Ever been caught lying?

Brid Hegarty

Were you ever caught lying? Or did you ever witness someone else get caught? 

My auntie once pretended she spent Christmas with a friend of hers out of embarrassment that she really spent it alone. About 6 months later it somehow was brought up in conversation by another family member when that friend was present, and it caught quite awkward for my aunt. It was very unlikely that that friend happened to be in their company when it came up so I can see when she taught she's get away with it. These days I'm a lot more careful with when I lie.

Of course I know some people who lie all the time out of habit, so it's not very interesting when they get caught as there's no guilt, and they may just insult your intelligence by continuing to act as if they can still fool you.

Gregor Samsa

Never! 😳

Gregor Samsa

Actually, I had a friend when we were teenagers. He started going out with a girl from the estate up the road. He didn't know her very well, but on one of their first conversations, he said to her "My dad's dead." She immediately replied with "Oh! So is mine!" and an instant bond in bereavement was born.

Except his dad wasn't dead. For some reason he just said it. He was going to follow up with something stupid about his whole family being dead, but had the good sense to stop once she told him her situation. However he didn't have the good sense to tell the truth. So he spent quite a bit of time trying to keep her from calling into his gaff, so that she wouldn't encounter his very much alive father. After a couple of weeks he couldn't keep that up, so he told her he lived with his uncle. So when she called at the door, and his dad answered, she assumed it was the uncle. Naturally he had to try to get us all to play along with this deception too, which we weren't very keen on. So after about a month, he had to come clean to her. Luckily she saw the funny side.

Riddle101

Yes, when I was in 3rd Class I got caught in a lie. I kept bunking off school one week. I'd leave the house and pretend to go to school but then I'd come back home. I told my mother on the first day I bunked off that the pipe burst in the classroom and we were told to go home because there would be no class. This actually happened once in my school before where something happened to the pipes and the classes were allowed to go home that day so I used the same excuse. I got away with it and had the whole day off because of it. On the second day, I did the same thing. I pretended to go to school but came back home and told them the pipes still weren't fixed so I got another day off. On the third day, I did it again but my parents started to get suspicious and eventually started questioning me more thoroughly about what was going on. In the end, I relented and admitted to them that I had been ditching school all this time and of course, they were furious with me. I was grounded for a month and wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons for six months.

seamus

In 4th & 5th year I skipped a lot of school. I was bored as fuuuuuuck, so it would be common enough for me to just skip the first class and go in late, or leave the house on time, go to the shop and then go home again after everyone had left. Or skip the last class before lunch, give myself an extra long lunch. Going home for lunch and just not going back in was really common. I'd often have a double-period after lunch that was bullsh1t like religion or Irish, so my plan would be to skip that but then I wouldn't bother going back at all. If I ever did get caught by a parent coming home, I'd just say I had double religion so I came home and they'd be cool with that.

So one day I get a puncture on my way into school. I only bring in half the day's books, I go home at lunchtime and then swap them out for the ones I need. This is a problem because I can't walk home to get my books and get back inside a lunch hour. Grand, I'll skip the class before lunch, walk home, fix the puncture, have lunch, cycle back. Sorted.

Except as I'm walking out the gate, the smarmiest prick priest in the school catches me and asks what I'm doing. I have a reasonable excuse for once. "Have you anyone's permission". I don't.

So he tells me to go back up to the year head and tell him that I've been caught trying to skip out of school. So I go up to the office alright, tell the year head that I have a puncture and I need to get my books, and can I have permission.

He's happy with that. I think I'm very **** smart, and off home I go.

Of course the priest went and checked with the year head (he probably saw me strutting back out the gates), and it all unravelled when I came back after lunch. Only got detention though.

I'm an awful liar so I don't even bother to try. If someone asks why I didn't attend an event or where I was for something usually not important ill just be honest. I much prefer to be honest, probably due to my guilty conscious. 😁

McGinniesta

I didn't go the pub last night and pull a sickie. Honest. Swear to god.