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We’ve all told lies at one point or the other in our lives.

The fact is though, regardless of whatever size of the lie, some people are really good at lying while others simply suck. This is a story of how I sucked at lying to my mother and how that shit backfired.

One beautiful Saturday morning when I was in primary 3, I found a one naira coin under our living room couch.

Mother instantly gave me the eye.

Then she was like, “Is it your own?”

The next Monday, I took Old Herb to school.

After school, I stopped by the little kiosk outside the school gate and bought one stick of robot bubble gum.

But I was very happy with my purchase.

I chewed my robot gum with pride and skipped all the way back home.

Immediately my mother saw me, she looked at me like:

At first, I feigned ignorance.

But my mother was like:

So I told her I was chewing gum.

Things escalated pretty quickly from there.

All the shouting started to make my head turn and ruined my focus.

Before I knew it, I told her I hadn’t collected the gum from anybody.

Then her face went like this:

At this moment, I knew I was in too deep and there was no going back.

When I told her I bought the gum from the kiosk in school, she looked at me like:

I knew I was in trouble when she started to laugh like this:

I jejely carried myself to face the wall for my beating.

She made me put the gum on the floor and look at it as she beat me.

I just knew that after that day, I could never look at another stick of robot bubble gum the same way again.
