My kid was chatting in game on speaker phone for some reason. I was standing behind him watching, and his friend blurts out, “Like that time you flushed the bar of soap and it clogged the toilet?”
My kid says “Shut up, he doesn’t know it was me!”
Sometimes, my kid isn’t the brightest.
I knew it was him, I blamed him for it when it happened. He, and the friend on the phone, were the only two in the house when it happened. And, I know his friend wouldn’t do it.
So you merely deduced it was most likely him? If only your son understood you didn’t know and said “Shut up, he doesn’t know whether it was me” instead.
“I knew it was you because your eyes change color when you lie.”
covers his eyes
After I moved out I told my dad about all the shit I got away with as a kid with a giant smile on my face. What is he going to do about it now, Ground me retroactively? Fuck off.
BTW he found all of it fucking hilarious and commended me on my tact and situational awareness.
The only thing that bothered him was the big ass dent I put in the tailgate of his new truck. He was under the impression that the dealer sold it to him that way and had concealed it so he went back and ripped them a new asshole until they fixed it and now he realizes he was the asshole and not them.
When you spin a web of lies you need to know every strand.
nah, you just need to go on the offensive when the lies fall apart and never admit fault.
works all the time.
Hmm. I might be outside of my demography here
I learned early on not to fabricate stories that I’ll lose track of. I love lying by omission, though, as you can tell half the story and it’s easier to keep track of that way.
Granted, I generally didn’t do things I needed to lie about and have always been upfront with questionable actions, like selling pirated anime CDs in high school and stuff. My parents are way worse than I’ll ever be, though, and when I got kicked out of the house, it was usually because my dad was drunk and delusional, not because I did anything wrong.
Your parents remember stuff? Every time I bring up an old story from when I was younger, my mom has no recollection of it whatsoever. She doesn’t even remember what my first word was. Even if I went to her and admitted everything bad I’d ever done as a kid, she’d have no idea what I’m even talking about.
The amount of people in this thread who enjoy lying is concerning.
Lying is socially expedient.
It’s easier on every front and makes everyone happier. That’s why people do it.
The negative consequences of it are often far off and in the future. In that way it’s sort of like having poor life habits… you don’t pay the consequences till much later.
And the negative social consequences for being truthful are usually immediate.
It’s no concern of mine if it’s turned his life upside-down face
Wild to me to have this much lying going on in a parental relationship
wild to me you don’t?
I don’t know about you, but my parents were very stupid people and basically everything in their life was a lie, so it made no sense to every tell them the truth about anything. Any remotely truthful thing said to them would result in them freaking out and screaming. so eventually I just learned lie to them all the time and it was just easier and our relationship was a lot more chill. I figured this out probably around 15/16 and kept it up until they died. I never had a honest conversation with my parents my entire life since I was like 14.
and a lot of people live their lives that way. not everyone, sure. I’m truthful to people who aren’t my family, but even then it often doesn’t go over well because well, most folks only want to hear comforting lies, and they adore people that lie to them far more than they adore people who are truthful. I’ve also been on the flipside in a ‘good’ relationship, that was all built on the other person constantly lying to me.
Not everyone can hear people’s critical/negative opinions of them are not take it personally. Like, the among of people I’ve had that kind of relationship with is probably less than 10. But people I have known who require you to lie to them (or other people) to maintain a relationship with them or there is never going to be a relationship? 100s. Like most of my friendships/relationships have ended because I told them the truth or found out they were lying to me about something major, and every single time do you think the other person thinks they were the problem? No. I was the problem.
Most social relationships are entirely built on lies and could not function without them, including intimate ones between friends and family.
