The UK and USA show, or: Who said what, to whom, and when...



It goes like this:

You get caught with your hand in the cookie jar.



First, you argue that it is not a cookie jar.

Then you say you were not planning on stealing the cookies but wanted to measure the size of the neck in case you needed to take out a cookie in future.



When that does not work, you get angry and demand to know why people are trying to attack you.

You say you only took a few cookies from the overstocked jar to make sure the rest of us would not overeat and get sick.

Obfuscate: Someone had told you the stuff in the jar only looked like cookies, it really was something else!



When the accusations still do not stop, you pull out the big guns:

Deny, deny, deny. Simply deny that you are standing there with your hand in the cookie jar! Even if someone takes a picture and shows it to you (everyone knows, pictures can be doctored).

Start a fight about something else: someone put Oreo's in the jar instead of shortbread cookies!

Blame someone else: if Tom, Dick or Harry had not neglected to get you your lunch, you would not have been so hungry that you had to get some cookies from the jar!



You know something?

In the end, you still are standing there with your hand in the cookie jar.