Would you ever tell a lie ...

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to protect someone in your family? Well I'm afraid I might have to do it myself. Here awhile back I had an acoustic guitar that a friend gave me, he didn't like it, he said it played awful, no matter how many new strings you put on it he said it still sounded dead to him. So I took it thankfully, and I played it a little, it didn't sound that bad, I thought. Well later on, I bought a new one, and my brother asked me if he could borrow the one my friend gave me. I let him borrow it, because at the time he was playing music in this band and he needed a guitar. I didn't think anything of it, but later on my husband asked me if my brother still had it. I told him he did, then my nephew tells me that my brother didn't have it anymore that he sold it. I couldn't believe he would do that, so I called him and asked him. He said that he sold it to a pawnshop, and that he forgot all about getting it back, he was really apologetic, he kept apologizing and apologizing. I told him that he owed me one then. But to this day I haven't told my husband what happened, it hasn't come up yet, but I know it will. Right now he and my brother aren't on the best of terms because of something else my brother did before. I just know that if I tell my husband what happened to the guitar he will go off on my brother. He already says that if my brother comes around he's going to have a talk with him, and if I know my husband it won't be pretty. I don't know what to tell him if he asks me, I don't want to get my brother in more trouble, because if I do, then my whole family will get involved and my husband will be public enemy no. 1. So have you ever been in a situation where you had to tell a lie to save a family member? If so, what happened and what did you do?