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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The old man, God bless him, and...me aged 15/16, camping holiday, little bro & Ma elsewhere, so we've been down to the local and had one of the first good chats about life, the universe et al. But he's also spotted that a young lady has been eyeing me up all night (I see it now, but I didn't see it then, d'accord).
Which presumably prompted his comment, back under canvas, as we were settling down to sleep: "Son, always use a sheath when you are with a woman".
WTF? At the time I honestly thought he was talking about knights and dragons, so asked no further questions.
I think I realised what a sheath was at about the same time that I realised that the lady had been interested in me (ie, about now, too many years later!)
By the way, does anyone use "rubber johnnies" any more?
(, Sun 22 Oct 2006, 22:51, Reply)
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