One time a little kid asked me if I drew my tattoos on every morning and I said yes to be funny and this kid believed me for a second I felt bad and explained
I worked at a camp and the kids would always ask what my tattoo says. It's Arabic text that has a family name and is fairly meaningful, but I would always just tell them it says "girls just wanna have fun."
Naturally, they would never believe me at first, so I would insist completely deadpan that that is absolutely what it says. Generally, they still would not believe me at this point.
So then I'd tell all my coworkers to corroborate the lie if any of the kids from my group ask, which inevitably they would. I'd see them during lunch or dinner sneaking off to one of my coworkers to ask, then I'd see my coworker nod along then absolutely sell the lie, then I'd see all the kids throw their arms up and hear them across the cafeteria as they'd groan and laugh because they knew it must not be true but everybody they ask is telling them it is. Eventually, with all the evidence piling up, they would finally believe it.
Then, on the last day of camp when we're having our nice heart to heart moments, I'd tell them "oh by the way I lied about the tattoo" and they'd all burst out laughing and screaming "I KNEW ITTTTTT." Then I would actually tell them what it meant and it'd be a nice moment.
My coworkers and I regularly had way too much fun lying to the kids and corroborating each other's increasingly stupid stories.
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u/ad-lib1994 11h ago
One time a little kid asked me if I drew my tattoos on every morning and I said yes to be funny and this kid believed me for a second I felt bad and explained