Pathological Liars
 

Share your stories about pathological liars!

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So I know this one guy via the internet. Seemed to be a really nice guy. But I noticed that something was fishy when EVERY time I spoke to him, some sort of calamity had JUST befallen him. To date:

*Aunt or uncle died
*In the hospital for a month with a staph infection
*Car stolen
*Suing somebody

etc, etc

But in addition to the calamities, there were all sorts of fanciful stories about his father, mother, and seemingly endless count of brothers and sisters.

It was funny -- he told me this one guy was his brother but then the same guy was like ummmmmmm yeah we're FRATERNITY brothers....


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Then there was this girl i went to high school with.....she SWORE she REALLY had a brain tumor and would make people feel this lump in her skull.

One of my LBs used to lie for stupid stuff (He's not as bad with it anymore).

I'm still shocked at one of the things he lied about:

On my way to my house one day, I noticed a dog on the street that had gotten hit by a car. When I left my house later that day, the dog had been removed from the street. About a week later, we were both driving down the street and saw the blood on the street. I mentioned that a dog had been hit in that spot. His response? "Oh yea, that was so sad. I just drove by and saw it. It was terrible." :confused: I was like "Uhh...it wasn't there today. They picked it up a week ago.." He tried for about 5 minutes to convince me otherwise before finally say "Ok, I didn't really see it out there."

Really? Was it really serious enough for him to lie? :confused:

It's really a sickness! How come people don't like....get HELP for it? Or make their kids get help?

I think I might have talked about this one, but it's always good for a laugh...
 

If you consider hypochondria (or somatasensory, if you want to be PC) pathological lying...there was a girl who went to my highschool who always had SOMETHING. Hypoglycemia, dislexia (or "lysdexia" as she called it), ADHD, and high or low blood pressure (she could never remember which, so it kinda changed depending on the day...), plus sprains (which she would either wear braces on, or tape up with hockey tape), rug burns (she was a tumbler and would frequently land on her head/face), and anything else under the moon.

Thing is about hypocondriacs - it takes NOTHING to convince them they have some new disease. So, when my friend and I started listing off the "symptoms";) of nymphomania, she decided she had it, and announced it to whoever would listen. (Ok, so it was mean of us, but I would research a disease a LITTLE BIT myself before I announced to everyone, you know?) So after that died down we tried it again with necrophilia... You know the saying "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me..."? Apply here.:p

Liar 1: a local ballet teacher. She has all these photos of herself dancing in front of what's obviously curtains in small auditoriums and tried to tell us those are her pictures from when she danced with the Atlanta Ballet. She also told me that the U of West Georgia had said they'd let her get a doctorate in anything she cared to come up with. Yeah, right--at the time (and maybe still) they awarded no doctorates, much less self-created ones.

Liar 2: a teacher we know. Has frequently told whoppers that are so huge that they're glaringly obvious to anyone. She keeps telling people that she was a professional ballerina and a Rockette. My husband, who grew up with her and knows better, just laughs in her face. Sometimes her lies really affect other people. She got a group of doll collectors to go with her to New York, swearing that she'd gotten permission to tour the Mme. Alexander Doll Factory. They were kicked out. Then she became a realtor...she kept calling us about awful houses. One had algae growing solidly on basement walls and she swore there was no moisture problem. She got us to another house swearing that the yard was flat and seriously, it was so slanted that you could barely stand up in it.

Just read some old threads/posts from past notorious members. ;)

Okay, this is just absolutely cruel

...and yet the funniest thing that I have heard all day!!!

Blah,blah,blah "I'm a mack". Blah,blah,blah "I can mack all of these ladies on GC". Blah,blah, blah, "I'm a real Kappa".

^^^^:rolleyes:...lol;):D.

She was promised the ostrich skin Birkin, nonetheless.
I'm sure she knows of a chapter who can afford $5000+ plus bags in lieu of a bid day shirt. Maybe she got both????

A few years ago, I had to take over a department for a crazy woman.

In the first 90 days that she was employed, her mother and father both got cancer, her brother died, she was mugged, contracted cholera and wintessed a shooting.

When I pointed out to her that people who get cholera typically die within 24 hours, she began back-peddling. Claimed it was due to the big blackout, even though her apartment never lost running water.

While we never could determine if her parents had cancer, she couldn't obtain proof that her brother died when we asked for verification for bereavement pay. She resigned right after that.

DAAAAAMN SON! LOL :D

LOL!

Soror Pinkies Up is the woMAN!!

I knew where this thread was going to go when I saw the title. LOL.

http://www.weddingandeventdetails.co...eant_crown.jpg

Not quite the same crown, but it's the same size. Anyway, you get the idea.

This thread reminds me of Penelope (SNL skit), the pathological liar, braggart, and notorious "one-upper".

lol.... I honestly wasn't even thinking about him when I started it. It was one of his other 'brothers' who sent me a random text about his car being stolen...


I LOVE that sketch! Especially the one where she tries to one-up Lebron James!

