Forum Overview :: Tansin A. Darcos's Alter Ego :: But what was the point of lying?

[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"]There is a commercial for Ace Hardware stores in which some guy is being given information about how to do something (open the u-shaped trap pipe below the sink where his wedding ring went) that it's like he's in the hardware store owner's house, sitting on a bar stool in his kitchen, being schooled. His wife walks by, asks what they're doing, and both give a different answer, neither one being what is correct. She then makes a sardonic comment about men and the things they do, and walks on. I have a question here. Why? Why is it necessary for them to lie about what's going on? It's not like the guy needing advice (and possibly buy a pipe wrench, clearly a good reason to visit a hardware store!), as I see it, taking the trap off the sink in order to masturbate into it, use it for some S&M routine, or something else clearly disgusting or dangerous. He wants to figure out how to remove the p-trap (as the guy from Ace hardware called it), and that's a perfectly reasonable explanation, that, even if him losing his wedding ring in the sink is embarrassing - and this is an incident so common for women that no one thinks twice about it - it would have been adequate to give it. Is it that both men are so used to lying that they can't even speak straight? Plus, <i>it was the hardware store owner's wife</i>, not the wife of the guy needing to take the pipe off his sink. Why would it even be necessary to lie to her? I mean, I can understand some guy lying to his wife or a female friend if he's doing a party for her, or he's done or is going to do something disgusting, fattening and/or illegal. But in this case, it just really doesn't make any sense. [/quote]