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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eponymous, mine is rather like yoursAge 15, just after choosing GCSEs, I had a careers interview with our 23-year-old careers advisor.
"Have you considered becoming a plumber?" She asked, after fifteen minutes of chat.
"No" "Are you sure?"
"I want to go to university"
"Really, you're smart but are you sure you can afford it?"
"That's up to me."
"I think I'm going to ask you to leave if you're not going to take my advice."
About eighteen months later, I went back, reluctantly. I was revising for my GCSEs, and working like anything. I opened the door, and met not one, but two of the leeches, looking at a folder.
"It says here that last time we saw you we recommended that you take an apprenticeship to become a plumber. Have you thought about doing that?"
"No." "Are you sure? According to this file we're not sure your parents do jobs that would allow you to go to university."
"What the hell?"
"We don't think that you should viably consider university until later in your life. If you do an apprenticeship you could earn whilst you train."
"You're suggesting I don't even do A-levels?"
"Yes, we've arranged something specially for you, you just need to go to the college tomorrow."
"Fuck off."
So now I'm at Oxford Uni and they're both fired (they suggested that the son of the headteacher had no hope in life). I win.
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Dave the Mighty, Mon 23 Oct 2006, 11:13,
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