That'll teach YOU to tell the truth all right, because your father wore that expensive sweater to his reunion, and he'd blurted out the price you told him it'd cost, because you did NOT want to get nagged by him, on you spending all that money to give him a present, and you ended up, getting your wallet emptied out, because he'd told others, and now, they wanted the same thing too, translated…
Every year as Father's Day came, I'd recalled that heart wrenching pain of the millennium.
That year, I gave my father a $6,000N.T. sweater, and because I knew how frugal he was, when he'd asked me about the cost, I'd told him that it cost $600N.T.s. This made him ecstatic, he'd worn it for days on end, didn't want to take it off. And, although it'd cost me one-sixth of my wages then, but it'd always been, more than, worth it to me.
what that, "little white lie" might look like...photo from online
A week later, my father called me, asked me to purchase three more for him, because he'd gone to his reunion in the sweater, and all his old friend saw, and after he'd told them the cost, they'd felt it was a great deal, and asked him to purchase for them. He'd joyously chimed out, "they'd all said you had a great eye for fashion, and that you'd fulfilled your filial piety responsibilities to me."
After I'd heard my father, I took the $1,800N.T. he'd wired to my account, and I was, totally, dumbfounded—three of them? I can't even cry! Worried that he may lose face if I didn't purchase the three sweaters for him, and told him, that that was the final THREE of the season, that the shop no longer carried the style again, that he is to NEVER agree to purchase any more for his classmates again.
And, ever since, when I'd purchased any clothes for dad, I'd always told him, that this was, the last one, that the shops don't have any backstock.
And, because you didn't want to make your father think, that you'd, spent a whole lot of money, buying him the sweater, and so you told that little white lie, and it'd ended up, hollowing out YOUR wallet, and, that's a lesson that you learned: always tell the truth, but it's okay, if you can bend it a little, to NOT get nagged at, to EASE your parents' minds, on how much you're spending on them.
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