Oh, I forgot about this one.

[valis2]

fernwithy is doing that meme where you say you'll answer any question (within reason).

I forgot how much I like this meme. So go ahead. Ask me a question. Er, I feel the need to qualify this with: I don't know how much time I have tonight, so only ten questions please and thank you; and I might be circumspect in my answers, so as not to give out identifying details.

And behold the new really gold Lion icon.

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[valis2.livejournal.com]

Sweet Merlin, what a question!

One big mistake I made was not cashing in my stock options at Waldenbooks before I was fired. I even had a moment where I wanted to. I had just been vested in some of them and I could have made some money, and instead they disappeared.

But that's not really horrible, I suppose. I had two situations where I lied about a little thing, and it turned out to be a big mistake, and I would say that one would have to be defined as horrible. I was working for a really terrible person, and after two years, I had started to pick up on some of her nastier habits. Anyway, I lied to her about returning a $5 item, and implicated a friend. It had the seed of truth, because I had asked the friend to remind me to return it to the place she worked, and all eight times I stopped at her store we both forgot about it. Then I'd call the friend and we'd both laugh and say, okay, next time. Finally, as I was heading out of town to Colorado, I came in and returned it, telling the friend to tell the woman (if she called) some story...I can't remember what it was, but the owner of the store heard it, and immediately called my boss, and my friend was hurt. All in all a bunch of horribleness from a $5 mistake.

It was one of those moments where you think, jeebus, what exactly am I doing? Usually I'm not like that, I'm pretty honest, and my first impulse in the situation was to come clean, but the boss was such a horror that I knew it would be a long and awful torture that I'd be subjected to, and I wanted to avoid it. I should have just followed my first impulse and it wouldn't have been anywhere near as horrible, because I felt so awful about hurting my friend, though she said it wasn't a big deal and didn't seem to care.

Whew! That was a bit of a babble.