Rules of life

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 10 Aug 2013, 19:31

Carla Hurst-Chandler wrote:Blanket rule for two year olds, teenagers and psych patients: Never Engage.

Not one of them is going to stop in the middle of an argument and say

"You know...I think you have a point (or might be right)"

But they will argue you to dust and it willl be difficult to tell from the outside who is who after awhile...

This is an excellent point-my son will try arguing logically with his sister...when the pitch of the discussion hurts my ears I'll pull him aside...consider who you're trying to reason with, even when you turn blue, she isn't going to understand

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 10 Aug 2013, 20:47

Theres a story by Honore de Balzac called Married Life. Its funny, its about women's logic. One part has the wife trying to talk the husband into investing 100,000 francs and getting 300,000 francs in return. He dosent really want to, but she insists. She says we can get a new horse and fancy carriage, I can have nice dresses and so on. He reluctantly invests the money, and loses it all. The wife jumps all over him, saying she tried to talk him out of it, but he was stubborn and did it anyway. More truth than fiction.

Anyway, never tell your wife about shady investments.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 11 Aug 2013, 05:04

ya jez can't win

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 11 Aug 2013, 09:21

Never hit an elephant with a train.

I just read in a newsletter I get where in India a train hit an elephant. The other elephants in the herd went on a rampage, damaged the train and destroyed a village and a school. Maybe another Day of the Animals or Elephant Walk?

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 11 Aug 2013, 13:07

Bighuey wrote:Never open a can of beer after dropping it on the floor.

An amendment to your advice:

Never Drop Your Beer!

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 11 Aug 2013, 19:00

Especially if its in a glass.

Never go in my yard at night without a flashlight. Too many holes that the dogs dug, stringy Bermuda grass everywhere, good way to break a leg.

lady_charlie · Post by **lady_charlie** » 11 Aug 2013, 20:29

Have you heard about the natives who wanted to get the chief a new chair for his birthday?

They put the old one in the attic, being thrifty, sentimental people.

Anyway, the chief sat down and the old chair fell out of the ceiling of his hut and killed him.

And the moral to that story is, people who live in grass houses shouldn't store thrones.

and, I actually read this in a book this week

Time wounds all heels.

Rule 1 Women are always right.
Rule 2 women can change the rules whenever they want to
rule 3 any confusion, refer to rule 1

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 11 Aug 2013, 20:30

How about if you can imagine it going wrong, no matter how outlandish, it can happen

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 12 Aug 2013, 04:33

NEVER FOLLOW dumb " sheeple " rules...like never where white shoes after labor day, etc...BALDERDASH!

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 12 Aug 2013, 05:39

"Think of whom you speak, to whom you speak and when, and where, and how."
An elderly friend told me that a long, long time ago & he promised it one rule I would never regret obeying.