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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Jeccyit does. when i went to oxford with some friends at the age of 17, we were supposed to be looking at colleges. instead, we were getting hammered. vik and i headed out to the booze shop, but when we got back to the hall (that skanky 1970's concrete thing on magdalen bridge for those of you who actually got in, you bastards) vik had left our keys inside.
no mobiles as this was the dark ages, or 1995 as we called it then. so after yelling and hammering at the doorbell, i noticed a huge red button which said DO NOT PRESS.
so i pressed it.
nothing happened. absolutely NOTHING.
so vik and i trudged all the way over to the lodge to get a spare key. as we got there, we were flung out of the way by about 50 firemen, all of whom jumped out of their engines and legged it into the porters' lodge yelling "where's the fire?"
we sat meekly at the back, listening to the argument rage about how someone had pressed the alarm............
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 27 Oct 2006, 10:54,
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