Weird lies you told as a child

[whiskersonkittenss]

In primary school I told people Mark Owen from Take That was my cousin. This was in the height of TT fame and people believed me. Not sure how I got out of bringing him to school to meet everyone

I can't really remember but my daughter's friend at primary school told me she had an ice rink in her bedroom. she literally went off my daughter for a week when I asked how the floor held up all that water. Though, she's a lot better at lying these days as I understand

I used to make things up all the time as a child this has made me feel normal 😂
I was at a soft play place and wanted some attention (don't remember why) so I pretended and old cut from the day before on my foot was really painful so staff me never asked if I was ok and I told them I'd cut it on the play equipment. Then watched in horror as they closed that part off and several staff members went to investigate!
Luckily my mum decided we were leaving (she didn't know what I'd done) not sure what happened after that but I remember it clear as day 😂

I once, very bizarrely, pretended I had a twin sister that no one ever saw as she only liked to stay in her bedroom. I then pretended to be the twin sister .... how I ever had the balls to try and pull it off I’ll never know!
Disclaimer ... I always wanted a sister,

@whiskersonkittenss

In primary school I told people Mark Owen from Take That was my cousin. This was in the height of TT fame and people believed me. Not sure how I got out of bringing him to school to meet everyone

Did you go to Morecambe High School?

@tabernacles no I didn't. Are there more of us out there? (Mark Owens family members)

I made up an entire male friend (back story & everything) who I'd met on holiday and our parents agreed we could get married when I was 16. Completely untrue.

@DodgeRainClouds that made me lol!

I pretended I had a sister who we kept in the kitchen cupboard and that’s why nobody ever saw her.

I managed to convince all my friends that I was married and they believed me .... I was 6.
I remember describing my dress and veil, in great detail. My husbands name was Luke.

[quote whiskersonkittenss]@tabernacles no I didn't. Are there more of us out there? (Mark Owens family members)[/quote]
Well I think someone my sister went to school with said they were Mark Owen's cousin too (though of course he must have plenty of varying degrees, as most people do). But maybe they were telling the truth, if it was not you.

My friend and I used to speak in 'a different language' to each other to appear cool when we went to the playground we did get some attention for it. We were talking absolute gobbledegook

I don't know my dad, but I used to tell people it was Bryan Robson. I probably thought if I said it enough, it would come true. I worshipped Bryan Robson 🙈

That we had a bridge in our garden. When friends came round I said my dad didn't like it anymore and knocked it down 😆

@shreddednips

My father had a friend at school who was born in America, which he thought was ever so glamorous. He decided to one-up him by saying he was half American because he was born on an aeroplane halfway between the UK and the US. My grandma was completely baffled when the friend's mother stopped her in the street to say what an incredible story it was about her giving birth in the air, because my father was actually born in Basildon.

I'm in stitches reading this because this is such a typical tall tale a child would tell 😂 bonus point for half-American meaning 'born halfway to America' I'm HOWLING

I was three when my mother gave me a piece of chocolate which I rubbed around my Teddy's mouth before I ate it. I told my mum I needed another piece because Teddy ate the first one. After inspecting Teddy's mouth my mother said, "Oh dear" and gave me another piece of chocolate. I would have been on to a good thing but my older big gobbed sister yelled out, "She's lying! Teddy didn't eat it, she did".

A friend of mine told me that she only brushes her teeth on Mondays. I was so jealous. I guess I really hated brushing my teeth.

My brother was off school with mumps. I told his teacher he had yellow fever. I can only imagine the conversation the teachers had over their morning coffee, fag and Viscount biscuit in the staff room.

I told people my mum was pregnant for about 4 years. She wasn't, I just really wanted a sibling (I did get one eventually)

@JorisBonson that made me laugh OUT LOUD

@JorisBonson @seensome I also pretended my middle name was
Louise 😂

That I was an alien from the planet Ripper Latter Lateral. No one believed me, so I told them I'd show them when I "flew across the playground".

Weirdo

When I was in the backseat of my parents car, I sometimes used to put my hands behind my back and mouth ‘help’ to passing car drivers to pretend I was being kidnapped. Really don’t know why. Quite embarrassing and v irresponsible but I was only about 7. Luckily no one ever believed me or stopped us.

I told everyone at my new primary school that I was Russian and I spoke with what I thought was a Russian accent. After a few days I kept forgetting to do the accent but nobody questioned it.

@floridamanatee

I used to desperately want a horse but my parents would never let me have one, or even take riding lessons because it was too expensive. When I started year 6 I told my teacher I owned a black horse and went riding every day after school, but I nearly died when she mentioned it to my mother at parents evening and found out it was all lies.

Ha! I also lied about having a horse and my riding abilities (non existent) and got paired with someone on a Spanish exchange who was a competitive rider.....I declined to ride the horses at the out of this world stables as I ‘just didn’t think the horses would understand me’

@berryhead2013 @seensome pretend Louises unite! 😂

@Mummadeze

When I was in the backseat of my parents car, I sometimes used to put my hands behind my back and mouth ‘help’ to passing car drivers to pretend I was being kidnapped. Really don’t know why. Quite embarrassing and v irresponsible but I was only about 7. Luckily no one ever believed me or stopped us.

I did that once, but with a piece of paper with "help me" written on it. We did get stopped 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️