My go-to excuse for leaving early was the dentist. Over two years I used it so often that a colleague asked, genuinely worried, whether I had serious problems with my teeth. I panicked and said yes. She now brings me soup and soft foods at lunch. The whole team chipped in for an electric toothbrush. I don’t have the heart to stop them. I have perfect teeth and a support network built entirely on fraud.
You built a loving community on a lie. That's not a friendship group. That's a brand.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS?