Do You Know A Pathological Liar?

[4cruisin]

A person that works for the same company I do is a complete pathological liar. He has been here for about 4 months and in that time has:

had 6 family members die (not at the same time)
been cross country 3x's to ski, hunt or snowmobile
moved 4 times (at least, we lost count)
had 3 car accidents
gotten engaged twice (to the same person)
gf had 2 miscarriages (the same baby)
played college football with a pro coach's son before he came here (he never attended college)
inherited $7m
had a tree fall through his house
had a fire at his house

the list keeps going on and on. It is unbelievable the stories this guy makes up...they are not even believable. He did have 1 family member pass away...we were able to verify that one but it seems like everyday he has a new story. I try to keep my mouth shut...but sometimes it is just too easy to to egg him on. He works mostly with the guys and they think if we hooked him up to a polygraph machine, he would pass because he believes what he tells us.

So, have you ever had dealings with a liar? Just curious.

 

[CathrynRose]

So, have you ever had dealings with a liar? Just curious.

Yes, and they are annoying creatures, arent they?

I dont understand what happens in their brain, truly.

 

[gr8tpanther]

Yes, my DD is one! She tells stories and makes things up in her head! I have NO idea where she comes UP with some of this stuff! She will eat a 4 course meal and go to my moms right after and tell her she didn't eat, that she is starving to death! My Mother finally caught on and stopped feeding her!

 

[DwarfMaster]

My Ex-MIL was the biggest liar I'd ever met. She'd lie about what she ate for breakfast that morning!

I think it gets to the point when they don't even realize they're lying.

 

[binny]

yes Its very sad and very hard to deal with.

At least you only work with him.

 

[4cruisin]

I don't understand why he lies. It seems like he just makes things up for no reason. The stories come out of the blue. I assume it is some form of mental illness but he seems normal except for the lies. I know that sounds stupid. It's not as though he has to create a persona to be liked...we pretty much accept everyone here...warts and all but this guy is just out there.

 

[Disneyglobegirl]

Yep I know one - this person tells so many lies that she doesn't remember who she has told what and I truely think she lies so much that she believes her own lies. It is crazy - She will lie about silly little things and big huge things. I've gotten to the point that everything she tells me goes in one ear and out the other. Probably only about 5% of what she says is true and I've stopped trying to figure out which 5% that is - LOL


Anyone here ever able to get the GrandFloridian for $79 a night during Christmas - because according to her she has. I truely think it is sometype of self esteem issue or something.

 

[Ziva]

double post stupid server.

 

[barkley]

had a co-worker who was the same way-and our supervisor was so believing and accommodating of her...

when i became a supervisor i had an occasion to be in a staff meeting with my former supervisor (still the "liar's" sup) and she started going on about "poor deb-she had to call in today-her mom is in the hospital with a gallbladder attack"-i responded "that's too bad, i had hoped she was on the mend after her funeral last month" (we lived in the same town-her mom passed and she had'nt taken time off)

 

[Ziva]

Not sure she was pathological but the ex-wife of my brothers high school best friend has told some doozies. They met while he was working up in NJ at a Boardwalk during the summer. She told him she was pregnant so he married her but she lost the baby shortly after the wedding. Well 5 years later, he finds out she's cheating on him and leaving. The witch turns around and tells him she was never even pregnant and just used him to stay in the country! Turns out she used the same story on the new guy but last I heard he's still with her.

Thankfully, he's now happily remarried with 2 kids and that wacko's just a bad memory.

 

[4cruisin]

I think it gets to the point when they don't even realize they're lying.

Yup, I think you hit the nail on the head.

 

[WeirdEyes]

Yes ~ my ex-fiance. He lied about EVERYTHING! I was too young and naive to know it until I finally broke it off with him for cheating. I also have a family member that lies all of the time. We never know what is truth and what isn't. It is very sad!

