Fri 20 Jun 2008
What life lessons, or even small things, have you found yourself learning the hard way? What were the outcomes?
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Big Big Question is a Josh Millard project.
1. If you drop your razor in the shower, just let it fall. Don’t fumble trying to catch it. (Result: One cut thumb.)
2. Don’t drive through a large puddle of unknown depth, no matter how many cars go through in front of you. (Result: One stuck car that had to be towed out.)
Read everything you sign three times and research anything you’re remotely uncertain of.
I was roped into one of those jackass schemes where they put a fixed price on energy and claim it is lower than anywhere else. signed it at the beginning of the school year, promptly fell into a dark hole of teen angst, and let the 10 days expire without cancelling the contract.
Sigh.
Never try to catch a falling knife (see above).
Ordering a shot of Jagermeister is your brain’s way of telling you that you’ve been at the bar for an hour too long.
Don’t take LSD on three successive days, even if it’s really clean liquid and you’ve done it many times before.
Self-rising flour isn’t the same stuff as regular flour, and should not be substituted for such.
You probably COULD stop that desk fan using only your tongue, but why would you want to?
No one likes medium-rare pork.
Don’t follow the exterminator into the crawlspace if you are mildly claustrophobic and squicked out by cockroaches.
Cops don’t like it when you talk to them the way they’re talking to you.
Also, honesty is rarely the best policy.
Don’t think a relationship will magically work if you would only change those few little things about yourself.
Humility is more manful than stubbornness. Don’t speak from your ego.
Pay bills today if you have the money today.
Don’t skip dinner before drinking just to expedite your buzz.