Things it took me too long to learn. Please add to the list.

barefootcount

Mar 17, 2015 at 5:38am

"When I was 20 I worried what others thought of me,
When I was 40 I didn't care what others thought of me,
When I was 60 I realized they were never thinking of me in the first place!"

DaveSchmidt

Mar 17, 2015 at 5:50am

jeffl said:
Get into an NCAA basketball pool even if you know nothing (me). It makes March that much more interesting. Took me 50+ years to figure this one out.

Heh. I'm the opposite. I fill one out for my son's amusement, but if a team I picked to lose is making a late, exciting run, my enjoyment of the game on its merits is diminished by that prick, however meaningless, to my pride.

DaveSchmidt

Mar 17, 2015 at 5:50am

Get over pricks to pride.

KarenMarlowe

Mar 17, 2015 at 7:10am

Nice typo, @daveschmidt!

barefootcount said:
"When I was 20 I worried what others thought of me,
When I was 40 I didn't care what others thought of me,
When I was 60 I realized they were never thinking of me in the first place!"

This is good.

noo2wood

Mar 17, 2015 at 9:17am

From my mother in law:

When you're 10 you have 10 problems.
When you're 20 you have 20 problems.
When you're 30 you have 30 problems.
When you're 40 you have 40 problems.

norman

Mar 17, 2015 at 10:45am

Never lend your favorite books out. Specially if they are no longer available through normal channels.

scott_clark

Mar 17, 2015 at 10:49am

Baz Luhrman was pretty spot on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

noo2wood

Mar 18, 2015 at 10:37am Edited

Most people have no idea what they're doing most of the time, including yourself. And everybody knows it. So don't get worked up about it. Nobody else is.

norman

Mar 22, 2015 at 2:59am

Don't ignore the message just because the messenger is a sanctimonious @#$%.

ParticleMan

Mar 24, 2015 at 4:05pm

Learn to cook a nice meal for your date. Luring women to your house to see your nonexistent art collection only makes you creepy.

calypso

Mar 25, 2015 at 3:39am

When bills come in, pay them that night rather than piling them up to pay all at once.

Most people are so caught up in their own lives they really don't care what you're wearing/doing/saying.

Dogs need more exercise than you think.

TallulahTaffy

Mar 25, 2015 at 4:33am

Don't try to replace your own RAM!

yahooyahoo

Mar 25, 2015 at 4:35am

Get it in writing.

jeffl

Mar 25, 2015 at 5:02am

yahooyahoo said:
Get it in writing.

Similarly, don't pay the entire bill to any contractor until you are completely satisfied with their work. Most people have probably always known this. It's taken me too long to learn it.

ril

Apr 22, 2015 at 2:21am

A dead alkaline battery will bounce; a fully charged one will not.

denniss

Apr 22, 2015 at 2:52am

Never forget...There are more horse's a$$es than there are horses.

boomie

Apr 22, 2015 at 5:57am

Cut your losses.

Special_Eddie

Apr 26, 2015 at 8:58am

Lotus 1-2-3

addiemoose

Nov 1, 2016 at 2:02pm

Things to never buy: cat leashes, dog beds, hair products (well most of em), liquid soap dispensers, crazy glue, anything with suction cups for the bathroom, any fruit butter.