7. Research based conversation starter: “Hey, did you guys go to Megan’s party on Saturday?”
This is yet another “research based conversation starter”, now number 7 in the list of important questions to ask someone to see if they are lying. This time, you use it to introduce the actual topic of our interest: Megan’s party.
The reason you ask this question is that you already know for a fact that Tony was there with his friends, because you saw a picture of them insanely wasted on Facebook, yet Tom was not in the photo. Since “you guy’s” could not necessarily include Tom, there’s no reason for Tony to lie about the party… yet. Just as well, he must be deeply relieved that you dropped the Fat Ashley (that’s her name now) subject, so he’ll jump on the first conversational wagon that comes along.
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