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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
If, for some reason it comes up:
(i) I don't plan to inform the Mr. of the public appointment mess, because I don't quite believe he could make it through the night without making a comment, particularly since the evening will probably involve huge quantities of alcohol. If it comes up at all, the Mr. will probably know I knew about it (because he knows I googled them) but didn't tell him. Anyone (TM?) have a good cover story I can use with the Mr. to avoid admitting "I knew but I didn't tell you 'cause I thought you'd tease him and I want to try to develop his wife as a client?"
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I don't know why this last answer is unacceptable. Just soften it and then put him on the defensive. "Honey, you
know you wouldn't have been able to hold this information in the whole night considering how juicy it is. Remember that one time when we met the Queen and you couldn't help but bring up Camilla? Well, I was hoping to avoid that because she would be a good client. I was going to tell you on the way home. Why would you need to know before we went anyway?"
If you don't want to go with that, when the couple brings it up, you should act like someone on the opposite side of a deal lives where they live and mentioned the story to you at a closing and told you all about how unfair the whole thing was. (This is an easy lie since the old-boy network isn't an infrequent topic at closings and it isn't unbelievable that people would share stories of how unfair they are treated for being a card-carrying member.) You were familiar with the story, but since no names were mentioned, you didn't make the connection. Feign surprise that such a thing could have happened to them. That way you can discuss what happened without getting into too much detail and later on, you can tell the Mr. that you suspected it was them at the time you talked about it at the closing, but you weren't really sure and forgot all about it.
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
(ii) Any admission of pre-knowledge of this is tantamount to admitting I googled them (it's really the only way I'd have found out about it). How socially acceptable is googling people now?
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The second scenario I outlined above takes care of this problem.
TM
