Happy Birthday Liar

This funny birthday card from my sister got me thinking about the lie a few of us tell.

How acceptable is it to shave just a few years off your real age?

Seems everyone is trying hard and botoxing up a storm in this city to fight the age monster. And if your lie is believable, I’m not sure it really matters what you tell people. Is it anyones business anyway? Unless you’re having kids, maybe no one really cares.

It used to be a manners thing, a question one just never asked. Sorta like asking, is that huge diamond real or how many facelifts have you had because I’ve lost track. Or maybe that was only in the south. Where it was sorta assumed a woman subtracted a few years off. Three years, no big deal. More than 5, it might matter. And of course it depends when you fess up to the lie. So at what point do you share the little secret you’ve been keeping? When is it anyones right to know the whole truth? And by whole truth, I only mean half. But yes, it should probably be before the wedding.