Confessions - Lie, Cheat, Steal...what's your vice?

[Gooch]

I posted this somewhere else, but it sat forlorn like OA board member at a high school dance, so, since it's appropriate, I throw it here:


Try this at a party sometime.

I have and it works.

Pick someone out of a crowd. It doesn't matter if they're a man or woman. All that matters is that they are human. Back them into a corner. Not the chip and dip table. Find a place that's quieter, less congested. If you can, try the bedroom where all the coats are stacked on the bed.

Make them tell you if they've ever killed anyone.

Don't let them weasel with their war stories, auto crashes, and fatal sins of omission. Find out if they ever put a serrated blade of a bread knife between someone's ribs and then sawed back and forth, or if they know what it's like to gently wiggle the barrel of a pistol into someone's mouth and squeeze the trigger. Ask if they know what human blood really smells like. How much spills out of the puntured human body. What it tastes like when it isn't yours...

...And I'm never surprised at how many answer me honestly.

I'm never surprised at how many know.