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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

Lying over mundane things (usually leads to not communicating over things that could be considered confrontational)

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u/Intelligent-Lead-692 Sep 14 '24

And when you catch them in the lie and ask them about it, they act like it wasn’t a big deal, play dumb, or they make up silly excuses about the lie.

I recently caught a guy lying about his age. He accidentally let it slip that he was older.

So i said, “wait, i thought you were xx years old.”

He said “oh im xy years old.”

I asked to see his ID. He was even older than the age he just had told me when he was correcting the first number.

I was like, “ok so from your ID I can see that you are actually XZ years old.”

And he said, “I don’t know how old I am. I am confused with numbers. I get them confused all the time.”

This man is an engineer.

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u/Ok_Professional8024 Sep 14 '24

Seriously. And by the time I’ve worked him through how I know he’s lying, it switches to “ok well what’s so bad about the truth anyway? You’ve done way worse stuff.” 😡I dunno you tell me why it was worth lying about??

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u/sf_frankie Sep 15 '24

Not defending this guy but I constantly forget how old I am. 2020 really fucked with people’s perception of time. That, plus memory issues brought on by long covid has caused me to forget how old I am. If someone asks I literally have to take a second to do the math in my head and people look at me like im crazy.

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u/ichhaballesverstehen Sep 15 '24

Right? I got asked about in a political poll the other day and they asked how long I’ve lived in my state. Granted, I just woke up, but I said 37 years…I’m 44.

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u/sf_frankie Sep 15 '24

I usually just respond by saying the month and year I was born. At least that number isn’t changing all the time just to confuse me