Flip flop ji, Almost missed your comment in your post to John. Thanks. Your story was also interesting. We all suffer from all those proclivities you mention - our willingness to go one step further as it were to prove a point. A universal human folly, so don't worry and like John said, as long as it doesn't hurt the other party, it's fine - lying or not. And besides, you at least had the decency of telling him the truth - some people don't. And that matters. Cheerio. Carpe Diem