Lies~A 360 Repost

I meant to talk about this earlier this week, but got sidetracked (is that not a cool picture?).

As you know, I work in a nursery part time and we have infants all the way up to 8 year olds. I have to say that the 3-5 year olds are the hardest to deal with.

Why? They're still being potty trained (well, some of them), they are stingy, they pout and they lie to get their way.

My co-worker's daughter is the majority of those things. I love her because she's blunt and honest to a fault, but she is also treated like an adult at home and sometimes doesn't know her place.

This week there was a little boy who was being a pest. If he were an adult, I'd call him an ass, but I have to assume he doesn't know any better yet. He was being very obnoxious and clingy. We're talking about a school-aged child. I finally told him if he wanted to continue acting that way then to go somewhere in the room where no one else was at and play by himself. He didn't want to. He wanted to hang up under my co-worker and whine.

I asked the co-worker's daughter if she'd like to have him for a brother and she said no, she'd smack him. Fast forward about an hour. The kids are playing (nicely) and the little boy has a toy that she wants. My co-worker is on the phone and not paying any attention and that's what the little girl is looking at, not me.

She snatches the toy and when the little boy tries to take it back, she smacks him in the face with a purse and knocks him down. I yell her name and tell her to help him up and apologize and she starts screaming that he was messing with her.

I repeated exactly what I saw happen, then she said he threw something at her. I said that it wasn't true and apologize. Then she said that he kicked her. Every lie she told, I came back with a truth until she finally went screaming to her mom to try and plead her case. Of course she didn't get in trouble and that's an injustice her mother will pay for sooner or later.

That came back to memory this morning as I thought about a co-worker at my other job that does the same thing. If you back her into a corner, so to speak, she keeps coming up with bigger and better lies to make herself look right until all you can do is look at her and shake your head.

I remember the last time I lied to my father. I was in high school. I was supposed to be somewhere, but was planning to use that as a cover and be someplace else. Before I walked out the door he told me "Be where you're supposed to be and do what you're supposed to be doing. I'm like shit in a cow pasture, by the time you see me, it'll be too late." Yeah, ok.

I went on with my plans. As I type this, maybe that was his way of telling me he was on to something, I don't know. Anyway, I went to where I wasn't supposed to go and I let my boyfriend at the time drive my dad's car (STUUUUUUUUPID move I now know) and he was smoking a cigarette in it.

We're just sitting in a parking lot, him smoking and me talking. He looks past me and says to me "What does that MF want?" I turn around and you KNOW who it was!

My lie had caught up with me. That was the last day I lied to him. I found that it's easier to face the truth and deal with it than to let the lies mount up until they stop adding up (and eventually they WILL stop adding up) and you look incredibly stupid to everyone who'd believed you up to that point.

Has a lie ever caught up with you or someone you know?