Lying

<p>Everyone lies sometimes. We do it to salvage our reputation, to gain money or power, to cover our a*ses, to show off, or just because we&#39;re bored and want to mess with people. But a major problem with lying is that&mdash;other than the fact that it&#39;s morally wrong&mdash;it can make us look like idiots if we get caught. So I guess the moral is: if you&#39;re going to lie, don&#39;t be obvious about it. It&#39;s not the most moral of morals, but at least it&#39;s honest.</p><h2>Someone <a href="http://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kwga4b/what_is_the_most_obvious_lie_you_have_ever_been/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;What is the most obvious lie you have ever been told?&quot; These 22 people share stories of people who tried to lie to them, but it didn&#39;t go very well:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sunset117/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">sunset117</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My first watch was an omega and I saved up on high school to get it. One of my good friends back then asked to wear it for 1 period and would give it back at lunch. He begged and begged so as a hs kid I gave in or couldn&rsquo;t keep saying no I guess, weak on me, obviously. Well, He smashed it (apparently smashed the glass to test it) gave it back and said it was a fake and that&rsquo;s why the glass cracked and said he didn&rsquo;t do it and it just fell apart. Asshole became a medical doctor and is now involved in politics and holds state office. I&rsquo;m still pissed about the watch he never admitted he broke cuz he was salty and jealous. Dickhead then, dickhead now.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lurkity_mclurkington/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">lurkity_mclurkington</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When a co-worker told my own story back to me as his own. Twice.</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LaLionneEcossaise/">LaLionneEcossaise</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I speak French, though I&rsquo;m losing it from lack of use. But one of my college guy friends started dating a girl &ldquo;from France.&rdquo; He was all excited because she could talk to me in her native language and I could help translate. So he brought her to a party at my sorority house and introduced us.</p> <p>I greeted her in French with a very simple, &ldquo;bonjour, bienvenue, comment &ccedil;a va&rdquo; which is just hi, welcome, how are you.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Blank stare and red face in response. She then said, in what I thought was a kind of strange accent, that she&rsquo;s sorry, she didn&rsquo;t understand me. I looked at the guy and said &ldquo;I thought you told me she was French?&rdquo; Because maybe she was a different nationality and he was confused.</p> <p>He looked at her and she just turned and left. He followed then returned a bit later and said he had caught up to her and she started screaming at him in perfect Midwestern accented English that he was a jerk for setting her up to look like a fool.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>He had genuinely been excited that he could introduce her to someone she could talk to so he was blown away by her accusations and then angry that she lied. She apparently felt faking an accent would make her more appealing or something.</p> <p>I would see her around on campus after that but she avoided me like the plague. TBH, I felt bad for her, but if you&rsquo;re going to fake it, at least pick a country with a language you can speak.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Knight_Owls/">Knight_Owls</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When I was a kid, the internet wasn&#39;t a thing so, my friends were whoever happened to live in the neighborhood. One kid was a well known liar and exaggerator. We were maybe 14 years old at this time.</p> <p>This kid could play guitar and was always talking himself up about it and talking about &quot;his band.&quot; He actually could play, but &quot;his band&quot; did not exist.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>One day, I called him at his house, from my house. I don&#39;t remember what it was about, but a few minutes into the conversation, told me, &quot;by the way, I&#39;m in Florida with my band&quot;, just out of the blue. This was before even pagers were a common thing. I called him. At his house.</p> <p>I just said something like , &quot;uh huh. Ok.&quot; and ended the conversation. I then proceeded to tell all the other kids in the neighborhood.</p> </blockquote><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Monkey-Tamer/">Monkey-Tamer</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When I was a public defender my dipsh*t client called up his victim from the jail phone the night before his trial. He said kill repeatedly in an attempt to intimidate her. When I was telling him how stupid this was his excuse was that he was watching Kill Bill and someone changed the channel on the cell block communal TV. That dumbass is now doing 28 years in prison.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/natasha_c/">natasha_c</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My friend told me that getting a Peloton changed her life. I looked up her workout stats &amp; she had used it 4 times in 5 months of owning it. Her husband fared a little better with using it 9 times.</p> <p>Don&#39;t know why this annoyed me so much.</p> </blockquote><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/VixenRoss/">VixenRoss</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My little girl told everyone in the supermarket that our cat died and she was sad. We don&rsquo;t own a cat.</p> </blockquote><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PrometheusAborted/">PrometheusAborted</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>In 5th grade, a friend of ours used to try to convince us he used to hangout with the band Sublime.