As a kid I was a compulsive liar and would make up non-existent stories.
With the advent of search engines I discovered that any story I can come up with actually happened somewhere in the world and has an article about it already.
Example: Fake barn county. You're driving in a county and see lots of barns. You point to one and say "that's a barn". Unbeknownst to you, almost all the barns are not barns but are facades. By accident you actually are pointing at one of the few real barns.
With the advent of search engines I discovered that any story I can come up with actually happened somewhere in the world and has an article about it already.