What's the most horrible...

[design_mom]

Mine doesn't compare to most of these, but my brother-in-law "embellishes" everything to the point of ridiculousness... the great deal he got on something he bought, the praise that the coach heaped on his son -- promising college scholarships and beyond (even though I was standing right next to him when the coach came by and all the coach said was "[nephew] had a great game!")

It's all ridiculous, stupid stuff -- stuff nobody even asked him about, so there's no reason to even bring it up if you feel you "need" to lie. But it's small enough stuff that if I confront him about the lies, he'll turn it around and I'll end up looking like the one who's making a big deal out of nothing. It's an insult to my intelligence though. I want to say "Do I look *that* stupid to you?" I've mentioned it to my husband and he just brushes it off as "fishing stories", but it really bothers me.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

Mine doesn't compare to most of these, but my brother-in-law "embellishes" everything to the point of ridiculousness... the great deal he got on something he bought, the praise that the coach heaped on his son -- promising college scholarships and beyond (even though I was standing right next to him when the coach came by and all the coach said was "[nephew] had a great game!")

It's all ridiculous, stupid stuff -- stuff nobody even asked him about, so there's no reason to even bring it up if you feel you "need" to lie. But it's small enough stuff that if I confront him about the lies, he'll turn it around and I'll end up looking like the one who's making a big deal out of nothing. It's an insult to my intelligence though. I want to say "Do I look *that* stupid to you?" I've mentioned it to my husband and he just brushes it off as "fishing stories", but it really bothers me.

I have a BIL that is exactly like this as well. I always wonder why he is continually trying to impress everyone around him and why he does so in such unbelievable ways. I hope my sister tells him how foolish he looks doing this, but I doubt she does. She's on the path of least resistance and probably just ignores it at this point.

 

[wenrob]

My mother's side of the family has a huge predisposition to lie. They range from very heavy embellishers to sociopathic liars. They lie for absolutely no reason at all, on the regular and the worst part is I think they actually believe what they're saying. My mother is of the sociopathic variety and when I was a kid it would devastate me because I was desperate for her to love me. From the time I was about 14 I learned to just cut her off with the phrase, "I'm sorry, I just don't believe you." Believe it or not this experience has served me well in life because I became very adept at reading people and can point out a liar at 500 paces.

Fortunately I was raised by my Dad and Stepmother. My stepmom doesn't cotton to liars so any tendency I may have had to my mother's side of the family's penchant for lying was squashed pretty early on. Along with that there were no arbitrary promises. If you promised something you followed through. So, to that end the worst "lie" I ever experienced was actually a broken promise from my dad. He's always been my hero so that was crushing. It wasn't something that couldn't be helped as sometimes happens with promises, he had the ability to follow through and he didn't. I still tear up when I think about it and it was more than a decade ago.

 

[indimom]

Mine doesn't compare to most of these, but my brother-in-law "embellishes" everything to the point of ridiculousness... the great deal he got on something he bought, the praise that the coach heaped on his son -- promising college scholarships and beyond (even though I was standing right next to him when the coach came by and all the coach said was "[nephew] had a great game!")

It's all ridiculous, stupid stuff -- stuff nobody even asked him about, so there's no reason to even bring it up if you feel you "need" to lie. But it's small enough stuff that if I confront him about the lies, he'll turn it around and I'll end up looking like the one who's making a big deal out of nothing. It's an insult to my intelligence though. I want to say "Do I look *that* stupid to you?" I've mentioned it to my husband and he just brushes it off as "fishing stories", but it really bothers me.

We've got family like this also. Honestly, there's no reason to confront them. I'm sure you are not the only one who sees it.
I just don't engage in the conversations when they come up. A simple, "oh yeah, that's nice" and I move on.

