HOW MUCH DO YOU LIE???

THE AVERAGE PERSON WILL TELL 109,575 LIES IN THEIR LIFETIME:

I'm not sure if this should make you happy, or very, very worried about society . . . but everyone else in the world is LYING just as much as you are.

According to a new survey in England, the average person tells FOUR lies every day . . .
. . . That's 1,460 lies per year . . . and 1,464 during leap years.
. . . Which comes out to approximately 109,575 lies over the course of your life. (--Assuming you hit the exact life expectancy of 77.8, and you're talking . . . and, therefore, lying . . . for 75 of those years.)

The four lies per person, per day is the average . . . but that's based on the average of both genders. If you just look at one sex at a time, men admit they lie five times a day . . . and women claim they only lie three times a day.

75% of both men and women say that women are better liars than men.

66% of people, or two out of three, say they don't feel guilty telling "white lies" . . . and 40%, or two out of five, say they're good at lying.

According to the survey, the most common white lie people tell is "There's nothing wrong with me; I'm fine." 28% of people say they use that lie regularly.

Here's the entire list of the top 30 white lies people tell, according to this survey . . .
1.) "There's nothing wrong with me; I'm fine."
2.) "Nice to see you."
3.) "I don't have any cash on me." (That's right: Homeless people and your broke, freeloading friends pushed this lie all the way up to number THREE.)
4.) "I'll give you a call."
5.) "Sorry I missed your call."
6.) "We'll have to meet up soon."
7.) "I'm on my way."
8.) "No, you don't look chubby in that."
9.) "I'm stuck in traffic."
10.) "No, I didn't get your text message.
11.) "I had no [cell phone] signal."
12.) "Of course I love you." (THAT'S a little white lie??? It's pretty significant to me. Unless you're trying to have relations with someone for the first time. Then OK.)
13.) "Our server must have been down."
14.) "My alarm didn't go off."
15.) "The check is in the mail."
16.) "My battery died."
17.) "The train/bus/subway was late."
18.) "I'll call you back in a minute."
19.) "This tastes delicious."
20.) "I'm going to the gym tonight."
21.) "We're just friends."
22.) "My watch stopped."
23.) "I've got a call on the other line."
24.) "I've been in meetings all day."
25.) "It's just what I've always wanted."
26.) "I wrote your number down wrong."
27.) "It was THIS BIG."
28.) "I'm working late tonight."
29.) "I bought the last one."
30.) "My car wouldn't start."
(Daily Mail)

(The most amazing thing to me: Look at how much the cell phone era has changed the way we lie. Saying you don't have a signal, didn't get a text, missed a call . . . even "I'm stuck in traffic" . . . these are all cell phone lies.)

(Have cell phones really made us all terrible human beings??? Or is technology just the most convenient excuse available??? 200 years ago, maybe the lies would've been "My horse wouldn't move" or "I broke an axle on my buggy.")

(And then, the social observers of that era would've speculated that the horse-and-buggy era turned everyone into horrible human beings. Let's go with that. It'll help us sleep better at night.)