So...
Honesty.
It's a good thing.
Right?
Friday I went on a school trip with my oldest.
We traveled two hours to the Nashville Zoo.
The children road the bus and the adults carpooled.
Of course there were no assigned seats for the adults - it was up to each person to decide who to ride with.
It was kind of one of those awkward 'who is going to ride with who' things.
I resisted the urge to hop around and say 'Pick me! Pick me!'
Eventually we got the car situation under control and as we all broke to go to the vehicles we saw one loan women walking to her car alone.
One of the ladies called out:
"There's room in our car! You can ride with us."
She stopped for a second and then happily said:
"No, I'm taking my own car...
I don't want to have to come up with small talk for the next two hours."
Well.
That was honest.
How...
Refreshing.
And before you get all "I can't believe she said that" let me just confess that twenty minutes earlier I was telling my oldest:
"I hope all the cars are full so I can drive my own car and listen to podcasts the whole way there."
"It's true, she was."
So...
Is there such a thing as too much honesty?
At what point does honesty become rudeness?
What are you too honest about?
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Tomfoolery
I don't see any problem with being that honest. It may not be overly friendly, but clearly that wasn't her goal. I think you cross the rude line when you are too "honest" with your thoughts and feelings about someone else. For example, "I don't want to ride in the car with any of you because you do not seem like the kind of women I would ever associate with." ;-)
ReplyDeleteWe're from the South. We are taught from an early age to not hurt people's feelings. Even if we have to be big fat liars. Maybe we're wrong!
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