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I ignore my CPAP instructions about cleaning my mask and tubes daily. In fact, if they read “clean every month” or even “every week,” I’d probably clean it more often than I do, but “daily”? Get fucked, please. That just tells me to ignore your batshit instructions freely.
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I find your lack of faith disturbing.
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Ah yes, same here. That and “don’t play for more than two hours without taking a long break”. Screw that, one more turn first 
From what I can tell, it’s the guy in the truck doing the painting. What was a good drive to work has become more of a problem because they just deceided to make a 5 mile streatch ‘No Passsing’. The one 1/4 mile or so that is not a solid line, should be.
Guess he had some paint to use up. I’m tempted to call the highway department, but suspect it would be an exercise in futility.
Wow, some people like to live dangerously here. My favorite one so far is not washing the fruit.
I had one ear blocked with earwax so bad once I had to go to the doctor to get it fixed. I didn’t have an infection but they gave me an antibiotic to prevent getting one (remember, this was after the ear canal had been cleared out).
The instructions said I needed to put however many drops in my ear, then lie on my side for 15 minutes so the medicine could do its work.
The instructions said to do this four times a day.
And for good luck the doctor’s office told me I should apply the medicine in each ear.
So 15 minutes each time x 4 times a day x 2 ears works out to 2 hours of each day I had to carve out of my life for 10 days to two weeks just for this. I was then as now working full time, and our son was still not sleeping through the night so this just wasn’t going to happen.
I threw the medicine out and my ears were fine.
We live in a very rural area. There’s a stop sign at the end of our street, and you have to turn left or right. Visibility is excellent in all directions. If I don’t see anyone coming from either direction - which is 95% of the time - I will *not *stop. I’ll simply slow down a little and turn left or right.
Maybe this is a new thread, but what I get from this is that unreasonable instructions (or downright ludicrous ones) make us all less aware of the general need to follow instructions at all. I wonder if non-compliance is considered “undesirable” by the people who over-instruct?
I remove USB memory sticks without “ejecting” them. Yea, I know this can kill them, but so far I’ve been lucky.
I’ve never kept the foil wrapper to put my gum in after use.
I always do. I hate the blister packs; what are you supposed to do, squish your ABC gum into the little compartments and carry them around? I love the Dentyne plen-t-paks for this reason. Or at least I did before they stopped making the cinnamon ones.
ObTopic instruction I always ignore: “Pour off excess fat”
On every box I’ve made, there have been reduced-fat directions that use a lot less butter. I always make it that way.
I always use skim milk when making a recipe that calls for milk, or even cream (though I normally don’t make recipes that call for cream). Skim milk is the only fluid dairy product I ever buy, with the exception of occasional fat-free or 1% buttermilk. I’m going to have to try mac & cheese with buttermilk.
I’m much more likely to just use olive oil instead rather than go to the trouble of melting butter. Olive oil is easier and healthier.
I don’t pour off excess fat, either. I just use less to start with.
I never use wooden spoons. I use plastic ones, because those can go in the dishwasher.
I sometimes fudge on oven temperatures by 25 degrees or so, so that I can cook two things that use slightly different temperatures in the same oven.
I wash everything together in warm water. I’ve never had a problem yet. Mr. Neville finds this unacceptable, so he does his laundry his way, and I do mine my way.
I put sweaters in the dryer instead of “dry flat”, whatever the hell that means.
I clean the lint trap every time. Because I like doing it.
Something is wrong with me.
I also do not wash my C-PAP tubing and mask every day. I am not telling you how often I clean that stuff. Not telling…
I seem to recall hearing somewhere that the BDUs are supposed to never be ironed (hah!), and the tag on the uniform does say never ever dry clean (hah! hah!). That said, ironing and dry cleaning are both normal things to do with BDUs, at least in the Air Force (the Army and Marines have switched out BDUs for permanent-press uniforms that don’t need to be ironed to have a creased appearance, and the Air Force is also switching to such a uniform).
