at his crappy club, who have they signed / sold, who did they lose to last week, have they sacked their manager again etc etc. All because I was too bloody polite to correct him all those years ago!

I had to pretend there was one more of me which ended rather embarrassingly. An acquaintance asked me if I had a twin and I stupidly said; 'Yes! I do." without thinking. I tried my best to actively avoid him the best I could afterwards but I felt compelled to go along with it if there was no way I could avoid him whenever we spotted each other.

My brother and I plus all of our friends were sitting in our garden one Summers evening when I noticed said acquaintance was walking up the street with some of his friends and they all stopped to talk to my brother. I instantly started to have an internal crisis because I knew what was about to happen so I awkwardly stared off into the distance in the hopes the inevitable situation would miraculously not happen.

Well, it certainly did... My brother made the situation even more mortifying by making fun of me and everybody looked at me weirdly before bursting out laughing.

Brexit is the ultimate lie

For gods sake give it a rest, there’s dozens of threads for you to vent about it, can we just have one that’s a bit of brexit free fun.

I worked with a woman who had breast cancer, she's still fighting it actually. A short while after she was diagnosed another young woman in the team was diagnosed with terminal cancer, it was awful. We all did fundraising, race for life, bake sales etc. The second woman received much praise for how strong she was and carrying on despite her awful prognosis. Then she got sacked for faking doctors notes and it turned out she'd made the whole thing up. We all found it utterly bizarre, especially the woman who actually does have cancer. It's difficult to know where she was going with it if she'd been allowed to play it out. I reckon trip to America for pioneering surgery that saved her.

For a silly laugh, when travelling with a friend, we agreed I would pretend to have a thick welsh accent when talking to the next person we met in the hostel (I’m english). Usually this would be fine as encounters such as these typically last a few minutes. However, we kept bumping into the same person day after day and I had to thereafter lurch back into my comedy Gavin and Stacey accent at random intervals- made more difficult when other 3rd parties were around with whom I had been speaking in my normal voice.

My son has an Irish name though I'm English. To avoid the whole backstory when the interim head of his after school club asked if we were Irish, I said yeah. Now two and a half years on the interim guy is permanent and I have to be all "top of the morning to you, begorrah" three times a week.

I was getting chatted up in a pub when I was 17 or 18 and stupidly said to this v lovely guy that I'd passed my driving test when I hadn't (I'd had lessons and was about to I thought it would be easy ). Sods law meant we ended up dating... It turns out passing was not easy. It took me FOUR secret attempts over a series of months before I actually passed and I was so stressed out with the lie I ended up confessing anyway.

Baby Keith

I left a new job after one terrible month in Jan 2018. I gave them a legit reason for leaving, all ok and had 2-3 months money to live on. But I didn't tell my flatmate. I didn't want her asking how my job hunt was going or realising how badly I'd struggled; she's just a flatmate, not a friend. I didn't tell her for 3 months and simply carried on as if I was still working.

We'd both worked shifts and weekends/Saturdays so I found it reasonably easy to hide and I used her time table to plan my week. I did my best to keep outright lying to a minimum but I did have to do or say a few things to keep up the lie. It becomes quite easy once you're in the swing.

That said, I was very relieved to go back to work. I just told her I was "working my notice" and changed jobs.