naturegirl
Rolling down the highway
Longing for the days when a man says something and you can believe him. Don't lie to me, fess up!!
Stupid General Contractor!! :rant
Stupid General Contractor!! :rant
Can\'t stand a liar
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Far West
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It sure seems that people think they will never be held accountable for their lie! :waggingfinger
Look at what the Whitehouse is doing? It sets our culture up to think that if you win due to your lie, you made out. :girlsaysno
Once people lie to me, I'm done... and I let others know about their lie. :Ninja
Long story … but one that made me do less for people, and watch for those who use people. :dunno
I had been losing pool towels. I was down 3. You know how you buy a two pack at Cost-co ...so they match? Well the mate was gone to three sets. I had hounded the kids to find out where they went, and I was actively asking about them.
So, I’m at the pool party I had sponsored at our sub-division pool, for the graduating 5th graders at our school. The neighbor who lives 4 houses down in the cul-de-sac we live on also has a 5th grader. Infact SHE convinced me to sponsor the party- I had to pay the deposit- and sign the paper work accepting responsibility if anything was damaged.
SHE has a towel that matches one of the ones I’m missing. :cantbelievemyeyes I asked her if perhaps my kids had left that towel at her house, that it matched the other one I bought at Cost-co that was in a 2 pack? (My kids had already asked the mom's of the kids they played with in the neighborhood.) She goes all Kujo on me saying that is the rudest thing she has ever heard, that her mother gave her kids that towel… blah blah blah.
Now a small irony- we always hosted the neighborhood block parties at our house. There would be leftover dishes and things. It took weeks to find all the owners. I had a wood handled telescoping skewer- that was very nice. I knew someone was missing it. We had, just two weeks prior to the pool encounter, hosted the Summer block party. I brought out the 6 or so items I still had that had been left from the previous Fall party. She was so thrilled that I had kept her skewer- she did not know what had happened to it...gush ....gush....gush.
So forward - 4 days after the pool party she sent the kid that lives NEXT DOOR TO HER down to our house with two of my lost towels – but not the other one she had at the pool! The poor kid mumbled “She realized she must have given the kids a ride up from the pool, and when they all hung out and played, the towels were left at her house. (my kids were 4 and 10 at the time) Two of the three towels had gone missing the previous summer!
From then on – as ghetto as it looked I put our last name in permanent marker, 4 inch letters, across our towels- top and bottom, both sides.
I have not been friends with her since … (11 years now.) Plus, I told the other neighbors how two of my towels had re-appeared, not from her- but from her neighbor’s kid…AND not the third I SAW with my own eyes at the pool! I hate people who lie ... I guess she has relative morals - since the kids left the towels at her house, she got to keep them! :girlsaysno
Look at what the Whitehouse is doing? It sets our culture up to think that if you win due to your lie, you made out. :girlsaysno
Once people lie to me, I'm done... and I let others know about their lie. :Ninja
Long story … but one that made me do less for people, and watch for those who use people. :dunno
I had been losing pool towels. I was down 3. You know how you buy a two pack at Cost-co ...so they match? Well the mate was gone to three sets. I had hounded the kids to find out where they went, and I was actively asking about them.
So, I’m at the pool party I had sponsored at our sub-division pool, for the graduating 5th graders at our school. The neighbor who lives 4 houses down in the cul-de-sac we live on also has a 5th grader. Infact SHE convinced me to sponsor the party- I had to pay the deposit- and sign the paper work accepting responsibility if anything was damaged.
SHE has a towel that matches one of the ones I’m missing. :cantbelievemyeyes I asked her if perhaps my kids had left that towel at her house, that it matched the other one I bought at Cost-co that was in a 2 pack? (My kids had already asked the mom's of the kids they played with in the neighborhood.) She goes all Kujo on me saying that is the rudest thing she has ever heard, that her mother gave her kids that towel… blah blah blah.
