The key to being believed is making sure everything you tell people is consistent. If you slip up and add that little extra detail, you just might get called out. Make sure you trim more unbelievable elements from your stories ahead of telling them.
Sure, you really did see that man in the purple suit with the gray flower in his shirt pocket, sitting in the tree outside your bedroom window, reading a book with a title you can never remember no matter how hard you try-- but isn't that a little hard to believe?
Just try one of these easily applied pre-made stories instead:
You: "I saw a possum carrying its babies on its back last night."
Them: "That must've been something else!"
You: "I went hiking in the mountains with some of my co-workers."
Them: "Sounds like fun!"
You: "I watched a robin build a nest out of duck feathers."
Them: "Wow! Isn't nature amazing?"
Sure, they might not be true, but at least they're believable.
After all, what’s more important; telling the truth, or being believed?
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