 

[NMAmy]

My ex-husband. He wasn't like that to begin with but during the last 3 years of our 13 year marriage--he lied about EVERYTHING. I seriously thought I was losing my mind because he was lying about things that didn't mean anything--stupid, meaningless things. And he'd totally convince himself that these things were true.

 

[icebrat001]

My mother and my ex. Thank goodness they aren't in my life.

 

[Disney845]

My ex was or shall I say is a liar. Just a few examples...

He got a new job across the country from where we used to live (his resume was full of "errors in truth" ) and I was still finishing a semester at school and couldn't move for another 2 1/2 months or so. He moved ahead of me, and became fairly good friends with a co-worker (I had also met them when I was up there looking at apartments with him). Well this co-worker's wife was pregnant at the time, and she had just lost the baby about 2 days before I finally made it up there. We were at the memorial service and the husband was talking to me about how my ex told him that creme brulee is his specialty desert...and (of course not thinking that I needed to back up his story) I said..."He has never even made creme brulee." He was furious with me and on the drive to the restaurant (where the after service was being held) we got into a huge fight, where he basically told me that I had to back him up with his co-workers, no matter what he told them!!! (yes I know I should have gotten out then, or even before we moved when I knew he lied to his family about things)

At another point in time, he was supposed to go on a business trip that he didn't want to take for some reason, so his excuse was....get this, he had to pick me up from the airport because a friend and I had gone to London to see Wimbledon! The next time I saw some of his co-workers they were asking me how my trip was...(I had actually recently been back home to visit my mother and thought that was what they were talking about!) He had his co-workers thinking I was weird for not remembering right away my trip to England! He used "fake" trips that I was supposedly on to get out of a lot of things.

He would lie to people that were supposed to be his friends about the most ridiculous things, I think it was all a self-esteem thing for him, but some of the stories were wacko.

-places he had never traveled to
-things he had never experienced
-where he bought things (I remember a particular incident with a diamond necklace he had purchased for me and created this charade about the store he had bought it at)
-how much things cost
-he would talk about conversations he had with friends, that he never had, I later found out that one particular friend thought he was psycho and hadn't spoken with him in over a year, but my ex would pretend to have conversations with them, and pretend that he was planning on outings with them
-the co-workers who had lost the baby previously...he told me that the husband was upset now because the wife was pregnant again, but it might not be the husband's baby (this whole scenario didn't exist...they were not pregnant)
-he made up this whole story involving a woman who worked at our apartment complex

I could go on....

 

[Disney Ella]

He works mostly guys and they think if we hooked him up to a polygraph machine, he would pass because he believes what he tells us.

I had a boss like that once. I would hear her on the phone lying to other departments all the time. The weird thing was that once that lie came out of her mouth, it seemed like she managed to convince herself that it was the truth and the lie became reality for her after that.

She wasn't quite as bad as the guy you work with. Sounds like he really needs some help!

 

[Ziva]

My mother and my ex. Thank goodness they aren't in my life.

I'm sorry about your mom, that must be hard to deal with.

 

[NMAmy]

she started going on about "poor deb-she had to call in today-her mom is in the hospital with a gallbladder attack"-i responded "that's too bad, i had hoped she was on the mend after her funeral last month" (we lived in the same town-her mom passed and she had'nt taken time off)

Well, that's just laugh out loud funny!

 

[mom2boys]

My Sister in Law. Another one that lies about things that don't even matter. She tried to convince me that the man who orignally built our house was a "drunk". Claimed to have known him personally. Well, she would have been 3 yrs old when the man died! Why would you lie about someone you never even met.
She'd even accuse her kids of things she'd done - she left a plate on my sofa at a family gathering & it spilled when she got up. She started lecturing her then 7 yr old about how she told her to put "her" plate in the trash. The child had eaten outside.
Unfortunately her kids are following in her footsteps.

 

[cats7494]

Oh yeah! That is one of the many reasons I divorced him 8 years ago!
Unfortunately - he also lies to our daughter...She is 11 and definitely knows to not trust what he says and will ask me why he can not tell the truth. It is sad.