back at school...
Aged about 12 and starting to "rebel", I once took a marker pen into the toilet with me after school and spent a good ten minutes creating a stick-man scene. Just doodling, really, nothing particularly offensive or obscene but permanently-inked graffiti nonetheless.

Unbeknown to me, my squeaky-tipped-pen noises had been overheard by a teacher also visiting the toilet. He eyed me suspiciously as I left the toilets but didn't say anything.

The next day he approached me in the corridor and said "If you don't answer me instantly, I'll know you're lying: was that graffiti on the toilet wall when you went in last night?"

A brief bolt of panic shot through my head as I tried not to think through the implications of pausing while coming up with the right answer and I simply blurted out the first answer that came into my head: "yes!"

He frowned and, knowing neither he nor I could prove anything, walked off.


I've often wondered about that moment. I simply didn't have time to think, yet I lied instinctively. I'm still not sure whether that makes me a pathological liar by nature.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 12:53, 2 replies)

No, just a child
self preservation tells kids to lie if they've done something wrong. Even if the proof is smeared all over their face (choccie biscuits usually)
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 29 Nov 2007, 14:13, closed)

maybe that was it
the "it wasn't me" reflex kicked in, in a slightly more advanced way. It still managed to save me from a pretty harsh bollocking, anyway.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:15, closed)