Oh, that works in reverse for me.
My parents would slip up or just forget some lie they’d been telling me for 20, 30 years.
Always thought it was strange they never actually told me what day their anniversiary is.
The answer is: Surprise, subtract 9 months and… you’re unplanned and we had a shotgun wedding!
Doesn’t bother me that I’m an accident, bothers me that they lied, that they spent decades giving me a totally different story.
There’s a lot more than that, but I don’t want to make myself potentially identifiable lol.
Boomer solution to having a child out of wedlock: lies and shame.
Millennial solution to having a child out of wedlock: who gives a shit and why was that even a thing?
they weren’t lying for your sake. probably for their friends/family.
My older siblings remember seeing photos of my parents getting married around the house growing up. I don’t because one of my siblings noticed my oldest sibling in the photos and started asking questions. Rather than explain anything, they just took down all the wedding photos.
Shame is a powerfully dumb emotion sometimes.
pretty common to be honest. I was about 10 years old when I realized three months of my brothers gestation was missing from my parents marriage. I brought it up and my mom just chuckled and told me I’m a smart boy…too smart for my own good.
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.
It’s no concern of mine if it’s turned his life upside-down face
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.
Tbf the only “person” hurt there was a car dealer. As far as I’m concerned that’s positive karma right there.
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.
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.
Hmm. I might be outside of my demography here
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.
