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

@DodgeRainClouds - that really made my lol

Aged about 9 I pretended I had a pet rabbit (trying to keep up with a friend who actually had one).
All was fine until said friend came round to play and then it became clear I hadn’t thought the pretence out very well! I then tried to claim the poor rabbit was housed in our locked dark garage - I didn’t get away with it!

Said a teacher hit my hand with a ruler. I was in Primary. I remember walking up this massive staircase to the head teacher but have no recollection of anything else

I watched something called Feather Boy and after that I pretended at school that I was basically half bird and that when I went home I lived in a cage like a parrot

[quote whiskersonkittenss]@DodgeRainClouds were you still pretending to be blind whilst doing the puzzle? Proper laughing at that [/quote]
Yes! I’m mortified about it but I remember I was really making sure I struggled to do the puzzle to ‘prove’ I was blind

@thatonesmine

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.

I did the same except pretended to be French. Think there's a few pretend French on this thread

I told everyone that Jason Donovan was my boyfriend and took a very close up photo of a poster of him to prove it

@Hellohah I went to school with Bryan Robson’s actual daughter (unless it was you )

I used to say I was allergic to orange squash. What a particularly dull and pointless lie. My friend who lived next door was allergic to something or other and when she told me I felt I had to match it, and then maintain the lie for years even when not in her company.

Someone at my school claimed to have Mark Owen’s phone number - I remember us all crowding round the pay phone whilst she dialled and when some woman answered she giggled ‘is Mark there’ giggled some more then hung up. Such excitement! It’s only now thinking back on it that I realise there was absolutely no indication that the number had anything to do with Mark Owen whatsoever. But we all totally believed it anyway.

I told everyone at school I’d been born in Russia because my dad worked there (I think maybe I was hinting he was a spy?). So obviously bullshit.

A girl I went to school with had grown up somewhere in Africa and said she had a pet monkey. So I told her that I also had a pet monkey here in the UK. Why I have no idea, also obviously a total lie.

I told people my dad was a missionary rather than admit he was dead after he was killed when I was 9

My friend and I around 8 or 9 used to pretend to be Chinese. We would spend our time out shopping with our mums talking Chinese to each other. Thought we were totally convincing. We were both ginger pale skinned Scots.

@Whiskersonkittens I think you might have gone to my school!

Telling someone my name was Elaine which in my opinion was the most exotic, beautiful name in the world

I made up a boyfriend in the summer who came to stay with his grandparents (that’s why he didn’t go to school and no one had heard of him!). I used to text myself so the text tone would go off and I could pretend it was from him. I even made a fake bebo account for him. I’m sure my friends figured it out as they used to beg to meet him and I’d have a new excuse every day

I had a picture of marilyn monroe on the wall and a friend who used to knock for me asked was that my mum? Yes I said.. Wow she's beautiful so glamorous you look like her... Yeah... Ha ha ha

My Granny always made me laugh . On her first day of school she told the teacher that her middle name was Joan , when it was actually Josephine , because she couldn’t spell Josephine . She told her mum , who marched her back to school to tell the truth .
I would wheel my doll’s pram around with the hood up and a blanket over it and swear blind that I had a real baby in there , but no one could look because she would wake up .

Sometimes kids lies can actually be really harmful. For apparently no reason whatsoever, a girl in primary school told everyone that I punched another girl's Mum in the stomach whilst she was pregnant. By break time, I was being hounded, harassed and chased round the playground whilst a load of kids tried to get me for what I'd done. It was a complete lie! Totally made up. At secondary school I told every one my Dad was dead because I didn't want them to know he walked out on us. I also told the girls in the PE changing room that I used to have my belly button pierced but it caught on my t shirt and ripped off, showed them the scar to prove it. The scar was actually from the small OP I'd had as a baby to change my belly button from an out to an in!

That I had a pet sheep called Margaret who lived in the garage but I wasn't allowed to show him (Margaret was a boy ) because it was illegal to keep sheeps in houses. I used to swear all my friends to secracy and not to tell anyone incase they got my parents arrested for having a pet sheep.

I used to try and pose for pictures with random sheep on country walks to pass of the random sheep as Margaret to show my friends pictures of me taking him for a walk .

My friend recently gave me a cuddly sheep as a memory to Margaret.

I swore to my friend that I had GHD straightners. I didn't have any. How stoopid

That the pirate rabbits did it.

A friend and I introduced ourselves to a new kid who moved in a few streets away and told him we were American. He was a bit younger than us and actually acted like a bit of a brat but I don't know why we lied to him.
One day we saw him when we were with some other friends and we did a hybrid of our fake and real accents thinking nobody would notice. Well obviously they all thought we were mad. And when we next saw the boy we explained it was because we had lived here for a while now so our accents were fading.
We took sweets off him all the time saying we'd never seen those type of sweets before so could we try them. And copper coins.
In the end his mum said he wasn't allowed to play with us anymore.
Probably for the best.

[quote JorisBonson]@seensome I used to say Louise was my middle name! I don't even have one 😂[/quote]
Wtf! I did the exact same thing i used to write 'First name Louise Surname' on my work, i don't have one either

At my convent school in the 1950's , at the weekend we were obliged to go to what the Nuns called all three, Mass, Confession and Benediction.
They took a register on the Monday to see who'd been to what.
I'd wagged the Saturday Benediction but told Sister S**a that I'd broken my leg but was better now
Still can't lie for toffee.

That my name is Nicole . It isnt but I have a really boring name and Nicole sounded fancy

I really can not think of any lies I told as a child because I was far too shy and timid so probably didn't dare in case I was punished. Some of my schoolfriends did lie though and one girl in particular. She announced one day that her parents were going to take every girl in the class out to tea and we would have ham sandwiches and creamcakes, then they would buy each of us a big present. No one had the nerve to call her a liar but she was just that. I had played at her house and they had nothing. Such a shame she had to voice her fantasy like that.
A couple of years later I told my classmates and teacher that my uncle had won the football pools. He HAD won! Several thousand pounds which was a fortune back then. That was the time I suspect they thought the liar was me.

When I was at infant school just before the Christmas holidays my teacher asked me to go and look at the time on the big clock in the assembly hall, when I came back I told all my five year old classmates that I had just seen Father Christmas and all his reindeers in the play ground and they all believed me!