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Vault: He Lied To His Boss But For Good Reason

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Vault: He Lied To His Boss But For Good Reason

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0:00.0

The Bird Show.

0:02.0

We've all been in this situation before where we're struggling with some kind of scruples like dilemma where, you know, you can ask half of your friends what you should do in this situation.

0:12.0

They'll give you one answer and half give you the other because there's no like really clear line of right or wrong.

0:18.0

And we go through these a lot, a lot. We know you guys struggle with them also. So we're asking to give us a call. Tell us what this dilemma is that you're struggling with. We'll give you our opinions and we'll take calls from listeners also. Maybe you walk away and have a little better understanding of what you should do. Right. Good morning. Larry, you're on all the hits Q100. What's up guys? Hey, then. You tell us, man. are you, dude? Sound a little beat up, Larry. You all right, man? I'm a little beat up. What's going on? I'm losing sleep over this one, so I really need your help. All right. A couple weeks back, my ex informs me that our son is doing a, you know, a little school show there.

0:56.6

Uh-huh.

0:57.4

So I'm a good dad, you know.

0:59.4

I don't miss stuff like that.

1:01.2

So I put it down on my schedule that I was going to, you know, be there for him.

1:05.8

I wanted to see him do his little show.

1:08.6

So I was getting closer to the day there and head honcho over where I work decides

1:14.5

that he's going to entertain some clients the night of the show, of course.

1:19.7

So I'm still trying to be the good dad.

1:21.9

And the last thing I want to do is hear it from my, you know, ex, because she's such a sweetheart.

2:03.9

So I'm thinking, hey, all right, I got to be there. So I got to find a way out of this thing. You know, I can't, you know, I can't miss this show. So I charged right into my boss's off. So I waited until the day of the show. I mean, I knew about it a couple days before. I knew that I had this conflict, you know. But I figured I couldn't bring it up. I couldn't think of a way to, you know, approach the situation. So I marched right into my boss's office, and I told him I just got a call. And I had to go go see if my son was okay it was the first thing that came out of my mouth and he said well what's wrong and i got sweated and nervous and i

2:10.6

think it was because i knew what i was about to do and uh i told him i told him i just got to call my boy was in the emergency room

2:19.4

ever since then I mean I wanted to go see the show you know and I did I want to see the show

2:24.8

it was really cute I didn't miss anything I didn't have to deal with any clients that night

2:28.2

right but ever since then I swear I'm waiting for your kid to get run over or something

2:33.0

I'm waiting for a phone call where this where my poor baby's in the emergency room.

2:37.5

All right.

2:38.1

So what you're struggling with is not only the lie, but the lie that you told, has your kid in the emergency room.

2:45.0

And you're not sure if you did the right thing by using that as the excuse.

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