Think About It

Every once in a while, I will share an old saying from days gone by and here goes another one.  “An excuse is just a tissue-papered lie.”.   Now for those of you who aren’t familiar with “tissue paper”, we aren’t talking about bathroom tissue, rather it is that stuff what is added to baskets or boxes to make the gifts seem a little more special.  It’s sort of like upscale gift wrap.  When we were kids, you knew something was special if it came with tissue paper.  Another quality of tissue paper is that was thin and really didn’t disguise the gift.  It isn’t like Christmas wrapping paper that could actually conceal the identity of what it wrapped.  Now with this background, we can get back to the analogy.  An excuse is just a lie that sounds nicer than an out-and-out lie, but really doesn’t conceal the deceit.  In essence, when we make an excuse we are basically lying and hope that the other person will be so impressed by the language in which it is wrapped that they’ll accept our lie.