“Ok, here you go, here is my biggest lie. When |
was in junior high | was quite a shoplifter, there
wasn't anything | couldn't steal. | used to go to
shopping malls and walk out with boxes of Lego,
video games or candy. One year | wanted to buy
my family Christmas presents so | came up with a
brilliant plan. | decided to steal the most expensive
toy that | could and told my mom that | won it in a
raffle at school. Then | told my mom that | wanted
to return it to a store so | could get an exchange.
She complied and the plan worked because she
told the store clerk that | received the toy at a
birthday party but that | already had the same one
so could we please get an exchange. | got my
mom a 14k gold bracelet, my sister an iron and my
little brother a Nintendo game. Not too bad hey?
Merry Christmas.”

male, 20

"When | was nine ears old, my friend asked me to
take care of her pet rabbit. She gave me a bunch
of instructions and shit, but | didn’t really follow
them. | would just let the rabbit run around my
dad's apartment. One morning | found it dead
under a pile of crap that | had thrown into the
closet to ‘clean up’ because my dad was coming
home. | lied and told my friend that her rabbit had
been stolen. My dad told her mom what really hap-
pened, and | never hung out with her again."

female 25

"One time in grade eight when | was really late for
class, my teacher was super mad at me because |
had been constantly late for the last five classes
so when she pulled me aside to explain myself, |
told her that three guys had tried to mug me on
the way to school. She got pretty upset and was
pretty worried about it. | even mustered up a cou-
ple of tears for her when | was telling the story.
She made me go and tell the principle and the
school constable. They phoned my mom and | had
to fill out a police report. Suffice to say, they never
caught the three guys, and my teacher was always
pretty sensitive to me from that point on."

male 19