Sigh. I always feel like I missed out on so much by not discovering GC until fairly recently. Can anyone recommend some specific fun pathological liar threads?

Well, that's certainly going to open up a can of worms like you wouldn't believe. ;)

In addition, we would have to sort the plain attention whore liars from the crazy delusional liars and that would take far more time than I imagine anyone is willing to put in.

I did go on a date with this guy who claimed to have all of these nice cars and homes throughout the free world. I was young and dumb (18) so, I believed him.

This fool had nerve enough to pick me up in a Ford Topaz, telling me his "Benz" was in the shop. (more like at the Benz dealership) I told him that I was going to drive my Jag and meet him at the resturant. That fool is probably still waiting, and I'm still waiting on my Jag. Why you all think people feel like it's necessary to lie?

You might try a search for "Brandi Rae Crawford" :p I don't remember her user name?

^^^I found the "what pageant title would you want?" thread and got tears laughing at so much of it. When Jen screamed "You're ruining pageant day for us!" and then told the poster to "stop drinking the haterade", I was done.

KDLady00 was her username but she has deleted or edited her posts.

^^^Oh, there are still a lot out there. I've ignored the laundry I planned to fold while watching SNL because I got sucked into reading old threads. She not only contradicted herself thread-to-thread, she changed her story right in the same thread! And the pageant pictures -- wow.

/Slight jack

Man....I missed SNL. :-(

That thread brings up memories. OTW + crown + pageant title= intimidating hotness!!!! It also brings back memories of the whole "OTW has fat armpit rolls" omgwtfbbq!!

Loved the Pageant thread. NittanyAlum, thank you for pointing it out.

I went to high school with a guy who was a pathological liar. He told some people that either he or his dad had a GTO, but no one had ever seen it. I don't know what he told people when they were over at his house. It became a running joke.

I can't remember what else lied about, but they were pretty out there. There was some lie about a famous person or sports team...hmm...

I once promised a friend I'd pick her up at the airport. Her plane got in at 5:30, but she didn't clarify for me that she meant AM, not PM. So I got my acting together and started crying and told her my car got stolen (from an attended parking garage) and I couldn't come get her. Later on that week, she sees me cruisin around campus in my car, and I told yet another lie that the cops found it and dropped it off to me (dose that even happen?). One of my other friends questioned why I didn't have to go to a lot to pick it up, so I then said "yeah, my insurance covers the drop off fee too." LOL, so to answer the question of why people lie and stuff, once you start, you gotta keep going. And really, I just didn't feel lke drivin to the airport at 5AM! It's like, an hour away from campus.

P.S. No need to worry, my car is perfectly fine! :D

Lying is lame and pathological liars can need counseling (not saying you're a pathological liar ;)).

It is a downward spiral and you should've just told your friend that she didn't clarify AM or PM. That's the simple way.

Edited Because: I think I was being too hard on you. :) You may've lied because you thought you were going to lose your friend if you told the truth. Everyone has told some untruth or withheld info to some extent. I guess it depends on the extent, what you're lying about, how frequent, etc.

Lying is the bomb...under certain circumstances. I enjoy teling colorful lies to strangers online and in person. Some of the reactions are priceless. Try it sometimes.

And I am telling the truth here!

Of course, I don't do this to people I know.

Do you really lie to these strangers or are you playing a character? As in "DITY?" :)

Whatever the case, at least you don't lie to people you know. That would be scary.

Back in the day, I dated a guy who I later found out to be a super liar. Out of all the stuff he told me, the only thing that was true was that he was a Mason.

I worked with a woman who claimed she had a masters degree in some very technical field and because she had so much experience, all she had to do to get her degree was write a paper and submit it on the Internet. Yeah. I'm sure it was a very valid degree. And I'm SURE if she really had such a degree she'd be working as a clerk in the advertising department instead of in that field. :rolleyes: My coworkers and I used to joke that we were really a brain surgeon, a rocket scientist and a nuclear physicist and just worked in the department for fun - just like her.

My sister-in-law, in addition to being a complete idiot, is a pathological liar. She will hear something that someone is joking about, or speculating about, etc., and in her brain that translates to the gospel truth. So the very next day she'll start going on and on about whatever off-the-wall topic it was as if she is the authority on the matter. It makes me sick, but it's also a little sad. At least if the girl were intelligent, she might actually be able to make her lies a little believable. But she has actually said things to me like, "Did you know that it's a proven fact that all babies know all the secrets of the universe until they speak their first word and lose their innocence?" Dumbass.

We met a group of guys on spring break and one of them was a classic liar. According to him, he made $80,000 a year and had a full ride to college. The guys had the hotel room that adjoined ours, so we ended up spending most of the week hanging out with them. And we used the liar as much as we could- we would let him pay for all sorts of things since he had so much money :p.

About 6 months later I ran into one of the other guys from next door at Halloween at OU and he told me that all of the guys had pretty much stopped talking to the liar.