Your friend skips out on a baby shower to go river rafting with her new boyfriend. She asks you to inform the hostess and the shower-goers that, to her utter regret and dismay, she's out of town on business.

YOU SAY: "I'll do anything in the world for you, but the one thing I can't do is lie."
WHY: She shouldn't have asked in the first place. "Kindly telling the person that you can't lie for her will subtly point out her lack of ethics," says Baldrige.