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Sat behind a guy at the DMV in Tulsa for 2 hours who wanted me to agree his expired tags were 'basically fine'
He kept turning around and asking if I thought the cop would let it slide, and I almost told him the three months of back fees were probably the reason he got pulled twice already. I bit my tongue because he started crying a little about losing his truck for work, but I still think about how fast I wanted to say 'just pay the 180 bucks, man.' Was I wrong to just nod and look at my number instead of being honest with him?
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ruby_rivera765d ago
Nodded and looked at your number is exactly what I would have done too, and honestly I used to think staying quiet in those moments made me a coward. Then I sat in a waiting room myself while my car was about to get repoed and some stranger gave me the hard truth I did not want, and it made me feel worse, not better. That guy already knew the fees were why he got pulled, he did not need you to say it out loud while he was crying. Sometimes the kind thing and the honest thing are not the same thing, and picking kind is not the same as lying. You did not fail him by keeping your mouth shut, you just let a grown man keep whatever dignity he had left in a DMV chair.
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