Honestly, I thought you were a liar

I must have some verbal tick that annoys those who listen. I suspect it's the way I finish sentences with an inflection that indicates that I have more to say. I shouldn't complain, but I sit on my glass recliner in my glass apartment and prepare my stones for throwing.

I thought we'd passed this point, DC people. It seemed we'd moved on to a more truthful age. A truthful age where statements no longer needed to be held up by the word "honestly". Honestly is creeping back in to the vernacular or it's creeping back under my skin. If a speaker tends to lie, then perhaps the use of honestly is appropriate. It must act as a signal that while other statments are lies, this one is truth. It's a beacon, but how can I be sure that even the use of honestly is not a lie? I cannot.

My preference would be for speakers to make honest statements and leave the honestlies at home buried in the back of the closet. I'll agree to believe it, if speakers would just agree to let me try.