</p> <p>Among other stuff, he said the he was the person featured on the cover of their self-titled album and he used to do drugs with them.</p> <p>We were 11 years old and he claimed this all happened two years before he even moved to our school. So yeah, a nine year old did all this wild sh*t. We constantly called bullsh*t but he would just continue to lie and make up more stuff. We stopped hanging out with him because he was so full of sh*t.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lickyoursisterstoes/">lickyoursisterstoes</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My mom after 11-year-old me accidentally destroyed her favourite vase by throwing my brothers stuffed animals around the living room: &quot;I&#39;m not mad.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lickyoursisterstoes/">lickyoursisterstoes</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My mom after 11-year-old me accidentally destroyed her favourite vase by throwing my brothers stuffed animals around the living room: I&#39;m not mad.</p> </blockquote><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MeowthThatsRite/">MeowthThatsRite</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>In high school a buddy told me that he didn&rsquo;t steal our other buddies watch. He was wearing the watch when I asked him about it.</p> </blockquote><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Readordie5/">Readordie5</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A childhood friend and I met up for coffee one day after not meeting for a few years. He casually &quot;let it slip&quot; that ever since he earned a black belt he has had to register with the state as a &quot;human weapon&quot;.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fritzj/">fritzj</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When my friend was an infant, her mother put her 2-year-old sibling in her crib while the mom left the room briefly. When mom came back, my friend was crying and had teeth marks on her forehead. When mom asked the older sibling what happened, she calmly said, &quot;She bit herself.&quot;<button aria-label="upvote" aria-pressed="false" data-click-id="upvote"></button></p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Thalefeather/">Thalefeather</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;I never said you had to sign the document if it wasnt true&quot;</p> <p>Says the person with three emails telling me to sign a document even after I said it wasn&#39;t true sitting on her outbox.</p> </blockquote><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Daikataro/">Daikataro</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;We cannot give you a raise right now, but we will compensate you as soon as the budget allows&quot;.</p> <p>Turns out &quot;when the budget allows&quot; is &quot;when you already have another job offer and put in your two weeks notice&quot;.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/reusethisname/">reusethisname</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>As a tax accountant, I&#39;m told lies about how much money people actually made all the time during tax season.</p> <p>My favorite was a guy telling me he&#39;s broke because he only makes $35,000/year in NYC so my (very reasonable) fee is too much for him. He says this after he asks me if he can deduct the new BMW 5 series he just bought his son all cash.</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ping500/">ping500</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;The company is in a great shape so don&#39;t pay any attention to rumours about financial trouble&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PancakeOnMyForehead/">PancakeOnMyForehead</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When my little brother mixed like 50 condiments, including sprinkles, ketchup, cereal n stuff, into a bag of popcorn an ate it telling us it was delicious when his face looked like hed just ate 10 extremely sour warheads at once. He later admitted he just wanted us to eat it but we never did.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Miskelaneous/">Miskelaneous</a>:<button></button></p><blockquote> <p>My ex told me he was in a car accident, totaled his car, broke a few ribs. (He was trying to get sympathy so i would get back together with him.) Blaming the accident on me, since he was &quot;Distracted&quot; after the break up.</p> <p>He sent me a photo of his car smashed in, i google searched it. First pic of his make/model that was wrecked. He formulated the story after the picture.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>But here&#39;s the deal, the wheels didn&#39;t match. So i drove by his house that evening, car was fixed and in his driveway. &quot;Oh yes, i paid the shop extra to get me in today. So i could have my car to come see you if you wanted me to.....&quot;</p> <p>HAHAHA bro.</p> </blockquote><p>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ThursdayNextian/">ThursdayNextian</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My co-worker once tried to convince me that centaurs exist. She said they lived in a gated community in Hollywood and did all the horse stunts for movies.</p> <p>Did we both know it was a lie? Yes.</p> <p>Did she ever admit it was? No and I admire that about her</p> </blockquote><p>21.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GuidingLightPony/">GuidingLightPony</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;Your call is important to us.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>22.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/afoxcalleddany/">afoxcalleddany</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not a hickey I bruised my neck helping my sister move today&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

22 people share stories of the most obvious lies they’ve ever been told.

