Are you living a lie?

Contrary to what we may think, us girls are worse fibbers than our male counterparts. Don’t believe me? Well The Truth Booth doesn’t lie…

Set up by eInsurance to find out what kind of porkies us Brits are telling, the ‘confessional booth’ probably surprised and shocked its designers. Who knew the nation’s lovely ladies could be so creative with the truth?

In case you still don’t believe me (and why should you, I’m a woman?), here are the top-ten corkers our fellow females came up with: 

Kirsten Lewis shared that she accidently smashed her neighbour’s window and blamed it on one of her children. 

Louise Fox confessed that her husband always keeps her waiting when they go out. So to get back at him, she pees in the bath water (which they share) before she gets out. 

Sandra Hahn admitted that she has three very boisterous children, so to calm them down she told them an evil ‘Mr White’ would turn up and snatch them if they didn’t behave. Then one day a stranger turned up asking for a Mr White, which absolutely terrified the children. She never set them straight and still uses it to keep them under control. 

Roz Newman revealed that she stole the expensive gift she gave her mum for Christmas from someone else’s doorstep. 

Helen Scott shared a story about waking up to see her cat standing over her neighbour’s dead rabbit. Panicking, Helen placed the beaten up bunny back into its hutch before heading off to work, hoping they would think it died naturally. The neighbour later revealed that the rabbit had died a few days earlier and had been buried, but that it had later reappeared in the hatch. The kids thought their parents had buried it alive and Helen didn’t set the record straight. 

Susan Ackroyd confessed that she once made her husband a dog-meat sandwich. He took it to work with him in his packed lunch and is still none the wiser. 

Emily Wood revealed that she once put rabbit toenails in her ex-boyfriend’s herbs and onion juice in his milk.

Rebecca Haselhurst admitted she is seeing nine men at the moment (Rebecca is clearly a glutton for punishment). 

Emma Hall explained that she was picked on by a girl at school. To get revenge, she took the girl’s toothbrush, wiped her ‘blessed assurance’ with it and then put it back ready for her arch nemesis to use. 

Hannah Kollar blurted out the fact that she slept with her own fiancés dad (apologies to Hannah’s fiancé if this is how he found out).

Believe me now? I was taken aback by the booth’s findings. Shame on you ladies, I thought to myself.

But then two things occurred to me. First, the women were confessing these dark and deadly secrets because the 'best' lie would be rewarded with an iPad 2. So maybe they were actually lying about the lies they had told (and we all know two lies cancel each other, right?).

Secondly, I realised that us ladies might just be more honest about the lies we’ve told in the past than men are… 

Conclusion: men definitely lie more than us, they’re just not as good at it.

I should add, however, that honesty is ALWAYS the best policy and, while it may or may not earn you an iPad 2, it will definitely set you free! (John 8: 32).

Read more from Joy in the upcoming issue of Christian women’s magazine Liberti.