I used to lie a lot when I was growing up. It was so easy. However, I'm not very good at it. My eyebrows raise and I feel like a deer in the headlights! Our new favorite show is "Lie to Me." I am learning so much and my kids are finding it harder and harder to get away with lying.
Not that they were any good at it to begin with. I can always tell when they are lying. Many times I will let them lie over and over just to give them the chance to tell the truth. It's so hard. And I absolutely HATE being lied to. It really makes me angry!
Last week The Doctor and I went to Barnes & Noble. I love bookstores. We were going to just look around, but I ended up with an armful of books. Big armful!
When we were checking out, The Doctor applied for a teacher discount card, but the discount is only books for the classroom. So we paid and went home. When I got home, I looked at the receipt and they had given us the teacher discount on all my books that were definitely not for his classroom.
The books sat in their bags (yes, I needed multiple bags) on the floor for 5 days while I debated back and forth in my mind. I even tried to put them on the shelf, but I couldn't even take them out of the bags. Finally, I decided that I am not going to H-E-double-hockey-sticks over books!
So yesterday I took them back to the store. When I explained to the clerk what had happened, she smiled and said that last week was their Teacher Appreciation Week and instead of the 20% off classroom books, we got 25% off all our books. They do this several times a year, and we had just happened to buy the books when it was going on. She thanked me for being honest and sent me on my way.
As I walked out of the store, my heart was light and I had a spring in my step. I came home and put the books on my shelf and I can read guilt free.
So tell me your experiences with lying...did you resolve it? Any regrets? Let's dish!
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2 comments :
What a good story. :) I'm a horrible lair so no great stories to share.
I did have a problem lying when I was younger too. I know I wasn't good at it but I remember each day in Kindergarten I would tell the kids my dad did something different for his job. One day he was a fireman, the next a policeman. Finally, the competition got so heated I finally told everyone he was a raisin (as in the California raisins). My b-day was in June and I didn't get baptized until August because my mom and dad said I needed to realize that I had a problem with lying and needed to stop before I got baptized.
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