Life advice, from unlikely sources.

[EddieWalker]

You always find things in the last place you look, so look there first.

Bruce

I forget how old I was, but I was pretty young when I realized that the reason it's the last place you look was because you found it and stopped looking.

I don't know why that stuck with me, but it's something that makes me laugh at myself for not knowing that until the day I did.

 

[ponytug]

I forget how old I was, but I was pretty young when I realized that the reason it's the last place you look was because you found it and stopped looking.

I don't know why that stuck with me, but it's something that makes me laugh at myself for not knowing that until the day I did.

So true.
It's the same with the old adage bout always breaking your leg on the last run down the slopes...

All the best, Peter

 

[dodge man]

Kind of like a ratchet going the wrong way when you first pick it up. Most likely the last thing you did was tighten something when you put it away and when you get it out you’ll loosen something first thing.

 

[Highlandr]

My uncle says, "People ask what I'd do if I won the lottery. I tell 'em I'll keep farming 'til it's gone." (everybody's heard that). Then he would add, "Ain't no chance of that happening though. The lottery is a tax on stupid people."

Always drink upstream from the herd.

 

[Sigarms]

My father...

"I brought into this world, I can take you out of this world"

"You can take this one of two ways... either stand like a man or take it, or you can run around all over the place with your head cut off like a chicken, but you're still going to get it"

No, my father never beat me, and I loved him dearly after age 28 or so (Mark Twain was right on dads), but he did lay me on my butt sometimes growing up and he did give me some swats when I was a kid. He was only perhaps 5'2" (joke was he was the runt of the family or he had a different dad because most of his brothers were 6' or higher) and had a weight of no more than 130 pounds. He only put me on my butt a couple of times, but I deserved it because I thought I could muscle him around when I got bigger and heavier in my teens years LOL

Dad was small, but extremely quick, and he helped to teach me how to defend myself growing up, as he did get into some martial arts when he was in Korea in the early 50's.

I did get into a scuffle one time in high school. His other advice (and it worked) was always "if a couple or more guys are going to mix it up with you with their fists, always go after the biggest one first, lay him on his butt and most of the others will run away because only cowards will gang up on one guy".

I think my dad might have been picked on growing up due to his physical size LOL

 

[WinterDeere]

From dad, when I canibalized one of his tools for parts to fix my RC car: "Don't break a $10 tool for a $0.50 part."

From my first boss: "Only work for your money once. After that, make your money work for you."

From my last boss: "Don't create a storm in a teacup."

From my predecessor and mentor, when I asked him what a doctor would say about our almost-daily mug of beer with lunch: "I've known more old drunks than old doctors."

 

[Sigarms]

From my first boss: "Only work for your money once. After that, make your money work for you."

From a older guy high up in the food chain at work when I interviewed for a promotion a long time ago, when during my conversation with him I mentioned "to be honest with you", he cut me off in mid sentence and asked me "do you normally lie?"

He made his point and to this day will ask people the same thing if they tell me "to be honest with you" LOL

 

[RSKY]

My father...

"I brought into this world, I can take you out of this world"

"You can take this one of two ways... either stand like a man or take it, or you can run around all over the place with your head cut off like a chicken, but you're still going to get it"

No, my father never beat me, and I loved him dearly after age 28 or so (Mark Twain was right on dads), but he did lay me on my butt sometimes growing up and he did give me some swats when I was a kid. He was only perhaps 5'2" (joke was he was the runt of the family or he had a different dad because most of his brothers were 6' or higher) and had a weight of no more than 130 pounds. He only put me on my butt a couple of times, but I deserved it because I thought I could muscle him around when I got bigger and heavier in my teens years LOL

Dad was small, but extremely quick, and he helped to teach me how to defend myself growing up, as he did get into some martial arts when he was in Korea in the early 50's.

I did get into a scuffle one time in high school. His other advice (and it worked) was always "if a couple or more guys are going to mix it up with you with their fists, always go after the biggest one first, lay him on his butt and most of the others will run away because only cowards will gang up on one guy".

I think my dad might have been picked on growing up due to his physical size LOL

Makes me think of my dad and uncle. We were standing by the stables when my dad's younger brother pulled up and got out of his car. I was about twelve years old. Dad looked at me and said, "You always let him whip your a$$ when he comes up. If you let him today it will be nothing like the a$$ whipping you're gonna get once he leaves!" Ahem......well, the uncle grabbed me and tried to throw me on the ground and he got me down on my knees but I fought back with everything I had and soon put my uncle down, straddled him, and held him down. He started laughing and that was the last time he rough-housed me or picked on me in any way.

RSKY

 

[Sigarms]

Makes me think of my dad and uncle. We were standing by the stables when my dad's younger brother pulled up and got out of his car. I was about twelve years old. Dad looked at me and said, "You always let him whip your a$$ when he comes up. If you let him today it will be nothing like the a$$ whipping you're gonna get once he leaves!" Ahem......well, the uncle grabbed me and tried to throw me on the ground and he got me down on my knees but I fought back with everything I had and soon put my uncle down, straddled him, and held him down. He started laughing and that was the last time he rough-housed me or picked on me in any way.

RSKY

Lone Pine Sportsmans Club in Middle Port Pa, I was maybe around 10, and my dad and uncle took me out to shoot the shotgun.

After I shot, I accidentally swiped the barrel across my uncles chest when I turned to talk to my dad.

My uncle literally gave me a swift kick in the arse, I was taken by surprised, it hurt, and he told me in a stern voice to NEVER swipe a barrel of a gun across someone, and I went crying my eyes out to my father.

My dad looked at me and said "don't come crying to me, if you would have done that to me, I would have kicked you harder".

Thought my dad and uncle were mean at the time, but the funny thing is I ALWAYS remember that lesson AFTER that, even though they told me not to do it beforehand. I wasn't thinking handling that gun, and that's what gets people killed.

Whenever I took my boys out back to shoot years ago, I always reminded them of that story, and that you don't handle a firearm without thinking.

Always remember that club because it's where I caught my first fish as a young kid. Instead of reeling the fish in, I turned around and ran as fast as I could to drag him out of the pond. I was so excited I didn't notice the burn barrel and ran right into it. Dad always remembered that story LOL

 

[Sigarms]

Love it! LOL