I enjoy a good lie told in fun as much as the next guy. But some people just don't know the limits of good taste.
Used to work with a guy who claimed he was on the NYS Board of Regents. Dead serious when he said it too. He had a GED diploma and no college. He actually did well for a high school drop out with a GED, but that wasn't enough for him. The Board of Regents thing was his most bizarre claim. His other, every day claims were so transparent they were boring.
Supposed horse expert came to the farm one day. She began listing her credentials. From the sounds of it she'd attended every high dollar clinic and worked with every big name there was. Seemed odd since she lived in a run down trailer and drove a beat up truck, but she seemed very sincere and I would never say anything to someone my wife invited to the farm. The last straw was when she was oogling one of my horses and went on about his size, "He must be 15.3, 15.4 hands tall!" Well, a hand is 4". The horse can be 15 hands, 15.1, 15.2 or 15.3, but he can't be 15.4 or he'd be 16 hands. Even my wife caught that in the stream of unending BS. We still joke about it.
The liars aren't as bad as the one uppers. I worked with a guy who was always "The only one...". He was the only one who ever did anything, doesn't matter what it was, no one else had ever done it or done it the way he did. It was worse when he'd start in to someone about being "the only one" who ever did something and he'd be talking about something I was right there to see him do or help him do and he'd never consider that I might not back him up 100%. He got promotion after promotion based on his being "the only one". To this day I just shake my head.
How about the butt kissers? Had a couple guys I worked with the were real bad in that area. They'd lie to someone up the ladder about what a tremendously wonderful person the guy they were schmoozing was. We had a class one time and a Captain was in the room. Mr. Schmooz was kissing up like a Senator looking for a bribe. The Capt left and I said, "Frank, doesn't the smell bother you?" He asked what I was talking about. I said, "Frank, if that Capt. ever stopped quick, your whole head would disappear up his backside." 40 other guys burst out laughing. Frank didn't even blush! :shock:
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