Comments on: Gullible

By: Chickie

Chickie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:05:51 +0000

Unfortunately, you are wrong about that. I have a hard time believing that someone I trust would lie to me.

Sweety could tell me that he was abducted by aliens and zipped off to another galaxy while I slept & if he swore it was true after I asked him if it was….well, you all would get a blog post about his extraterrestrial experience.

By: OldOldLady Of The Hills

OldOldLady Of The Hills — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:18:39 +0000

I like that you have this kind of ‘trust’ in the people you know and love….And at the same time I know you are very smart, too, and wouldn’t be taken in by some un-truth if you suspected it was an un-truth…Am I wrong about that?

By: Chickie

Chickie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:14:54 +0000

Oh, I like that too…

I’ll be an extremist and either will regard people with the utmost suspicion or not at all.

By: renn

renn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:50:16 +0000

I hereby declare 2010 the Year of Letting Things Go. I generally trust no one (except my spouse), and though I rarely Challenge people, I tend to obsess about the details until I make myself sick.

My phrase, this year, shall be: “Huh. Well. There you go.”

By: Chickie

Chickie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:30:35 +0000

I am a horrible liar. I don’t.

Heck, if I’m telling someone something and I think that they think I’m lying (sometimes this happens with Sweety) then I get all fidgety like I AM lying even though I’m not!

By: Chickie

Chickie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:29:35 +0000

Hee, hee…short tales. I get it!

Someone told me a whopper a few weeks ago and it’s just come to surface. Now I feel silly.

By: Becky

Becky — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:30:21 +0000

I agree with Georgina above. That’s exactly how I feel. I’m going to ASSUME you are not lying to my face. You are an adult, and I think you are telling me the truth. Period.

But you know what’s ironic….I am a hella good liar. I can look someone in the face and lie my ass off. Huh.

By: Georgina

Georgina — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:58:42 +0000

I can be gullible at times too. Other times, it’s more like, “Ok, if you are telling me this I am going to believe it is true, because you are an adult who is old enough to know better than to tell crazy ass tall-tales.” (I never tell tall tales. Just short tales. LOL. Oh jeez, I kill myself sometimes! I can’t help it!) – G

By: Chickie

Chickie — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:09:35 +0000

You may join me on this journey.

No wait, I think I’m following you.

By: Chickie

Chickie — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:06:49 +0000

The weird thing is that I’m gullible when it’s people telling me something but if I think someone is telling a friend something crazy then I will play “worst case scenario” til I’m blue in the face.

As part of my Year of Suspicion I have decided to NOT tell friends “what if” when they are telling me something that someone has told them that sounds too good to be true. Well, maybe I’ll just say it once instead of every time they bring it up. I bit my tongue yesterday and feigned happiness at something and it was hard.