Woman Shares 30 “Situations When It’s Best To Lie” For Your Own Safety (New Tips)

If I'm leaving the house and no-one else is home I often wave as if someone's still there.

"None of your business, f**k off."

Good move. Surrounded by empty seats, and he chooses the one right next to you.

I resent that we have to pretend to be with a man in order to be safe. I had this happen to me and I just stated daggers at him. He got the message.

I've used that one before! I don't remember which store name I used though.

If someone would tell me their BF is tracking them I'd be honestly more worried than anything

And then you have an extra if you lose one

Nothing like emotional blackmail to enhance a relationship. 😐

Or have a high vis vest or men's undies hanging on the line.

While the taxi driver is driving the biggest detour of all time, enjoying the extra money.

Better yet, you live on base with military police friends.

Surely most phones don't get signal in lifts? Unless you're making a pretend call?

Put the radio on.

I had that happen before and I just stared at him and asked "why?". Made him so uncomfortable he mumbled "nevermind" and left.

I'm sorry if you witnessed a crime. You need to speak up! Otherwise, you're part of the problem and not the solution!

Since they might still harass you expecting you to have your own number memorized, there’s a handy list of fake numbers that are great for this situation. Just pick one of the still functioning ones to memorize and hand that out anytime. And give them a fake name to create the fake contact, probably the fake name you use to order food so you have it easily memorized.

This might work better if you use the earlier, “just running errands” excuse.

Unfortunately because this is the world we live in, preferably a strong looking friend because anyone else gets taken advantage of, and even better if it’s a friend who knows a lot about the work you’re getting done so you don’t get scammed.

This is a screening question: does this person have a partner they are hiding. Evading the question can be a red flag. If you like the person you're chatting with, try "Just my flatmates" or "I have a friend sleeping on my counch while she's between places".

I would just say "no" to that one.

Silence says more than words.

Nope. And head over to alert a staff there's someone's soliciting rides to unsuspecting travellers.

Mama?

I must be getting old. Snap means something different to my generation. (Don't give him the snap on the first date)

I've told my step kids that if they are on a night out with friends, I'll be there to pick them up, no matter what time of night it is. There's been a couple of times when my daughter has collected a stray, one was a girl who's friends dumped her for a "joke" while she was in the bathroom and she ended up on her own, another was one who had a lot to drink, and was being hit on aggressively. My girl stepped in, said "mom's parked out front, we have to go" and got her away. On the one hand, I'm glad she's a quick thinker with common sense, but on the other, it's awful that she has to think of protecting herself and others rather than just enjoying the night.

Once again, giving them power by even answering.

Try to convince them that you’re just visiting a (try to shoot for a male aligning name because suckily that’s the world we live in) friend and you just like the neighborhood, unless they absolutely know for a fact that you live there. And if they’re asking about the schedules of your neighbors, that’s extremely sketchy!

That probably depends on the job to be done, but most handyjobs can be pretty noisy. Handyman: "well, the only thing I can do that won't wake him is screw. Shall we get that out of the way before the drilling?"

None of anyone's business and I would, again, go to staff.