charade

A friend of mine and I were sitting at Canter\’s having lunch when we were discussing my dating life — or lack of it. Since he knows what a cool guy I am, he suggested that there was just one tactic to take — to make up an ex-wife and a divorce so that I could avoid the stigma of having never been married. He went a step better — he went for the widower concept, which I liked, and embellished with the death of my wife in a tragic car wreck. But here\’s the problem: It\’s not so much that I\’m against lying on principle, it has its place. It\’s just that I suck at it.