Everyone lies sometimes. We do it to salvage our reputation, to gain money or power, to cover our a*ses, to show off, or just because we&#39;re bored and want to mess with people. But a major problem with lying is that&mdash;other than the fact that it&#39;s morally wrong&mdash;it can make us look like idiots if we get caught. So I guess the moral is: if you&#39;re going to lie, don&#39;t be obvious about it. It&#39;s not the most moral of morals, but at least it&#39;s honest.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;What is the most obvious lie you have ever been told?&quot; These 22 people share stories of people who tried to lie to them, but it didn&#39;t go very well:1.) From sunset117: My first watch was an omega and I saved up on high school to get it. One of my good friends back then asked to wear it for 1 period and would give it back at lunch. He begged and begged so as a hs kid I gave in or couldn&rsquo;t keep saying no I guess, weak on me, obviously. Well, He smashed it (apparently smashed the glass to test it) gave it back and said it was a fake and that&rsquo;s why the glass cracked and said he didn&rsquo;t do it and it just fell apart. Asshole became a medical doctor and is now involved in politics and holds state office. I&rsquo;m still pissed about the watch he never admitted he broke cuz he was salty and jealous. Dickhead then, dickhead now. 2.) From lurkity_mclurkington: When a co-worker told my own story back to me as his own. Twice. 3.) From LaLionneEcossaise: I speak French, though I&rsquo;m losing it from lack of use. But one of my college guy friends started dating a girl &ldquo;from France.&rdquo; He was all excited because she could talk to me in her native language and I could help translate. So he brought her to a party at my sorority house and introduced us. I greeted her in French with a very simple, &ldquo;bonjour, bienvenue, comment &ccedil;a va&rdquo; which is just hi, welcome, how are you.  Blank stare and red face in response. She then said, in what I thought was a kind of strange accent, that she&rsquo;s sorry, she didn&rsquo;t understand me. I looked at the guy and said &ldquo;I thought you told me she was French?&rdquo; Because maybe she was a different nationality and he was confused. He looked at her and she just turned and left. He followed then returned a bit later and said he had caught up to her and she started screaming at him in perfect Midwestern accented English that he was a jerk for setting her up to look like a fool.  He had genuinely been excited that he could introduce her to someone she could talk to so he was blown away by her accusations and then angry that she lied. She apparently felt faking an accent would make her more appealing or something. I would see her around on campus after that but she avoided me like the plague. TBH, I felt bad for her, but if you&rsquo;re going to fake it, at least pick a country with a language you can speak. 4.) From Knight_Owls: When I was a kid, the internet wasn&#39;t a thing so, my friends were whoever happened to live in the neighborhood. One kid was a well known liar and exaggerator. We were maybe 14 years old at this time. This kid could play guitar and was always talking himself up about it and talking about &quot;his band.&quot; He actually could play, but &quot;his band&quot; did not exist.  One day, I called him at his house, from my house. I don&#39;t remember what it was about, but a few minutes into the conversation, told me, &quot;by the way, I&#39;m in Florida with my band&quot;, just out of the blue. This was before even pagers were a common thing. I called him. At his house. I just said something like , &quot;uh huh. Ok.&quot; and ended the conversation. I then proceeded to tell all the other kids in the neighborhood. 5.) From Monkey-Tamer: When I was a public defender my dipsh*t client called up his victim from the jail phone the night before his trial. He said kill repeatedly in an attempt to intimidate her. When I was telling him how stupid this was his excuse was that he was watching Kill Bill and someone changed the channel on the cell block communal TV. That dumbass is now doing 28 years in prison. 