Accidentally lied to friend about holiday

[WildBeaker]

I came back to work yesterday after going on holiday to Las Vegas last week. My friend asked me how it was and asked if I went to the Grand Canyon. I wasn’t really focusing, had a mind slip and said yes even though I didn’t go. She started talking about the different parts of the canyon and I thought it would’ve been weird to backtrack so I just nodded along. She suggested to pop round to mine to see our photos/videos over the weekend and I’m panicking because obviously I won’t have any of the Grand Canyon and if she finds out I never went that will be so embarrassing. I’m wondering whether to say I forgot the camera on that day or would that sound too weird?

That made me laugh!

It reminds me if a time when I bumped into a mum who had had a child in one of my DC’s nursery classes. I was walking with my dog in the grounds of a country hotel and she oohed and aaahed about being a dog lover and asked his name. Unfortunately it was the same name as her Dc. 😬 I therefore blurted out the first name I could think of, which seemed to work ok . Trouble was I’d let him have a little run off-lead and he was getting a bit far away as we chatted so I had to call to him using the wrong name which obviously didn’t really work! Next thing DH came walking up with a dc he’d taken inside to the loo. He saw dog off-lead and getting away on me ( because I couldn’t call him) so hollered out the name of this woman’s dc. Of course dog immediately turned around and bounded like a rocket from about 200m away towards him. It was so awkward…

Be sure the truth shall find you out

Arf! The question here is, of course, was the other woman's DC there and if so, did he also respond to the call?

Burst into tears and say the only thing you saw was a hospital room because you went for a secret Brazilian bum job and it failed miserably. you were hoping for a Grand Canyon but all you got was a Petite Hassleback.

I miss the days when people would invite you over to look at holiday snaps, usually of some exotic (for 1985) location. Some people would put on a slide show! It was a good excuse to get out of the house, score a cup of tea and biscuit and just chat face to face. Mum use to take me to her friends and colleagues’ places to do that and it taught me how to socialise across different age groups.
Everyone is understandably too busy to do that now.

It's great isn't it? 😂

I'm sure you've already talked to her by now, but I would just say sorry you were really jetlagged, the trip was a bit of a blur and you thought she was talking about a casino and you'd said yes because you'd gone to pretty much all of them. You've gone back through your itinerary and realised that she meant the national park that was 4 hours away. Whoops!

And in this instance the truth was hollered loud and clear !

In hindsight I should have just told her and said I liked her DC’s name - but some how the next bit (“for my dog”) seemed too hard to confess!

No! Thankfully he wasn’t!

This is good because totally plausible (at least, in this context).

LOL Thanks for the laughs!

It's not that people are too busy, it's just that with the increase in TV and travel, most people have been seeing exotic locations for decades and don't need to see amateur photographs - usually with someone standing awkwardly in. In the 80s, a man in our village used to run slide shows at the church room of his work trips, places like St Kilda and the Falkland Islands. Dozens would turn up - a bit like how they'd all watch Wildlife On One. It was new and informative. Nowadays if you want to learn about far flung outposts, you just Google.

I accidentally did the same thing about a stopover in a city and then realized my plane was stopped over in another city, and then when I told her it wasn't that city, they got really mad and didn't speak to me for 2 months.

Yes! 🤣🤣

Exactly this, no one has ever said to me 'ooh ill come round to your house to see your holiday videos!!'
There wouldn't be any videos anyway! And I wouldn't bore people with photos, I don't really take any as I don't move from pool/sun lounger !!
Majority of work colleagues would just say did you have a nice holiday...end of!!

😂

I am actually crying at some of these posts 😂

Are they really friend if she has to worry on backtracking on a mistake?.Say it as it is you were not listening and said yes.

I feel it is quite thoughtful for someone to come by and look at photos in these days when no one gives a damn about another person.

She also might be lonely and i do not find looking at photos boring but therapeutic.

Why you lied was stupid ,but at the same time no need for explanation.

😂😂

This reminds me of when I accidentally lied. My friend has a Lego Pyramids in the lounge which I thought was Chichen Itza and I said oh I’ve been there. She started talking about Egypt, where I’ve never been so I just brazened it out 🤣 I don’t see her anymore, not related to my lie though, just fizzled out.

just say you didn't plug your phone charger in properly the night before and it went flat so no pics. Easily done.

jet lag. Vegas is a whirlwind experience. You may have been married to a barman by Elvis and you wouldn’t remember. Don’t stress about it. Xx

Ten minutes? Blimey, I can't even manage five!

Ok OP worry not! I’ve got you sorted.

There is a bar: The Bar @ Flamingo and Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Drive, Las Vegas .

That’ll do.

Say you saw the grand canyon as you flew in and that's what you meant.