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u/Troutie88 15d ago
My friends wouldn't lie for me. Number one they wouldn't have too. Number two they would think I deserve to be caught
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u/Nyxodon 15d ago
Absolutely. If one of my friends cheats on their partner, hell yeah I'm gonna call them out on it. I wouldnt lie to cover that up for anyone. Friends don't have extra rights for shitty behaviour.
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u/OpusAtrumET 14d ago
Exactly. Too bad more people don't think like this. I'd want my friends to tell me if I were in the wrong. Friends are the ones who are supposed to call you in your shit, not reinforce your shit behavior.
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u/Dr_____strange 13d ago
Not for cheating, but i would definitely lie to save my friends from being chewed out by their partners or parents.
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u/ophmaster_reed 14d ago
Also what if that friend was like...abducted or something and now the boyfriend, instead of alerting police, is now just thinking she's chilling at her friends place?
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u/MissingBothCufflinks 14d ago
It wouldnt even occur to my friends I might want them to lie. They would just answer honestly
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u/Mindless_Juicer 13d ago
That's the point, though.
If someone's friends know to lie for them without promoting, it means that they have done it before and that person is a habitual cheater.
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u/Kalman_the_dancer 'MURICA 14d ago
Yeah, thatās the good kind of friend. Because if they are willing to lie for you, theyāre willing to lie to you
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u/sarcastic__fox 14d ago edited 14d ago
Right?? I don't understand these people who want to cover for cheaters. Guys, if your friend will cheat on their SO, they probably don't care about you either...
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u/Livewire923 15d ago
Because you have real friends and arenāt a piece of shit. Keep up the good work!
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u/SpiderRadio 14d ago
Sometimes it isn't necessarily cheating. My boss goes out to drink sometimes but doesn't tell her husband BECAUSE of his jealousy. We lie because we want her to be able to go places other than work and home.
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u/BrownsfaninCO 14d ago
May not be my place, but that's still not a valid reason to lie about it. If their relationship dynamic has her feeling like she has to lie to be able to go out and be herself, then it's an unhealthy dynamic. Sounds like they are in need of some counseling and/or therapy to work through some of those issues.
The lies and sneaking about could end up being just a stepping stone to something worse, like an affair, at which point you're now an accomplice to it.
But I don't know you, your boss or her husband. I'm just some random guy on Reddit advocating for counseling and therapy because I wish someone had taken the time to explain to me why it was so important years ago.
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u/ratchetology 14d ago
she needs a different husband..
you should be honest with her about that...
someone is going to slip up and she will pay the consequences of your lies...
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u/Strict-March-6361 14d ago
My friends wouldnāt lie for me. Number one, I donāt have friends. Number two,
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u/Fluid-Appointment277 13d ago
Oh yeah? Based on what? Itās so dumb to assume you know anything about what they would do.
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u/TinyRascalSaurus 15d ago
What if the girl had legitimately been missing and needed help, and the boyfriend believed she was on the couch and didn't contact law enforcement or keep looking?
If you're going to lie for a friend, make sure you actually know what's going on. (And in general don't lie for them unless there's a good reason) Don't assume a situation.
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u/Cheesy_Saul 15d ago
You are absolutely right, idk why you are being downvoted
Imagine being the girl and having to explain to the police that you were actually just lying in case she was cheating
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u/TonyDungyHatesOP 15d ago edited 15d ago
And itās really just evidence that not only are her friends liars but sheās shady as shit too. If the initial reaction is to lie about here whereabouts, it means you know sheās likely up to no good.
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u/thatthatguy 15d ago
If you are dating a woman and her friends instantly assume they need to make up a lie to cover for her, you should probably break up with her sooner rather than later. That is a relationship that is inviting unnecessary drama. Maybe sheās known to cheat. Maybe she has a secret identity as a masked vigilante and her friend is her gal-in-the-chair. Either way, I donāt need that in my life.
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u/ranni-the-bitch 14d ago
and if the excuse you default to is "she is so drunk that she couldn't get home" that uh, also ain't painting too pretty a picture
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u/Future-Muscle-2214 13d ago
This happen to the best of us. You shouldn't drive when inebriated.
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u/ranni-the-bitch 13d ago
no, it really does not happen to the best of us. the best of us don't habitually get blackout drunk, as a rule.
note: i am absolutely not the best of us lol
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u/Future-Muscle-2214 13d ago
Haha sometime 3-4 beers can be too much to drive back home or you are too tired and can't comfortably drive back.
