Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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My first boss, Eggy Bobwhen faced with a youngster contemplating marriage, would always ask the same question.
"Do you like them as well as loving them? If you don't, then don't get married."
His point was that the first flush of romantic love doesn't generally last all that long, and if there's nothing else in the relationship it's pretty much doomed. When he asked me, I answered in the affirmative. We must be doing something right because we're still together approaching 20 years later.
His other favourite piece of advice wasn't quite so navel-gazing.
"Never buy cheap shoes."
(, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 17:53, 2 replies)
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