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jas xjr

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11,309 posts

269 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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i was sitting at the pc looking on fleabay for a phone as you do.. and my car alarm went off. this was a first as i have had the car for a year and never set it off. anyway my 13 year old niece says "uncle your car alarm is going off."
so i rush outside,turn the alarm off, no obvious signs of damage or anything. i then notice she is unloading shopping from my daily driver.
i then started the car up, i t has not been driven for two weeks,yes i know shame on me,and it starts fine so no low battery then i notice a message on the screen " boot open ."
so i ask my niece " did you open the boot? " and she says no.
no big deal , but i know she has opened it, no damage done so why deny it? she is a very intelligent child, well brought up , but she has this habit of denying things she has done.why?
sorry about the long post but i cannot understand why she lied about something so trivial. if she had said yes it was me, then i would have said make sure the boot is shut before locking the car up.
apologies again for the long post.

simpo two

92,789 posts

295 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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Easy, because she doesn't want to get into trouble. Who does?

polarbert

17,936 posts

261 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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i dont know your neice so dont know why she would say that, maybe she thinks that she will get told off if she said yes. im not saying that you would but sometimes kids get that into their heads.

i have a 5 year old nephew and he lies about little things sometimes, and sometimes its blatently obvious he has done whatever he said the opposite to. sometimes he blames it on his sister(2 years old) other times he will have done something to make her cry and not admit to it.

the main thing with him is i suppose his age, i guess

jas xjr

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11,309 posts

269 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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true mate, but what trouble would she have gotten into?
i would have said dont do it again. i dont shout at people in general and definately not at my sisters kid, her mum does enough of that.
i reckon its because its been that long since i was a kid i forget what it was like.
although when my dad asked me , when i was 15, did you crash the car into the house son? i did say yes.

andy mac

73,668 posts

285 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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Kids have lied since day one. Adults lie a lot more though.

polarbert

17,936 posts

261 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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jas xjr said:
true mate, but what trouble would she have gotten into?
i would have said dont do it again. i dont shout at people in general and definately not at my sisters kid, her mum does enough of that.
i reckon its because its been that long since i was a kid i forget what it was like.
although when my dad asked me , when i was 15, did you crash the car into the house son? i did say yes.



i know what your saying, but if she didnt you wouldnt shout at her, then maybe she would just say no

im only 19 and i remember when i was younger i used to say no just to some questions i was asked so that i wouldnt get into trouble, even though if i had told the truth it would have been okay.

i didnt even know how to drive when i was 15, how did you manage to drive into your house?

R988

7,495 posts

259 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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andy mac said:
Kids have lied since day one. Adults lie a lot more though.


Adults are just better at it because it takes a few years of experience to know when you can get away with a lie and when you should own up. Then again some people are compulsie liars.

NiceCupOfTea

25,586 posts

281 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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polarbert said:
i didnt even know how to drive when i was 15, how did you manage to drive into your house?


Because he didn't know how to drive!

planetdave

9,922 posts

283 months

Friday 26th August 2005
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I crashed into a block of flats once (The Crescents, Hulme). The weather was against me. There was an earthquake. I was blinded by the wrong kind of sun.

OK it was icy and I was 18. Strangely enough the flats later collapsed 20 years later. Co-incidence?

jas xjr

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11,309 posts

269 months

Saturday 27th August 2005
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my dad was away in india on business and had been for the best part of a year. we had bought another house but had not moved into it. the car was parked on the drive and was a runner but ready for the scrappie. i asked my mum can i have a motorbike,all my friends have etc, she said no. i then asked if i could have the car,she said yes. i think she was under the impression i would just wash it etc. it was an automatic and our drive was loose tarmac, so i decided
to try to get it to wheelspin, my reactions were not too fast...crunch

v15ben

16,222 posts

271 months

Saturday 27th August 2005
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I crashed my dad's 520 BMW into the garage a few weeks after I passed my test!
There was not much damage to the car but the garage wall was hanging together with strands of concrete rather than bricks!
Oops