When you’re prone to exaggeration, it’s no surprise that occasionally people might get the wrong idea about you. I’m definitely someone who exaggerates when I’m telling a story, but I never realized how much I do it until recently.

A few months ago, one of my co-workers blogged about a comment I had made. I said I crash my car a lot. That’s an exaggeration. In reality, I have been in two accidents in my driving history. The last of which occurred when I was 19. Sure, there were a few times I slid off the road on an icy day, but (if you don’t count my driveway) even that hasn’t happened in at least seven years.