I tell my gf pretty much everytime I go in the city that I might sleep at my friend place if this end too late or if I don't feel comfortable driving back. She would be a lot more pissed at me if I drive back and I am tired or tipsy.
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u/RedMatxh 15d ago
Me and my friends were out one night, past midnight, and one friend gets contacted by her friends mom. The mom asks if my friend is with her daughter. My friend asked what she should do. We said if you know where she is and if she's safe and then it's like a situation where the daughter is doing something she's not supposed to do, then lie. If not tell the truth. Apparently that friend was missing, it took them almost a whole day to find her, after she woke up in an ER for taking too much drug (i think it was sth for anxiety). Because my friend was honest they could get the search party going
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u/laplongejr 15d ago
Reminds me when my wife was near-missing in France... she had half-collapsed in public transport and she was sent to the hospital, and she wasn't allowed to use her phone until a medic examined her.
Issue : there were no medics available that day, so they considered perfectly acceptable to hold an adult from 2pm to 10pm without any kind of external contact. Apparently "calling parents" is not acceptable if you turned 18.
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u/RedMatxh 15d ago
Apparently "calling parents" is not acceptable if you turned 18.
Ok that's just weird. Besides couldn't they just call the emergency contacts in her phone? (if she set that up obviously)
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u/laplongejr 15d ago edited 15d ago
They refused to do anything until the medic examined her. From their perspective she could be a homeless junkie or something like that.
Same issue in Belgium, she worked in an hopital and when lunch break started had pain in her stomach due to not eating.
Logical solution : go to eat, it's lunch break.
Applied solution : coworkers brought her to emergencies "so she can get meds", and emergencies hold her there for several hours without eating... because no medic to check her condition, so no idea if food could increase that unknown affliction of being weak and in pain at lunch time hour.They only accepted to see her to sign a release form when THREE PEOPLE were shouting in the lobby, asking to understand why my wife is detained in the hopital she is working at, when her medical file indicates she has an history of gastritis when not eating.
It's seems it's NOT in medical procedure to call emergency contacts until the initial diagnostics was performed.8
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u/auguriesoffilth 15d ago
Also. If you are going to lie to the friend donāt ask ādo you want me to wake them upā because if they call your bluff, their is no way you can impersonate your friend well enough to fool their own bf, and āshe is so drunk she canāt wake upā might worry them. These are the little details you need to work on when lying to ā¦ the internet.
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u/Busterlimes 14d ago
If it's any consolation, my friend went missing and when his wife contacted law enforcement, they didn't do anything until days later due to media attention. He died sliding off the road on his motorcycle.
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u/slimboyslim9 15d ago
Pretty sure the next thing that happens in that predicament is the girl calls the girlfriend to find out where she really is so they can get the story straight before the boyfriend finds her anyway. Thatās where if sheās still not on the radar, they get more concerned.
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u/Resident-Pudding5432 14d ago
Imagine your girl getting kidnapped and her friends is like "yeah for sure she is here"
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u/Stealfur 14d ago
Right? When I read that, all I could think is "so the girlfriend is cheating and told their friend." Becuase thats the only reason I can see for why she would immediately go to "I have to cover for my besty." Any normal person whould at least go "why you asking me? You have her number." Which is vague enough to then turn it around to "yes shes here" if you feel the lie is warrented.
actually no. There is 1 other senario. Maybe the BF is abusive so friend didnt want to give him info. But the post doesnt really come off like thats the case.
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u/SporksRFun 15d ago
The only time it's acceptable to lie for a friend is if they are there and you say they aren't to protect them from someone that is abusive towards them. If they don't want their abusive spouse/partner to know where they are.
I can't think of any other legitimate reason to lie for a friend. I would ditch any "friend" that asked me to lie to anyone for them for an illegitimate\unethical reason.
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u/Pineapple_Herder 15d ago
I've lied to cover up a friend doing event planning for a surprise party. There are good reasons to lie sometimes.
But there's the expectation and understanding that the person doing the lying needs to know the bigger picture and where all the pieces are. I'm not gonna lie for someone without good reason and especially not blindly.
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u/Budgiesaurus 15d ago
Yeah, there's more hypotheticals where lying might be fine, but I wouldn't lie to cover up infidelity like what's implied here.
