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I know a compulsive liar who shall remain nameless and he is a DOOZY.
He comes up with so many tall tales about his life that I think he should move to Hollywood and become a screenwriter.
Do you know any compulsive liars?
Here’s what folks on AskReddit had to say about this.
1. Hmmm…
“Her dad hired an a**assin to k**l her and her mother and was in jail.
She mentioned a couple of weeks later that she was going to her dad’s house for the weekend.
She would point at ANYONE remotely attractive and say “I’ve slept with them”.
She tried to fake a phone call once pretending to talk to a boy she was seeing, so I called her phone and it rang while she was mid sentence. She stuttered in embarrassment and then said, “you calling me must have cut my call off!” I told her to ring him back, and she refused.
If you had fish and chips for dinner, then she had had shark and chips. She was absolutely relentless and we stopped being friends when I called her out on her BS.”
2. My sister.
“My sister is a compulsive liar, among many other things.
Growing up – kids would stop by our house to see our new puppies…that we didn’t have.
My friend had a baby, she took photos and told people at school it was hers.
She hasn’t held a job longer than 3 months in her almost 40 years of life. Yet, she tells people she was a nurse, a police officer, a 911 operator.
She tells people we don’t speak because she needed a kidney transplant and I refused to offer her mine. She doesn’t need one. She left one company after telling them that she had an incurable disease, doctors orders for bedrest. She let fellow employees throw a party for her at another company (2 months employed) because they FOUND a cure for this incurable disease.
She told my mom she won the ‘Best Undercover Police Officer of the Year’ award and got a trophy. She sent my mom a photo, to which my mom posted it on Facebook. It was the World Cup Trophy!
She had faked numerous pregnancies…downloading fake ultrasound pics and everything. Has the baby showers, loses said fake baby (she had her tubes tied many years ago). She then returns the gifts for money to support her drug habit.
In regards to said drug habit, she once stabbed herself to get pain medication. She is blacklisted from urgent cares within a 200 mile radius.
She lost custody of her kids several years ago…yet still tells people they were kidnapped and she doesn’t know where they are. She does.
She claimed she was the first person in our state to get Covid. The doctors thought she was dying, until they found the right medicine and now call her a medical miracle. She is waiting for her story in the upcoming medical journal.
I could write a book with her ‘stories’. She needs help but that would require her to admit there is a problem. People have sought me out to ask me if this or that is true. I love being honest! I confront her on these stories and I am the bad person for doubting her.
Bye bye crazy!”
3. Oh, Ricky.
“I went to high school with a pathological liar that you could just nudge a tiny bit and he’d go off on these long, elaborate and impossible stories. You’d just say ‘And then what happened, Ricky?’ and he’d just keep going.
The best one was when he supposedly got chased by a police helicopter through the woods while stashing an 18-pack of beer down his pants.
He ended up outrunning the helicopter and because of it the police said ‘You’re cool’ over the loudspeaker on the helicopter (that he said he had outran).”
4. Not adding up.
“A guy told me that he found an abandoned stable in his backyard that had living horses in it.
I asked how/what the horses ate and he couldn’t give me an answer.
This would already be stupid enough, but we lived in the city, 2 blocks from each other.”
5. Every story was a lie.
“I worked with a guy like this…. every story was a lie.
He told me he surveyed the football stadium in our town prior to its construction. I checked the dates…. he was a qualified surveyor at 6 years old!
Then he told me his body chemistry was immune to acid. You could pour battery acid on him and it would not affect him.
There were dozens of small ones and a few real big ones.”
6. He could do it all!
“I had a coworker like this.
He claimed to be a firefighter (firefighters make like 70k starting in my city, this job paid like 30k but he was always picking up overtime so that didnt make any sense) He later was also a professor at a local university where he taught “chemistry” I asked him to name 3 elements, he couldn’t.
He was dating a model, when asked for a picture of her he’d google some thai women (He might have actually been falling for one of those online women scams) He made up being robbed at gunpoint, and fought off all 4 attackers (He was ~5’1″) in the work parking lot, even filed a grievance and was talked out of filing a police report. He claimed to own 4 vehicles but always drove the same beat up truck.
He tried to convince a supervisor he was also recently promoted to supervisor and got suspended from work for hanging out in the office and basically pretending to do office work (he wasn’t even on the clock when this happened he had come in hours earlier)
That dude was a riot and it was often hilarious, but also you couldn’t help feel sorta bad for him. He struck me as a really lonely person, he’d try to buy supervisors pizzas and stuff all the time, and no one really wanted much to do with him.”
7. He’s stable.
“Guy was late to work 15 min, said he was late because his friend got shot 47 times.
I said I am so sorry to hear that, he said “its ok, hes stable in the hospital”.”
8. One-upper.
“Just that every single story anyone had to share he had a story to top that one.
Got high score on a game? He got higher.
Had an awesome vacation? His was better? Climbed a mountain? So did he… but without fear?
Got into a bar fight? He once fought 4 dudes at once! It was like that every single time.”
9. Wow.
“Knew this guy in high school. Everyone in my then friend group remembers this guy and his crazy, crazy lies. He was 16 at the time I knew him.
He hacked into Microsoft and built them a better Firewall
He owned a commercial fishing boat
He lived on Antarctica for 6 months before coming to our school
In a video game, he beat a level that just straight up doesn’t exist.
He said he beat said level with another friend of mine, who was right there and denied it, saying he didn’t know what the guy was talking about.
He continued to say it was true and that my friend just didn’t remember. It had just happened the class before lunch.
Various tech lies, like he had a laptop with a terabyte of RAM (not even possible now in 2022, this was in 2005.).
Various lies about women he had “slept with.”
He said anything and everything he could that would make him feel better. By happenstance, I ran into a classmate 5 years after graduation on a plane ride from Seattle to back home.
Our flight out of our connection got delayed, so we agreed to split the cost of a rental car and just drive the 4 hours home. Turns out she had had a KID with the guy, and yup he still was just as much of a pathological liar then.”
10. A good shot.
“I worked with a guy who had some issues. He got big into paracord bracelets and was always trying to sell them to people at work.
He once told us he fell out of a tree hunting took his paracord bracelet off managed to tie his foot off to a branch while falling then hanging upside down immediately shot a deer.”
11. This is bad…
“When we were 13 a classmate ‘confided’ in several of us girls that she had been r**ed by a neighbor boy, but didn’t want to tell her mom.
I was horrified, and told MY mom, who called HER mom, who thanked us for calling, and then explained to us that her daughter was a pathological liar, currently in therapy, but that it wasn’t going well.
The weekend she claimed to have been r**ed, they were all out of town. And there IS no neighbor boy.”
Who’s the biggest liar you’ve ever met?
Tell us your stories in the comments.
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