Have you heard the term ‘harp lies’ before? I recently listened to Case #1: Video Store of the Mystery Show Podcast where Laura, the interviewee, mentioned harp lies.
“It’s like the kind of thing if someone says they can play the harp. Unless you pull a harp out, you’ll never know. You know what I mean? Hey Starlee, I play the harp. Really well. But I don’t like to do it in front of people,” she said. I’d not ever heard of harp lies before; however, it’s a term that’s been missing from my vocabulary!
I can’t think of a harp lie that I’ve told as an adult, but as a young kid, I remember telling my friends that I could read a 500-page book in one day, which I most certainly could not. I was a slow reader as a kid (still am).
Do you tell harp lies? I’m curious!
I can’t remember telling any harp lies in my adult life but I definitely told them as a kid. One time I was telling a less than 100% true story to Lin and Uncle Pat when Lin slowly started getting up on the stool that he had been sitting on. Eventually he was standing on top of the stool so I stopped and asked him what he was doing. He laughed and said, “I’m trying to get out of all the bullshit!” Uncle Pat lost it. Hahaha. Lin saw right through me but I stuck to my story. He was such a little smart ass.