MISREPRESENTATION OF TRUTH

There was a sailor who had worked on the same ship for three years. One night he got drunk. This was the first time this had ever happened. The captain recorded in the ship's log, "the sailor was drunk tonight." The sailor read the comment in the log and knew such a statement could affect his career. He went to the captain, apologized and asked the captain to add that it only happened once in three years which was the complete truth. The captain refused and said, "what I have written in the log is the truth." The next day it was the sailor's responsibility to make the ship's log entries. He wrote, "the captain was sober tonight." The captain read the log entry and asked the sailor to change or add to it explaining the complete truth because this implied that the captain was drunk every other night. The sailor told the captain that what he had written in the log was the truth!