As far as cooking pizza, eh. If it’s getting turned into a smoking brown disc in the oven, the problem isn’t the instructions, it’s the cook. The instructions say that the pizza is done when the edges are golden brown and the cheese melted. They give you the time and temp as the best way they know of to get the pizza to that state, but if you ignore the last and most important step of the instructions, that’s your problem. 
Instructions from our sergeants at PT: “You should always PT as if you are doing an eval!” as in they want us to go balls-to-the-wall all the time for maximum physical improvement. I pace myself at PT because I have no idea how long the sergeants will have us out there, or how much of what we’ll be doing. When I do a PT eval, I push myself right up to the wall and through it. My feet hurt, my legs hurt, my chest wants to explode, but I know I only have to do it once and then I’m done with the eval until I’m due for another. If I PT’d like that all the time, I would die.
That said, I DO need to start working out a little more intensely, I got an eval in a few months. I think I’ll go for a run after I get off work.
Ooh, another one that I’ve heard: Don’t use a laptop computer on your lap, due to concerns with having a 100 degree piece of electronics sitting atop your gonads. Guess where my laptop is right now? Keeping my gonads nice and toasty on a cool day.
The “Five Mile An Hour Over Rule”. Not an official instruction (in fact, most official instructions indicate against this rule), but I’m horrible about almost never driving five over. I’ll tend to stick to the speed limit or slightly under, possibly because I almost never drive anywhere so I already feel like I’m just whooshing by at 30MPH. I am probably going to grow up to be one of those elderly slow drivers or something. Drives people nuts sometimes, but I’m more than happy to let them pass.
At the firing range I went to a few weeks ago, the instructions stated to be sure not to fire more than one shot every 3 seconds (basically, if you fire too fast, you can lose control of the gun and you might put a bullet in something important like the tracks for the target holders). I never pay much attention to how fast I’m shooting. I tend to shoot when I’m ready to shoot, but I’m not going John Woo on the range or anything stupid like that.
EDIT: re: lint traps. I clean them every time before and after using the dryer. When I was in Basic, they showed us some pictures of what used to be one squadron’s dryers after some trainees neglected to clean the lint trap after doing 50 guys’ laundry. Basically the whole laundry room went up and some guys got in big trouble.
I put wooden spoons in the dishwasher, when I have one. You’re not supposed to?
Keep away from small children. But they’re so moist and succulent!
I’ve seen others here that I break the rules, too. But the one I do that hasn’t been mentioned is the instruction in the hair dye to “test on a patch of skin 24 hours before using”.
Does anyone actually do that??
I never do that with hair dye, tanning lotion or Nair.
I also put all of my wooden utensils in the dishwasher. Always have.
I never use the high-altitude directions. I don’t even read them.
From what I can tell, it’s a shorter way of saying “Press with sleeping cat.”
Mr. Neville says you’re not supposed to put wooden spoons or wooden-handled knives in there. I don’t put them in because I try to pick my battles carefully. If he’s willing to do hand-washing, I let him get on with it. If he were going to try to make me do it, I’d fight back a lot harder. Or just not use the hand-washable stuff. I mostly do that anyway, because if I use it a lot he might make me do some of the hand-washing, and I loathe washing dishes by hand. But he doesn’t. If he wants to waste his time hand-washing stuff that could go in the dishwasher, that’s not my problem.
A few sites online seem to say that wooden utensils can warp from the heat in the dishwasher. So I guess he is technically correct.
We prefer plastic spoons to wooden, anyway. The problem with wooden spoons for us (other than the dishwasher thing) is that they only come in one color, which means we can’t use color-coding as a way of telling us if this spoon is supposed to be meat or dairy (we keep kosher, including two sets of dishes and utensils). We can’t always do that with plastic spoons, either, though (why do so many manufacturers make them only in black?). I suppose in theory we could paint a dot on the handle with something that wouldn’t come off in the dishwasher, but in reality we’re way too lazy and disorganized to do something like that.