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Things you should never, ever do
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EDIT: I forgot this thread is meant to be things one should never do, not things one should always do. My bad.
Tip a lifeguard after your pool party. They just spent 3 hours watching your kids for you, and after you leave they'll be cleaning, vacuuming, and pulling wet toilet paper off every surface in the bathrooms for the next 3 hours. Trust me, they deserve it a lot more than the waitress that carries your food 50 feet or the valet that drives your car 100 yards.
Other times to tip lifeguards: after they save your kid, or after they clean up your kid's "code brown."
Tip a lifeguard after your pool party. They just spent 3 hours watching your kids for you, and after you leave they'll be cleaning, vacuuming, and pulling wet toilet paper off every surface in the bathrooms for the next 3 hours. Trust me, they deserve it a lot more than the waitress that carries your food 50 feet or the valet that drives your car 100 yards.
Other times to tip lifeguards: after they save your kid, or after they clean up your kid's "code brown."
I'm a young guy, but I have some advice that I've kind of picked up.
Never live in the future, or in the past. Things happen, and all you can do it live in the moment and do your best. You can plan for the future, but only to an extent. Who knows what will happen. All you really have is your health, character, and family.
Never get addicted to prescription medication.
Never let a marriage falter.
Never allow health issues to go unnoticed or unchecked.
Never ex-communicate family members.
Never live in the future, or in the past. Things happen, and all you can do it live in the moment and do your best. You can plan for the future, but only to an extent. Who knows what will happen. All you really have is your health, character, and family.
Never get addicted to prescription medication.
Never let a marriage falter.
Never allow health issues to go unnoticed or unchecked.
Never ex-communicate family members.
Well, most of them are observations from other people.
I've had close family collapse due to a combination of prescription medication and such. This was a faltering marriage, and a running addiction.
The health issues have been both mine and my fathers. I had issues with a tooth that I thought would "fix itself", and my father was one of the first people to get a torn ACL repaired (played college football), and they did a bad job, and he never got it checked out, and now needs a new knee.
The last item is something that also happened with relatives, and I think it's a sad thing.
I don't believe there is such a thing as "too many" bad experiences. How you cope with an experience is all that matters.
Lessons I learned when I was half my current age.
do not
Drink the last beer in the fridge of the woman you are having an affair with.
Settle for the next model down. If you do you will most likely regret the purchase and will always wonder what if.
Talk on the phone while in the bathroom, nothing good can come of that.
Order a seafood at a steak house or order a steak at a seafood place.
do not
Drink the last beer in the fridge of the woman you are having an affair with.
Settle for the next model down. If you do you will most likely regret the purchase and will always wonder what if.
Talk on the phone while in the bathroom, nothing good can come of that.
Order a seafood at a steak house or order a steak at a seafood place.
Don't mix gasoline and chlorine. BOOM!
Friends did that when they were younger and burned 90 percent of their bodies.
Friends did that when they were younger and burned 90 percent of their bodies.
+1 Made this mistake and now I regret it. Can't seem to stop, must seek professional help...
