It has been brought to my attention recently that I am prone to exaggeration. I guess I kind of knew this for a while, so "brought to my attention" isn't really accurate. And actually, it wasn't all that recently either. So I guess that makes it another exaggeration.
It was while contemplating my proneness to exaggeration that I realised a trend ... I tend to use the word "like" just before I exaggerate:
For example... She asked me the same question, like, 4 times or There are, like, a thousand emails.
In reality, she only asked me twice. And there only about 15 emails.
I do sometimes under-exaggerate, but mostly I am the over-exaggerating type.
Which got me wondering ... is there some kind of formula that I automatically (and unconsciously) use when I pick to what extent I am going to exaggerate or which random number I am going to choose when exaggerating.
Okay now stay with me, cos its been a while since I used algebra:
If x = the real number of times something happened and y = the number of times I said something happened
And x (the number of times that something really happened) is less than 10 times, then:
x = y / 2 (if x is an even number) or x = y/2 + 1 (if x is an odd number)
If x (the number of times that something really happened) is more than 10, then:
y always equals 100 or 1000, depending on how much the thing that really happened got to me
If that made no sense to you, then don't worry... I'm not sure it made much sense to me. But if you were able to follow me then maybe you finally cracked how to work out what actually happened when I tell you something.
And who says you never use algebra after high school.
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