Now a small irony- we always hosted the neighborhood block parties at our house. There would be leftover dishes and things. It took weeks to find all the owners. I had a wood handled telescoping skewer- that was very nice. I knew someone was missing it. We had, just two weeks prior to the pool encounter, hosted the Summer block party. I brought out the 6 or so items I still had that had been left from the previous Fall party. She was so thrilled that I had kept her skewer- she did not know what had happened to it...gush ....gush....gush.
So forward - 4 days after the pool party she sent the kid that lives NEXT DOOR TO HER down to our house with two of my lost towels – but not the other one she had at the pool! The poor kid mumbled “She realized she must have given the kids a ride up from the pool, and when they all hung out and played, the towels were left at her house. (my kids were 4 and 10 at the time) Two of the three towels had gone missing the previous summer!
From then on – as ghetto as it looked I put our last name in permanent marker, 4 inch letters, across our towels- top and bottom, both sides.
I have not been friends with her since … (11 years now.) Plus, I told the other neighbors how two of my towels had re-appeared, not from her- but from her neighbor’s kid…AND not the third I SAW with my own eyes at the pool! I hate people who lie ... I guess she has relative morals - since the kids left the towels at her house, she got to keep them! :girlsaysno
naturegirl
Rolling down the highway
Far West said:
Revisiting this thread, sounds like she will lie about anything!! I do the same thing with my stuff, especially my camping gear. I don't care what people think about my sharpie markers!! I generally end up with lots of extra towels and always ask who they belong to. I wouldn't think of keeping them.
Back at the ranch, GC is still not standing by his words. Sent in the billing ignoring his ridiculous deducts, waiting for his rage and idiocy today.
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Foxmeister
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I remember when the Army used to issue shelter halves. Those are half of a "pup" tent. I was a squad leader at the time and we went to spend 2 weeks in the field. I had my shelter half with my gear in the back of my HWMVVV. When we arrived to the field, I was tasked with a mission, but we went in another vehicle. When we arrived back, I grabbed my gear, but my shelter half was gone. I began looking at the bottom center of each shelter half that was set up because my name was stenciled at that location on mine. Sure enough, I found it. As I began taking it down, my platoon sergeant came up to me and asked me what I was doing to "his" shelter half. I asked him where he got it and he told me it was the one issued to him. Then I pointed to it and asked him then why is my name on it and walked off with it. This guy was a senior NCO and was stealing from one of his soldiers.
Far West
Pursuit Driver
Foxmeister said:
It changes your perspective on people.
I'll go one further... This happened when Bill Clinton was having his “I did not have sex with that woman” year …when he was going through his impeachment trial.
I was in the elementary school office of my child, picking him up for a doctor's appointment.
While I waited, the neighbor’s son came in to give the office clerk something from the teacher.
We said our hellos, and talked a bit; while he waited for the office clerk … then he directed my attention to the picture of President Clinton on the wall in the Elementary School Office and said, “Do you know that man is a liar?”
:cantbelievemyeyes
He was in third grade! :BH That man… the President of the United States. We have a whole generation who was shaped by a lie! My generation was Nixon.
I guess it is best to know you have to hold people accountable … but you figure a friend and neighbor, platoon sergeant, a president, or someone you sign a contract with… would be honest.
mei lan
Pursuit Driver
I HATE dishonesty with a white-hot hatred!!! I was watching a Big Valley episode the other day on INSP (a GREAT older show, with some dishy manly-men, too!), and the mother was about to deed some land to a friend that had been promised him by her late husband. There was a big dust-up because it was good land for a dam, and one of the sons said, "Well, just don't sign it over." She said, "Since when does a Barkley need a piece of paper to back up his word?"
Above all things, I treasure honesty. I think I need to put something about this in my signature when I have a sec to look for something.
Above all things, I treasure honesty. I think I need to put something about this in my signature when I have a sec to look for something.
Far West
Pursuit Driver
mei lan said:
It's not often that a person's name is their bond. However a person’s reputation is shaped by their behavior. Their name is either one of character and honesty, or one of suspicion.
Sadly in our world if you don't have it signed, notarized, and in triplicate you lose all your rights. It just becomes one person's word against another. Sad place for men to be.