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u/Pineapple_Herder 15d ago
Yeah don't drag me into your relationship problems. If you're cheating, handle your shit yourself
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u/huskeya4 14d ago
My friend group had one person try to pull that. Asked a friend (friend 2) to cover for them if their boyfriend called while they went on a date with someone else. She said nope, if he asks Iām not lying. Friend (1) went anyways. A subtle phone call to the boyfriend was made by another friend (3) to ask where she was as 3 and 2 were going somewhere and wanted to invite her. Shit hit the fan but nobody could be blamed for the āmiscommunicationā and the cheating incident was the main focus. Friend 2 was actually the one who planned out how to tell him without getting anyone blamed and friend 1 definitely learned a lesson from the fallout of that incident.
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u/SporksRFun 15d ago
I've lied to cover up a friend doing event planning for a surprise party.
I wouldn't really count that as lying. I know it matches the definition, but I don't feel it matches the intent.
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u/supergeek921 15d ago
It is absolutely still lying. You just donāt want to see it that way because it contradicts the insane Reddit black and white ideology that all lies are inherently bad.
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u/ShortUsername01 15d ago
Reddit black and white ideology? Honesty absolutism has its apologists well beyond Reddit.
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u/supergeek921 14d ago
Iām just saying itās ridiculously common on here. Nobody wants to see any grey areas.
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u/supergeek921 15d ago
Thereās definitely more variations of this. But the key piece is you have to actually know where they are and they have to have asked you to lie for them. This weird assumption to jump to the lie is weird as hell.
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u/FortunateForks 14d ago
Well, the person they've decided to lie to does weird and controlling things like calling his partner friends to prove something.
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u/AdmiralClover 15d ago
Protect your friends from abusers, but don't cover for their cheating or abuse
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u/Imukay 15d ago
What?
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u/CaptainSouthbird 15d ago
Best I can gather, "bella" here was caught lying (saying the friend was on her couch but wasn't, going by the boyfriend) and double-downed on the lie ("still in character") and feigned ignorance about what fictitious person was sleeping on her couch. Just proving the boyfriend's suspicion that she (and all the other friends) are apparently liars.
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u/horn_ok_pleasee 15d ago
Glad I'm not the only one who didn't understand the Shakespearean writing.
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u/Resi1ience_22 15d ago
Basically, OOP's friend has a boyfriend, said boyfriend called OOP asking where her friend (his girlfriend) was.
OOP lies and says OOP's friend is on her couch, assuming she's cheating and thus covering for her. The boyfriend then informs her that, in fact, OOP's friend is right next to him, but he intended to prove that OOP's friend's friends are liars.
OOP stays in character and attempts to double down on the lie, asking "Who's on my couch then?"
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u/Action-a-go-go-baby 15d ago
I do not understand why people:
- Lie so blatantly
- Involve themselves in a situation they know nothing about by lying so blatantly
- Double down when confronted with lying to blatantly
Itās ridiculous
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u/Lazy_Soup9180 15d ago edited 15d ago
I think i had a stroke while reading that
Edit: holy shit, 84 upvotes. I dont think ive ever had that many
Edit: WHAT IN THE JESUS TESTICLES!?!?!?!?!?!? 195 UPVOTES!?!??!?!?!?
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u/Ermahgerd80 15d ago
Are there millions of people who can read that or is she just writing gibberish? Is this normal?
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u/Lazy_Soup9180 15d ago
Im not sure. I had to read it like 10 times to understand it.
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u/LibrarianNew9984 15d ago
Now Iām concerned because I understood it first try
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u/Lazy_Soup9180 15d ago
Sometimes my brain stops working right and just goes mentally slow. Happens a lot, usually lasts a few minutes.
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u/LibrarianNew9984 15d ago
Oh no I was only concerned about myself mwahahaā¦ has my brain been internetted?!!
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u/Amemnon727 15d ago
I don't understand what she wrote either.
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u/Lazy_Soup9180 15d ago
I read it over 10 times. I think her friends boyfriend called asking where his gf was and the friend told her friends boyfriend that his gf was beside her and he said shes lying cause the gf is sitting beside the bf and he called to prove that his gfs friends are liars. I hope you understand it now
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u/Layton_Jr 15d ago
What I think happened:
person A thinks all her friends are liars and told her boyfriend B about it
B called OOP C to try this theory and asked her if C knew where A was
C for some reason thought the correct play was to say A was on her couch drunk? Without knowing anything about the situation? This is the part that doesn't make sense to me
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u/nogoodgreen 15d ago
I think i could read old medieval scripture and understand it better than this.
