You're (probably) not as slick as you think you are

When you're a little kid lying about stealing a cookie from the jar on the counter, you simply haven't learned that your parents can see right through your bullshit with laser vision. You're kinda testing the waters, right? Especially if you have siblings. Like if you and your sister are both toddlers hanging out at the kitchen table, clearly there's some room for deception because you were BOTH in there while your mom was in the other room. So the only thing she can prove is that there's one less cookie in the jar. Either one of you could've taken it and she has no way of knowing. Aside from the fact that you have chocolate smeared all over your face and you're covered in debris that looks suspiciously like crumbs from a standard issue chocolate chip cookie. Life is just infinite levels of that. It's the same as when you're a teenager and you come home reeking like shitty weed and an entire can of Axe body spray, wearing a dirty Grateful Dead shirt and drinking a can of Pringles. You…