Useless adviceAs a new parent, people seem to think it's OK to pass on any and every old wives tale possible. "Don't hug him too much". What? Quite what possesses people to pass on baseless, idiotic, useless advice I don't know.
That said, I quite often give car drivers directions and then, after they've moved off, realise that I've sent them down a bike-only route, so I can give as good as I get.
What useless advice have you been given (or handed out) recently?
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chthonic, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 10:29)
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Hmm.How about the staff at Wakefield Westgate railway station who, when I asked what to do with my rubbish now that they've removed all the litter bins, told me to "throw it on the tracks".
Come to think of it, I remember yelling at a woman at that same station for opening a gate and walking ACROSS THE TRACKS to get to the other platform, PUSHING HER BABY IN A PRAM. She said that the staff had told her to do it when she asked if there was another way across other than the footbridge. So a baby's life risked because she couldn't be arsed carrying a pram up stairs...or perhaps because the staff were too lazy to help her.
Avoid Wakefield Westgate station is the moral, I guess.
(, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 11:12, Reply)
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