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in this job I have literally googled every problem I have been given what started off as a small light but then snowballed into this is my life now my freshman year of college I was walking around campus when a very friendly looking girl waved at me I'm awkward so of course I waved back the next week the same thing this began the weirdest saga of my life for the next two years we greeted each other as old friends every time we came across the other she knew my name somehow I never could figure hers out and it was way too late to ask I just pretended I knew who she was and why she knew me finally I joined the honors program and entered my classes for my thesis who should be in this class but mystery girl I was horrified I wouldn't be able to pass it off anymore first day of class we are all sitting there chatting and she greets me by name again I had finally learned her name from attendance thank God someone asks finally oh so do you two know each other where do you meet silence I stare at her she stares at me finally she breaks down wailing I don't know I don't know okay we've just been waving at each other for two years and it was too late to ask she's standing in my wedding next spring as one of my bridesmaids and very best friends I became friends with one of the managers at Panera one day as I was giving a cashier my order he told her to give me the same discount as they give to firemen police and paramedics I think he just chose this discount as it was an easy button to push on the register well this cashier really thought I was a fireman I'm not so for the next two years this cashier gave me the discount even if she wasn't serving me she would go out of her way to tell the cashier that was helping me he's a fireman give him the discount it's snowballed into such an awkward situation that I didn't know how to get out of it luckily that cashier eventually transferred to another store and I now happily pay full price I was homeless sleeping under a bridge in Charlotte near the Music Factory I needed a job so I dressed as best I could which wasn't very well walked into a barn on 7th and lied about my work experience they gave me the job I started working that day they paid me cash after every shift I worked there for three years became the manager and now I love cooking never cooked a day in my life up till that point a lady in her 50s who was acting as the kitchen manager trained me she knew I lied but she also knew I was in trouble I couldn't even cut a tomato she saved my life she didn't tell anyone and kept training me even though sometimes I'd piss her off but I always tried to do better I got an apartment a month into the job using another cook to call the apartment and let them know how much I get paid because they wanted that for some reason I was getting paid $11 under the table so nothing was on record which is why he had to call I worked as a line cook immediately it was overwhelming I'm not from the city and the work was fast-paced I would study on my time off by watching YouTube and cooking at home my mother was a super control freak so one of the ways I would avoid home was after-school extracurriculars I got the date wrong on a math team meeting so allied to my mom about it while actually attending the debate team intro meeting I probably didn't need to lie but it was always safer to not disrupt her precious schedule eventually debate became a regular activity for me to avoid home in three years I was a state semi finalist and in college I coached the high school national champions and turned that into a free ride for a master's degree a good friend of mine did not have an umbrella on a very rainy day one of her co-workers offered her a lift home one lift home turned into two then three until he was shuttling her to and from work every day for months this co-worker is also a very good Baker he would make these lovely cakes and pastries and offer them to her which she politely Doak every day then one afternoon on her way home he stops and picks up his parents he happily introduces her as his girlfriend she was shocked by this title to say the least they proceeded to invite her to a family gathering over the long weekend to meet everyone his parents they were so nice she accepted because she didn't have the heart to embarrass the guy she went to the gathering met with other family members and he kept introducing her as his girlfriend she never worked up the nerve to correct or stopped him long story short they are now married I moved to a new city when I was in sixth grade and on the same day I met two other boys started and they both knew how to skateboard so I lied and said I did too then for months I lied about being able to skateboard to them and other kids at the school and I never came clean because I didn't want anyone to call me a poser so I bought skater boy clothes and a skateboard and learned how to skateboard because I lied about knowing how to skateboard still skating since then I'm 27 now an electrician came and pressed up a job at our rental property he greeted me with hi Ian I've come to press some work up I replied yep that's me my name is not Ian it's not even close to in I was too british to correct him with his error so I just went along with it it's not the worst lie I've ever come out with in my head I'm thinking at worst the guy is just going to call me in again when he leaves he was in my flat for a good 20 minutes calling me Ian during conversations we had not once did I correct him just stayed in character as Ian weeks went by and he eventually came back to do the work at the flat my missus and me had the day off I had forgotten about the whole Ian thing until that day so I explained to her that if she talked to me that day to call me in it's just easier I'm from a small town and was super worried and anxious about how college would go after move-in day