Why????

Sent the nieces down yesterday with a small load of clothes to wash. They came up with the still damp clothes from the dryer. Well, it's an easy mistake that could happen to anybody, so I said I would go back down when I switched out the clothes and put those clothes in the dryer again.

When I did so, I realized that at the very bottom of the pile were the dirty (and somewhat stinky) clothes I'd sent them down with in the first place, and everything had to go back in the wash.

This was a little irritating, and I asked them about it this morning.

Explanations given:

You're wrong, we totally did put them in the wash! (No, had you done that there would not have been dirty clothes in the hamper under the clean clothes.)

Well, we must have missed some! (Try all. Also, there were no clothes in the washer or dryer.)

You're wrong, we totally did put them in the wash!!!! (No.)

YES!!! (No!)

It must have been the downstairs neighbors. (This is where I started yelling, because they were seriously suggesting that the downstairs neighbors, for reasons only known to them, took the clothes out of the wash, dried them without letting them become clean, snuck upstairs, and hid them under the clean but damp clothes in the hamper.)

You're yelling, why are you being so mean??? (The sad thing is that I wasn't even particularly upset, just irritated and confused, until they started lying. I hate stupid lies. They're just so insulting, and any story that depends on "you're totally wrong about what the evidence if your senses shows!" qualifies.)

I would have understood if they simply had never made it downstairs in the first place. But they went down and put clean clothes in the hamper! They were proud of it! WTF???