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Carly the Red Nose Human ....

For those of you that know me on a personal level and not thru friendships via work or just family related e-mails ... then you all know that I am not the "Brightest" crayon in the box. I have been known to laugh in the middle of dead silence minutes or even hours after the punchline of a joke is over. I've been known to laugh at my own jokes ... way before I even get to the punchline. I've been known to have the simplest of phrases go right over my head. Wait ... I didn't get that one. My 13 y.o. will use a word and I have to look at Darling Hubby to verify if it is indeed a real word. Yeah ... I get by on my personality and not my brain! Did I mention that I am super gullible?

Well ... many many many moons ago when I was a wee child, my mother told me something over and over again and it has stuck with me throughout my entire life. My mother told me that my nose would get bright red like Rudolph whenever I told a lie. WOW ... REALLY? I believed it. C'MON people ... she made a Santa Claus refrence to a child!!!! Of course I believed it! I took this two ways as I recall. On one hand ... I had a nose that would glow! That was totally cool. No one else I knew had a nose that glowed. I was special. On the other hand ... I would never be able to tell a lie because they would know. I would have to hide my nose from those that knew my secret. I had to protect my nose from the eyes of the people I was going to lie to. Easy enough to do.

Fast forward to adulthood. So today I'm 30 years old and I still can't tell a lie to save my life. When I found out that our department was getting off early for Christmas some of the girls in my department who know my secret trick cornered me and drilled me. It didn't take them long to get the right answer out of me. When they said "Are we getting out at 12:00?" my hand went to my nose to hide the lie I was about to tell. They knew then that we were getting out early. DAMN! When my husband asks me about something that I was sure he had no clue about ... I have to turn away from him totally to avoid my glowing nose and my huge smile. I'm really good at keeping a secret ... I just can't hide the right answer if someone asks me about it.

So there is a new T.V. show "Lie To Me." Plot - Detectives who are trained in the art of facial expressions and body movement to see how a person is reacting to questions or statements. They can read the human body to see if a person is lying or not.

Pretty good idea ... those of us that stink at lying (I am raising my hand first) will now learn what NOT to do when lying! This will be my new bestfriend ... this TV show "Lie to Me." As God is my witnes ... I will learn to tell a lie so help me!

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