This Life Lesson Ain’t No Lie
Lies tend to catch up with you.
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Have You Lied Today?
I did, even though one life lesson I’ve surely learned is: Don’t lie.
I was at this restaurant where the service was impossibly slow and the food mediocre. I had to go into the kitchen to summon the server and request my check. When she sauntered out and gave me the bill, she asked: How was everything? My answer: Fine.
No, it wasn’t! But it was easier to tell a little lie than to have a confrontation.
According to a 2010 research study (Serota, Levine, Boster), on average, adults lie 11 times a week. Consider the US adult population of about 240 million x 11 lies a week x 52 weeks a year. You can see where the math is headed—we had 137 billion lies floating around in 2012! That’s 261,187 lies per minute.
No surprise. Lies have been with us since ancient times:
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