PRIMARY SCHOOL WAS a time of great fun and amusement. Yes you had to learn maths and Irish but you also got a full hour to play outside and mess around with your friends EVERY DAY. It was bliss.

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Primary school also gave rise to some of the best creativity that we ever saw in our young lies. Shannon Dolan started a thread on the best lies that we heard in primary school and some of the replies are utterly incredible.

Did anyone ever tell lies in primary school to look class? I told the teacher I visited Thailand and another lad told the class he HEARD the boom of 9/11. In Donegal.

— shannon (@itsshannondolan) April 3, 2018

There was always one kid who had someone die in 9/11.

A girl in my class told us her granddad died in 9/11. My mother went to off her commiserations to her mother and her mother was like 'He's not dead, he lives in Dublin'. It was WILD.

— Rachel O’Neill (@ronronzo) April 4, 2018

Some wanted to claim that they were haunted.

My brother told everyone when the pope died, his PlayStation stopped the game and flashed up that he was dead - this was in 2005 when the PlayStation wasn’t even connected to the internet or anything djdksks

— LJ Cool Jay (@lrishJames) April 3, 2018

Others lived a wild double life.

This just gave me a chilling flashback to the time I told my classmates that I lived in South Africa as a child and was once chased by a lion and that we moved back when my sibling was killed. All of it completely fabricated. Primary school was weird.

— Patrick Kelleher (@paddykell) April 4, 2018

Some of us got caught out by timing.

Not me, but there was a girl in the class below me who tried to convince everyone, with unwavering confidence, that her dad had fought in both world wars and had been to the moon. This was in 2002. https://t.co/HJmutD3nig

— David Monaghan (@IndefiniteDavid) April 4, 2018

Others got caught out by a lack of geographical knowledge.

He also told us the uncle flew him and his brother out to WrestleMania on his private jet. This was on a Monday, the day after the event. The event that ended at 4AM. School started at 9AM.

— you're mum (@beemoviefan1) April 3, 2018

My auntie was in Lillehammer & brought me a little doll back. I brought it into class, stood up & told everyone a long story all about my weekend in Lillehammer. All went well until I got carried away and said my luggage fell out of the plane on the flight home.

— Catherine O'Mahony (@CatherineMatz) April 4, 2018

There were the famous significant others.

i remember a girl who was a year younger than me in primary school tried to convince everyone her cousin was going out with lionel messi, we believed her too smh

— Becky ! (@spoticry) April 3, 2018

I remember my mate always used to tell me she'd been on dates with Brian McFadden and I was SO JEALOUS not even questioning the fact that a member of Westlife was dating a 6 year old https://t.co/oCwI1ASANw

— russell grand job (@toastykneecaps) April 4, 2018

And the famous relatives.

Omg some girl told me that miley cyrus was her cousin

— mrs picolo (@oxtailsoop) April 3, 2018

My mate told everyone his grandad was Arthur Guinness.

— Dan Martin (@DanMartin92) April 4, 2018

Everyone loved a good scientific experiment.

A kid in my class claimed NASA was researching him cos his skin healed so quickly

— Kat (@batoshi) April 4, 2018

Then there was the pure fantasy.

My best friend in school told us she won loads of things off those banner ads online (circa 2003) one of which was a trip to Hawaii with Hilary Duff.

— little yodeling boy from walmart (@_lebreton_) April 4, 2018

This girl I went to school with made up an entire arranged marriage to get the attention of our class and teachers. She kept it going a whole year. Her ring was from penneys 😂😂😂 https://t.co/HCdbLPphAJ

— Bisi✨ (@IsheAfrica) April 3, 2018

I told the teacher I was Asian. I am not. She believed me all the same. I rue that day. https://t.co/lrW19EuiOE

— Seán Saunders (@seansaunders97_) April 3, 2018

And just a little bit of evil.

I told a friend that the bookmark I was using had poison inside it and if he annoyed me I would throw it on him, he was too scared to go near me the rest of the day

— Bronagh 🔮 (@harryisasaint) April 4, 2018

And sometimes we just wanted a little notoriety.

my friend used to tell any new kids who came to our school that when he was a wee one he tripped and hit his head off the fireplace and was in a coma for a year.

— Dave K (@funzeye) April 3, 2018

. @Katiethekid_ telling everyone in primary school that her brother got knocked down, when in actual fact he just had chicken pox 😂 https://t.co/yDpGRinOG9

— Laura Dempsey (@DempseyLaura) April 3, 2018

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