# reckless living (not for impressionable children) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869 "2002-11-26T12:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/61 "2002-11-27T13:25:42Z")
I… was on the early bus to work today. And I had a peanut-butter sandwich _in bed_ last night! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/62 "2002-11-27T14:03:04Z")
I am not wearing my glasses while i catch up at the SDMB. I had frenchfries and soda for breakfast. And the music on the Winamp is entirely too loud:D ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/63 "2002-11-27T14:12:57Z")
I am wearing white socks with my black pants and black shoes. Plus, this is the second time this week I’ve worn these pants…without washing in between wearings. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/64 "2002-11-27T14:26:09Z")
This morning I put Baby Kate’s shirt on BACKWARDS because it looks better with the Ladybug on the front. ---
**Author:** ![snermy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@snermy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snermy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/65 "2002-11-27T14:51:12Z")
Well, the other day I threw away a letter that said, right on the envolope congratulations MISS SMERNY , here is your guaranteed prize certificate!!! Without even opening it. And then there’s the years of Q-Tip abuse. :hangs head: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/66 "2002-11-27T15:05:29Z")
I didn’t booger check before our Christmas portrait. ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/67 "2002-11-27T15:11:08Z")
Don’t tell my mom, but I didn’t wear clean underwear today. Actually, I used the last of my clean underwear about a week ago, so of course I’d been turning them inside out since then. Well, this morning I realized with horror, I’ve run out of underwear to turn inside out. I’d turn them back to inside in, but that’s just nasty. So, being the brave and reckless type, I went commando! Ah, it ain’t easy being me. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/68 "2002-11-27T16:56:27Z")
I didn’t let the car warm up this morning before I started driving. Just hit the ignition and headed out. And took the stairs two at a time (a problem for those of us who have difficulty climbing stairs without tripping). And instead of a second cup of coffee, I had a diet coke. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/69 "2002-11-27T19:26:38Z")
Thanks for the encouragement, Rue! Oh, and I just returned a video tape to the store without rewinding it. Man, am I evil or what? ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/70 "2002-11-27T19:35:35Z")
I did not wear any foundation today. Ugh! Gasp! I took a 1 and 1/2 hour lunch. Gasp! I’m on a roll… ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/71 "2002-11-28T00:15:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\*I opened the “After Eight Mints” at 19.30. \*\* This type of blasphemy must stop! (seriously, the funniest thing I’ve read all day) ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/72 "2002-11-28T02:55:19Z")
I _willfully_ neglected to put the portable phone back on the recharger, because it was in the other room, and it died. And I didn’t even give it a proper burial - just threw it in the trash. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/73 "2002-11-28T03:06:07Z")
What is actually very sad here ( to me, anyway), is that all these things are lovely jokes, but my house being the most terrible slovenly mess is a real fact. ☹ (Yes, I suppose there is no other type of fact.) Do I slit my wrists now - or actually tidy up house, which is run on the old Quentin Crisp principle? sob sob sob ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/74 "2002-11-28T03:21:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\*What is actually very sad here ( to me, anyway), is that all these things are lovely jokes, but my house being the most terrible slovenly mess is a real fact. ☹ (Yes, I suppose there is no other type of fact.) > > Do I slit my wrists now - or actually tidy up house, which is run on the old Quentin Crisp principle? \*\* I recommend tidying up the house. Slitting the wrists would be a rather extreme solution. ☹ Plus, someone else would end up having to clean up not only the mess that’s there, but also the bloodstains. I cleaned my half-bath top to bottom today. I’ve resolved that, although the total annual time is equivalent, that I will spend 15 minutes every week rather than 13 hours once a year. Man, was that disgusting. :o I did dilute the cleanser with only half a gallon of water, instead of the full gallon the instructions said to use. And I didn’t leave the door open. (Actually, it shut itself-I need to rehang it. 🙂 ) Hah! Back on topic! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/75 "2002-11-28T03:30:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*I didn’t make my bed this morning. It’s been nagging at me all day. \*\* I hate that. “Fluff up my pillows. Straighten my quilt. Make the cat stop shedding on me. I hate these sheets.” Stupid bed. ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/76 "2002-11-28T03:48:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by snermy \* > \*\*Well, the other day I threw away a letter that said, right on the envolope > congratulations MISS SMERNY , here is your guaranteed prize certificate!!! > Without even opening it. > \*\* I don’t blame you, I hate it when they spell my name wrong. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/77 "2002-11-28T04:28:04Z")
The “old Quentin Crisp principle”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/78 "2002-11-28T06:53:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > **Do I slit my wrists now - or actually tidy up house, which is run on the old Quentin Crisp principle?** Whlie I admire Quentin Crisp’s writing greatly, I have to side with the other 99.999999% of humanity and say that a clean living space is actually a good thing. Good for your head, good for you lungs, &c. As far as my own badness goes: A couple days ago I made coffee, and then later that day I was going to make coffee again, and I DIDN’T wash the pot! I just rinsed it out and made coffee into it again! He hee! ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/79 "2002-11-28T11:01:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by a35362 \* > \*\*The “old Quentin Crisp principle”? 😕 \*\* Quentin Crisp’s view on housework was that after the first four years, the dust doesn’t get any worse. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869/80 "2002-11-28T11:27:42Z")
Ooh I thought of another one - I still owe the public library ervice £2.00 in fines! Quite naughty for a former librarian. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reckless-living-not-for-impressionable-children/138869.md?page=5)