| Hank Chinaski |
01-11-2005 08:09 PM |
Stupid Family Tricks
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
My brother has a tendency to embellish stories,
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Senior guy at my old firm has had a verifiably sucessful career.We knowthereare several neat things he actually did do. Still he makes shit up. i would hear him telling stories about what he did that I actually did. he would also tell stories about his past that were impossible- he claimed to have played football for a big ten school out of state. I emailed the atletic dept, for reords- one other GA took a 4 hour detour from a discovery trip to go to campus and look in the library for records. NO RECORDS. Still we never found a really appropriate response.
The best was his perhaps true story was he worked for the Kennedy campaign in his state in 60. One day in the firm lunchroom he says " I really liked when Lloyd Benson said 'I knew Kennedy' because I knew him too."
He looked up at the dozen lawyers spread around the table who were all staring at him- open jawed- and he realized he had gone too far, that this wasn't something we could buy- so he fell back to, "well I worked his campaign, but the people who knew him said he was great1"
See you can't change someone like that- you just try and contain them- like Ty thinks we should have done with sadaam. Just stare.
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