# Life is too short... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921 "2004-10-24T18:23:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/1 "2004-10-24T18:23:14Z")
…to wear uncomfortable shoes. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/2 "2004-10-24T18:25:20Z")
or a codpiece made of chainmail. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/3 "2004-10-24T18:43:46Z")
… not to eat dessert. Think of the poor women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart that night. 😉 Robin ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/4 "2004-10-24T20:25:26Z")
… NOT to wear uncomfortable shoes if they’re sexy! But seriously: Life is too short to dust. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/5 "2004-10-24T21:06:19Z")
… to use cheap toilet paper ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/6 "2004-10-24T21:11:18Z")
…to measure. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/7 "2004-10-24T21:17:02Z")
…to be too “grown-up” for things. I just bought some crayons last night. Can you tell? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/8 "2004-10-24T21:35:43Z")
…to worry about “what will people think?” when you leave the house wearing horrid eggplant-colored cullotes and lime green socks. They’re comfortable, they’re warm, and they are too revealing. That’s all that matters. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/9 "2004-10-24T21:36:48Z")
…are _NOT_ too revealing. I knew I should have previewed. (I can’t imagine that eggplant-colored cullotes come in a “revealing” design anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/10 "2004-10-24T22:01:14Z")
…not to waste time on the SDMB while you’re supposed to be working. …not to go on that date because of the one in ten chance he’s a serial killer with 27 bodies buried in shallow graves in his backyard. (This one’s for you **twicks** ) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/11 "2004-10-24T22:05:52Z")
…to drink cheap beer. ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/12 "2004-10-24T22:47:19Z")
to post things in IMHO when you really should have posted them in MPSIMS 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/13 "2004-10-24T23:47:51Z")
…is the name of a [great bar](http://chicago.citysearch.com/profile/11342369/chicago_il/slow_down_life_s_too_short.html?cslink=roundup_name_noncust&ulink=roundup __roundupentity1-4_1__ 0_profile_5_1) on the river in Chicago. Ok, its actually called “Slow Down Life’s Too Short” but everyone drops the “slow down.” ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/14 "2004-10-25T00:08:59Z")
Life is too short … to not savor a beautiful sunset. to not stand in awe in front of the Grand Canyon. to not hold a newborn baby in your arms. to not say sorry. to learn everything you want to know. to make a million bucks from interest on a $10 account. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/15 "2004-10-25T00:59:08Z")
I’ve just come back from a weekend in an assisted-living facility. Sometimes, life is too f\*cking _long_. (P.S. Sorry for pissing in the corn flakes) (P.P.S. No, that’s not something that happened at the assisted-living facility) ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/16 "2004-10-25T02:35:59Z")
Not to take the day off to enjoy a lovely spring day. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow. :smack: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/17 "2004-10-25T03:49:06Z")
…to not ask the nice boy if he’d like to hang out again. I will for sure not ever see him again now. Bah! :smack: :wally ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/18 "2004-10-25T04:20:46Z")
Life is too short… To let some SOB get you down. Slap them upside the head and savor the moment. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/19 "2004-10-25T06:51:04Z")
> [@yosemite](#): > > …to worry about “what will people think?” when you leave the house wearing horrid eggplant-colored cullotes and lime green socks. They’re comfortable, they’re warm, and they are too revealing. That’s all that matters. Would that be “Slime Lime?” That’s the color of my husband’s fire truck (ok, its the fire deptment’s truck, he just thinks its his) Life is too short…to be unrequited. I may die dirt poor, but I won’t have to say “If only” about anything. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/20 "2004-10-25T06:53:52Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Would that be “Slime Lime?” That’s the color of my husband’s fire truck (ok, its the fire deptment’s truck, he just thinks its his) > > Life is too short…to be unrequited. I may die dirt poor, but I won’t have to say “If only” about anything. I’m not exactly sure how I left out the middle of department, but here ya’ go _“ar”_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921.md?page=2)