I enjoyed reading your thoughts.
Lying is unprofitable but it can be lifesaving sometimes. I can point out some of my cousins you used to bedwet then change up during the night. I was always their victim, the one who gets pushed into the wet area until one of them went to the boarding house.

They said she wetted the upper bunk and the pee came flying to the lower bunk. How she survived the punishment from the SS 3 student, I do not know.

But her experience still makes us laugh out loud till this day.