We had leadership training today and we played this game where the mom and dad for each group would tell essentially the same story about them, but only one was telling the truth and the others had to guess who it was. For the story by Jarrett and me, I was the liar (duhn duhn DUHN!).
He told about the time that he was driving his non-member friend to the church so he could get an eccleisiastical endorsement to attend BYU and they ended up driving the wrong way on a one-way street and getting T-boned.
In my false version, though, I said that I was driving my friend Taylor to the Stake Center so she could have an ecclesiastical endorsement. I told the group that I wasn't really sure where I was going because it the Stake Center pretty new and that I ended up driving over the median because there was snow and I couldn't see the turn-off and we got T-Boned. We, I said, were fine, but the red truck got totaled, but we ended up getting a new Subaru so all was alright in the end.
There were elements of my story that were true, but on the whole, it was a lie.
Here's what was true:
*I do have a friend named Taylor, who was in choir with me, who considered going to BYU, but decided not to in the end.
*When Mom was driving me to the Stake Center last winter, she drove over the median, though no one got hurt.
*Our red truck did break down--but that was failure in the brakes and the tire falling off, among other things--and we got a new Subaru to replace it.
Jarrett told his true story first and after I told my fake and more elaborate one, most--if not all--said that I was telling the truth. But it was his story and not mine. Matt said afterward that I was shaking and he said he thought it was bad experience for me to remember, but I really was just nervous.
So, unless it is absolutely understood that you are saying something false, DON'T LIE!
Still laughing!!!!!!
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