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21 Sob Stories that Were Actually Fake

9.

When threatened to be broken up with, my buddy’s girlfriend claimed that: She was pregnant with twins, she had cancer, and her grandmother just had a heart attack. Turned out to be totally fake, shocking.

10.

My ex fiancé told me she had a hysterectomy. She’d randomly cry about feeling barren and being unable to have my kid. Two years of this. Turns out I’d gotten her pregnant a few months in and she aborted it without me finding out. She’d never had a hysterectomy.

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When I had finally had enough of my ex’s cheating and bullying and informed him that I was leaving him, he did the typical crying and promising to change song and dance. I stick to my guns, whereupon he tried to tell me that he had secretly been going to kidney dialysis for six months, was in full out kidney failure, and only had two months to live. Begged me to stay with him until he died. I didn’t, of course. Two years later and the miserable bastard is still going strong. He wasn’t even employed at the time, not to mention we lived together, so I’m not sure how he expected me to beleive he was dying right under my nose without me realising it. I knew where he was 24/7. On the damn couch watching movies.

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I used to work in collections at a credit card company. Guy is 4 months late, he’s only got a few months left before he charges off and we’ve never been able to get a hold of him. I’m the lucky kid who has the call where he actually picks up. I go into my spiel, and he says “Let me stop you right there. The reason that I haven’t been able to talk to you is that I was in a motorcycle accident six months ago. I’ve been in a coma for six months. I just woke up last week. I’m under a doctor’s care. My SO told me she paid the bill at first, but after a while with the medical bills she had to pick and choose, and she wasn’t able to handle everything so this got behind. I’m really sorry, but I should be getting a settlement some time, and then I’ll pay the whole thing off. In the meantime, I need help.” Guy gives me details, dates, uses medical terms, totally has me going. He asks us to waive his fees, help him with the amount due, etc. I need supervisor approval to adjust anything for him, so I, of course, wide-eyed and trusting, go to my supervisor and tell her everything I’ve just been told. She wants to talk to the guy. I transfer the call, she tells me to listen to her side and see how she handles the call. She spends a couple minutes hearing his story, tells him she’s going to do what she can, and she’s looking through the account. As she’s looking through the account, she idly mentions that something he said reminds her of a line from a movie. Guy goes, “Oh yeah I love that movie!” Sup responds with, “Sir, [Film Name] just came out two months ago. It’s not on DVD yet, but it’s out of theaters. If you just woke up a few days ago and just got home from the hospital, how have you seen it?” Yeah, he eventually confessed to lying.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.