Well, Now I Do If you need to lie about something, it probably shouldn’t be a lie that can be easily confirmed or denied. Like owning a duck. If you own a duck, people will find out. If you don’t own a duck but claimed that you did, that too will become obvious pretty quickly. This guy figured that out only after he told his family he had a duck, and they got really excited about it. So, to prevent the fallout of denying their excitement, he ended up getting a pet duck for real.