Man of Secrets...
A girl I'm very good friends with at work is prone to exaggeration. Over time, exaggeration has become out and out lying for fun. Due to rumours she has started, various people in the office now believe:

- I am a millionaire many times over due to inherited family money, but I don't like to talk about it because I just want to live a normal life
- Before my current career, I was a jobbing musician and played bass on several minor hits in the early noughties
- I was hurt horribly by a previous breakup with a secret celebrity lover who felt I was a hindrance to their growing fame. Various identities have been asserted for secret celeb, but I don't talk about it because I was paid off
- I invented Facebook, but my girlfriend (who was at Harvard at about the right time - these things work best if they contain a grain of truth) told Mark Zuckerberg about it and he nicked the idea
- I once sucked off our CEO when we were both plastered at a conference, but we both keep it secret so he can't be accused of nepotism (I'm not even gay...)

What never ceases to amaze me is that enough people actually buy it, even the really exuberant bits. I am now quite used to people asking, So, what happened with you and the CEO?', or 'I hear you're minted?'.

I'd ask her to stop, but I don't think it would make a blind bit of difference, and it's quite fun trying to work out what people have heard...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 13:52, 7 replies)

I can believe the last one
the rest are just ridiculous
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 14:05, closed)

Heh

(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 14:06, closed)

I was going to say the only lie here seems to be "I'm not even gay"

(Bret Mong Keys Eggs has wet his weapon, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 14:16, closed)

I would hope
there was no way he could be accused of nepotism even if you had sucked him off. It'd give a whole new disturbing twist to the story
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 15:00, closed)

I think you're being a bit pedantic
The definition of nepotism nowadays would generally encompass favouring friends as well as direct relatives
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 15:09, closed)

But pedanticism
is a way of life!

Good story though, does she even know she is lying herself?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 15:12, closed)

Yes
She's not mental. Just gets amused by this sort of thing.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 15:35, closed)