above average for a moment

how bad is it to lie (only by omission) to your husband to make yourself appear smarter? last night we were sitting on the couch watching television and i gave michael the remote since i get to be "remote master" all day (i figured i could relinquish control for one hour). so he stops on the world series of pop culture game show which i had already seen earlier in the day. i love this show because i truly believe that i am a "pop princess" and honest to god i really do know about 40% of the answers. so as the girl on television goes to say the answer to question one i scream it out before her, getting it right of course, having heard all of the answers earlier. i almost turned to michael to tell him that i had already seen this before but at that same moment he was saying how he couldn’t believe that i knew that answer. i am a compliment whore. i love it when he is impressed with me so much that i just sat there waiting to answer the next question. now there is a certain amount of smarts involved here because i did have to recall answers that i had only heard once but probably not as much smarts as what he was giving me credit for. the more i answered correctly the more impressed he was and the more i ate it up! i was loving it so much in fact that i ran to our bedroom during a commercial to sneak a phone call to my mother to brag on myself. she was not nearly as amused as i was. naturally, being the skilled conwoman that i am, i made sure to get one wrong here and there to make myself even more believable. he kept saying "wow honey im so impressed that you know this stuff, that is amazing, how did you know that one" etc... when i looked into those baby browns, he was looking at me like i had just found a cure for cancer and won a marathon all in the same day. i saw sheer amazement and awe cover his handsome little face and i loved it, even if it was just over useless pop culture knowledge, i never wanted to leave that moment. for that moment he was looking at me like i was above average and near genious. i would do almost anything for that look, so i still have yet to let the truth cat out of the bag. how fast would i go to hell if i never mentioned it?