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Growing up, parents taught their children that “Honesty is the best policy.” Ray Cooney’s “Out of Order” play proves that honesty should be mandatory, for lying does nothing but send you on an endless downfall.

In the play a political man, Richard, and his typist plan to spend a night together in a hotel. Considering they are both already involved with other people, the opening scene foreshadows that there will be nothing but trouble. Richard finds a body over in the window and instead of reacting the way a normal person would, he tries to make up a lie. He would rather go out of his way to get rid of the body than to just tell the truth and face the consequences of having an affair with his receptionist. There is no reason for him to be trying to protect his career when politics are known for “airing out dirty laundry.” If Richard was serious about his profession, he would have went to the convention to begin with instead of sneaking off to be with one of his colleagues.

That little white lie eventually turned into one heaping mess because more and more people got involved in the situation and Richard was still trying to keep his reputation squeaky clean. He got his friend George involved, who tried to get out of it to begin with. George was innocent in the beginning, but Richard used him and walked all over him throughout the play. George stuck around because he felt as though that was what it would take to be a decent friend. But as time went on George too became caught up in a web of lies.

Once you start lying, it goes nowhere but downhill from there. You have to continuously remember previous lies when telling the next lie. At some point the smaller lies become child’s play so you move on to bigger lies, which are more risky. They become more complicated and more difficult not only to remember but also more difficult for the person you are lying to to fathom or comprehend. Things stop adding up. The lies start to fall apart. You are trying to juggle not only the little white lies but the bigger, juicier lies as well. Either the person or people you are lying to find out or you confess. But unlike a little white lie you have to go and explain this enormous elaborate lie to them because your friendship, relationship, whatever it may be is on the line.

In Richard’s case, he lied about the dead body that he discovered only because he did not want anyone to find out about him and Jane having an affair. Affairs are commonly “aired out” in politics, dead bodies are not. Richard could have avoided his traumatic lying extravaganza if he would have just notified the manager accordingly in regards to the dead body. Instead, he decided to tell lie after lie, involve other people to protect his reputation, and still messed up in the end.

Lying can ruin relationships. Your reputation is doomed once you tell some elaborate lie such as Richard’s. He could have saved himself so much time and effort and definitely a headache if he would have just owned up to the affair and seeing the dead body. He is much like people in today’s society. Many people would rather hide behind titles and materialistic things rather than own who they are and be proud of their flaws. Richard was hiding behind lies. He chose to sneak and have an affair instead of telling his wife that he did not love her the same anymore, so was Jane. They were both in the wrong. George would rather continue to put up with his mother’s clingy habits rather than tell her the truth about how her behavior makes him feel. You should never try to comfort someone with a lie.

Life is not a rehearsal, it is show time all the time. Rarely do people get the opportunity to go back and fix the situations that they messed up. Live life with no regrets. Ray Cooney wants readers to know that while they can be entertaining, lies lead to nothing but trouble. Stay true to who you are and have faith in yourself. Love yourself flaws and all before you get involved with someone else and end up stuck with that person not knowing if you really love them or not.