Weird lies you told as a child

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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

@SmidgenofaPigeon

I had a pony who lived in my back garden but when my friends came to visit and asked where it was I said it was at the vet’s with laryngitis. (I meant laminitis )

I had a cut out of a fat little pie-bald pony I’d got from a magazine and framed by my bed as further evidence.

That was my lie 🤣 The closest I came to having a horse was a rocking horse.. oh the shame!

[quote JorisBonson]**@berryhead2013* @seensome* pretend Louises unite! 😂[/quote]

Can real Louises join? 🙋🏽‍♀️ #DontHateMeCosYouAintMe

@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 too and one day I took it further . . . I wrote a note saying I had been kidnapped and was being held in a bedroom. I threw the note out my window. My nosy neighbours found it and narced on me to my mum. I denied it despite it being in my handwriting on my strawberry shortcake notepad. My mum was disappointed in me but to be fair it was nothing compared to the lies I told in my teenage years 🤷🏻‍♀️

I said I was in care to have a reason why I couldn't invite friends to my real house.

Not a lie told by me, but I moved house when I was in year 6 and changed primary schools. After I had left someone told the whole class I had died and they believed it! Years later when I went to 6th form college there were some people from my old primary school there and they were all very shocked to see me!

When we moved to Devon I pretended I was a French orphan. My parents ‘had taken me in’.

All worked fine until I bumped into one of the adults I told told this out walking with my mum. The lady was the headmistress at the local school. Awks.

That I was a princess and lived in a castle

I had a sister but she didn't come to school because she was bed bound.
That we went on holiday to Russia.
That my Dad lived with us- he just worked away.
We had a dog.

@Zancah that made my drink come out my nose 😂

@Zancah welcome real Louise, no hate for faking you 😂
Any other Louises?

On my 7th birthday I got home from school and told my parents that the whole class, including the teacher, had turned the lights out in the classroom and ducked behind the chairs to surprise me by cheering “Happy Birthday!!!!” loudly. It still makes me cringe 😑
I also told my cousins our stairs switched to a slide when they went home.

I used to tell my younger sister that there were sweets hidden in the long grass in our side garden. When my best friend who lived across the road use to go visiting relations with her family, I used to sneak over, take the key from under the mat, go in and raid their sweet cupboard. I always felt too guilty to eat them all on my own and I could tell my sister where I got them or she would rat on me so this was the best I could up with.

I was a bit of a compulsive liar for a good while and I would never give in and admit I was lying even if it was obvious.

I told kids at primary that I grew a third eye when there was a full moon. I then made one with papier mache and put in an old jewellery box.

This is vaguely reminding me that I think I made up a sister that had run away. I really wanted a sister.

I pretended a toy I found was mine, that didn't last long as it turned out my mum wanted to know where it came from and it wasn't enough to just say it didn't belong to anyone.

I went into school late once having had a dentist appointment. I told everyone I’d had my tonsils out (I thought tonsils were a fancy word for teeth - although I’d not had teeth taken out either )

I used to tell some whoppers as a child. In early years of primary I remember telling everyone I was a mermaid and my parents found me washed up on a beach. I think I actually started to believe it was true myself. I also used to like pretending I was French if I met someone new at a park or on a day out.

@dootsnoot I did the same
My cousin lived down one bus stop from us and we caught the bus part way to school he went to a different one. We were best mates but I defo did not fancy him. A few of my mates did although they'd only seen him ad he got off the bus. I told them that he was my boyfriend but said that we were keeping it quiet?
The girls asked him and he stopped catchmy bus id embarrassed him so much. They later found out he was my cousin andcthe rumour spread that I was going out with my cousin. He didn't speak to me properly till sixth form. Thats what I got for lying although we laugh about it now

In early primary school once told the teacher my middle name was the cat's name. Was so adamant that I had the cat's name as my middle name the teacher had to ask my elder sister to clarify 😂😂
Can't say the cats name as its too outing as it it's.

I once told a my friend that I had seen a dinner lady taking her sandwiches out of her lunchbox and rubbing her sandwiches. I only said it for a laugh and my friend was so disgusted I couldn't admit I was lying. I then had to stay off school sick as the dinner lady in question heard the rumours and wanted to tell me off

When I was in primary school I told every one That my friends little brother wasn’t really her brother, her parents had stolen him from a hotel in France while they were on a skiing holiday.

I have no idea why I told everyone that, or how I even came up with the story.

The most silly one I remember is when a friend and I caught the bus to a local town to shop (before we were allowed to go out and shop on our own) - we felt so grown up and has soup in a local cafe of a department store. We were spotted by my grans neighbour who even said hello ! And who obviously reported back .

When my Dad asked me about so and so seeing me in x cafe, I had to think quick on my feet and said I know who it will be, there is someone in my school who looks exactly like me and is called inanun too !
He never said a word and I thought I had got away with it, it’s only years later I realised he couldn’t possibly have believed me and had just let it slide - which is unusual as he was quite strict he must have been stunned into silence by my outright lie to dig myself out of trouble 😂

Kylie minogue was my long lost sister and Jason Donovan was my long lost brother.

I had a framed picture of Scott & Charlene in my room (80s 😂) and I’d told my friends at primary school I had a long lost brother & sister; (never said it was Kylie/Jason) and then at a sleepover I showed that pic as the only pic I had of these long lost siblings I’d already told them all about and I remember seeing the furrowed brow of confusion where obviously they all recognised Scott & Charlene off Neighbours (No one said anything but the lie was obvious to us all). I stopped lying after that!!

That I took Russian dance lessons every Thursday but it was against the rules to show anyone what we learned there.

My older cousin and I used to pretend we were mother and daughter when we went out together, even though she was only around 5 years older than me!

I once hung out with a girl and put on an Australian accent and pretended that my name was Kylie.

FOR A WHOLE FUCKING WEEK.

All of my Antipodean knowledge was learnt directly from watching Neighbours. I had quite the lifestyle back in my native Oz. It was exhausting, but I think I pulled it off.