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The Art of Exaggeration

Always. Never. Ever. Forever. None. All. Exaggerators are much like true/false questions on exams. If we see any of the before-mentioned words, such as never, then the answer is likely false, just as the person's story is. Know anyone like this? Does it really aid the story to exaggerate to a point of unbelievability? Sometimes it's ridiculous. As a person is speaking to me, they'll state something like, "Man, that test took forever!" At this point, I carefully gaze about what they're doing, to check and see if they're still working on the exam, because if what they said is true, they wouldn't be finished with it yet. Sometimes, it seems that certain people have about as little concept of time as dogs. If I walk outside to get the mail and only a minute has lapsed between the time I left the house and walked back in, the dogs will greet me like it had been a month, because it seemed like "forever" to them. Some people seem to be simil...