Has anyone ever heard someone tell the truth upfront to you or to someone else, followed by a lie immediately afterwards? It doesn't make sense to me since they already told the truth so why try to cover it up. An example I have is that I once asked a friend how things were going one day while we were hanging out, no big deal. And she just happened to inform me that we could have hung out the day before as well but she just simply wanted to have the day to herself. No big deal. I like having days to myself too and I wasn't offended that she told me that.

In fact, I was glad she was open about it since that means she trusts me and knows I won't take offense to that, since some people out there would if they realized someone chose to be by themselves rather than hanging out wit them. But then what baffled me is the lie she told right after, almost as if she either was trying to cover the truth up after revealing it or something else. She said that even if we did hang out, we wouldn't have hung out until like four or five in the afternoon anyways so there was no point. The reason I know that was a lie is because every time we do hang out, it is always around four or five in the afternoon so it wouldn't have been any different.

Has anyone ever came across a baffling situation like this? What do you think is the reason for someone doing this? How did you deal with it? Once again, I was not offended that she told the truth. There is nothing wrong with having the day to yourself. I was just confused at why she told a lie after telling the truth. I've seen other people do similar stuff too where they tell the truth and then tell a lie afterwards, especially if it is a ridiculous one like the example I gave.

This was just an example, I've seen many people do this, not just her. And also I have seen it happen towards other people as well, not just towards me, and just never understood what the point of doing so was. Lying shouldn't take place in the first place, but I feel like if someone is going to lie, it is better to just simply lie than to tell the truth and then tell the lie afterwards. Just confuses me. Just wondered what you guys thought.