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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Teachers say the funniest thingsNot sure if this comes under ‘advice’ as such, but I remember being in junior school and doing something very naughty for a dare, I pulled someone’s chair away as he was sitting down and he landed on his arse on the floor, feet in the air, nearly whacking his head on the desk behind. When the teacher asked me why I did it, I used the age-old excuse:
“Andrew told me to.” You know what’s coming next don’t you:
“If Andrew told you to jump off a cliff would you do it?”
“Well,” I replied, “As a small boy keen to gain the approval of my classmates, I may be susceptible to a certain amount of peer pressure, but I haven’t completely lost the faculty for rational independent thought!” *
* May not be 100% fact
(, Fri 20 Oct 2006, 9:49, Reply)
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