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What do you do with a habitual liar?
This has been an issue with my oldest niece for years now...it seemed as though she was going to grow out of it and the problem has been alot less frequent this last year but she pulled that shit again tonight.
Over the last couple of months she's been the last one to go to bed...I'm usually in my office working but anyway she lets my dog I have had for 10 years outside in the front yard and then goes to bed without locking the door or letting him back in..she has done this on numerous occasions...sometimes left him outside for an hour or more.
Usually she just says something like..."Oh I forgot," and then I'll make a comment like how I don't appreciate her leaving my dog out in the front yard and about how dangerous it is to just go to bed and leave the door unlocked.
So it happens again tonight. Alot of times my dog sleeps with my sister and her pup so in the late evening I don't always know exactly where he is...but I always check.
My oldest niece yells through my door that she's going to bed..So I go check on my pup and he's not with my sister...I look through the house and he's no where to be found...so I look outside and he's not coming to my calls...I ask my niece if she let him out and she says the last time she saw him was in the living room.
He's not in the house and I can't find him outside..anyway everyone is up now looking for my pup and guess what...he is outside but around under the carport.
As he's coming in I ask my niece again if she let him out she says..."I don't remember."
This bullshit coming from a 17 year old who will be 18 in May.
So what does my sister say..."Well maybe YOU left him outside," pointing at me.
I about went ballistic...my sister knows this is an ongoing issue with my niece...and they both know I've been in my office for the last 2 hours so to try and pin this bullshit on me.
A simple 5 minute issue turns into a heated argument all because people don't want to own up to their mistakes...I just don't get it.
This may not seem like an important issue or big lie, but the problem is that she's been doing this for years on some very minor issues...the girl could be sitting there with her hand in the cookie jar and she will deny it.
Hell we've all lied as kids...but these lies I don't know how to explain it they are different. Like I said she gets caught and she has NEVER as long as I can remember admitted to it after she starts the lie.
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