What’s a lie you’ve told that went too far? – 17 mostly harmless fibs that got out of hand

10.

‘Work in primary education, had 2 days out of last November for first aid training. Came back to the school after a session had finished sporting an arm in a bandage and sling (from practising making those).

Managed to convince a good majority of Year 6 that it was a result of a unicycle accident, so much so they arranged with the headteacher for myself to give a demonstration of my newly discovered skills in assembly. Naturally, I had to own up ’
-Three_Steaks_Pam

11.

‘In early days of courting I told my partner that I too really like musicals when arranging a date

Been to about ten now. She sings along, encourages me too, tells people it’s our Thing, our special treat to book in advance for special days.

I love that she loves them, I really do. She’s excited in the lead up. Travel, Dinner, Hotel etc it’s all fabulous. Afterwards she talks about it for weeks.

But can I safely say under the cover of anonymity, that the actual Musical show part of the weekend completely sucks. I spend most of the time just day dreaming about other things.

If we ever split up, I’ll never go to another Musical in my entire life ’
-I-live-in-room-101

12.

‘When we were about fifteen, my friend talked me into calling her boyfriend as somebody else (he didn’t know me, but he knew she knew me), saying I was a friend of a completely different friend. So, as this made up character, we called him completely out of the blue. The conversation went on for over an hour trying to see if this boy would try and cheat on my friend.

The next day, he called again and I absentmindedly answered. I ended up talking to this kid for a long time again and, despite his bravado, he was quite a sweet and sensitive soul. We talked for even longer this time and admittedly I got carried away because I liked the attention.

We spoke a few more times but the guilt was starting to get to me. Then the horror came of him dumping my friend. He called immediately after and asked “me” out. I panicked and said I didn’t know, then ignored all his calls after.
Naturally, he ended up asking the other friend how she knew me and her response was that she didn’t. He accused my other friend, his ex, that it was her, and obviously she was livid that I’d carried on talking to him after that night. I deserved it but damn I learnt some valuable lessons about lying and consequences that day.’
-shhh-dolly

13.

‘When I was 11 I started mountain biking, thought I was pretty good at it and wouldn’t stop telling everyone how I could jump my bike off the biggest jump (that the older kids built).

Got called out at the jump and to hide my shame I went at it full speed.

I took off like ET and Elliott and broke my collarbone ’
-jaBroniest

14.

‘When I was 9 we were on a family trip, on a long hike somewhere when suddenly my ankle was in absolute agony. I hadn’t gone over on it or anything, it genuinely just came out of nowhere, swelled up like a club and felt broken.
It ruined the rest of our camping trip as it would just randomly come and go. Like I could be walking/running fine on it then suddenly it’d just kill me, or I’d go to sleep fine and wake up in the middle of the night screaming/crying in pain from it.

My mum kept asking me what I’d done to it and I felt like I had to give a reason so I just made something up related to playing football at school, not realising that this would find its way back to the school with my mum complaining why nothing had been reported as an injury etc, and also to hospital and a very prolonged course of physiotherapy which was largely ineffective, then eventually forcing me to stop playing rugby in my late teens after playing for 10 years or risk continuing to aggravate it to a permanent condition which would work its way up my leg to my spine etc.

At some point along the medical journey there was a slightly abnormal bone growth identified in an X-Ray which was probably responsible, but was brushed aside as a contributory factor, secondary to and aggravated by the initial ‘sports injury’ ’
-Ricky_Martins_Vagina

15.

‘I had an office mate who had the common touch. I jokingly said he set traps for pigeons and would take them home to eat, and that he didn’t use the kettle and went straight to the hot tap. It amazed me how many people were happy to believe such obvious untruths.’
-EugeneHartke

16.

‘Told people I went to a different uni to what I actually did. Was rather embarrassed in the one I got into as it was not cool like the rest of my friends but I was going for a specific course.

Kept this lie up until my 20s where I worked with someone who had gone to the uni I lied about and started quizzing me on my experience, where I lived, clubs and tutors etc

Was highly embarrassing when I knew nothing

Now I am older I can see it was so dumb to pretend I was at some cool uni when at the end of the day you are attending for a certain education, who cares how you get it.’
-Pen_dragons_pizza

17.

‘I was bought up by my dad and he used to make me eat muesli which I hated. When I used to visit my mum I told her I was allergic to nuts to avoid any nut related things, fast forward at 20 I got pregnant and she came to my first appointment and when they asked if I was allergic to anything I had to say nuts to continue the lie. I still to this day at the age of 43, have huge neon stickers on my medical notes saying nut allergy.’
-sparkysmonkey

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