That's inoffensive stuff, anyway. It's more like embellishing stories that aren't going to have any serious repercussions on other people. It's when it stops making someone take you seriously that you should really worry about it.

I've known a few people like that. It's generally pretty harmless, claiming to have owned a peacock when they were younger or something; I can tell that the people I've known couldn't help it, and didn't really want to lie. But it can be rather easy to spot, so it's good that you warn people and let them know you're aware of it, and to admit it if they feel the need to call you on something.

I'm pretty gullible to people I just meet whom I don't have any reason to suppose are lying.

And I think I would be pretty offended if the person that lied to me supposed me an idiot for believing them.

hi, my name is floatingslowly and I'm an transgalactic-death-machine hellbent on yr planet's desctruction.

why should I care if you biowarefare monkeys tell fibs?

yr all going to die a nasty death anyways.

and by nasty death, I mean, particle disintigration.

I'm not gullible in the least.

I have a friend who does that. The worst time was when he told me a story about something he had experienced once, which was actually just a copy of a story I had told him sometime before about something that had happened to me... except his was more amazing of course.

It used to annoy me a lot, but now I just ignore it whenever I spot him (or others) on telling little lies.