Party etiquette

When I go to a party and someone asks me what I do for a living, I never tell them writer.

I find it is much easier to lie and say I am a doctor because I don't have to prove anything.

However, if at that same party someone starts to choke on a pimento-stuffed olive and turns blue, then I switch my profession to embalmer because I don't know the first thing about doctoring. 

But if that person dies, then I have to come clean and say I am writer because I also don't know the first thing about embalming.

 I guess the moral of the story is lying can kill people so its better to tell the truth.