What's the most ridiculous of astonishing lie you've ever heard?

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Just genuinely interested! Mine is that a colleague of mine told us her dad had died. So good she go home early? Of course we said he's who wouldn't say yes to that.. shame she didn't tell her dad he was meant to be dead or that she'd left early to grieve him as he picked her up as usual. Came in to ask where she was... we were like umm.. she's grieving you ? 😱

I heard via the police that I had been threatening a vague acquaintance with physical violence. She is over a foot and a good 6 stone larger than me. The took one look at me and laughed out the door, after some minor paperwork.

@JorisBonson 😂😂 that's amazing, the commitment!

I worked with someone once who's mother apparently died when she was out for a walk and fell and hit her head. Some months later, this co-worker got cancer apparently as well but provided no medical proof. She also apparently had a wheat allergy and a dairy allergy 🙄.

Yet I got sat down and told I was on a warning because I had a trapped nerve in my foot, had one day off sick for it then came into work despite being signed off and occupational health saying I shouldn't be on my feet! I just laughed and said yeah but people get sympathy for weeks off with 'cancer' and told them to stick the job up their arses

You can die from falling and hitting your head. Rare, but possible. If she had weeks off for cancer surely she would have provided proof to HR. Normally for more than a week you need a Dr's note. The Dr signing her off with cancer is all the proof she needs.

At work years ago we had a man whose girlfriend had a baby. He got the usual gifts etc and took a couple of weeks off (not sure if it was parental or regular annual leave).

A few months later he called in to say he'd broken his leg. The office had a whip round for a get well soon present and someone dropped it round at his house.

His mother answered the door, and it turned out that he didn't have a baby, or a girlfriend, and he hadn't broken his leg he was refereeing a 5-a-side tournament in Africa.

I think some of these don’t sound alarmingly improbable. Lots of people have wheat and dairy allergies! Lots of things sound like lies unless you are informed about them.

School called me in as dd was having a meltdown. Apparently she told them her middle name was Cucumber and they were saying it wasn't. She was adamant she was telling the truth and was hysterical..
She was in fact referred to as Name Cucumber at home!! My lie came back to haunt me there!

When I had a miscarriage I had no time off work. And I told no one at work.
A colleague had a full term still birth baby and returned to work after 3 days.
Everyone's experience of these things are different. Some women's miscarriage will mean physically that they need time off, others do not. You cannot generalise.
I don't tell colleagues a lot if things because some people do think their experience has to be the same as everyone else's.

Honestly, the most outrageous lie I have ever encountered is £350 million extra per week for the NHS. Nothing else even comes close.

A colleague had a full term still birth baby and returned to work after 3 days
Oh wow

Her mum hadn't died and she didn't add any co-workers and had a private Facebook page using a different surname for this reason. She also didn't have cancer and just kept saying that she hadn't seen her GP to get a sick line as it was the hospital dealing with it all. She also didn't have those allergies as she often ate food with wheat and dairy and would say 'this is ok, I don't get reactions to this'. You either have a wheat and dairy allergy or not. There was also a fake marriage if I remember correctly

@steppemum I was actually pretty shocked. But she said she wanted to be back at work.

You have to be careful about not believing people. I was born in the 50s, at primary school in the 60s. Girl missed school, I suppose it was different then as most people in our inner city slum didn't have phones so no phoning school about why you were missing. When she came back teacher asked why she had missed school and girl said a man had tried to pull her into a car and she been at the police station making a statement. Teacher shouted at her for lying.

This was when the Moors Murderers were active, man had tried to pull her into a car and her sister held onto her and started screaming and he drove off.

I'm not sure how the teacher felt.

janemaster I guess everyone copes in different ways.

She was another who could never get pregnant, after she left work we saw on FB that she had a baby!

This may not have been a lie, Someone I know was told she could never get pregnant when she was late teens, unexpectedly fell pregnant aged 31 after accepting she would never be a mother.

My sister went out with a guy who told her he was a high level spy in the secret service with special responsibility for the royal family to explain why he would often disappear for days at a time and couldn’t be contacted. When she first told us about him she couldn’t understand why DH and I were laughing and was then very indignant that we didn’t believe him.

She was genuinely shocked and heartbroken when it transpired that he was a married man with a very mundane 9-5 job. She had absolutely believed his transparent lies.

BusterMove
very true, and I know a few people who adopted and then got pregnant, having been told they couldn't have kids.

My grandparents tried for 10 years, no kids, war came along and they gave up trying, because it was too dangerous to bring kids into the world during a war.
By the end of the war they had 2 kids!

girl at school said her mum had cancer for attention i think i guess as nothing wrong with her mum
where i used to live was near the SAS camp and you would be suprised how many fellas in clubs and pubs said they were in the SAS! thought us girls would be impressed and fall into their beds!

Well some people have an intolerance rather than an allergy but just say “allergy” to make it less likely that they will be given the food in error. Sometimes they do sneak a little bit of wheat or dairy in because they fancy it and are willing to suffer the consequences, I wouldn’t assume anyone was lying about that. People so also grow out of allergies. The other stuff I can’t comment on (although I don’t have any work colleagues on my fb either so again, I don’t find that a red flag).

I’d wonder how the whole office knows she didn’t bring in a sick note though. How embarrassing.

From my HR experience again, also not unknown for someone who has been charged with an offence outside work to not say anything about it and book holiday for the trial - then be surprised when it makes the local newspapers. Not lying, but just trying to avoid the inevitable.

Crying over the Gino Ginelli boy and the schoolkid who invented nightclub chanting . But some very disturbed people around, especially the death and serious illness fakers .

In my teens I had a penfriend who claimed he had been in charge of security for Prince Andrew and Fergie's wedding and had spent the day on the roof of Buckingham Palace. He also claimed to be friends with 'the Pope, King Hussein of Jordan and Jim Bacon, the TV weatherman'. Unbeatable randomness!

When the dd was in reception she was invited to was a soft play party. Saturday morning at the start of the half term in October

All the mums stayed. We were on a table chatting away, having a good time getting to know everyone

At the end of the party we decided to go for coffee at a local cafe that had a playground in the garden. A few dropped out as their dc were tired or they were going out later or just wanted to get back home.

No one batted an eyelid. It wasn’t a summons to go for coffee.

One of the mums said she couldn’t come because as soon as she returned with her dc her dh and other dc were ready to leave as they were going on holiday for the 1/2 to Tenerife and the bags were packed and in the car and she had to dash back immediately as she wanted to be able to catch the flight.

I went for coffee (spent about 45 in the coffee shop then decided to leave and go to the supermarket on the way home.

Guess who I saw with the biggest pile of shopping in her cart but mum who said she was going to Tenerife.

She looked highly embarrassed especially as my Dd wasn’t afraid to ask the question of why she was doing shopping when she was supposed to be at the airport.

Apparently she said when she got home they decided it was going to be too much bother driving to the airport so decided to unpack and stay at home instead.

I had a friend "Weirdo", who copied another friend's stories and told them to me as her own. Later I became friends with the other girl and some other girls who had been in the same class and so I found out. By that time I had dumped Weirdo due to her excessive lying, but I hadn't figured out that those stories were lies too as they were so normal.

Gin4thewin

I have a friend who is black, her daughter is white and has produced 4 white grand children.

Have you seen Lucy and Maria Aylmer?

www.boredpanda.com/black-white-skin-twin-sisters-lucy-maria-aylmer/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

I don't believe the skin bleaching though.

I think a lot of small kids are fantastists but grow out of it.

I would never lie about someone dying or being ill because I'd be afraid o tempting fate.