The 40 Lies Everyone Tells on a Daily Basis

23. “I try to get to the gym about four times a week.”

Yeah, right — you may have been twice this month, and find that a near-record. But when someone asks, you don’t want to be frank about how unmotivated you are— while at the same time, you don’t want to be too obviously dishonest to say that you’re working out every day. So you split the difference and go with the “plausible” four days.

24. “I’ve got plans that day.”

You know your schedule is wide open, but you just don’t want to do the thing you’ve been asked to do. You could just come clean and say, “I don’t want to do that,” but instead you’re acting like you’ve got a busy schedule. Just watch out when they ask if you have plans for the next day.