30 Little Childhood Lies That Backfired Spectacularly
Children should start lying as young as possible. This way, their skills will inevitably improve by the time they reach adulthood.
A Redditor recalled the dumb lie they told as a kid that was likely a jumping-off point for creating better fibs in the future. They forgot their keys and found themselves locked out of their house after school. They admitted that this was a regular occurrence, and that usually they’d sit on the porch and read until someone else got home. But on this particular day, they didn’t feel like waiting, and donkey-kicked the door open. When their parents came home and asked why the door was broken, they said they didn’t know, which prompted them to call the police. The police arrived, quickly matched the shoeprint on the door to the Redditor’s footwear, and the mystery was solved.
Other Redditors have remembered the times a stupid lie blew up in their faces, including those involving an outhouse pooper, a slow swimmer and a failed forger.
