Pants on Fire

Then you must LURVE Oktoberfest! (As do I, although one year hubby and I loved the massed pipe band in the Oktoberfest parade so much we marched with it to the end of the parade route, figured we'd experienced the best kick we were going to get out of it, abandoned the parade and went for hot chocolate.)

I'm guessing #2 is the lie. (Which means #3 or #1 is probably the lie!)

Having just one family member die in car crash is horrible. Two? Damn, that's rough. (My condolences if #2 is a fact.)

I'm guessing #3 is the lie. As the number of victims rises, so does my credulence.

Here's some from me:

1. My older sister appeared in a YouTube video that went viral.

2. My dog peed in the lobby of my workplace.

3. I was once detained for 5 hours at the Canadian border near Blaine.

#3 is the lie. I've no idea why I zeroed on it, other than there seemed an air of falseness surrounding a five hour stint of being detained by Canadian border patrol!

Well, we apparently do not have a consensus. I'm thinking #1 is the lie. Because I am unfortunately familiar with the "nervous peeing" thing in dogs. And nobody said Canadians wouldn't detain you for 5 hours--just that they'd say "Sorry" afterwards.

1. My older sister appeared in a YouTube video that went viral.

TRUE! It caused a minor scandal in the family. I am guessing her youngest daughter, the only member who will still deal with her, has had it since scrubbed from the internets, but one or two sites still have it accessible.

2. My dog peed in the lobby of my workplace.

TRUE! My boyfriend had brought her in to visit me and they stayed longer than anticipated.

3. I was once detained for 5 hours at the Canadian border near Blaine.

FALSE! I was never detained anywhere.

I suppose a new guy can play:

1. I once recited a poem before a large audience which included a poet laureate.
2. I recently got a $633 water bill.
3. My cousin graduated with honors from Baylor.

Since I personally have no clue where any of my cousins went to school, or how well (or not) they did at it (yeah, we're close that way), I'm going to guess #3 is the lie.

porlock said:

I suppose a new guy can play:

1. I once recited a poem before a large audience which included a poet laureate.
2. I recently got a $633 water bill.
3. My cousin graduated with honors from Baylor.

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$633 for water? No way! #2 is a lie, unless you're in arrears... that, or your neighbors are pilfering.

Mary Mitchell won! #3 is the lie, no family member ever went to Baylor. The water bill was a bad leak I didn't know about (part was previous month). 1999, Oklahoma Writer's conference, I recited one of my poems to the main gathering and the state laureate was in attendance (I got polite applause).

They all sound plausible (although you've never mentioned jail time, so exposure to the goodies in a drugstore seems least likely.) However, I'm basing my answer strictly on statistics. I'm thinking the job turnover rate at drugstores is less than at clothing stores or gas stations, meaning that job openings come available more often at the latter two. Therefore it is more likely for you to have found jobs available at clothing stores and gas stations. Therefore #1 is the lie.

I think it's #3, used to work in a gas station, because no one in their right mind would want to work in a gas station.

They are all plausible. I'm guessing clothing store only because I used to work in one and it was fun--s6

Here's another group of three from me.

1. While hiking on Mt. Adams, I glimpsed a bigfoot running over a ridge.

2. I made two uncredited TV appearances.

3. I hate the taste of cola drinks and would rather go thirsty than drink a Coke or a Pepsi.

Having never told a single lie in all my life, I'm not sure I'll be any good at this game. I mean, I've seen it done. And it looks real easy. So I'm confident I can do it. And well. Because I've been lying my whole life, and I've never been caught.


1. I was once forced to kick out a door panel to escape a room I was trapped in.

2. I was once harassed by a man who had picked me up hitchhiking.

3. I once pulled onto a busy street on the wrong side of the median, which I mistook for the sidewalk.

Re Cobalt Jade:
#1 is so obviously questionable, I can only think you included it because you think it's true (although it really is a lie, whether you intended it or not). I'm saying #3 is the lie, because surely there can't be more than one of you who feels that way, and the slot has already been apparently filled by Nymtoc.

Re Bloopographer:
I recognize both #2 and #3 from my own life, so #1 is the lie. (Besides, one door panel of the sort I'm picturing might let my cat out of the room to go summon help (sure), but I'd still be stuck in there.)

Well. I'm better at this than I thought. I even stumped my own husband! (He (incorrectly) guessed #2.)


1. True. The room in which I was imprisoned was a bedroom in an old farmhouse. Terrible experience. On the day of my melodramatic escape, I'd come to and found I was alone. Tried the door, but it wouldn't open. It wouldn't open. I thought about going out the window, but it was two floors up with no soft landing. And I knew I didn't have much time before... well, I had to pee. So I busted my way out. (The doors—and their hardware—were original. And finicky. So the bedroom door was always kept open. The culprit who closed it, locking me in, has yet to fess up. (It was me.))

2. True. He lectured me non-stop about how dangerous it was for a woman to hitchhike and shouldn't I be in school and bla bla bla. Turns out he was right, though, 'cause a few months later... Ah, story for another day.

3. False. I did it twice. Twice.


Part marks to Mary for mentioning a cat in connection with #1—the reason I closed the door was because one of the cats, impatient for breakfast, was biting my bigf—uh, feet.