When you’re prone to exaggeration, it’s no surprise that occasionally people might get the wrong idea about you. I’m definitely someone who exaggerates when I’m telling a story, but I never realized how much I do it until recently.

A few months ago, one of my co-workers blogged about a comment I had made. I said I crash my car a lot. That’s an exaggeration. In reality, I have been in two accidents in my driving history. The last of which occurred when I was 19. Sure, there were a few times I slid off the road on an icy day, but (if you don’t count my driveway) even that hasn’t happened in at least seven years.

Unfortunately, those incidents are still fresh in my mind, so I occasionally discuss those incidents in a slightly exaggerated way and people think I destroy more cars than a monster truck rally.