There was a sailor who worked on the same boat for three years. One night he got drunk. This was first time it had ever happened. The captain recorded it in his log,"The sailor was drunk tonight."
The sailor read it and knew this comment would effect his career, so he went up to the captain, apologized and asked the captain to add that it only happened once in three years because that was the complete truth. The captain refused and said,"What I have written in the log is truth."
The next day it was the sailors turn to fill in the log. He wrote,"The captain was sober tonight." The captain read the comment and asked the sailor to change or add to it explaining the complete truth because this implied that the captain was drunk every other night. The sailor told captain that what he had written in log was the truth.
Moral :~
Both the statements were true but they conveyed misleading messages. Exaggeration weakens our case and makes us lose credibility.
