People Suck, Part 2

Now that I've been thrust into the so called "real world," being about a year and a half out of college, I've begun to see people in a more and more negative light.  Therefore, I think reasons most people suck needs to become a recurring post theme.  So, I'm a lonely bastard.  I like to cuddle, and have had a noted lack of a nice woman to snuggle recently.  A couple friends eventually convinced me to try out match.com to find someone.  The experience there has brought to light more reasons people suck!  Please note that this is not a bash on match.com at all.  In fact, I'm as of yet to complete my profile to get matched with people (that self describing paragraph is just too difficult!) so I can't review the service at all.  I can't get matched, but I can search for people with certain traits (looks, hobbies, etc).  No anger is aimed at match.com, I've heard its a great service, the rage is aimed at people, because they suck.

People lie.  A lot.  In fact, I know a few people that probably lie more than they tell the truth.  Without so much as emailing anyone on match.com, I have identified dozens of liars.  For example, Match asks for your basic body size, average, thin, athletic, a few extra pounds, big and beautiful, blah blah.  An alarming amount of people lie about this, even though THEIR PICTURE IS IN THEIR PROFILE.  I don't want to sound like a typical male jackass, but I've seen at least a dozen women that are clearly 70+ pounds over a healthy body weight listing themselves as "average."  I know you are all screaming that this is a subjective matter, so let me clarify.  I'm not a guy that wants to count the ribs on my girlfriend.  I am talking what would medically be defined as a healthy weight.  Some of these women are not just overweight, they are morbidly obese.  I'm talking people that are under six feet tall and weigh over 300lbs.  These people are overweight by just about any measure, and they are trying to play themselves off as "average" or "a few extra pounds" and their picture betrays this statement to the point of sheer comedy.  I'm not trying to insult overweight people (I'm about 20lbs heavier than I should be in all honesty), I'm just using this as an example of how horribly people lie.  I'm sure there are plenty of men that do this as well, I'm just speaking from personal experience.

Lying goes far beyond trying to portray yourself favorably to get a date.  Trying to find people to cover shifts at work, or reasons people call in sick, are more examples of how comically bad people are at lying.  The reasons I've heard for people that don't want to work a shift have been nothing short of hilarious.  If you have a job where you have to get shifts covered when you want days off, or answered the phone when someone was faking sick to get off work, you KNOW what I am talking about.  You get people with the most bogus reasons why.  I'm not going to list specific instances of obvious lies, because I don't want to incriminate anyone.  However, if you are one of the people who has done this, please inform me why you think a totally transparent lie is better than just simple honesty.   If you don't want to cover a shift for someone, why not simply be honest and say you are burned out and need your day off or have plans for a party, rather than telling some totally bogus story that just makes you look like a fool.

Do people think they are better at lying than they really are?  Do they believe their own outrageous truth bending?  Is admitting the truth so difficult that you would rather look like a mischievous bastard than admit a simple fact?  It makes me sick how honesty has fallen out of favor in place of half truths and outright lies.  I don't understand how these people aren't completely consumed by their guilt.  I'm not perfect, I'm not 100% truthful in every situation, I'm not going to pretend to be.  However, the truth is far easier than manufacturing a lie, and I've found that being truthful is rarely a burden.  Sticking to the truth keeps everything so much more simple, which is why I go with honesty in almost every situation.  Why lie?  It just complicates life even further, and life doesn't need any help being too complicated.