Can scales lie???

I'm not confusing "lie" and "lay."  Although I will admit (without shame) that I have, on many occasions, mixed them up.
I'm also pretty sure that "lie" is only used when you are referring to humans - but I'm talking about an inanimate object.
A thing.
I'm not talking about fish scales.
I'm not talking about scaling a cliff.  Well, that's a verb so . . . duh.
I'm talking about that nasty, judgy (yes, I know that's not really a word but everyone uses now so . . ) thing that sits on the floor of your bathroom floor daring you to STEP ON IT.
Petey and I have been enjoying the heck out of the huge variety of food options down here in St.Pete.
Enjoying is actually a tame word compared to what we've been doing.
A better description might be "eating with reckless abandon."
I am now above the number I said I would NOT go above EVER AGAIN.
Yeah, I know.  Most of us have been there more than once or a thousand times.
Time to get real.
For me that means "knock off (or at least diminish a bit) the sweets!
And that's going to happen as soon as I finish off the chocolate drizzled bag of popcorn my evil friend Kathi gave me for my birthday.