crapnstuff.com - celebrating the novelties of life » Month 3 – No Deception of any kind http://crapnstuff.com celebrating the novelties of life Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:34:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 No Deception – Sept 2 http://crapnstuff.com/2008/09/02/month-3-no-deception-sept-2-2/ http://crapnstuff.com/2008/09/02/month-3-no-deception-sept-2-2/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:13:40 +0000 Ez0r http://crapnstuff.com/?p=68 I’m fucking pissed off.  I want to lie so badly that I can’t stand it.  It’s not even a BIG lie either.  It’s a tiny shifting of the truth for a perfect alibi.

Let me explain but here’s the cliff notes version:  I went to burning man with a friend I’ve known for about a year but never really traveled with and while burning man was a complete and total success, the trip was a disaster.  I will never travel with that friend again.  He was such a neurotic person to travel with that I REALLY don’t want to see him for a long time.  I’m supposed to pick him up from the RV place after he drops it off and give him a ride home but I don’t want to drive to fucking Hawthorne in rush hour traffic.  I don’t want to see him and I sure as hell don’t want to hear him open his stupid mouth and say stupid things from his stupid mind!  Fuck!  I had the perfect excuse to flake out this morning too because when I woke up this morning I had a flat tire.  I got it fixed immediately but all I would have to do to get out of this goddamn task is a slight, insignificant shift of time as to when the flat tire happened and I’d have the perfect excuse not to go see this guy!  Nature you big friggen tease!  The problem is that even a small shifting of the truth = lying.  Goddamnit!  I guess I’ll just say that I can’t pick him up (the truth) and will pay for a taxi.  We’ll see how this goes…

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After a hearty meal filled with delicious bacon I began to contemplate my new endeavour while driving back home from burning man.  It’s somewhat hilarious that the month following sobriety is filled with more intoxicants and intoxication than has ever been witnessed before.  At least by me.  I wonder if this month will be filled with more meat than ever seen before.

As I’m driving home, I start to feel light, giddy even at the prospect of not putting up with other people’s bullshit.  Example #1:  A client of mine hasn’t paid me in a year and owes me more than $1,500.  I KNOW I shouldn’t be putting up with this but he’s such a crazy/funny guy that I always  let it slide and due to that I haven’t been paid in more than 12 months.  The truth is though, I am slightly annoyed that every time he calls it’s an emergency and he wants priority treatment.  So now the thought of telling him like it is which is that he’s a manipulative douche and regardless of his financial trobules he gets uber low priority until I see some money from his ass.

Realization #1:  I allow waaaay to much bullshit in my life.

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