The worst experience I ever had with a liar was a college roommate who was kinda crazy and retaliatory. My belongings would somehow end up broken or damaged whenever I didn't behave the way she thought I should. Like the time I arrived to a party 30 minutes late because I was working. I stayed for the entire event, so I didn't think a late appearance was a big deal. She felt differently. A day later, all my fragile items I had on the bookshelf were broken on the floor. Someone must have "slammed a door" and they all fell off.
That roommate only lasted a couple months.
I heard she did the same thing to the girl who moved in after me (somehow a photo of the roommates deceased baby sister was melted on top of a set of hot rollers that hadn't been used in days). I felt really bad for the new girl when I heard that. I should have warned her, but everyone else thought this girl was great.

 

[RDR_BU]

I was in the Navy Reserves while attending college. One guy claimed that he used to "run over 100 miles per week" after graduating from high school. I knew he was full of it, and it was funny when he failed the PT test. All he had to do was run 1.5 miles in under something like 13:45 I think. He was in his mid-twenties at the time. He lives his life by the George Costanza mantra: "It's not a lie if you believe it."

 

[Sugardimples]

My 19 year old niece, when she realized that she was pregnant after bragging continuously that she was a virgin, told us that she had been raped at a party.

 

[TheDisneyDoll]

I was in the hospital on my birthday last year and my friend told me he was going to come visit me, well he canceled around 1pm that day because he "had to work".
I got a message from his boyfriend that he wasn't working he was busy cheating on him.

As far as i know it is the first time he had ever lied to me, but will definitely never have the opportunity to do it again.

 

[McDISer]

If I hear anyone in my family tell a lie, I don't say anything in front of anyone, but I will ask the person, why they lied.
I think the most shocking answer I got was, "it is what they wanted to hear".

 

[moon]

I was friends with this girl when we were teenagers. We lived in the same building and actually my mother was the landlady, so her dad would come to pay the rent and other business. He was a very friendly guy, who just LOVED to talk.

One day he tells us how his sister fell in the bathtub, hit her head and died instantly. How he found her, all the tragedy that ensued. Later on I mentioned it to my friend (his daughter) and she just opened her eyes wide and said, "I never heard that happening".

I don't know if that's the worst lie told to me, but what a doozy! And I always wondered, why make up something like that? What was the point?

 

[EMom]

As a teenager, I dated a chronic, habitual liar. It took me a few months to figure that out, because he would NOT lie about things you'd expect someone to lie about, but WOULD lie about meaningless things. He was so convincing (I truly think he believed his own lies) that you couldn't see a lie coming. Two whoppers that I initially believed:

1. My father is terminally ill and doesn't have long to live. My heart went out to him. He's have tears in his eyes and get choked up talking about it. I met the father, he looked fine and lived for at least 10 more years.

2. THE WORST. He had two sisters, but began telling me of a third in bits and pieces. The one who committed suicide when he was in elementary school and he came home and found her body. Oh, the story that went along with that. At some point, I began to notice that in family pics around the house, there were only THREE kids in any pic, no matter when it was taken. The suicide sister was not in a single pic, even the formal, posed ones. So I asked a couple of guys who had known him since childhood and there WAS NO SISTER. He had this traumatic story of finding her body and the impact her suicide had on his family, but there never was a sister.

I had to part company with him.

 

[cleverclovers]

From my husband (now ex) "I'll change. I promise I'll do better." Yeah, right. Within 12 hours he was always back to his old ways with a case of amnesia about what was said just hours earlier.

 

[fly girl]

When I moved across country as a young teen, I still kept in touch with my friends through letters (yep, the good ol' days of snail mail) for quite a few years. All of a sudden it stopped and none of my friends wrote back. I had no idea why, but just thought they just got sick of writing me. I was hurt, but I had new friends and activities so I just moved on.

Turns out my cousin told all of them I became a drug addict. She sobbed uncontrollably telling them a whole story about me running away and everything. WTH?!?! Messed up. Truly messed up. I think she did it for attention, no other reason.

Thankfully, years later, I cleared the story in person. But it still makes me mad she was so convincing that they believed her.

