I’ve posted a lot today but know you are anxious to hear how my trip to the DMV went. It was a highly successful venture. For $12.75 I can now drive legally.

The only hitch was when I was filling out the application and came to “weight.” As my pen descended into the square, I seriously considered lying. Not by a lot, but shaving 4 or so pounds off because I was thinking that the last time I got my license I weighed less. This moral tussle caused me pause. What would I lie? To save myself from the disapproval of the woman at the DMV counter? As if she was going to look at my old license on file, compare it to the new application and think less of me?

Before I started flossing regularly, I regularly lied. After awhile I merely shaded the truth. One time she asked how often I flossed, and I replied, “Not as often as I’d like.” Really. I said that. Not, “Not as often as I should” or “Not as often as you think I should.” So not only was I trying to pull the wool over on the flossing issue but was trying to make myself out to be well-intentioned.

The interesting thing about this phenomena is that I don’t lie about anything else. For whatever reason, dental hygienists and DMV personnel seem to bring it out in me.