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Stupid Lies
Feb. 6th, 2010 11:42 pmI gave my presentation. I thought it was a bit too much detail and not enough direction and I felt oddly nervous for reasons I can't quite explain (stress perhaps) but people told me it was useful. We will see.
Afterwards dinner was being had at a Turkish place nearby. It's been a long week and a long day. I wanted to go briefly for a drink (the wine was provided by a local winery that is quite well renowned (not that I know anything about wine) and to say hello to a few people but I had no intention to stay for dinner.
But people wanted to know why I wasn't staying for dinner, and I felt like I had to account for it with something better than "I'd rather go home and not have to socialise at the end of a long week." I said I had already made other plans. In a good natured way I was asked "What's her name?" I'm not much good at lying, especially not under those circumstances (boisterous personality guy had already jokingly grabbed my ass) and after being pushed a bit more I wound up saying "I'd rather not talk about it." It was quite agitating when the subject wasn't dropped right away, I went into "screen saver mode", and got a bit snippy at one of my colleagues and eventually said "Are you f*cking deaf? I said I don't wan't to talk about it."
I don't think any offense was taken, and we reverted to talking pleasantly about work things as I finished my wine and then left.
Still, the whole thing would have been much simpler if I had just said I was planning on going home for a quiet evening. It was a stupid thing to lie about, but I felt I had to.
At least I managed to get a home workout in. Ahhhhhhh redemption in physical strain!
TW: 20 burpees, 1 pushup, 19 burpees, 2 pushups... 1 burpee, 20 pushups
Afterwards dinner was being had at a Turkish place nearby. It's been a long week and a long day. I wanted to go briefly for a drink (the wine was provided by a local winery that is quite well renowned (not that I know anything about wine) and to say hello to a few people but I had no intention to stay for dinner.
But people wanted to know why I wasn't staying for dinner, and I felt like I had to account for it with something better than "I'd rather go home and not have to socialise at the end of a long week." I said I had already made other plans. In a good natured way I was asked "What's her name?" I'm not much good at lying, especially not under those circumstances (boisterous personality guy had already jokingly grabbed my ass) and after being pushed a bit more I wound up saying "I'd rather not talk about it." It was quite agitating when the subject wasn't dropped right away, I went into "screen saver mode", and got a bit snippy at one of my colleagues and eventually said "Are you f*cking deaf? I said I don't wan't to talk about it."
I don't think any offense was taken, and we reverted to talking pleasantly about work things as I finished my wine and then left.
Still, the whole thing would have been much simpler if I had just said I was planning on going home for a quiet evening. It was a stupid thing to lie about, but I felt I had to.
At least I managed to get a home workout in. Ahhhhhhh redemption in physical strain!
TW: 20 burpees, 1 pushup, 19 burpees, 2 pushups... 1 burpee, 20 pushups
