When Innocent Fibbing Snowballed into Unbelievable Truths: 35 Kids’ Lies That Took a Wild Turn
This teacher, however, paused. “O-oh? Um… how old is his brother?”
“His brother? He’s an only child.”
“I see. He doesn’t have an older brother who goes to night school?”
“… no?”
“That’s strange. He has here in his first grade survey that he has an older brother, around college age.”
“Well, I can assure you that he does not.”
“Do you live with someone else, an uncle, perhaps?”
“No. Did he describe this older brother?” My wife and i had a lot of oddball friends in the local entertainment scene, so maybe he was speaking about one of them, and there was a miscommunication.
“No. He says he’s always gone when he comes home, usually misses him by 5 minutes. So I assumed he worked at night, or went to college night school. Children have an active imagination…”
The second she said, “missed him by 5 minutes,” my wife and I looked at one another. “Oh s**t.”
Yeah, that was a weird conversation with our son later that night. He really thought he had an older brother. “No, ah, that was a joke. From a TV show.”.
Convinced my baby nephew that his name Max was short for Maximus.
He was born on my birthday. My brother, his dad, didn’t tell me happy birthday or get a card or anything, instead just announced his kid was born and called Max (my favourite baby boy name that I had told the whole family I wanted to call my future son for years)
So I was like, ok, let’s play this game. (Yeah I was miffed, but it was more all tongue in cheek).
I convinced Maximus that even though his parents raised him, he actually belongs to me and is my birthday present.
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