Don’t Lie

Most people are terrible liars. Thank goodness. This means that you can almost always tell when they are lying. Given how bad people are at lying you would think they would learn to just not do it. The problem comes when they don’t have a plan for their lie. They don’t practice their lie. Or they have no idea how many systems there are in place to fact check their lie.

Now this is not a political post, so before you get riled up I might be writing about a well known liar, I am not. This is a tale about a grown ass woman. She signed up for something. Didn’t show up. When called to check to see if she was coming she lied and said she had called earlier and canceled.

The person she was talking to asked who she spoke with? She said a man. Only one man worked there. They checked with him. No. They checked the phone logs. (These things are computerized.) no calls from her.

She then said she emailed….wait, so you didn’t call. They checked the emails. No. They asked for her copy of the email. Deleted. Interesting…

When called back with the intention of giving her the benefit of the doubt, she got exasperated as she had run out of lies and she hung up on them.

She started with a lie. Was caught in the lie. She held on to the original lie and doubled down. When proven wrong on every count she just wasn’t smart enough to continue.

How sad. When she was called the first time about showing up she should have just said, “I made a mistake. Or I forgot.” Own your mistakes. Lying to get out of them is so much worse. It never gets you where you think it is going to.