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

whirlpool · 06-06-2014 01:18PM #1

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 · 06-06-2014 01:24PM

You first.

06-06-2014 01:26PM

That I'm straight

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

The Backwards Man · 06-06-2014 01:27PM

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

Legs.Eleven · 06-06-2014 01:28PM

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 · 06-06-2014 01:39PM

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

*Fastens bailing twine around black bag pants*

BBJBIG · 06-06-2014 01:45PM

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

Aglomerado · 06-06-2014 01:48PM

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

(Where x = half of actual price.)

stefan idiot jones · 06-06-2014 01:49PM

I've no idea where Tiddles has got to?

sbsquarepants · 06-06-2014 01:51PM

My washing machine is broken:D

Yogosan · 06-06-2014 01:51PM

I'm adopted.

flutered · 06-06-2014 01:52PM

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

sbsquarepants · 06-06-2014 01:53PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

" insert frivolous object here".

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

Aglomerado · 06-06-2014 01:54PM

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 · 06-06-2014 01:56PM

It was only low alcohol beer....

Mr. CooL ICE · 06-06-2014 01:56PM

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 · 06-06-2014 01:57PM

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 · 06-06-2014 01:58PM

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 · 06-06-2014 02:02PM

Separate Rooms. Of course!

cletus van damme · 06-06-2014 02:02PM

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 · 06-06-2014 02:02PM

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 · 06-06-2014 02:45PM

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

flutered · 06-06-2014 02:46PM

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

qwertyabcd · 06-06-2014 03:50PM

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

06-06-2014 04:25PM

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 · 06-06-2014 04:26PM

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 · 06-06-2014 05:01PM

"You are my parents."

06-06-2014 05:03PM

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 · 06-06-2014 05:05PM

I never speed. I'm a safe driver.

Legs.Eleven · 06-06-2014 08:22PM

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 · 06-06-2014 08:33PM

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

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

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