20 Lies People Told That Spiraled Out of Control
If we never lied, we’d be living in a Ricky Gervais movie, and not even one of the better ones. We obviously can’t have that, so from time to time, some degree of falsehood sneaks past our lips. Maybe it’s just a little white lie about how good your friend looks in that shirt. Maybe it’s a bigger lie about a cousin in the NBA to impress a potential sexual partner. Maybe it’s a whopper about fake cancer to get out of a test.
The point is, we’ve all done it. Maybe not the fake cancer thing. That one’s pretty bad.
But no matter the size of the lie, it can spiral out of control faster than you can reel it back in. You tell your date about your NBA cousin, and then your flight to a romantic getaway has an emergency stopover in the city where you said he played, so they suggest calling him up to crash, so you have to call the only person you actually know in town and make them pretend to be in the NBA. Now your date has all kinds of questions like, “How can this man who is 5-foot-9 be in the NBA?” and “Doesn’t he have the money for a bigger apartment?” and “Why did he just leave for work at Chick-Fil-A?”
The point is, you never know when a lie will get away from you and how far it can run. That’s why user claytonbigsbysmydad asked r/AskReddit, “What is the smallest lie you've ever told which had the biggest consequences?”
