Roland K. Kalepe Kalepe1 EN101A Prof. Whittenburg 09/21/2008 GENUINE HONESTY… actually was honest, but because he lied all the time. He felt that the easiest way out of any given situation was generally the best way out. And, for her, that generally meant telling a "little white lie." As a young child I thought it was kind of cool. And, naturally, when I would come to him with a concern or question wondering what I should do, he generally advised me to lie. "Dad, I told Theresa that I would go over to her house, but now I would rather go to Sika's house to play." "Tell Theresa you're sick," he would advise. And generally I did. But I didn't seem blessed with his lack of conscience. On many painful occasions Theresa would find out that I really went to Stella's house without her. These occasions taught me that it is more painful to be caught in a had never learned that lesson. he told someone that his favorite restaurant had closed, because he didn't want to see them Kalepe2 his birthday. Or when he claimed that our phone lines had been down when he was trying to explain why he hadn't been in touch with a friend of his for weeks. And what bothered me even more were all the times he had incorporated me into his lies. Like the time he told my guidance counselor that I had to miss school for exploratory surgery, when he really needed me to clean his room. And it even started to bother me when someone would call for him and he would ask me to tell them that he wasn't there. phone and it was someone my father didn't want to talk to, I said, "Uncle Fred, Dad is here, but he doesn't want to talk to you." The first time I did it, I think he grounded me, but I refused to apologize. I told him that I had decided that it was wrong to lie. And the next time it happened I did the same thing. Finally, he approached me and said, "I agree that lying is not the best thing methods weren't right, and I admitted that mine were a bit too extreme. yet kind....