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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Military trained...ain't gonna help you escape!Living in Singapore, where we have the national service draft of 2 years for all Singaporean 18 years old male citizens...
I was concripted in the middle of this year to a godforsaken island off the coast for 4 months basic military training. 0530 reveille...countless of water drinking parades...10 days of living in the wet tropical jungle...that sort of things.
After those 4 months, i felt a bit indestructable, having survived sergeants wrath and all the rest of the stuff they threw our way...i wanted to be treated like a MAN!
But no....it was not to be...mom would dispense with advise like...you must drink more water...don't come back too late...can you handle yourself for 2 days with me going overseas...can you remember to close the windows...please keep the house clean...
Gets on me bloody nerves...sometimes i think they should join the army as Sergeant Majors.
(, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 15:22, Reply)
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