I remembered two more.
In class today I lied to a student--er, gave an answer to her question that was no answer, and was really a blind guess on my part, which I acted like was actually an answer. I feel bad about this.*
Also tonight I went to a screening of a documentary. The guy who organized it asked me to come to a dinner with the director, but I lied and said I couldn't because I had to teach. This invitation and lie happened a few weeks ago, but when I went to see the movie tonight I had to repeat the story of not being able to go to the dinner to someone else. However, when I did this I eventually sort of admitted to her that I lied to the organizer of the dinner in order to get out of it, but this was after repeating the lie to her a few times.
I also noticed that keeping track like this makes me extra scrupulous when I am talking to people.
*I looked it up and actually, my guess wasn't so blind, but was basically right! Now I think I wasn't lying, but was speaking from faint but basically accurate memory of the fact that the WWII Allies were a large group of nations, but that aside from the big famous ones (Britain, France, later the U.S.S.R. and U.S.) were smallish and weak, and none was in a position to challenge Germany's conquest of France in 1940.
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I don't think either of these things really qualify.
Isn't the lie you told the movie director a white lie? What you would have said if you were being honest is "I don't want to go to dinner with you." Which might offend the person, so instead you say you have a prior obligation which lets you avoid the awkward situation.
Also, was the question "how come nobody stopped the Nazis from invading France?" You probably learned that from watching the Hitler channel in college.
Yeah, actually, I think the fall of France one wasn't a lie. I guess it shows that I hold myself to a maybe too-high standard in class.
The dinner thing...hmm. I dunno.
Just don't talk to anyone. You will be down to no lies in no time!
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