You can't handle the truth!

That was pretty much me at the deposition yesterday. oh, The dreaded deposition. alright, maybe not quite like jack nicholson. In fact i'd love to say it was just blah, blah, blah, and i got all worked up for nothing. but i didn't. it was exactly like the attorney said it would be. I thought our guy was being a bit dramatic when he said the other guy would be sneaky and tricky and that he might come off angry. He said that he'd get into this question and answer rhythm so don't follow it because you can end up falling into his little trap. Doesn't that sound dramatic? But it wasn't. it was exactly like that. And there were six people sitting around the table staring at me while the court reporter clicked away every single 'um' and 'but' I uttered. hmmm...click, click, not that i recall....click click click, so....click. The other guy, forgive me jomama but i can't remember his name, had the skin of a haggared aging rockstar and voice that admitted to smoking 2 packs a day for the last 30 years. His office was laughable, but of couse, i wasn't laughing because i wanted to run away and cry. All in all I did fine. I didn't fall into too many of his snares, fumbled a few unexpected questions but really didn't give him anything meaty to use against us. I know that because he said, "that wasn't so bad was it. I couldn't have been, you didn't know anything." sweet. I will say that attorneys morph into actor mode for this kind of thing. He was pretty jovial when we got there and then became very cynical and sarcastic when he was asking me the questions. which, by the way, he had on paper stacked probably 10 high. each time he'd turn a page there'd be another huge page of questions waiting underneath. i couldn't wait to ge to the bottom of the stack. I guess we get to read a transcript of it in about 2 weeks, so that'll be funny. It's over. I couldn't be happier. Our attorney said i was one of the better witnesses he'd worked with and that I'd be fine if we have to go to court. probably more of a blowin' sunshine thing but whatever. i pray that doesn't happen.