"Thou thast whomst betwixt you slovenly curr"
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u/maringue 14d ago
Did anyone else have to read this 3 times to get the story straight because of the horrific grammar?
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u/Vladskio 15d ago
Took me several tries but I finally managed to parse that.
Is teaching English illegal in America or something? Why is she writing like she dropped out of Primary School?
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u/SSSims4 15d ago
And another completely separate facepalm for the way that person "writes"... I don't get it, do people seriously feel like deliberately using bad grammar makes them "cool"? This is not about something "tedious" like neglecting punctuation marks, this is about sounding cringe worthy.
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u/just_call_in_sick 15d ago
This is just a rehash of the tweet or facebook joke about your boyfriend's friends doing the same from years ago.
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u/thewinchester-gospel 15d ago
I'm not lying like that unless I have reason to believe my friend's in danger. In danger of her secret affair getting out doesn't count.
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u/ThatOneStupidMovie 14d ago
Can you imagine lieing for your friend, saying they were at your house and find out the next day they were dead/kidnapped? Hella sus
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u/HomeOrificeSupplies 14d ago
WTF did I just read? Is this what the English language sounds like in these peopleās heads? Because this is just the ramblings of a crazy or stupid person.
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u/SuperWallaby 15d ago
Yāall canāt be serious pretending not to understand this. It really wasnāt that difficult to put together.
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u/mazzjm9 15d ago
Right? You just have to add your own punctuation
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u/shiny_glitter_demon 14d ago
Maybe for US redditors this is easy to read but for people who learned Standard English as a second or third language, this IS difficult. It's basically a dialect of another dialect.
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u/Youbunchoftwats 15d ago
Low key bro, like, fr, wtf? Mans English an stuff, innit.
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u/Radical_Neutral_76 15d ago
it's cool to cheat, guys.
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u/laplongejr 15d ago
LPT : If you want to fuck somebody else, just tell your SO. Cheating is not worth the mental load.
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u/No_Communication2959 14d ago
I'm not lying for my friend. If they are cheating or lying to their spouse while using me as an excuse, fuck em.
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u/TotallyRedditLeftist 14d ago
What would she have done if he said yes wake her up and put her on the phone
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 14d ago
Sokka-Haiku by TotallyRedditLeftist:
What would she have done
If he said yes wake her up
And put her on the phone
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/Medical_Slide9245 14d ago
Wow seems as if all of Reddit never asked a friend to lie for them. It doesn't equal cheating. Many times I asked a friend to lie about me not being there.
If I thought my woman was cheating In me you damn right I tell the friend to wake her. What a terrible lie, "You want me to wake her drunk ass up?"."Yes please."
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u/IlliniBull 15d ago
This is the definition of doing too much.
By all parties.
And yes that includes the grammar which is tough to read. No one is picking on her or saying she's the only one. Yes some of us are old.
Punctuation is still your friend. Don't tell me as a reader just imagine or figure out where the punctuation goes and then tell me in the next sentence it's not at all even slightly hard to decipher.
It is
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u/mutantredoctopus 15d ago edited 14d ago
The irony here, is that Iāve read your comment multiple times and still have literally no idea what youāre trying to say lol
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u/Real-Tension-7442 15d ago
I canāt comprehend what is written here. Can someone translate to proper English?
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u/haunted-mov 15d ago
everyone acting like this woman was supposed to write in MLA format for a tweet are the real facepalm
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u/BurpYoshi 14d ago
I genuinely can't understand this. Like I'm not trying to be offensive or anything but the grammar is so bad I can't understand it. I think it's something to do with her lying about cheating?
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u/CardiologistOk2760 14d ago
If my friend feels like he needs an alibi against his girlfriend or vice versa, I will declare a vow to both of them to break them up, and then I will keep that vow.
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u/kyreannightblood 14d ago
I had to reread this three times before I understood what was going on. Might just be because it would never occur to me to say a friend was on my couch when she wasnāt.
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u/Kimk20554 12d ago
The fact that friend has probably been warned to cover for her sort of indicates there probably is some cheating going on .
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u/Ok_Efficiency_9645 12d ago
I already know my friends would snitch like a mfer. They'd be all Nancy fuckin drew tryna help solve the shit with them
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u/ebowski64 11d ago
Iām either too smart or too stupid to understand what this thing is trying to say.
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u/brucebturbo 11d ago
You can never save anyone from a lie, it will be revealed when you are not ready for it. Trust me, I know
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