I Just Told A Lie.

It was a white lie, but unnecessary, and I’m writing it down here, to examine the reasons more clearly. Actually, I can already tell you - there were no good reasons.

As you’ll see when you hear the story:

A plumber is here doing some work on my Dad’s soon to be new studio flat. He’s moved in with us (my Dad, not the plumber). The plumber happened to hear me playing and singing to the geetar yesterday, and later came up and said he’d heard this beautiful version of Amazing Grace on youtube, by a heavy metal singer. Said he couldn’t stop listening to it, and that I should. I said I would.

But he couldn’t wait. Later he brought in his phone and played me the link (you can listen above). So, it’s very good, and I said so, and that was that. But he mentioned that I should listen on a proper sound system.

So this morning I came into the kitchen and the plumber appeared, and the first thing he asked me was if I’d listened to the song on my sound system. Truth is I don’t have a “sound system”. I told him that truth.

And then I said “I listened on my headphones, though”.

But I hadn’t! What’s that about?

Well, I was suddenly in a situation where someone had an expectation, and my trigger reaction was not to disappoint them. No harm done perhaps. I’m a bit of a people pleaser. It’s got its upsides.

Never the less, it was, as I mentioned at the beginning, an unnecessary lie. And, to be honest, I’d rather tell the plain old truth in those situations, even at the expense of someone’s short term feelings.

That is the long and short of it. Thanks for listening. You’re a good therapist! Or priest! Or confessor! Or whatever the hell you see yourselves as!


postscript -Good news. I’ve just listened on my headphones. It was future truth. I was lost, but now I’m found!