The biggest lies you've told your parents (as an adult) ?

whirlpool

What is the biggest lie you've told your parents as an adult?

I don't really lie to them anymore but there is a big one about myself that I've been keeping from them for a few months that I feel bad about but it's for their own good, it doesn't affect them in any way but they'd be annoyed if they found out. It's akin to them lying to me about Santa for nine years :pac:

Neyite

You first.

That I'm straight

there extremely religious and homophobic so I'm not telling them noting

The Backwards Man

Of course I won't throw you in a home Dad.

Legs.Eleven

Probably that I'm feeling grand when I'm not. I don't like them worrying about me. Other than that, I conveniently leave out some details about my life they don't need to know, which is not lying as such.


I was an awful liar when I was a kid/teenager though.

Duggy747

No Mammy, I'm grand. I don't need any money.


*Fastens bailing twine around black bag pants*

BBJBIG

What stains - I blew me Nose with the bed sheet ...

Aglomerado

"I only paid X for that insert frivolous object here".

(Where x = half of actual price.)

stefan idiot jones

I've no idea where Tiddles has got to?

sbsquarepants

My washing machine is broken:D

Yogosan

I'm adopted.

flutered

girls never tell their mums everything, never have, never will.

sbsquarepants

Aglomerado wrote: »

" insert frivolous object here".

I'm getting this printed on knickers for the girlfriends birthday.

Aglomerado

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I'm getting this printed on knickers for the girlfriends birthday.

Feck I knew when I posted it that there was a double entendre in there! (Fnarr!)

Glebee

It was only low alcohol beer....

Mr. CooL ICE

No, I've never taken drugs. Sure, look at me. I'm healthy, have a good job and exercise regularly. Couldn't do all that on drugs now, could I?

sbsquarepants

Aglomerado wrote: »

Feck I knew when I posted it that there was a double entendre in there! (Fnarr!)

I think that counts as a quadruple!

imitation

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Probably that I'm feeling grand when I'm not. I don't like them worrying about me. Other than that, I conveniently leave out some details about my life they don't need to know, which is not lying as such.


I was an awful liar when I was a kid/teenager though.

This right here, theres this funny cold war between parents and adult kids about medical stuff where they leave out anything too worrysome!

gammygils

Separate Rooms. Of course!

cletus van damme

LordChessington wrote: »

No, I've never taken drugs. Sure, look at me. I'm healthy, have a good job and exercise regularly. Couldn't do all that on drugs now, could I?

ha ha.. I've been dragged into a discussion a few times on so and so and their filthy drug habit. As usual I chime in saying "and he is such a nice lad, terrible shame......"

frequently it's about a relative i socialise a bit with and I play down my involvement with him. terrible I know.

kylith

Smoked for ten years, 'the house smells like smoke because my friends smoke'. Maybe she knew, but she never let on if she did.

suicide_circus

Direct lies? Not really. Lies of omission? Manifold.

flutered

i would never have sex on a first date, never mind after getting pulled in a pub.

qwertyabcd

that I didn't smoke, the smell of smoke was because all the girls I worked with smoked, I quit smoking a month later anyway

I go sparingly on the outright lies but I'm generous with omissions (usually).

Recently there was the 'Mum, I can't drive up for X's wedding tomorrow, I've a sprained ankle and I've to keep it elevated. No, no, I'm grand, I can manage by myself. No, I didn't fall because I was drinking, I just twisted it out of the blue. No, it's been x-rayed, theres no fracture. No, it's not in plaster. No, what's tubigrip?... Besides, I hit my head and I have a headache. No, my pupils are the same size. No, no, I didn't black out...'

'Alright, I'll be there before dinner '

The moral of the story is never tell a health lie to an MD.

Vito Corleone

My parents never told me the word "fart" until I was about ten. We used to say windy-woo. :P

For some reason my Mum didn't like the word "fart", hahahaha. Windy woo.

Sinister Pigeon

"You are my parents."

Vito Corleone

Vito Corleone wrote: »

My parents never told me the word "fart" until I was about ten. We used to say windy-woo. :P

For some reason my Mum didn't like the word "fart", hahahaha. Windy woo.

I think that's adorable

PizzamanIRL

I never speed. I'm a safe driver.

Legs.Eleven

imitation wrote: »

This right here, theres this funny cold war between parents and adult kids about medical stuff where they leave out anything too worrysome!

I was talking more about being down in the dumps or not feeling fantastic mentally but yeah, same thing I suppose. I've never had serious physical medical problems, thank jaysus. I think I'd actually tell my dad and step-merm if I did tbh.

cactuspaw

That I've never smoked, I'd say they have a fair idea.