6.) From natasha_c: My friend told me that getting a Peloton changed her life. I looked up her workout stats &amp; she had used it 4 times in 5 months of owning it. Her husband fared a little better with using it 9 times. Don&#39;t know why this annoyed me so much. 7.) From VixenRoss: My little girl told everyone in the supermarket that our cat died and she was sad. We don&rsquo;t own a cat. 8.) From PrometheusAborted: In 5th grade, a friend of ours used to try to convince us he used to hangout with the band Sublime. Among other stuff, he said the he was the person featured on the cover of their self-titled album and he used to do drugs with them. We were 11 years old and he claimed this all happened two years before he even moved to our school. So yeah, a nine year old did all this wild sh*t. We constantly called bullsh*t but he would just continue to lie and make up more stuff. We stopped hanging out with him because he was so full of sh*t. 9.) From lickyoursisterstoes: My mom after 11-year-old me accidentally destroyed her favourite vase by throwing my brothers stuffed animals around the living room: &quot;I&#39;m not mad.&quot; 10.) From lickyoursisterstoes: My mom after 11-year-old me accidentally destroyed her favourite vase by throwing my brothers stuffed animals around the living room: I&#39;m not mad. 11.) From MeowthThatsRite: In high school a buddy told me that he didn&rsquo;t steal our other buddies watch. He was wearing the watch when I asked him about it. 12.) From Readordie5: A childhood friend and I met up for coffee one day after not meeting for a few years. He casually &quot;let it slip&quot; that ever since he earned a black belt he has had to register with the state as a &quot;human weapon&quot;. 13.) From fritzj: When my friend was an infant, her mother put her 2-year-old sibling in her crib while the mom left the room briefly. When mom came back, my friend was crying and had teeth marks on her forehead. When mom asked the older sibling what happened, she calmly said, &quot;She bit herself.&quot; 14.) From Thalefeather: &quot;I never said you had to sign the document if it wasnt true&quot; Says the person with three emails telling me to sign a document even after I said it wasn&#39;t true sitting on her outbox. 15.) From Daikataro: &quot;We cannot give you a raise right now, but we will compensate you as soon as the budget allows&quot;. Turns out &quot;when the budget allows&quot; is &quot;when you already have another job offer and put in your two weeks notice&quot;. 16.) From reusethisname: As a tax accountant, I&#39;m told lies about how much money people actually made all the time during tax season. My favorite was a guy telling me he&#39;s broke because he only makes $35,000/year in NYC so my (very reasonable) fee is too much for him. He says this after he asks me if he can deduct the new BMW 5 series he just bought his son all cash. 17.) From ping500: &quot;The company is in a great shape so don&#39;t pay any attention to rumours about financial trouble&quot; 18.) From PancakeOnMyForehead: When my little brother mixed like 50 condiments, including sprinkles, ketchup, cereal n stuff, into a bag of popcorn an ate it telling us it was delicious when his face looked like hed just ate 10 extremely sour warheads at once. He later admitted he just wanted us to eat it but we never did. 19.) From Miskelaneous: My ex told me he was in a car accident, totaled his car, broke a few ribs. (He was trying to get sympathy so i would get back together with him.) Blaming the accident on me, since he was &quot;Distracted&quot; after the break up. He sent me a photo of his car smashed in, i google searched it. First pic of his make/model that was wrecked. He formulated the story after the picture.  But here&#39;s the deal, the wheels didn&#39;t match. So i drove by his house that evening, car was fixed and in his driveway. &quot;Oh yes, i paid the shop extra to get me in today. So i could have my car to come see you if you wanted me to.....&quot; HAHAHA bro. 20.) From ThursdayNextian: My co-worker once tried to convince me that centaurs exist. She said they lived in a gated community in Hollywood and did all the horse stunts for movies. Did we both know it was a lie? Yes. Did she ever admit it was? No and I admire that about her 21.) From GuidingLightPony: &quot;Your call is important to us.&quot; 22.) From afoxcalleddany: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not a hickey I bruised my neck helping my sister move today&rdquo; 

Everyone lies sometimes. We do it to salvage our reputation, to gain money or power, to cover our a*ses, to show off, or just because we&#39;re bored and want to mess with people. But a major problem with lying is that&mdash;other than the...