Today, I was telling my friends a story. I added a few "embellishments" to make it more intense. One my friends piped up with, "I was with you, half of what you just said wasn't true". It's now all over Facebook and I'm known as "The Bullshitter". FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I lied and told my friends I was a compulsive liar. Well, I think I lied. FML
Today, a coworker told me something I didn't realize was confidential, until later when my boss called me, saying someone may have shared something confidential with me, and me, not thinking so, said I don't think anyone did. We hung up, they called back and elaborated, and it dawned on me now they think I'm a liar. FML
Today, at a party I bumped into a friend of my ex. We caught the same bus home. He started telling me about my ex's "totally insane" ex-girlfriend. He refused to believe me when I told him he was talking about me. I had to sit there for half an hour as my personality was ripped to shreds. FML
Today, I had to make up a story about my "friends" at school so my mom doesn't keep telling I'm a loser. FML
Today, I posted on my Facebook wall that I'd gotten into a huge bar fight and had the shit kicked out of me, all to avoid having to tell the truth, namely that I'd stayed home all night because nobody invited me out to party. FML
Today, someone reckoned that I would never be in a relationship. So I made up this whole story about some made up guy named 'Nick' and posted stuff on my Facebook and Myspace that I'm dating him. Now all my friends want to meet him. FML
Today, my boss expected me to corroborate her lie to a customer. She changed her story suddenly and I got caught up in the crosshairs. Then she got mad at me for not understanding what just happened. FML
Today, my college instructor told me I hadn't actually failed a big exam as he originally said. It turns out he'd mixed me up with another student. Now thanks to the power of gossip, half my class thinks I slept with him so he'd switch my grade with the other student's. FML
Today, I found out that the reason all my former friends believed a bunch of rumors about me was because the person they were hearing them from was my former roommate. For two years I wondered why they didn't just ask me, now I know it's because they thought if anyone would know the truth, it would be her. UGH. FML
Today, I told my friend about a fight I had earlier with my girlfriend. He thought it'd be funny to use my phone while I was in the bathroom and text her "ure such a cunt". She wouldn't believe the truth, even when my friend confessed to her. She thought I paid him to take the fall. FML
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Dewoe 18
Liar liar pants on fire
prljm10 10
Why would you lie?! Especially around someone that was with you??
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BobbieH 19
Not only do you decide to lie and "embellish" your story but you do it with someone who was there as part of you audience? How did you not know you'd be called out for the bullshitter you are? When you tell lies, accept that people will call you out eventually. In this case however you were so ignorant that you lied to someone who was involved with the story. You not only deserve it but you're an idiot.
CountCoolness 12
Dude, my best friend does this nonesense all the time and it makes him look like an ass at times stop doing it now before you start telling stories that make you sound terrible
surfergirl72 7
"Be bad, but at least don't be a liar..." -Tolstoy Sadly, not only are you a liar, but you're a stupid liar and FML because you were called out on it? No, this is a good thing. FIX your life is more like it.
8born8 18
Leo Tolstoy was a chauvinist pig who was in love with his sister.
middlenamefrank 8
According to my mom, she never lies, she just occasionally "tells stories". If the impact to a story is more important to you than the actual events, you're a liar, plain and simple. Which isn't SUCH a bad thing -- everybody, literally everybody, does it to some extent. But if you got called out for it by a friend, it wasn't just an "embellishment".
Cazz91 21
YDI for bullshitting, especially around a friend that was with you. Why would you come here and expect sympathy for telling a lie? Don't get me wrong OP, we are all not saints here when it comes to lying, fibbing, etc since everyone has lied at least once in their life but its a little stupid to be looking for sympathy from outsiders on something that is a clear YDI imo.
Ksweety_fml 27
That one friend. Lmao....
your_ma 27
Everyone has a friend who bullshits. Don't be that guy. People make fun of that guy. Either do more interesting shit so you have cool stories to tell or just shush.
nina739 10
Well YDI op! I am sorry but u cant get away with a lie!
minimammoth 11
Did you also add a "few embellishments" to this story?
8born8 18
Whatever happened to poetic license? People embellish things all the time, like the monster fish that got away on that fishing trip... I swear it was huge!! A real whopper!! Over exaggerating something to the point where it's clearly not plausible is a different story. OP, some friend you have there. Next time they say something that you know happened different, show them the same courtesy. Hopefully you continue to use your imagination and knack for enthralling story telling and find a better friend who'll have your back always. Perhaps the people who call you "The Bullshitter" should check the mirror more often lest they become hypocrites.
TheDrifter 24
A little exaggeration (size of a fish, how bad service was) is one thing, totally falsifying half of your story is another. If major plot points are faked, your exaggeration has become an outright lie.
rlTlk 13
#46 we don't know how much was simply exaggeration or complete lie. There's also the matter of people remember things differently, if you question 10 witnesses to a crime you will get 10 different stories, that is why eye witness accounts are worth almost nothing in court today. There are plenty of actually hilarious social spychological experiments you can look up playing off this. you description the witnesses all argue about what they believe really happened. That could play a major part in OP's fml here. They embellished on their perspective which did not match at all how the friend remembered it.
8born8 18
46 so saying something along the lines of: "johnny shit himself he was so scared" is a lie because johnny was scared but didn't literally shit himself? OP must have completely changed the story or events in the story for it to be an outright lie. We don't know what the subject of the story is. OP may have been retelling a story about flirting with someone while OP & the friend were having lunch in a cafe, about doing something illegal together and escaping, it could be about driving a car or saving a kitten from a tree!!! As the saying goes: 'Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.'
SuperMew 22
Maybe Op "embellishes" a lot and the friend is just sick of it. When you make a habit of making your life more interesting than it is, people will get annoyed. Op should have known his audience better. One of my friends hates lying of all sorts and will make a point to be as honest as she can in a given situation. She has been known to call people out on their "embellishments" in front of people.
TheDrifter 24
No 77, that isn't a lie, it's a euphemism. One of those quirks of the English language where there is a common understanding that the words are not to be taken at their literal definition. As op's friend pointed out, fully half of the story op told never happened, that's a far cry from a twist of phrase to make a situation seem more interesting than it was.
8born8 18
127 op's friend said "half of what you said wasn't true". Not that half of it didn't happen. Personally, I take that to mean that op wasn't accurate. Unless, op is embellishing what the friend actually said. I believe a follow up is needed. However, something tells me that it's not going to happen.