Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 05-29-18 06:19 <=-

I see all, know all, tell nothing.

Spoken like a moderator...<G> Let the guilty shake in their boots... ;)

When I was in parking I always told the new people the first day in training (where we covered a lot of territory) it was best to fess up
to anything they were guilty of, don't even try to snow myself or our civilian boss. When we ask a question about work, we generally already know the answer. If someone were accused of something (often a he
said/she said situation) by a violator the violator was generally in
the wrong and we just wanted the officers side of the story.
(Violators would make up stories of being verbally assaulted, etc and
far from the truth, much like stories today where cops body cams tell another story.)

And sometimes even if there be some truth, it's likely embroidered...
It's good to get both sides of a story anyway... :)

And I sometimes knew things and would only mention
it in passing much to that persons amazement I knew. :)
(And there were times I had absolutely no idea what was going on.<g>)

I remember once someone telling me that he had taken a particular
photo... I responded with something like, "yes..?"... and he figured I'd
caught him out in his lie.... He said he'd never try to lie to me again,
since I could tell... Never told him that it was just a lucky
question... ;)

ttyl neb

... Do not disturb -- I'm disturbed enough already.

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Nancy wrote --

JM>> And I sometimes knew things and would only mention
JM>> it in passing much to that persons amazement I knew. :)
JM>> (And there were times I had absolutely no idea what was going on.<g>)

I remember once someone telling me that he had taken a particular
photo... I responded with something like, "yes..?"... and he figured I'd caught him out in his lie.... He said he'd never try to lie to me again, since I could tell... Never told him that it was just a lucky
question... ;)

There have been times I didn't really know for sure and would bluff my way through until the truth came out.
I didn't tell people they were lying, unless I knew for sure, but would say something like "What if I told you..." and that would bring out the truth.
There were times I'll use the Mother Card "Look me straight in the eye..." :)
Joe


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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 06-02-18 07:31 <=-

And I sometimes knew things and would only mention
it in passing much to that persons amazement I knew. :)
(And there were times I had absolutely no idea what was going on.<g>)

I remember once someone telling me that he had taken a particular
photo... I responded with something like, "yes..?"... and he figured
I'd caught him out in his lie.... He said he'd never try to lie to
me again, since I could tell... Never told him that it was just a
lucky question... ;)

There have been times I didn't really know for sure and would bluff
my way through until the truth came out.

Sometimes that's the best way to handle it...

I didn't tell people they were lying, unless I knew for sure, but
would say something like "What if I told you..." and that would bring
out the truth. There were times I'll use the Mother Card "Look me
straight in the eye..." :)

After a while one gets a sense of how people act when they aren't quite
being truthful... particularly with people one deals with regularly... :)

ttyl neb

... Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

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