Can you keep a secret?

[Wilbur]

I just hear that three people can..

..once 2 of them are dead.  

 

The Irishman is my new favourite.   

[MickinMD]

I'm almost sure to tell someone, but there are three cases where I keep my mouth shut. There are three retired people I know who are very, very comfortable financially and regularly ask me about stocks, CD's, Series-I Savings Bonds, taxes, etc. Their questions often involve something they own worth $100,000 or more and represent a small part of their liquid assets. All three make it appear to others that they're getting by ok, but just barely - and I know cases where others picked up restaurant tabs because they thought one of the three couldn't afford it. Still, I can't blame them for playing poor because they'd probably get hit-on for money if people knew the truth. I haven't said a word to anyone about their wealth.

[jsharr]

[donkpow]

[JerrySTL]

I have an active security clearance. But so did Aldrich Ames and dozens of other spies.

[ChrisL]

2 minutes ago, JerrySTL said:

I have an active security clearance. But so did Aldrich Ames and dozens of other spies.

The three most commonly used letters in the classified world: NTK...

[donkpow]

Many may not know that Benjamin Franklin first coined the phrase. 

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/benjamin_franklin_162078

[Zephyr]

There is an old saying in the Mounties that we consider it keeping a secret if you only tell one person at a time.

But yes....., with security clearances and protected information that comes across my desk, I can definitely keep a secret

[Zealot]

Yes

[Airehead]

i can keep some secrets but I think my secret container is full

[Dottleshead]

Yeah, I'm a good secret guy. 

[Square Wheels]

I love it when people ask if I can keep a secret and I say no.  They then say, OK, I'll tell you anyhow.

[Kirby]

I can keep a secret if I need to, but I prefer people don't tell me things that are really secret.

[Dottleshead]

4 minutes ago, Kirby said:

I can keep a secret if I need to, but I prefer people don't tell me things that are really secret.

 

2 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

I love it when people ask if I can keep a secret and I say no.  They then say, OK, I'll tell you anyhow.

I met @Page Turner and after all these years I have never told anyone that it's a woman!

Bazinga.

[Page Turner]

...she's a woman, not it's a woman. 

[Wilbur]

1 hour ago, Dottles said:

 

I met @Page Turner and after all these years I have never told anyone that it's a woman!

Bazinga.

I have seen enough bike pictures to know the saddle position is wrong for a woman.  

[Kzoo]

19 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

...she's a woman, not it's a woman. 

Sometimes it difficult to tell.  It.... she.....  

[Dottleshead]

I have been fortunate enough to meet Page in person, and he is a good dude. He is man. 

[KrAzY]

I bought you were going to tell us you were not really a Canadian... Now I feel disappointed... 

[shootingstar]

On 2/5/2020 at 4:22 PM, MickinMD said:

I'm almost sure to tell someone, but there are three cases where I keep my mouth shut. There are three retired people I know who are very, very comfortable financially and regularly ask me about stocks, CD's, Series-I Savings Bonds, taxes, etc. Their questions often involve something they own worth $100,000 or more and represent a small part of their liquid assets. All three make it appear to others that they're getting by ok, but just barely - and I know cases where others picked up restaurant tabs because they thought one of the three couldn't afford it. Still, I can't blame them for playing poor because they'd probably get hit-on for money if people knew the truth. I haven't said a word to anyone about their wealth.

You know, that's abit selfish that other people pay for their meal if they can clearly afford to pay their own.  (And I'm not referring to their adult children who in my opinion should as courtesy offer to pay a reasonable meal for a parent. After years and years of spending in raising their children.)

I'm sure their meal tab wasn't large.

[shootingstar]

Keeping a secret.....there have been times, I wish I didn't know certain things.

[donkpow]

You know just saying you know secrets puts you on "the list".

 

Doh!

[Tizeye]

With my poker face, I can absolutely keep a secret. Go ahead, out with it. You can be assured that I won't post it on the Internet or anything like that. So tell us the secret.

[groupw]

It’s necessary in my job. I sit at desks with a lot of information sometimes on the PC, sometimes on the desks. I hear conversations of movers and shakers in town. Many are professional. Some are personal. We are HIPAA and securities approved. The fact I can keep my mouth shut has benefited me professionally and personally. 

[Page Turner]

...because I worked on the medical records on a nuke sub tender in the Navy, it was required that I have a "Top Secret" clearance.  I told them I would be perfectly happy with just "Secret", but they insisted. I was uncomfortable with that the whole time I carried it. It seemed to me that if some nefarious Kremlin "Red Sparrow" were going to go after people, she'd pick someone with a "Top Secret" clearance.  And I wasn't interested in that.