Recently I'm reading a book about self-thinking, to share interesting story in the book, the author had once met a well-known profession, but turn out to be a big fat liar. In this society, people are shrewd and cunning, you can't even tell who is telling a truth and who is lying.
A person once told me: "Do not lie, if you do; you may not be caught at the first time, but eventually you will be caught because you may not be able to remember which lie you made. No matter under any circumstances, try not to lie, you may need to create more lie to cover the previous one."
That's reminds me once I lied during the time I was in US and working as a waiter in a restuarant. A regular customer brought some of her friends to our restuarant during peak hours, about 6 of them and I was lucky to be their waiter, because she always is a generous tips giver. At the beginning, we had a great started, nice greeting and chatting, I even making jokes with them, everything seems fine. After the order was placed, and the wines are served, there are more customers came in to the restuarant, and rapidly; I had two more tables to serve, I have to start serving the main course to the first table disgarding they only started enjoying their appetizer and wine.
While the kitchen preparing the food, I spent the time to take other table's orders, I was managing quite well of the timing, but when I started serving the dishes, the disaster is coming; I had one undone dish to be served, which means I can only serve 5 dishes, and there is one person need to wait patiently for his dish; it seems normal, but the dish is the trickiest dish, Salted-Pepper Shrimp with shelf. The kitchen suddenly became busy and overwhelmed, the shrimps was just placed under other dishes without preparing. I told the kitchen to make my dish but they just ignored me, and I kept apologizing to the customer and promised him will be done soon.
I was like a bug standing on the hot pan, I was so scared as the kitchen was too busy to prepare my dish, the customer kept staring at me as the other people almost finished their food, I had to make another lie to tell him they were deep-frying the shrimp, should be ready in 5 more minutes, and the regular customer was smiling arkwardly through her friend as he is almost losing his patient.
I went through the kitchen again and pushed them to make my dish again, but the situation in the kitchen is even worse, it hard to be explained, picture this "you will be scolded dreadfuly anytime if you make any noise". At that time I knew I was doomed, and I won't dare to get near to that table again... at last, the major disaster is happening, the regular customer came over personally to find me and yelled at me in front of other customers and claimed that she had lost her face in front of her friends... and then things turned ugly as she found out that I was lying... anyway, this incident was eventually settled by my lady boss, but it was a nightmare for me.
After that incident, she is still coming to my restuarant occasionally, but we never had conversation again, just smiling to each other arkwardly while we met. I was very regret to tell lie to them, actually there are a lot of options for me to deal with this circumstance, I can tell them the truth and suggested them to switch dish or offer them drinks, but definitely no lie.
But now what bother me is before I quited the job in that restuarant, I had met her in the restuarant, I was planning to go to her table and apologize to her personally, but eventually, I was still not brave enough to do so, it left me a shame of my life even until now I still thinking about it sometimes.
Therefore, attempt to not tell a lie to anyone no matter under any situation, you will only lose the credit of your image to other people.
