Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Day 56: Lunchtime Lying

I knew I needed a substantial lunch today, so I ordered a personal pizza from Circa. I went downstairs to the lobby of my building to pick it up from the delivery guy, and on my way back upstairs I ran into a very nice, friendly, more senior colleague in the elevator. He asked me where I ordered my pizza from, because he himself had picked up slices of pizza for lunch. I commented that I preferred personal pies during the day, because to me those are more lunch appropriate, whereas I equate slices with dinner. I knew as I was saying it, that this was a complete and utter lie. I totally made it up. I've noticed that when I am in the middle of a semi-awkward conversation with someone I know but don't have much to say to, I will often end up fabricating stories. And then, just like it happened today, I walk away wondering what on earth I had been talking about. A professor I know just wrote a book on lying and he discovered that "new acquaintances will lie to each other about three times in the course of a ten minute conversation". My personal experiences definitely corroborate that. Regardless, my pizza was really good, and very filling. It was slightly more toasty than usual and that was a nice change of pace.

5 comments:

  1. wait, so the first time we met.. that thing you told me..?

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  2. Does that apply on first dates too?

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  3. Does that guy you met in the elevator read your blog? That would be really bad.

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  4. This blog is slowly turning into "What Rebecca DID at Lunch Today".

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  5. OMG. Emily and I had this same conversation about how we will lie for the sake of keeping a conversation going. It's so nice to know I'm not alone in this.

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