# If you are that stupid, don't lie **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001 "2013-09-04T16:10:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001/1 "2013-09-04T16:10:39Z")
I occasionally think I don’t have a good enough memory to lie. Care to share any experiences with folk who felt differently? This morning I got a request to postpone a hearing scheduled for late October. The explanation was that the firm did not have anyone to cover that date. I declined to grant the postponement. The hearing was scheduled on a date the firm agreed to. The firm has plenty of time to make arrangements to have someone cover it. If they don’t want to, they can withdraw and the client can obtain new representation. So when my clerk calls to tell them the request was denied, the person on the phone objects, “But the attorney has an emergency on that date!” I wish I were so organized that I could schedule my emergencies a month and a half in advance! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001/2 "2013-09-04T16:16:07Z")
Looks like lack of planning on your part actually does constitute an emergency on their part. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001/3 "2013-09-04T17:18:01Z")
Are you a judge? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001/4 "2013-09-04T18:28:27Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Looks like lack of planning on your part actually does constitute an emergency on their part. Except everyone originally agreed to the date - there was no lack of planning. 🙂 I’m trying to think how I can get an emergency for two months in the future; I’m coming up empty. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001/5 "2013-09-04T18:29:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Except everyone originally agreed to the date - there was no lack of planning. 🙂 > > I’m trying to think how I can get an emergency for two months in the future; I’m coming up empty. Just got invited to a wedding out of town? More likely a competing court date, but why not say that? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001/6 "2013-09-04T18:33:49Z")
Maybe an emergency surgery, and that’s the only date free. Still, as **Dinsdale** says, get someone else to cover, then. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001/7 "2013-09-04T19:05:41Z")
My father sometimes turns down invitations to events he doesn’t want to attend by saying, “I have to go to a funeral on that day,” even if the event is weeks or months away. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-that-stupid-dont-lie/668001/8 "2013-09-04T19:40:37Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Are you a judge? I don’t wanna go there! 😉