When You Catch Someone in a Lie

When you catch someone in a lie, do you call them out or just go along with it? I can think of a time that I knew my friend was lying to me but I let it go. The summer before I moved to college, I was supposed to go on a weekend camping trip just my friend and I, but my friend cancelled. It was my last weekend home. We planned that weekend trip at the beginning of the summer. She told me that she wanted to have a weekend to herself but I knew that was a lie for a couple of reasons. One reason being that a friend of ours that she was texting at the time had told me her real reason for not wanting me to go. She felt “threatened” by me because the guy she had a thing for that camps at the same campground as us liked me and not her. I also knew it was a lie because she had slipped up in her words but I pretended not to notice. I chose to brush off the lie because I knew it was something not worth getting into a huge argument about. I know when to pick my battles, and that was not one I wanted to fight. People accept lies for all kinds of reasons and sometimes it’s for the better.