 

[minkydog]

Wow, I had a flippant reply ready, along the lines of "Just breathe and you won't even feel those labor pains." But y'all have some serious liars in your lives. You did make me recall an incident that took place at my father's funeral:

After the funeral, I met up with my brother's daughter L, who was crying and quite broken up. My father had lived with them and of all the grandchildren, she and her brother H were the closest. So when she told me that she didn't' get to see my dad before he died, I was surprised and concerned. I could have sworn that my sister told me about brother's ex bringing L and H to the hospital to see dad. So, I said I thought DSis said you all got to see him ? All THREE of them--ex, H and L--stood right there and said, No, we were too late. He was already dead.

Well, I knew that wasn't right, because *I* was there when Dad died. My sister and I washed his body and sent him off to the funeral home, so I knew exactly who was there. So, when the funeral rush subsided, I took the ex aside and told her I knew that L & H saw Dad at the hospital because my DSis was there, so why would she lie and her kids all to my face?

Her answer: Everyone knows that L lies. It's best to just go along with it.

Seriously.

I cut all three of them off from that day forward.

 

[MickeySP]

I was friends with this girl when we were teenagers. We lived in the same building and actually my mother was the landlady, so her dad would come to pay the rent and other business. He was a very friendly guy, who just LOVED to talk.

One day he tells us how his sister fell in the bathtub, hit her head and died instantly. How he found her, all the tragedy that ensued. Later on I mentioned it to my friend (his daughter) and she just opened her eyes wide and said, "I never heard that happening".

I don't know if that's the worst lie told to me, but what a doozy! And I always wondered, why make up something like that? What was the point?

It does happen, my Dads Bf died exactly this way. He hit his head on the faucet, done.

Worst lie other than marriage vows to my annulled marriage was definetly the woman who tried to break up my relationship. Only problem the dates she claimed she was with, um, we were in St Maarten on the Allure. Try again....

 

[JOCAmom]

Soon after my daughter announced her pregnancy, my cousin announced hers. My daughter and my cousin are close in age but do not have a good relationship. My cousin is very jealous of my daughter for reasons only known to her. My cousin was either never pregnant or miscarried very, very early. But she kept up the lie that she was still pregnant. My cousin's mother went along with the whole thing and even threw a baby shower for her daughter. My cousin's due date came and went and the story changed. Now her full term baby had undeveloped lungs but the doctors were not concerned. She was able to take weekend trips without even checking in with her doctor. Finally at 6 weeks overdue, my cousin claimed the baby died in-utero over 3 weeks prior but no one knew, including her doctor.

I will never understand why she did this or why our family members who are close to her went along with her story.

 

[moon]

It does happen, my Dads Bf died exactly this way. He hit his head on the faucet, done.

I'm well aware it happens, but his daughter was shocked when I told her. She never heard that story. That was the point, that he made the whole thing up.

 

[superme80]

Wow! I am so sorry for what some of you had to go through. I can think of a few
1) Good friend from 8th grade was "suicidal" and was going to kill herself. This honestly went on for about an entire semester. If we ever got mad at her she was going to "kill herself" and "the pills were in my hand". I finally called her out on it and it stopped. I was honestly concerned and was very upset to realize it was a ploy for attention.
2)"You are an alcoholic and I am concerned for you", my sister told me. Funny I didn't drink that much. And the I got into an accident on the freeway, and the landmark was a Brewery. But apparently I went out on a binger and crashed my car.
3)"I'm not seeing anyone else" said an ex boyfriend of mine. Yeah it looks like you were seeing a couple other girls besides me.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

This is going to be the best night of your life!

^^^DW (then fiancé) just before she passed out.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

This is going to be the best night of your life!

^^^DW (then fiancé) just before she passed out.

Sorry, but I laughed.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

When I was a kid and an adult said "I know what I'm doing".

As an adult for almost 20 years, I now understand that, no, we don't.