Excellent post. You’re exactly right - why bother lying about something so inconsequential? Why risk your reputation regarding you honesty for something completely irrelevant? If little lies like that come out of ones mouth so easily, just imagine how far they’d go to further their own self interest.
“What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.”