It's All About Point of View

I was on the phone with Dan last night, when after a few minutes I ran out of news. I told him that I didn't have a wide variety of events in my life that were news-worthy.
That is true for most people. As Aunt Ethel used to say, “Life gets pretty daily.”
But Dan is an idea guy. He said that I could always make up stuff. Sort of a double life.
That wouldn't be hard. I've had a Walter Mitty internal life since I was seven years old when I put myself to sleep with a fantasy of struggling to escape a red Jello mountain by eating my way out. Almost every night since then I have been on some sort of incredible adventure. Space travel, alternate universes, enchanted lands- standard stuff for day dreamers. There have even been times in my life when I brought it down a notch, and was a captain of industry making multi-million dollars decisions while swimming in my New York penthouse pool. (That was during my zucchini relish days.)
It wouldn't be difficult to come up with some interesting fake things to fill a conversation with. The only problem is- I can't keep a straight face, even when I try to talk about things that really happened.
A lot of outrageous things actually happen to me, so I'm concerned that making things up might damage my credibility. Disarming a killer, sending a gang of street urchins skittering away in the middle of the night, a total stranger's baby left at my doorstep- all true. So what would happen to my credibility if I started to make things up? I don't want to risk it.
Nancy Sherer