THE LIE THAT SPIRALED OUT OF CONTROL

Reddit asked, “What’s a small lie you told as a kid that somehow spiraled way out of control?” Some of the responses:
– “I once told my cousin that eating watermelon seeds would grow a watermelon in her stomach. She didn’t eat watermelon for 4 years.”
– “I once told a kid named Gus that his name was short for Snuffleupagus. He cried.”
– “I was playing with a punching bag in the basement of the house. It was bedtime, and being 6 years old, I was protesting. I told my parents that a kid had threatened to beat me up and I had to learn how to protect myself. The next day, my parents called off work and met with the principal. The other kid got detention, they re-arranged the classroom seating arrangement, and instituted a buddy system for me for recess and lunchtime. All because I wanted to stay up an extra fifteen minutes.”
– “In second grade I bragged that my uncle invented the Post it note. It snowballed until the PTA tried to invite him for career day, so I claimed he’d moved to Antarctica to test glue in the cold.”
– “I so adamantly pretended I thought my doll was real and could hear her telling me to do things that I had to be evaluated by a therapist.”
– “In elementary school, I told one of my friends that I had a dog and would hold the phone away from my face and make barking noises in the background to keep the lie up. It was awfully awkward the day our teacher asked me about my dog in class.
– “When I was a kid I found this burnt out car in the woods and in school the next day I told my friend about this car I found, somehow in just that one day it spiraled into me being the one that stole the car and set it on fire, ended up having police visit the house to interview me a few days later.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Have you ever told a lie that spiraled out of control?