We're all guilty of lying from time to time for our own personal gain. And of course, no one's here to judge you, after all, it's a dog eat dog world so everyone deserves to do a little something to help themselves. But when you think about it, how do you separate an innocent white lie and legit nasty lie? Well, this series of tweets about people lying for personal gain will show you how far people will go in order to get what they want, and honestly, you can't really blame them, some even managed to get married to the love of their life just by fudging the truth a bit.
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Fair enough. Don't blame you one bit. Hope you ate ok that night.
My dad used to do this on nature walks. Found out years later that the 'lesser spotted throat warbler' was a thrush.
That reminds me of this 6 year old kid in our neighborhood. He saw a banana and said he didn't know what it was, so we let him eat one. It turned out he didn't know what any fruit was so we were always giving him some. We thought we were doing him a huge favor. Got talking to his mom one day who laughed and said he would say anything to get food and he was familiar with all kinds of fruit! We were so taken for a ride!
My sisters and I lied saying we were collecting for "Jerry's kids" because my mom did not have enough money to feed us four kids. We collected over $100.00 in the later 1970's and used that money to buy food for us. We felt we were just as needy as Jerry's kids.
I think that can be waived. Desperate times and all. I hope you don't feel too guilty.
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Not sure if this was a lie exactly, but our class had a pet snake. At the end of the year, there was a mouse that hadn't been eaten and my teacher said she'd be throwing it in the garbage. I'm not a crier, but I faked/forced tears after class to guilt her so that she'd give me the mouse instead. My parents weren't thrilled when they picked me up that day, but I got a new pet.
The teacher wanted to throw a living animal in the garbage? That’s really horrible.
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Me and my little brother both had Gameboys to play with. One day, my brother stole his allowance money from our parent's room that was taken away from him after disrespecting his teacher (Over 100 dollars) and tricked our grandpa into buying $125 worth of hot wheels cars and tracks, and that was more expensive than the mani-pedi my grandmother bought for me. When our mother found out, she took away both of our Gameboys for 5 months and banned us from shopping for toys and took away our allowance for good. So, 4 months later, I was allowed to play because I committed no crimes, and in doing so, my brother came over my shoulder and teased me repeatedly and shoved me around and called my pokemon weak (He does this repeatedly), so I threw my Gameboy out of anger. We are punished if we are caught throwing any electronics, so to cover it up, my brother said he wouldn't tell on me if I guarded for him while he played on his Gameboy so he wouldn't get caught, and if he was, he would tell on me. I agreed, and told a lie to my parents that we were getting along well and playing a board game. When they found out that this scheme was being concocted, My brother, a boy of his word, said that I threw the controller and added the additional lie that I punched him, so that I would get into more trouble than he did for playing Pokemon. We were both equally punished for the lies we told. We never saw those Gameboys again. Literally.
Sucks that your parents initially took both gameboys away even though your brother was the only one that deserved to be punished.
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My sisters and I lied saying we were collecting for "Jerry's kids" because my mom did not have enough money to feed us four kids. We collected over $100.00 in the later 1970's and used that money to buy food for us. We felt we were just as needy as Jerry's kids.
I think that can be waived. Desperate times and all. I hope you don't feel too guilty.
Load More Replies... Not sure if this was a lie exactly, but our class had a pet snake. At the end of the year, there was a mouse that hadn't been eaten and my teacher said she'd be throwing it in the garbage. I'm not a crier, but I faked/forced tears after class to guilt her so that she'd give me the mouse instead. My parents weren't thrilled when they picked me up that day, but I got a new pet.
The teacher wanted to throw a living animal in the garbage? That’s really horrible.
Load More Replies... Me and my little brother both had Gameboys to play with. One day, my brother stole his allowance money from our parent's room that was taken away from him after disrespecting his teacher (Over 100 dollars) and tricked our grandpa into buying $125 worth of hot wheels cars and tracks, and that was more expensive than the mani-pedi my grandmother bought for me. When our mother found out, she took away both of our Gameboys for 5 months and banned us from shopping for toys and took away our allowance for good. So, 4 months later, I was allowed to play because I committed no crimes, and in doing so, my brother came over my shoulder and teased me repeatedly and shoved me around and called my pokemon weak (He does this repeatedly), so I threw my Gameboy out of anger. We are punished if we are caught throwing any electronics, so to cover it up, my brother said he wouldn't tell on me if I guarded for him while he played on his Gameboy so he wouldn't get caught, and if he was, he would tell on me. I agreed, and told a lie to my parents that we were getting along well and playing a board game. When they found out that this scheme was being concocted, My brother, a boy of his word, said that I threw the controller and added the additional lie that I punched him, so that I would get into more trouble than he did for playing Pokemon. We were both equally punished for the lies we told. We never saw those Gameboys again. Literally.
Sucks that your parents initially took both gameboys away even though your brother was the only one that deserved to be punished.
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