Truth dare or torture?
Is it just me or does everyone think that exaggeration is sometimes just the art of good conversation?
No one has ever accused me of letting truth get in the way of a good story, that's for sure…
However, I am reading ‘Jonestown’, it’s the unauthorised biography of broadcaster Alan Jones, written by ABC journalist Chris Masters. ‘Jonestown’ is quite the cautionary tale for exaggerators. Imagine having an accomplished journalist and his team of researchers investigating every claim you've ever made and ultimately exposing for as the chronic liar that you are!
Of course, Alan Jones has never used his imagination to pick up women, but I was thinking this morning about lies we might have told to impress the opposite sex.
My friends Cam and Erin were at my house on Saturday, they’ve been together a long time, about the same time as John and me, I think. Cam claims that early on in the piece Erin told him she could barefoot water ski, a claim he is still trying to verify. Erin is adamant a) that she never used that line to pick him up and b) that she did in fact barefoot water ski. I’m thinking of calling Chris Masters…let him get to the bottom of it…
I must have known John was for keeps because I don’t think I ever spun him a line…
Before I met John though I do recall telling one boy in a pub that my parents owned a string of caravan parks, instead of just the one dodgy one.
Of course – as with all extravagant claims, he wanted details. “Wow, lucky you, where do your parents own these parks?” I named a couple of places (Yanchep and Bremer Bay) although to this day I don’t know if those towns even have caravan parks! I’ve never even been to those places!
The bizarre thing about the lie designed to hook someone in, is that it kills the relationship before it starts! Obviously, before the caravan park lie was even out of my mouth I knew I had to walk away…or be caught out for the dirty rotten big noter that I was!!!
So this Valentine's Day...go easy tiger! No one likes a liar - even if they are a doctor in town to catch up with their Uncle John Farnham at a parachuting conference before shipping out to save the lives of small children in Iraq.... xx
No one has ever accused me of letting truth get in the way of a good story, that's for sure…
However, I am reading ‘Jonestown’, it’s the unauthorised biography of broadcaster Alan Jones, written by ABC journalist Chris Masters. ‘Jonestown’ is quite the cautionary tale for exaggerators. Imagine having an accomplished journalist and his team of researchers investigating every claim you've ever made and ultimately exposing for as the chronic liar that you are!
Of course, Alan Jones has never used his imagination to pick up women, but I was thinking this morning about lies we might have told to impress the opposite sex.
My friends Cam and Erin were at my house on Saturday, they’ve been together a long time, about the same time as John and me, I think. Cam claims that early on in the piece Erin told him she could barefoot water ski, a claim he is still trying to verify. Erin is adamant a) that she never used that line to pick him up and b) that she did in fact barefoot water ski. I’m thinking of calling Chris Masters…let him get to the bottom of it…
I must have known John was for keeps because I don’t think I ever spun him a line…
Before I met John though I do recall telling one boy in a pub that my parents owned a string of caravan parks, instead of just the one dodgy one.
Of course – as with all extravagant claims, he wanted details. “Wow, lucky you, where do your parents own these parks?” I named a couple of places (Yanchep and Bremer Bay) although to this day I don’t know if those towns even have caravan parks! I’ve never even been to those places!
The bizarre thing about the lie designed to hook someone in, is that it kills the relationship before it starts! Obviously, before the caravan park lie was even out of my mouth I knew I had to walk away…or be caught out for the dirty rotten big noter that I was!!!
So this Valentine's Day...go easy tiger! No one likes a liar - even if they are a doctor in town to catch up with their Uncle John Farnham at a parachuting conference before shipping out to save the lives of small children in Iraq.... xx
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