I encountered a friend while I was out this morning. I hadn’t seen him in a while. Spotting my blue and white open-toe ortho sandals with their velcro straps that were forced on me for my lymphedema treatment, he asked, “What’s going on there? You okay?”
“Oh, yeah, sure. These are my new Nikes. They’re the latest in footwear. AI designed. And they are so comfortable. Really amazing. I know they don’t look like much….”
“No, they don’t.”
“No, but they’re actually this very sophisticated series of layered ‘smart’ materials that shape to your feet and adjust for your activity. Kind of expensive, too. I got these for about a hundred eighty dollars on Amazon.”
Shock rode into his expression. “Really?”
“No. I made all that up.” Turning off my brain’s bullshit center — the bullshitis centritis — I revealed the truth.
Then we had a good laugh about the fiction I’d spun.
Michael Seidel, writer 
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