Do you know someone who "embellishes" their stories to the point of absurdity?

Question

We had a guy at the police department who never saw combat but always hinted mysteriously "just like Nicaragua" and pretended he had been a Navy SEAL. We of course being cynical cops found out from sources he was never a SEAL. When he left the room we would always say something like "Oh yeah, just like Dinky Dao in '68" and laugh ourselves sick.
The sad part is he really thought we bought his story...

Answer 1

This kid in my school tried to get me to believe someone randomly drove by his house and shot through his window with a 7mm and knocked over a bookcase with the bullet, and then it hit him in the shoulder. He showed the scar, which I strongly believe was from a paintball!!

Answer 2

There were a couple of guys like that in the Marine Corps that I came across. One guy was always talking about his Harley Davidson he had waiting at home. I doubt if he could have ridden a tricycle. We once had to give him a GI shower because he was so scuzzy. Another guy had an amazing family. His sister was Ms. America or a Playboy bunny or both, it has been so long I forget which. His father was a rich doctor or lawyer and his brothers were fighter pilots and college students at ivy league schools. He was a certified loser who re-upped for a bonus that he spent in the first month he had it. He probably still has that eight track he bought. I have been pretty busy lately with all of my covert action for the CIA. Please keep this a secret. I could lose my special license to kill status and number with the British Secret Service if anyone found out. I will be gone for a month on a mission so vital to American interests that it could change that world as we know it. I agree, with you, though. I hate it when people embellish their sorry lives to make themselves seem more important. Well, this is 0014 signing off.

Answer 3

My spouse is a sad source of many tall tales:

We live near the water. Our town has a boardwalk where people can either walk on it or park beside it and watch the boats go by. My spouse tells people stories of him and his dad eating lunch along the water when a freighter came by and hit the sea wall. He has told this to many people. I have asked him a few times about it and he's like "What are you talking about". Then a year or so later he will tell the story again saying that he DID see it but then deny it later. Stupid dumbass can't keep the story straight.

There are tons of other stories but I can't remember them all.

Answer 4

yep.
I worked with a woman who apparently once squeezed out a lot of small spiders from a spot on her cheek. (urban myth)
And she had a friend that kept driving around the house calling her because she couldn't stop the car **(urban myth)
My ex-husband had a Sargent in the army that used to start sentences with ...."see, when I was in Vietnam"...... he must have been about 4 at the time of that war, unless he turned up during more civil times.
My mum was once mugged by an urban gangster, that had looked suspicious, she was prepared and she chased after him and kicked his legs, retrieved her stuff. I mean, she was 55 at the time, 200 lb and 5' 5" and he was apparently 19, 150 lb and 6'4". Go figure.....
Also I worked in hi-tech and we did RFID tags and this chap was trying to impress me with a fake beard, dark glasses talking into his wristwatch-microphone scenario. It was just so funny, trying to pick me up and pretending to be a spy. I mean, we worked on military supplier contracts and he was this "can't tell you or I'll have to kill you" guy

Answer 5

Don't you wonder why? I do. Some people find life too boring and love amusing others even at their own expense. My mother never found a story adequate, it always needed a little something.
She was so freaking funny and adorable. She never fluffed anything about her own life, even tended to overlook telling us details that to her must have been mundane, but shocked us when we learned of them. Like: mom, where or when do you have a memory of this gravy boat.
long studying pause, " all I know is George brought it to the table with gravy in it every morning."...........never mentioned having servants, in forty years!

Answer 6

Yes, I've known alot of people like that. LOL

The weirdest thing was the woman I worked with at Kohl's that would get every ailment right after me-- cancer, herniated disk, fibromyalgia. I stopped telling her what was wrong with me because it was starting to creep me out!

But I really did get carbon monoxide poisoning as a kid on a family trip and my dad really was VP for the phone company and we really did have our pictures in security there in case we ever got kidnapped and I really did grow up down the street from Ward Kimball and my grandpa really did invent night visions goggles (Grandpa B).... :)

Answer 7

I know a guy that embellished his Native American heritage. It was going over pretty well until his then wife met his birth mother. His now ex wife just smiles when people ask why she left the Indian.

Answer 8

I have met lots of people like that! Usually when someone embellishes their life history it is because they are insecure about themselves. They feel they have to pretend to be something they are not to make friends. How sad is that? Why can't people be happy with what God gave them???

Answer 9

I don't really know anyone like that. Unless you want to count ol' Crusty from Grenada in '83. Boy he was a real talker.

Answer 10

Those kind of people drive me nuts!! I have a few of them like that where I work and everyone knows they are so full of it! Your question cracks me up!! Here's your star!!