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“The Challenge” By Don Reed Approximately six weeks prior to the 4th of


July celebration honoring this year’s anniversary of the birth of our nation, my place of employment, a very large engineering and construction firm, issued to all of it’s employees a very strange challenge: In honor of George Washington, “The Fa-


ther of our Country,” the man who never told a lie, please tell us the greatest lie you ever told or wish you had told to get out of work. Monetary rewards await!


At first I was perplexed; how was I to honor


the Father of our Country by telling a lie? And, exact- ly what “monetary rewards” did they have in mind? And then it occurred to me that if everyone


knew I was telling a lie, maybe it wasn’t really a lie; it was simply fiction. Would you, for example,


condemn the story of a pumpkin transformed into a magnificent carriage delivering Cinderella to the ball, as a lie? If so, you take life much too seriously; lean back and learn to enjoy the ride. I think the Fa- ther of our Country would be pleased that we live in a place that allows us to smile and poke a little fun when we think of our forefathers. Now, I never really told a great lie to get out


of work; unless, of course, you count the time I was too sick to work during the week of the big fishing tournament in the Miracle Mile Canyon in Wyo- ming. And that hardly counts. “Hello boss, I’m not feeling well, cough, cough.” Truthfully, that was a pretty pathetic lie; I’m surprised he didn’t wish me good luck and tell me to go catch a big one.


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