How do you convince?....Exaggeration!

Hi there,

Sorry for making some eager folks waiting(though my count for those, is limited to a uno!). And when You start, its a bizzarre thing that comes into mind especially when you feel sick about some attitudes around. So, its under the Bizzare Heading.

As some may say, some of my thought process goes well, others might suck. Hope this one doesn't. Someday somehow I happened to explain one of my dear friends, the consequences caused by the use of exaggerations, too regularly.

Here starts a story for you. I got good new collegues, when I had a change. One of the new colleagues, kept using exaggerations. "hey the theatre is 'completely' full","I can bet on this for '101%'.. ",...etc,etc. I dont know if there is any other state more filled than a 'full'. Then what addition does this 'completely' add to a full thatre? Where is extra 1% when he bets 100%? (Well if the bets were in terms of money, I would not have had a second thought, as I get 1% extra!).

So, these exaggerations initially made me think that, he is telling those things with complete confidence and whatever he meant was 'complete' reality. But, later I realized, for convincing something, these kind of exaggarations are mere short term tools, and if you go without them, the trust you get for your words with simple plain truth, is a long living one. Of course there should be moral in every story, so it was!

Ok Guys,
take care, will return with more and better ones!