We have all told little white lies to our parents to calm their nerves or stop their overflow of questions when they call us at the end of the week, or when they see you for the first time in a month.

Some of them can be minor or some could even be a bit sarcastic like most of mine would be.

“So how are your grades?”

Yea they are fine, I'm doing pretty well! (when in all honesty you either don’t know or you just don’t want to tell them about your plans to get your chemistry grade back up after failing your first test)

"Do you go to the gym a lot?”

Yea I try to go almost every day! (if you consider getting up from bed to get more ice cream then yes I do that almost every day)

"How did you think you did on that test?"

I think I did pretty good. I studied a lot so we will see. (I just crammed 4 weeks of lecture notes into a hour study session before I had the to take the test)

“How’s that one guy you were talking about?”

Yeah he’s pretty cool, we’re just friends. (either you are on to the tenth guy this year or you just don’t want to talk about how he was a complete a** and it just isn’t worth the explanation)

“So do you go out a lot/drink a lot?”

Pshhhh no I don’t have a lot of extra time to go out and drink since I always have homework on the weekends. (decides not to mention marg Wednesdays)

“What are you doing tonight?”

Studying and watching a movie with my roommates! (probably drinking wine and watching movies with my roommates)

At the end of the day, we are all doing okay and sometimes it’s better to tell a little white lie and save your parents unnecessary worry.