George being a really crap liar when she isn't on a reap was one of those weird character quirks I noticed when re-watching the DML DVDs to prep for writing this story. It's really weird. She can pull off a bald-faced lie when it has anything to do with a reap, but once a reap isn't involved she really kind of sucks at it. And when she is successful at fooling people (Delores is just about the only person on the planet she can fool), it tends to backfire on her.
George's lie did sort of backfire on her there. If she hadn't lied about the cell phone, Xander wouldn't have a ready-made excuse to get her off the street and away form the squid demon. :-)
I was worried about George taking the plunge, there is definitely one instance in the series where George did grab a guy by the shirt and pulled him in for the kiss (it was the boss's dim nephew), so it wasn't entirely out of character for her to do it.
But it is admittedly not normal operating procedure for her.
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Date: 2009-07-28 01:08 am (UTC)George's lie did sort of backfire on her there. If she hadn't lied about the cell phone, Xander wouldn't have a ready-made excuse to get her off the street and away form the squid demon. :-)
I was worried about George taking the plunge, there is definitely one instance in the series where George did grab a guy by the shirt and pulled him in for the kiss (it was the boss's dim nephew), so it wasn't entirely out of character for her to do it.
But it is admittedly not normal operating procedure for her.