everyone on our floor had to go around saying our major or what we wanted to do occupation wise I was fourth to go the first three people say doctor lawyer surgeon I'm convinced at this point that everyone in college was way smarter than me and had their stuff together anyway I black blurred out economics as my major then say professor because it was the best thing I thought you could do with that so now I'm in my second year of PhD program because I just never found a good reason to change from my RA meeting as a freshman in Vegas for a bachelor party I was 22 at the time got wasted made a bet with a friend while we were out at the club if you were wrong you have to pretend to be British the rest of the night I lost I was British met a girl who started talking to me because she overheard me saying some BS to my friends in a British accent she thought that I was British I went with it I slept with said girl had to wake up hungover the next morning and continue to be British she said that we should hang out again that night sure meet said girl and she's brought all of her friends who all think that I'm British so I'm British again but around more people my friends are dying every time I talk one tried to be Australian around the girls friends but was called out for being a fraud my fraudulence continued to go unnoticed had to answer all kinds of questions about my life and childhood I had never been to the UK fortunately I was in English Lit major and also watched a 3 or 4 British movies mostly Monty Python thus I was more or less an expert on all things British I got tired of doing the accent so I started saying deliberately incorrect things about England to see if someone would call me out more fun than randomly admitting it turns out that 21 year old American women are too dumb to know a thing about England so they were incapable of pointing out my BS I like to think that to this day 12 years later there are girls out there who think that the British invented tea and only drink it on Wednesdays that Cromwell was a benevolent leader who gave out free pheasant to the impoverished Irish that James Bond was written by an Indian guy and that the only reason that Brits are known to dress nicely is because it's illegal to not wear a tie on weekdays the accent took over my mind so completely that when a guy in line at that restroom said something to me in a very clearly English accent I instinctively responded in an English accent he got excited I realized what I have done but just went with it he introduced me to his friends mates they mentioned that they couldn't pinpoint where I was from I told them my mom was American and I lived half my life in Maine Bs and that's why I have a strange accent they went with it brought the Brits back to our group so now I had British homies my friends couldn't believe it I've entered British level 5000 so many level ups in so short a time had sex with that girl again even talk dirty to her didn't know how to talk dirty British Lee I said I've come instead of I'm coming thought that the present perfect made dirty talk sound more British than the standard present continuous laughed at my own BS the British are coming indeed I admitted to her the next day that I wasn't British she didn't believe me and refused to accept that I was American so if it I was British for another half a day thanks Maggie for the good time and for believing in me that's when I realized that I really could be anything that I wanted to be people picked on my brother in high school for getting jumped by some wannabe blood thugs in the bathroom popular thugs if you can believe it it was relentless his confidence in any friendships were crushed cause you know people can't be seen with the loser one day I was confronted by said thugs basically talking stuff about my brother and in my infinite wisdom I said I could box so they better back off something to that effect looking back I cringe but you do what you have to needless to say they did not back off somehow I landed a punch on one of the kids that dislocated his jaw like flapping around like a mouthpiece hanging from a football helmet I became the kid who could box but never wanted to fight which I guess gave me credibility I don't really know everyone in there hyena came to me asking where they could learn said boxing skills how I learned by 16 all that crap I wanted to just come out and say I had been lucky but I didn't want anyone to give my brother bad times again so the lie stayed luckily no one ever picked on my brother afterwards and I did eventually learn some boxing fundamentals but most because I felt like I was living a lie which I was as a man I have not had to keep up the facade I was looking for a job and I didn't want to be a fast-food manager anymore so I fluffed out my resume with computer skills I didn't have I was contacted by a recruiter who asked me some questions to gauge my abilities and I straight googled the answers as he was asking them when I went to the interview the boss had all of these circuit boards sitting all over his desk I recognized them as raspberry PI's from reddit so I asked what he was using them for the rest of the interview was just this guy bragging about all of these projects he had going on he might as well have been speaking Greek I just feigned interest and said Wow a lot I'm hired who knows how this happened but I have literally googled every problem I have been given day 543 they still think I know what I'm doing I'm making 1.5 times what I was making as a manager I have a GED for Christ's sakes thanks for listening to radio TTS hit the subscribe button and activate the Bell and please share your own stories in the comments below have you ever lied a little in the sly became bigger than intended let us know

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Length: 11min 42sec (702 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 24 2019