As you get older, joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, etc. don’t function like they used to. I tried to swat a spider yesterday that was just out of my reach. I now have severe pain radiating outward from my shoulder and can’t lift my arm more than a few inches. Fuck. :mad:
People can be stupid. I forget, sometimes, just how very very stupid people can be. Including me.
Hot metal can look just like cold metal.
Tell me about it. Still trying to figure out women.
That “Free Hug” girl is a jerk in my opinion. If she knows her boyfriend’s the type to get jealous, why where a shirt like that? So some poor, unsuspecting guy takes her up on the offer only to get roughed up for something that’s advertised as being free. Her boyfriend’s a jackass too. I hate other men that get THAT possessive. I’m sure he got laid that night.
Being a radical comes with great costs.
The bartender told me that they had been there a while; i.e. they were drunk. Maybe he forgot what she had written on her shirt. I didn’t know she was with her boyfriend, or else I would not even have asked for the first one. I wouldn’t need to learn that one the hard way.
I will also add that these “free hugs” shirts are pretty common now, and that I don’t typically take anyone up on the offer. But she was hot, so it was a good icebreaker. It almost ended up being a good teethbreaker!
While it is more efficient, it’s also more risky. Much, much more risky.
Molten sugar is freaking hot. And doesn’t come off skin, burning its way deeper.
At the same time I discovered melting a bag of store bought caramels is infinitely preferable to making your own caramel.
Just because you ask for forgiveness, doesn’t mean you’ll get it.
I learned as a child that putting table sugar on top of an un-frosted pop-tart and then heating it on high in the toaster oven is a really, really poor way of creating a frosted pop-tart.
never, **ever **go on a road trip without overnight reservations.
that way you don’t end up in a fleabitten lantana, florida, roach farm with a chair under the door knob while listening to the open-all-night drug buy/party going on next door. :smack:
Similarly, don’t go on a road trip with overnight reservations if you don’t know the character of the neighborhood before you make the reservations, that way you don’t end up in a fleabitten Fort Lee, Virginia roach farm with a chair under the door knob while listening to the open-all-night drug buy/party going on next door. :smack:
Don’t get into a love triangle. At least one party will always get hurt, and probably 2 or all 3.
Just because you can get an MRI done for $1000 at a local, stand-alone testing center doesn’t mean that a year later you can get an MRI at the local teaching hospital less than a mile away for a similar price.
10,000 dollar lesson learned. I’ll be making payments on that sucker for the rest of my life! :smack:
Thou shalt not trust thy memory (thou fucking moron!)
In other words, if it’s important, write it down, and if it’s important and complicated, create a system that involves writing shit down and stick to it!!
The trouble I could have saved myself in my life . . .
Don’t mix friends and money.
For those of you not paying attention the first time: DO NOT MIX FRIENDS AND MONEY.
I don’t care how good a friend they are, don’t do it.
Don’t spend money on high quality guns and then cheap out on ammunition, holsters, or belts.
Don’t lend money you can’t afford to lose. That includes putting it into CDs, bonds, etc.: they’re still loans, they just happen to be loans to a corporation instead of to someone with a face.
Never loan money to friends (small amounts, such as helping them with lunch, for example, are okay). For big loans, no matter how much they assure you that they’ll pay it back, don’t count on it.
Don’t free-hand rock climb in the rain.
Don’t play with fireworks.
If you are hurt, ask for help. If you are at work, make sure it is fully documented.
Appreciate them while they’re still here, not just after their gone.
Getting a lawyer isn’t the time to bargain-shop. A good lawyer is worth the money.