A little lie is OK, right?

Apparently, it’s not if you’re 5 years old. Shish, I was put on the spot, had to explain myself, and then had to lie some more to fix it.

Situation: My family and I were heading up to Cypress Mountain to celebrate a friend’s birthday by snow-tubing, which is an insane activity consisting of sitting on an inflated rubber and coming down a steep hill at an insane speed. Frankly, there were moments that I thought I was going to dislocate my shoulder. Back to the story: Given that this was my 2^nd or 3^rd time up the mountain, I thought I’ll use my OnStar (a person-to-person Global Positioning System offered by GMC) to find the fastest way to get there. Well, as I was speaking to “my” personal advisor, I mentioned that we were heading up to the mountains for some skiing!!!

Explanation: Aha, do you see the problem here? I said skiing and not snow-tubing. Well, as you may have guessed, this prompted my 5 year old, god bless her truthfulness, to yell from the back seat “Daddy, we’re not going skiing! We’re going snow-tubing”, all while I’m still on the call with “my advisor”. Of course, I turn around and motion to my daughter to be quiet as I do not want to embarrass myself by telling the OnStar advisor that I’m going snow-tubing. I mean really, who lives in Canada and doesn’t know to ski? Oh, I know!!! Me!

So while I’m shushing my daughter, the advisor downloads the route to my GPS and wishes us a safe trip (probably while laughing his head off on the other line) and hangs up. That’s when my daughter repeatedly informed me that I shouldn’t have lied to the advisor and that I should call them back and apologize. Apparently, apologizing to my daughter wasn’t good enough because she just wouldn’t drop it.

Lies, lies and more lies: Realizing that it was a lost battle with my daughter and the fact that calling OnStar back would not solve the problem as I would most likely end up speaking to a different advisor, I decided to end the conversation with another lie: “Honey, you’re right... I shouldn’t have lied! I promise to send OnStar an email first thing in the morning to apologize and let them know that we went snow-tubing and not skiing”.

I promise to set the record straight one day!

My commitment: I will no longer lie or exaggerate the truth! I just won’t say what’s on my mind ;)

Thanks for reading,

Armin

Ps. I hope my daughter will be as adamant in telling the truth when she is a teenager!



This is our group coming down the hill! Isabella, my daughter, is right in the middle!