Lately there has been a lot of lying about personal possessions, and many people trying to "outdo" eachother with experiences etc.
There is a girl I'm sort of friends with named Halima. Now, Halima has some serious issues with faking it, and tries to show up practically anyone she meets. The thing which makes it funny though, is that what she says is 90% unbelievable in the first place, and she forgets what she had told the next day.
Once, Keysha, Halima and I were on the grass during PE chatting. Halima then brought up "I got 300 cable channels yesterday" then waited for some sort of comment. Keysha and I already sussed out what she might say, so we asked how and what she got.
"Well we have this new cable, called Foxtus (doesn't "Foxtus" seem a bit like a combination of Foxtel and Optus to you?) and you can import channels from overseas. So we have 50 channels from American cable TV, 50 channels from Chinese TV, 50 channels from Russia and stuff like that. It comes in on this massive satellite and it's almost as big as my roof and EVERYONE on my street is jealous and tries to be our friend now so they can watch our TV"
Keysha and I rolled our eyes and just left it.
The next day, we were on the grass again and Keysha mentioned that she got a satellite the day before.
Halima: "Ohh that is sooo cool... I wish we had a satellite and cable, that'd be so cool"
It's not just the people who show others up then forget their lies that I'm talking about. It's just random conversation as well.
On Wednesday during my lunch break from work experience I went to my school to hand in my photography book and since it was lunch at school as well, I went to visit my friends and to see if Chaz was there (he hadn't been there Monday or Tuesday).
Luckily, Chaz was there, but as I came near the steps I heard a guy who sometimes hangs around us say "Yeah? Well my mum isn't ALLOWED parole" then Chaz gave him a death stare and said "You trying to show me up there buddy?"
I honestly don't understand why people feel the need to show others up or outdo them. Sure, you can have fun with it, like with what Halima said you could imbellish more on it, claiming you have 5 hot pink satellites and a pet crocodile who tunes it in, but the people who do it just to seem better just make me wonder if they're just trying to cover their own faults. That's what I've been lead to believe.
What are all of your thoughts on the whole "showing up" thing? Do you think that it's just what teenagers do? Or what? You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
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