To ask you for your own WILTY stories?

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I like to organise dinner parties where we copy the premise of "Would I Lie to You?" If you're not familiar with this programme, each person reads out a story supposedly from their recent or distant past. The story they read out may or may not be true, and the other guests get to cross-examine the story teller and decide whether or not they believe them. The crucial thing is these stories are a mixture of funny and embarrassing.

Of course I tweak the format a little to suit a DP - we cannot do the "This is My..." round for instance, and spouses cannot interrogate, or vote, on their partner's stories.

Guests send me their true story a couple of days ahead, and I invent an equally ridiculous lie that is both entertaining and plausible. Then both truth and lie go into an envelope which the story-teller draws from: so 50-50 it's a lie. Some of the funniest details of a story come out in the cross-examining - if the story is a lie, the teller has to make up whatever details he can to make it seem plausible. As a teller you get points for passing truths off as lies, and for passing lies off as truths. The others get points for sniffing out the lies and endorsing the truths.

Since I've done this a few times, I'm running out of hilarious lies, since not everything can be recycled. For new lies, I like to draw on weird true stories from friends and relatives. One of my favourites, as an example, was when a friend was forced to run out into the street in her nightie at 8.30 am to retrieve her lacy knickers that were travelling quite fast past the neighbours' houses. The detail is that they had got caught on the back of a hedgehog who then continued on his usual early-morning foraging route. They landed on the hedgehog after she had shaken her counterpane out of the window after a very very late party, not realising there was underwear on there... the knickers wafted down to the flowerbed below where the hedgehog like to browse.

So this is where I need your help: new, hilarious stories. Things that may have happened to you, or to someone you know. Goodness knows we all need the odd amusing distraction these days.

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I saw the wilty board game in a charity shop yesterday, so there's that that you could probably buy online if you were desperate, or maybe a reddit thread of embarrassing stories. Its not my thing but if you live somewhere its not shown i see why it might work for you.

I love my sisters story - she very reluctantly went to a carol concert last Christmas with her boss at a private members club. It was a busy parlour like affair with a pianist. Her boss went to the bathroom and she was chatting with the pianist who then begun to play and encouraged her to sing along. She did thinking everyone else would join in … they didn’t 😂 her boss arrived back to see her singing to a room full of people. Just as the professional singer she had been mistake for also arrived. She said she literally ran out 😂

Sounds like my kind of evening.

I've told this before but when I went to the post office, I parked my car and went in. When I came out I noticed my tyre was flat and did the thing where you put your foot on the tyre. I looked up and saw a complete stranger looking weirdly at me, as I realised it wasn't my car! 😂🙄

My sister loved doing crafts and when her daughter was in Primary school, DN made a beautiful picture of a sunflower using pasta and paint, entering it in a competition and it won 1st place, it was in the newspaper and on the wall in school and my sister had made it! 🥰😂

Very outing but I was struck by lightning and walked away mostly unscathed. More shocking than funny though

The OP just asked for some amusing stories, not a rudely patronising critique of her dinner party idea.

As a PP said, your post is anything but kind so why bother sticking that at the start?

The OP just wants posters to share some amusing stories, she's not asking for somewhat snide comments on her dinner party plan.

Here's mine:
My DH and I used to commute together in our car to our nearest city. He dropped me off in the morning at my place of work and at the end of the day I caught the bus to his place of work, found the car which was always in the same parking space, and we went home together. One evening I got into the car leant over to kiss DH in the driving seat, only to realise that it wasn't DH. In fact it wasn't our car. I blurted out "You're not my husband" and fled.

Or another one:
I attended a training course in a part of the city I was unfamiliar with. I parked in a street near the venue and attended the course. At the end of the day, I went back to the street, but my car was nowhere to be seen. It had obviously been stolen. After trying to find it for a while, I gave up and called the police. After a while a police officer turned up. I showed him where I had left the car. He suggested that we look in a few nearby streets in case I had mistaken where I had parked it. I told him not to be so patronising. Of course, I had indeed mistaken the street and the car was in the very next one we looked at. The only thing I could say was "ok, I'm an idiot!"

Am sure OP is perfectly capable of letting us know that and doesn’t need you to police her thread. No need to take offence on her behalf.

More amusing stories there! Thank you very much!
A very similar thing to @Confusedmeanderings ‘s story happened to me but I got into the driving seat of a car with someone else’s baby in it!

I am cringing at what happened to @TheDevilWears ‘s sister! What a living nightmare that was, it’s bringing me out in cold sweats!!!

What a cheery way to start the day. Thank you! 🙏

There is an old podcas, but still available, called “At Least You Didn’t” which is essentially 2 friends recounting all their embarrassing stories.

Thanks Ibiza, that’s likely to be a gold mine of great stories 😅

I know someone who this happened to but she worked in the police station cafe and knew all the police officers. They all took it in good humour when the car was eventually discovered the following day

Ok here is something I did when I was 19, went round to a male friends house with my boyfriend. I think the new Elvis Costello had just come out. Parents were there but very easy going and liberal so not bothered about a few teenagers in their sons bedtoom smoking weed and listening to music the house was like loads of others I have seen with the bathroom at the top of the stairs and 3 bedrooms. I needed the loo went, the tried to get out. Door jammed its late and the others cant hear parents in bed. I pushed and pulled was a bit panicked so I sat on the floor with my back to the loo and pushed as hard as I could with my feet, and the WHOLE WALL door and all feel down the stairway, smashing and splintering. I still go cold and hot when I think about it. It was only just renovated and it was a SLIDDING door. Which I was to stoned to remember.

😂 Good old AIBU board never disappoints!

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Ps forgot to say it was a sliding door on the bathroom

You did say that, Nettie! What an absolute bloody nightmare! I would have fled the premises 😅