I lied to myself about 10 minutes ago when I said I was going to clean the house today.
I told my daughter that the shopping cart with the race car was broken.
“I like big butts and I cannot lie”
That’s who I lie to most of all.
There’s this guy at work that flirts at me, but he’s overly sensitive about it. He’ll pay me a compliment on my “frailty” and “elegance” and then quickly ask, “Am I getting on your nerves?”
At first I just thought he was being funny, but after years of this I’ve come to realize he’s just very stupid. However, I don’t have the heart to tell him to leave me alone. So I’ll say “Of course, you’re not getting on my nerves!” The one time I told him to stop, I ended up feeling like a jerk.
It happened last Friday, but it usually happens every day of the week.
Another coworker asked me to do a favor for him a few days ago. He wanted me to make maps for a chapter he’s writing in the big report that I am preparing. OK, no big deal. I like making maps. Turns out he wanted me to make fifteen different ones–all with complicated symbology. Requiring customized legends. After spending two days on it, he thanked me and said he hoped it hadn’t been too much work. I told him it wasn’t a problem. But it really was. All the time I was working, I kept thinking about all the unemployed scientists out there with training in ArcMap and all the latest technology, while there are a ton of old fogies past retirement age actively refusing to evolve with the times and knowing they don’t have to as long as other coworkers’ continue to do favors for them. I feel sorry for them, but it is also irritating.
It’s not you, it’s me.*
*- It really is you
No pun intended wither. I consciously avoid lying to anybody, even strangers. It’s bad Karma. It serves no purpose, let alone mine. I believe that you can say anything you want to anybody if you say it in the right way. I concentrate my efforts on communicating without making things up.
I lie ALL the time at work. I’m a bartender at a major chain and patrons are always asking me whatelse I do; go to school, have kids, etc. So I make up tons of stories to tell them! I do it to entertain myself more than anything, because honestly my life is pretty boring, filled with episodes of law and order and my two dogs. Harharhar.
I told my girlfriend I was just laying in bed doing nothing when in reality I was laying in bed and reading.
Me too.
Latest lie however was to the program manager at work. I was off sick two days last week so I told her I need to extend my document delivery deadline by two days. I could probably finish it today but I really don’t feel like it. I’m still not 100% and am seriously unmotivated. (Hence reading the Dope)
Told family that my gf works in a club… it’s not totally false, but I avoided the part about it being a strip club.
I lie non-stop (mostly) for 8 to 10 hours every day, typically from
about 2:00 a.m. to about 10:00 a.m. or so.
ETA: And a lot of other times too!
My friend wanted to invite her brother and SIL along for a hike when I’m down in San Diego visiting her. I said, “I guess it will be okay.” The truth: I’d rather not have to deal with them and all their gossip and their drama. That’s the reason I go on hikes–to escape all of that shit for most of a day.
I’m not going to post in this thread.