Honesty is a great starting point for any relationship – but what if you’re not looking to start a relationship? If you’re just getting into a one night stand, you’re probably not thinking of how honest you want to be with her. You’re probably thinking of how much you can afford to get away with, and what you can get away with lying about.

Fortunately, you actually don’t have to tell your one night stand much of anything when it comes to your personal life. There are a few things that you might be surprised to find out you can pretty easily lie about without consequences, as long as you’re planning on never seeing this woman again. Of course, you have to be willing and able to lie effortlessly, so make sure you practice in the mirror before meeting in person.

Your Income Level

The girl you’re seeing for just one night? Yeah, she doesn’t care how much you make in a year. Or rather, she doesn’t care if you’re telling the truth about how much you make in a year. To tell the truth, you don’t even have to come clean about what your actual job is if you don’t want to. If you work in a factory that produces cars, you’re “in the automotive industry.” If you’re a cashier at a pet store, you “work with animals.” Don’t try to fix what isn’t broken. She doesn’t need all of that information, so don’t try and saddle her with it when it’s not important.

Your Relationship Status

Okay, we’re not saying that you should run around on your wife. If you have a wife and you do run around her… yeah, we couldn’t care less. But we’re not talking about whether you’re having an affair or not. Many guys make the mistake of going into way too much detail about their own love lives. They seem to think that the women they’re hooking up with care all that much about whether they’re still tight with their exes, whether they’ve gotten screwed over by women in the past, or whether they’re still really hung up on someone and just playing the field for a while. These are things your hookup does not need to know. Keep them to yourself, because they’re not going to help you get laid at all.

Your Education

There are a lot of places where you can get in better if you’re more intelligent. For example, this is definitely true in many job interviews. Your one night stand date is not a job interview, however, and you don’t get extra points for being a member of MENSA. If you ARE into smart girls who will only put out for guys who have a degree, go ahead and flaunt it. But if you don’t have the degree of your dreams, don’t bother trying to lie about it. There are plenty of girls who don’t care, and lying about something like that is going to make you look really self-absorbed. It’s a pretty easy lie to see through.