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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Useless if...Im not in the habit of giving useless advice and guidance, but yesterday I got stopped on the way to one of my lectures by a confused looking middle aged bloke in a 4by4 - he wanted me to tell him how to get to a road I'd never heard of.
"I'm not sure where it is, but do you know where you are now?"
"Um, no..."
"Let me find it for you on the map, then we'll work out where the other road is"
He hands me the map.
"This is a map of Canterbury. You want the map of CAMBRIDGE."
"Ah..."
He didn't take my advice though - after I'd shown him where he was I saw him scrutinising the Cardiff map as well. After this, all my advise seemed pretty useless.
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 18:25,
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