I learned that I have a big problem with lying to people when I am in sticky situations even though I know the truth will get me out of trouble. Here is one time that telling the truth could have helped me out. Late one night the summer of 2011, I was out going to get something for a friend of mine. Two o-clock in the morning three hours past curfew and I was riding my bicycle on State Street when a police officer pulled me over. He got out and him and me started to talk. He asked me what I was doing. I told him I was heading over to my friends house.
So we talked for a minute or two and he searched me to make sure I wasn’t trafficking pounds of crack. He found a pack of cigarettes and about fifteen lighters on me he took all of it. He finally told me that if he called my grandma and she knew I was out he was just going to let me go so her asked for her number and I gave him the wrong number. He called and it was the wrong number so he asked again what it was and I again told him the wrong number. After this he started getting irritated with me and threatening me that if I didn’t give him the right number he was going to arrest me. So good old d-bag Dylan again gave him another number because I wanted to push his limits. He finally just got it from dispatch and started yelling at me.
He called my grandma and asked her if she knew I was out. She told him no. When he got off the phone he told me I was getting two tobacco tickets, a curfew ticket, and my grandma was coming to pick me up. I was scared not because those tickets were going to get me put into detention, but because my grandma was coming to pick me up. I knew she was going to kill me for this.
This is a lesson I have put into my life don’t lie to anybody because you usually get into more trouble. Telling the truth will help you get out of a predicament sometimes. Don’t lie even if others lie to you.
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He learned that not to go car hopping on drugs. That the cops come to his house in the morning. I went car hopping a cupplle of times.
I like it man, it is good. I value honesty a lot more that other actions or qualities that people have. To me, if some is honest the first time, I see them as a more honorable person.
I also lie to people to get out of trouble. I lie until I get caught. Sometimes I get away with it but others , I get in more trouble. I just find it hard to believe they admitting to doin something bad is gonna be better than saying you didn't do nothin at all.
I have struggled with honesty in the past. At my old grouphome I would lie all the time no matter what. I have been honest a lot more but I don't like the trouble I get into for being honest maybe it would be better if I just lied.
Sometimes I would like to think that honesty is the best policy but that hasn't always worked out for me. I have always gotten in more trouble when i was honest. I'm usually pretty honest though, unless it involves someone else getting in trouble. I will definitely lie for them, or take the blame. But that's what friends do right?
I like this because I can relate. I remember my first tabacco ticket; "shit! Cops!" those are the last words my buddy said the rest of the day. Crazy days man, crazy days.
I would always lie to people about my feelings & emotions! Haha! Even if they said "Hey Morgan! How's your day?" I would always say "Dandy!" :)
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