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This is just an entry to note that I've become a really big small-liar since coming to New York.
Like, no one at the sushi restaurant knows I'm a vegetarian. When applying for the job, I told the manager that I really like sushi (I thought I had to say that in order to get hired. Plus, it's not like I volunteered that info; the manager asked me. When the head waiter that I'm training under asked me the same question, I made sure to say "yeah, I used to really like sushi" but I'm not sure he caught on to the past-tense (it was in Japanese so it was like quickly saying 「はい、お寿司はとても好きでした」 vs ’「はい、お寿司はとても好きです」)).
Anyway, when I was just picking out the red/green peppers out of my dinner today one of my co-workers asked me about it so I just said, "yeah, I'm trying not to eat meat..." which isn't exactly telling the truth haha. I don't know how I'm supposed to break it to them; maybe just say, "I decided to become vegetarian recently!" (although that's still a lie bc I've been a vegetarian for longer).
Also, I kind of made friends (but maybe not) with this Japanese artist guy who I met through trying to find a room in NY. I didn't end up living at his place but when I mentioned I live near him (I really do, it's like a 5 min walk) he was like, "where?" So I said it was near the station that's one stop further away from my actual station stop, just to be on the safe side. When we met up, he asked more questions about it, like which side of the stop I lived on, etc., to which I responded with vague details. He proceeded to ask me more questions about where I lived (not like a weird stalker-ish thing, but more like an "oh, so it's near ___! yeah, I know that place" etc bond-ment, you know?), like what avenue and street...but since I actually don't know the area around the stop I mentioned, I had to lie again and be like, "actually, I'm really horrible at these kinds of things. I don't look at street signs and I'm prone to become lost a lot" etc. <--of course when I said it, it was more believable than that, but still. I mean, I totally know the streets and avenues around where I live now.
Anyway, there have been other lies like telling my current roommate over email that I'm a non-smoker and pretty neat (it was basically a cut-and-paste email I sent to all these room ads and I wanted to sound as appealing as possible, plus a lot of places mentioned that they were looking for a non-smoker so it was just easier to include that in all the emails). It's a half-lie, but still...
It's hard lying because you have to tell other lies to make the first lie make sense.
Like, no one at the sushi restaurant knows I'm a vegetarian. When applying for the job, I told the manager that I really like sushi (I thought I had to say that in order to get hired. Plus, it's not like I volunteered that info; the manager asked me. When the head waiter that I'm training under asked me the same question, I made sure to say "yeah, I used to really like sushi" but I'm not sure he caught on to the past-tense (it was in Japanese so it was like quickly saying 「はい、お寿司はとても好きでした」 vs ’「はい、お寿司はとても好きです」)).
Anyway, when I was just picking out the red/green peppers out of my dinner today one of my co-workers asked me about it so I just said, "yeah, I'm trying not to eat meat..." which isn't exactly telling the truth haha. I don't know how I'm supposed to break it to them; maybe just say, "I decided to become vegetarian recently!" (although that's still a lie bc I've been a vegetarian for longer).
Also, I kind of made friends (but maybe not) with this Japanese artist guy who I met through trying to find a room in NY. I didn't end up living at his place but when I mentioned I live near him (I really do, it's like a 5 min walk) he was like, "where?" So I said it was near the station that's one stop further away from my actual station stop, just to be on the safe side. When we met up, he asked more questions about it, like which side of the stop I lived on, etc., to which I responded with vague details. He proceeded to ask me more questions about where I lived (not like a weird stalker-ish thing, but more like an "oh, so it's near ___! yeah, I know that place" etc bond-ment, you know?), like what avenue and street...but since I actually don't know the area around the stop I mentioned, I had to lie again and be like, "actually, I'm really horrible at these kinds of things. I don't look at street signs and I'm prone to become lost a lot" etc. <--of course when I said it, it was more believable than that, but still. I mean, I totally know the streets and avenues around where I live now.
Anyway, there have been other lies like telling my current roommate over email that I'm a non-smoker and pretty neat (it was basically a cut-and-paste email I sent to all these room ads and I wanted to sound as appealing as possible, plus a lot of places mentioned that they were looking for a non-smoker so it was just easier to include that in all the emails). It's a half-lie, but still...
It's hard lying because you have to tell other lies to make the first lie make sense.