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Monday – Flower Pit
May. 12th, 2008 03:34 pm.
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Today on my drive into work, I was thinking that total honesty is the worst thing in the world for a relationship, and anyone who thinks different is single and destined to stay that way. The best things for a relationship are diplomacy and tact, which are expressed not as complete honestly, but as white lies. The problem I have with telling white lies, though, is that I'm a really bad liar unless I'm well rested and prepared (even then, I'm only a mediocre liar). This made the moment Jeff handed me the bouquets of cut flowers that he had painstakingly picked out for me for Mother's Day kind of awkward yesterday. It was early, and I had only drunk half a diet Coke with my breakfast. In order for me to fake getting excited about a gift I hate, I need a lot more caffeine in my system.
( What woman doesn't like flowers? )
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Today on my drive into work, I was thinking that total honesty is the worst thing in the world for a relationship, and anyone who thinks different is single and destined to stay that way. The best things for a relationship are diplomacy and tact, which are expressed not as complete honestly, but as white lies. The problem I have with telling white lies, though, is that I'm a really bad liar unless I'm well rested and prepared (even then, I'm only a mediocre liar). This made the moment Jeff handed me the bouquets of cut flowers that he had painstakingly picked out for me for Mother's Day kind of awkward yesterday. It was early, and I had only drunk half a diet Coke with my breakfast. In order for me to fake getting excited about a gift I hate, I need a lot more caffeine in my system.
( What woman doesn't like flowers? )
