1. “I’m almost there.”
This is the same thing as “I’m five minutes away,” or “just around the block.” You know you ‘re not nearly there— and it’s probably going to take you at least half an hour before you get to where your friends are waiting for you— but you still tell this little white lie.
2. “It must have gone to my spam folder.”
You saw the email when it came in, you might even have opened it and read it, and then you chose to deal with it later. In reality, you didn’t do anything with it. But when the author questioned you about it, maybe weeks or months later, perhaps quoting your boss, you had to offer some explanation why you didn’t do anything about it. So it was spam. Simple like that.
